Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — Page 2

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

MUST PASS TO WED.

EXAMINATION FOR THOSE MATRIMONIALLY INCLINED. Novel Bill Introduced In the Legislatnre of Ohio—Proposal to Restrict Marriage-Man Charged with Murdering His Brother and Sister. For Race Regeneration. Representative Parker of Cuyahoga County has introduced n bill in the Ohio Legislature which is .meant to prescribe who may and who may not marry. The measure provides for a State board of three examiners, to be appointed by the Governor, and a board in’ each county, to be appointed by the Probate Court. Men and women who apply foryfnarriage licenses will be required to submit to physical and mental examinations by the boards of the counties in which they live. The presence of any transmissible disease or hereditary diathesis- to or physieial disease or defect, or any criminal history or bins, will bar an applicant from the right of marriage. A fee of $5 a couple will be authorized, which will go to the examining board. In case persons are not satisfied with the findings of the county board they will have the right ,to appeal to the State board, but will have to pay a fee of $25 to that board. No more than one member of the same school of medicine can be appointed on the comity or State board. Mr. Parker says that this plan alone will put a stop to the alarming increase of insanity, crime - and degeneracy. He expects to have the support of medical men. V Brother and Slater Slain. Frank Bellew lms been lodged in the county jail gt Suisun, Cal., charged with murdering his brother and sister by poison. Lewis and Susie Bellew lived together in a cottage in the outskirts of Elmira. When the victims were taken sick Frank was almost the first person to come to their house. He helped the nurses to make gruel, using water from the tea kettle in which he is alleged to have placed poison. The day before the crime Trank called on his brother-in-law, John ,W. Bird, a photographer, and complained thut he had not received enough of the property of his parents, who had overlooked him in their will. He added: “Bir<j, I’m going to commit a terrible crime to-morrow. I’m going to commit a tragedy that will shock the whole community.” After the crime'Bird had reason to believe that Bellew intended - so kill him, and made the statement which led to his arrest.

BREVITIES.

Clem Becker, Mayor and a prominent merchant at Fort Jennings, Ohio, has disappeared. A company is reported to be forming for the purpose of competing with the Diamond Match Company. At Harrisonville, Mo., the hanging of E. B. SopeT has been postponed pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. A census of Youngstown, Ohio, gives Ahe population of Youngstown as 50,133, a gain of 50 per cent, in seven years. At Milan, Mo., the verdict in the trial of Glass for the murder of Roy Fear fixed the penalty as five months in jail und S4OO fine. At Madoc, Ont., John Milligan, aged 21; Lee Milligan, aged 15, and Ethel. Baker, aged 12, were asphyxiated with fumes of charcoal. Three lives were lost iu the Delaware River opposite Burlington, N. J., by the breaking of the ice under a sledding party. Bertha Fields was rescued with great difficulty. * In St. Louis Dnnjel McClelland, aged 43, employed in paint works, committed suicide by putting his head between the ponderous wheels of a machine known ns a putty chaser. The cost of the Cuban war from February, 1805, to the end of 1807 is officially estimated at $240,000,000, besides the arrears due from the Cuban treasury, amounting to $40,000,000. Citizens of Wichita,.Kan., huve invited President McKinley to visit that city duriug the trnnsmisslssippi congress next fall. If ho ncceptH President Diaz of Mexico will be invited to meet him. According to a Paris report J. Pierpont Morgan is engineering a scheme to purchase Cuba for $400,000,000, and has scoured pledges for the full amount from London, Paris and Berlin financial houses.

At Kansas City, Mo., an experimental mission, where the j>oor are to bo served meals at 1 cent a dish and a bed for 5 cents, with a bath thrown in, has Itcen started under the direction of the Church of the Seventh Day Adventists. S. L. Patton Jr. killed himself at Suvnnuah, Go., by takinx laudanum. lie left a note to his parents, who live at Columbia, S. C., defending his suicide and denying that it was a coward's lnsj. resort. He hud twice attempted to kill himself tiefore. Ninety-two quarts of nitro-glycerin, which was to have been used in shooting an oil well in the Klk Fork field, froze, and J. 11. llauks placed it in a steam box to thaw at Slstervllle, W. Va. It exploded and dug n liore ten feet in diameter and ten feet deep. The Constantinople correspondents of the Frankfort Zeitung telegraphs that Russia, France and Groat Hritain have agreed to insist upon the candidature of Prince George of Greece for the governorship of Crete, and are ready to enforce it should the Hiliiau.prove obdurate. The British steamer Majestic has been chartered to carry twenty-two locomotives and a general cargo from Philadelphia to the Finlnnd Government. The locomotives are being shipped by the Baldwin works. At the Baldwin works locomotives are being built for Norway, Japan, Africa and other countries which formerly got them front other places. Marquis Ito, prime minister to Japan, in an interview, said his Government was watching the situation in the East, and was prepared to safeguard Japanese interests by whatever means may be repaired by event*.

EASTERN.

Alfred Riedel of Baltimore has interested the faculty oLJohns Hopkins University in a project to_reach the north pole with a submarine bout. He estimates that the trip can be made in a week. The copper, b(-§£s and iron works and engine and machine constructing establishment of George F. Ott in Philadelphia was completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $140,000; $115,000 on contents and $25,000 on buildings. The New York Senate, by a vote of 25 to 9, adopted the Assembly resolution in favor of the general government taking such action to restore peace in Cuba as seemed wise. The belligerency substitute introduced by the Democratic Senators was defeated. A train on the Maine Central Railway was wrecked near Orono station. Two persons were killed outright and 27 were injured. Of the latter two more are nowdead and it is-expected that several others will not survive. The derailment was caused by spreading rails. The Alvord House, a five-story brick structure, the largest hotel in Gloversville, N. Y.. burned the other morning. The fire was discovered at 7 o’clock. Every room was occupied and many narrow escapes occurred. Five lives were lost. The loss to the property will reach SIOO,000. An “anti-treating” bill has been introduced in the New York Senate, making it a misdemeanor to “treat” any person to liquor in any saloon, barroom or club room. The first offense is punishable by a fine of $5, the secoud offense by imprisonment of not less than five nor more than twenty days. A crazy man, believed from letters in his possession to be Charles Heyu of New York, demanded $5,000,000 from the cashier of the Colorado National Bank at Denver. The cashieri said he would get the money from the vaults. He then telephoned to police headquarters and Heyn was locked up. A sensation* was stirred up in New York financial circles by the sudden resignation of Cashier William J. Quinlan Jr. of the Chemical National Bank and the publication of his confession that he had loaned $393,000 on doubtful, if not worthless, security without the sanction of. any of the bank’s officers. A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts House to prohibit the Impositions of fines for imperfections in weaving, and to prohibit deductions from wages on account of imperfections, except with n written notice of the imperfections and nn exhibit of the same to the workman. A fine of SIOO for violations of this law is proposed.

WESTERN.

Robbers blew open tlie postoffice safe at Tyndall, S. D., and secured SBOO in stamps and cash. At Olierlin, Ivan., Miss Jennie Barnard was burned by the explosion of a coffee pot. TMJJd was tight. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Thomas Kelley receiver of the National Bank of Padln, Kan. , There are more than 3,000 eases of measles in Dayton, (J. It is feared that all schools will have to be closed. J. A. Swett, superintendent of the Haskell Institute, the Indian industrial school at Lawrence, Ivan., has resigned. Seven prisoners escaped from the Buchanan County jail at St. Joseph, Mo. A parden hose which hod been left in the jail was used by the prisoners in cleuritffe the roof.

At Leavenworth, Kan., Prof. F. Hawn, uged 00 years, wus found dead in bed. He waß one of the incorporators of Leavenworth, and as a civil engineer aided in the survey of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railway. Judge Elliott of the District Court at Minneapolis, declined to grant a new trial to Aid. George A. Durnam, convicted of soliciting a bribe. Unless the Supreme Court overrules this decision Durnam will have to serve a term in the penitentiary. Spreading rails wrecked a fast freight on the Pittsburg and Western road at Monroe Falls, O. Engineer George Huffmnnn of Chicago Junction was crushed to death under the locomotive. Fireman W. Gildow of Chicago Junction was badly injured. State Insurance Commissioner Clunie of California has declared invalid and insufficient the hoods of all tire and marine insurance companies doiug business in California and not incorporated under the laws of the State. The order affects eighty-two couipauies. At Fargo, N, D., Judge Pollock denied a decree in the divorce ease of George W. llugg vs. Amelia Hugg. Hugg asked for a decree ou the ground of cruelty uud his wife appealed and fought the ense. The plaintiff is secretary of a marble company in Baltimore, Md. In the case of the Minneapolis Tribune Company against the Associated Press the United Stutes Court of Appeals in St. Louis denied the motion of the Tribune Company that the final,decree be uinended so us to leave them free to bring an action at law for damages. The St. Paul (Miun.) Globe has changed hands. The purchaser of the paper is George F. Spinney of New York. It is understood Spinney represents a number of capitalists, including William C.-Whit-ney of New York, president James J, Hill of the Great Northern Railway and Crawford Livingston of St. rani. An epidemic of typhoid fever, pneumonia and intestinal troubles is raging in the Ohio valley, and its cause, so physicians claim, is the suddeu rise of the river after the extreme dry period es Inst fall, lu many places the effect of the bad water is very noticeable. There are scores of cases of typhoid fever and pneumonia.

C. G. Hoyt, of the Fort Hall (Idaho) Indian commission, has practically concluded n treaty with the Bannock and Shoshone Indians for the sule of the Fort Hull reservation for the lump sum of $525,000. The trenty carries a provision for the puymeut of $75,t100 to the Indians for tlie relinquishment of their hunting rights iu Jackson's Hole. Charles Robinson, nlins ''Rlnokeye,” who v;as charged with robbing hanks and postotfiees in Missouri, and who was recently captured at Fort Scott, Kan., broke jail with George W. Fincbe, under a life sentence for the murder of Frank Swafford, and six other prisoners. They assaulted the jailer and keys and gun. Robinson is accused of ' robbing banks nt Hume and Richards, Mo., and the poet office at Nevada. Two masked men broke into the residence of Louis A. Stanwood, a reeliijse, near Harvey, Okln., and tortured him by

■ticking a knife into his limbs and burning off his bair and whiskers until he gave up all the money be had, amounting to but a few dollars. They uext visited the homp of John Hensley and robbed him, stopped J. C. McGarlan road, robbed him of his money, and were going to a fourth place when scared off. Luther Weaver and Will Henderson, sons of prominent fanners, were arrested later, charged with the crime, which in that territory is punishable by imprisonment for life.

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Lucille Blackburn Lane, daughter of ex-Senator Blackburn of Kentucky and wife of Thomas Lane, who accidentally shot herself at Washington two weeks ago, is again in a serious condition, an abscess having formed near the wound. Former Attorney General W. J. Hendrick of Kentucky has been disbarred in Franklin County. Tlie cause whs an insufficient response to a rule requiring him to pay idto court (he sum of $1,300 collected by him for the State during his term as Attorney General. A race war is imminent in Lonoke County, Arkansas. The whites are preparing to drive all negroes out of the county and many of the blacks are arming themselves preparatory to making a stubborn resistance. Notices have been posted oh nearly every negro cabin in the county notifying the occupants to vacate within a certain time or suffer the conseconsequences. A suit has been brought against the State treasurer of Georgia by O. Hopkins & Sons, Atlanta attorneys, seeking to invalidate legislation passed at the last session of the late Assembly on the ground that the clocks in the halls were tampered with to permit of more time in consideration. If the Supreme Court sustains the contention it will mean the nullification of the convict reform bill, which was in reality passed at 3 o’clock of the morn-ing-subsequent to the constitutional session, while the official clock indicated only 11:30 p. m. An official roller gin test, conducted under the direction of the office of fiber investigation of the Department of Agriculture at Cuero, Tex., upon Texasgrown Egyptian cotton, has been concluded with most successful and gratifying results. For several years culture experiments have been carried on in Texas by W. H. Wentworth from the Egyptian seed distributed by the department.with a view to the production in this country of Egyptiari cotton. A serious obstacle to success has been the need of a proper gin to separate the seed from the lint, the ordinary gin injuring the eottou to a ruinous degree, but this has been overcome by n special form of gin. The engineer expert states that the cotton produced from the Egyptian seed plant iu Texas is stronger than the native Egyptian. The imports of Egyptian cotton are steadily increasing and now amount in value to over $5,000,000 annually. With the ginning question settled those who ure interested in the growth of Egyptian cotton in Texas claim that production in this country is assured.

WASHINGTON.

The national debt increased $12,589,771 during Jnminry. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will soon make a trip to Florida to investigate tobacco growing. He thinks Florida may raise as good tobacco as Cuba. Encouraged by the excellent effect of the visit of the battle ship Maine to Havana the administration has determined to send anothof man-of-war upon a friendly visit to the smaller Cuban ports. The vessel selected is the cruiser Montgomery, which is now taking on board a supply of coal at Key West. In addition to this the armored cruiser* Brooklyn, now at the Brooklyn navy yard, will leave in a few days for a cruise in the West Indies. She will not touch Cuba. Her itinerary requires her to first visit St. Thomas, thence go to Santa Cruz, Curacoa, La Guayra and Aspinwall. Torts in Cuba will form only a feature in the itinerary of the Montgomery, ns it is proposed to have her call at several other points in the West Indies. The Montgomery’s mission, like that of the Maine to Havana, is purely friendly in character. For a few hours it was thought that the suicidal mania which has caused a number of attempts at self-destruction in Washington for the past several weeks might result in the loss of lives of Walter Taylor. a clerk in the Treasury Department, and his pretty 20-yeur-old daughter Lucy. Miss Taylor bus been in ill-health for some time past, and her illness assumed a suicidal form. She was with difficulty persuaded to retire to her room and about 1 o’clock in the morning, after a violent struggle with her parents, who tried to hold iier, plunged through the window of her home and fell into a snowbank in the front yard. She then ran, terribly cut and bruised, through tlie streets, and after a half hour’s search was found in a snowbank almost nude by a policeman. She was taken home, and it was then found that duriug her absence her father had hanged himself by a rope attached to the boiler of a stove. He was cut down and removed to the hospital unconscious. Latest ndviees iudieute that neither will die.

FOREIGN.

Britisli troops were calight in a gorge liy Afridis near Skinknmur and suffered serious losses. Twenty men were killed, including a number of officers. . t According to a Nagasaki dispatch to the London Daily Mail, “the far eastern situation is very serious, and it .is believed thut Japan Is actively preparing for war." The Prussian minister of finance, Dr. Miguel, issued a decree which goes into effect immediately prohibiting the importation of every kiud of American fresh fruit. Australian reports tell of n terrible heat wave In which many persons are prostrated and houses set on fire by spontaneous combustion. Thermometers in the shade register 124, and in the sun 100 degrees. Emperor William, it is reported, has pardoned IJerr Trojan, editor of the Kindderndats',h, who was sentenced k few days ago to two months' imprisonment in a fortress for leic mnjestc in cartooning the enipcnr. Great Britain is reported to have been outwitted by Russia in the far East, and has resolved not to force n conflict by opposing Russin's claims at Port Arthur, Russia, it is said, will at ouco send 10,000 troops to CJulna. It is reported thnt the mail steamer Channel Queen hns been totally wrecked off the Island of Guernsey. The owners ot the Channel Queen announced that

out of 65 persons on board of her when she struck 44 are known to have been drowned. Julian Ralph, in a dispatch from St. I Petersburg to the London Telegraph, gives an interview' with a Russian admiral in w hich the latter says Russia will oppose the opening of new ports in China even if she has to fight Great Britain to prevent. He also gives a Russian diplomat as authority for the statement that the proposed British loan to China will be opposed by the czar’s government.

IN GENERAL.

A board of naval engineers that has been experimenting with oil as fuel has made a highly favorable report. The gold production of Mexico for last year was $6,861,820, a gain of more than SBOO,OOO over 1896 and of more than $2,000,000 over 1890. The Samoan natives, having become accustomed to thinking lightly of the United States because outrages upon American subjects have not been quickly resented by the Government, are to be taught a wholesome respect for the Stars and Stripes. The man-of-war Mohican will be sent to the islands at once. The Mclntyre Block in the heart of Winnipeg, Man., was destroyed by fire. The building was four stories high and contained some of the leading retail stores in the city, a number of wholesale branch sample rooms, doctors’, lawyers’ and contractors’ offices and also the secret society and lecture rooms of the Manitoba University. The total losses will be in the neighborhood of $500,000. Hugh C. Wallace, at Tacoma, Wash., president of the Chilcoot Railroad and Transportation Company, has advices of the completion of the company’s aerial railway over the Chilcoot Pass to Lake Llnderman. This marks a new era for Klondike travel, as the time between tidewater and the headwaters of the Yukon river is shortened from a month to one day, besides removing the peril and hardships. The final estimates of acreage, production and value of the crops in the United States for 1897, made by the statistician of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, are as follows: Corn, 80,095,101 acres, 1,902,967,933 bushels, $501,572,952 value; wheat, 39,465,066 acres, 530,149,168 bushels, $428,547,121; oats, 25,730,375 acres, 698,767,809 bushels, $147,974,719; rye, 1,703,561 acres, 27,363,324 bushels, $12,239,047; barley, 2,719,110 acres, 66,085,127 bushels, $25,142,139; buckwheat, 717,830 acres, 14,997,451 bushels, $6,319,188; potatoes, 2,534,577 acres, 164,015,964 bushels, $89,643,059; hay, 42,420,770 acres, 00,664,876 tons, $401,390,728.

' Bradstreet’s view of the business sitftition is briefly summarized thus: "Favorable conditions in the trade situation continue to far outweigh those of an opposite character. Stormy weather throughout a large section of the country has checked the movement of merchandise in the consumption, but a perceptible increase in the demand for seasonable goods is reported as already resulting. The last week of the month closes with increased activity in many lines, a number of price advances, heavily increased bank clearings, as compared with one year ago, at nearly all cities, another considerable drop in the number of failures reported, large exports of cereals, particularly wheat, corn and flour, and perceptible confidence in nearly all branches of trade as regards the outlook for spring business. Another favorable feature of the week is the slight but distinct improvement in the cotton goods situation, in which speculative activity is awakening. Print cloths are higher, and* some makes of gray and medium weight cottons are more firmly held. Pig iron is reflecting the effect of present unprecedented production, and a further weakening in prices is recorded at Eastern points. At the West, however, consumption of pig and of the finished products of iron and steel Is reported increasing so as to hold prices firm. Lnrge sales of bar steel nud rails are reported at Chicago and St. Louis, with mills refusing to take orders for delivery earlier than late summer. Boots and shoes hold the late advance, and manufacturers of heavy weights will not take orders' for fall delivery at present prices. Wool Is strong on large sales nud firm prices abroad. Prices of most staple products are higher on the week. Noticeable instances are those of whent, which is past the dollar mnrk again nt many Western markets. The active demand for the Klondike trade is reflected in canned goods. Cereal exports are again heavy, total shipments of wheat, including flour, for the week amounting to 5,110,024 bushels, against 3,920.000 bushels last week. Corn exports have also heavily increased from last week, amounting to 4,902,000 bushels, against 3,480,000 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, SB.OO to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, SB.OO to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 97p to 99c; corn, No. 2,20 cto 28c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19e; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, common to choice, 15c to 10c; potatoes, common to choice, 52c to 05c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,95 cto 90c; corn, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 20c. St. Louis— Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 50c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 95c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats,. No. 2 white, 20c te 27c; fye, 48c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 90c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 28c to 80c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c; clover seed, $3.15 to $3.25. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 91c to 03c; corn, No. 3,28 cto 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 2<!e; rye, No. 2,47 cto 49c; barley. No. 2,38 cto 41c; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. Buffalo-r-Cntt!e, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 98c to SI.OQ; corn. No. 2 yellow,'32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 20c. New Yprk—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No.'2 red, $1.03 to No, 2,35 cto 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 80c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs. Western, 18c to 20c.

TO EXTEND THE PARK

BILL TO ENLARGE YELLOWSTONE RESERVATION. Col. Young, the Acting Superintendent, Desires to Have 3,000 Acres More Included in the National Park —Alaska Cowboy Lynched. * FOr a Larger Plcasnre Ground. Secretary Bliss has sent to the Public Land Committees of the Senate and House a bill prepared by Col. Young, the acting superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, for an extension of the limits of that reservation by about 3,000 square miles. In this extension is included the existing timber reserve in Wyoming, which abuts partly on the east and partly on the southern portions of the reservation. It also embraces a portion of the reservation set aside by President Cleveland in his order of Feb. 26, 1896, known as the Teton forest reserve, also in Wyoming. Another strip included is that at the southwest corner, which Is a large, amount of marshy land to which the animals resort for feed.' To the northwest of the park, in Montana, is a strip of mountainous county in which wild game abounds and which is the locality where most of the poachers get into the park. This portion is also to be included. The Teton reserve takes in the Jackson Hole country, where on account of the difficulty arising over the game laws there was considerable trouble with the Forf Hall (Idaho) Indians, who went there to hunt last year. Gotham Wants a Fair. Senator McNulty has introduced a bill in the Legislature'S! Albany providing for a world’s fairAo be held in New York City in 1901.‘The commissioners, shall meet in New York City as soon as practicable after the passage of the bill and shall draw up a plan for an exhibition of such magnitude as shall invite exhibitors from all parts of the world. The municipal assembly of New York may authorize the use of any public park in the city. Funds shall be provided by the Comptroller of the city, who shall issue municipal stock to an amount of 4 per cent, scrip certificates not exceeding $5,000,000. $225,000 Fire in Pennsylvania. The Y. M. C. A. Building at Scranton was totally destroyed by fire. Flames started from the explosion of cinematograph films in a vacant store. The large four-story building, with several stocks of goods, was a total loss. The damage will aggregate $225,000. Many Passengers Injured. Thirty-three persons were injured, six probably fatally, two cars were smashed and a locomotive ruined as the result of a rear-end collision at the Winter Hill station of the Boston and Maine Railroad, five miles out of Boston. The two trains in collision were crowded.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Rev. Dr. John Hall has withdrawn his resignation as pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at New York. Gus J. Heege, the actor, known the country over as “Yon Yonson,” died at New York. He was 36 years of age. Secretary Sands of the American legation at Seoul, Corea, was recently assaulted by a gang of Japanese coolies at Nagasaki. At Newark, Ohio, Roger McGinley, while working in the Baltimore and Ohio ash pits, had both arms cut off as he reached over the track with his shovel. M. F. Tanner, a cowboy, was lynched by miners in Valdez rasa.. Alaska. He murdered A. Call of Worthington, Minn., and William A. Lee of Massachusetts. William M. A. Vaughn, a pioneer, is dead at Kansas City, Mo. He was born at Spottsylvania Court House. Va., in 1829, and came West when 17 years of age. H. C. Frick has purchased in Faris for SIOO,OOO the painting “Blessing the Bread.” It will be presented to the art gallery of the Carnegie Library at Pittsburg. Russia’s foreign minister has notified Turkey that it is the Czar's unalterable determipation that Prince George of Greece shall be nominated for Governor of Crete.

The Tennessee Horticultural Society * reports that the severe drought inst summer killed many strawberry plants, and less than half a crop of the fruit will be produced in Tenessee this year. There was a pitched battle between cowboys and cattle thieves west of Glasgow, Mont., near the Dakota line. One of the thieves is reported dead and the cowboys are in pursuit of the other members of the gang, who have crossed into Dakota. The Cherokee-Lnnyon Spelter Company, with offices in St. Louis, Mo., received a telegram announcing the destruction by fire of its large plant at Itjch Hill, Mo, The plant was one of the twelve spelters operated by this company in Missouri aud Eastern Kansas. It was valued at between $125,000 and $150,000, and had an output of sixty tons of spelter per day. I President Richard Gilchrist, of the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange, who testified before the United States Court at Omaha that the exchange is a monopoly, explained how a rule had been i altered for the purpose of freezing out a • combination of stock growers and farmers who had sought to avoid the rule*'of the exchange aud handle their own busij ness on a co-operative plan. The reclaiming plant of tlic United States Rubber Comiwny nt Naugatuck, Conn., was burned, entailing a loss of $700,000. Archbishop Knin Ims signified his intention of serving ns one of the vice-presi-dents of the meeting to receive Gen. Booth of the Salvation army ou his visit to St. Louis. The consolidation of the biscuit manufacturing companies has been effected. Iu t New Jersey the National Biscuit ComJ pany was incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000,000. preferred and $30,900,000 common.

The street railway lines in Dallas, Texas, recently acquired by O. 11. Alexandes and E. A. Kills have been reorganized nnder a new charter and capitalised at $1,000,000. • Samuel Webster, At Earl, Hawkins' County, Tenn., accidentally decapitated his atepaou while chopping wood. .

CONGRESS

The District of Columbia appropriation bill was before .the House on Saturday, but the day wns spent in political debate. The controverted question as to whether prosperity had nrrived attracted the most attention and interest, and testimony pro and con was offered throughout the day. At times considerable acrimony was displayed, but as a rule the debate was goodnatured, both sides seeming to recognize that it was merely a struggle to score political advantage. The Senate was not in session. In the Senate on Monday two of the general appropriation bills, that for the army carrying $23,243,492. and that for the legislative, judicial and executive departments, carrying $21,658,520, were passed, the latter tonsisting of 121 pages, occupying the attention of the Senate during the greater part of the session. After a brief executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House all'day was spent in debate on the Teller silver resolution. It was defeated by a vote of 132 to 182. The feature of the short session of the Senate on Tuesday was a statement made by Mr. Clark (Rep., Wyo.), ns a matter of personal privilege, concerning his vote in favor of the Teller resolution. He maintained that his vote wns in no way inconsistent with his Republicanism, and declared he would not permit anybody to read him out of the party, as he was satisfied the masses of the party would not convict him of political heresy. , The House devoted most of the session to the District of Columbia appropriation bill, but had not completed it at the time of adjournment. Some politics was injected into the debate just at the close, the feature of .which was a bitter denunciation of W. A. Stone of Pennsylvania by Mr. Mahany (Rep., N. Y.), for the former's position in favor of the immigration bill. Mr. Stone did not see fit to reply. Before the district bill was taken up several bills and resolutions of minor importance were passed.

After three days spent on the District of Columbia appropriation bill, mostly in political discussion, the House passed the measure on Wednesday and then took up the bill to provide for fortifications and coast defenses. Several notably Mr. MeClellan of New York, criticised the measure because it cut down appropriations for these works below what has been appropriated in recent years. Beyond the reading of the agricultural appropriation bill and agreeing to the amendments proposed by the committee, the Senate transacted no business of importance in open session. The greater part of the afternoon was passed in executive session, the discussion being upon the Hawaiian annexation treaty. Thursday in the House was spent ostensibly in considering the fortifications appropriation bill. In reality the major portion of the time was consumed in the discussion of political topics. The existence of prosperity in the country was again the main question of dispute. All attempts to increase the appropriations in the fortifications appropriation bill or to amend it in any respect were voted down. One of the features of Thursday’s session of the Senate was a speech by Mr. Caffery of Louisiana in support of the resolution reported by the Committee on Frivilegesand Elections declaring that Henry W. Corlmtt is not entitled to a seat in the Senate from the State of Oregon. Mr. Corbett was appointed ns Senator by the Governor of Oregon after the failure of the Legislature to elect a Senator to succeed Senator Mitchell. Mr. Caffery maintained that the Governor of a State had no authority to appoint to fill an original vacancy—a vacaucy beginning with a new term—after the Legislature had had an opportunity to elect and had failed to do so. The agricultural appropriation bill was under consideration during the greater part of the afternoon and was finally passed. After a brief executive session the Senate adjourned.

Friday was private bill day in the House, but by systematic filibustering the private calendar containing the bills reported by the Committee on Claims was not reached, the whole day and evening beiug consumed in passing thirty-seven private pension bills favorably acted upon by the House nt the session last Friday night. During the consideration of one of the bills nil interesting discussion of the sale of the Kansas Pacific Road was precipitated by Mr' Fleming (Dem., of Georgia), who, with his Democratic colleagues, desired legislation to require the President to bid the full amount of the debt, principal and interest. Mr. Powers, chairman of the Pacific Railroad Committee, contended tlint the real purpose of the opposition was to compel the Government to tnke the road and operate it. He Said he thought the administration, which had secured every dollar owing from the Upion Pacific, could lie safely trusted to protect the Government's interest at the sale of the Kansas Pacific. In the Renate no business of importance was transacted in the brief open session. After the executive session of three hours the Senate adjourned until Monday.

A Musical Mousetrap.

Acting upon the Idea that mice are very sensitive to music a Belgian manufacturer has substituted a musical mousetrap for the common trap. Instead of baiting the apparatus with a bit of cheese or bread the Inventor has bidden iu a double bottom a small music box, which plays automatically various popular airs of the country. The mice, he insists, are drawn Irresistibly toward the music box, and in order to hear better they step into tho trap and find themselves prisoners!

Her Face Often Soiled.

Lady (to bouse girl)—You should take a lesson from the cook. You are slovenly, whereas she washes her face three or four times a day. House Girl—No wonder. The fellow who comes here to court her is a chimney sweep. ,

The Egg of the Ostrich.

The largest egg is that of the ostrich. It weighs three pounds, and Is considered equal ln>amount to twenty-four liens’ eggs.