Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. V- MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

TO HONOR A PATRIOT.

GRATEFUL TASK PROPOSED FOR AMERICAN CHILDREN. ■ ■ <> Plan la Afoot for a Monument to Gen. Lafayette, to Be Erected in Paris— His Grave Is Unmarked Freight Blockade in Chilkoot. Monument to Lafayette. A movement has been set afoot to have the United States erect a monument to Gen. Lafayette in the city of Paris to be dedicated during the Parisian exposition. The projector of the movement is Robert Thompson of Chicago, who has been assured by the French Government unofficially, through M. Picard, that ground for the monument cun be secured through the municipality of Pnris in case it be deemed inadvisable to erect it over the grave of Lafayette, which is now obscure and almost unmarked. President McKinley and Assistant Secretary Day, Mr. Thompson says, have shown much interest in the matter, which has been brought officially to the attention of Congress through resolutions offered in both houses. A resolution offered by Senator Thurston of, Nebraska makes provision for a commission to supervise the collection of a fund among all the schools of the United States for the purpose of erecting a monument to Gen. Lafayette in the city of Paris, France —the same 4o be presented to the Government of France Riid unveiled and dedicated on the fourth day of July, in the year 1900. A preamble to the resolution declares that it is proposed to signalize the celebration of United States day at the Paris exposition of 1900 by the erection and dedication, on that day, of u monument from the people of America to Gen. Lafayette.

Great Fire iu Pittsburg. Three important Pittsburg business houses were visited by lire, involving a loss of $200,000. The fire started on the niuth floor of the National Wall Paper building, 815 Penn avenue, and within twenty minutes after the alarm was beyond control. Iu a very short time the fames were communicated to the H» Childs & Co.’s nine-story building at 813 Penn, and from there to the building of M. Oppeuheimer & Co. at 811. The fire was a furious one, and a general alarm was necessary. The losses are: National Wull Paper Company, SIOO,OOO, completely covered by insurance; J. F. Haney & Co., retail wall paper dealers on the first floor, $15,000, insured; T. A. Gillespie, owner of the building, $30,000, insured; the 11. Childs company, wholesale dealers iu boots and shoes, SIOO,OOO, fully insured; M. Oppeuheimer & Co., wholesale" clothing dealers, loss,* mostly by water, will reach $15,000, insured. Beaten and Robbed In Ohio. Three masked men entered the residence of Newton Baldwin, in the vicinity of Seliqa, 0., by breaking a front door panel. Baldwin and his two sisters, Eliza and Ellen, were awakened by the report of a pistol fired close to Baldwin’s bed. Baldwin mude an attempt to get up, but was threatened with death. sisters were choked and Baldwin was beaten about the head. The doctor says all will recover. The robbers took S2O in paper money and an unknown amount of silver, and a,gold watch. A reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of the robbers is offered. Thousands at Dyea. A traveler returned from Dyca, Alaska, says: “For the past month men have been pouring into Dyea by thousands. There is a congestion of freight along the trail and at Dyea. The ChilkooPitnilrond and Transport Company Railroad is completed, but has been unable to run for several days, because men were unable to live on the summit of the pass. The chaotic condition of things cannot be conceived by those who have not seen it.”

BREVITIES,

Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard has tendered his resignation to take effect in June. George It. Davis of Chicago lias purchased 35,000 acres of gold placer ground in Fremont County, Wyoming. Testor & Co., wholesale confectioners of Montreal, have assigned. Assets nearly $70,000; liabilities not stated. A religious “sanctification” meeting at Turtletown, N. C., caused temi>orary insanity among many attendants, Marshall Hailey, one of the leaders, is a maniac and is confined in jail at Murphy. General Manager Bissell of the Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western has resigned, to take effect April 1. This confirms the report that the road Is to chauge hands and bo n part of the Hrice system. It is known in Havana that the body which the Spaniards brought there ns that of Col. ltuiz was that of Cuban guide who accompanied him, and who was also executed as a deserter iu the service of the Spanish army. The grave of Hull is known only to two men. Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley*!>f Kentucky has declined the general secretaryship of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which office he was recently elected, because of opposition to him among members of the society. A delegation of Southern cotton mill men appeared before the Judiciary Committee of the House at Washington to oppose the passage of the Joint resolution proposed by lleprcsontsrtivo Lovering of Massachusetts to authorize Congress to regulate the hours of labor in the different States. The De Lome .note has been officially disavowed by the Spanish Government and the incident Is now.regarded in Washington ns closed. ' Four men, comprising the crew of the barge Excelsior, which foundered on Handkerchief shoal, off Caito Cod, were lost. Bight Honorable Kir James is dead at London, at the age of 78 yeurs. He had held the offlct* of lord of the nijg rniralty, under secretary for India, lord of the treasury and represented Halifax in parliament from to 1805.

EASTERN.

The New York Senate has passed the House resolution censuring United States Senator Murphy because he voted for the Teller silver resolution. i The great strike of textile workerfe in New England may spread go as to embrace nearly every operative in that territory, of whom there are 148,000. The Massachusetts cotton mills at Lowell, with a branch plant at Lindale, Ga., has decided to take steps looking to the extension of its business in that State. L. E. Cooley and the party of engineers sent out by a Chicago syndicate to examine into the feasibility of completing the Nicaragua canal have returned to New York. The passenger and freight steamboat Ericcson, which plies between Philadelphia and Baltimore, sunk in the Delaware river off Wilmington. Sixty passengers were taken off. John Wannmaker, it is reported, is negotiating for the lease of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York and intends to erect the largest department store in the world on its sitd. Henry Kline, chief of police of McKeesport, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself because the council refused to confirm his appointment and rejected his back pay claim for SSOO. By a vote of 8,670 out of 10,000 shares the National City Bank of Boston was placed in voluntary liquidation. The deposits and business of the bank have been already transferred to the Eliot National Bank and the president and cashier will now collect the assets and the loans of the bank, after which it will be determined what dividend shall be paid to the shareholders. To the Paris exposition of 1900 via the %istallment route is the latest venture in the tourist line. Offices have been opened In New York, Philadelphia and Boston where individuals who contemplate a trip to the Paris show and are not quite certain how they may be financially fixed two years hence may secure reservation of passage, hotel accommodations and other facilities in the gay French capital by paying In advance sums ranging from $5 to sls monthly 7 according to the probable duration of the trip and the nature of the accommodations desired. The “installment visitors” will not go in a body as tourists, but will be enabled to travel singly or in pariy during such portion of the exposition period ns may suit their convenience. In the event of any of the subscribers finding it impossible to carry out their plan, their money will be returned to them, less a uomiual fee for the clerk hire involved. It is said that several thousand people linve already signified their intention of availing themselves of this simple and easy method of laying by the money to carry out their plans,.

WESTERN.

The Buckeye Chair Company of Ravenna, 0„ has made an assignment to I. T. Siddall. Liabilities $45,000, and assets above that figure. Range riders from the Blue Mountain country, Utah, east of Green river and along the Colorado line, report cattle dying daily on the range on account of wet and cold. One cattleman says he fears the loss will amount to from 50 to 75 per cent before the country dries up in the spring. At San Francisco, information was received by Collector Jackson that a Canadian scaling vessel was seen off Dral/ ’s Bay, and that she was-violating the sealing regulations by being in American waters. The collector at once sent orders^to the revenue cutter Rush to leavg for Drake's Bay. The commission appointed some months ago to investigate the charges that sfltne of the convicts of the Minnesota penitentiary at Stillwater had been subjected to cruelty has filed Its report with Gov. Clough.- The commission exonerates the prison officials from all suspicion of improper treatment. At St. Joseph, Mo., Watson Denny shot his wife in the head and fired a bullet through his own heart. Denny is dead. The cause assigned for the deed is the fact that Denny attempted to transfer a lot of his roi?l estate iu lowa, forging her name to the instruments. She discovered the trick and threatened to sue for a divorce. William H. Heath, manager of the Central Electric Express Company of St. Louis, was found dying in Forest Park from a bullet wound In the head. It was evidently a case of suicide. The young man was taken to the city hospital, where lie died. He Mas a relative of Perry 11. Heath, assistant Postmaster General. The cause for the deed is a mystery. At Colorado Springs; Colo., the jury In the case of Shirley D. Chamberlin, charged with the murder of Herbert H. Kay of Wittier, Neb., on Pike’s Peak in August last, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. Kay hnd started to ascend the peak by night, and his dead body was found forced into a small culvert under the cog railroad at a poiut nbout 12,000 feet nbove the sea level. The evidence ngninst Chamberlin was circumstantial but conclusive, and the jury was out only about mi hour. After thirteen years of life among the Indiana of Cheyenne River, 8. D., reservation as a child of the tribe, Annie RusTsell, the pretty 15-year-old M’hite girl whose case recently has attracted wide attention because of the efforts put forth to determine her parentage, has been i Jentitled us the daughter of Mrs. John M. Turton of Moose Mountain, Assiniboia, Britisli Northwest Territory. The discovery was due to the efforts of llev. Mr. Sproul, who first stirred up interest iu the case and secured the girl’s removal from her Indian parents to the agency children's home. “The Sunshine of Paradise Alley” lias begun the geeond aud last week of its'engagement at McVicker’s Chicago theater. No more ambitious play, from a scenic point of view at least, has been seen in a long time than these “pictures” of New York life. There are two scenes in the play which have probably never been surpassed in their thrilling interest. The beautiful East river dock scene, with the illuminated paiuting of Brooklyn bridge, and the famous Paradise Alley, with its pniioriinin of characters, give a glimpse of life that-few see, and are masterpieces of the scenic art. — . In a decision of the United States Court of Appeals at St. Louis nfflruiing the decision of the lower court, whqrcin Mrs. Sarah I. Smith ohtniued judgment ngninst the Western Commercial Travelers’ Association for $5,000 on the deutli of her husband. Judge Snulmrn gives the judicial conception of „thp l word accident. Freeman O. Hnilth of St. Louis died from blood poisoning iu 18115, us the result of

a sore toe, the skin of which had been abrased by a tight shoe. Mrs. Smith attempted to collect on the accident policy, but was resisted by the association. A jury in Judge Adams’ court gave her the full amount of the policy and the association appealed. Judge Sanborn held that the death of the defendant had been brought by an external agent and that it was accidental. “What is not the result of design or prearrangement,” said the judge, “is accidental. No man intentionally wears the skin off'his toes, and such injury must be considered accidental.” Among passengers who arrived in San Jfrancisco recently were M. Kobayashi and H. Kawamura of Tokyo, who were on 4heir way to Mexico to further the interests of a colossal Japanese colonization project. The first named gentleman, when seen, said that preparations are being made for the establishment of a Japanese colony on a big traet of land adjacent to the port of San Benito and contiguous to the Guatemalan boundary. In accordance with a treaty between the Jepanese and Mexican Governments, ratified last year, Count Enomoto, ex-minister of agriculture and a wealthy Japanese land owner, purchased 100,000 acres of land in Mexico in the locality described, and it is on this that the Japanese colony is to be established. The enterprise is receiving the support of the Japanese Government. It is the purpose of the two'visitors to have the land surveyed and laid out for the colonists, and this will be done as quickly as possible. The entire acreage, they declare, will be devoted to the cultivation of coffee. It is also planned to establish a line of steamers between San Francisco and Acapulco to connect with the Japanese-Transpacific line.

SOUTHERN.

George Washington Edwards, colored, was hanged at Senatobia, Miss., for the murder of Roxie Williams. Thu crime’ M*as committed in July, 1890. Four new cases of smallpox were discovered at Middlesboro, Ky. The public schools and all saloons were closed indefinitely. Nearly all the surrounding country is quarantined. Attorney General Crow of Missouri has rendered a decision holding that it is unlaM’ful for a teacher to require pupils to respect the Lord’s prayer ns part of the opening exercises in the public schools of that State. Benton McMillin has formally announced in Nashville his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Tennessee. There are three other avowed candidates in the field. The convention will meet in August. The McChord bill, M’hich gives the State Commissioners power to fix rates, has passed the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature. It got through the Senate by a narrow majority, aud now it Seems certain to become a law. Arthur Garvey, a merchant of Rocky Mount, N. C., u’hilc dressing in his’ room at a hotel in Richmond, Vn., accidentally fell against the window, breaking it, and his head went through. In his efforts to free himself the jagged glass fcnt his jugular vein and he bled to death. A desperate duel was fought with knives and pistols between George Vogt and Arthur B. Waldron at Fourth avenue and K street, Louisville, Ky. Fred Vogt, the son of George Vogt, was also draum into the encounter. As a result Waldron is lying nt the city hospital not expected to live. Fred Vogt is at the Gray street infirmary, badly wounded, and the elder Vogt is in jail, charged M’ith malicious shooting. The primary cause of the trouble was a murder case tried in the Jefferson County Court about eight years ago.

WASHINGTON.

Seuator Hoar haß introduced a bill for the suppression of gambling in the territories of the United States. The bill is broad in its intentions aud provides heavy penalties. The President has appointed ns registers of land office Joseph W. Johnson at Lincoln, Neb.,-nnd Lee Stover at Watertown, S. D. George W. Case has been made receiver nt WatertOM'ii, S. D. Representative Burton of Ohio has introduced a bill iu Congress appropriating $100,090 to construct a Bteel steam lighthouse tender for use on the great lakes, to be specially fitted for steaming through heavy ice. The Government lien on the Union Pacific case M’ns M’iped out the other day at the Union Pacific station in Topeka, Kan. The Kansas Pacific road was bought iu by Alvin W. Krech, representing the reorganization committee, for $ti,203,000. There was no competition nt the sale; Mr. KVeeU Wus the only bidder. Acting Consul Smith at Moscow, in his report to the State Department at Washington on the harvest failure in llussiu, compares the present crop shortage M'ith that of 1891, nnd adds that the enormous indebtedness incurred by the provinces nt that time will be greatly increased by the present scarcity of food products.

FOREIGN.

Miss Clara Barton has given n contract to a large bakery at Havana to intake crackers for the reconccntrados. A Kpaniah newspaper announces that the last two descendants of Christopher Coluuibtffi nre now occupants of a poorhouse at Cadis. The United Stntes cruiser Montgomery sailed from Port an Prince under cipher orders received from Washington. It is believed that her destination is Havana. lord Salisbury and his son, Her. Lord William Guscoyne-Cecil, bad a narrow escape from injury. Their brougham was demolished by the blowing shut of u heavy iron gate. England is negotiating with China to* open Yuen-Ghau-Fu, iu the Province of Hu-Nan, as n treaty port, and is negotiating also ou the subject of the unvigatiou of inland waters. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was operated upon at Dr. l’ozzi’s hospital In Paris. The cyst was removed with complete success. Dr. Voatl hopes that Mme. Bernhardt will be able to resume her professional work iu April. The. latest disiwtches from Guatemala state that anarchy relgus throughout the country. This is the direct result of the assassination of President Barrios and .the plottlug of leaders to get into power in the republic. ( , At a quarter of 10 o'clock the other evening n terrible explosion took place on Itonrd the United States cruiser Maine in l|nvana harbor. Many were killed or wounded. As yet the cause of the explosion is not nppnretit. At Kingston, Jamaica, a filibustering expedition, destined for Cuba', has been

intercepted by theauthorities.and a on an* tity of arms and ammunition seized. The American schooner Cora M., Capt. Mitchell, last reported at Wilmington, N. C., is implicated. Ensign Joseph C. Breckenridge, executive officer of the torpedo bqnt Cashing, was washed overboard and drowned during the passage from Key West to Havana. The j Cushing arrived in Havana with the body and signaled the Maine for medical assistance, Efforts to resuscitate Ensign Breckenridge were useless. The Paris ministry of finance recently instituted an inquiry to learn the amount of gold in circulation. It has ascertained that there is $800,000,000 worth bearing the French stamp. It is claimed that this is the record amount. It is stated that the United'States has $720,000,000, Germany $080,000,000, and Great Britain and Russia ${500,000,000 each. The Campagnie Generale Transatlantique steamer Flachat, bound from Marseilles for Colon, was totally wrecked on Anaga point, Teneriffe, Canary Islands. Her captain, second officer, eleven of her crew and one passenger were saved. Thir-ty-eight of the crew and forty-nine passengers were lost. The Flachat was a stem screw, iron vessel of 1,239 tons net and 2,175 tons gross register. She was 300 feet long by 3G feet beam and 25.5 feet depth of hold. The Flachat struck on the point during a thick fog and soon broke in two. The steamer Susu brought the fourteen survivors to Santa Cruz, and, after landing them, returned to the scene of the disaster.

IN GENERAL.

The standing committee of the diocese of Delaware has refused to consent to the consecration of Archdeacon Brown as bishop of Arkansas. The proposed consolidation of sewer pipe manufacturers in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, with a capital of $11,000,000, has been declared off. A return presented to the Canadian parliament gives the amount of gold taken out of the Yukon from 188(5 to 1897, inclusive, us over $4,000,000. In 1897 the amount was $2,500,000. Vice-Chancellor Stevenson of Jersey City has decided in effect that union labels designated to indicate fair-made goods art? not privileged trade-marks and may be copied with impunity by anybody. The report of the loss of the Klondike steamer Clara Nevada, with all on board, is confirmed by the news brought by the Canadian Pacific Railway steamer Islander. There-, were forty persons—passengers and crew—on board. It is now predicted that the price of wheat will pass far beyond the dollar mark. Leiter lias already disposed of 3,500,000 bushels of his wheat at figures ranging from $1.15 to $1.17 a bushel, nearly 20 cents above the quoted price of the May option. There is little wheat in farmer’s hands and from all foreign ports come reports of decreased Btocks and increased demands for the grain. Chicago correspondents say that neither Leiter nor G. B. French,, his manager, will discuss the operations of the syndicate, but it is known that favorable freight rates have been arranged. Reports from the Argentine indicate that but little wheat remains for export, much of it having been ruined by the continued rains. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Business is pushing toward spring activity rather early. Events which lmve controlled are good buying of iron by the largest makers, the rise in cotton with strength in goods,, the great railway consolidation and the Cuban insurrection. The latter, with its possibilities, operates as a brake on speculation. The .output of pig iron Feb. 1 was 229,823 tons weekly, the largest in the history of the.business. The Illinois Steel Company has'contracted for 1,000,000 tons Bessemer ore, and producers of other ranges qount upon an ndvance in price. Bessenuw pig rose to $10.15, and gray forge to $9 at Pittsburg, with finished products geuernlly stronger nnd in larger demand than ever at this season. Jnnuary was one of the biggest months in Counellsville coke output—o23,975 tons. The rise in cotton, 5-lGc for the week, results in part from better prospects for manufacture here and abroad, but only in part. The actual movement shows no change of consequence, but prices of goods have a stronger tone, and foreign prospects are better. Wool sales at the chief cities were only 5,093,200 pounds for the week. Prices are still strong. The opening of works idle for years, in spite of the heavy production already assured, is a striking feature in this as in the iron and other industries, and implies heavier demands sos products thnn are now met by the unprecedented output. Failures for the week have been 295 lu the United States, against 207 last year, amj 43 in Canada, against 01 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to priu?e. $3.00 to $5:75; hogs, shipping griulen, $3.00 to $4.L’5; sheep, fair to choice, $2 50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.05; corn. No. 2,20 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, common lo choice, 52c to 05c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,07 cto 08c; corn. No. 2 white, 20c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 20c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hog*, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, o*c to 00c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 2th-; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2; 48c to 40c. * Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 mixed, 80c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 2th-; rye, No. 2,50 cto 52c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.73; wheat, No. 2,07 cto 08e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c t<> 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; rye. 51c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to 00c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c: oats. No. 2 white, 2tk- to 28c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 51c; clover seed, $3.10 to $3.15. Mllwaakce—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 03c to 95c; corn, No. 3,20 cto 3te; outs. No. 2 whltc, 28c to 20c; rye,'No.. 2. 10c to 51c; barley, No. 2, 38prto 43c; pork, mess, $10.75 to $11.25. Ittiffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 rod, 00c to $1.01; corn. No.. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 while, 31c to 33c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; ItogO, $3.00 to $4.73; sheep, $3.00 to $8125; wheat, No. 2 red, SI.(M! to $1.07: eom. No. 2,38 cto 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c ta 33c: butter, creamery, 15c'to 21c', eggs, Western, 15c to 17c.

NOT YET AT THE TOP.

LEITER SAYS WHEAT WILL GO STILL HIGHER. J V 1 State of the Crop and Not the Explosion of the Maine Responsible for Flurj-y ill the Market—Fifty Die in a Pras- - sian Mine. -*• Conditions Favor a Rise. Joseph Leiter of Chicago, apparently bearing up manfully under his terrible burden of some 18,000,000 bushels of cash wheat estimated to be at his disposal in elevators all over the middle and eastern as well as the western cereal-growing States, was interviewed by an inquisitive reporter the other day. “The upward movement of wheat,” said he, “ was not caused by a war scare. It was only the result of the shorts trying to cover. The high price of wheat is due to nothing more nor less than natural conditions. The Argentine Republic has repeatedly reported a falling off in the estimates of its crop; Australia has produced nothing for two seasons and the output of the south-’ ern hemisphere is almost an entire failure. These circumstances, and not the Havana explosion, are responsible for the increase.” “Will wheat go higher, and, if so, how' much?” was asked of Mr. Leiter. “It is bound to go higher, but how much more no one knows,” responded Mr. Leiter. Blown Out of the Water. High and dry on the meadows at Maurice Rives, on the Jersey side of the Delaware, firmly imbedded in. the soft mud, lies the big three-masted schooner Maine. It is a victim of the fierce northwest gale. It was while the wind wob blowing its hardest and sweeping the waters of the Delaware seaward that the Maine, lying at anchor off the mouth of Maurice river, was caught in the full strength of the tempest and tossed like a child’s toy back upon the bosom of the rushing waters and hurled far inland. The Maine, at the time it was lifted and borne shoreward, had a cargo of pig iron aboard, which goes to show how strong the rushing waters were and what terrific force lay in the wildly sweeping gale. Mob Destroys Property. Rioting has been resumed in Lonoke County, Ark. A snob has been at work for the last several nights in Crooked Creek township, burning and otherwise destroying property. Nearly every school house in the township has been burned and other public property destroyed. The grand jury of Lonoke* County, which has adjourned, says in its report: “We have made especial efforts to investigate and ferret out the depredations and outrages committed against some of the colored residents of the town of Lonoke, blit regret to state that our efforts have been without success, and we-are compelled to refer these matters to the next grand jury.” Part of Kansas Pacific Sold. The eastern division of the Kansas Pacific road, 140 miles in length, was sold under the first mortgage at the Union Pacific depot in North Topeka. Judge W. D. Cornish of St. Paul, special master, conducted the sale, and the property was bought injjy Alvin W. Krech on the part of tha/fPorganization committee for $4,500,0qb.’\The same party of attorneys and r4flwpy men as witnessed the sale of the road under the Government lien the day before was present, but the crowd was not so large. Fifty Die in a Mine. A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred in the Vereinigte Carolinenguleck colliery at Hammeerly, Prussia. Thirty-sev-en bodies were recovered. Many miners were seriously injured. It is believed that 50 persons perished.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Elmer Martine was run over by a train at Lima, 0., and cut to pieces. At Hamburg, Ark., Ellis Morgan thought his brother was a fox and shot him. At Guthrie, O. T., C. P. Crawford of Chicago sues for SIO,OOO for false imprisonment. At Youngstown, 0., David Stewart, a flagman, left $8,500 to the Catholic Church. At Milan, Mo., Ira Sexton, who murdered Nathau Stork, was sentenced to be hanged April 1. A new patriotic society was organized in New York Saturday. It wilt be known as the American Flag Association, and its membership will be made up from committees selected from the various patriotic societies of the country. Its object will be to protect the ting from desecration. Charles H. Hoyt, the playwright, who is the defendant in n suit on trial in the Superior Civil Court in Boston, brought by Edwin Bates, musicinn and publisher, for SIO,OOO damages for slander, defamation of character and assault, must pay Bates $1,500. Mr. Hoyt admitted that he called Mr. Bates a thief, but declared that he meant it in the sense of a plagiarist. The French opera house in New Orleans, where the Knights of Mithrias ball, a swell carnival function, was being held, caught fire from the electrical apparatus in connection with the tableaux. A terrible panic ensued. Three women fainted, and but for the action of two officers, who, kuowing the extent of the tire, closed the doors, many would have been crushed. The fire was extinguished without any trouble, but the ball was broken up just iu the midst of its splendor. Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, died at the Imperial Hotel, New York City. , Thomas Bryson, a pioneer of the fifties and prominent in political and lodge circles of Montitelier, Ind„ is dead. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, In 1814. Tecumseh Biuld, a cripple, aged 20 years, committed suicide at Defiance, 0., because of unrequited love, s Byron Billings, aged 23 years, shot and killed his father, 11. M. Billings, hotelkeeper, at Leavenworth, Kan. The Burbank block in Pittsfield, Mas*., was burned. The loss on building and contents will aggregate $100.(KM), with in* suVance of from $50,000 to $05,000. A sub-committee has been appointed by the banking committee of the National House of Representatives to prepare a currency reform measure.

CONGRESS

In the House on Monday a resolution calling for information as to the edneentrados in Cuba was adopted. Another resolution calling for the correspondence relating to the exclusion of American fruit, beef and horses from Germany was; adopted? The remainder of the day was devoted to District of Columbia business. A feature of the Senate session was a speech in advocacy of the free coinage or standard silver dollars by Mr. Allen. Mr. Harris introduced a resolution calling for information regarding the abandonment of the Government’s purpose to bid in theKansas Pacific Railway under n guarantee of the full amount of the principal of the debt. On Mr. Chandler’s objection it went over one day. In the House on Tuesday the time was devoted to the consideration of bills and joint resolutions and sixteen of more or less public importance were passed. An order was entered by unanimous consent for the consideration of the Loud bill relating to second-class mail matter, onMarch 1, 2 and 3, and the order for theconsideration of the bankruptcy bill was modified so that the final vote shall be taken on Saturday instead of Monday. The Senate bill amending the navigation laws was passed, as was the bill to make it lawful to transmit through the mails private postal cards with a 1-cent stamp affixed. In the Senate a resolution was passed, after a spirited debate, calling for information regarding the sale of the Union Pacific road. The debate on the bankruptcy bill opened in the House on Wednesday, but it attracted little attention, the interest of the members being entirely absorbed by the disaster to the Maine. At times the hall of the House was almost deserted, the members being congregated in the lobbies or cloak rooms discussing the accident and speculating upon its probable consequences. Just before the House adjourned Mr. Boutelle, chairman of the naval committee, presented a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, expressing regret for the disaster, condolence with the families of those who lost their lives and sympathy with the injured. A discussion upon the coast defenses was the interesting feature of the Senate. Many Senators took the ground that the appropriations should be for the full amount of the estimates by the War Department instead of some $4,000,000 less. Senators Perkins and Hale said that it was the policy of the Appropriations Committee to make an annual expenditure of $10,000,000 for fortifications. Senators Stewart, Hawley, Chandler and Lodge spoke in favor of increases. Senator Teller also advocated liberal expenditures, and during his remarks made significant allusions to Cuba and Hawaii. In the early part of the day there was a discussion of the Kansas Pacific Railroad sale, but no action was taken. In the House the debate on the bankruptcy bill continued on Thursday. Messrs. Moody (Rep., Mass.), Alexander (Rep., N. Y.), Broderick (Rep., Kan.), McCall (Rep., Mass.), Knox (Rep., Mass.), Crumpacker (Rep., Ind.) and Dolliyer (Rep., Iowa) spoke for it, and Messrs. Little (Dem., Ivy.), Smith (Deni., Ivy.), Wilson (Dem., S. C.), Maddox (Dem., Ga.), Sparkman (Dem., Fla.) and Bartlett (t>em., Ga.) against it. In the Senate by a vote of 34 to 29 the resolution of Mr. Turpie, declaring the Senate’s opposition to the confirmation of the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, was agreed to. The Corbett senatorial case was discussed by Mr. Pettns nnd Mr. Hoar. An agreement was reached to take a final vote upon the case Feb. 28. Aside from adoption of the resolution giving the Secretary' of the Navy permission to use $200,000 in the work of raising the battle ship Maine, Friday in the House was devoted to a continuation of the debate on the bankruptcy bill. The speakers were Messrs. Sulzer (Dem., N. Y.), Strode (Rep., Neb.), Connolly (Rep., Ill.), Rixey (Dem., Va.L Grosvenor (Rep., O. Sayers (Dem., Texas) and Ray (Rep., N. Y.) in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Ivitchins (Rep., N. C.), Linney (Rep., N. C.), Love (Dem., Miss.), Ball (Dem., Tex.), Henry (Dem., Miss.), Maguire (Dem., Cal.), Bland (Dem., Mo.), Ball (Pop., Colo.), De Armond (Dem., Mo.), Wheeler (Dem., Ala.) and Lloyd (Dem., Mo.) against it. In the Senate the Maine disaster and the Cuban question occupied the entire day.

Owned by the Nation.

Quegn Elizabeth was passionately fond of flowers, but with the wealth of an imperial nation at her back site eould not enjoy them at all seasons of the year as she desired. The uncertainly of the time, manner and quality of the flowers were irritating to her, and from her dissatisfaction with the existing order of things grew the most famous garden of the world. With her own hands Queen Elizabeth laid out the grounds that were to produce and fructify the flowers of her drawingroom. She started to raise flowers for her own personal gratification, andended by producing flowers and plants for the millions. No single desire of an impetuous queen ever yielded better fruit. On Queen Elizabeth's little flower garden the nation gazes to-day with national pride. Its original purpose of supplying the royal table with cut flowers Is still observed, but that is a small Incidental feature of the Kew. The garden belongs to the nation, and: It Is the nation, the Ignorant and unlettered as well as the wise and studious, that enjoys Its fragrant flowers, Its graceful trees and palms, and its balsamic herbs and plants.

When the Empress Drives Out.

When her majesty the Empress of Japan drives out no oue is permitted to look at her from the windows of chinks In tlie dqors or any part of the house, but rnus't, sit down by the side of the street through-wbieli she passes. Each person must doff lint or cap as she liasses, except the women in European dress, whose heads may remain covered. No one may speak or follow the carriage, tvncl no noise of any-kind Is allowed on the streets through which she pusses.—Brooklyn Eagle.