St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 December 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA STRUCK A BIG WHALE. TWO MONSTERS OF THE OCEAN COLLIDE. Trouble Between Chicago Workmen—An Ancient Indian Burying Ground—Two Serious Wrecks —Another Lynching in Arkansas —A Memphis Cotton Failure. Struck a Whale. Capt. Johnston, of the steamer Forestholme, which arrived at Philadelphia from Hamburg, reports that a few days a to, while off Georger's Bank, his vessel ran into an immense whale, a school of which had been sporting around the I steamer. The whale struck the keel j directly beneath the engines. The water for a distance around the vessel was covered with blood. The vessel quivered like a leaf from stem to stern, and great consternat'on prevailed among those on board for a time, but it was soon discovered that the steamer had sustained no damage from its contact with the sea monster. An Indian Sepulcher. An Indian sepulcher has been unearthed on “Fish Marsh” in Saugus, Mass. The tomb was about seven feet below the surface and it contained the skeleton of a man of enormous proportions, which crumbled to dust on exposure to the air. The body was buried in a sitting position, facing the east. Beside the skeleton was found a pipe, a tomahawk blade and arrowhead, an ax and a cylindrical-shaped stone. Near the grave an underground passage was discovered. Crushed to Death on the Engine. The north-bound Leh : gh Valley Buffalo express struck a rock that had rolled from the mountain side at Rockport, near Slatington, l a,, and the engine was demolished. Michael Lekelle. j who was riding on the engine, was j crushed to death. The fireman was badly hurt and the passengers were • shaken up. though none were injured, i While the south-bound Buffalo express ' was running around the wreck the t ain was derailed, but no one was hurt. Wealthy Country in South Africa. The report of the chartered British South African Company issued gives much hope of a fuller account of that vast area of conn- । try which it administers, amount- ■ Ing to 500,000 square miles, or more : than Germany and France combined, 't especially describes Mashonaland as teeming with agricultural and mineral wealth and completely contradicts the reports in Lord Randolph Churchill's letters to the Graphic. Failure of an Old Cotton Firm. The oldest cotton firm in Memphis, Tenn., Thomas IL Allen & Co, has failed for $544,932, cause 1 by the low prices of cotton. This firm is composed of Thomas H. Allen, br., and his three sons. The assignors believe that the I firm property will be sufficient to pay ;

The north-bound Santa Fe passenger ' train No. 10 was partially wrecked live • miles north of Ardmore, I. T., and En- ’ ( gineer Walker and Fireman McDowell ; very seriously if not fatally injured. ; ( None us the coaches left the track and the passengers escaped unin lured. Had a Serious Row. j Trouble between union and non union t workmen at the new Leiter building, i Chicago, culminated in a serious row. f Several men were wounded and carted off to the police station in a patrol wagon. I ‘ ! a Prophesies Another Disaster. | Andrew Jones, of New York, the j preacher who is alleged to have proph- ! g csied the Johnstown, Pa., flood, preach- i r ed recent'y at New Bedford, Mass. I During his sermon he predicted that an- ■ । other fearful disease would sweep over । the country, following ia grippe. r Shot to Death in the Jail. At Dewitt, Ark., a body of masked ' men entered the jail and shot to death J. A. Smith, Floyd Gregory and Mose | Henderson, who were confined therein. — _ Settled with Uncle Sam. Neubebgep, Reiss & Co., of San Francisco, were caught at smuggling, and { have i aid §70,000 to settle the matter. । Brevities. I j Katharine Rogers, the well-known ( actress, died in New York City. A dispatch received in Brussels says t that a priest and 1,000 native (hristians ’ • were killed during the Chinese r ots. a Marshall A- Biggins” stables at Mad- i c ison. Ind , were burned, the tenth fire ' - there in as many days caused by incen- ' * diaries I ' Reports received by the Bureau of ( American Republics show that the crops । in the Argentine Republic are the largest ever known there. W lliam Wilson’s jewelry store win- ! dow was smashed in with a coupling pin at Pitt burg. Pa , a:.d a tray containing SLOW worth of diamonds was sto’en. The robbers fa tmed th; door on the] outside before making the attempt. Ex-Cashier R. W. Sprague, of the I First Natonal Bank of Larimo c, N. 1) , who was in jai. for nearly a year, charged with misappropriating bank funds. was j discharge I honorably, th ■ United States : Grand Jury having fade 1 to return a; true bill. Prop. R. F. Ramsey, a few years ago principal of an East Tennessee academy at Sweetwater, committed suicide by jumping from the Tennessee Rixer bridge, at Chat anooga Tenn. Gertrude Kunkel, aged IS years, was burned to death and hei father dangerously injured by the explosion of a lamp. Miss Kunkel and her father were reading in the parlor at their home in Knoxville, Pa., when the lamp exploded without warning, scattering the oil over the room. Miss Kunkel was horribly burned and died in a few minutes. Her father will recover. _ —

EASTERN. j Harrisburg, Pa , was visited by a | slight earthquake shock, The Grand Jury in New York inl dieted Edward M. Field for forgery in i the second degree. A collision occurred in a tunnel on the Catawissa branch of the Reading Railroad. Four persons were killed and several injured. The application of the South Fork Fishing Club, of Pittsburg, Pa , for a rule for a change of venue in the damage suits entered against it in Cambria County by survivors of the Johnstown flood was granted at Johnstown. 'I hey claim that there is too much prejudice in that county to give them a fair trial. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, has presented almost his entire collection of rare prints, manuscripts, autographs, etc., valued at $100,009, to the library of the Drexel Institute This is prob ably the finest collection in existence, and represents the work of a lifetime. It embraces some exceedingly rare specimens, including the only complete manuscript of Thackeray in existeu e, and the only complete novel of Die kens in manuscript form outside the South Kensington Museum. For this latter work Mr. Childs has refused $6,000. At Paterson, N. J., John J. Brady, a well-known po itician. a few days ago, went to the French House at Mountain View to celebrate a victory gained by the lection of the party to which he belonged, electing their candidate to the Chairmanship of the County Committee. He was with a few boon companions, and in a hilarious moment proposed a mock marriage with a servant girl. Mr. Cornell, a Justice of the Peace of the Second Precinct of Jersey City, was staying at the hotel, and he consented to perform the ceremony. Not knowing his identity, Brady and the girl, Mise Flaherty, consented. The knot was tied and the party made merry. Now the woman insists that she is Brady s wife, having found out that they are legally married. Brady regards the whole affair as a. joke. WESTERN. Chas. A. Benson, the Leavenworth, Kan., murderer, sentenced to hang Feb 5, tried unsuccessfully to cut his throat by scratching it with a pin.

i The retail mercanti’e firm of Mann & ■ Wynne, Gallatin, Mo., have failed. The । liabilities will probably amount to §20,I 000, with assets about equal. John Bucklen, a watchman at I Echniedewend & Leo’s type foundry In Chicago, was found dead with his throat cut and skull fractured. Murder for tho purpose of robbery is the police theory. Thornton Sampson, a notorious desperado and ex-convict living at Monday, , ( hio, murdered John Lynch, a miner, i In a.saloon. Sampson was put in jail, but indignation ran so high that he had to be taken out of town. A terrible dynamite explosion ocsurred in one of Biglow’s logging camps, near Washburn, Wis. John Zoll, an unmarried man, was blown almost to pieces. It is thought he dropped a stick I of dynamite while working. Asail Thornburg celebrated his 90th birthday anniversary at kis home near bAlot?, Ind. Air. Co id is the man in DeljMKiigijiE 'nty, and was taken to >allna Kan. He had reseived a pistol-shot wound just above ’ the heart. He and James M. Broomfield are trappers on the Salem River, and a dispute arose between them, ending in the tragedy. Ar Raton. N. M., the heaviest snow- j storm ever known in that section accom- I panied by a fierce gale has raged, ( ver I thirty-five feet of snow has fa'len, sus- ‘ pendingrailroad traffic Cattie will suf- i fer severely, as feed 1 as been light and the snow fall general. At Ridgeville, Ind , the boiler in the ’ sawmill of Charles W. Collett gave away and killed three men, injured one fatally and three seriously. A piece of the I boiler, 10 feet long by 4 feet wide and weighing over 504 pounds, was carried a distance o* 15> yards. Near Lima. Ohio, th • Columbian limited passenger train on the Pittsburg, j Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour w:.en a rail broke aft r half of tho coaches had passed over it The train was heavily loaded and three persons were killed and about twenty more c i less wounded.

The south-bound passenger on the ( Southern Kansas was wrecked two miles . north of Cherryvale, Kas , cause i by defective ties. The express, the regular , coaches r id the sleeper were all hurled down a high embankment with about ’ forty passengers on board. Twenty-six persons were mo.e or less injured, three ', of whom may die. Senator Preston B. Plumb, of Kan- , S3S, died at his lodgims in Wa hington. The cause of his death was apoplexy I ; and fatty degeneration of the bra n. I caused by overwork. With his death disappears one of the foremost men that ] the West has ever sent to Congresa , With him the State of Kansas and the Southxvest los -a champion whom aggroasivo individuality it will be hard to rejdace. A terrible accident occurred at Lead- i ville» Col. Three men were killed, two ■ seriously injured, and a number . l of others hurt. The accident was caused by the explosion of j a missed hole wh ch had been charged a I few days ago and wa- thought to have I 1 exploded, as several charges were fired at ■ the same time. The failure of this one I 1 to explode was not noticed at the time, । but upon being 'truck with a drill it . exploded with terrific force. Abe Watkins and Louis Thomas, em- I ■ ploye- of the icon works at Indian- ] anolis, went to work, and as usual in- ' 1 dulged in banterings about one another. I i The men had been fr ends for year-, and ' frequently indu'ged in harmless scuffles They were thus engaged, when Thomas 1 suddenly drew a revolver and fired four i shots in rapid succession. The last shot entered Watkins’ back and passed en- • i tirely through him, making a fatal 1 wound. Thomas claims that he did not : : intend to injure Watkins, and the latter 1 declares that the shots were accidental. 1 At C olumbus, Ohio, V. W E. Fitzgerr । aid, the Youngstown murderer, was lianged at the penitentiary. He was r , sentenced to hang Nov. 19, but Gov.

Campbell granted a resnite tn ’ attorneys an opportunity to carrv case t° jhe Supremo Court on Z 110 Ihe decision of the lower court « rrortained in each instance and th« sus ' I nor refused all further ocutivo clemency. The E f ? r ex " ‘ sought suicide by the use nt od man but he was resuscitated 1U 1 0rph 'ne, to kill himself by nushlnrr n S ° tHod his body at the heart. 8 pencil i u cu^rkV'H a small ri °t oc“town 11,™,,;' -O .s fainted, and soon Ma,iy per ' into the Treasurer's off k° clerks ran for their lives t, ' 110 excitement prevailed and ^n°“ eil . dous was suspended for a time* ( ^ neSß finally restored. 1 ^uiet was “Positively the last week but one I is tho announcement that the managers ' o Jefferson, Klaw, and Erlanger's “ Gantry C.rcus” send forth fron Me" \ icker sC h cago Theater. They wXld veiy much ha- e liked to stay longer but previous contracts, calling for the u> r formanco to be put on at the Acad' mv of Ai ll J S,c ;?/' w ' ork - Delude the i^ sibility of the continuance of the re^re- ' sentation here. The many evcei^f t features of tho ring performaiWC® *5-1 the attraction in general have mety-n/Os unbounded public annroval. boiuj?/ fVI cago and throughout the country . m- I tary thereto. A mob of angry strikers from Pent!* ' Caseyville, Rosedale, and Coxvilld pt- ' tacked tho “black-leg” train at Cbal 1 Bluff, near Brazil, Ind., as it was'returning from Syndicate mine No. 8. I Tho w.ndows of the cars contain- ; ing the “black-legs” were smashed with stones and several pistils were discharged, but no one was -In- 1 jured. The train passed the station at the rate of forty miles an hour, so that ; it was impossible for any of the mob to I board tho cais, and the’enraged strikers gave vent to their feelings by firing ro- ! volvers and throwing stones. The long- | delayed relief has reached Perth and Caseyville, and many of the strikers who had promis'd to go to work changed their minds Less than a score of them joined tho “blacklegs” a'i the pit The others concluded to hold out a while longer. The funds tnbuted were meager, less than 40 ceu^s j to the family, but the lea hrs assuror j the men that more would speedily follow, and that in the future help wouU be abundant. Word was at once sentu Coal Bluff, Coxville, an I Rosedale th:* Perth and < aseyvlllo had receive: money. 1

SOUTHERN. Albert Downes, who was to havt been hanged at Charlotte, N. C., ha: been resplt d until Jan. 17. Congressman Wm. D. Wilson,*©! West Virginia, has been elected Pres^ dent of Richmond College. I. G. Delone, Denton Duke, ant Jo eph Duke wore killed at East Barnard, Tex., as a r suit of a quarrel. I The Anti-Combine Convent'on at R ton Rouge, after adopting a platfoilj reiterating its opposition to lottcri£ adjourned sine die. " The doors of tho saf^ m tho Ban I Wartrace, at Wartrace, t r Ponm,j l Rhelor has received a letter from (l fornia stating that his wife is the and heir of the late William Hcurul Blythe, the Scot di millionaire, whoMi', in California five years ago. The est;^ ,1 is worth 88,000,00 >. | ] Ar Dallas, Tex., the Rev. F. Parktl ii of Sherman, a Methodist circuit-ridei,” was arr. sted on a charge of forging the seal and signature of County Clerk S B. Scott to a pension certificate. Mr. Parker hail done work for the Am ricin Bib'e Society for seven years in Texas. News has just been received of tb^ lynching of an unknown tramp at Ei.fl mett, Nevada County. Ark . for attempfl ing an assault upon Miss Bettie Mn Gough. The latter, who is u schoiß teacher, was returning home froij 1 school, and while pa-sing through i lonely place the tramp made an attacl upon her. 11 A bold and successful diamond robberj occurred at J. V. Zimmerson’s jewelrß store at Little Rock. Ark. An unknown] man entered the store and asked to looW at some diamonds. A tray containing §3.000 worth of stones was set before him by the clerk. Another man entered, and threw cayenne peppor into thej clerk's eyes. The men then left with the diamonds and so far have eluded the authorities.

A mob ot about one hundred men, some of them disguised, and all armed with rifles or revolvers, called on SheritV Potsdamer, at Live Oak, Fla, an<K overpowered him They took from? him the keys to the county jai ■ and set a guard over him. The mot then made a rush for the jail, and enter I ing it took from their cells the twf negroes accused of the murder of Youn^ Parramore in the streets < f Branforc last week. Tho prisoners were bouni to trees a short distance for the jail anA their bodies riddled with bullets. fl A MYsrEßious dotib’e killing is agitafl ing the 1 eoplc of Leo Uounty. Teun. T man hunting in the woods near Uri"! Cieek saw the foot of a man stickiiJ? out fr >m a pile of brush. Ha<tiiy pn I* ing asi Ie the debris he was horrified to find the dead bodies of two men. Williaii L. Spreggins and George Holliday. Tne who’e affair is shrouded in mxstery. An inquest v. as held, and from the evidence a verdict of death from pistol wounds It the hands of R. S. Morgan was returned. Both men had their brains blown olt . and half of the top of Holliday’s head was blown off R. S. Morgan had a di| - j pute with the two men. who are brotfc- ] ers-in-law, over some real estate. Jk WASHINGTON. I An order was i sued from the Naß Department that the destination of tfl United States war ships must not W given out fl The Government commission hs“ finally reached an agreement with tl (herokees to pay them $8,595,736 t? r j their “strip.” It needs but, the sanctio! 1 of Government and a proclamation 1° open these lands to settlement. Lr semi-officially announced 11 Wash ngton that President Harriscr .wil shortly issue a proclamation restoj ing the duties on sugar, coffees, teas aif

molasses from countries that have not negotiated reciprocity treaties with thi • country. I The President has sent to tho Senate । the nomination of Stephen B Elkins, of West Virginia, to be Secretary of War, vice Redfield Proctor, resigned. The appointment caused no surprise among Republican Senators, who have, been expecting tho nomination. Elkins will probably bo confirmed without delay and. It is expected, will be in full control oi the War Department within a weak. I According to the New York World it is pretty certain that a bill for the free coinage of silver in some form will pass both the Democratic House and the Republican Senate during the present session. -I be plan practically agreed upon by those who will control the matter in the House is said to be briefly as follows: lo stop ail purchases of silver by the Government; to throw open the mints । to the free coinage of all silver to be : hereafter produced from American I mines, and to guard against the unloading of foreign sliver upon us by a systom of notification and inspection simi- , lar to that devised for the guarding of ; the sugar bounties. FOREIGN. I The Right Rev. Edward Harold ■ Browne, Bishop of Winchester, is dead. ^he Tay. Her crow of five men were ed. Tank Kee, the Chinese lecturer, has j completed arrangements for donating his library of 800 volumes of history of • his native country to the Texas State i University. It is reported that Yuguaron, in Bra- ' zil, has started afresh the rebellion. ■ The cause for the general outbreak is alleged to be an unwillingness to ac •' pt ; the orders of 1 resident Feixotto. Th' 1 National Guard has been commanded to , suppress the revolt । News from Manzanillo states that the steamer Roseville, which had gone to * tow the wrecked brig Tahiti to port, returned unsuccessful, the tow lines not [ being strong enough. It will start again soon. The Tahiti is bottom up. It is believed that when righted a number of bodies will be found in the hold. It had 300 persons on board, ail of whom are probab y lost IN GENERAL — The wife of Senator Hawley, of Connecticut. is seriously ill at Washington. Mrs. Hawley underwent a surgical operation which has .'eft her in an ex- < haust d condition. Gen. Jno B. Gurdon. Commander of the United (onederate Veterans, has I started the movement to publish a history of the war showing exclusively the ' Confederate operations i The family of W. J. Florence, the actor, who recent'y died, propose to contest his will on the ground that he left a ; codicil, which has since disappeared, in which others besides .Mrs. Florence were left be.|iiests 1 The North Lakota .Millers' Associain os on at Fargo, issued a cir^¥ar 'in whjxli it J VW'

’‘spon(tem"o? H IJ 0 -HHHimu eq) put: op r ounces the appointment of the W-t’.' ' tev. Ignat us F. Horstman. D. D.. of dhe Cathedral of Phila lelphia. as Bishop If Cleve’and, O.: the Rev. S -bast an Messmer, 1). D., Professor of Canon Law in the Catholic I nivcr-ity at Washinglon, as Bishop of Green Bay. Wis.; an i the Very Rev. James Schwoback, Vicar General of I.a Crosse, Wis., promote 1 to that vacant See. R. G. Dun & Co.’s xveealy review of trade says: As the end of the year approaches general trade slackens and there is perhaps not more than the usual disposition to defer large transactions until after stock-taking and the holidays. It is satisfactory to see from nearly all points that the -reports which note the inactivity usual at L this season also observe a prevalent ami । strong belief that the business of the coming season will be unusually large and I profitable. Commercial credits ami 1 confidence arc in satisfactory shape f for the transaction of an enormous ' business early next year. Excepting 'at a few places the money markets j are well supplied. The business failures I occurring throughout the country during the last seve t days number 335. as comi pared with 320 last week, lor the corieI spouding week of last year the figures were i 404. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. | Cattle —Common to Prime S 3 50 @ 600 1 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 & 4.25 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.00 ©i 5.50 Wheat —Ni>. 2 Red 91 & .‘ ‘2 Corn—No. 2 43 ® -49 ; Oats—No. 2 32 C® ..33 )Rye—No. 2 37 & >9 ' | Butteb— Choice creamtry 26 @ .23 |Cheese—Full Cream, flats 12 .13 ■ lEggs—Fresh ‘24 (0 .‘2 i ■ '.Potatoes—Car-loads, per bu 30 @ .40 INDIANAPOLIS. '■Cattle—Ship) ing 8.25 @5.75 i Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @4.00 I Sheef—Common to Prime 3VO @ 4.50 I Wheat—No. 2 Heil 03 @ .05 laC&faN—No. 1 White 46 (o< .48 Stoats—No. 2 White 35 @ .37 . ST. LOUIS. *\tile 3.50 @6.(0 ‘ I I^>GS 3.50 @ 4.21 IljfeEAT—No. 2 Red 93 ® .94 1 CObn—No. 2.... 30 @ .40 0 AT^-Nn. 2 31’4® .32 -2 Rye—No. 2 83 @ .85 CIN.INNATI. , Cattle 3.50 @5,00 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.00 | Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 96‘4@ .9'^ 1 Corn—No 2 49 @ .51 i Oats —No. 2 Mixed 36 @ .3/ DETROIT. ; Cattle 3.01 @ 4.75 Hogs 300 @4.00 I Sheep 3.00 @ 4.5 J Wheat—No. 2 Red 96 @ .97 [ Corn —No. 2 Yellow 50 @ .51 i Oafs-No. 2 White 35 @ .37 T LEDO. Fi'TVukat—New 95 @ ,96 | Coi N -No. 2 Yellow 47 @ .49 Oats—No. 2 White 33 @ .35 1. E 91 @ .92 BUFFALO. I Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.75 ! I.nr. Hons 3.75 . M Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.02 <« Lol L Corn-No. 2 55 @ ,57 G MILWAUKEE. fcWll-at- No. 2 Spring -87 @ .SI LWFiTn No. 3 38 @ .33 ' C. TS—No. 2 White 33 @ .34 Hye-No. 1 88 & .03 BABLEY—No. 2 5614 @ .57 ’.j I Fork—Mess 10.50 @11.03 NEW YORK. Cat le 3.50 @ 5.50 I Hogs 3.00 @ 4.00 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 105 @ 1.0? Corn—No. 2 60 @ .62 1 Oats—Mixed Western 39 @ .42 Butter—Creamery 20 & .30 j Pork— New Mess 10.25 @10.75

SENATOR PLUMB DEAD. SUDDENLY STRICKEN DOWN BY APOPLEXY. Washington Star led by the Announcement of the Well-Known Ka i-an's Death —Sketch of His Career—Speculation as to the Dead Senator's Successor. Caused by Overwork. Senator Plumb fell dead in Washington the other day. Whn this startling news ran through the city it interrupted j

everywhere the | usual quiet rout'ne. I Plum b, that sturdy i type of the Western • Senator, has gone. People were shock- I ed to know that the • life of the distin- ■ guished Kansan had ’ (been snuffed out in j a moment. Flags | were soon at half- i mast It was the I ta k in the streets, I at the hotels and in I

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every home, to the exclusion of other । topics, for Plumb had. in a senatorial ; service of fourteen years, become one of 1 the best-known figures in Washington. Death came from apoplexy, the result of exhaustion of the brain. It was a clear case of overwork and inattention to the laws or The Senator had b en known for years as the most energetic, hard-working member'of the Senate. A year ago he began to fail. Physicians warned him that a continuance of his labors meant death, but he refused to heed their warning He continued to work with the energy of a steam engine, and, when still apparently in full vigor and with many years of life before him. he died. A few of Mr Plumb’s most intimate friends knew that he had been ailing for some time, but no ie were prepared for the worst. He had been in the Senate last we >k and appeared to be as well as ever. He attended to his duties with his usual briskness and vigor. A few daysago he said to a Senate employe who congratulated him on his appearanc > that he was younger than the employe who was his junior by twenty year-’. As evidence of his vitality he d übled up his forearm. His biceps muscles were hard and compact Notwithstanding his activity and his own assertion cf his vigorous health he had been complaining of sleeplessness and wrtigo. He complained of persistent I ains in his head, impairment of memory an t growing inability to choose his ideas in proper and appropriate words. When the terr.ble luted gence was conveyed to the inva’id wife of the dead Senator at their ho re in Emj or a. Kan , she seemed like one stricken to the death and for a time her life was dispaired of, owing to her feeble state of health. She. however, rallied and is now bear ng up under her crush ng grief with a fortitude wonderful to behold. But one of her < hildren was at home, her daughter Mary, and she was sick in bed. Miss Ruth was in Topeka visiting and was immediate y summoned. The other eh 1dren are in Pennsylvania—Amos 11., the eldest son, at 1 hilade phia unde r treatment for a nervous affect on a, ' the two youngest, Preston 8., „r, and Car1 • ’ " I UI p P 01 pa*Tl<: lit P[noo p (n! mm O) ilmu u i « OUIOOUI limns i: iik. ' 1

U.-iro <■ DR] pUl| Upfnoo Ino a,, brought his lite V> ‘ plunged at onto into the thick ot tn« 1 1 political strife which then was waging I ] over the slavery question. Il ■ went to i the front and soon l.e ante a member] of tho Leavenworth constitutional ] convent'on of 1859. He was admitted to I 1 the bar in 1861, when the place of his adoption became a State of the Union; 1 served in the Legislature in 1862, was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and subsequent y Reporter of the Supreme Court. When the war broke out he entered the army as second lieutenant in the Eleventh Kansas Infantry and served successively as capta 11, major, lieutenant colonel of the regiment and was commissioned a colonel of the regiment in August. 18 2. After the war Mr. Plumb returned to Kansas, was 1 elected a member of th ■ Kansas House ■ of Representatives, and in 1876 was chosen United States Senator to succeed James M. Harvey, Republican. He took j his seat in 1877 and has represented his : State as a Senator ever since that time. I His term of office would have expired March 3, 1815. It is settled that Gov. Humphrey of Kansas will appoint a successor to ■ Plumb. A prominent lawyer of Topeka ' says that a year elapses before the next 1 Legislature is to meet and so an extra session 9111 st be called at once. Other | authori^s say, however, that the Gov- | ernor must make an appointment to bo ! effective until another Legislature meets | in regular order. In this case sev ral 1 possibilities are spoken of. Those ] most frequently mentioned are; ; Ex-Governor George T. Anthony, ’ ex-Congressman E. N. Morrill, and i ( hlef justice Albert H. H< rton. Other names mentioned are: S. R. Burton, a I young attorney of Abilene, who was a , bitter opponent of Ingalls: ex-Congress- . man S. R. Peters, of Newton; George R. I’eck, General Solicitor of the Atchi- I son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( ompany; J. K. Hudson, editor of the | Topeka Capital; and ex-Gov. Thomas A. Osborne, Hayes’ Minister to Brazil. The Legis'ature which will elect a successor to Gov. Humphreys’ appointee convenes in January, 1893, and will be e’ected next fall. There will be no holdovers either in th 5 lower house or Senate. There were produced in the United States last year 141,229,513 tons of coal, of which 45,609,487 was anthracite. All of the anthracite except 53. 517 tons from Colorado and New Mexico and 2,000 tons from New England came from Pennsylvania. A popular not’on is that t! c whereabouts of a drowned person may be ascertained by Coating a loaf xveighted with quicksilver, which is said at once to swim toward and stand over th ■ spot where the body lies. This is a very widespread belief, and instances of its occurrence are, from time to time recorded. I r is said that the first regular theatrical company to ■ erform in the United States came from England in 1752 and landed at s'ork, in Virginia. Its first public appearance w?s at Wiiliamsbur->-V*.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’s Capital—What Is Being Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. In the House on the 16th the Speaker announced the appointment of the Committee on Rules as follows; The Speaker (Chairman), Messrs. McMillin, Catchings, Reed, and Burrows, Mr. Bartine, of I Nevada, who has been absent on account of illness, appeared at the bar lof the House and took the oath of , office. Mr. Taylor, of Tennessee, announced i the death of his colleague, the Hon. LeoniI das C. Houk, who died from accidental j poisoning at his home in Knoxvlile, in May la«t. The House, as a mark of respect to j the memory of the deceased, adjourned 1 until the 19th. In the Senate but little ; was done, except to confirm a lot of apI pointments, and adjournment was taken. । In the Senate, the 17th, the President pro ; tern laid before the Senate the credentials j of Senator elect Hill, of New York, and i they were read and placed on file. Mr. | Mitchell introduced a bill providing for the construction of two first-class revenue cutters for service on tire Pacific coast. Mr, Stewart then proceeded to address the Senate on that part of the President’s message relating to free coinage. The folI lawlncr * cod -md ’ ferred: Amending in i act of the last Congress authorizmgMj^ sale of timber oh lands reserved for the use of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin. । The principal amendment increases from । 20,000.000 to 30,000,000 feet the amount of I timber which may be logged and sold in | any one year. Appropriating $15,000 to in- ; troduce and maintain domestic reindeer in j Alaska. To remove the limitation on arrears of pensions. The Senate proceeded I to executive business, and soon adjourned I till the 21st. I OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Chicago’s Mail Hobbery. M bat glee these incidents of daily life in the Western metropolis must occasion in New Nork!—Mi.waukee Wisconsin. Ihe robbery of a mail wagon in the streets of Chicago suggests the idea that tho Wor d's Fair city is still a wild: West- . । ern town. — Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele- . graph. . I Chicago owes it to herself to check j this new development of highway robi * bery by the prompt apprehension and , ' severe punishment of the perpetrators.— - j Toledo Blade. si This is a new field of operation of the I “road agents” that offers much profit I and good chanct s of escape as well as all the facilities of city life for a home. —Milwaukee News. What wonder that our cousins over sea, conten.plating the World’s Fair, ask if there will be any danger from Indians! They will take fresh alarm when they read f the robbery of a mail wagon in the streets of the city of the Fair.—Toledo Bee. The thieves who arc gathering in Chi- | cago st em restless and eager for busi- ; ness. They can’t wait for the great ■ fair. Five daring highwaymen took pos- - session of one of the largest and richest : mail wagons last night and went through Jit. EvenU '' • _; j gQn ^^^wlnch happens. •!<! have believed that a mail ^MBi be robbed in the h-vt ’l' K ' no ago, an< R ms |, ln:

1 h-sVIL..?I!-" s "l P l <’ ! ai| 11 3 telling wher * a robbery ma, next. —Indianapolis News. Theosophy's New Priestess. Mrs Annie Besant reports a boom in the theosophy market. Now is the time for persons long on theosophy and short on common sense to unload.—St. Paul Globe. Blavatsky worked out the mystic lead before she died, and her successors 1 ave not been able to do much in that line. The mahatmas should comb forward and prevent theosophy from plunging into still greater depths of occultism.— Spokane Review. Mrs. Annie Besant is firmly convinced that etheric vibrations will result in making it unnecessary to use the cumbrous machinery of wire and rail to transmit news. Mrs Besant is again in America cheerfully willing to make this claim among others equally revolutionary which she advances concerning theosophy. —Omaha World-Herald The arrival in this country of Annie Besant, the high priestess of theosophy since the death of Mme. Blavatsky, will undoubtedly endow the centers of theosophical discussion with renewed lie. Since the death of the ponderous madame the examples of a@ral manifestations and the alleged proofs of etheric communications in which she professed to believe have become wofully less— Albany Argus. Lost Her Case. The English juror seems to be on the side of the man in the divorce suit.— Nashville American. The actress, “Miss” St. John, shared j the fate of “Lady” Russell in failing to i secure a divorce. —Grand Rapids Demoj crat ' IMiss St. John has lost her divorce i suit, but perhaps the free adverting she has gained squares the account.— I New York Recorder. j In England Miss Florence St. J j was refused a divor e (alimony) jut ' Miss Gladys Evelyn was. They sb • » both come to Cincinnati. —Cincini . I Enquirer. I Now Miss St. John has been refused _ divorce. The English courts seem use the same scales in weighing acto. and members of the nobility.—Detro. Free Press. Florence St John, the English actress, has lost her suit for divorce The testimony showed her to be very much worse than her husband, if such a thing were 1 possible.—New York Advertiser. Feniiniiiitie* 4 - Women are not inventive as a rule. They have no eagerness ter new wrinkles. J r js the unmarried lady who can gne her sisters Do nts on the art of how to manage a husband. A B i-roN lady has invented a spoon for measuring medicine, b> hip dose can be administered without spill "‘cora—What did Jesse say when he threw himself at her feet. ol ‘ it , Goch! Murde. ! That s my favorite 1 cum