Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — Page 2

'THE; REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. Rensselaer, -- - Indiana.

SAGASTA IS HOPEFUL.

SANGUINE VIEW OF THE CUBAN SITUATION. He Says that Dispatches “Give Un> qualified Promise of ’ Peace Congress’ to Ask Information on Ruiz Case—A Woman’s Desperate Deed. Still Looks for Peace. Senor Sngasta, the Spanish premier, Recording to a special dispatch from Madrid, reported at a late cabinet meeting that all the dispatches received from Cuba gave “unqualified promise of peace. ’ He is said to have added that this was not only the impression in Cuba, but iu the United States as well. At yVashington, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has agreed to make a favorable report on the resolution of Representative Williams of Mississippi asking the State Department for information on the Ruiz case. The resolution is ns follows: “Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed, if in his opinion compatible with the public interest, to send to the House the reports made to the department by Consul General Lee, and any other report made to the department by consuls or commercial agents of the United States on the subject of the execution of Col. Ruiz by the Cuban lpilitary. authorities.” There was no division over the resolution, aiid the vote was unanimous in favor of reporting it. Beypml this there was no reference to the Cuban question, except in the reference to the sub-committee of the various Cuban resolutions introduced recently. Killed Her Dover and Herself. Richard J. Halloran, a police officer of the St. Louis force, was fatally shot with his own pistol by Miss Nellie Manion, who then turned the pistol on herself and put a bullet in her brain. The attempted murder and suicide is the result of disappointed love. The shooting followed a quarrel, during which Miss Manion'begged Ilallornn to nlarry her. Ho refused, and she, in mad desperation, began shooting.

BREVITIES.

Gov. Bushnell of Ohio is suffering from diabetes and his physician says In's recovery is doubtful. Senator White of California has been elected chairman of the Democratic congressional committee. August Nickerson, a sailor, died at Tort Townsend, Wash., after living eleven days with a broken neck. Eugene Burt, the Austin, Tex., wife and child murderer, hns been granted a stay of execution until March. Signor Anton Casseletti has died at San Diego, Cal., aged 02 years. He had a European reputation as a violinist. At Mobile. Ala., Jefferson, alias Jack Knight, of Pensacola, Pip., was hanged for the murder of Frank Duntzler. Editor E. W. Iloch of Marion, Kan., has refused the postmastership of his town because he would have to work Sunday. Ex-President Cleveland hns purchased a traet of land near Princeton, N. ,J., which he intends to stock for a game preserve. The Women’s Federated Clubs of Missouri voted to establish a traveling library in Missouri and appointed a bonrd of seven members to inaugurate the work. According to n Washington dispatch Lord Salisbury will resign the post of British foreign minister to a younger and more vigorous man, but retain the premiership. Actor Edward J. Rateliffc, under sentence for wife beating at New York, was released on $2,5(H) luff 1, but was immediately rearrested and locked up on a charge of perjury. The Cologne Gazette asserts that according to international law Kino-Chon is German property and an attack upon it would enable Emperor William to declare war without consulting the buudesrath. Charles Lee, colored, the only surviving membqr of n family of six, the others having been murdered by white caps near Vicksburg, Miss., is preparing to sue the State of Mississippi for SIOO,OOO damages. . • Judge Dallas, in the United Stales Circuit Court at .Philadelphia, ordered a nonsuit in the case of Charles 11. Despnux against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for alleged discrimination in rates for carrying oil in 1881, 1882 and 1883. Harris, n small town twenty miles west of Milan, Mo., was visited by a destructive incendiary tire, causing a $50,000 loss. The Harris bank, J. C. England, dry goods, and Carpenter Brothers, general merchandise, were among the losers. Chris. Merry, who has been on trial in Chicago for the' murder of his wife, Pauline, hns been declared guilty by the jury and must die upon the gallows for his crime. James Smith, tried on a charge of lieiug implicated with him, was acquitted. A Camden, N. J.. woman, who was carried out of a religious meeting in what was supposed to be n cataleptic fit, declares she was in a trance, during which she was wafted to the pearly gates, where she beheld Christ, who placed a wreath upon her brow. George Hnrfer and Albert Fisher have been appointed receivers of the Zoological gardens lit Cincinnati, Ohio, upon aplication of the stockholders, who state that there Is a debt of $70,000 and that litigation is threatened which would bring permanent Injury to the property. Captain Annie P. Hughes of the Volunteers of America nnd secretary to Commander Bnllingtou Booth, was sandbagged at Orange, N. J. Erich A. Prisnmn, a former convict, recently discharged from the headquarters stuff, lias been arrested on suspicion. lie is suposed to have mistaken Miss Hughes for her sister, who rejected his attentions. The congregation of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, unanimously declined to unite with its pastor, Dr. John Hall, in requesting the presbytery of New York to dissolve the pnstorul gelations between him sud the chart'll,'

EASTERN.

Angustin Cossio, the father of Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, has arrived iu New York from Havana, having been released by Gen. Blaueo. ' New York rapid transit commissioners report that for the present at least there is no hope of building the rapid transit tunnel so long planned-. M. J. Daugherty of Pittsburg, Pa., a traveling salesman., hanged himself with his handkerchief in a cell of the city prison at Zanesville, O. * The Lehigh Valley Construction Company of South Bethlehem, l’a., has filed a deed of general assignment to Julius Workum of New Y’ork. The General Electric Company is preparing for one of the largest iron foundries ever constructed in this country, to be located in Schenectady, N. Y. *■ Rev. George William Douglas, rector of Trinity Episcopal Clmrch at New Haven, Conn., has declined to become the clerical head of the United States church armjj. i , . A syndicate of New York capitalists has secured an option on 90 per cent of the general Wave potteries in Trenton, N. J., and Enst Liverpool, 0., the two principal potteries of the country. An unknown man threw himself or accidentally fell from a parapet on the Washington bridge over the Harlem river at Netv York, dropping 147 feet to the water. He was fished out and will live. Clipper ships Aryan and Dirago sailed from New York for San Francisco and Shanghai respectively, and the captains of each have wagered he will make the quickest trip, the distance being practically the same. The National Summer School Association which has been holding yearly meetings at Glens Falls, N. Y., has been dissolved by action of the stockholders on account of the unsatisfactory financial condition of the association. J. J. Ilill of the Great Northern Railroad has notified President Bridgernnn of Hnmline University that he will give $20,000 for the purpose of raising the debt provided other friends of the institution will raise the remaining $15,000.

WESTERN.

Twelve hundred coal miners in northern Colorado have struck for an increase of wages. The jury in the Yillers ‘murder trial at Jamestown, N. IL, returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. * An interesting feature of the proposed gigantic bituminous coal trust is a profitsharing plan, in which the miners will be allowed to co-operate. An Indian woman claims to be the lawful wife of John R. Hite, the California millionaire mine owner, who married a Ban Francisco lady last October. The interpartisan convention at Kingfisher, O. T., adopted a resolution asking Congress to pass an enabling act for the admission of Oklahoma as a State. A new traffic arrangement seeks to throw the freight business from Oregon a,nd Washington by Southern lines, instead of exclusively* by the Northern Pacific. At Willmar, Minn., fire, caused by a defective chimney, totally destroyed the Northwestern Elevator Company’s elevator, Together with about (1,000 bushels of wheat. Doctors at the Rebekah Hospital in St. Louis have successfully removed the stomach of a man named Beck, 40 years old. suffering from cancer. They say be will recover. President McKinley has pardoned Clyde Mattox, twice convicted of the murder in Oklahoma, Ok'., in December, 1890, of John Mullins, a negro, and sentenced to hang. At Fostorio, 0., Henry Ivohn, proprietor of Kohn Brothers’ dry' goods nnd clothing store, has assigned to Meyer Friend. The assets are largely in excess o? the liabilities. Edward Killfeather, an Oregon politician, nnd I. 11. Tnffo, have been convicted of jury bribing at Portland, Ore., in connection with the right of way of a proposed boat railway. Ignatius Jlonnelly is at work on a new Baconian cryptogram. He now claims that Bacon not only wrote the Bhakspeare plays nnd ronnots, but that be was probably the author of “Don Quixote." Customs officers nt Port Townsend, Wash., seized 420 quart bottles of whisky on the steamer City of Seattle just before she sailed for Alaska. A small quantity was also found on the City of Topeka.

Richard Pithii*, a bridge contractor, lias discovered a deposit cf natural cement near Bt. Helena, Cal., which he says is much superior to the imported article, nnd which can be procured at a much smaller cost. Paul Metcalf, said to lie a refugee from Montana, with a thirty years’ sentence for murder hanging -over him. was probably fatally wounded in a desperate light with a sheriff’s posse in a dugout near Winchester, Ok. Miss Elizabeth Van Wyck Anderson, n niece of Mayor Van Wyck of New York, while delirious from fever nt Tacoma, eluded her watchers and tried to drown herself in 'Puget Sound. She was rescued by n policeman. At Sun Francisco, Cal., Mrs. James L. Flood, wife of the millionaire mine-own-er, died as the result of nu operation recently performed nt the California Woman's Hospital. She was 34 years of age and a native of Kansas City. In a dwelling house in Chouteau avenue, St. Louis, the eharred remains of a little girl were discovered. The house was ooeupiod by August Hauer, Mrs. Hilda Ersar and her little girl. Hauer was arrested. The police think he killed the child and fired the, building. The Ideiil comedy drama of American ! home life, "Shore Acres," with its talented author, James A. Herne, as Nathaniel Berry, I* playing u short engagement at I McVleker's Chicago theater. This lieautlfnl piny, which was originally produced In the western metropolis in May, 1892, still continues to attract all classes of theater goers nnd its present season promises to lie tlie most successful it has ever had. For the present production of “Shore Acres” dntlre new scenery, the work of 11. L. Held, the New York artist, has been prepared. The supposing company, with bnt few exceptions, is the same that np|>cnrrd in Chicago Lost season, and the same clever children will again appear in their respective roles. Resolution* were adopted by the Nicaraguan canal convention nt Kansas City urgiug, upon Congress the necessity of

legislation to secure construction of the canal. A permanent executive committee was appointed, with 'former Gov. Fishbuck of Arkansas as chairman. The assignee of Lebold, Fisher & Co., proprietors of the Abilepe Bank, in Abilene, ’Kan., who failed in 1889 with liabilities aggregating ( $250,000, has made bis final report. So near worthless was the firm’s assets that the* assignee has paid but a little over 3 per cent of the claims presented. . . John Ritner, who is confined in the*jail at St. Clairsville, 0., although only 10 years of age, confesses to a series of startling crimes. He acknowledges robbing the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling office of S9OO, the postoflice at Wheeling Creek mines of S4OO and wrecking a Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling passenger train for the purpose of robbery, together with a number of minor crimes. As the result of a quarrel at Bellevue, Neb., Mrs. F. A. Langhine went to the residence of Dr. W. C. Buell and fired two shots at him. The doctor drew his revolver and ordored her to throw lip her hands under penalty .of being shot. She did so. A moment later her husband arrived with a shotgun, but the doctor forced him to take a positiou beside his wife. Both were then marched to the police station and arrested. James Murphy, George Woodruff and George Gordon, postoflice burglars, have made thefr escape from the Federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. The men dropped behind „the other prisoners in coming out to breakfast nnd taking advantage of a heavy fog, sealed a twentyfoot wall by means of a rope laddbr and were gone some time before they were missed., ATI three of them were convicted at Topeka for breaking into postoffices. Murphy and Gordon have two years to serve and Woodruff ten. J. West Goodwin of the Somalia, Mo., Bazoo, secretory of the Eugene Field Monument Association, has received from Hoffman & Brocliazka of New Y’ork the design monument the school children of Missouri propose to erect to the memory of Eugene Field on the Missouri State University campus at Columbia. The base is of rough Missouri granite, ox 7 feet, while the shaft is of polished granite, upon Which rests a bronze figure of the dead poet. The cost of the monument will be about SO,OOO.

SOUTHERN.

Arthur S. Tope has been appointed temporary receiver for the Hoffman Machine Company, a West Virginia corporation, in a suit brought by stockholders for a dissolution of the corporation. At Louisville, Ivy., throe men were seriously and two fatally burned as the result of a boiler explosion iu the Ferueliffe distillery. The fatally injured are John Kenny and Philip Kerb. Benjamin Butterworth, United States Commissioner of Patents, who lias been ill at Piney Woods Hotel at Thomasville, Ga., several weeks, is dead. His last illness was caused by pneumonia. General Cassius M. Clay’s young wife, Dora, barely escaped death at the hands of her brother, Clell Richardson. Clell, angry because his brother-in-law, Willie Bryant, paid too much attention to D.ora, drove her out of the house and fired two shots after her. Mr. Mount (Dem. of Oldham) has introduced a bill in the Kentucky House designed to remove the negro as.a quantity in Kentucky politics. It makes payment of poll taxes for the year prior to the election a qualification to vote in elections in that State. The body of James E. Berry, known iu life as the tramp millionaire, lay for a time at a Paducah, Ivy., undertaker’s establishment, worn by age, disease and excesses and stared nt by morbid strangers. Berry’s wife todk the remains to Mount Vernon, 111., for interment.

FOREIGN.

Sig. E rncst Nieoliui, the husband of Adelina Patti, died at Pau, Italy. The anti-Jewish crusade in France is reported to be assuming alarming proportions. Cuban insurgents exploded a dynamite bomb and wrecked a train in Havana province. Bread riots were renewed nt Ancona, Italy. The rioters were dispersed by troops and fifty arrests were made. Right Honorable Charles Pelham Villiers, known ns the “father of the House of Commons,” is dead at London, aged 96. Race conflicts have been resumed at Prague, due to a proposal in the diet to have Doth the Czech and German languages taught in Bohemia. The official engineers’ joint committee at London lias notified the employers’ federation of tlie withdrawal, on behalf of the men, of the eight-hour demand. Great Britain has agreed to provjde a loan to China of £12,000,666 at 4 per cent, to run fifty years, provided Chiba opens three treaty ports, declares that no portion of the Yangsto-Kinng valley shall be alienated to any other power and allows the extension of the Hurmnh Railway through Hunan Province. The Rome correspondent of the London Daily Chrouich*, in a startling statement quotes largely from nn article in Civilitn Cattolicn, which ho declares is directly inspired by the Vatican nnd the pope, ndvoenting ns the solution of the eternal question betwec'ii the Vatican ami the Quiriiuil the establishment of an Italian republic. The article, which is based on the pope's Christmas allocution, declares that the thing which stands opposed to pupal independence is not Itnliuu unity, but “the special and concrete form wherein that unity is nt present maintained, with results much more disastrous to the Suite than to the holy see.” It proceeds to assert that the co-existeuee of the \ ationti and the Italian mouareliy is impossible, nnd that one or the other must go. It then suggests the constitutions of Switzerland nnd America as exnmplcs of "admirable nnd glorious constitutions, true union of nation nnd state, though differing from thnt of Italy, which bus produced nothing but weakness, misery and starvation.” The article conclude*: "Without the nid of foreign bayonets the true Italy will find for itself its ow n way and will rise again, let us hope, from the ignominy In which It uow lies prostrate, to true great in's*.” The Clyde Line steamer Cherokee, which arrived Ht New York from San Domingo ports, brings details of the recent earthquakes which hnve occurred w.lth frequency Since’Dec. 29 last. Great damage hns been caused throughout the whole country, nnd the Inhabitants were rtfjven from tjieir homes ill a panic. At 6.43 in the morning of Dee. 15, the people In the northern port of the island were startled by a very severe trembling of the earth,

lasting fully 25 seconds. At Porto plnta and the/surrounding neighborhood, including the inland town of Santiago, this first shock was most severely felt. The first shock was soon followed by another, and , still another in rapid succession. Then all was quiet until 2 p. m., when another slight movement' was felt, which caused another stampede of the inhabitants. It is calculated, .that damage to the amount of s2s,oQo|jwas done in the small port of Porto Plata alone, The Central Domingo Railroad suffered severely, traffic, boding interrupted since the occurrence of the earthquakes. The swtfmarine cable to Hayti* was affected by the seismic movement, and communication was interrupted. In Santiago a number or churches were rendered dangerous for use, cemetery walls were ruined, and a chapel fell as though it had been struck by a bombshell. The Government buildings were'damnged to a great extent and will need extended repairs, if not complete rebuilding. The grand edifice of Santa Cerro, one of the oldest in the western hemisphere and dating from the time of Columbus, was entirely destroyed. Almost every dgy since Dec. 26 there have’been shocks, but of a comparatively harmless nature. As far as is known there has been no loss of human life.

IN GENERAL.

Judge Wat , Starr is out with a sensa-. fidnal inanifCsto. in which he declared he will resist the Federal courts and their right to suspend the Cherokee courts until lie is arrested. ■»- Officers of the Atlas line steamer Andes, which steamer arrived from Haytian ports, say that 800 buildings were destroyed by the fire which devastated Port au Prince on Dee. 28. The approximate earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for December, 1897, were $2,312,544, which is an increase of $134,739 over the actual earnings for December, 1896. Twenty-two persons arrived at Seattle from Dawson City, ’bringing gold dust and.drafts amounting to $1,000,000. They confirm the report that the mother lode has been discovered on Eldorado creek. The story that the Alaska- Commercial Company had sold* out its interests in Alaska to London people and the Hudson Bay Company is denied by Louis Sloss, Sr., president of the Alaska company. The feeling over the Dreyfus affair culminated in a desperate struggle between students and anarchists at Paris, in which a n'umber of persons were injured. Police and republican guards finally dispersed the rioters. The largest armature of the largest generator of electricity ever made in tlie world for a trolley railroad has just been completed in Cleveland, and was shipped to Brooklyn, N. Y., for the Brooklyn Heights Street Railway Company. The consolidation of the New York, American and United States Biscuit companies, with a eapitalizetion of $55,000,000, may be considered an, accomplished fact. The new company will be known as the United States' Biscuit Company. The foreign commerce of the United States for the year 1897 breaks all records in vblmne and values.’ For the entire twelve mouths the excess of exports over imports of merchandise amounts to $356,561,000, and, adding $41,000,000 net exports of silver, gives a grand credit balance for the year of $397,500,000. Brad street’a commercial review says: “Distributive trade remains rather quiet, mild weather throughout the country tending to check distribution of winter goods. Prices generally remain steady or tend upward, except for some grades of Iron, and orders for spring trade where received are encouraging. • A feature of the week was the placing of an order by one railroad for 100,000 tons of steel rails, with smaller Orders, aggregating iu the neighborhood of 25,000 tons more. Pig iron production is now at an unprecedented rate, the furnace capacity being estimated at 1,000,000 tons a month. Anthracite coal production, it is hoped iu that trade, will be restricted sufficiently to allow of the advance of 20 to 40 cents a ton being maintained. Weather has been disappointing at the Northwest, but an improvement in the demand developed at some centers as the week advanced. The rush to Alaska lias already begun on the Pacific coast. The recent falling off in wheat exports prove to have been due to the usual holiday quieting and not to any falling off of demand from abroad. The total export of. wheat (flour included ns wheat) from the United States and Canada for this week amounted to 5,135,166 • bushels, against 3,481,000 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week show a gain of 1,000,000 bushels, amounting to 4,641,000 bushels, against 3,455,000 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2,25 cto 26c; outs, No. 2,21 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46e; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 20c; potatoes, common to choice, 50c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to ohoico, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, Ule to 92c; corn, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. St. Louis Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25e to 26e; outs, No. 2 white, 22c to 24e; rye, No. 2,43 cto 45c. Cincinnati- Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; lings, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye. No. 2,45 cto 47c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, ’l7c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 01c to 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c hi 24c; rye. No. 2,46 cto 47c; clover seed, $3.15 to $3.20. Milwaukee — Wheat, No. 2 spring, 87e to 8I)e; corn, No. 3,26 cto 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,45 c to'47e; barley, No. 2,40 cto 43c; pork, mess, SO.OO to $11.50. Buffalo —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3,00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 ml, W3c to 95c; corn, .-o. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c, New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hog*. $3.00 to $4 50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.02 to $1.0& corn. No. 2,34 cto 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Wcsterp, 23c to 25c.

COAST FORT DEFENSE.

*EW YORK, BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO NOW SAFE. The War repartition! Is Concentrating Ita Efforts Upon the Strengthening of Defensive Works for Coast Cities— Doves Replace Champagne. Defense from Foreign f oes. Definite plans have been made in Congress for the further prosecution of the work of fortification along the coast. The fortifications bill will carry a considerably smaller amount than that of last year, but the money spent will be spent where it wilj have an immediate effect in protecting coast defenses. It is a secret which has been carefully Kept by Government officials, and especially by the heads of the War Department, that New York, Boston and San Francisco are to-day for-, tified to a degree sufficient to keep off almost any forefgn fleet. There are already on hand and ordered many more big guns than could possibly put in place in the next two' years. What "is wanted now is, first, simple fortifications and emplacements for the guns now lying around on skids; second, a large-supply of the "hew type of carriages; third, light fortifications to protect jthe gunner, and, fourth, barracks and houses for the artillerymen. The purpose of the War Department and of Congress is to fortify large cities, whicn could be made the basis of an attack for the levy of blackmail. The small towns along the coast will be allowed to take care of themselves. The officials have figured out that if they concentrate their energies on places like Boston, New York, the entrance to Chesapeake bay, Mobile, Savannah, the mouth of the Delaware, Charleston, the mouth of the Mississippi, Galveston, San Franeiscoy the Puget Sound, they will be reasonably secure against- the attacks of foreign fleets, which would not be likely to make a combined movement against the smaller places, because their destruction would not inflict a severe blow upon the commerce of the country. <y a—sooo,ooo Fire in Minnesota. A large portion of the business district of East Grand Forks, Minn., was wiped out by fire, entailing a loss of over SOOO,000. The blaze was discovered in G. W. Hines’ saloon, and before the fire department could do effective work the flames had crept under the approach of the De--mors avenue bridge, attacked Itussell & Doll's saloon, Rogers’ case, the Great Northern grain elevator, Dan Sullivan’s, William Dobmier’s and Kelley’s saloons, and all these buildings were destroyed. A sudden change in the wind saved the entire business district from ruin. This is the second time within a year that this district has been cleaned out by fire. AVife to Get Mangled Remains. A horrible fate intercepted W. C. Hoge of Nevada, Mo., on hfs journey home to meet his wife, with whom he was about to become reconciled. Hoge fell under a Memphis freight train at Fulton, and his underclotning and parts of hisi body were found at Liberal, Mo., three miles distant. He was mutilated beyond description, but was identified by an affectionate letter from his wife, pleading with him to stop his -dissipation nnd return to her. As much of the body as could be gathered in a basket has been sent to his wife at Nevada. Doves at a Launching. The Japanese cruiser Kasagi was successfully launched at Philadelphia. The Kasagi is the most important ship ever built in the United States for a foreign country, and is the first foreign warship launched in America since the Russian worship Zobiaoa in 1878. Ever since Japan ball a navy the custom of liberating doves has been in vogue and the release of the two young doves was to symbolize the happy fruition of a great endeavor accomplished through the intercession of white-winged peace.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Henry Bulche, formerly of Chicago, committed suicide at Henderson, Minn, j The National. Guard of Missouri will collect money to aid in relieving suffering in Cuba. Traps are patrolling the streets of Prague because of threats of further Czeoh disturbances. New York labor unions have declared war on Chinese laundries and asked the public to boycott them. I). M. Hough & Co., shoe manufactures of Rochester, N. Y., have made an -signment to Granger A. Hollister. ,T. S. Dunham of Chicago was unanimously elected president of the Lake Carriers’ Association in session at Detroit. It is stated that the Government of Chili has decided to undertake the construction of the projected traus-Andean railway. The northern Colorado coal operators have issued an address to striking miners giving their reasons for refusing, to advance wages. Richard Oroker heads the finance committee of Tammany Hall, which means that he is to be the nominal, as well as tin* actual, leader of the organization. A hurricane leveled hundred of derricks in the ojl field of Ohio' and blew down telegraph and telephone-*,poles in many localities. A tremendous rain accompanied the wind and streams overflowed their banks. The village of Alger, in the Scioto marsh, was completely submerged and the residents compelled to vacate or move into the second story of their homes. > * A section of flqor ah the Cudahy packing plant at Omaha. Neb., fell, carrying down several workmen. J. Novak was killed. • „ The ruminations of Charles Pago Tsrvnn of Illinois to be' minister to Brazil and E. 11. Conger of lowa to be minister to China have been confirmed by the Sen* ate. Henry IC. Straight, who was arrested in Jersey City a week ago charged with swindling business people in Wilkcsbnrre and Harrisburg, Pa.,*nnd Baltimore and New York, has escaped from the JerseyCity jail. Sped*] Officer MeNab, assaulted by a gang of tramps on a train near Wilson, Q., shot Albert and John Green, the former fatally. A dead body, identified ns that of Fntb-. I er William Kurtenhnoh, a Catholic priest from Flint Hill, Mo., was taken from the’ river at St. Louis, Mo.

CONGRESS

Monday was District of Columbia day in the House, but only three bills of local importance were passed. The remainder of the session was devoted to further consideration of the army appropriation bill. The debate was particularly notable for & vigorous speech by Mr. McClellan of New York, a sou of Gen. Geprge B. McClellan,attacking the present army organization as obsolete and inefficient. Mr. Lewis of Washington, also made a speech that attracted attention, in denunciation of trusts, which, he declared, were threatening, the liberties of the cou fifty. The consideration of the army appropriation bill was not completed. Quite unexpectedly Senator Hanna appeared at the opening session in the Senate. Mr. Foraker, the senior Senator-from Ohio, presented Mr. Hanna’s credentials for the remainder of Mr. Sherman’s term, which will expire March 4, 1899, and asked that the oath of office be administered to him. Mr. Foraker escorted his colleague to the desk, where Vice-President Hobart administered the oath. Senator Wolcott delivered a speech explaining the work of the bimetallic commission. ' By a vote of 45 to 28 the immigration bill was passed. The rest of the' day was devoted to consideration of bills on the calendar. Cuba had a hearing in the House on Tuesday, and for a time it looked as if parliamentary precedents would .be set aside and the Senate resolution recognizing the insurgents as belligerents would be attached as a rider to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Mr. De Armond, a Missouri Democrat, precipitated the Issue by offering the resolution as an amendment, but a- point of order against it was sustained. “Mr. De Armoud appealed, urging the Republicans who had professed friendship for the , struggling Cubans to override the decision of the chair as the only chance of •securing action on the proposition. Mr. Bailey, the leader of the minority, and other Democrats joined in the appeal. The excitement became intense, but the appeals of Mr. Dingley, the floor lender of the majority, as well as other Republican leaders, to their associates not to join in the program, succeeded. Before the diplpmatic bill came up the army bill was passed. In the Senate practically the only business accomplished was the-passing of the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. All day long on Wednesday the question of granting belligerent rights to the Cuban insurgents was argued in the House, but the minority hurled itself against a stone wall. On the only vote taken—a motion designed to overrule the- decision of the speaker and direct the Committee on Foreign Affairs to report without further delay the Cuban resolution passed by the Senate at the last session—the Republicans stood solid and voted to sustain the chair. In the Senate a joint resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to make a survey of a ship canal from the lower part of Lake Michigan to the Wabash river was offered by Mr. Turpie (Ind.) and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Chandler presented and secured the passage of a resolution directing the Committee on interstate Commerce to inquire whether the fund provided for in rules 10 and 17 of the Joint Traffic Association is lawfully in existence; to examine the defails of its expenditure, as to whether or not it had been expended for lawful purposes, and whether any illegal or improper use of the funds could be prohibited and punished by law.

On Thursday the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill was passed by the House'after a day of debate on the Cuban question. Mr. Dingley made a speech relative to wage reductions in the cotton industry, in which lie showed that the tariff question has nothing to do with them. In the Senate Mr. Teller’s resolution that bonds be paid in silver as well as gold was taken up by a vote of 41 to 25, and, after debate, was made unfinished business. Mr. Pettigrew secured... the passage of a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General to inform the Senate what the Government had taken concerning the killing of a woman in Oklahoma territory by Seminole Indians and the burning of two Seminole Indians in the same territory. The resolution inquiring of the Postmaster General what action was necessary to maintain the excellence of the postal free delivery service was agreed to. Mr. Tillman's resolution extending the authority of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee relative to the investigation of the giving by railroads of transportation for any other consideration than cash was also passed. In the House on Friday there was a parliamentary struggle over iho lull for the relief of the book publishing company of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. By shrewd maneuvering its opponents succeeded in preventing action. Previous to the consideration of this Dili the House passed the bill to extend the public land laws of the United States to the territory of Alaska and to grant a general railroad right of way through the territory. The urgent deficiency bill was sent to conference after the silver forces, with some outside aid, bad succeeded in concurring in the Senate amendment striking from the bill the provision requiring the depositors of bullion at Government assay offices to pay the cost of transportation to the mints. In the Senate the resolution of Mr. Allen asking the Secretary of tin* Interior for papers concerning the dismissal from tin* pension office of Mrs. M, K. Roberts was referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retronchtju'iit. after considerable debate. The Senate spent most of the day in executive session. *

BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES

Hall Caine has been ordered by his physician to go to Rome and abstain from all work and worry. William B. Howell, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, \yas a messenger boy lu the department -fifteen years ago. There Is a relic.of Livingstone in the . Charterhouse school, London, In the form of an old battered coat given by the great African missionary to one of his native followers. .