St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 January 1892 — Page 6
WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . . . INDIANA DOWN BELOW ZERO. THE NORTHWEST SHIVERED IN THE ICY BLAST. A Chicago Bank Quietly Assigns—Another Wreck in Wisconsin, but No Fatalities —The Baltimore Again Headed for Chili —Frozen to Death. At Washington. There were six Senators on the Democratic side and about twice that number on the Republican side when the Chaplain opened with prayer the seventh week of the session on the 18th. Mr. Sherman, for the first time since his reelection occupied his seat. The House bill fixing the time for holding District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the Northern District of lowa was reported by Mr. Wilson from the Judiciary Committee and was passed. A bill was reported and placed on the calendar to pay the State of West Virginia its proportion of the amount claimed under the direct tax. The rest of the session was consumed In a discussion of the La Abra claims. The World’s Fair question was the first subject to receive the attention of the House. Mr. Reilly, of Pennsylvania, pre- j sented a resolution requesting the Secretary j of the Treasury to inform the House of ' Representatives what amount of money has been appropriated and available under the act of Oct 25, 1890. relating to the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and about what amount of the money appropriated had already been expended. The resolution was adopted by acclamation. A moment later Chairman Durborow introduced and asked for the immediate consideration of resolutions authorizing the selection of the Committee on the World’s Fair to have printed such documents and ^papers as it may i deem necessary relative to the matters referred to it. Mr. Holman and Mr. Oates of Alabama joined in the protest against granting to the World’s Fair Committee such unlimited powers of incurring expenses. Upon these objections the resolutions were referred to the committee. After introduction of bills, adjournment was taken.
Downfall of a Bank. The Security, Loan and Savings Company, doing business at No. 127 La Salle street, Chicago, filed an assignment in the County Court, to George P. Jones. No schedule of assets and liabilities was filed, but the assignee made a summary showing both to be about $15,000. Shortly after Mr. Jones took charge a messenger from the Commercial National Bank came in with a draft for $416. He was told he was too late. The bank did largely a chattel mortgage business, but had been dabbling to some extent in real estate. E. R. Walker was President and D. Rankin cashier of the institution. So far as known, no one had any interest to speak of except Walker and Rankin, though Rankin’s interest was not large. In fact, Walker was the bank.
A Cold Wave. It is very cold throughout the Northwest. At St. Paul, Minn., the Weather Bureau has report 'd 21 below. The -^^ r ^ tUrfe throughout Minnesota
cold is also very intense. At Aberdeen the thermometer registered from 32 to 40 below. Similar reports come from North Dakota. The col lest weather, however, is over in Manitoba and Northwest Territory, where it is from 5 to 20 degrees lower than the above. While Running Fifty Miles an Hour. Passenger-train No. 3 on the Northwestern and Omaha Boal was wrecked six miles east of Black River Falls, Wis., at Sheppard’s switch, while running at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The entire train except the engine and baggage left the rails. The. sleeper, breaking loose from the train, left the roadbed, rolling into the ditch upon its side, the others remaining in-
tact. Ti "re were nine persons in the j sleeper, all of whom were injured, but none fatally, the injuries being confined to bruises, cute, and slight contusions. : Back to Chilian Waters. The cruiser Baltimore has received orders to leave for the South. She will ■ go direct to Acapulca or Calloa without stop. Nothing can be learned to show that she will be joined by the Charleston or the San Francisco, now at San Diego. Captain Schley and all the officers of the Baltimore, whose cruise has expired, have asked to be reassigned to
the ship on the understanding that , trouble will occur with Chili. Nearly : all the time-expired sailors on the cruiser have also been re-enlisted on a similar understanding. Killed Himself with Strychnine. At Denver, Colo., M. J. Tichental committed suicide by taking half an ounce of strychnine. He had been drinking freely , and it is supposed this Led to his taking ; his own life. He was 25 years of age ( and leaves a widow and child. Death in the Ice. A human body formed part of the ice gorge in the river in front of St. Louis. It was identified as that of .C. j Sproule, a salesman in the employ of Samuel C. Davis A Co. Cleve'and and Boies. J. J. Richardson, a member of the National Democratic Committee of lowa, while in New York the other day, said: “Cleveland and Boies would suit us. News Nuggets. Abchduke Chables Salvatob died in Vienna. Diphtheria is epidemic at Belgrade, the capital of Servia. Ex-President Cleveland will spend a month in Louisiana with Joseph Jefferson, the actor. Police Justice James R. Loan, of Baltimore, took carbolic acid, mistaking it in the dark for a simple medicine, and died after suffering intense agony. Sib John Thompson, Dominion Minister of Justice, told a mass meeting at Halifax, Nova Scotia, that Canada was anxious for reciprocity with the United States. Gen. Alger told an interviewer that he believed Secretary Blaine would accept the Presidential nomination should the Minn ewolis convention tender it to him with practical unanimity.
’ eastern. Gen. Tames S. Brisbin, well-known in the West, died in Philadelphia. Edward W. Stoddard, convicted of . forgery in Jersey City recently, has been | sentenced to ten years in State’s Prison. Police Justice James B. Loane, a prominent Baltimore politician, died in terrible agony from a dose of carbolic acid, taken in mistake for medicine. The Union Pacific Railway Company has begun suit in New York to recover from J. S. Wormser, the broker, $221,858 in securities rehypothecated with the defendant by Field, Lindley & Co. John Willeman, an 18-year-old lad, died at Plainfield, N. J., from the results of excessive cigarette smoking. He was crippled by a railway accident several months ago and to while away the time indulged incessantly in the cigarette habit. At Trenton, N. J., Sir Edwin Arnold was to have given readings lor the Young Men’s Christian Association, but he telegraphed that he was too ill to appear. He is threatened with pneumonia. He ivas taken ill with the grip in the West.
| Reports from Northern Vermont show । that the rural sections are suffering from a severe attack of la grippe. Many families are prostrated by it, in some j cases as many as five or seven persons । in a single family being ill at the same time. There has been a remarkable mortality among aged persons. There was a despi rate fight on train No. 6 on the New York Central railway. The train left Albany at 5 p. m. Just as it was pulling out from Poughkeepsie three intoxicated men rushed on board, throwing their chisels, crowbars and sledges on the platfrorm of the Buffalo car. They were very rude and boisterous and immediately took charge of the ear. Chief Detective Humphrey and some of the passengers arrested them, but only after a hard fight.
Thomas Schofield died at his home in North Lyme, C >nn., at the age of 101 years and 3 months. Grip caused his death. Schofield was extremely proud of the fact that he was the oldest man in Connecticut. One of the events of his life of which he was very proud occurred in 1808 when he made thirteen yards of broadcloth and presented it to President Madison. President Madison was inaugurated in the suit made from this cloth, being the first President who took the oath of office dressed in a broadcloth suit made hi the United States.
At Philadelphia, James A. Bailey, •proprietor of the Barnum & Bailey . shows, purchased from Catherine A. । Cooper, widow of the late James E. I Cooper, and administratrix of his i estate, the Adam Forepaugh shows, , including all property, right, titles, ‘ and good will attached to that well-known exhibition. Mr. Bailey immediately transferred a one-half interest in the purchase to Joseph T. McCadden, who has been the manager of the shows since Mr. Cooper purchased them from the Adam Forepaugh estate two years ago. The two shows will go on the road separately’ and compete for
WESTERN. Live stock in Nebraska has suffered much by the cold spell. Fire in the machinery department of the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Ind., did SIO,OOO damage. The coal operators of Gallup, N. M., who control the only mines of any acI count in the Rocky’ Mountains, hax e ; formed a combination to advance prices. ' Mbs. Mary Simpson,a Chicago dress- : maker, committed suicide while temporarily insane by disrobing and lying • • down on her clothing on the ice on Lake ; Michigan, fifteen feet from the foot of i Ohio street, where she was found frozen ■ to death.
| Adelbert Slye, the alleged chief of the gang that robbed an express car at Western Union Junction, has been | transferred to the St. Louis authorities, I and will, before being taken to Wiscon- ’ sin, have to stand trial for alleged complicity in the Glendale train robbery. I Peter Kuhn, of Milwaukee, a fisherman, has summoned the Mayor of the city named to show cause why the city ! should not be enjoined from dumping its garbage in the lake, thereby driving away the fish and so depriving the complainant and others of the means of livelihood.
The announcement is made that the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Dayton, Ohio, having decided to retire from business, has transferred all of its policies, liabilities and good-will to the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford Conn. The Firemen’s has a cash capital of $250,000. Samuel Craighead is President. j At Madison, Ind., the river is full of heavy drift. Two young men, went to . the hand ferry at Carrolton, and finding no one in charge drove their horse and buggy aboard and attempted to man the boat. They were so intoxicated that it
drifted away with them and nothing has been heard of them since. i The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin upon the subject of irrigation in j Montana. It is shown that in that State 1 there are 3,700 farms that are irrigated out of a total number of 5,664. The ; total area of land upon which crops were raised by irrigation in the census year ending May 31, 1890, was 350,582 acres, in addition to which there were ! approximately 217,000 acres irrigated for grazing purposes. i Pending decision by the Supreme Court of California of the constitutionality of the law providing that all executions shall be conducted within the State Penitentiary at San Quinten, no ' convicted murderers can be sentenced to death without the incurring of the risk that they may escape through having been sentenced through an unconstitutional act. At least three months must elapse before there can be a decision of the disputed point. I Several weeks ago Mrs. Rosa Northrop, accompanied by her seven-year-old - daughter, left San Diego, Cal., to visit relatives near Alliance, Ohio. Mrs. Northrop took considerable money with ; her- This so preyed upon her mind that ' when a train stopped at away station । ’ in lowa she took her child and started across the prairie. After wandering ’ around for a day and a night they were
found nearly dead from exposure. Mrs n ° T W at the her " BaldWin ’ and is a Says a dispatch from Middleton Z? a ” ® r « aniza «on is being formed gonistic to the American Tobacco Company. Paul J. Sorga the the • . t . obaoconist . states’ that tht first intimation he had of the Prop «t was a few days ago, when an Eastern man called on him. The genbe of ' 1 eU detal } ed b - v a num1 of Eastern capitalists—tobactSc a tour t o t 1 * and as certaln the feeling of the tobacco manufacturers anent a com donation being formed. lor years the dieappesrance of travelers in the Indian country across the river from Chandler, Oklahoma Territory, has been frequent ami mysterious The other day, in dense wood a mile from the stage road a house was found which was approached only by a long, circuitous trail, and thereby the mysterious disappearances explained. The house construction shows that it was built by and
lor the us? of robbers and criminals generally. It is a cabin of four rooms one behind the next. In the doorway between the first and second was found a trap over which the unwary sti anger must pass. By an arrangement of bolts this trap, which e< ... a , lar ß e cavern below, could ne worked much like an execution scaffokb That murder was the purpose of the trap was shown by the discovery of hair, dried blood, and bones on the rocks at the bottom of the pits under the trap. Jhe inhabitants of the den, however are missing.
Near Brainard, Minn., a frightful accident occurred on the Northern Pacific Road. The train, with the Andrews Opera Company on board, struck a broken rail, the engine and baggage-car passed over in safety, but the sleeping car was derailed and ran some 800 feet on the ties when it toppled over and welly down an embankment, landing on its side. In a minute all was confusion. 1 he sleeping inmates realized their peril. As soon as windows were broken to liberate those inside flames shot out, and in yATy short order the car was enveloped. dhng hands of trainmen soon liberated those who were unable to extricate themselves, but none were able to save their clothes, and the night being the coldest of the season, the thermometer reaching 46 below, the suffering of the injured was terrible. It was discovered that Mrs. Ed Andrews and Lillie Wallace were missing, but no human effort eoul§ i vender them assistance, as the car was a mass of flames, and they were burned to death. Many others were injured, some of whom will He.
SOUTHERN. The rebel Garza is reported to be gathering a strong force 10(1 miles east of Laredo. John D. Davis, a lawyer of Wilmington, N. C., is charged with giving to a church $30,000 in money’ and real estate belonging to widows and orphans. At Little Rock, Ark., Hon. Ben L. Pate was hit on the head with a stone in the hands of Dump Sanders, colored. Pate will die. A possee is hunting S#| is to the effect that the garrison of Sinter troops and guards have occupied And fortified a commanding hill-top, and placed two pieces of artillery in position for the attack which is threatened. An engine of the Debardleben Coal and Iron Company ran out of water between Eureka mines and Oxmoor, Ala. Engineer Hunt pulled the throttle wide open in an effort to reach the next water tank, a mile away. While the locomotive was running at full speed, the boiler exploded, completely wrecking the locomotive and instantly killing the engineer, Joseph Hunt, and Fireman Bradford.
At Paducah, Ky., Jesse Brown was hanged for the murder of John Larry. Brown was a negro steamboatman, twenty-five years of age. He killed John Larry on the night of Jan. 3, 1891. M. V. Harbin, the condemned murderer, was hung in the jail at Poplar Bluff, Ark. Harbin was asked if he wished to say anything, and he replied: “Gentlemen, I have but little to say. I have written j a statement which you will see published ; in the papers. I am not guilty of the crime for which I have to die. ’ A serious riot occurred at Micopany, Fla., between whites and blacks, about \ 250 of whom had gathered in the public s square to witness a tight-rope perform- ■ ance. A negro named Henry Hinson I used insulting language in the presence i of white ladies. W. Jefferson Chitty, a prominent young white man, ordered him away. Hinson went, but returned with a pistol and deliberately shot Chitty, killing him instantly. A free fight followed. John Jones, a negro friend of Hinson, was killed. In the confusion Hinson escaped, but Marshal Purdy organized a posse and captured him. He was brought back and placed in jail, but a mob took him out and hanged him to a tree. Both -whites and negroes justify the lynching. WASHINGTON.
There are thirteen candidates x v r the place of keeper of the restaurant in the Capitol Building at Washington. Washington dispatches affirm that instructions were cabled to Minister Egan to demand of the Chilian Government immediate disavowal of the offensive Matta note, and to renew the demand for reparation for the attack upon seamen from the United States ship Baltimore. POLITICAL. lowa is “out” after the Democratic National Convention, and a delegation is canvassing the various members of the National Committee in favor of Des Moines. Judge Lindsay, of Kentucky, will not accept the appointment of member of the Interstate Commerce Commission recently made by President Harrison. One reason is that the salary of the office is far less than his income from his law practice. The Carson Republicans have elected Perry Carson and Andrew Gleason delegates, and J. W. Freeman and George Holmes alternates, to the National Republican Convention, says a Washington dispatch. The resolutions adopted indorse the administration of President
Harrison, and express admiration and esteem for ex-Speaker Reed. FOREIGN, The Sugar Trust (American Sugai Refining Company) has increased its capital stock from $50,000,060 to $75,000,000. It is semi-officially stated that negotiations for the re-establishment of relations between the United States ant Italy are about consummated. James Dunlop, of the Scottish International foot-ball team, died in Paislej from lockjaw that resulted from a cut in the knee by a piece of glass during a recent game. Prince Albert Victor, duke of Clar-1 ence and Avondale, eldest son of the 1 Prince of V ales and heir presumptive to the throne of Great Britain, died al Sandringham, England, of pneumonia, j He was in his 27th year. Cardinal Manning, of the Bomar 1 Church, and Archbishop of West- ; minster, died in London, after a very short illness. Cardinal Simeoni. for-
merly Papal Secretary of State and Prefect General of the Propaganda, is alsc dead. His death was due to an attack of influenza, from which he had been suffering for several days. The British sloop-of-war Daphne left San Francisco, Cal., for Esquimault, B. C., short of eight men. Four men ashore on liberty failed to return to the vessel, i Sergeant Turner and McKimm and Lar- j combe, marines, escaped from the vessel in a boat from shore. Seaman : Randall started to swim ashore, and it ' is believed he was drowned. The steamer Meifoo has arrived at 1 Hong Kong, bringing intelligence of the loss of the steamer Namchow off Cupchi Points. The Meifoo reports that the shaft of the Namchow broke, supposedly at the point where it emerges from the ' hull. This allowed the water to rush J into the shaft alley and make its ’ way to the engine-room and thence i into the fire-room. The fires were! soon extinguished and she settled ' rapidly. The water continued to pour in j
unchecked and the vessel foundered. 1 The Namehow was employed in trading locally in the China seas, and she had on board a very large number of Chinese passengers. She sank so rapidly that it was impossible to launch her boats, even had she had enough to carry all hands on board. When she went down she carried with her 414 persons, every one of whom was drowned. The steamer I was officered by Europeans and her I crew also consisted of sailors, firemen, etc., from different European countries’: They stood to their posts to the last and did everything possible to save their vessel. All of them went down with the steamer. .
IN GENERAL Charles M kite, who composed many popular songs, including “Marguerite,’’ is dead. Mr. Mercier, ex-Premier of the Province of Quebec, is openly accused ol having issued fraudulent letters of credit upon the Provincial Treasury. His ar- ■ rest on a criminal charge is predicted. I Sailors of the United States cruiser Baltimore testified .at Aalleio Lal that ‘SX.. I ’ * j * ’the Chilians from blame in the A alparaiso affair. Last season the output of salmi n canneries in British Columbia was 4,000,(106 । pounds less than the preceding year, ami there are such evidences of depletion ol the salmon streams that a commission will be sent out to investigate. The Government party of Canada was defeated in the election for member oi Parliament in Richelieu County, Province of Quebec, to succeed Sir Hector Langevin, resigned. The Conservative majority at the preceding election was 300.
The last of the political refugees tc । whom Minister Egan has been giving J asylum during the past four months • were taken on board the Yorktown the : other day. The expectation is that with ■ their departure more friendly relations ; between the Minister and the Chilians , will be establish d. At San Francisco the collier San ■ Mateo has been chartered to take coal • from Nanaimo to Chili. The captain of the collier states that the United States । Government has chartered the vessel | and has ordered him to rush his cargo 1 through as rapidly as possible. The San ; Mateo can carry a cargo of over 4,000 tons and can steam nearly twelve knots ; an hour, so that it will not take many days to make the trip. MARKET REPORTS.
CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Prime $3.50 @ 6. CO Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 @ 4.50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.00 >•. 5.50 Wheat—No 2 Red 84% r .85’2 C bn—No. 2 38 @ .30 Oats—No. 2 28’4 ® .29% Rye—No. 2 82 C<9 .83 Buiteb—Choice Creamery 28 & .30 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 12 @ .13 Eggs—Fresh 22 '© .21 Potatoes —Car-loads, perbu..,. .30 & .40 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle —Shipping 3.25 @ 5.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 425 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red ... .90%® .91% CoBN—No. 1 White 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ .33 ST. LOUIS. I Cattle 353 @ 4.50 H «= 3.50 & 4.25 Wheat-No. 2 lied 83 ® .88 Cohn—No. 2 30 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 20 © .-1 Rye—No. 2 82 & .83 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.0) @ 4.50 Sheep 3.00 & 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .96 CoBN—No. 2 42 @ .44 Oats-No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .35 DETROIT. Cattle 300 © 5.C0 Ho ;s 300 @4.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 500 Wheat—No 2 Red 91%@ .92% Cohn—No. 2 Yellow 40 & .42 Oats —No. 2 White 34 & .35 TOLEDO. Wheat —New 80 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ .34 Ry;.’ 87 .89 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.C0 @ 5.7a Live Hogs 3.75 @4.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard IXI ® 1.02 Corn—No. 55 & - 57 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 83 @ .8a Cobh—No. 37 @ .39 B.M-et-Ko. 2 Pork—Mess .....1125 @ll.<a NEW YORK. CaiTLF 3.40 @ 4.। a 4.50 ■ IpFfp 3.50 & 6.0) . wS^No^Red Cobn-No 2 51%@ ; Oats—Mixed Western © .83 i Butter- Creamery « & L 9 -‘ a @ W -' 5
ALBERT VICTOR DEAD. j HEIR TO THE BRITISH THRONE PASSES AWAY. Great Excitement Shown by All Classes— Sympathy Being Extended from All Sources—Scenes at Sandringham—Cardinal Manning Also Is No More. Death of a Duke. His Royal Highness, Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, and heir to the British throne, is dead. His death was caused by congestion of the lungs, brought about by a severe cold contracted , while hunting. The Duke of Clarence I was a member of a party which was । shooting over some covers situated a long distance from Sandringham Hall. At luncheon he complained of not feeling as well as usual, was seen to । shiver, and said that he felt that he was j taking cold, but after the meal he conI tinued shooting. At the conclusion of । the sport he walked homo instead of driving with the rest of the party. That evening he dined with the assembled
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company, but was obliged to retire early. On the following day efforts were made to dissuade him from joining the shoot- I ing party, but he insisted on doing so, I saying that he felt equal to the exercise. 1 After luncheon, however, he said that he ! felt compelled to return home and left the party, going on foot. The next morning he was unable to I leave his bed, and continued growing I rapidly worse until the seventh day, when death came to him. London and all England is wild | with excitement, and business is | entirely suspended. It is characteristic I ; oAthe deep affection felt by the entire ;
i British people for the Princess of Wales ■ I that the most sincere and heartfelt ex- . I pressions of sorrow are heard on every i hand and a deep feeling of sympathy I pervades every class of society from the | I highest to the lowest and every Shade of ; I political opinion from the Tory to the Radical. In the vicinity of Sandringham, where the Duke’s death occurred, the excitement cannot be described. CARDINAL MANNING. Catholic Divine I’asscs to the nounced from London, was suffering ; from a severe cold, had the last sacra- ! ment of the church administered to him and soon after expired. | It is now fourteen years since the distinguished churchman yas invested with i tluvardinal’s hat, and forty years since : he left the Established church, in which ! he had won high honors, for the Roman i communion. He has in an eminent dei gree earned the love of the working peo- j 1 pie of England by the interest he has al-
/a CARDINAL MANNINO. ways taken in their welfare, and in the last few years he has been instrumental in adjusting a number of serious differences between the industrial classes and their employers. He has also been active in temperance and other reform works. As a clergyman of the English Church, Dr. Manning officiated as one of the select preachers of the University of Oxford as long ago as 1834, and in 1840 was made Archdeacon of Chichester. After transferring his ecclesiastical allegiance to Rome, Dr. Manning founded a religous order at Bayswater, entitled the Obiates of St." Charles Borromeo. He succeeded Cardinal Wiseman as Archbishop of Westminster in 1865. About Men and Women. The Earl of Dudley has $6,000,000 life insurance.
New York has 5,000 union female betel hands. Only one American in 2G4 is over 6 feet in height. The real giant is the man who can overcome himself. A man's declining years begin at 50, a woman’s f om 15 to 18. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. It is mentioned as a ] eculrarity of the grass widow that she is seldom green. A mother-in-law's sermon reldem take well with an audience of daughters-in-law. A woman of Parkersburg, W. Va., has her eighth husband. She is 50 and he is 61. Earth has no other joy like unto that of the woman who has made eighteen calls and found everybody out Queen Victoria’s bedroom at Windsor Castle is so simple in its decorations and furnishings that one would take it for the sleeping apartment of some old maid.
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 Cod sidered. The Senate and House. Among the departmental and other ccm-^ munications laid before the Senate by ths \ ice President, on the 12th, were agree^ ments for the cession of their lands mada with the Sho,hone and Arapahoe Indians ;of the Wind River Reservation in ; Wyoming, the Indians of the Pyra- ; mid Lake reservation, and the Klck- : apoo Indians of Oklahoma. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House, Speaker Crisp being still unable to preside over the deliberati ms of the House, his duties were again performed by the Speaker pro tern. The first business report from any of the standing committees was presented by E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, who, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported a bill fixing the time for holding terms of the Circuit and District Courts in the Northern District of lowa, providing that hereafter terms of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States shall be held at Dubuque on third Tuesday in April and first Tuesday In December; at Fort Dodge the first Tuesday in June and second Tuesday in November; at Sioux City the third Tuesday in May and first Tuesday in October; at Cedar Rapids the first Tuesday in April and second Tuesday in September. Passed. After the usual presentation of bills the House adjourned. In the House on the 13th. Mr. Holman presented a. resolution opposing the granting of subsidies or bounties by Congress in money, public moneys, bonds, or by pledge of the public credit to promote special private industries or enterprises. Considerable confusion succeeded the reading of the resolution; but, without giving time for debate, "Mr. Holman demanded the previous question on its adoption. “Will debate be in order after the previous question is ordered on this resolution?” inquired Mr. Henderson, of lowa. “The Speaker is of the opinion that debate would not then be inorder,” replied Speaker Iro Tern. McMi lan. “And this House will cease to be a deliberative body,” added Mr. Reed, of Maine. The repetition of the charge which had so frequently been hurled against n.mself caused the House, Democrats and Republicans, to break into a roarof laughter. The yeas and nays on the previous question were demanded and resulted—yeas, 154 • ?< ay « Whe “ the vote was announced Mr. Holman asked unanimous consent that an hour’s debate on each side be allowed. Mr. Reed wanted two hours on a side, and to Uns Mr. Holman consented. Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, asked if this arrangement included two hours for the People s party ;is well as the Republican and Democratic parties. In the Senate the time was taken up by the Introduction of bills
In the House on the 14th the session was consumed in debate on the Holman resolution. which in substance declares that Congress in its appropriations shall be strictly limited to the moneys necessary to curry on the several departments of the Government. The Senate took up the calendar, the first bill on it being one to aid the State of Colorado to support the school of mines. It appropriates 25 per cent, of all moneys paid to theLnited States for mineral lands in Colorado for the maintenance of the scliool of mines established at Goliten. Mr. Teller moved to amend the bill by making the percentage 50 Instead of 25. Agreed to and the bill was passed. Other bills passed as follows: Authorizing the construct ' n of a bridge across the Mis? sissippi River in Chamberlain, in Brule as a hall of records. Adjouriiedt^mn^^^^® On the 15th, the debate was continued In the House on the Holman resolution. After e citing debate the resolution was adopted without amendment. It is known as the anti-subsidy resolution. The House then took up the reports of the Committee on Accounts assigning clerks to the various committees of the House. After debate the minority substitute, providing for twenty-four clerks, was defeated—yeas, 84; nays, 164 — and the majority report, which provides for thirty - seven clerks, was agreed to. Mr. Fyan, of Missouri, who has been absent on account of sickne-s, was then sworn In. but his health was so feeble that he was obliged to take the oath of office from his seat. Mr. Hatch, of Missouri. Introduced a bill amending the Presidential succession act so as to add the office of Secretary of Agriculture after that of Secretary of the Interior. No business in the Senate. Both bouses adjourned until the 18th.
This and That. There are eighty anti-vaccinatioa leagues In Eug and and Scotland. Herman?*, the Cannes perfumer, uses twenty tons of violets every year. Francis Murphy is the most effective opposition the Keeley institutes have. Two hundred and forty-nine mail trains arrive at and leave Chicago every day. It is said that the clove importers are organizing against tin new odorless whisky. A restaurant-keeper says celery wants to lie in cold water an hour before it is chewed. Ax alloy of 78 p r cent of gold and 23 per cent of aluminum is the most brilliant known. England and Ireland together drank 42,030,000 gallons more beer than Germany last year. To get rid of soft corns apply cotton wool soaked in cantor oil. Bind it on with a piece of soft linen Never sit on a damn cu-hion, moist ground, or a marble or stono step, if you wish to avoid a sore throat. Recent experiments show that with proper appliances ordinary gaslight can i be used in taking photographs. The frying sound in the telephone is i caused by induction from other lines, 1 earth curr mts, and static discharges, j The bras<top of a kerosene lamp may > pe res -t when it has become loose by I us'ng plaster of Paris wet with water. | Divers notice that when fi-h are j frightened each variety -eeks the shelI ter of the submarine growth nearest in ! color to tb.e fish i A new treatment for ye low fever has | cured every case of this disease in Sani tiago de Cuba, The principal part of I the new process consists in p acing the patient in what is termed a “polar” room. < on the Fly. The greatest prayer is patience. Silence is golden for a fool’s tongne. The mantle of earth is its land’s capo. It is easier to blame than to do better. ; Hope is the dream of those who are ' awake. A haunted tav rn is th, home of an inn-specter It is the gin-phiz that indicates the confirmed toper, When hope dies the devil adds another scalp to his belt.