St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 January 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA SHE SLEW HER RIVAL. MEMPHIS STARTLED BY A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Ellendale Bank Depositors Will Probably Be Paid In Full—New Colorado Mining Camp—A Tennessee Elopement and Its Results—Cheaper Footwear. Congressional. On the 26th but little business was done in either house. The entire mass of correspondence with Cuili, in relation to the Valparaiso Incident, was laid before both Senate and House in joint assembly, together with a message from President Harrison. This action virtually placed the next steps of settlement of the question in the hands of Congress. Rarely has the Capitol building been the scene of such intense, though suppressed, excitement as when the mass of spectators and legislators were waiting for the long-promised message. To add to the interest in the House, also. Speaker Crisp occupied the chair for the first time in six weeks. The message was loudly applauded by Congressmen and spectators alike. Adjournment was taken immed^tely after its reading. Chili Finds Her Speech. Says a dispatch from Santiago: The Chilian Government has sent a reply to the ultimatum of the United States. The reply is in effect as follows: Chili agrees to withdraw the offensive note sent by Senor Matta to all the Chilian Ministers abroad, and acknowledges that its issuance was due to an error of judgment. Chili also withdraws its request for the withdrawal of Minister Egan. In addition to this the Chilian Government in its answer proposes that the affair of the attack on the Baltimore’s sailors in Valparaiso be submitted to the arbitration of some neutral nation. If this proposition is not acceptable to the United States the Chilian Government suggests that the matter be submitted to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. Murdered Her Rival with a Razor. At Memphis, on the Custom-House walk, without a word of warning, Miss Alice Mitchell rushed up behind Miss Fredereka Ward, threw her left arm around her, and with the other hand drew 7 a razor and cut her throat from ear to ear, severing the jugular vein and windpipe. The reason she gives is that Fredereka has refused to visit or recognize her on the grounds that she flirted. A rumor is current that Miss Mitchell was enraged because Miss Ward had won her sweetheart away from her. Both are daughters of old and wealthy families, who move in the highest society. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict charging Miss Mitchell with the killing, and that it was premeditated. Colorado’s New Mining Camp. Cripple Creek, Col., on the slopes of Pike’s Peak, which was opened up last summer, has already proved to.be one j

spring it will bo the busiest camp in the State. A recent assay gave 240 ounces if gold to a ton in one mine. The Ellendale Bank Deposits. The assignee of the lately defunct farmers and Merchants’ State Bank, Sllendale, N. D., made his first accountng to the depositors, when each received 15 per cent., together with 7 per ce»t. nterest since the date of the failure. Che general impression is that the de>ositors will in time be paid in full. Short News Paragraphs. At Frankfort, Mich., the steam pipe >f the propellor Osceola burst while the ■essel was leaving the harbor, fatally cabling W. D. McDonald, of Port Hu•on. T. Swann Latrobe, the scion of one >f Maryland’s aristocratic families, and or many years known as Baltimore’s ■epresentative society leader, is confined it the Sheppard Asylum, a victim of lissipation. Advices from Muenster, Germany, state that Herr Wipp, one of the leaders imong numismatists of-the present day, md Conservator of the Museum of Antiquities of Muenster, died of influenza. From various parts of Saxony it is reported that the influenza is extending its ravages even to the school teachers. Many inquiries having been made as to why boots and shoes were not included in the reciprocity arrangements with other countries, it is announced that under the Spanish reciprocity treaty boots and shoes are now admitted into Cuba and Porto Rico at a rate of duty 25 3er cent, less than is charged on similar irticles from other countries. Under the ■eciprocity arrangement with the West 'ndies, boots and shoes, after Feb. 1, vill be admitted at a reduction of duty 0 per cent, less than is charged upon imilar goods from other countries. Miss Martha Morton, the heroine of .singular Chatanooga.Tenn., elopement, ook the cars for Texas. Her destinaion was Cooksville, Texas, whither she ;oes to meet and marry one George Bymm, who, after a year’s correspondence, ent her money to come to him. As the esult of her secret departure her father ias been murdered by her brother-in-aw. The old man found that the trail if his lost child led to the cabin of Bill Sloan, the husband of her sister and a noon shiner by occupation. The father vent to Sloan’s house and demanded hat his daughter, who was hidden, be ;lven up to him. A row followed, which esulted in Sloan’s shooting aid killing ds father-in-law. The girl mounted a torse and rode through the nijht to ?ort Payne, declaring that she was >ound to marry the man of her choice. Che murderer took to the mountains. At London, Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the treat preacher, has had a relapse and is onfined to his bed. He is unable to vrite. Captain Lassen, of the German teamer Salerno, arrived at New York rom Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco, md reports that the German steamer jissbon put into Pernambuco and sent en men sick with yellow fever to the lospital. The doctor and three enineers died there. The reports from lantos show that ” e virulence of the isease continues unabated.

EASTERN. Eight freight-cars fell through a damaged trestle at Rankin, Pa., killing one brakeman and fatally injuring another. Mrs. Sarah Hobbs, an aged woman 1 of Philadelphia, who Jan. 14 was brut- ■ ally kicked by Thomas Ferguson, a ! prize-fighter, died at the hospital. , A. N. Doe, of Boston, is accused of ; embezzling $15,616 from the Bay State League, a mutual insurance society, of which he was formerly the Treasurer. The National Divorce Reform League 1 was in session in Boston the other day. ; Reports assert that encouraging prog- I ress in the work of the league is being made. At New York, the premature explosion of a blast killed two persons and seriously injured three. The blast was an old one and was accidentally struck by the crowbar of one of the men. Cyrus W. Field caught a slight cold and it developed into congestion of the lungs. If pneumonia results, which is quite possible, the case will be very serious owing to Mr. Field’s weak condition. Herman Wagner, his wife and two children were found starving in their home in West Hoboken, N. Y. In the room with them was the dead body of another child, 6 years old. Either from pride or ignorance Wagner made no attempt to secure aid from the authorities. He had been kept home by illness for four weeks. With the aid of the police, the officials of the Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Manchester Electric Line at Pittsburgh were enabled to open up their road, after an almost complete suspension of traffic for nearly a week. Ten ears were started with armed officers on the front and rear of each car. Along the route of the various lines extra police officers were stationed to prevent trouble, while guards surrounded the car sheds and kept the strikers off the company’s property. An equine slaughter house has been discovered in Bergen County, New Jersey, situated in a dense forest off the Palisades, at a point between Fort Lee and Leona. The horse butcher is Adolph Shafer, who intends to cater to the Polish colony about to be settled just east of Palisades Park, a station on the Northern Railroad of New Jersey. A reporter who visited Shafer’s place was sickened by the peculiar odor that prevailed. A horse’s head was seen in a barrel, the flesh having been cut off. Paul Kuntz, of Palisades Park, claimed to have sold an old crippled horse to Shafer for 5 cents a few days ago, but he did not have a thought of the use to be made of the animal. The authorities have been notified. WESTERN. Attorneys for the Monon Railway ha /e advanced the theory that Colonel Melville McKee, who was injured in the wreck near Crawfordsville last week, e^d died, was a victim of heart disease /nd not of the casualty. f Thomas S. Hutton, of Nevada, Mo., | who killed C. C. Diefenbaugh for puri i aenuitted of

- Charles Piper, a farmer near Ellendale, N. D., was frozen to death in his bed. The thermometer marked 32 degrees below zero. Luke Tiernon, a St. Louis tinsmith, claims to be entitled, with four others, to $1,000,000,000 worth of real estate in the heart of Chicago. Lorenzo Weisner, a second-term convict, committed suicide in the Kansas State Prison by hanging himself with his suspenders. The Council Bluffs passenger train on the C., R. I. & P. was wrecked a short distance north of Blue Island, 111. Several people were severely hurt. Michael Morearty was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary for the fatal shooting of Policeman Geo. Sehlinger at Chicago on the night of Oct. 7, 1891. Culver ore, assaying from $5 to $lO a ton, has been discovered on farms near Lexington, Mo. This ore is found in a free state on the surface and in a conglomerate of fire clay, magnesian limestone and flint, and mixed with talc sixteen feet below the surface. Last fall William Enrine advertised for a correspondent who wanted to marry. Maggie Jones, of Sparksville, Ind., answered it. Matters progressed nicely and he wanted her to come and see him in Wisconsin, where he lived, and get married. She agreed to meet him at Flora, 111. So they were married. Chicago grade-crossings have claimed another victim —Adam Ochs, ex-member and Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. He was crossing the tracks at May and Kinzie streets in a cutter when the incoming Panhandle passenger train ran him down and inflicted injuries that resulted fatally one hour later. At Madison, Wis., the Attorney General formally asked the court to pass upon the question of the constitutionality of the Democratic apportionment act of last winter. The suit will therefore be brought in the name of the State. The Attorney General some time ago was asked bj' the Republican movers in the matter to bring the suit. The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that the State law’ to abate smoke nuisances is invalid, because it exempts from its operation “manufacturing establishments using the entire product of combustion and the heat, power and light produced thereby within the building where they are generated or within a radius of 300 feet therefrom.” Muscatine will have the first beet sugar factory in lowa. A committee of citizens has raised SIOD,OOO to accept a proposition of a California syndicate to build a $500,000 sugar plant to be erected this summer, and be ready to operate next fall. The syndicate’s representative left for California to arrange for closing the contract. Muscatine show’s the best percentage of sugar in the test of beets. Wesley Drake a Sunday-school superintendent and teacher in the city school, has disappeared from Yukon, Oklahoma. He is charged with the betrayal under promise of marriage of Miss Mary Weller, aged 16 years, the daughter of prominent parents. The relatives of the young girl have organ-

ized a posse and are searching with shotguns for Drake. If caught by any of the townspeople he will not be taken back alive. At a fire in the National Surgical Institute at Indianapolis, the following, । all cripples, were killed: Irma Payne, aged 18, Dexter Mo.; Minnie Arnold, aged 17, Lancaster, Mo.; William I Ramstak. aged 17, Milwaukee; Mrs. E. I Bear and child; Mrs. Lazarus, Chicago; I Stella Spircle; G. M. Ellis, aged 40; Kate L. Straughan, relatives at 184 Massachusetts avenue; Mrs. Burns and nephew, of St. Paul, Minn.; C. 11. Gorman, McDonald, Mich ; Hannah Broek, Taylorsville, HL ; j Frank Dockendorf, Stillwater, Minn.; Min- , nie McDonald, Negaunee, Mich. Missing; i Mrs. M. Klump, Arthur Bayless; Fannie j Brerden. Memphis, Tenn.; Mottle Decko; j Dr. A. B. Prior, Ann Arbor, Mich. Over twenty were hurt, some fatally. Another chapter is added to the Daviess County (Ind.) Court House sensation. The investigation of the books of ex-Auditor Lavelle and exTreasurer Smith, which was ordered last August and which precipitated the Court House fire, has resulted in a finding of a, shortage in the accounts of Smith amounting to $4,000. This Smith is trying to make up. It will be remembered that following the tire ex-Auditor Lavelle, his brother, Mike Lavelle, Aaron B. Hawes, Basil Ledgerwood and Sam Harbin were arrested, charged with arson and mutilating public records. The two latter pleaded guilty and implicated the others, who, they said, hired them to set fire to the Court House. They were recently sentenced to the penitentiary for seventeen years each on pleas of guilty. The others will be tried in March. ’southern^ Harry Dismukes, of Birmingham, Ala., who confessed to killing his wife, was sentenced to be hanged Feb. 13. H. Bluman, of Bonham, Texas, was held in $6,000 for arson in causing the fire which recently destroyed the entire town of Giddings, Texas. Garza is said to have been located at Loma Prieto, near the line of Encinal and Duval Counties, Texas, and his capture is confidently expected. The strike on the Aransas Pass Railroad has terminated in the defeat of the strikers, who return to work—when their places have not been filled —at the old rate of wages. Henry Hinton, colored, one of the Bob Sims gang, has been lynched at Butler, Ala., for the part he took in the murder of the Mellens family in Choctaw County recently. Alexander Lewis, for the murder of Ben C. Travels in June, 1888, and Sheppard Busby, for killing Deputy Marshal Barney Connelly in August, 1891, have been sentenced by United States Judge Parker to be hanged April 27th next at Fort Smith, Ark. At Savannah, Ga., Sarah Bernhardt and party went out on a special car Sunday morning and spent the day gunning in Bryan County. They bagged forty birds. It is rumored that the^ incensed Christian citizens of Ellaville, will take steps to punish them before they leave Georgia for violating the Sunday laws. Sarah shot several buz> zards, which is also a violation of the State laws.

M U f Wff Secretary and Mrs. Blaine gave a a dinner in favor of President and Mrs. Harrison. Portraits of ex-Speaker Grow and the late Speaker Randall have been hung in the lobby of the House of Representatives at Washington. Representative Mills has written to Speaker Crisp a letter declining the chairmanship of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Mr. Mills is willing to accept committee assignments other than chairmanships, he says. There was some little excitement about the White House during the Cabinet meeting the other afte. on by reason of the sudden illness oi Secretary Blaine. He complained of nausea and said he felt weak and faint. His regular physician was soon in attendance and Mr. Blaine was relieved of all feeling of nausea. The attack was somewhat similar to the one of a fortnight ago, but was not nearly so serious, and yielded much more readily to treatment. Associate Justice Joseph P. Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, die d at his residence in Washington of general debility. His death was not unexpected, as it has been known for some months past that the distinguished jurist was far from being a well man, an attack of the grip last spring having left him in a much debilitated condition, from which he seemed unable to rally during the summer months. His trouble began again in November when he caught a slight cold, which, coupled with his enfeebled condition, made great inroads into his strength, and during the greater part of the present term of the Supreme Court he was unable to be present at its daily sessions. POLITICAL. Philadelphia Democrats have elected a Cleveland delegation to the State Convention. States’s Attorney Joel M. Longenecker is an avowed candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois. The People’s party has been called to meet in national convention in St. Louis, Feb. 22, to take the initiative for a combination. The Maine Prohibition State Convention has been called at Bangoi May 4 arid 5. The Executive Committee announces that it expects to make a strong fight this year. Upon the fifteenth ballot, the Democratic National Committee, in session at Washington, decided to hold the next Democratic National Convention at Chicago, on June 21. The resolutions adopted by the Louisiana Republican Convention denounced lynching as unjustifiable homicide; condemned the doctrine of race supremacy as an invitation to mob rule; demanded a free ballot and a fair count, equal rights to all, the repeal of all class legislation, and particularly of the separate coach law. FOREIGN, Herr Oscar Borchert will in a few days set out from Zanzibar with an ex-

pedition comprising between five and six thousand men, for the Victoria Nyanza, of which body it is proposed to make a I thorough exploration. John Couch Adams,the distinguished । English astronomer, is dead, aged 73 years. B avarian railways are seriously crippled by the prevalence of the grip among engine drivers. Earthquake shocks have been felt in the Island of Zante and adjacent islands, but no damage has been done. Rudyard Kipling, the well-known young author, was married at London to } Miss Balestier, sister of the, late Ameri- ' can novelist of that name. ’ Signor Crispi, ex-Premier, alleged in the Italian Chamber of Deputies that . the Rudini cabinet is humiliating the nation by truckling to France. An emeute of prisoners in Fort Santa Cruz, Rio Janeiro, took place. The guards were overpowered, and the prisoners, arming themselves, seized two other forts in the vicinity. Being re- ’ cruited by disaffected elements of the populace, they made a demand for the restoration of Da Fonseca. The government officers organized their forces and attacked the forts both by land and by water, and speedily forced the rebels to surrender. The leader of the emeute killed himself rather than be captured. At Brussels, Boutquin, the public executioner, died of influenza. Owing to the refusal of the present king ever to , sanction capital punishment, Bout- | quin never chopped off anybody’s i head. His sole official duty [ consisted in planting a pole I in front of the Town Hall from time to j time, placing on it a placard announcing I that the capital sentence had been pro- j nounced against some criminal which i was never carried out. For this sine- ! cure Boutquin received 3,000 francs ($600) j annually. He lived in peace, cultivat- j ing cabbages. The Pepe is sick with senile bronchitis, I aggravated by influenza. His physicians say that his condition is serious, be- • tuse he will not let himself be bled, i uoes not go to bed on account of diffi- J culty in breathing, and passes the night ’ in an easy cha a dangerous practice. ; The Pope who is clear-head, is willing I to receive the Cardinals on duty and I reads the newspapers, showing himself . affected by the news about his health, j The Vatican asks the newspapers read ' by the Holy Father to take a cheerful view . of his condition—a sure sign of the gravity of the situation, IN GENERAL Negotiations are in progress for the purchase by a New York and Chicago syndicate of all the rice mills in the South. > The twelve-inch rifle gun for the ‘ cruiser Monterey has reached San Francisco, having been sent by rail from ' Pennsylvania. The Court of Appeals at Montreal has ■ decided that a telegraph company is । liable for the errors of its operat rs in the transmission of messages. The ultimatum of the United States Government was made public at Santiago.’, The terms are: Immediate withaMHaiHl/1 of Matta’s note: indemnify’ and

. ‘ x e wne, wufilliuo uni i ■ rrn4 d!p 1 omatic relations severed. The conference between the Board of Directors of Union Theological Seminary and the committee appointed by the Presbyterian General Assembly on the ! relations between the seminary and the ; church, as reprt snted by the General’ Assembly, was continued, and what | passes for an understanding was finally ; arrived a*. News from Santiago is to the effect that vessels of the Chilian navy have been dispatched to contest the passage of the Straits of Magellan by United States men-of-war should it come to an open rupture between the two governments. At the same time it is alleged that the attitude of Chili is becoming more conciliatory. It is generally admitted in London that two steamships sailing from America have been burned at sea, and that it is probable that in both cases all on board lost their lives. Three incoming steamers have reported passing burning steamers, and the opinion expressed is that they were American tank steamers conveying petroleum to Europe. But this fact is only well established in the case of one of the burned steamers. There are fears that the second vessel may yet prove to have been a passenger steamer. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattm:— Common to Prime $3.50 @ 5.75 Huai-Shipping Grades 3.50 & 4.50 Sheep— lair io ■ hoice 3.00 @ 5,50 Wheat— No. 2 Red 87 @ ,88 Corn -No. 2 " ” .37 @ Oats— No. 2 28 & .29 Rye No. 2. 77I^@ .78^ Butter— hoice Creamery 28 @ .30 Cheese— Full Cream, flats 12 & 13 Eggs —Fresh 22 ©i -24 Potatoes— Car-loads, per bu.. . ^3J @ 4U INDIANAPv LIS. Cattle— Shipping 3.25 @ 475 Hogs— Choice Light 3.50 @4.50 Sheep —tommon to Prime 3.00 @5 00 Wheat— No. 2 Rei <o>6@ .91% Corn— No. 1 White ,41l» Oats— No. 2 White 33%@ .341,1 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.50 Wheat— No. 2 i.ed 90 ©, .92 ( ORN—No. 2 36 @ ‘37 Oats— No. 2 29 @ .31 Ryb —No. 2 79 @ si CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.75 Hogs x. 3.00 @ 4.:0 S ,EEP 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat— No. 2 Red 94 @ .96 Corn— ¥o. 2 42 @ .44 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 33 @ .35 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat— No. 2 Red ,92U Corn— No. 2 Yellow 49 & .42 Oats— No. 2 White 31 @ .35 TOLEDO. Wheat— New 91 @ .92 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 4; @ .41 Oats— No. 2 W hite 31 @ .32 Rye t7 @ .88 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.00 @5.75 Live Hogs 3.’,5 © 4.75 Wheat —No. 1 Hard 1.02>4@ 1.03'2 ; Corn —No. 2 55 @ .57 MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring 85 @ .87 C rn— No. 3 4C @ .41 Oats— No. 2 White 31 @ ,33 Rye— No. 1 .83 J .84 Barl y— No. 2 .56 @ .57 Pork— Mess 11.50 @12.(0 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.75 Sheep 4.00 @ 6.0) Wheat —No. 2 Red 1.03 @ 1.05 Corn— No. 2 49 @ .51 Oats —Mixed Western 35 @ .38 Butter— Creamery 21 @ .32 i Pork—Mess 9.75 @10.75

MUST I’UT UP OR SHUT UP DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

IN OTHER WORDS, APOLOGIZE OR FIGHT. This Is All that Remain^ for Chili to Do- a An Apology and Indemnity Demanded— Failure to Come to Time to Be Followed by Egan's Withdrawal. Warlike Words. During the last week, in spite of the show of friendship toward Minister Egan by Senor Pereira, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other members qf the Chilian Cabinet, events have come to light exhibiting surprising duplicity. Minister Egan was asked last week by the Chilian Foreign Office to “recognize” the fact that Secretary Blaine had accepted U e renunciation of Matta’s circular letter by the Chilian Government, the so-called renunciation being forwarded upon the explanation that President Harrison’s message was a domestic document and it was therefore improper for a foreign government to officially comment upon it. Mr. Egan declined to entertain the proposition until after he fej i \ MINISTER PATRICK ECAN. had communicated with the Washington , s Government and obtained instructions ' ; from his own superiors.. He declined j j to acknowledge the “renunciation” upon i ; the grounds stated by the Chilian au- ; ’ thorities without official information . ! from Washington. When the request in regard to the Matta note was made by Minister Eagan he was told that a letter | in regard to the subject would be sent I to the American Legation. The promised j letter was not sent. On the contrary ; । the Chilian Government cabled Senor Pedro Montt, its Minister at Washington, to demand the recall of Mr. Egan because he was peisona non grata. Secretary Blaine’s reply to the demand for Minister Egan's recall has been delivered. Instead of being an ' instruction to Mr. Egan to return home , it instructed the American Minister to j deliver the ultimatum of the United States Government to the Chilian auj thorities. This ultimatum demands the immediate and unqualified withdrawal of | the Matta letter without reservation, an ! apology for the assault upon the sailors i of the Baltimore, and the payment of an | indemnity. It is couched in an ex- | tremely firm and decided tone. Minister Egan is instructed if the demand is not complied witli at once to sever diplomatic i relations with the Chilian Government. I Chili’s hour of reckoning lias come, ' and it must reckon with tin United

p* | States for two distinct off< nses. Oi lent circular of the Foreign Minist^T^ the Provisional Government, in which I the most insulting things were said of i the President of the United States, the ’ Secretary of the Navy, the Minister to , ' Chili, and the naval officers. The other ; ■ is the antecedent one growing out of the I attack on sailors wearing the American | uniform by the Valparaiso mob. There I is a third cause of irritation, but it is I not set forth as an offense. This is the request of the Chilian Government for the recall of Minister Egan without that Government having previously settled the Baltimore outrage and disavowed the Matta circular. Every diplomatic step has been taken. . The ultimatum has been duly presented by Minister Egan to the Chilian authorities. While several messages have gone to him during the last few days there ’ was no possibility of mistaking the later ones. In them he was directed to state with all formality that the United States ; senewed on the present Montt Government the demand it had made on the ’ Provisional Government for reparation i for the Baltimore outrage, and in addition he was instructed to demand a complete disavowal of the Matta offense. I T) messages were not simply in the n eof an ultimatum, they were the uiumatum itself. To guard against any error in terms | after he received them Minister Egan repeated the instructions back again. They were found exactly as i sent, and he was directed to present the I ultimatum at once and ask for an imme- i diate reply. He did so. Chili has made no reply, either to Minister Egan in San- ' tiago or through its minister in Wash- ' ington. It is still defiant. The United States held no communication with I Minister Montt in regard to the final de- I mands. The administration ignored him and dealt directly through the Minister to Chili. He was not even told that the last message had gone and the news was ! known to the ChiHaau government before the minister in Washington had it. This was about the most emphatic I way in which the president and Secre- I tary of State could" show their displeas- ’ ure at the course of Chili in presenting the request for Minister Egan’s recall ■when the circumstances were so critical. < Officially the United States does not entertain the request pending a settlement of the controversy. It was therefore the simple truth to say that when Minister Egan leaves Santiago Minister Montt W’ill leave Washington. The Dem. Con. Chicago is really the convention city of the United States. — Milwaukee Journal. The Democratic (onvenliin goes to i Chicago, perhaps the best city for a convention in the country.—Terre Haute Express. Chicago is a hospitable city and has ] all the facilities and accessories useful I I to a great national convention.—Min- ; ! neapolis Times. So the Democratic national eonven- J tion will be held at ( hicago June 21, and the Republican naticnal convention at i Minneapolis June 7. The West is in it this time. —Cleveland Plain-Dealer. The choice of Chicago is from all । points of view and on all accounts a good one, and is sure to be indorsed by 1 the rank and file of the party, especially < , of the West and South. —Memphis Com--1 mercial.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. "At tl»e Nation's Capital—What Is Being; Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. The Chaplain had a somewhat larger audience of Senators on the 19th than usuaL The first paper presented was a report from the Secretary of State (in reply to a Senate resolution) as to the Mexican awards under the convention of 1868. Secretary Blaine’s report gives the full amount of the awards as . 83,865,000. all of which had been paid by Mexico in fourteen annual installments in perfect accordance with the terms of the convention. These bills were passed: Appropriating SIO,OOO for a Postoffice building at Mammoth Hot Springs, in Yellowstone National Park; to aid South Dakota to support a school of mines at Rapid City, Pennington County; appropriating $250,000 for a public building at Hastings, Neb; appropriating $20,000 to increase the accommodations of the Marine Hospital at Detroit, Midi.; appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building in Mansfield,O.; appropriating $250,000 for a public building at Norfolk, Neb.; appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Jacksonville, Ill.; appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Fergus Falls, Minn. ; appropriating $100,009 for a public building at Zanesville, Ohio; consideration of the Mexican award bill was resumed, and Mr. Vest continued his argument against it. Mr. Morgan replied to Mr. Vest, and then the bill went over till the 20th without action. The enrolled House bill, fixing times of sessions of United States Courts in the Northern District of lowa, was signed by the Vice President, and is the first act of the present session to go to the President for his approval. In the House, nothing of importance was done. When the Senate met on the 20th, only one of the two re-elected Mississippi SenI ators, Mr. Walthall, was in his seat, and he received congratulations from his fellow Senators from both parties. Mr. George I entered the chamber and took his seat while | the business of the morning hour was in I progress, and was warmly congratulated. | The following bills were passed: For pubi lie buildings at Grand Haven, Mich., $50,i 000: Deadwood, S. D., $200,000; Stillwater, ; Minn., $100,000; Salem, Oregon. $100,000; ' the Dalles, Oregon, SIOO,OOO. The latter ; bill gave rise to a long discussion, but it was finally passed—yeas, 35; nays, 12. A ' bill also passed for a public building at i Fresno, Ca 1.—575,000. In the House, on > motion of Mr. Stone, of Kentucky, a resolution was adopted calling upon the Secre- • tary of the Treasury for a statement of all j goods imported into the United States from the Dominican Republic and from I Porto Rico, dutiable or free. Also a state- ; ment of all goods exported to the couni tries for ten years prior to the pass- ; age of the McKinley act. The folj lowing bills were introduced: For a 1 public building at Ann Arbor. Mich.; ' directing the Secretary of the Treasuiy to I call in at once and cover into the Treasury ■ all moneys deposited with national banks and drawing no interest; for a public building at Huntington, W. Va. Mr. Springer introduced his free wool bill and i i» was referred to the Committee on Ways ’ and Means. On the 21st, Mr. Stanford addressed the Senate In advocacy of the bill introduced | by him to provide the government with i means sufficient to supply the national ■ want of a sound circulating medium. : The discussion was not concluded, ! and the bill is on the table to jbe called up in the future. Mr. Cockrell . reported the bill for the relief of the Uni- : versity es Missouri, at Columbia, and after explanation it was passed. The L Abra i bill was again taken up, but without dispos-

• I Mill Oils lollVVll up, UUV w ivnvuv ne is ■ j n g jj. the Senate went into executiv soon adlonrned tilhUdUL.-? 11 for the present consideration of ’a joint resolution authorizing tho President to anI point a commission of three persons to investigate the cause of the recent i explosion and loss of life at Krebs, | I. T. The resolution, after some debate, went to the Committee on Rules. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the drawbacks paid to importers of tin-plate under the provisions of the McKinley bill. Also for a statement of duties refunded to importers of salt for curing fish and meat. Mr. Harvey, of Oklahoma, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill appropriating §15,000 to complete the allotment of lands to the Cheyenne and Arapa- । hoe Indians in Oklahoma. Passed. Ad- ! journed till the 25th. Out of the Onliuary. Fully four times as many people speak Chinese as speak the English I language. In France the average family com- ' prises three members; in England, four; in Ireland, five. The constant use of the telephone produces impaired hearing, headache, ■ and nervous excitability. During the past twelve years the ! value of farm land in Kansas has advanced fully 25 per cent. A harness that looks luminous in the dark has been invented. It is intended . to prevent collisions at night. The wind blows constantly froni a well 100 feet deep in Tacoma, Wash. No one knows the source, of the wind. A Cincinnati court has decided that it is libelous to call a man who neglects to pay :his tailor’s bills “a delinquent.” The salary of the King of Samoa is only SB4O a year. His legal adviser is much better remunerated. His pay is $5,000 a year. Colorado’s “pay dirt” last year in gold, silver, copper, and lead amounted to $33,548,934. Her smelters’ product amounted to $44,919,193. If any Western girls want to open negotions they arc herewith further informed that the name of the love-sick jurist is Judge J. A. Roebuck. Two litigants in Boston have very suggestive and antagonistic names. When the clerk called the case, he shouted, “Paine vs. Bliss.” The smallest steam engine ever made has been constructed by a machinist in Chemnitz, Saxony. The fly-wheel is two-fifths of an inch in diameter. Eugene Winchet, of Dayton, Ohio, is a popular man. He owms a street railway in that city, and permits all the working girls to ride for half fare. Careful investigation in Prussia reveals the remarkable fact that the average life of Jews in Prussia is five years longer than that of Christians. People and Events. There is an oil craze at Tacoma, Wash. Os the foreign merchants in China only twenty-seven are Americans. The genuine Shetland pony can be bought on its native heath for about s4(l. The output of asbestos from the Canadian mines last year was 8,000 tons. It is said that more money is spent for eggs than for Hour in the United states.