Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL. Publisher. RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA

PRISON FOR A YEAR.

SUPREME COURT SUSTAINS THE MEAOQWCRQFT SENTENCE. Must Pay the Ptlliltj for Criminally Handling Money—Crime of a Brutal Assassin in Ohio—Chicago Burglars Cteverly Caugh t While a't Work. —The Meadowcroft Case. Several opinions of importance were handed down by the Illinois Supreme *’<*urt late Saturday night. Chief among -them, ia the decision. sustaining the verdict rendered in Judge Brents no's court, sentencing Trank K.. and Charles J. Meadowcroft, of Chicago, to -one year each in the penitentiary. The verdict was rendered Pec; 14, ISSM, since which time the Meadowcrofts have been "out on bail pending the .final decision of the Supreme Court. The decision is especially important, as it establishes the constitutionality of tbe-banking law under which they were convicted, thus being the first case under that law in this Sttate. The case WAs a long and bitterly fought one. The Meadowcrofts were convicted of receiving deposits when they knew they were insolvent. They were defended Uy ex-Judge Collins. Edwin Walker and A. J. Eddy, while A. S. Trude conducted the prosecution. Judge Collins"said We case was taken to the Supreme Court on cdnstltutfonal grounds. Unless the opinion discussed the exceptions entered by the defense (hiring the trial, they would have grounds for another appeal. In their appeal to the Supreme Court their argument was they were conducting a legitimate business, such as a dry goods or any other business, and claimed the hanking law was unconstitutional because it placed certain restrictions on one branch of business and not on all. Kills an Aged Couple. At an early hour Sunday morning a don blent order—it tnayj*rovet«*be a-triple murder—\\a s couHtrin ed on a farm seven miles east of Akron. O. Alvin N. Stone, aged 08, and his wife, Serena, aged 03, are the victims, and Ira Stillsou. the hired man, is fatally injured. Two daughters, Emma, aged 39, and Hattie, aged 33, are seriously injured, while a third daughter, l'h;c*,.is.4hn=e»4y one of lire etmro household who escaped the assassin's, murderous blows. The crime was committed about 1 o'clock by an unknown man wearing a mask. The crime is a mysjerv. There is no possible--motive for'the tfarttr- , ders so far as eat) be learned. Certainly the murderer was not bent on robbery, for in a bureau drawer in Mr. Stone's room were two gold watches and some money and nothing had beeuAaktm apparently. N'oChangc in Trade. It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “No important change has occurred in the general condition of business during the week, and if trade iu Some respects looks worse, in other respects it looks better. Some failures of magnitude have occurred, which caused much apprehension and unwillingness 1 to lend among bankers, and there have been somewhat less favorable features in the dry goods market, but in iron and steel conditions are slightly improved, and in boots and shoes considerably more hoi»e is felt. The' labor controversies, mainly in the clothing trade, still cause much interruption of that,business. Foreign trade is a little more satisfactory.'* Caught in the Act. Secreted behind a sofa Policeman Ed Dodd, of the Chicago |Vti: ral Detail Police Station, witnessed Frank Swift, an ex-convict, loot a safe in the home of Catherine Johann, at No. 4-Ut South Clinto« street Friday -night. Then, when the burglar had prepared to leave with his plunder, the jKdieeman leaped forward and overpowered him. Policeman Cleary, whw hrard Temalued ornstde. arresred-rurw of Swift’s two con federates, who was identified at the station as Michael Murphy, said by the police to be a wellknown burglar. The-third man escaped, but it Is believed by the police his. apprehension will soon follow. r Bay State for Reed, The State convention for the election of delegates to {he Republican national convention At SL Louis was held at Boston Friday. Delegatos-at-large are H. C. lawlge. W. T. M. Crane. Eben S. Draper, Uur’Rl'Guifil Jr. Alternates—L. 'Tv' Southard. R. HVBoutwell. It. F. Hawkins. S. E. Courtney. They were instructed for T. B. Reed, of Maine.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Dr. J. D. Buck, of Cincinnati, will snooped the late W. Q. Judge as president of the Tbeosophical Society of America. Negroes are holding a Frenchman in confinement near Columbia, O. T.„ and declare rhey will not reletve him until France accedes to the dcrtiands of ex-* Consul Waller. A severe gale swept over the channel, causing considerable damage to shipping, and it is feared that a lttrge steamer which was in distress off the Goodwin sands has foundered. The Egyptian debt commission have paid the first installment from the reserve fund,, amounting to' $1,000,000. of the money required for' the exjtenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile. 'Fred a raolder of West Columbus, 0., aged 21, Sunday afternoon shot his wife, who is but 17,,anil then stood before a mirror and cut his throat with a razor. Gorrell died almost instantly, but bis wife will recover. Jealousy was the cause of tile affair. At Uichmond, Ky„ Friday morning, a couple from la>e County, Virginia, obtained a marringe liccnsp. The groom, Hiram H. Ely, is 15 years old, while the bride, Mrs. Jane Ely, hie sister-in-law. is 40, fat, and has four children. An order from the boy’s mother was produced which granted permission for his marriage. 1 A sharp earthquake shock was felt at Rawlins, Wyo., at 10 o’clock Saturday Bight. -- Fire destroyed the- -Bpr rag field, ~ Mo:. Grand Opera House. The building cost $75,000 and was insured for f 25,000.

EASTERN.

Hiram E Morrison, who was arrested at Boston Monday night, after his wife had been found dead In her home, with finger marks upon her throat and other bruises about her face and head, has confessed that he choked the Woman to death while in a fit of jeaions rage at her action in having a crowd of neighbors in the bouse drinking. He alleges thdt he also wan-drunk at the time. • An explosion of gns occurred at the Berwind-W’hite shaft in the eastern limits of Dnbois, Pa.. Monday. Thirteen miners were killed. Eighteen men went to wbrk in the mine, fourteen goiiig into the north, "ttPSaThg and four into'fh'eiaiilTßiTieadinig. Those in the south bending heard an explosion and barelyi managed to escape wit,h assistance,, There was another explosion at Adrian mines, loented eight miles, sauthxyest of Dubois, caused fire damp. Two men were killed. Gov.- Morton of New York signed the Raines high-licynse bill. . Gov. Morton filed with bis signature to the bill, a lengthy memorandum in which he reviews the excise situation at the present time and the manner in which it will be benefited by the new law. He tiphplds, the constitutionality of the bill and makes no suggcsttfmmis Ur supplemental legislation, as was expected'. In closing be says: “It has been suggested that the hill, in some of its featu res, cspecia 11y in some of its administrative details, should be amended. Experience will probably suggest other amendments.” Arthur J. Goodwin, who has a record as a defaulter and a bigamist, has been arrested in New York upon the specific charge of defaulting Marqh 1, 1895, wftlf £1,250, which he had collected for the Continental Oil Company, of Cripple Creek, whose agent he was in September, 1893. IIe~w&s arrested in SL Loyis, where he was put under $1,200 bonds. He forfeited his bail, however, and went to England, returning only a few days ago. He admits Raving taken the money from the Continental Oil Company, and says when he skipped his bail in St. Louis be did so with the intention of going to England, where -his grandfather bad died; leaving him some money. He intended to return and pay back the money he had taken. His share of the estate, he said, was $15,000. . New York State Republicans held their : State convention Tuesday, and the feature of the gathering was the speech of Senator Parsons, of Rochester, presenting Levi P. Morton as a presidential candidate, and the subsequent election of delegates pledged td’Tiim. Following were the nominations: Delegates-at-Large, Thomas C. Platt. Warner Miller, Chauncey M. Depew. Edward Lautcrbach; alternates, Hamilton Fish, C. IL Babcock, Frank S. Witherbee, Daniel McMiHan. The financial plank of the platform dedares: “Until there is a prospect of international agreement as to silver coinage, and while gold remains the standard of the United States and of the civilized world, IBS Republiegn pai*l£ of New York declares itself iiy favor of the firm and houorable maintenance of that standard.”

WESTERN.

Two men have been' arrested at San Francisco for alleged complicity Hi the robbery of the State Bank of Savannah, Mo. Gov. Altgeld has restored the rights of citizenship to George Tucker, of Decatur; James It Wyatt, of Cuba, and Shady Wilmoth, of Lincoln. Associate Justice A. W. Newman, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, has been stricken with aphasia, or paralysis of the vocal organs, and his cqudition is precarious. J. F. Seiberling & Co., proprietors of the Empire Mower and Iteaper Works of Akron. Ohio, have made an assignment. The liabilities will amount to $250,000, while the assets are estimated at something over $300,000. William Allen, of Leavenworth, aged 79, a Kansas pioneer, was at the funeral of Charles Parker and participated in the religious services. He delivered a feeling prayer and just as he said “Amen" he gasped and fell over dead. Chicago and Nebraska are mutually jubilant over the repeated bounteous and even downfall of snow which has covered the great corn State from end to end with aprofecftveblaifket.puffTn'goneffccfTve end to the threatened calamity of a general crop failure in that exteusive section. The wife of J. J. Bowman was burned O. T. She was eudeavoring to extinguish a tire when she fell through the rafters and hung head downward. She was literally roasted alive before the eyes of her husband, who was unable to help her. A little daughter of Frank Rose, a farmer, near Keokuk, was burned to death while with her father. She was burning cornstalks, and played too near the Uames. The plant of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, Joliet, 111., was gutted by jire Monday morning, involving a loss of SIOO,OOO and throwing between 350 and 400 men out of employment. The fire originated in a hotbox of the barb-wire fence department, in which there are 250 fence machines. The men were working at the time and used the hose provided by the company, but it was not long enough. When the fire department arrived the flames had gained such headway that the firemen could not get into the building because of the smoke, and turned their attention to saving adjoining buildings. Oue of the warehouses, where considerable stock was stored, was saved, the other oue was badly damaged. The company’s office and books were saved. John Lambert, the manager, censures his men for not using their own tire equipment to suppress the tire in its incipieucy. The works were running night and day, and the Republican recently stated that so far this year the stock was paying 30 per ceut, and that last year it paid a dividend of 27Mi per cent. This is the Lambert & Bishop plant which burned some years ago and was rebuilt. They have three other mills —at Loekport, 111., Beaver Falls, Fa., and Cleveland, O. Mr. Lambert cannot say whether the company will rebuild or not. Gov. Altgeld, in his capacity as trnstee of the University of Illinois, has been indicted by the grand jury of Champaign County. The Governor's colleagues on the board of trustees, including Dr. Julia Holmes Smith and Lucy J. Flower, of‘ Qhicago, have also been indicted. The charge is that they havq failed to comply with the law recently passed by the Legislature requiring the trustees of all public schools in the State to provide for the flying' over' the scEbbTbuiTdtngs the flag of the United States. Testimony was produced before the grand jury to the

effect that of all the flagstaff* on the only one staff has been found to be adorned by the Stars and Stripes. The prevalent opinion of the people of Champaign County is that a humiliating blunder has been made. That such a blunder should 'have beep made by the kind 6t men who constituted' the grand jury is causing all the more surprise. At most, it is generally felt that the breach of the la W?—if failureto fly a flag-otj pvery one of a group school" buildings Instead of on or bpfore the main building 1 alone could be called a violation of, the —is so purely a technical and unintentional one tha't it was splittiqg hairs for the grand jury seriously so- consider the charge At all,• •I Empress, alias Gypsy, one of. the largest ..and most vicious elephants in captivity, added a third-murder to her-reebwP Wednesday afternoon by killing her keeper, Frank Scott, while taking her daily exercise at Chicago. Having sated her rage upon the helpless form of her victim, the huge beast forthwith inaugurated a reign of terror in the vicinity of- Jdokson .hdule-' yard and Robey street, that continued all the irfternooh and” called for the presence of scores of pdlicemen from the Lake street and Warren avcipie stations. Darkness was setting iu before the big brute’s temper calmed down, and she was once more safely confined in her quarters with a chain around her leg. Greater excitement couid rrot have been produced among the residents of the neighborhood had the killing been one that would come within the recognition of the law as a crime. From every window that commanded a view of the alley in which the enraged elephant paraded, the faces of searecj spectators eould.be seen. Small' boys, whose curiosity was stronger than their fears, watched the ponderous animal charge back and forth from the roofs of back sheds and the tops of fences. Women listened-behind closed doors to the shrill trumpeting* qf the great beast, and more than one officer deliberated on the efficiency of bis revolver when he caught sight of the towering form. Empress was a star attraction with the H. Harris Nickel Plate show.

WASHINGTON.

The State Department at Washington has received a cablegram from United States Minister Smythe at Fort Au Prince. Hayti, confirming the Paris report of the death of President Hippolyte, of Hayti. The minister’s cablegram gave no details, simply reading: “President dead.” , The naval appropriation bill for the fiscal year which begins July 1 next was completed by the House Committee ou Naval Affairs. The total amount carried by the bill is $31,011,034, of which $12,770,133 is for the increase of the navy; The appropriation is au increase over thp amount of the last hill, which was about $29,330,000. Under the increase of the navy tile chief items are the four new battleships and fifteen torpedo- boats, the former “to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance upon a displacement„of about 11,000 tons, and to have the highest practicable speed for vessels of their class.” Speed premiums are to be offered, all parts of the vessels are to be of domestic manufacture, and the contracts are to be let Within ninety days after the passage of t'ae act. One firm, under the act, may bid for all Of the Vessels. The Supreme Court at Washington announced Monday its decision in the celebrated Brown interstate commerce case from Pittsburg. By a vote of live to four the court sustained the constitutionality of the act of Feb. 11, 1893, positively requiring witnesses to testify, no matter if their testimony incriminated themselves. When the opinions were read several distinguished railroad solicitors were present. By this decision the power of the Government to control commerce is sustained, and the interstate commerce act, for the first time iu its existence, becomes a danger to railway men who violate the provisions. The decision is a great victory for the Government. It has a direct effect on every shipper in the United States, and in its scope is almost ns important as the income tax decision. The Supreme Court has probably never made a decision of more importance to the railways of the country. The Treasury Department has instructed the_ New York sub-treasury to nyse the premium on gold bars from 1.10 to 3-10 of 1 per cent. The Department’s purpose in the issuance of this order is to do what can be done legitimately to . prevent future exports of gold. The order has a triple purpose. First, it will tend to raise the price at which gold can he exported profitably, the price of exchange now being dangerously near the export poiut; second, it is regarded as good policy to get rid of coin instead of bars, because the former frequently have lost weight through abrasion, and third, it is iutended to meet the pf the Bank of England in raising the price of gold bars to 77, shillings 10 pence, and thus practically lowering the rate of exchange at which gold Can be shipped from the United States to Great Britain to about 488Vj or 488-’>i. Treasury officials admit the issuauce of the order, but will uot talk further concerning it.

FOREIGN,

Mutinous conduct ou the part of the Thirteeuth Hussars is reported from Dundalk, Ireland. The cavalrymen are said to have hacked to pieces twenty-eight saddles and bridles. Several of the Hussars have been arrested. A Rome dispatch says; On account of the excessive pecuniary demands made by Menelek, it is*improbable that peace will be concluded. Signori Ricotti and Rudini, who are in accord with the king, will refuse the payment of any money indemnity. Promoter Wing, of Springfield, 111., is on trial at Paris, France. Wing arrived in France early in 1805, hoping to raise money an bonds of the Rock Island, Peoria and St. Louis Railway. After selling several blocks of stock he was arrested on a charge of fraud. He will be acquitted. A riot took place Sunday in a lumber camp west of Guadalajara, Mexico, and resulted in three Mexicans being killed. George Roberts, the American superintendent, was seriously wounded. The rk>t was caused by a. demand for higher wages. A number of the workmen sustained Roberts. The German reichstag is now considering a bill, framed at the instance of the agrarians, to restrict the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The purpose of the bill is to prevent the imposition of RleftßMttttlinS. noon purchasers as genuine batter, and one provision seems particularly well calculated to at least protect the actual consumer, for it is.supposed

J— . ■ 1 T—to require the manufacturers to stain tne oleomargarine red or blue. United States Consul Ewing, in repotting upon the subject to the State Department, says there is grcab opposition to the measure. News from the front received at Cairo confirms the report that British-Egyptian advance guards under Major CoUinson occupied Afiasbeh' Friday without oppositioh.' > A'fort is qow being built at that place. The Egyptian debt commission met ip order to again discuss the question of the withdrawal of funds from the-r'e-serve, with which*tq defrSy the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile; bat, owing to the illness oFthe German commissioner, the meeting was adjourned. An extraordinary council of all day long, wad held at Constantinople Saturday. ~ The subject Under discussion was the BritishEgyptian expedition. -—*— H . • As a result of the extraordinary cabinet council at which lasted throughout Saturday, the Turkish Government has issued an appeal, Addressed ‘to France and Russia, asking them to intervene with the object of regulating affairs in Egypt. Germany, it is added, , was also requested by the porte. to exercise her. good offices in this sense—lnstructions were also dispatched to the Turkish ambassador at London to make representations to the Marquis of Salisbury, Jmt itheir tenor is not known. It ia“geHefaHy understood that nothing short of the armed interference of those two nations will prevent Great Britain from pushing the Soudan campaign. The commission of the Egyptian debt met at Cairo Thursday and decided to advance the £500,000 necessary to meet the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition against Dongola. Of the sum needed £200,000 is available immediately. The Knglish, German, Italian and Austrian members of the commission voted to advance the money required. The Russian and French members voted against the proposition. Directly the action of the majority of the commissioners became known the representatives of the Paris syndicate of Egyptian bondholders took steps to institute proceedings before the Egyptian mixed tribunal against the debt commissioners and the ministers responsible for the reserve fund. The troops commanded by Gen. Godoy and Col. >Helgui.n, at the Santa Rosa plantation, near Esperanza; Province of -Baatar~Gtentr-Cuba, mistook each other for insurgent forces, owing, It Is said, to the thickness c t the sugar cane. Each detachment opened fire upon the other and for ton minutes shots were exchanged, resulting in the killing of seventeen soldiers, among them being Lieut. Col. Fuenmayer, of the Navas Battalion. Id addition, five officers and eighty-four soldiers were wounded. Two of the latter have since died; six-others are mtjrtnUy wounded and thirty-two are seriously injured. Lieut. Col. Fueninaycr died while leading his troops on and shouting “Long live Spain!” Owing to the fact that the meeting between the two columns took place at midday, the explanation furnished by the Spanish commanders is considered unsatisfactory and a court-martial will follow.

IN GENERAL.

Obituary: At Chihuahua, Mexico, Jas. G. Flint, of Milwaukee.—At Evansville, Wis., Daniel Johnson, 75.—At Gettysburg, Pa., Col. C. H. Buehler, 71.—At Terre Haute, lud., Thomas Jackson, 80. The warerooms and general store of Charles Burrill & Co., Weymouth, N. S., with their contents, have been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of between $50,000 and SOO,OOO. Insurance, $40,000. Adjoining property was damaged It may be for little Switzerland, the oldest of the family of republics? to earn the honor of solving for America the problem of how to prevent the concentration of population iu great cities, an evil believed by economists to be fatal to welfare. The President of the Swiss National Exposition to be held this year has addressed United States Consul Ridgley, at Geneva, on the subject, and the latter has forwarded his communication to the Department of State. President Turrettini’s suggestion is that Americans may learn how rural life can be made at once attractive and profitable by studying the model Swiss village which will form an important section oVbe exposition, illustrating, as it will, the happy village life qf the Swjss. with .the .nuiuoriMi& home industries which are so profitable in full operation. If this can be studied in connection with the agricultural section, in which Swiss methods of dealing with produce will be exemplified and the best information may 1 be obtained which may prove to be of substantial value to persons who are seeking to solve the problem of overconcentration of population.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago— corn qp on 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 02c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,35 eto 30e; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22e; eggs, fresh, 9c to lie; 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; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,08 cto 09c; corn, No. 1 white, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 1 24 c. , St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 30c. Cincinnati —Onttle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 09c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 37c to 38c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 09c to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring, 01c to 03c; com. No. 3,27 cto 20c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 32c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 39c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oata, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5-00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 1 hard, 74c to 7Ik:; corn, No. 2, 37c to 88c; oata, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs, Western, lie to 12c

MICHIGAN’S MEN WIN.

HER UNIVERSITY ORATORS DEFEAT CHICAGO. Discuss the Principle of Graduated Tax—Alarming Condition of Affairs in Matabeleland—Spain Must Fight Her Own Battles—Consml Criticised. * »•' 'VChic'a*d>'Men Lose iM Debate. Michigan and Chicago Uniyersitiesunet for the first time in debate at Ann Arbor Friday night. Michigan secures the first forensic victory and Chicago gets hesr fourth • eonse«utivy : defea,t. The question was: “Is the Principle of a Graduated Tax One That Should Be Adopted by the States?” Michigan took the.affirmative side and Chicago the negative. Michigan’s speakers in their Order wefe CBas. J! Vert, senior law, of Morristown, N. Y;r -Edmund Black, senior law, of Chattaaoo-., ga, Tenn.; and Paul G. Albright', freshman law, of Philadelphia. Chicago’steam consisted of James ,P. Whyde of Chicago Wesley C. Mitchell of Rushville, 111., and L. Brent Vaughan' of Ohio. The judges were President Ballantine of Oberlin College. Supt. Compton of the Toledo schools, and Judge McLeHan of Auburn, Ind. They gave each man-a percentage both in argument and delivery, and on the ranking system Michigan had thirtyfive and Chicago twenty-seven. A Bloody Revolt. Dispatches received at Cape Town from Buluwayo, Matabeleland, indicate that the uprising in that part of the colony is very serious. Telegrams from the front first merely outlined a revolt of a few natives in the Inseza and Filabugi districts, the massacre of some white settlers, including Commissary Bentley, and the dispatch of a small force of volunteers to the scene of the disturbance. An extensive uprising of the natives, it is understood, has taken place and the.revolt may spread to other parts of South Africa. The settlers in Matabeleland are flocking into the towns, which are being placed in a condition for defense. Volunteers are being enrolled everywhere and provisions are being' collected. Re-enforcements of mounted police have already been sent to Buluwayo, Inseza and Gambo and the Gape rifles* have received orders to pre-' pare for active service. Supplies of ammunition for the Maxim guns are being hurried to Buluwayo and all the horses of the disturbed territory have been seized by Col. Napier, who is in charge t,' the government forces. The natives are raiding farms and Killing white settlors in tlic Mata,;>° hills distriet. -and r-u----mor has it that overfifty people have been slain. Will Not Support Spain. —lt has leaked Tjut in Madrid diplomatic circles that the Spanish foreign office has been informed by its ambassadors in the principal European courts that Spain is not likely to receive more than purely platonic sympathy even from the French'Government in a conflict with the United States. The Spanish representatives in all the European courts have discovered that it is absolutely absurd to hope that any European Government' would act inconcert to support Spain even by friendly mediation or moral influence. They have also discovered that both the foreign governments and the whale European public wonder why Spain does not immediately give Cnba and Porto Rico colonial autonomy and self-government, such as England gave to Canada, in order to disarm the secessionists in Cnba and to conciliate American sympathizers. Incompetent Consul. Congressman Hopkins, of Illinois, called on Secretary of State Olney and made verbal charges against Consul General Williams, who represents the United States at Havana, Cnba. He accuses the consul general of incompetence for the position he occupies and declares his neglect to investigate and report upon the ease of Walter Dygert, a citizen of Illinois and a resident of the district which Mr. Hopkins represents in Congress, who is -aider arrest in Cuba, shows he is in sympathy with Spanish officials.

BREVITIES.

George Henry ‘’Boughton, the distinguished artist, has been elected a Royal Academician. TheSmith,Wilson & Sears Paper Company, of Holyoke, Mass., has called a meeting of its creditors. The liabilities are $200,000. A terrible explosion of fire damp has taken place in a mine at Brunnerton, New Zealand. Five persons were killed outright and sixty more are entombed, with no hope of being rescued. The latest contest in the famous Davis will case has just been filed at Butte, Mont., by Mrs. Htilda Queen Davis, of Tehaehapi, Cal., who claims to be the widow of the dead millionaire. The Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds voted to recommend the passage of the bill appropriating $2,000,000 far a new public building at Indianapolis, Ind., the bills for government buildings at Oakland, Cal., and Waterbury, Conn., and also the bill for the purchase of a site for a building at Salem, Oregon, - v Mrs. Josephipe Snyder died at Fort Jarvis, N. Y., of poisoning, as alleged. Her linsband. Jacob Snyder, died Tuesday night. At the autopsy evidence of poison was found in his stomach. Mrs. Snyder’s ante-mortem statement has been taken, but Coroner Harding declines to reveal its contents. The daughter of the Snyders, Mrs. Martha Whittaker, is under guard. The Massachusetts State Republican convention, in session at Boston, elected delegates to the St. Louis convention, adopted a platform declaring for protection and against the free and unlimited coinage of silver and presented the name of Thomas B. Reed of Maine as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The Transvaal republic has formed an offensive and defensive alliance with the Orange Free State. A Montreal florist is suing Queen Victoria for $1,900 for flowers supplied at the state funeral of Sir John Thompson. Marcus Poflasky, of the law firm of Doolittle, Tollman & Pollasky, of Chicago, has brought snit in the United States Cirepit Court for the southern mma 6f Torh agamst Colli* P. Huntington for $374,000 for breach of contract in connection with the construction of S*n Joaquin Valley Railroad.

WORK OF CONGRESS.

THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington—Matters tligt COncem the Peqjple.;' Lawmakers at Labor. -- An pnexnyctad.-climax io the CpUanjletbatq. w*u reached-in tEeSenn when, mutnaljon jjf Mr. Sherman,chairman of the Committee-on Foreign Relations, the. Cuban resolutions were ceqquxrnitted to the eonferenee committee. The vote ■to recommit was ananimrjus and .without the formality of a roll call, representing a general ebn‘sensn's' ; &f opinion that the committee should so change the resolutions as to'overcome the opposition' that has. developed. Messrs. Sherman, Morgan„and Lodge were appointed to represent the Senate itFA further conference. Sinniltaneopstlr *wjth this ocribo Mr. Mills presented Cuban resolutions which propose to go farther than has yet heeit suggested. They direct th,e’: 2 >esiddnVTo request Spain to grant, local .self-govern-ment to Cuba, and in case Spain refuses ,|he President is authorized to use the military and uaval forces in taking possession of Cuba and holding it until selfgovernment .is established by the Cuban ■people. The House Committee oh Elections of President and Vice-Presideht reported favorably the till introduced by Mr. Corliss, of Michigan, providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the.people. Some amendments of minor importance were adopted, The question of reforming the fee system of the United States District Attorneys and Marshals occasioned much debate in the Senate Wednesday. Mr. Hoar opposed the change from fees to salaries by means t* an appropriation bill,'as it was a large subject, needing separate treatment. Mr. Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska attacked the high salaries. He declared' that the offices of District Attorney were given-frequently in payment of political debts, and instead of requiring a high degree of legal talent the places sometimes went to “shysters” who could not earn a living out of office. Mr. George (Dem.) of Mississippi attacked the entire policy of giving high salaries and showed that the Governors nncF Attorney Generals of States received less by half than the bill proposed allowing Federal Dis-’ triet Attorneys. Mr. Allen.also criticised the provision allowing the Attorney General to designate the number of Deputy Marshals. lie spoke against the “horde of officeholders.” Under Bncbntinn the Government spent $50,000,000 annually and now it is $500,000,000. In that time the population had doubled, but the expenses had increased tenfold. Officers were thrusting their hands into the treasury and by hook and crook, mainly by crook, seeking to increase their salaries. The purpose of this provision was to add to the offices controlled by an executive officer. Mr. Hoar responded warmly that the Senate could not waste its time investigating the details of the number of Deputy Marshals in ?aeh of the seventyseven districts in the L/jfted States, if It did it would become a laughing stock. If the Government could not trust the Attorney General with thin duty then the American Government had better shut up shop and apply to some Populist club to carry on its affairs. After an extended debate the salaries for District Attorneys and Marshals were agreed to as reported, with a few minor changes. The legislative appropriation was not completed when at 5:30 the Senate went into executive session and soon after adjourned. The House discussed naval appropriation. The Senate spetjt most of Thursday on the legislative appropriation bill, but did not complete owing to Mr. Sherman’s motion to strike out the proposition for the change from fees to salaries for United States district attorneys and marshals. A joint resolution was adopted allowing ex-President Harrison to accept decorations from Brazil and Spain. The joint resolution was passed providing for the appointment of a commission under the direction of the Secretary.of War for the preliminary survey, with plans, specifications and approximate estihiafes of 'cos't thereof, for the construction of a ship canal of approved width and depth, from the lower shore of Lake Michigan to the Wabash riyer, and for the further investigation of the practicability of the eonstruction of such waterway. The naval appropriation bill was passed by the House without substantial amendment. The bill carries $31,011,034 and authorizes the construction of four battle ships and fifteen torpedo boats, the total cost Of which will be in the neighborhood of $35,000,000. The Senate indulged in an acrinTo'nions political debate Friday. The controversy arose over Mr. Hill’s motion to strike from the legislative appropriation bill tfie proposed change of the date of assembling the New Mexico Legislature from December to May. Mr. Hill bitterly denounced the change as a political trick. Mr. Elkins protested. The debate took a wide range, Senators Gorman, Faulkner, Cockrell and other Democrats attacking the provision as political, while Senators Elkins. Carter, Cullom and other Republican Senators defended it. My. Cullom sought to table Mr. Hill’s motion, but a motion to this effect failed by a vote of 21 to 20. whereupon Mr. Cullom yielded to the Hill motion and the New Mexico provision was struck, out. The Senate passed the legislative appropriation bilß carrying $21,500,000. Aside from providing the usual appropriations, the bill is important In effecting a reform of the system of compensation for United States District Attorneys and Marshals, salaries being substituted for fees. The appropriation committee attempted to fake up the sundry civil appropriation biil in the House, but the members who wereinterested in bills on the private Calendar defeated them by a vote of 142 to 77.

Emperor William’s Bumps.

An English phrenologist who has examined the head of Emperor William H., says that there Is nothing unusual about it. “It Is,” be says, “a medium head, of the military type, such as can be found by the score In the army. The bumps of self-love and combatlveness are abnormally developed. He will never let litmself be stopped by an obstacle. There is no power on earth that could exercise the least pressure upon hjtQ. FUa aelf-lava, la so' great that It would not surprise me If he should proclaim himself Infallible. He would be perfectly sincere In so doing.",