St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 May 1890 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. THE WORLD OVER. LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM EVERY FART OF THE GLOBE. The History of a Week Gathered from the Wires, Embracing Political Doings, Personal Movements, Accidents, Criminal Affairs, Labor Notes, Etc, LEVEES OR OUTLETS. The Merits of the Two Systems Discussed in the Senate. The comparative merits of the levee and outlet systems forth j Mississippi wore discussed at length in the Senate on the 28th, the debate showing that there was a great divergence of views on the subject. Most of the afternoon was spent on the land grant forfeiture bill. Mr. Evarts called up the bill to incorporate the Society of So::s of the American Revolution,which elicited considerable discussion, during which the Senate at 5:15 p. m. adjourned. In the House the conference report on the Fremont (Nebraska) public building bill was submitted by Mr. Milliken, of Maine, and was agreed to. The limit of cost is $50,001. The Speaker laid before the House the message of the President, returning, without his approval, the bill to allow Ogden, Utib, to increase its indebtedness. Referred to the Committee on Territories. The legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill was passed without division. The House then went into committee of the whole on bills r dating to the District of Columba. The bill for the establishment of Rock Creek Park was amended so as Io assess a part of the cost on the adjoining property-holders and after much discussion received a favorable vote, most of the Republicans voting for it and the Democrats against it. The bill was laid aside with a favorable recommendation by the committee of the whole. DAMAGE BY FLOODS AT DALLAS Several Hundred Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Property D -stroyed. A Dallas (Texas) disp itch says: There are four hundred homes in Dallas and the suburbs from which the inhabitants have been driven by the overflow in the Trinity River, the river at this rise was a few inches higher than that of 1866, which was the highest recorded. The Water ran through the windows of the first floor of the Dallas Elevator and damaged a large amount of whe it, as well as the machinery and belting. The St. Louis Pressed-Brick Company are heavy losers. Two thousand bales of cotton were soaked at the compress, foot of Lamar street, and the Dallas Brewing Company will suffer considerab y from inconvenience caused by water. The Eureka steam laundry has suspended operations, as the water is several feet deep in their buildings. As the mail was being transferred from one train to the other on the Texas and Pacific a pouch of registered mail slipped off the hand-car and sunk in the swift current before it could be recovered. The city water-works are useless. The damage done by the flood in Dallas will amount to several hundred thousand dollars. MR. BLAINE IS PLEASED. Nine of the American Republic? Sign the Treaty of Arbitration. Representatives of nine of the American Republics have signed the formal treaty of arbitration in Secretary Blaine’s office at the Department of State • —namely, the United States, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Hayti, and the United States of Brazil. It is expected that three more signatures and seals will be added soon, and it is hoped that the signatures of all the powers will be secured in the course of the summer and autumn. Several of the Ministers remained over at great inconvenience to complete their adhesion to the treaty. Great enthusiasm is felt at the State Department over the rapid progress of so important a measure. The International Conference could only recommend, and it was the regularly accredited Ministers Plenipotentiary who signed the treaty for reference to their respective governments. THE BALL-PLAYERS. Standing of the Various Clubs in the Four Leading Organizations. Players’. W. L. PcJ National. W. L. pc. Boston 5 2 .714 Boston 5 2 .714 Chicago.... 4 2 .6671 Pitts burg .. 4 2 .667 Buffalo 4 2 .667IPhilad’phia 3 2 .600 Pittsburg.. 3 3 ,500|Chicago.... 3 3 .500 Brooklyn... 3 3 .500|Cincinnati. 3 3 .500 Philad’pfiia 2 3 .400 New York.. 3 4 .423 New York.. 2 4 .333 Brooklyn... 2 3 .400 Cleveland.. 1 5 .167 Cleveland.. 2 4 .333 Amerian. W. L. p c.! Western. W. L. Pc. Louisville .71 .875 Denver 6 2 .750 Athletic.... 6 2 .750 Sioux City. 5 2 .714 Rochester . 5 2 .714 Des Moines. 6 3 .667 St. Louis... 5 3 .625 Minneapolis 5 3 . 625 Columbus.. 3 5 .375 St. Paul.... 3 5 .375 Syracuse... 2 6 .250 K’nsas City 3 5 .375 Brooklyn... 2 6 .250 Milwaukee. 3 6 .333 Toledo 17 .125 Omaha 2 6 .250 Anxious for Another Investigation. Senator Jones (Nev.), Chairman of the Committee on Contingent Expenses, has signet warrants for the payment of witness’ fees to the several correspondents subpa naed by the special committee appointed to investigate the publication of the proceedings of the executive sessions of the Senate. The correspondents were in attendance upon the committee two days onk, but, having Keen kept under subpoena fifty-one days the warrants were made out for the sum of $153 each. The expenses of the investigation have amounted to about $2,000. The correspondents hope that Mr. Doiph will institute another investigation immediately and continue it indefinitely. To Protect Railroad Emp'oyes. Representative Henderson of lowa has introduced to the House Committee on Railroads and Canals L. S. Coffin, of Port Dodge, lowa, who, as a representative of the Brakemen’s Association of the United States, addressed the committee in favor of Mr. Henderson’s bill for the protection of railroad employes. A Murderer Sho Down. August Koenig, a farm hand living on a ranch near Firbaugh, Cal., shot and killed another Innd named Henry Bergen and fled. He was pursued by a posse and shot. down. A Leiter f om the Corporal. Corporal Tanner has written a letter to Ch irman Morrill of the Invalid Pension Committee approving the limited service pension bill, but he says the passage of such a measure is impossible, and he is willing to accept the Morrill bill as the best that can be done. Capital for a Mexican Bank. News from Europe states that the capital for the new Bank of Fomento, to be established in the City of Mexico, is practically secured. This institution has $25,060,000 capital, one-fifth paid in.

! CURRENT HAPPENINGS. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Schedules in the assignment of Ross, Campbell & Co., wholesale dry goods merchants of New York, have been filed by the assignee. They state liabilities, $98,486; nominal assets, $47,989, and actual assets, $8,451. Samuel F. Pierson, late commissioner for trunk lines, died in his homo at Holmesburg, Pa. The interment will be at Painesville, Ohio. The Inman line steamer City of Berlin is still in custody of the Treasury officials at New York. A fire in the factory of the Shelton comb-woiks, at Shelton, Conn., caused a loss of $50,000. The factory was a wooden structure and attached to it were three others. The fire spread rapidly and made an almost clean sweep. Mrs. Slicer, who occupied a tenement in one of the buildings destroyed, was badly burned and died in half an hour. Several others were slightly burned. Four families barely escaped in their night clothes. Frederick Kimball, the fugitive teller of the People’s Savings Bank of Worcester, Mass., got away with $53,392. Three hundred dollars reward is offered for his apprehension. The large furnace of the Reading ’ Railroad Company at Temple, Pa., has started up after being idle seven years. The majority of the furnaces of the , company are now inoperation. At Philadelphia, John C. Graham, 25 years old, a clerk at the income desk of the Pennsylvania Life and Annuity Company, waived a hearing and was committed to answer the charge of embezzling about $6,000 belong ng to lus employers. The defalcation is attributed to gambling and fast company. , A New York dispatch says: John J. O’Brien, the Republican leader of the Eighth Assembly District and the chief of the bureau of elections, died at Baeder’s Hotel, Coney Island, after an illness of several months. Up to the hour of his 1 death Mr. O'Brien w> s conscious and recognized those about him. Gathered around his bedside were his sons, Joseph J. and John L. O’Br en.and his daughters, 1 Mrs. Baeder and Miss Laurette O’Brien. Mr, O’Brien was born in the Tenth Ward of this city June 14, 1842. He was at one time al ook-keeperfor A. T. Stewart, leav- ; ing this place to act as private Secretary for ex-Collector Thomas Murphy. The office of Chief of the Bureau of Elections he held until last February-. At Trenton, N. J., United States Commissioner Rowe was called upon at his hotel the other night by Caspar Soer. chief clerk in the money order department of the Newark Postofflce, who came to surrender himself as a defaulter in the I sum of about $5,000. Soer said he was ashamed to deliver himself to the authorities in Newark, where has a wife and children, and where he has many friends who hold him in esteem. His peculations date back only to August last. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A Rock Springs (Wy.) special says that a fire is burning in No. 4 mine, owned by the Union Pacific Railway Company. It is supposed to have been started by some Chinamen while cooking a meal. Several explosions have occurred and several men have be^n badly burned. It is believed that it will be necessary to flood the mine, which is valued at over $1,000,000. There are thirty men still imprisoned in the mine and it is feared all have perished. George Hancock, a Latter-Day Saint ■ at Provo, Utah, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for the murder of the Jones family at Spanish Folk in 1858. Hancock is 72 years of age. At San Francisco, Cal., Michael Lane, a stone-cutter, shot and fatally wounded his -wife at their home and then blew out his brains. The couple had always lived happily together, and the only cause that can be assigned for the tra edy is insanity. After shooting his wife Lane crushed her skull with a hammer. Erick Nyland, of Minneapolis, who has been suffering from genuine leprosy, is dead. His ease has attracted widespread attent’on. Nyland knew his case was a remarkable one, and made his wife promise his body should not go to the dissecting table. Pr: sident Fulda, of the California Athletic Club has received a dispatch from John L. Sullivan’s manager (Clark), saying: “John L. Sullivan will accept your proposition after the Mississippi affair is settled, which will be June 23. 'J he winner to take all.” Fulda has been earn ing on telegraphic and mail correspondence with Clark, and says this answer settles the matter and assures Sullivan meeting Jackson some time this summer. Jackson’s business manager, William Naughton, has arrived at San Francisco. He says Jackson is in prime condition, and that stories of his dissipation are false. Governor Waterman, of California, has issued an address to the people of the State urging all to unite in making California’s contribution to the World’s Fair at Chicago commensurate w-ith the ' greatness of her industries and resources. The Garfield statute at Cleveland, Ohio, has been placed in position in the monument. It is of Italian marble and is ten feet high. The dedication will occur on Decoration Day. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. The little town of Kyle, twenty miles south of Austin, Texas, was visited by a cyclone and many houses were overturned and several swept away. Several persons were injured, but no one was killed. r lhe Kyle Seminary, a large I frame building, was torn from its foun- ; dation and carried twenty feet, but was j not seriously damaged. The destruction i of fences and growing crops was very i gieat. J. U. Ligsby and Lem Williams, conn- ! terfeiters. have been arrested in Walker I County, Alabama, and taken to jail at [ Birmingham. Molds and hundreds of ■ spurious dollars -were found in their ; house. They have been operating iu that j section for several years, and the country is flooded with counterfeit money. Other members of the gang escaped. Attorney- General Whyte, of Maryland, has entered suit in the Circuit Court of Harford County against Edwin H. Webster and other sureties on ex-State ' Treasurer Aicher's bond, and i g inst Henry W. Archer, Jr., and other executors cf Henry W. Aid er, whose estate

has not been settled, to recover Stephenson Archer’s share. The Grand Jury will i take up Archer’s case, and there is no j doubt that au indictment for embezzle- - meat will be found against him. Attor- ’ ney General White declares that he will pi ess the case to a speedy trial within the May term. , Ground has been broken at Bluffton, Ala., for the nexv building of the University of Southland, an institution founded by the Northern Methodist Church. A New Orleans (La.) d spatch says: The rumor which prevailed some days ago about the loss of 1 fe from the flood in the interior of Weet Baton Rouge Parish is authenticated to-day. Six lives were lost, as far as known, all negroes. The bodies have been taken from the Lobdell break. The water rose so suddenly that most of the cattle in that section were drowned before they be gotten out. But one serious crevasse at New Texas, Pointe Coupee, has been reported in the last twenty-four hours, and the situation is generally better, although the back or crevasse water is spreading and rising everyw-here. The river, on the other hand, is stationary or falling. THE NATIONALCAPITAL. President Harrison has procured a list of all the public building bills so far passed, and also of those pending before the House and Senate, and if he finds that appropriations have been toe carelessly made a halt may be called by the exercise of the veto power. Mr. Cannon has advocated greater economy, and has called on President Harrison to look into the matter. The total collections of internal revenue for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, were SIOO 943,226, being an increase of $7,504,779 over the corresponding period last year. Representative Stewart, of Texas, from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, has reported to the House the Senate bill providing for the completion of the improvement to Galveston harbor, Texas. The bill makes i n appropriation of $6,200,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Wir, not more than $1,000,000 of which can be expended in any one year. The Senate bill providing for an inspection of meat-, for exportation and prohibiting the importation of a Inherited articles of food or drink has been acted upon favorably by the House Committee on Agriculture. A Washington dispatch says: It was generally expected that the de ;(Lof Major General Crook would result in a change ? in the military division commands, but j Secretary Proctor says that no changes of that character will be made for nt least two months, and that the promotion of General Miles from Brigadier General to Major General does not necessitate a change in his present command (the Division of the Pacific). General Schofield will therefore continue in temporary command of the Division of the Missouri, with headquarters at Washington, and Gen. Howard in command of the Di vis on of the Atlantic, with headqui rters at New York. It is understood that the date of the retirement of Brig. Gen ierson— July B—h> s been fixed by the apartment for a rearrangement of the principal military commamts, and that the present plan contemplates the transfer of Gen. Howard to Chicago and Gen. Miles to New York.. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. Documents embodying a scheme of Russian mobilization on the frontiers of Germany and Austria, in the event of war, have been stoen from the War Office at St. Petersburg. The discovery has created a profound sensation in high mil tary circles, and suspicion of complicity in the theft attaches to several persons of high rank. If is rumored that there are serious discussions in the French ministry, and an early collapse of the Cabinet is feared. The deficit in the Italian budget is estimated at 85,000,000 bred. The House Committee on Military Affairs has reported a bill transferring the Weather Bureau to the Department of i Agriculture. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: John C. Fremont, of New York, to be a Major General on the retired list; John T. Ensor, Attorney for the District of Maryland; William F. Airey, Marshal for the District of Maryland. The Senate in executive session has confirmed the following nominations: E. A. Williams. Surveyor General of North Dakota; J. 11. Shupe, Register of the Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon. David A. Taggart, President of the New Hampshire State Senate, his been inaugurated as Acting Governor of New Hampshire by the Executive Council, and will perforin the gubernatorial duties during the absence of Gov. Goddell, who is incapacitated by sickness. The California Republican convention will be held at Sacramento Aug. 18. The Pennsylvania Republican State convention will be held at Harrisburg, June 23. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: ■ Robert S. Gardner, of West Virginia, to be an Indian Inspector. John E. Helms, of Nebraska, Indian Agent at the Santee Agency in Nebraska. Receivers cf Public Moneys--Alexander S. Jackson, at New Orleans ; Thomas B. Shannon, at San Francisco ; James H. Danskin, at Alliance, Neb.; James Whitehead, at Broken Bow, Neb. Land Office Registers—John Reese, at Broken Bow, Neb.; Frederick M. Dorrington, at Alliance, Neb. Collectors of Customs—James R. Jolley, district of Teche, Louisiana ; John R. Mizell, district of Pensacola, Florida. Surveyors of Customs—Joseph A. Faris, port of Wheeling, W. Va. Algernon S. Badger, Appraiser of Merchandise at New Orleans. Jacob Shaen, Assistent Appraiser of Mereh udise at San Francisco. The President has sent to the Senate the followin'; nominations: John P. Jackson, Assistant United States Treasurer at San Francisco; James Low, Collector of Customs for the District of Niagara, N. Y. The Senate in executive session has confirmed the follow ng nominations: John E. Helms, agent at Santee Indian ! Agency, Nebraska. Daniel Van Ness Harwood, Postmaster at Ripon, W;s. Receivers of Public Moneys—James Whitehead, Red Fern, Neb.; James H. Danskin. Alliance, Neb. Registers of Land Offices—Frederick M. Darrington, Alliance. Neb.; John Reese, Broken Bow, i Neb. RAILWAY GOSSIP. The annual report of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1889, ha-; been ni.de public. The gio;s eirnings ware

$2,495,823, the operating expenses $1,538,« 637. leaving net earnings of $957,156, an increase of $83,604 over the previous year. Tue fixed charges were $850,310, leaving a surplus of $106,876. The Union Pacific net earnings for March were $3,227,157. ACROSS THE OCEAN. A VIENNA cable says: Work has been resumed in most of the pits on the line of the Northern Railway in the Ostran district, and the iron furnaces at Wittkowitz are again in full blast. Serious disorders have occurred at Fulnek, where the cavalry dispersed the mob and made 118 arrests. • Tils Paris municipal elections, about which some anxiety has been felt, and which caused the Government to take ample measures to secure order and quiet, progressed without any scenes of disorder. Returns from thirty districts show a victory for the Conservatives and Republicans, who made common cause against Gen. Boulanger, and that the latter is badly beaten. Later returns from four out of nineteen districts show’ that eight Royalists, eleven Republicans, and one Boulangist have been elected. In fifty-four districts a reballot will be necessary to determine what candidates are returned. The Prison Congress at St. Petersburgh will open on June 15. The Prince of Oldenburg will preside. Three hundred delegates will be present, representing twenty-five states. A municipal banquet, excursions, fetes, etc., are being arranged for the entertainment of the delegates. A trip to Finland is proposed, to take place after the close of the congress. Holland proposes to increase the duty upon American petroleum imported into the Dutch Indies. This is in reprisal for the proposed American increase of duty on raw: tobacco. Dutch commercial circles are discussing common European action against the American policy of protection. FRESH AND NEWSY. A telegram from Rio Janeiro announces a crisis in the Brazilian Cabinet. It is stated that Ruy Barboza and Quintina Bocayuva will resign, and that Counselor Saraiva will take the portfolio of Stale and Viscount Licena that of Foreign Affairs. In the Ottawa House of Commons the bill extending the modus vivendi with the United States for another year passed ita third and final reading. ’There was hardly any opposition. The bill is a copy of last year’s act, with a few changes. Licenses will be issued as soon as the royal assent is given. The South St. Paul Distilling Company has passed under the control of the Whisky Trust, representatives having paid $340,(100 to St. Paul stockholders. Special crop reports from all parts of Manitoba state that open weather during the first three weeks of April, with the fine three days’ rain of the present week, has resulted in tbe farmers of the province Rett ng an excellent start, and never before were indications at this season of the year more favorable for a prosperous season. Already a very large acreage has been sown. Cn Portage plains nearly two-third of the whe T is sown, while in the Brandon district the seeding is about completed. Seeding in the Territories is scarcely as far advanced as in Manitoba, Tur. tug McArthur, owned by the Collins Bay Rifting Company, burned to the water's edge at Kingston, Out., w ith $20,. 00ft worth of wrecking machinery which she had just brought fiom the wreck of the steamer Aimstrong. The boat is insured, but the machinery not. The loss is a serious one just now, as tbe rafting season has just commenced. The McArthur was built in 1877. measured 211 tons and was worth between $15,000 and SIB,OOO. The President has signed the world’s fair bill. There has been no doubt about Lis attitude toward the project, but Chicago’s tireless workers in Washington arc sunremely happ^’now that the subject is finally and satisfi ctorily disposed of. Chicago Congressmen, who have been kept on the jump ever since the fight began, are especially pleased over the successfu result of their labors. The steamship Cetesi, plying between New York and Haytian ports, has arrive? at New'York with seven of the passengers and crew of the wrecked steamship Italia who were picked up on tbe morning oi April 17 I etween Fortune Island anc Bird Rock. They were without food anc water, and had had nothing to eat foi twenty-four hours. Among the passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Humphreys, of Colum bus, O. Mrs. Humphreys is a relative oi ex-Senator Thurman's wife. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Prime $ 4.75 @ 5.25 Fair to Good 350 @ 4.75 Common 2.50 @ 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grpdes 3.75 <<i) 4.50 Sheep 4.00 @ 6.50 VV heat —No. 2 Red 87.88 Corn —No. 2 32 iul .33 Oats—No. 2 24 tg .25 Rye—No. 2 49 @ .50 Butter—Choice Creamery 16 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 08’5(01 .10)4 Eggs—Fresh lO’^® .11 is Potatoes —Choice new, per bu.. .45 .55' Pork—Mess 13.25 @13.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 81 @ .85 Corn—No. 3 33 @ .33’5 Oats—No. 2 White 26 @ .27'; Rye—No. 1 51 @ .52 ' Barley—No. 2 45 .46 PURK—Mesa 13.25 @13.75 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.25 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.25 SHEEP 3.5 J & 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red SB'2@ .89’-j Corn —No. 2 Yellow .. .. a s) e @ -36’ij at.s—-No. 2 White 29 '@ .30 TOLEDO. Wheat 90 @ .90’4 Corn—Cash 34’j@ ,35> 4 Oats—No. 2 White. 26 @ ,26’a NEW YORK. Cattle 4.25 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Sheep 5.50 @ 7.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 @ .98 Corn—No. 2 42 @ .44 Oats—Mixed Western 33 @ .36 Pork—New Mess 13.50 @14.00 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4.25 @ 5,00 Hogs 4.10 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 .86^ Corn —No. 2 31 @ .31’4 Oats —No. -1 26.27 Rye—No. 2 50 @ .50h INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping steers 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.0 J <«; 6.03 Wheat—No. 2 Red 93 @ .90^ Corn—No. 1 White 34 @ .35 Oats —No. 2 White 26 @ .27 CINCINNATI. H >gs 3.75 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 27 @ .28 Rye—No. 2 51 @ .53 BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime 4.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.01) @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 96 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 36h@ .37

| IN THE LABOR WORLD. 1 THE OUTLOOK IS FOR MORE AND GREATER STRIKES. Tlie Situation Admitted to Ue One of the Most Serious that Have Ever Confronted Wage-Workers and Employers—Government Aid Invoked by Non-Union Carjienters at Chicago, New York dispatch: Bradstreet says “The industrial outlook has not improved at all during the last week. In ' fact, signs of restlessness among thf wage-workers have become more conspicuous, the, number of strikes reported beI ing larger than during any previous week for nearly two years. By far th( most serious outlook is that reported from Chicago. The strike of 5,000 carpenters at that city, swelled as it has been by the necessary idleness of nearly 20.000 other workers in allied trades, lias already been noted. The number of idle men lias now been augmented by the strike of 2,000 brickmakers and brickyard laborers for shorter hours am’ more pay. Late advices would seem te point to the uneasiness of labor in othei lines in that city, and this is likely te culminate May 1 in one of the greatest strikes on record. “Nearly 20,000 packing house employes at Chicago are said to contemplate a strike for the eight-hour day Harness-makers, clothing workers, (women), stair-builders, ami other artis- ; ans have either already announced theii । intention of going out or are said to contemplate such action. This action on the part of so many trades is alleged tc be against the advice of leaders,who are ■ on record as opposing strikes for the eight-hour day in any but the buildinj , trades. “The effect of such a widespread strike upon Chicago industries can not fail to be hurtful. That the wholesale strike is against the advice of the American Federation of Labor is proved by the issuance this week of a circular to the wage-workers by Samuel Gompers, president of that organization. In this circular he outlines the. action to be pursued by the federation in its fight for an eight-hour day. ‘Early advices,' Mr. Gompers says, ‘had led the officers ; of this body to expect that the building trades’ employers would meet the men half way in their efforts to adjust the hours of labor, but recent de- । velouments at Chicago and Indianapolis > prove I heir expectations to have been , unfounded.’ Ho claims that the‘wealth, power and influence of the employing and corporate classes of the country are to be concentrated to defeat the move- ( ment,.’ and therefore recommends that action toward securing shorter hours in other trades be deferred until the buildI ing trades’ light is settled. Diffusing 1 j organized labor strength in various : I movements, he thinks, means final dej feat o’l' all1 “Money is said to be urgently needed. While the situation in Chicago is sufficiently grave, that outskie of that ' city is only a little better, at least so far as the building trades are concerned. Strikes of building or kindred trades for , an eight-hour day are reported from j Sharon. I’a.: Portland, Ore.: Indianapj oils, Ind.: New York city, and Joliet, 111 Nearly 1,500 coal miners are out in the Conmdlsville region, owing to wage difficulties. This stoppage of production is said to threaten the suspension of blast furnaces in Cleveland dependent upon this source for coke for fuel The situation 1 as regards a general strike on May I is not of the best. The carpenters and othe r building trades at Boston, Mil- ■ waukee. Birmingham, Ala , and Lan- ! caster. Fa., are on record as proposing I to strike for shorter hours on that date. All in all, the situation in labor matters is more strained than for several years, ami the outcome of the present concerted movement will be watched with interest. The total number of strikes in April was 126, involving 28,853 employes, whereas last year during the same month there were only 61 strikes, involving 12,193 employes Since Jan. 1 this year there have been 303 strikes, involving 66,142 men, while in the first four months of last year there were only 221 strikes, involving 48.924 persons.” | UChicago dispatch: A number of the j non-union men who claim to have been I roughly handled by striking carpenters have appealed to the United States government for protection. A secret meeting, at which a large number of non-union carpenters were present, was held on the South side. They had been told by a contractor that those who were from other States could appeal to the United States authorities for protection if they were not protected by Chicago or Illinois authorities. Some of the men claimed that they had been driven from buildings by strikers and that they having recently come here from other States were outrageously treated by the police. Y committee was appointed to draft suitable petition ami forward it to Secretary of State Blaime immediately. The committee brought in the following, which was adopted unanimously and sent on to Washington: To the Honorable the Secretary of State of the United States, M ashington, I). C.:We, your petitioners of the city of Chicago, being tradesmen and bona fide citizens of the United States, now bv intimidation, threats, and actual violence, being prevented from following our avocations to the great injury of ourselves and families, humbly petition the government of the United States for protection in the exercise. of our constitutional rights, now denied by a mob of riotous outlaws, who defy the authorities ami who maintain a reign of terror over those, who differ with them on questions of tradesunions. ■We also state that the above state of affairs has already continued for several weeks and that we have no protection of city or State authorities here: hence we petition your honor that protection sufficient be afforded us so that we may in peace and safety continue our lawful avocations.” From Far ami Near. The Doran-Wrig*at Company bucketshop at New York, one of the largest in the country, suspended payments. It had branches in various cities. The Mexican Central railroad statement for February shows: Gross earnings, $569,566; increase $111,660; net, 8*206,928; increase, $11,081; subsidy, $122,257; increase, $58,501. At the Belle Meade stud sale Gen. Jackson secured Luke Blackburn for $20,000, Iroquois for $34,000, ami Bramble fur $2,500. He also purchased most ( of the brood mares.

THE SENATE AND HOUSE;. NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS AXd WHAT THEY AKE DOING. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measures Discussed and Acted On—Gist of the, Business. In t’.ie House on the 22d Mr, Candler, of Mas sachusetts, moved that tho House concur in the Senate amendment to the World’s Fair bill This being agreed to by a vote of 93 to 21, the bilii is finally passed and will be sent to the ITesi dent for his action. The House then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Payson, of Illinois in the chair, on the legislative appropriation bill. A good deal of discussion was elicited over the features of the bill which relate to the pay of the Civil Service Commission and its expenses. Mr. Grosvenor made a vigorous attack upon the system, which he designated us one of sham and humbug. He did not believe that it had benefited the public service but on the contrary had proved disadvantage’ ous. Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, made an earnest speech in defense of the system. R e , made no concealment, however, of his teller that it was systematically and persistently violated by representatives of both parties. After further discussion, the House adjourned without completing the bill. In the Senate a number of resolutions were introduced, none of which were finally acted upon. The Senate spent the entire afternoon in the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill which was passed. In tho Senate, on the 23d inst., the Chair presented a communication from the Secretary 0 £ the Interior containing copies of certain documents in reference to the recent decision in the Pacific Railroad cases. A concurrent resolution preci ling for the irrigation of arid lands in the valley of the Rio Grande and the establishment ot a dam at a point near El Paso, Texas, fertile storage of waters was reported from, the Committee on Foreign Relations. It, was considered and agreed to. The conference report on the Senate bill to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma was taken up and adopted Among the bills brought before the Senate was one providing for the erection cf an equestrian statue at Manchester, N. H.. of Major General John Stark. The bill elicited strong objection from Messrs. Cockrell and Hawley, while Messrs. Blair, Hoar, Dawes, and others spoke in eloquent terms of the advisability of erecting such monuments to. the memory of the nation’s heroes in every 1 art of the United States. A good deal of feeling was manifested in tbe arguments upon the bill, which lasted until 6 o’clock, when the Senate adjourned. The House spent the day in a bitter partisan debate on the legislative appropriation bill, the discussion being mostly over the paragraph which provides for clerks for Senators. In the Senate, on the 21th inst.. the Senate bill appropriating $53,000 for an equestrian statue at Manchester, N. H., of Maj. Gen. John Stark was taken up and passed—yeas, 37; nays, 15. Cn motion of Mr. Gray tbe" House bill to transfer the revenue cutter service from the Treasury Department to the Navy Department was again taken up for consideration. The amendments reported from the Committee cc. Naval Ailairs was agreed to. Pending the consideration of the revenue cutter bill Mr. Hoar . from the Committee on Privileges and Elections. reported (as an original measure/ a bill to amend and supplement the election laws of the United States and to provide for tho more efficient, enforcement of such laws, and it was placed on the calendar. The Senate spent the entire. afternoon in consideration of th * bill to forfeit certain lands heretofore granted for the purpose < of aiding in the construction of railrcals. It adjourned at 5 :30 without action. The House resumed consideration of the legislative appropriation bill. Mr. Beggs, of California, made a. vigorous attack upon tho civil-service system, advocating ths doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils. Others followed, and on motion to strike out the clause providing compensation for the Civil-Service Commission, which was then put, the vote stood: Yeas, 62; nays, 121. The House then adjourned. In the Senate, on the2stb, the bill constituting Gladstone, Mich., a port of delivery in tbe Customs District of Superior was reported and passed, and the House amendment to the Lafayette (Ind.) building bill (reducing the appropriation from $160,000 to $80,000) was concurred in and a conference asked. The Senate then took up and passed the joint resolution for the relief of the Southern flood sufferers. The land grant forfeiture bill was then discussed, after wlsch eulogies were delivered on Hon. Edward Gay and the Senate adjourned. In the House, on motion of Mr. Adams of Illinois, a bill was passed to provide for a term of court at Danville, 111., the first. Monday in May. Mr. Camion of Illinois, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a joint resolution appropriating $150,000 to tenable the Secretary of War to distribute rations for the relict of the destitute people in the district ■ overflowed by the Mississippi and its tributaries. The appropriation was sufficient to enable the Secretary to give one ration a day for twenty-one days to 35,000 people. The joint resolution was passed—yeas. 139; nays, 24, . The resolution passed the Senate without opposition, and the President has signed it, and . it is now a law. The afternoon was spent on . the legislative appropriation bill, and an evening session was held, at which the House passed l thirty private pension bills, and at 11 ;3J adjourned. Rural Notes and News. Air the cellar on mild days. Mixed farming is tho safest. Use good seed—plant carefully. Is your wood-house well-filled? Fat vegetables require fat land. Girls, have a fine show of flowers. Frrm for both profit and pleasure. Make all tramps work or move on. Remedy for worry—earnest work. Be gentle with the colts and calves. Carefully guard against foreign fires Raise plenty of carrots for the horses. “Plow Heep while sluggards sleep.” Keep the poultry house and yard dry. Confine tbe fowls on cold, windy days. Make a good seed-bed before planting. All foods for plants must be soluble to be available. Do not remove the mulch from trees and plants too early. Ground bone is a gopd fertilizer to put around trees in setting them. Docking and eastrating maybe donewhen the lamb is a week old. Give your fruit trees a good soil. They can not feed and thrive on nothing. If you want to feed milk to a lamb use a tin can with a long spout like an oil can. “Management.” This one word has • more meaning on the farm than is generally suspected. How many tradesmen and men in other lines of business are bankrupted to one on the farm? The farm may not yield big profits, but is there any other calling so sure to give a man his living? A wash of fresh buttermilk is said to kill lice on hogs. T^he milk needs to be well rubbed into the bristles. Give the ewe clover hay if yon have it. bran, and crushed oats, and sho will provide the lamb with plenty ot milk. The world's available supply of wheat on March 1 was 12,750,000 quarters, against 14.000,000 quarters a year ago. -A well-managed creamery in a community’ will give the community a prosperity that it lias never before known. Prepare your ground well beforeplanting, cultivate well. and. barring accident, the harvest will not disappoint you. Plant the garden so that you can have a regular succession of vegetables.. Plant small fruit with the same end in view. The scrub animal lias a pedigree which by adverse circumstances has adownward instead of an upward tendency. Every man should try to furnish him' self with a?l necessary tools and not rely too much on the good nature of h l3 neighbors.