Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Page 8

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RXKSELAEK, • - INDIANA.

RAINES LAW IS WEAK

HEW YORKERS EASILY EVADE ITS PROVISIONS. Icnlt* in Opening Score* of Altered Hotel*— Unfavorable Weather Haa Ad'eeraer Effect l! pon Trade—G on Id Baya the Railroads Are Throttled, The Haines law did not cite New York a dry Sunday. It only reduced the number of places where liquor could be obtained to the city’s 500‘betei*, and added the price of a sandwich to the cost of a drink. 1 The whole question of Sunday prohibition depended on whether the proprietor had ten bedrooms somewhere about his place of business or not. In most of these rooms the necessary furniture had simply l>een thrown in, and if any man applied for lodging in these sub l terfuge hotels he would be turned away. But of the city’s 7.000 bnrr<S>m saloon* not one was oi>en. The screens ‘were thrown back and the bars plainly exposed to view from the streets. No policemen stood guard at side doors. In Brooklyn all that the thirsty desired - to drink was obtained in the same manner. There were more evidences of drunkenness on the streets there than in New York, however. A number of arrests of saloonkeepers wet* made, but 1 as the law isr coming to lie better understood .its infractions are dooreaoitig. It is evident, however, that the open sesame to cold bottles in Now York is the inoffensive sandwich. Gould Wants the Law Repealed. George Gould, who was at Dallas, Tex., to attend the annual meeting of the Texas and Pacific, in an interview on the subject of railroads, said: "What we need is some legislation looking to the relief of the railroads. Two-thirds of the railroads of the country are either in the hands 3ft receivers or have recently beets reorganized and are trying it again. I attribute this bankruptcy of the railroads of the country almost entirely to tlse operation of the interstate' commerce law. That law has paralyzed the railroads, and they will never prosper again until it is repealed, nor will you sec nny more roads building while that law is iu effect. The laws arc too oppressive on invested capital. The repeal of the interstate commerce law, for instance, would help-the country amazingly by,permitting existing roads to prosper and by encouraging the building of other roads. This would throw life into the railroads and other collateral industries at once."

No Life in Trade. It- G. Pun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The volume of business hns not on the* whole increased, nor have prices appreciably advanced since April 1, when the range sot nil commodities was the lowest ever kiiown in this country. Brendstuffs and iron products have risen alightly, but some other articles have declined, and the root of the matter is that demand for consumption is still below expectations. The number of hands employed has been slightly lessened by strikes in some establishments and by stoppagejor reduction in force in others, but the change during the last week hns not been relatively important. The weather has not favored active distribution of spring goods, and uncefTa’inty as to continued employment affects tlie purchases by hands in a large number of establishments.” ' - Taken to His Own Morgne. While trying to take a matt to prison In October, 1890, Solon Boydston. coroner of Wayne County, Or, was killed nt Orrville. The prisoner resisted and both men fell on the track of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus- Railway, where they were struck by an engine. The prisoner, a tramp, lost a leg, while Bovdstou was killed. That the man cut to pieces was Boydston was not discovered until after the remains had lain in Boydstou's own undertaking rooms for two hours. IJis wife. Kate Boydston, "now of Chicago, sued the company for SIO,OOO damages for causing the death of her husband. The first jury awarded her $1,500 and the 1 second $2,100. Both verdicts were set aside. The third trial ended Friday morning, when the jury came in with a verdict allowing Mrs. Boydston $5,000. Death of Jno. A. Cockerill. Col. John A. Cockerill, widely known as ah editor and newspaper writer, died .-JgS&Bte .at£ais%- fisat Erfaifc&aflk, apoplexy, whit he wag in the barl>er shop of Shepherd's Hotel. Col. Cockerill was In the service of James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, for whom he had been in Egypt for three weeks. He left New York in January, 1805, to become the Herald's special correspondent in Japan.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Rt. Rev. Bishop Ryan of the Catholic diocese of Buffalo, died Friday at the episcopal residence in Buffalo. At Duluth. Minn.. William Verili and Joseph Soular were sentenced to be hanged for the hiurdcr of Samuel de Mars at Bewabifc on Jan. 13 last. Verili is 18 years of age an,d Soular 17. The murder was a most brutal one, and was deliberately planned. At Cleveland. Justice Hart has decided that Bishop William B. Campbell, of the African Evangelical Mission Church, is not guilty of embezzlement, upon which charge he was arrested some time ago nt the instance of a number of elders and ' •deacons of the church. It was alleged that the bishop had collected SSOQ for the establishment of a training school and had failed to account for the same. Gov. John E. Jones, of Nevada, died at San Francisco Friday evening. Gov. Jones had been ill for several months. ; Schlatter, the healer, after fasting forty days on g ranch near Sorocco, X. M., was discovered by a crowd anxious to be healed and immediately disappeared, traveling westward on his white horse. Hall A Garrison, Philadelphia, mnnufacturers of picture frames and moldings, made an assignment to Senator John C. Grady for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are estimated $290,000. white the assets are supposed to be as much.

EASTERN.

. -jfhmw fan st New! York Tnesdsy tn Hi* depth of three inches. . William T. Adams (Oliver Optic) haa just returned to Boston from a trip around the world, - ■ " - ’.'P; %i- 7, The New York Methodist conference' voted down the proposition to admit women ft* lay delegates to the general conference. ~ , - ; ■ ■ • ■ - The New York Thirteen Club has pre-. ferred charges against one of its member* for altering the Prince of Wales’ letter declining membership in the club so as to make it appear that be had accepted. > A man named Bendahar, said to belong In Boston, otherwise known as "Africa,” lias been arrested at Tangier, Morocco, on the application of Mr. Barclay, United States Consul-General there. Bendahar is accused of being a defaulter. ~j Frank McKinley, employed by the Sing-* er Manufacturing Company, at Elizabeth, N. j., was killed by a Pennsylvania Railway train. McKinley had been married less than an hour before the accident occurred. liis bride and he were on their way from church. Zella Nicolaus is hunting George Gould with blood in her eye. She forced her way lpto the Missouri Pacific offices at St. Louis Wednesday, declaring that he had lied about her and must make a retraction. She said: “I wish I could lay hands on him. He would not look nearly so pretty as he thinks he does.’ Fourteen buildings in the business section of Yonkers, N. Y., were burned Tuesday. The total loss amounts to about SIOO,OOO. The Josephine Louise House, New Orleans, a magnificent three-story building, was badly damaged by fire. The building is used by the young lady students of the famous Sophie Newcomb College as a dormitory. Loss about $3,000. The marriage of Gen. Benjamin Harrison, extlTesideut of• the United States, t 6 Mrs. Mary Scott Dimmick, niece of the late Mr*. Harrison, took place late Monday afternoon in New York in St. Thomas’ Church. In accordance with the wishes of both contracting parties, the wedding was a quiet one, only the immediate relatives and friends of the two families being Invited. Dr. John Guiteras, a leading Cuban patriot of Philadelphia, has received a letter from an unknown Cuban sympathizer, who signs himself “Ignacio Agramonte,” inclosing a check for $4,000 in aid of the Cuban cause, and another for SI,OOO to be given to the widow of a Cuban journalist who had acted as secretary to the Cuban delegate, Senor Estrada Palma. This makes the third letter which Dr. Guiteras has received from his unknown correspondent The first, which came tfvo months ago, inclosed a check for $2,000 In aid of the patriots’ cause. "The" second.” received about A month later, contained a check for $4,000. The letters are written in excellent Spanish, but evidently in a disguised hand. The writer requests that acknowledgment be made in the Cuban newspaper Patria.—

WESTERN.

. A. J. Blothon has retired from the management of the Minneapolis Penny Press because the compositors refused to work with him. The employes will form a cooperative company and run the paper themselves. Ofto Wagner, of Calhoun, Neb., has been digging a well. At 160 feet be struck a bo,wlder. He drilled several feet into the rock, but found no bottom. It was noticed that the composition of the rock was peculiar. Some one told Wagner that It looked like gold quartz. Wagner took It to nn nssayer. who certified- the ore to run sl6 to the ton. The British sliip Blairniore. nt anchor in Mission Bay, in the southern part of San Francisco, capsized Thursday morning, turning completely over, Five men who are known to have been on board are missing and are srpposed to have been drowned. The ship was in ballast. Tugs are now working to right the vessel and she will be saved without much damage. The Baltimore arrived from Newcastle, Australia, Feb. 2. Prohibitionists of Illinois have placed in nomination the following ticket: Governor . .Hale Johnson Lieutenant Governor C. A. Windle Secretary of State .. . .Alonzo E. Wilson Auditor A. J. Bassett Treasurer .;.. ...E. K. Hays Attorney General Robert H, Patton University Trustees —Miss Luey P. Gaston, Mrs. Carrie L. Grout, Mrs. Ella M. Orr. United States Senator .Dan It. Sheen Another life has been sacrificed to the determination of miners and prospectors to unearth the hidden treasures of Death Valley. The latest victim is D. K. Roberts, of l'resno, Cal. ltol>erts started on a prospecting tous into Death Valley been fovmd. It is feared that he perished in the desert. Expeditions to seek fabled riches of Death Valley start out annually. This great expanse of arid land, lying in the Panamint Mountains, in the southeastern part of Inyo County, is about 400 feet below the sea level, and, except for a few springs along its mountain sides, is entirely destitute of water. San Francisco dispatch: One of the most daring plots ever conceived, which, had it proved a sttecess, would have startled che whole world, because of the prominence of the proposed victims, hns just come to light here. The plan was nothing more nor less than to hold up the Vanderbilt special train, kidnap Cornelius Vanderbilt and hold him foV ransom. The details of the conspiracy also included the killing of Chauncey M. Depew and the other members of the party. The plot was discovered by George E. Gard, late chief of the Southern Pacific Company's detective service. He immediately communicated with the company's officials and the latter took measures to frustrate the plans oi the desperadoes. John Smith, a Slav, who formerly worked for Alvin Stone, has confessed that he murdered Stone and his wife and Ira Stillson, the hired man. near Tallmadge.JJlilo, two weeks ago. Smith was discharged from Stone’s employ l*eoause of his behavior toward Flora Stone, tbo youngest daughter. Partly in a spirit of revenge and because he intended to menter all other members or the family and then assault the girl, he went to the house and committed the triple crime. He succeeded in killing the old people and the hired man, and attacked the two older daughters. one of whom escaped and gave the alarm, running a half-mile in her night clothes. Fearing discovery. Smith escaped as soon as he learned of the girl's ilgfif. Flora Sldlie recognTlced hi* voice, and on this suspicion he waa

arrested Wednesday," and later made a confession. - of alcoholic liquors and war against the gold standard was declared Wednesday by the delegates to the Btate convention of the Prohibition party of Illinois at Springfield. Eight planks form the platform of the party at adopted, and of these two were captured by those who leaned to Populistic Ideas. The first was that advocating the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes. Woman suffrage was placed next. Civil service reform, compulsory educatiqn and Sunday observance ■were favored. The sixth plank was the minority report on resolutions favoring .free silver. The majority report on resolutions was tabled by a clever ruse of Hie Populists. When the Relegates finally understood in what position they were placed by the weird magic of parliamen,jary rules, t hc~ ma jority report In favor" of prohibition, as the dominant issue, was resuscitated and carried. The scheme was one that will be remembered by the' Prohibitionists of Illinois for many a day. The seventh advocated a national tariff commission free from politics. The last plank, among other things, referred to the transfer of control of all means of transportation and communication to the Government. , A wholesale clothing manufactory, which will give employment to from 600 to 800 cutters and trimmers and from 15,000 to 20,000 tailors and which will be located in Chicago, U assured just as soon as the sanction of the American‘Federation of Labor is obtained. A number of wealthy Chicago men who have .Interested themselves in the strike of the cutters and tailors hare promised all the financial .backing that will be necessary, and have announced that their determination to back an active competitive agency is wholly due to the continued refusal of the Manufacturers’ Association to arbitrate the differences between them and their former workmen. . Moral support is given the strikers in an address to the public which emanates from Judge Tuley, Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Charles Henrotin and others, In which the condition of the thousands of idle tailors is given and the manufacturers arraigned for their indifference and persistent refusal to arbitrate. President Kallen said: “We will establish an agency in every market .where Chicago-made clothing is sold, and we will give the workingmen, who are the ones who wear ready-made clothing, an. opportunity to choose between a suit having the union label on it and one which is not the product of union labor. That is the proposition pure afid simple.”

FOREIGN.

At U>pb)in. in the election Monday for a member of Parliament to succeed ,Df. J. Edward Kenny, Parnellite, who recently resigned, in the College Green division of Dublin City, J. L. Carew, Parnellite, was returned 1 without opposition. Last year, according to figures contained in a report to the State Department by United States Commercial Agent Moore, nt Weimar, the consumption of tobacco in Germany was .159,392,580 pounds, or a little over three pounds per capita. The British ship Brabloch, sixty-seven days from Newcastle, New South Wales, was towed into-San Francisco with her cargo of coal on fire. Sho was grounded and water pumped into her hold through ten lines of hose until the fire was extinguished. Gardner Williams, the American engineer, manager of the De Beers mines, is among the members of the reform committee commited Tor trial at the next session of the high court of Pretoria on the charge of high treason for participating in the uprising at Johannesburg. The London Daily Newshnd the Chronicle hare a report from Constantinople,' said to be on the best authority, that an imperial order has decreed the wholesale expulsion of all Christian missionaries from Armenia, who are mainly French Cathdiics and American Protestants. News comes that Chinese soldiers stationed at Miang Yin mutinfhd- because the Viceroy sent martinets, to them as commanding officers. Not liking the rigid rule of the new general they seized the guns in all the forts and were about to kill all the officers in command when the powder .magazine exploded, blowing up the entire regiment. No one near the scene lives to tell whether the explosion was accidental or designed. Flying shells killed all persons within 300 yards of the -buildings^ Spanish securities fell on the London Stock Exchange Tuesday in consequence of the action of the United States House of Representatives in regard to the question of Cuban belligerency. The Globe Tuesday afternoon, commenting upon the vote in the United States House of Representatives, says: “The chief dangers of the situation is that Spanish pride will never surrender Spain’s ipost valuable colony until beaten to the ground, and should there ,be a repetition of the popular demonstrations against the United States, American passion might flame up in an ugly manner and compel President Cleveland to demand satisfaction. This would almost inevitably result in war, and while the United States would, of course, crush Spain, American trade, already very delicate, would be'very largely wrecked.” In conclusion, the Globe expresses the opinion that it ais improbable that President Cleveland will seriously consider the concurrent resolutions. 4 Admiral Sanchez Ocana, commanding the great navy yard at Ferrol, Spain, reports to bis Government that he has completed preparations for seeding to sea a Spanish squadron composed of fourteen vessels, with crews,aggregating nearly 6,000 men. The Madrid press plainly says the movcment<of the fleet will depend upon the course of President Cleveland after the vote of Congress on the belligerency resolutions. Six transatlantic steamers have been turned into twentygun fast cruisers. It is easy to see that the papers are ready for another outbreak of popular excitement. But the Government is determined to continue to show energy in quelling demonstrations calculated to alter harmonious relations with America or whjch would be likely to paralyze the contemplated negotiations between the two Governments. Admiral Berenger, the minister of marine, pro l ’ poses to rhe cabinet an extra credit of 23,000,000 pesetas on account of naval construction. Advices received nt Constantinople Tuesday from Diarbekir indicate beyond any reasonable doubt that Rev. George C. Knapp, one of the American missionHTferirw tils, lr cmaftned In Ore Jill at Diarbekir, capital of the vilayet of tAat

■ name. In Turkish Armenia, aud that serious international complications are more ■ than likely to follow. At die first Intimation of trouble the United States charge d’affaires, after communicating with the porte and receiving the unsatisfactory reply cited, cabled to Washington for further instructions, and it is now said that the United States squadron in the Mediterranean, consisting of the flagship Minneapolis, commanded by Admiral T. O. Selfridge, and the cruiser Marblehead, will shortly assemble in the Gulf of lakanderun, and at the same time a formal protest against the treatment of the American missionaries may be made to the porte, coupled with the demand for adequate indemnity for the damage recently done to the property of Americans.. The imprisonment of Rev, Mr, Knapp is understood to be but a preliminary to the expulsion of all the Christian missionarles, mostly Americans, English and French Catholics, from-Asiatic Turkey,and, possibly, from European Turkey as well. Besides, It Is rumored that the agents of the American Red Cross Society, now distributing relief funds in Asiatic Turkey In ther presence of local Turkish officials, are also to be expelled from that part of the empire. _* - Ex-King Milan, of Serria, announces officially that he will.come to the United States with the express purpose of finding an American woman with plenty of money who would be willing to marry the present ruler of Serria, King Alexander. For the exchange of her shekels it is stipulated that the bride-to-be shall be formally elevated to tfie nobility, after which the marriage will take place in royal style. In contracting this unequal matrimonial alliance ex-King Milan ia to provide that King Alexander secures absolute control of his millionaire bride’s money. Alexander has already been jilted by many titled women of Europe.* The American girl who will become King Alexander’s wife will hare to be a strong-minded woman Who will be able to reform her husband should any degree of happiness be hers. An ex-attache thus describes this personage: “King Alexander, *or King ‘Sasha,’ as he is nicknamed, is one of the most offensive and displeasing youths that could be found anywhere from the Bosphorus to the banks of the Tagus. His manners are coarse and brutal in the extreme, fully in keeping with his beetling brows, low forehead, and almost bestial nose and jaw, while the opinions which he vouchsafes with regard to women in general are characterized by an affectation of cynicism and disillusion that is revolting indeed.” The future Queen of Servia will also have to satisfy the caprices of her ail but amiable father-in-law, who is an incurable spendthrift, and whose excesses have caused his dethronement. His was a singularly turgid, ribald, shameless and erratic reign. After a long career of profligacy he deserted his country in a most critical hour.

IN GENERAL

Fifteen thousand immigrants are about to leave for New York from Naples. Word has been received at the Cuban junta in New York that the American schooner Martha”, which left Key West Tuesday night, with an expedition bound for Cuba, had returned to that city without landing her cargo. The schooner was met and chased by three Spanish vessels in Cuban waters, and barely escaped being captured. While the little schooner was fleeing from the Spanish vessels several of the Cubans on hoard the Martha mutinied and threw overboard a portion of the arms and ammunition composing her cargo. Just as the men had assembled in Watson Bros.’ mill, ready to begin work Monday, a terrific boiler explosion tore the building into fragments. Two dead bodies, those of Daniel Ledtch and A. M, Cunningham, have been extricated from the ruins and It is believed others are buried beneath the debris. Jonathan Butler is probably fatally Injured, his arms being broken and legs horribly lacerated. William Watson aud Thomas Shea are both injured in the head. At present It is impossible to ascertain the full number of fatalities. The mills were the main industry of Ridgetown. The steam schooner Lakme sailed from Seattle, Wash., for Six-Mile Creek, on Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, Monday morning,’ having 235 passengers aud a large cargo of freight. Just before the hour of departure twenty men came ashore, refusing to take the trip owing to the crowded condition of the vessel, and their fares were accordingly refunded. Of those who got away four were young men who had given up good positions in Grand Rapids, Mich., to try their fortunes in the fields of the Cook's Inlet region. ■* The steamer Utopia, which sailed Saturday for Alaska, had 125 passengers.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to. prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 6Go; corn, No. 2,29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 39c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 11c; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c; broom &>rn, S2O to $45 per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, SB.OO to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, G9c to 71c; corn, No. 1 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24e. St Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; 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 $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32e; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c 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, 73c. to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to24e; rye. 37c to 39c. Toledo—Wheat,No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3,29 cto 31c; oats, No., 2 white, 21c to 22e; barley, No. 2,31 cto 33c; rye, No. l,' 39c to 40e; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 78c to 80c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.60; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 1 hard, 78c to 79c; corn. No. 2, 3 jg«tr..2flc toflftn. butter creamery,*!7c to 19c; eggs* Western, 13c to 13c.

SPAIN MUST REFORM.

OLNEY CABLES INSTRUCTION TO MINISTER TAYLOR. Calls Attention to Broken Promises— Awful Record of a Murderer In s Michigan Town Ancient German Bcandal Results in a Duel. To Intercede for Cuba. An important official dispatch bearing on Cuban affairs has been sent to Madrid from the State Department. It was signed by Secretary Olney’and addressed to Minister attitude of the administration in the Cuban question. The dispatch is ajong one. -lla fonr principal points ace: 1. The President proposes that Spain accept mediation on the part of the United States looking to a settlement - of existing differences between the Spanish Government and thp Cubans. 2. It refers to the correspondence between the State Department and the Madrid authorities in 1870, in which Spain promised to inaugurate go vernmental reforms In Cuba, which promise, it is said, has not been fulfilled. 3. It says the present rebellion in Cuba is more serious and widespread than any which have arisen in recent years, and , that the insurgents control practically all of Cuba except Havana and the near neighborhood. 4. It assures Spain of the kindliest motives on the part of the United States in seeking to bring about a pacific condition of affairs in Cuba, and urges that the good offices of this country be accepted in the spirit proffered. Shoots Five Dead. A bold attempt was made on the life of-William-B; 0. Sands, president ofthe Sands & Maxwell Lumber Company, of Pentwater, Mich., Thursday night. Mr. Sands had been at the office of the com : pany engaged In work and left for his home shortly after 9 o’clock. When within a lew yards of his home a man jumped from behind a corner of a street and commenced firing at him with a gun. Mr. Sands ran across the street to his home, the would-be assassin following and keeping up a fire. Five shots were fired in all, three finding resting places in Mr. Sands’ right arm and one in the leg. Suspicion pointed to H. B. Minchall, a local insurance agent and attorney, and it was decided to place him under arrest. The officers found his residence locked and broke in the door. A horrible sight was presented. Mrs. Midehall was lying upon the floor of the sitting room with a bullet hole in her temple. Near her was the dfead body of her daughter Ruby, about 16 years of age. In a corner of the same room lay Mincliall with an empty revolver clutched in his hnnd. He, too, was dead. In an adjoining bedroom were found the bodies of George, aged 4, and his infant brother. They were in bed together and death had evidently come upon them while they slept. The motive for Minchall’s crimes is still a mystery. Minchall came three years ago from Chicago. Ancient German Scandal Revived. There was a sensation in Berlin court and military circles Friday morning when it was announced that another duel growing out of the great cotfrt anonymous-let-ter scandals had'taken place in the woods near Potsdam, and that Baron von Schrader, master of the ceremonies of the Prussian court, had been shot and seriously wounded by Count von Kotze. The latter was formerly court chamberlain, and was acquitted on the jjharge of being the author of the anonymous communications alluded to. Baron von Schrader was taken to a hospital, where his wound was pronounced to be of a most serious nature. Count von Kotze’s arrest has been ordered, and his friends say he will surrender to the authorities whenever and wherever called upon to do so. This is the third duel of tlie scries of about a dozen for which challenges were sent out last April by Count von Kotze, and he repeated Friday his announce.ucnt of his determination to beep on fighting his enemies, one by cme, until he has settled accounts with all on his list. Those who know Count von Kotze feel confident that he will keep his word - . Budget for Fortifications. The House Committee on Appropriations Friday reported the bill for fortifications and other works of- defense, for their armament, and for heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year wipeh begins next July, The hill recommends specific npproi>rintions amounting to $5,842,000, and in addition authority is given to the Secretary of War to make contracts for the further expenditure of $5,542,000 by the engineer and ordnance departments, making a total authorized expenditure of $11,384,000.

BREVITIES.

Affairs look so serious in Spain that American tourists are leaving the country. King Menelek, of Abyssinia, is reported to be negotiating for an alliance with the dervishes. A New York delegate to the Republican national convention proposes to go to St. Louis on a bicycle. Troops B and Iv of the Seventh Cavalry have been ordered transferred from Fort Sheridan to the department of Colorado. It is stated that glanders are rite in the quarantine for imported horses at Liverpool, and it is reported that out of 100 Canadian horses in one depot forty are suffering frqm the disease. J United States Senator Elkins is the father of a bill to place a discriminating duty of 10 per cent on all goods imported into this country in vessels not sailing under the United States flag. John Hays, a clerk in the general store of,P. r Hays, his brother, at Puente, Cal., was shot and killed by two masked robbers. John Pugsley was found dead in a New York tenement. He had lived in abject poverty, but left more than $1,500,.000 in real estate in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Florida. Measles is running its course in the President’s family, and Friday morning Ruth, the first born, contracted the disease. Little Esther is progressing rapidly toward recovery, and so far Baby Marion has not shown signs of the ailment. Henrietta Crossman, leading lady for the Frohmans, has begun suit for divorce at Youngstown, Ohio, alleging nonsupport and drunkenness. , The garrisons which were bclcagued by 4b» Aihtlmi* Utwgeste on the island of Java have been relieved. Forty Dutch soldiers were killed or wounded.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW* MAKERS. I A Week’s Proceeding* in tke Hall* of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impart tial Resume) of the Business. Tke National Solon*. The Senate spent the entire day on tha postoffice appropriation bill, but did not.j complete it. After a brief but very spirited debate the House passed the river and harbor appropriation bill. The action was taken under suspension of the rules, ia) spite of the vigorous protests of the minority against ~fche coptiaaiag coa-traet-syL tem. The opposition was unable to mus-* ter Votes enough, however, to call for the yeas and nay on the suspension of the rules. The Senate did but little Tuesday, except to pass the postoffice appropriation, bill. The conference report on the agricultural bill was agreed to. It carried $3,302,792. The House spent the dayj debating a bill to fix the standard ofi weights and measures by the adoption of the metric system on and after July lj 1898, and a proposition tha) tho Govem-i. ment share with the District of Columbia the expense of creating and maintaining a public library in the city of ton. The latter was defeated. 113 to li!7,j and the fate of the metric system bill still hangs in the balance. Quite a breezy discussion arose in the Senate Wednesday oyer the national reserve question. Senator Teller, made a) spirited, attack on the present system ad detrimental to the interests of the West.j The discussion arose on his request toj send a bill requiring banks to keep theip Reserves in their own vaults to the Fi-j nance Committee. Much of, the day waa given to the Indian appropriation bill,j which was not completed. Unanimous consent was secured for taking up thej resolution for a Senate inquiry into recent) (bond issues Tuesday. The bill to adopt) the metric system of weights and meas-j fires was sent back by the House to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and: (Measures for further consideration. the first vote it had a majority of 2, but jthe opposition was aggressive, and after: a series of votes it was recommitted by ql* vote of 130 to 59. The remainder of the day was devoted to debate on the bill tfi exempt sailing vessels engaged in the ■coastwise trade from compulsory pilotage laws. j The tariff-silver bill and a lively tariff discussion occupied the Senate Thursday} In the House the bill to abolish compulsory pilotage on sailing vessels engaged; 7n the Coastwise trade was defeated—nays, 117; yeas, 57., The House non-? concurred in the Senate amendments to) the postoffice appropriation Hill and agreed to a conference. Messrs. Loudi (Rep.) of California, Smith (Rep.) of Illi-j jiois, and Kyle (Dem.) of Mississippi were appointed conferees.

Bridge of Pink Marble.

A thing of beauty and a joy forever; will be the colossal bridge of pink mar-, ble over the Tennessee River at Knox} ville. It will cost $1,000,000, and will' be built entirely of the famous pink marble which abounds in Knox County. It will be 1,600 feet long, and tho span of the main arch will be 240 feet, 1 which is said to be twenty feet longer than the longest span In-the world.* The height of the center arch above the water will be 105 feet. The roadwayj will be fifty feet in width. The piers of the bridge will all go to the solid roeki The parapet walls will be constructed of sawed marble slabs, with blocks of pilasters every fifteen feet, projecting above the wall proper, thus giving a semi-castellated effect. ■

The Crow.

A farmer near Patehogue, Long Isl-i and, has a tame crow, which while it has perfect freedom, seldom goes far from the dooryard. The crow was captured while quite young, and is thoroughly domesticated. It roosts at night; with the hens in the henhouse. With the Imitative instincts of its kind, it has learned to reproduce exactly the cackling of the hens, so that strangers passing often stop and look upward with amazement at what seems to be the cackling of a hen Hying about iu| the air. ~ ■

A Bible Curiosity.

There Is a verse in the Bible which contains every letter In tbd alphabet except J, and It Is said there is only one such. It is the tweuty-fir&t versa of the seventh chapter of Ezra, and reads: “Atts. I, e’Vfeih l, Artaxerxes, tiia' king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra, the priest, the scribe qf the law of the God of heaven, shalj require of you, It be done speedily.”

The Fish Revived.

A curious instance of reanimation 00-| curred In the case of a large pike, which had been out of water six houcs, at a recent reunion of the English Piscatorial Society. Apparently quita dead, it was handed by its captors tq one of the waiters to be washed in cold water. It had scarcely been immersed when, with suddenly returning life, It bit the waiter’s finger through almost to the bone.

Grant in Bronze.

A heroic bronze statue of G-en. Grant Is being constructed at Chicopee, Mass. The Union League Club of Providence has ordered the statue, which It will place in front of Its club house. Tho' total cost will be about $30,000 when constructed. The piece will be thiriytwo feet high, and will have a pedestal of Quincy granite. .The figure of Gen. Grant will he about sixteen feet high.

His Last Call.

Lieut. F. G. Fisher, who took part In the Chitral campaign, says that dt Malakaland there was a man with thoi enemy who had been a marker In a na-i tlve regiment. When the attack developed he stood on the top of a sungar with a red flag in his hand, Every one, of course, took pot-shots at him, andi as the bullets whistled past he signaled, “Miss, by the right!” or “by the left!"! until one caught him full in the ctest, He staggered for « moment, signaled Bull’s-eye," end then dropped dead. ? • ‘ • ’ . ; ■ ■ ‘ *' .-