St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 March 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT, % WALKBRTON, . : L oINBLMA .-:—?——-___—-—________,——-—_____-= x Ww Plao N THE CYCLONE'S POWER. PROBABLE DISASTER ON THE : OCEAN. England Expericnces the Worst St rm She Has Ever Kiuown—An Important Commercial Meeting at Denver—A List of Destructive Firss. e | ELEMENTS WREAK RUIN. By a Cyclone in Mississippi Lives Are Lost and Much Preporty Is Destroyed. Rerorrs from Okolona, Lexington, Brandon, Meridian. Pickens, Quitman, and Columbus, Miss., tell of great havee by floods and a cyclone. At Okolona, Minnie Brady, a young colored schoolteacher, while standing on her gallery viewing the storm, was struck by light- ~ ning and instantly killed. Bridges, both ~ Wood & and iron, were washed away, pistllics were washed in the 04dS in many places, rendering them impassable. Farming operations have been entirely suspended, and the land that had formerly been plowed is badly washed, thus delaying planting[ two or three weeks. Fences along tho creeks are completely gone. Fn‘rmors‘ are discouraged. At Brandon every house on Senator Donald's place was ‘ blown away, and he and his wife were - seriously injured. The splendid residence of David L. Wison, near Brandon, together with every building. including cotton, gin, barn and tenant houses, was bl wn away, leaving only the floors and foundations. Mrs. Wilson and her invalid son were hurt. A cyclone in Mad- ' ison County caused destruction of life and property. It pa=zsed from there into { Attala County, near Newport, where houses were blown down and four negroes k lled. ENGLAND’S COLD WAVE. The Severest Blizzard on Record Raging in the North and Souwh. A TERRIFIC blizzard prevaiied throughout the southwest portion of England. The storm was the severest on record in that part of the country. Many small vessels were wrecked off the coast. The loss of live stock is also reported to be heavy. A snowstorm raged in Scotland and the north of England for a week past, while in the south of England the weather was mild. Then the gale, which was totally unexpected, advanced in a northeasterly dire: tion across the Bay o’ Biscay. In London it was fearful; t. re was an unuc al rise of the tide. Al the Channel steamers had boister us passages. The Dover mail boat nearly sank in the harbor. Her paddle-box was completely smashed. The mailservice steamer could not cross the Channel. LOST IN PUGET SOUND. Reports that the Little Steam-r Bueckeye Has Found:rad «IT is rumored at Seattle; Wash:, that the steamer Buckeye went down in the Sound with twenty passengers. The story is that the liuckeye, which is a small steamer, went into Edmunds loaded with markes vegetables The captain invited a party to go with Lkim on the trip across the Sound. The boat had reached the middle of the Sound, about dusk, when a storm came up. For an hour or more theras was a heavy gale. A laborersaw a light bobbing on the water for an hour ar so, a 'then disappear. The boat did not r arn to Edmonds, nd in the morning the shore near that place was covered with cabbages and wreckage. Died on an ¥ vated Train ‘ AT New Ycrk on the Second avenue train Conductor Bennett found a m;mi sitting in one of the cross scats with his head resting on his arm, which was | siretched along the top of the seat. “Get out!” cried IDennett, as he roughly shook the man up “Get out: do you h -ar?” he again repeated, and added emphasis this time in the way of an extra severe push. The man did not move. | Bennett, who could not see the man’s face, losing all patience, grabbed the reclining | man by the coat coliar and gave him a | whisk that landed him in the aisle on his | back. He started back in horror when he gazed on the face of the man. It was ] that of a corpse. Bennett did not wait tc take a second lookz. He yelled like an 1 Indian as he rushed outof the car. The ' decad man was identified as Benjamin E :rstein, 67 years o.d. ! Wiped C:.. by Fire. | Tae following property was destroyed by fire: At Omaha, Neb., the printing house of Gibson, Miller & Richardson; loss, $100,000; fully insured; at Montreal, Louis lortier's stationery store: damage, $43,000; insurance, $24,000: at Shelbyville, Tenn., warehouscs valued at $£50,900; at Boston, the works of the Samuel Hano Company, book-binders; loss, $69,000; at Albany, N. Y., the telephone exchange; loss, $30,600. Comm-reizl Congress AT Denver, Col., preparat'ons are being made for the trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, to be held there |} May 19. It will b> composed of delegates from all the States and Territories \ west of the Mississippi River, and is intended to unite the people of that region in efforts to secarc just national legislation. and to foster closer commercial r ‘ations. S Fate of Two 'uraway Boya. EvuGeNE FLY~NN and Thomas Ferguson, aged respectively 17 and 18, ran away from their homes at Pittsburg, Pa., with the evident intention of goinz to New York City. Ferguson’'s body was brought back to Yittsburg, while Flynn lies in a Harrisburg hospita', mortally wounded. The boys were run down by a train in the railroad yards at Harrisburg. Methedizt Boaok Cone rn. Tire Western Methodist Boolx Concern, of Cincinnati, will shortly erect adlitional buildings. The growth of this concern has been astonishing in the past seven years. In 1884 its net capital was $£414,857. In 1891 it stands in solid asgets £1,010,515. Meanwhile it has paid to general church funds nearly $130,000. This shows net earnings averaging more 1. an $103,000 per year. :

|EVENTS OF THE WEEK. f ; EASTERN OCCURRENCES. . Tue Hazleton, Pa., rescued miners are ; | improving. The company is seeking a ' | settlement with all disaster sufferers. THE schooner Elsic Smith, of Portland, Me., is reported lost with all on ' | board on the beach off Cape Cod, be- | tween Newcomb’s Hollow and Nausett. | .1 On board were eighteen men, and the | " | latest report is that twelve bodies have been washed ashore on the beach. ‘ SHAKSPEARE REEVES, a colored man | guilty of felonious assault, was hanged | at New Castle, Del. THREE men were killed by an explos- .| son of gas in a coal-mine at Shamokin, '| Pennsylvania. WiLLiAM Anmy Piercr, of Johnston, R. L, died while making a speech at a | fireman celebration in that town. The' cause of his death was heart failure. A spECIAL from Franklin, Pa., says: Thomas Moore, an old and prominent citizen of this place, shot and instantly killed his wife in a fit of insanity. He is now' a raving maniac and has been taken into custody. - TuEe First National Bank of Pittsburg, Pa., has made , wlic two letters received from a priest in Spain with refer- ' ence to treasure buried in TLuzerne County. Sig. Mateco, the Iletter says, | was one of the favorite courtiers of’ Alphonso de Bourbon. who was crowncd King of Spain as Alphonso XII. Mateo ! was sent to Paris on an important mission, for which he was given l,()()(),()()()i (fmncs. He was afterwards charged with having stolen the money. IHe os-’ caped to America, and is said to have ! buried his wealth in Liunzerne County. [ Tonese are anxious days for I’mnk| Fish, the Canandaigua, N. Y., murderer | sentenced to be executed by electricity | in Auburn Prison within the week com'nu'nvimr March 22. His attorrey has appealed to Gov. Hill to commute the lsuntvn('v to life imprisonment, and the Governor's decision will be announced in a few days. Fish spends his time playing his banjo, reading novels, and writing letters to his wife. He tells her ! that he is resigned and prepared for the ! worst. I AT Boston, Mass., William A. Haskell, | Vice President of the New York and | New England Railroad, died from 1):1‘-! ralysis, aged 49 years. He was originally ; assignee for the Potter Lovell Company. ' He was one of the active directors of the ! National Security Bank. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A suicipe of two young students of the Hebrew Union College occurred in Cincinnati. The young men were Isador ‘ H. Frauenthal and Ernst Sallinger. | They board¢d in the house of Max Scholtenfeldt, who heard a heavy fall in their room, and soon after another. Being unable to open the door, he got a police officer and broke in. They found | Frauenthal had shot h' self in the head. | Sallinger took the pistol and fired a ball I into his chest. He was alive when found, but died in a few minutes. Sa,llinzeri said they had agreed to die by theirown hands. : THE mystery suripunding t of C. A. Hegglungd;y-Prosident o ; Second National Bank, at McPherson, Kan., was partially cleared away by his | recovering consciousness and saying that i as he passed along Kansas avenue he | was confronted by a man who, in the | darkness, placed a pistol to his breast | and fired. He knew no more until con- | sciousness returned after being taken to ! his home. g Gov. WINANS is thought to be dying. | He has had hiccoughs for thirty-six { hours. A dispatch says; | ‘ Gov. Winans, of Michigan, has been as- ! flicted with hiccoughs, from which his i physicians have thus far been unable to |

give him more than | temporary relief. Unlike these attacks, which are usually the result of nervousness, the Governor's trouble returns after he has had long seasons of refreshing sleep. The attending physicians expressel consideraL ble alarm at the Governor's condition. . Phey -fear that there is something serious back

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lof the hiccoughs, because of their constant ‘ recurrence. In December last Gov. Winans was :very sick for several weeks with a stomach trouble, and the doctors apprehend that the present difticulty is due to the same cause. Thereis no con- | cealing the fact that both the Governor's physicians and his family fear that H:ui alarming feature of his illness has not yet fully appeared, and it is nowv improbable that he is afflicted with a fatal malady, and ' may never again enter upon the active discharge of duties. As tie abandonment of the military post at Phewenix, A. T., caused a feeling of general insccurity, a Dbill was introduced in the Legislature declaring Indians leaving San Carlos Reservation | with arms outlaws, and offering a reward of S2OO for every such Indian killed, the money to be paid at Corouer’s | | inquest upon proof that the Indian had | arms. s THe Supreme Court of Nebrazka ! overruled the demurrer in the quo war- | ranto case of ex-Governor Tlmym"‘ against Governor Boyd, and ordered that the attorneys for the relator file an answer in the case. E. SrAw, an organizer of the Patrons of Industry, defrauded a liveryman at Laporte, Ind. i A cave of unknown dimensions has | been discovered on the farm of Daniel Beem near Spencer, Ind. PAar O'Coxyor, who is the recognized leader of the O’Connor and Dill colony of ’ strip boomers in Kausas, is considerably | agitated over the fact, that (701121'(*8.4' took no action looking toopening up the Cherokee Strip. He has several hundred i families who have made every prepara- | tion to move into the sirip. He must | either find the n homes or pay back tul them their membership fees, which amount to a large sum. { For some time reperts have been in !circulutl«:n concerning wonderful onyx tdeposits in Pulaski and Crawford coun- [ ties, Missouri. A syndicate of St. Louis capitalists was formed, and their investizations led to the se-uring of an | option on a large body of land in which there are caves containing the onyx. ’ Mr. Guy H. Reynolds, of Rutliand, Vt., { | proprietor of the cnly exclusive onyx ] pelishing and dressing works in thel

T country, visited the deposits, and has pronounced them far beyond what he ever imagined existed. He explopad a Icave for a distance of two ang g half| miles. A company has beep “g | with $300,000 capital stock. My Reve| nolds says he will transfer his eptire plant to St. Louis. e Jonx OscAR TURLINGTON wag 'Théfij at Boonville, Mo., for the mupger o | Sheriff Cranmer, of Cooper Cm,m 4 | Turlington’s neck was broken, ol A year ago while going through Missourl Turlington was ordered from a fl‘eljht, oo g ] While jumping off the car he fired at tho brakemun and ran away. He wags grrested and lodged in Boonville jail. On the pight of June 14, as Sheriff Cranmer wag ypjock= ing his cell, Turlington drew a revolver and shot the Sheriff, Who died the pext day Tur}lngton escaped from the jall, but captured the following day a few m“ from Boonville. On the trial he was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged on Sept. 17. The case was taken on appeal to the Suprenie Court. Op Nov. 1 Turlington escaped from jail, bug was captured In Kentucky Nov. 12. On Jan. 27 last the Supreme Court rendered its decision sustaining the decision of the tpig] court | and fixing the date of the execution, = | IN a snow slide one-fourtk of a mile i below Alta, in Emery Gulch, Utah, nine |, men were caught. Hans Olsgn and Bar- || ney Cast were killed instantly e¥e wady of the latter was recovereg) Augus’ Hausmiin and Joliii Ford ~ g badly hurt, but got out alivtm TV © ’ were unhurt. : Jeqee Tir “Red Express,” which iy 4y - cago over the Santa Fe line for St; s - was wrecked half a mile above E#Clty | limits at Havana, 111. The wrick was ~caused by a broken rail. The cars were all piled in a heap except the last, a.ndg, taking fire were all consumed. Fireman Saddler was instantly killed and ten peO" ple were injured. Al the injured were taken to Jacksonville. The corpse of a Mrs. Woods, which was being taken from Chicago to Jacksonvile, was partially consumed. The passengers seriously injured were all in the smolker. At Batesville, Ind., John Dirsshere, a hotel-keeper, while drunk and mad with jealousy, attacked his wife with a revolver. He shot her in the head. inflicting a serious wound. Another ball struck her corset stay over the heart. Dirsshere then shot his cook, Mary Jones, hitting her in the back and inflicting a flesh wound. While a crowd that had gathered in the parlor was attending the wounded Dirsshere entered and fell dead on the floor, having cut his throat with a case-knife. AT Sioux City, Towa, Gus Broad, a man about fifty years old, who drew his pension money, was found in his room with his skull crushed, apparently with a hammer. He was drinking and it is believed he was murdered for his money. Ar Helena, Mont., Carl Teichert, a prominent musician and restaurant keeper, shot and seriously wounded his landlady, Mrs. Mary Grady. The shooting grew out of a quarrol. Tar Ohio River received the ashes of Prof. Wilhelm Steffen of Louisville, Ky., according to the provisions of his own will. He directed that bis executors should convey his body to Cincinnati, have it cremated, and then consign the ashes to the waters of the Ohio River. The earemony wa%as simple as it could be madg, and wad carpied s yitlout e el RS | : SOUTHER NCIDENTS, 7/ e was discovered in the anmn (N. C.) High Schoel. The students were at once aroused. Thomas Pemberton, of Little Rock, Ark., and Albert Bost, of Bost's Mill, N. C., perished in the flames. At the first alarm the voung ladies, who roomed on the ground floor, made their escape. The young men roomed on the third fleor, and when tho alarm reached them the means of | escape. were partially cut off. A. C Rhodes managed to escape after being severely burned about the neck, head and arms. Thomas Pemberton's remains were found on the wire springs of his bed. leading to the belief that he did not awako at all. The building was completely destroyed, together with the 1 school furniture. The origin of the fire is not known. i AN alarming condition of affairs exists at Carbon Hill, Ala., the scene of tlwi recent riots. Numbers of the gang who started the trouble with the miners last l month secrete themselves in the bushes | near the town every night and fire inml the passengers with Winchester rifles. | The waiting-room of the depot was fired | into, and a dozen houses have been robbed. Sheriff Shepard says he s l powerless to stop it. Threats have been made to kill leading citizens, and Superintendent Whitfield is there to take some action in the matter. SENTENCE of death in the cases of George S. Key, Henry Jones, and Edward Smith, the three Navassa rioters, | was confirmed at Baltimore. Md. Ar Horse (reek mines, in Walker County, Ala, Dr. W. J. Matthews shot his wife five times, killing her instantly. l He has for some time thought that lzis‘ wife was untaithful to him, and exhibit- | ed his jealousy by threats. Hs was| drinking, and his wife went to a neigh- l bor’s house to spend the night, being afraid of him. When she camgshome without waiting for words, he st h(‘_l‘ NEAR Rocky Springs, Miss ~{D'Ottle Dibson slew her husband by plunging a kunife into his meck. The couple had bLeen separated. and the murdered man had attempted to coerce his wife into a | rcconciliation by using a club. l A Narcurz (Miss.) special says: (‘np-’ tain . ¥. Douglass, in charge of levees, reports the Kemp levee completed with . the exception of sodding and safe against any water that may be expected this year. Bedford is also ("’lll[)l('tc.!,’ while Gibson’s, Deer Fark. and Ferri- | % day’s will all be completed ina sow davs. : i‘\’l (L these ;ll(‘\\ l}‘\fl"(".‘ are :T,h[‘(\/u feet | | above the high water of 1890, '1‘1“»! | Tensas and Black Rivers are both fall- | ing rapidly, but the Mississippi jg rising | E slowly. No danger, however, ig “l’lll'(}! - hended. { } A rAlp upon the moonshiners of South E | A]él‘):l;m:l and Northern lr‘loridflv has been | - completed, and resulted in thirty arrests | | being made and thirty nine stillg ng et | Q ured and destroyed. The notorj "'l,m Y : ’ IDLorious Yon l brothers are ameng the captured, l i .A'l' ‘\;uslx'\'ilh-. Tenn., Hw» Cumberlang | River isdoing considerable damage, Five ! i hundred people have been driven inmé i Th(* >‘n'm‘l'.\.“ Hut W .1T‘«~35 fuv Still ri.\‘ing, l | and two feet more will ’l<-n(lm‘ at pgst, | t one thousand hemes uninhabitable. Tm_’ | | cellars of the warchouses in the Central ; | part of the city are full of water, o ‘li ' much property has been ruineq, Tm [ l Tennessce River at Chattanoogy, 'hel 22 hag |

2 «*Ew line (33 feet) and s T three inches per hour. Experienced | Flver Then predict that it will reach at | teast forty-five feet, which will overflow {much of the city in low lyi 1 : much of the city in low lying places, cut off several railroads and for a time suspe wfi"“ operations of several manuBt o kT facturing concerns. The severest rain- | storm 47 years prevailed alinost through-i’_‘{»-{ghfim State of Mississippi for | thirty-six hours. All the smaller streams _;;gyerflbwed. At Yazoo City the | river was ten inches above the highest point reached last year and still rising. | Cotton warehouses are submerged and ‘many families, mostly colored, living in mr portion of the city have been ~driven from their homes. ~ Five-nmuxprep lashes laid upon the ‘back of a negro named Willban near Williamston, S. C., was the compromise made with a Iynching party. Miss Duckworth found the negro under her bed. He fled upon being discovered and was captured. The young men wanted to lynch him at once, but a compromise of five-hundred Jashes was made, after the execution of which the negro was lodged Jin jail. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. - A rort of the North Dakota LegislaE _on DP’residential preferences gave € 57 and Cleveland 16. _IN the Pennsylvania Trouse, the bm permitting pool selling on race tracks was reported negatively. THE lower house of the Indiana Legislature passed a bill reducing passenger fares on all railroads to 2 cents per mile. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Avvices from Madagascar tell of a horrible massacre. Ramiasatra, Governor of the Province of Beranond, resenting @ petition from the populace to the government to defend them from eruelties, massacred 278 persons, including men, women, and children belonging to the leading families. The slaughter continued for several days. The agonies of the victims were in many cases protracted. Sometimes their limbs were gradually dismembered. their heads were sawn off and their bodies were thrown to tlie dogs. The survivors were forced to erect a trophy composed of the heads of the vietims. FRESH AND NEWSY. A pisearcan from Chili byway of Buenos Ayres states that three battalions of infantry and the entire Fourth Regiment, all forming part of the Chilian Government troops stationed in the neighborhood of Pisagua, have shot their officers and dec’ared themselves in favor of the revolutionists. SECRETARY NoBLE has approved the recommendation of the Indian agent at Yuma, A.T., that £1,600 be expended ‘ for the relief of those Indians who sustained losses by the recent {lood. \ Dwara Elison, aged 70, was carried in ‘ a starving condition from the steamer Umbria on her arrival in New York. The ship’s food was not cooked Jewish style and she would not partake. Comy -sloNer Grorvr, of the General Land Office, has sent to all registers and receivers of land offices the followin telegram: “The timber " %W-fl s uay Tepealed. Jiow 1 urtlier entries thereunder of claims hereafter initiated.” A New York firm engaged in South American trade received advices from Chili to the effeet that business there is generally suspended. The coast towns have boen deserted to a large extent: the citizens have taken to the= hills, fearing bombardments. A wounded sailor from the man-of-war Esmonda who is in the hos=pital at Valparaiso, cays twenty-six men were Kkilled and injured from a small shell from the shore batteries during the attack. The running of trains on the various railroads | has been almoest entirvely stopped. It is | rumored that Santiago is t!xrv;m-nwli with a water famine. | " At Listowell, Ont , two masked men | seized the night watchman at Hess Bros.’? furniture tactory, bound and gagged him, and fired the premises in several piaces. The fire was not discovered till | it was bevond control and the watchman was discovered only in time to save his life. It was found that the pumps in connection with the waterworks had been rendered useless, the fire-alarm wire cut, and that oils used in the factory had been turned on the floors. The loss will amount to £50,000 FATHER GrATON, a Catholic priest, of Regina, Man., was found dead five miles outside of that city, having perished from exposure. MARKET REPCRTS, | CHICAGO. CATTLE—Common to Primne.....B 325 @ 8.75 Hoas—Shipping Grade 5.......... 3.0 @ 3.75 BHE e 80D @6BO WA No 2 Red............... ICO @ 1.61 SORN-- NO R, . ... . 8 @ .59 ! D e 8 em@ 4% RS SR 0 il B @ 8D lßt’TTL‘,nfClm:ve Creamery...... .80 @ .34 ! 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“ e e—— AT |XOT A DAD NIHILIST. R SERGIUS STEPNIAK TELLS OF ' RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. Men Who Have Committed No Crime Sentenced to the Mines Without Trial— Even Little Children Are Now Banished to Siberia. Sergius Stepniak, who is a nihilist in Russia but not in the United States, is | now lecturing in this country and has | recently spoken in Chicago, St. Paul and ' Miiwaukee. The great qunestion in Russia to-day, ' he says, is to throw overboard the autocracy and sulstitute a constitutional | monarchy, the same as that found in It?ly, England and all European countries except Turk(',‘)’. This movement began in Russia mbre from a religious splri_t than_ a political ene. Russia today is passing through a period similar to what France passed through before its great yq*\’olution. Nihilists in Russia who are sincere and earnest as a general rule in their work for a better government are compelled to submit to the most extreme suffering from the hoavy ponalties inflicted upon them by public officers. The speaker, in a recent lecture, gaye in detail the manner of organizing n?fiilist societies among the workingmen. Nothing was done “that was consldered violent at first. The societies heard lectures on all scientific and social topies for their educational benefit. 'The ideas of better government were sown. in a quiet way. There was nothing political or revolutionary. It was a religious movement in the full sense of the word. But it had in time assumed a political dress. Officers of the government, seeing the drift of the ideas taught by the ' 4‘l3'3‘;?:& B \\\ r’-’) n% AT e N ) % “AP/ G \f {rasm s ) k. o O J, A :\:R\\\\\ \ S ,@-:v"’%s l / , 7K\ “R{\[f&f‘fi .’ y' % T "// \\ /. = 7 i o /* | of e | iy i\ A 3 N 2NN & \ = l Y . \\ <= \4 \ : S | =TT S } A = ; SERGIUS STEPNIAK. nihilists, soon began to arrest them on charges of organizing revolutionary societies dangerous to the Czar’s dynasty. The prisoners were sentenced to ten, twelve and fifteen yvears in Siberia. The speaker told of his own arrest with three others, and the four were marched off to prison. But one prisoner was a’'nihilist, and managed to get the prison guards drunk during the night, and the fonr prisoners escaped. After two hours of hard walking the prisoners reached almost the point from start st YMCaa oy e (O e —-—-35 CG the road to the railway station thirtyfive miles from the prison. The fugitives saw a light in a small house and ventured in, only to be received by a constable. But the speaker had a copy of an old song in his pocket, which he palmed off on the illiterate constable for a passport. ? The prisoners forged their own passports, and, escap'ng from the country, Stepniak found refuge in London. ‘ The speaker then referred to the system of trials, by tribunal and by administrative justice, so called, in Russia. Men were allowed a jury in thestribunal system, and sometimes were acquitted. | But in the administrative justice system | they were arrested, convicted, and ex—l‘ iled to Siberia without even knowing what charge had been placed against them, or knowing the names of their ac- { cusers. They were often taken away ‘ by officers to Siberia without knowing the point of destination® The speaker | gave a grapliic description of the in- | quisitorial inflictions on the prisoners in | Siberia. Two young women who | were confined in jail were forced | to disrobe before a crowd of brutal | men from the fortress. One young offi- | cer was arrested for being a nihilist, who | went insane while in jail. but he was | tried and executed while in his demented condition. Out of 193 prisoners at one place in 1877, seventy-four died from privations in Siberia, and now there were only five or six of them alive. Theso | prisoners were simply propagandists who had committed no crime, but had simply spoken what they believed. Where one prisoner gets a trial there are twentyfive who are convicted without a trial. The government now exiles even children. In 1887319 boys and girls under { age were exiled to Siberia. The speaker I cited one case of a little girl 13 years of age, who had been nolsy at a public r demonstration. The policearrested her. She called on the crowd to rescue her, | and the crowd obeped her appeal. She | was afterward rearrested and exiled to Siberia, where she committed suicide ia prison. Many of the men who are arrested are exiled to satisfy political revenge. A man of influence can place a charge of nihilism against a poor enemy and get him out of the way. In conclusion the speaker said nihilism ased peaceful means when proper, but was oftentimes compelled tc use destructive methods. But the day was coming when the army would support the nihilists, and a general uprising of the people would overthrow the Czar's dynasty. Where there are one hundred prominent leaders there are thousands upon thousands of djssctisfied people who never take an active part in fighte ing for the doctrines of tetter government. Nihilism was sprecading among them. The opinion of America, whieh was decidedly against despotism, had great weight with the intelligent ¢lasses in Russia. Kansas Phiiosepay. A fair is like a°pienic—they say there never was a good ore. Man is a fable, but a blundering world never puts the right moral on his tombstone. Reformers are innumerable, but the reformed may be summed up on the fingers of a hand. When some people finally get a good position, they imagine they are being worked to death. There are two things that you will always find together—a self-catisfied air and a toothpicl-.

ITHE NATIONAL SOLONS. -ee s ; SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE~ SENTATIVES. sty e Our National Lawmakers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Couniry— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. ON the 3d, the conferrees on the pest- ; office appropriation bill reached a final ; agreement on the disputed points in the ' bill, including the & ’ & the Senate appropriation for carrying the postal subsidy into effect. The House conferrees receded from their disa- - greement to the Senate amendment increasing from §756,000 (the amount appropriated by the House) to $1,250.000 the appropriation for carrying the foreign mails. The postal subsidies are to come out of this sum. Mr. Houk, of Tennessee, introduced (by request) a bil! to compel an sadjudication of all debts and to require a presentation of all bills or claims against the United States. In the Senute all the amiendments that had been agreed to in committee of the whole were agreed to in l)ulk, including the French spoliation claims and the Pacific railroad claims. An amendment by Mr. Plumb, appropriating $50,000 for the relief of citizens of O%lahoma who have been rendered destituta by the drought of the past season, was agreed to. The reserved amendments as to payment of Pucific railroad claims were agreed to. Itissaid that the President, in discussing the Congressional outlook, said that there did not appear to he any nccessity for an extra session of Congress. ON the morning of the 4th, both houses rushed business. In the House the conference report on the lezislative appropriation Dbill was azreed to. Senate bill was passed authorizing Gen. Thomas F. Casey to accept from the Irench republic the . - decoration of the Legion of Honor; also Senate Dbill to incorporat> the National Conservatory of Music of America; also Senate Dbill for the erection of a publie building at Clarksville, Tenn., with an amendment fixing the limit of cost at §35,000. The conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill was presented and agreed to; also the conference report on the bill for a public building at Saginaw, Mich., reducing the cost to $150,000. Mr. Bauarrows, of Michigan, having taken the chair, Mr. McKinley offered the following resslution: «That the thanks of this House are presented to Thomas B. Reed for the able. impartial and dignified manner in which he has presided over the deliberations anl performed the arduous and important duty of the Chair.” Mr. Mills demanded the yeas and nays. The resolution was agreed to by a strict party vote-—yeas 152, nays 116. The House - adjourned promptly at 12 o'clock with a - ild burrah on the floor and in the galleries. The Republican members sang: «Marching Through Georgia,” the Democrats attempted “«Dixie” and the occupants of the reporters’ gallery sang the long meter doxology. In . the Senate, the House amendment to the bill for a public building at Clarksville, Tenn., reducing the amount from $50,000 to $35,000, was concurred in; also the confer- . ence report on the general deficiency bill; House bill for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories was passed. The Senate adjourned at 12:15, Father Bassett having thrice performed his annual task of turning back the hands of the clock. A H‘VV#e‘liV-_fia;t:che(l C(ouple. A convict at a French penal settlement, who was undergoing a life sentence, desired to marry a female conviet, such marriages being of common occurrence. The Governor of the colony offered no objections, but the priest proceeded to cross-examine the - prisoner. / “Did vor not marry in France ?” he askeQ - T ——— “Yen.” e oy “And your wife is dead ?” ; *Sheis - S “Have you any documents to show that she is dead ?” ; “NO » “Then I must declice to marry you. You must produce some proof that vour wife is dead.” There was a pause, and the bride prospective locked anxziously at the would-be groom. Finally he said: “I can prove that my former wife 1s dead.” “How will you do so?” : “I was sent here for killing her.” And the bride accepted him notwithstanding. Suggestions About Oil Lamps. The oil reservoir should be of metal, rather than of china or glass. Wicks should be soft and mnot teco tightly plaited. Wicks should be diied at the tire before being put into the lamps, and should be only just long encugh to reach the bottom of the oil reservoir. Theay should be just wide enough té fill the wick holder without being squeezed into it, and should be soaked with oil before being lit. The reservoir should be quite filled with oil every time before using the lamp. i The lamp should be thoroughly clean, iztll oil should be carefully wiped off, t and all chared wick and dirt removed before lighting. When the lawmp is lit the wick should be at first turned ! down, and then slowly raised. Lamps I which have no extinguishing appara- | tus should be put out as follows: The | wick should be turned down until there { is only a small, flickering flame, and a lsbarp puff of breath should then be i sent across the top of the chimney, but not down it.—Hearth and Hall. Definitions by the (ynic. Cyxilcisyi—The effort of experience. JusticE—That which the other man | obtains. i LiFre—The penalty paid for the crime of birth. LAw—The sciene2 of getting the bet- | ter of your neighbor. | | LiTERATURE—The obstacle to the aci quirement of wealth. - f' IFus—A means of deliberately induc- : ing temporary idiocy. | EpucAtion—A medium for the ac- | quirements of miserv. , PriLosopHEß—AnNn indolent critie of , i other people’s activity. ' i TrusT—The machinery for the manu- | facture of millionaires. | . : | Gexrus—That which is often spoken . of and rarely encountered. } ReLIGION—A good thing for ministers, nonegenarians and infants. | StAGE—The show window of the mo- - distes, milliners and tailors. o f ViLLiaAxN—The man who publicly gets 1 the worst of his own misdeeds. ‘ CuLTURE—The result of memorizicg other mon's accomplishments. Music—A social convenience that en- { ables people with confidence to ex!vhung--, to avoid anything so impolite as whispering in company. HorE—The phantom that deludes men into meeting the disappointments ! of old age. e o