St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 August 1890 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - INDIANA. THE NEWS RECORD. EVENTFUL HAPPENINGS HERE AND THEREPolitical, Commercial and Industrial News f. om All Over tbe Land—Fires, Accidents and Crimes—The Gist of the Nows in a Few Finos. TO GUARD PUBLIC HEALTH, And Prevent the Introduction of Contagious Diseases. The Senate, on the 2Sth. passed the Senate bill to pension all surviving officers and men of Powell’s battalion of Missouri mounted volunteers raised during the war with Mexico. Mr. Aldrich ottered a resolution fixing the hour of meeting of the Senate at 11 a. m.. which was finally agreed to. with the understanding that the Senate should adjourn at 6 o'clock. During the discussion Mr. Ingalls said that the morning hour should hist two hours daily for the consideration of business on the calendar. lie said that as soon as the tariff bill, the appropriation bills and the election Bill were passed Congress would undoubtedly adjourn promptly. Mr. Coleman, of Louisiana, introduced in the House a bill to create a Bureau of Health and to prevent the introduction and extension of contagious and infectious diseases in the United States. The bill authorizes the President to appoint a Chief Commissioner of Health at a salary of 85,000 per annum, who shall be under the Secretary of the Interior., and who shall hold his office until seventy years of age, inless’ removed by the President. The President is also an horized to appoint a Health Commission of twenty members, divided as follows: Five Commissioners for the yellow fever section and three each for the following sections: Cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, typhoid fever and scarlet fever, each Commissioner to receive a salary of 82.000 per annum. The commission is to designate five of their number to be known as the ••Quarantine Commission.” The bill appropriates 8100,000 to pay th'e first ye: salaries and the expenses of the Comm sion. The. bill was referred to the Committee on Commerce. THE NATIONAL GAME. Standing of th“ Clubs in the Six Leading Organ’za’ions Players. W. L. Vc. National. W. L. Pc. Boston 47 29 .61SPhiladelp’a.54 27 .660 Brooklyn... .49 35 .583 Brooklyn .. .51 24 .637 New York. ..43 36 .541 Boston 52 30 .635 Chicago 43 36 .5441 Cincinnati... 47 32 .595 Philadelp’a. .43 38 .531 Chicago 41 37 .524 Pittsburg... .33 40 .451 New York.. .35 48 .422 Cleveland.. .33 42 .140 Cleveland. . .22 56 . 282 Buffalo 19 54 .262:Pittsburg. ■ .18 61 .228 American. W. L. ^9c. j Western. W. L. pc. Louisville. ..47 29 .618-Minneapolis 46 28 .621 St. L0ui5....44 33 .571 Milwaukee. .45 28 .616 Rochester.. .43 33 .565 Kansas City.4l 31 .569 Athletic 44 35 .556 Denver....'.4o 34 .510 Columbus. ..37 43 .462 Sioux City.. 36 35 .507 Syracuse.. ..34 43 .441 Des Moines. 32 41 .438 Toledo 33 39 .458 Omaha 30 42 .416 Brooklyn .. .Si 53 .293) St. Paul 21 49 .300 111.-lowa. W. L. i J c Interstate. W. L. p c Ottumwa... 46 25 .647 Terre Haute 11 4 .733 Monmouth..4l 29 .585 Quincy 77 . 500 Dubuque.. ..37 31 .544 Burlington. ..6 9 ,400 Ottawa 37 33 .528 Evansville. ...6 6 .5 )0 Aurora 37 33 .528 Peoria 2 6 .250 Cdr Rapids.3s 34 .507 Joliet 26 45 .366 Sterling 20 49 .337| EXCURSIONISTS KILLED. Collision Between Steamers Near Baltimore. A special from Baltimore says: The steamer Virginia collided with the steamer Louise between Steelton and Fort Carroll, and, it is known that at least eight of the Louise’s passengers are killed and missing, while a number of others are seriously injured. The Virginia is blamed by the passengers on the Louise. The latter is an excursion boat, and was on her way from Colchester with about 150 people. Just after passing Fort Carroll it met the Virginia on its way from the city to Norfolk. It expected the Virginia to pass it, but instead the big vessel came along head on and struck near the wheel-house, tearing out the entire side and leaving a hole eight feet deep through which the water ‘ poured as the V ginia pulled out! The , names of five of the dead are: Mri. Ma- I halia Marshall, Charles Grenzer, Daniel Kopp, Mrs. Howard Keizer, William Riegel. TO HONOR ERICSSON'S MEMORY King Oscar of Sweden to Fittingly Receive the Remains of the Inventor. Says a recent telegram from New York: The Swedish Executive Commit- ; tee in charge of the arrangements for the removal of the remains of the late Capt. Ericsson has received a communication from King Oscar of Sweden stating that he was taking an active inter- ' est in the final interment of the remains of the late naval inventor, and that when they reached the country of his birth he would see that they were received with all the honors usually awarded to a Swedish duke or admiral. The Sea Wing Wreck. The Goverment investigation has de- : veloped the facts that Captain Wetheren, ; of the ill-fated steamer Sea Wing, failed to properly guard against accident, and there is no record of his license as master. One man testified that lie and others put on life-preservers, but the ! captain ordered them taken off for fear . of frightening the ladies. To Become a Recluse. Miss Kate Drexel, the Philadelphia heiress who entered the Pittsburg Convent of the Sisters of Mercy last spring, remains firm in her determination to bebome a reeluse. She is engaged in teaching with the sisters, and will continue the work the coming year. Reports that she had been sent to another house of the order prove unfounded. Freight Made the Stamps Come High. Geoure L. Thompson, Postmaster at Warren, Wyo., has been requested to resign by Postmaster General Wanamaker. It is claimed that Thompson has been charging live cents each for two-cent stamps, telling patrons that the high rates of freight rendered it impossible to sell them for less money. Overcome by Gas Two farmers named Dimcanson and Patterson wore overcome by gas while repairing an old well at Rossburn. Manitoba, and both were brought to the surface dead. Dimcanson was a wealthy Scotchman recently arrived from the old country, and was going into farming extensively. Sharing the Profl s Ar Joliet, Uh. the employes of the Illinois Steel Company received one per cent, on the;.’ salaries, the first installment under the urolit sharing scheme.

CURRENT HaI^ENINGS. ' EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Annie Goodwin, a cigarette girl, shown by her picture to have been of rare ' beauty, was tortured to death in several deus in Harlem, N. Y. Her lover paid for her killing, and a medical practitioner ’ handy at such work was bribed to do the job. When it xvas done the doctor, over r 70 years old, carried the body of his victim down four flights of stairs in the dead of night and took it away in his carriage—where, nobody knows. 1 Building operations in New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City are nearly at a standstill, caused by a boycott that has been placed on certain brick-yards the owners of which are members of the Brick Manufacturers' Association. Residents of Paterson, N. J., especially those who profess the Roman Catholic religion, were startled by the exposure of a number of men, who, clad in the garb of Catholic priests, it is claimed, have for some time past been victimizing the members of that church. From present appearances it looks as if the men have never been ordained, and it is not at all certain that they were even members of the Catholic Church. Immediately after their first appearance they began in a systematic manner to look for subscriptions for the college “missionary” work. The Corning mill of the Laflin & Rand powder works at Mountain View, N. J., blew up, instantly killing two workmen who were employed in the building and entirely wrecking the place. Andrew J. Fanning, of New York, has been arrested by the police of that city on suspicion of knowing something about the death of Annie Goodwin, who ■was killed by a criminal operation. A cyclone, the first of any considerable importance within memory in New England, and one equalingin destructive power those so frequently reported from ! Western communities, visited South Lawrence, Mass., and in fifteen minutes had killed eight people, seriously in jur d rom fifteen to twenty, slightly injured at least twenty more, cut a swath through a thickly populated section 20(1 feet wide and a mile long, rendered many people homeless, destroyed or greatly damaged «ome seventy-five or one hundred buildings, mostly dwelling houses, leveled a beautiful square of over .’>oo trees, and entailed a property loss estimated at §IOO,OOO, all of which was uninsured against damage by wind and storm. WESTERN HAI-FENINGS. A four-story brick house known as the John Christie tenement was burned at Cincinnati, and a family of four, father, mother, and two children, were cremated while rescuers labored around them. The dead and the injured, so far as learned, are as follows: Dead—Solo- ' mon Menski; Mrs. Menski, his wife; Eva Menuki, a 12-year-old daughter; Erran Menski, a 7-year-old son. Injured—Gas ! Hitzwell, Eva Misses, Mary Knsseneur. Os the injured the first two are likely to die. while the last named h is chances of recovery. Intflligince has reached Fargo of a cyclone near Clifford, in the southwestern part of Traill County. Details are I meager. The only thing learned is that the storm struck Bowen, ( lifford and Galesburg, about twelve miles northwest of Hunter, in the southern portion of j Tia 11 and in the northern part of Cuss County, Minnesota. It whs a regulation cyclone, tearing and twisting across the country, leveling buildings and destroying crops. Five ; ersons were killed ! outright, and a man and his wife probably fatally injured near Clifford. The Illinois General Assembly organ-' ized in special ses-ion at Springfield, on ’ on the 23d, for Columbian Fair legisla- I tion. In the House, where the Republican caucus nominees were chosen for officers, the Democrats raised objections to three membeis and also to the elec- : tion of the Speaker by a quorum majori- : ty, but their objections were overruled, | I snd a protest was ordered spread upon the minutes. A message from the GovI ernor was read, sett ng forth the necessity : of the session, and urging speedy com- I pletion of the work projected. No bills : being ready for presentation, both houses ! adjourned for the day. Criminal negligence on the part of a 1 flagman on the Rock Island Railway caused a collision on that road near Willard, Kan., a passenger train running into ‘ a freight. A number of passengers and i trainmen were injured, but no one was , killed. Harry' Maynard touched off a firecracker in Horn & Carroll’s grocery store at Red Key, Ind. A spark flew into a : keg of powder, which exploded, com- , pletely wrecking the building. Out of . twenty men in the store at the time seven were seriously injured, two of them fa- j tally. The flouring mill of Mead Brothers at North Jackson, Ohio, was completelywrecked by the explosion of a boiler. ■ George Mead, the engineer, and William ; Thomas, an employe, were killed instantly, and William Mikesell probably : fatally injured. The boiler had been in I । use ten ye<rs. I Near Golden, Col., the bodies of Mrs. E. IL Able and Miss Ethel Drake, who j were drowned by a cloudburst, were rei covered. ' The Lake Shore and M chigan Southern track-laying crews have discovered two good-sized veins of iron ore near : Mishawaka, Ind. One of the ve ns is nearly three feet thick and the other two feet The ore is said by experts to be reasonably fine. Mandaville Ault, driven insane by the death of his child and by sickness, shot and killed his wife and then hanged himself at Centerville, Ohio. Recent losses by fire in Spokane Falls aggregate §200,000. Incendiarism is suspected. Steps are being taken to secure a better water supply. William Lipp, who was shot at the Volkxfreund office, Cincinnati, by John Dickas, a fellow compositor, because he had been constantly “kidded” by him, ; died at the city hospital after thirty--1 eight hours of intense suffering. The charge against Dick s will now I e changed to murder. Lipp was thirty years of age and leaves a wife and three children. At Pierre, S. D., Attorney General Dollard rendered an opinion that the maintenance of a place where liquor is drank is a violation of the law : nd the seller must prove that he is not violating . the law. I It s reported that the population of Colorado is about 400,000, as compared

with 194,327 in 1880. This is n gain or 100 per cent, which is large, but does not equal the gain of 3#7 per cent, between 1870 and 1880. It is enough, however, to give the State two members of Congress instead of one. A thunderstorm at Jacks Valley, Nev., upheaved rocks, threw sand one j hundred feet in the air, uprooted trees, I dug cavities in the earth ten feet deep, and killed two Piute Indians and many animals. Wallace, Idaho, the groat mining j camp of the Cour d’Alene mining dis- I trict, has been completely destroyed by fire. Tim fire is reported to have started I in the upper end of the town and it is i thought the entire business portion of I j Wallace has been destroyed. The loss is i estimated at $500,000. Mrs. Rowell Howard, wife of a ■ well-to-do farmer near St. Joseph, Mo., : committed suicide by blowing the top of ; her head off with a shot-gun. Peter Theobald, aged 19, was ' stabbed and killed at a birthday puffy in Hamilton, Ohio, by John lluacke, an uninvited guest, ‘ SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. J. 11. Cummins, a prominent resident of Pittsboro, Texas, was stabbed to death by Constable Creed Porter. Bad blood had existed between the parties for some time. They met, and Porter gave Cum- j mns the lie. Cummins knocked Porter ; । down, when the latter drew his knife and used it with fatal effect. Major Thomas W. Doswell, of Bullfield, Hanover County, Vn., died in Richmond, last -week. With the death of Major Doswell about the last of the j prominent old turfmen passes away. Major Doswell had been prominent on the turf for nearly halt' a century. At a picnic given at Pilot Point, Texas, a large numbar of people were poij soned by ice cream made poisonous by l staying too long in the cans. Fifteen ! persons will die. No names are obtains- । ; ble. The Rev. Robert Laird Collier, one of | the most widely known Unitarian di- i vines in this country, died nt his conn- i try homo, The Everglades, situated ' about twelve miles from Salisbury. Md. | An Englishman named J. F. Farrell was shot and killed by an unknown party at Middlesborough, Ivy., and the body : laid across the railroad truck, where it : was afterward run over by a tram. A careful canvass of the business I community of *on, Ga., revealed not i a single firm in favor of the Northern ' boycott in case the force bill passes. At Chattanooga, Tenn., a similar feeling was I displayed. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. j ' The House Committee on Rules has ! agreed to report in n modified form, with a favorable lecommendatlon, the : resolution intro lueed by Representative! Cooper, of Indiana, providing for an in- : , vestigation ot charges made nunn-t Commissioner Raum, of the I’en-ion Office. The resolution provides that the i investigation shall be conducted b« a ' I select committee of five. Mr. Cooper's ; resolution is ns follows: Wiu.m vs, Reports are being widely circulated ' through the newspapers, reflecting upon the I . liiai.ngoment <f the buuau of imiisione, in which it is charged 1. That the presi nt coinniisuioner of pwndou* I lias been engaged in selling tocqituin employes , of the pension office shares of stock in a cerpo- ' ration or company of which he is president. । : which w-»s organized for the purpose of Intro- I ! ducing a patent refrigerator wliicb it is claimed * ; is impracticable and worthl as. and that in con- , ; sideration of such purposes said employes are ! promoted in office; find ] 2. That said Commissioner of Pensions bus I recently, bv an unjust and partial ruling, al- , i vanced and caused to be taken out of their or- 1 , I dor many thousands of the claims of a certain | attorney residing in the city of Washington. ' 1 aud that in consideration thereof said attorney i has become surety on the note of said Commia- I j sioner in a bank in the city of Washington for I tlm sum <4 $25,000 : therefore B<- it resoh tt]. That the Committee on PeuI Bions be and they lire hereby directed to inquire ' I concerning said charges and report to the j House. And for the purpose of making said investigation thorough and complete the said committee is hereby authorized to send for ; persons and papers, to administer oaths aud । take testimony. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The Minnesota Republicnn State Con- ’ vention met at St. Paul and placed the i following ticket in the field: Governor, William R. Merriam; Lieutenant Gover- I nor, Gideon S. Ives; Treasurer, Joseph Bobleter; Secretary of State, F, P. I j Brown; Auditor,!', j. McGuire; Attorney i ! General, Moses E. Clapp; Clerk of Su- I preme Court, C. B. Holcomb. The plat- J lorm favors reciprocity with South ! America, denounces all monopolies and ; . trusts, approves the Australian ballot j ; system for the whole State, iecognizes ; i the services of the soldier, and indorses i । the disability pension law introduced and | championed by Senator Davis. The Wisconsin Prohibitionists met at i Madison and adopted a platform favoring I woman suffrage, recognizing the Women’s I Christian Temperance Union, declining ' to indorse the Bennett educational law, ' । and insisting upon State and nat onat i I piohibition. The following ticket was I I then nominated: Governor—Charles Alexander, of Eau Claire. | Lieutenant Governor—W. R. Nethercut, of : Milwaukee. Secretary cf State —George C. McKerrow, of । Waukesha. Treasurer—Robert Fargo, of Lake Mi*s. Attorney General—T. E. X’an Keulen, of Osh- ' kosh. , Superintendent of Public Instruction —Henry I Sumner, of Outagamie. Railroad Commissioner—J. Q. Black, of Rich- I ; land. Insurance Commissioner —Andrew Peterson, I ’ of Green. The Nebraska Republic n State Con- ; ■ vention at Lincoln finally adjourned after ' placing the following ticket in nomina- | ' tion: Governor, L. D. Richards; Secretaiy of State, J. C. Allen of Red Willow; ! State Auditor, Thomas H. Benton of ■ Dodge; Treasurer, Capt. J. E. Hill of I Gage; Attorney Gener I. H. II Hastings «f Saline; Land Commissioner, George । Humphrey of Custer; Stale Superintendent, A. K. Goudy of Webster. Recent Congressional nominations: • Sixth Pennsylvan a District, John B.Rob- ; | insou (Rep.); Sixth Mississippi, T. R. I L Stockdale (Dem.), renominated. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The rapid extension of Russia’s rail- : road system through Siberia to the Pai citic coast, and the menace it conveys i I toward Chinese interests, at last have I aroused the Celestials from their con- , uervatism. It is reported that China in--lond^ to borrow §45,000,000 in this conn- : try for railroad purpo-es, and that in addition to the road projected from ; Pekin southward others will be laid out i

in Manchooria to offset the designs ol Russia. The appearance of danger evidcntly has alarmed the Chinese, and from present prospects the empire soon will ! be engaged actively in railroad construe- I tion. FRESH AND NEWSY. The mysterious robbery of the Bank of Nova Scotia, in Woodstock, has caused a great deal of excitement. The sum of §40,000 was taken from the vault, and the accountant of the bank, Robert G. Sniders, is locked up, charged j with the theft. Ar a conference in Topeka between | general officers of the Santa Fe Road amj a triin men’s grievance .-'emmittey is was agreed that conductors should receive a ■ uniform salary of §125 per month end j that they were to receive pay for 100 uAi.ce I for nil runs of le-s than 100 miles. The Centropolis Car and Macb'"-s Company, of Centropolis, Mo., and Da^ •ton. Pa., has made an assignment, owing §IOO,OOO. The nominal assets lira figured at §185,000. A dispatch from Pembroke, eighty-si* miles above Ottawa, ontho Upper Ottawa j river, says that some miscreant cut the | rope holding to the bank a raft of logs on • which twenty-two raftsmen were stopping । over night. The raft with all asleep oq i board drifted out into the river and int i ! the rapids a mile b< low, and when thos7 i on board were awakened, they were bein । tossed about among the rocks. Os th( twenty-two only two escaped to shore No traces of the bodies of the twsntj I have been found. Ir is reported that the to'al stock o, ■ unsold pig iron in the country June 3( : amounted to 403,450 tons, o ' less thaq three weeks' supply at the present rate oj consumption. Recent deaths: At Cheyenne, Myo, M'. W. Corlett, ex-dolegute to Congrest end attorney for the Union Pacific, aged 48; at Portland, Me., Edward Payson, the author of ‘‘.Law of Equivalents,” awed 77; at New York. Patrick J. Sharkey, well known in the sporting fraternity one of the backers of Kilruin in , his fight with Sullivan. The steamship Egypt, of the Nationa Line, from New York for Liverpool, caught fire and was abandoned at sea. The crow, after being two unys adrift in the bouts, were rescued. 640 head of cattle were burned. Lida Lewis Watson, the Now England poetess of piHsion, has renounced the Congregational faith and Liken up the Roman Catholic in order to becon" engaged to I rumis Washington Higgins, a we dthy Virgin an. They m er met until within a fortnight, but have corresponded for over n year. An English syndicate has (U.xred §7,1'110,1 00 for Knapp, Stout A Uo.’sjvep- i erties in lowa aud Wisconsin. The | property consuls of several large mills and valuable tracts of pine land. Nathanial R. Loi ke, father of tbs famous “Petroleum V. Nasby,” died at his home at Toledo. Ohio, aged 97. He was • onsidered the oldest Methodist in the I States and was one of the founders of the Republican party. 11 is understood a syndic it •of wealthy I men of St. I.ouib. Mo., have purchase I 20,‘H'b acres of ground from the Mexican Government not a hundred miles from | the City of Mexico, in one of tho many fertile valleys tn it abound .ii that portion of ttie country, , and .utend to settle it with negroes ! from the United States. The Government has promised protection from the natives and given other guarantees. J. M. Turner, the negro politician and lender, has informed the syndicate th it should they secure the land aud offer inducements which would clearly show to the negroes that their condition would be : changed for the bettor in the new home, he could lead a large colony and settle the valley at short notice. There is considerable excitement ■ over the discovery that leprosy has made ! its appearance in several remote parts of | the Dominion hitherto unaffected, says a ; dispatch from Ottawa, Ont. Hereto- | fore the dread disease was believed to have been confined within the limits of the Lazaretto at Traeadie. Dr. Smith, i the medical officer at the Lazaretto, is i now investigating the cases lately reported on the Island of Anticosti. It is believed to have been the result of intermarriage, and has secured a strong foot- j hold, spreading out to the mainland. It appears that an infected family went from Port Mansfell, Caraquet, to the I Island of Anticosti some years ago. The Superintendent of the Census has | written a letter to the Secretary of the j Interior recommending a recount of the > population of St. Paul and Minneapolis. | LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. CHICAGO. Castle— Prime $ 4.50 @ 5.00 Fair to Good 4.00 @ 4.50 Common 3.00 Kt 4.00 Hogs— Shipping Grades 8.50 & 4,00 Hhelp 8.50 @ 5.50 Wheat —No. 2 Red .92 lai .92’2 Cohn —No. 2 39JA@ ,40’ a Oats— No. 2 32 .O-.'a Rye—No. 2 50 .51 Butter— Choice Creamery 14 @ .16 Cheese —Full Cream, flats 07i£@ .08 Eggs —Fresh 13 @ .14 Potatoes— Early Ohio, per bu.. .85 & .95 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle —Shipping 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs— Choice Light 3.25 4.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 5.00 Wheat —No. 2 Red 86’Z@ .87^ Cons—No. 1 White 40 @2 .41” Oats— No. 2 White 41 & .41U ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.5) Hogs 3.50 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 90 @ .91 Corn— No. 2 375A@ .38 Oats— No. 2 35 ”<S ( 37 Rye —No. 2 50 .51 CINCINNATI. Hogs :.............. 3.00 @ 4.00 Wheat— No. 2 Red 875£i«i .88 Corn —No. 2 42 .43 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 38U® .39 1 /. MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring., 88U(® .89U> I Corn—No. 3 381i<S .3012 Oats— No. 2 White ... .36 .37” Rye —No. 1 A... .50 © .52 Barley— No. 2 .56 @ .58 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.00 I Sheep 3.00 & 4.75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 89 © .90 Corn— No. 2 Yellow ll'-z© .42'4 l Oats —No. 2 White 37'6© .38'4 TCT^DO. Wheat 92 <g! .93 | Corn —Cash 42 © .43 Oats— No. 2 White 35'6@ 3514 BUFFALO. Cattle —Good to Prime 3.75 J?-4.75 Hogs —Medium and Heavy 3.75 @ 4.25 Wheat— No. 1 Hard 1.00 @ lj)2 Corn— No. 2 44 @ 45 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle —Common to Prime.... 3.00 @ 4.53 Hogs— Light 3.75 4.25 Sheep— Medium to Good 3.50 @5 25 NEW YORK. Cattle ... 3.50 @475 Hogs >. 4.00 @ 453 Sheep 4,03 © 5.75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 9) @l.Ol Corn— No. 2 4(5 © As Oats— Mixed Western 38 @ .42

BLAINE VS SALISBURY, 1 ON SEAL FISHING IN THE BEHRING SEA. History of the Negotiations Between the United ' tates and Great Britain Kelatve $»• the Heal Vlsberioti—Socrotary Blaine'S Position. IWasbington special.] Following is tho official correspondence between Secretary Blaine aud Lord Salisbury, touching the seal fisheries of the Behring Sea, »ent to the House of Ilepresentatives by the President, in an- ; swer to the resolution introduced by Kepresentative Hitt, of Illinois: The correspondence bet ween Secretary Blainr and the new British minister began Jan. 22 ol tills year with a long letter from the Secretary to Sir Julian I’auncefote. This letter may l>e fairly taken as setting forth the position of the United States iu the controversy. The Secretary says : “In the opinion of the President the Canadian vessels arrested and detained in the Behring Sea ware engaged in apursuit that was in itself contra bonos mores, a pursuit which of necessity involves a serious and permanent injury to the rights of the government and people of the United Slates. To establish this ground it is not necessary to arguo the question of the extent ami nature of the sovereignty of this Government over the waters of the Behring sea. It is not necessary to explain, certainly not to define, the powers and priv- | lieges ceded by his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia in the treaty by which the Alaskan territory was transferred to the United States. The weighty considers* " growing out of the acquisition of that territory, with all the rights on land and sea inseparably connect- , , d therewith, may be safely left out of view, while the grounds are set forth upon which this Government rests its justification for the : action complained of by her Majesty s Govern- ! ment.” Tho Secretary then speaks of the value of the seal fisheries which were controlled by Russia without interference or question u> ii tho cession of Alaska to tho United States in 1867, This undisturbed possession continued to tho United States until 1886, passing whaling vessels abstaining from seal capture. Ho says that this uniform avoidance of all attempts to toko fur seal in those waters had been a constant > e 'ognit ion of the right held and exercised. first by Russia and subsequently by this Government. It had also been tho recognition of a fact now held beyond denial or doubt that the taking of seals iu the open Sea rapidly leads to th ir extinction. The Secretary, continuing, says that this is proved not only by expert testimony but by the total destruction of ail real fisheries < xcept the on in the Behring sea. which the Government of the United States is now trying to preserve, not altoge.her for the us • of tho Amtrii an people. but for the use of the world at large. He ie< ites tho successful efforts of the United States Government lo improve and preserve the fisheries resulting in th • , ayment of more than t-b1.0f.000 to English laborers for the preparation of tho sealskins and the elevation to crvililation of natives of Alaskan islands. He says : “So great has been the injury to the fisheries from the irregular and destructive slaughter of seals in the open waters of the Behring Sea by Canadian vessels, that, whereas tie Government had allowed 100. to bo taken annually for a s< ries of years, it is now compelled to reduce the nuiuler to riO.OOo. If four years of this violation of natural law and neighbors’rights has nxluce-l the annual slaughter of seal by 40 percent., it is easy to seo bow short a period will be required to work the total destruction of the fisheries. ■ I'his Government has been ready tc concede ranch iu order to adjust all differences of view, anil has, in the judgment of the President, alreadv prop< sed a solution not only equitable but generous. Thus fa" h>r Maiesty s Government has dvcllnrxl to accept the proposal of the United States. The I’nssident now awaits with deep interest, not uumixed with solicitude, any propo•itiou for reasonabls adjustment wblcli her Majestv’s Government may submit. The forcible r slstuuce to which this Government is con-straim-i iu he Behring Sea is. iu the President a judgment, demanded, not oulv by the nAeessity of defending the traditional, long-established rights of tho United States, but also the rights of good government aud good morals the world over. "Nor is the Government of tho United Sta’eg dispo ed to exercise in those jarssessious any less power er authority than it war willing to c neede to the imperial government es Rus-irk when Its sovereignty extended over them. Tho President is jwisuufffd thnl all friendly nations will concede to the United States the same right Hand privileges on the lauds and in tho waters of Alaska which the same friendly nations alw vs conceded to the Empire of Russ a.” Th« Marquis of Salisbury, under data of May 21 las', tn a letter to the British Minister, replies to Mr. Blaine's arguments: “It requires something more than a mere declaroti n that the Government or citizens of the Unit j Mates, or even other countries iuterested in the seal trade, are losers by a certain course of proceeding to render that course an immoral one. “Her Maeeaty’e Government would deeply regret that the l ursuft cf fur seals on ’he high seas by British vessels should involve even the slightest injury to the people of the United State:;, If the case be proved they will bo ready to consider what, mea ;ures can be properly taken for the remedy of such injury, but they would be unable on that ground to depart from a principle on which Lee commerce on the high seas depends." Bavs the Marquis in conclusion : “The negotiations now being carried on at Washington prove the readiness of her Majesty's Government to consider whether any special international agreement is necessary for the protection of the fur-seal industry. In its absence they are unable to admit that the case put forward on behalf of the United States affords any sufficient justification for the forcible action already taken by them against peaceable sub e?ts of her Majesty engaged in lawful operations । n the high seas." The thirtieth and last letter of the mass of eorresjiondence. which would, if printed entire, till over twenty newspaper columns, was ad- , dressed by Mr. Blaine to Sir Julian Pauncefote from Bar Harbor. In it the Secretary says: “I am instructed by the President to say that the United States is willing to consider all the ! proceedings of April 16, 1888, as cancelled, so far as American rights may be concerned. This ! Government will ask Great Britain to adhere only to the agreement made between Lord Salis- ' bury and Mr. Phelps on the 25th of February, I 1885. That was an agreement made directly be- ' tween the two Governments and did not include 1 the rights of Russia. Asking Lord Salisbury te adhere to the agreement of February 25 we leave tho agreement of April 16 to be maintained, it I maintained at all. by Russia, for whose cause ' and for whose advantage it was particularly j designed. INO NEWS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. ■ All Telegraphic and Mail Communication with Salvador Cut Oft. The Department of State has as yet i received no confirmation of the rumored war between Salvador and Guatemala, and there is no one on duty who has any information on the subject, writes a Washington correspondent. Since hostilities opened between the republics Guatemala h is assumed a most dictatorial position, not only toward her unruly sister, but toward the other Central American States. It is alleged at the Department of Sti te that the reason for the apparent delinquency on the part of Minister Misner in k eping the department property informed is that not only are the telegraph j wires cut, but that the ordinary postal I facilities have I eon abridged. Whether mil tary espionage would be extended to diplomatic dispatches sent by an officer of a f iendly government, is not known. 4t all events the summary methods adopted have interfered with the hereto- । fore easy communication between Guate--1 m ila aud the United States. । News in Brief. ' Immfnsf quantities of apricots are being canned in California. It is said that the city of Ivicbmond, Va , with 109,000 inhabitants, has no city hospital or public dispensary. A SINGL 1 ’ Birthday party at Beading, I Pa., did service for thiea relatives who were born on tho stme Gay of the month. The Now Aork National Guard is having its first drill under th« manual and code of the field sigua l service. A squad made some railroad people hot the other i day by accidentally stopping a West Shore fast express.

THE SENATE AND IIOUSE> WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW-.S MAKERS. Proceedings cu the Senate and House opfl Representatives — Important Measures® lliscwssed and Acted Upon—Gist of the 4Bl Business. * At the conclusion of morning busineis the .« Senate, on motion of Mr. Dawes, took up the.® Indian appropriation bill on the 22J. The Com- H mittee on Pensions reported favorably the bills S to pension the widows of Gen. John C. Fremont and Gen. George B. McClellan at the rate ot ® 8'2,090 per annum each. Tho House began vot- -B Ing on the “original package" bill as soon as the reading of the journal had been concluded, and ß the substitute for the Senate “original package" B bill, as amended, was passed by a vote of 176 to B 88. Following is tha substitute: “That whenever any article of commerce is imported & into any State from any other State or Territory B or foreign nation and there held or offered B for sale, tho same shall then be subject to the B laws of such State ; provided that no discrimiaa- 8 tion shall be made by any State in favor of its ■ citizens against those’of other States and Terri- ■ tories in respect to tho sale of any article of 'W commerce, nor in favor of its own products B ■gainst those of like character produced in other 3 States or Territories : nor shall the transports- 9 tion of commerce through any State be ob- ■ slrueted except in the necessary enforcement of' 9 the health laws of such State.” A favorable re- 9 port was ordered on a House bill for Ihe relief ■ of soldiers of the late war who were mustered 9 out or killed before their names bad been placed I on the rolls of the army. After unimportant business, the Senate re- 3 sumed consideration of the Indian appropria- ■ tion bill on the 23d. A paragraph appropriat- 9 i g 88,000 to Indians in Minnesota (full and. a mixed blood) heretofore belonging to tha Meda- I wakanton band of Sioux Indians, and who 9 have severed their , tribal relations, gave 1 rise to a discussion, in the course of I which Mr. Dawes gave an interesting history | of these Indians. He said they had given I not ice to the whites of the intended Sioux mas- I sacra in Minnesota in 1862, and had aided in 1 protecting the white women and children on I that occasion. 9he President sent to the Senate | the following nominations : To be Envoys Ex- ] traordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of I the United States pursuant to act of Congress I approved July 14, 1890: Thomas H. Anderson, of I Ohio mow Minister Resident aud Consul Gener- j al at La Pas), to Bolivia : Clark E. Carr, of Illi- 1 nois mow Minister Resident- and Consul 1 General at Cophenhagen), to Denmark; John a D. Washburn, of Massachusetts (now Min- I ister Resident n.nd Consul General at | Berne), to Switzerland; John L. Stevens, ] of Maine (now Minister Recident at J Honolulu), to the Hawaiian Islands; George j Maney, of Tennessee (now Minister Resident at I Montevideo), to Paraguay. The House resumed ■ consideration of the bankruptcy bill. Mr. Lacey j (Iowa) submitted the report or the Committee | on Elections in the West Virginia contested j election case of McGinnis vs. Alderson. The I report, which finds in favor of the contestant, I was ordered printed and laid over. The President sent to the House of Representatives, in answt r to the resolution of Representative Hitt, the official correspondence between the Government of the I nited States and the Government of Great Britain touching the seal fisheries of tin- Behring Bea. The correspondenoa includes thirty separate papers, beginning with a letter from Mr Edwards, First ^Secretary of Legation and Charge d'Affaires after Minister West's recull, du ed Aug. '24, 1889, aiid closing with one from Secretary Blaine to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, dated July 19, 1890. In his accompanying letter of transmittal to the President, Secretary Blaine, under date of Bur Harbor, Juh 19. regrets tho delay in transmission winch tl»e President directed on the 11th, and Bays that tho correspondence is still in progress. The Senate passed the following bills on the 24th: House bill for the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River ; Senate bill for the construction of a bridge across the Willamette River at Albany, Oregon; Sena’ebill to provide an American register for tne steamer Mannion. Consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was then resumed. The amendment appropriating SIO,OOO for the prosecution of a suit in North Carolina to enforce certain rights of the Cherokee Indians in that State was modified so as to merely appropriate 85,000 to pav the legal expenses already incurred in the suit. ’ Agreed to The House proceeded to vote upon the committee amendments to the bankruptcy bill. In view of the fact that the bill had never been real in the House, Mr. McMillin (Tenn. > demanded a separate vote on each amendment, and much time was thus consumed. The amendments are principally verbal and informal in their character. On motion of Mr. Reilly (Pad, an amendment was adopted enforcing the laws of the States giving wages for labor a preference. The Torrey bankruptcy bill was then pasaed with uuimportauo amendments—yeas, 117 ; nays, 84. Is the Senate, on the 25th, Mr. Aldrich asked that the formal reading of thetariff bill be dispensed with, and that the bill be read by paragraphs for consideration. Unanimous consent was given, aud Mr. Vance proceeded to address the Senats. Senator Call introduced a resolution, instructing the Interstate Commerce Committca to inquire and report to the Senate whether any arrangements have been made between the persons owning elevators and the transportation companies in any of the Western States which will have the effect, or which are intended to have the effect, of preventing the storage ol grain and of compelling the farmers to sell their grain at such prices as may be offered. They are also to inquire if such an arrangement has been made in any of the cotton-pro-ducing States. The resolution instructs the committee to report a bill which will require elevator companies and others engaged in the storage of grain to accept such grain when offered to the extent of their storage capacity. The House went into committee of the whole for consideration of tho sundry civil appropriation bill with Senate amendments. The Postoffiee Committee agreed upon a substitute in lieu of a number of pending bills adverse to lotteries, and ordered it to be reported to the House. The substitute prohibits lottery circulars aud tickets, lists of drawings, money or drafts for purchase of lottery tickets, or newspapers containing lottery advertisements or drawings from being carried iu the mails or delivered by carriers; aud a penalty of a fine not exceeding $5,000 aud imprisonment not exceeding one year is to be imposed upon anv person depositing such matter in the mails. The Postmaster General is also to be authorized upon evidence of the existence of a lottery or gift enterprise to cause registered letters directed to the company to be stamped ‘‘Fraudulent” and returned to the senders, aud he may also forbid the paym‘ iit of money-orders addressed to a lottery or gii*-enterpnse company. In the Senate, on the 26ih, Mr. Cullom offered a resolution, which was agreed to, requesting the President to transmit to the Senate all correspondence not already’ submitted to Congress and now on file in the State Department touching the efforts macle by the Government to obtain a modification or repeal of tne decree of the French Government of 1831 prohibiting theimportation into France of American pork and kindred American products. A bill was passed granting a P e ”®'? n _ ot $2,000 a year to the widow of the late Maj. Gen. Crook. Bills were also passed giving life pensions to Mrs. Fremont and to Mrs. McClellan. In the House, Mr. McKinley of Ohio, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution directing the Speaker to appoint a committee of fix'e members to investigate the charges brought against Pension Commissioner Raum by Representative Cooper of Indiana. Adopted. After this matter had been disposed of the House went into committee of the whole (Mr. Burrows of Michigan in the chair) on the Senate ameudluents to the sundry civil bill. OSCAR WILDE’S CYNICISM. Punctuality is the thief of time. .Religion consoles some. Its mysteriesDiive all the charms of a flirtation. Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Laughter is not a bad beginning foi a friendship and is the best ending for , one. i Young men want to be faithful and. : are not: old men want to be faithless | and cannot. The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary Jor । both parties. i marry because they arc tired, ' women because they are curious. Both । are disappointed. I The only difference between a caprice 1 and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. I Nothing can cure the soul but th® senses, just as nothing can cure the 1 senses but the soul.