St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 March 1892 — Page 2

WALKERTON [INDEPENDENT, e s T e WALEERTON, . « . INDIARA N ————— A POOL ROOM RAIDED. CHICAGO SPORTS RUN IN BY THE POLICE. Congressmman Springer Is Slowly Improving—A Pennsylvania Murderer Laughs and Jokes on the Scaffold—Uncle Sam After a Bold California Ranchman.

; At Washington. In the Senate, on the Bth. the Behring Sea controversy and the pure food bill were subjects of discussion, though final action was had upon neither. The following Senate bills were passed: To prohibit the sale of fire-arms and ammunition to Indians residing wupon reservations; referring to the Court of Claims the «Tice Meter” claim; appropriating $300,000 for a public building at Spokane Falls, Wash. ; appropriating $275,000 for the construction of two United States revenue cutters for service on the Great Lakes; appropriating $50,000 for a public building at Alameda, Oal.; appropriating $200,000 for a public building at Boise City, Idaho; to amend the act of Aug. 28, 1890, to reorganize and establish the customs collection district of Puget Sound: to authorize the construction of jetties, piers and breakwaters at private expense in the Gulf of Mex{co at the mouth of the Ropes Pass, Tex. ; authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Kootenai River, in the town of Fry, Idaho. To estabiish a military post near Little Rock, Ark. Both houses adJourned upon the announcement of the death of Mr. Kendall, Representative from Kentucky. Wall Hanged for Wife Murder, CHARLES WALL was hanged in the prison yard of the Wyoming County Jail at Tunkhanncck, Pennsylvania, for the murder of his wife. In his cell Wall laughed and joked for over two hours before the execution. Heindulged in profane remarks and gave no signs whatever of sorrow or repentance, claiming all the time that he was innocent. He said he was sober at the time the murder was committed, but was dazed with sickness, believing that he had been poisoned before he left home, and was not responsible for what he did when he returned. ; Mr. Springer’s Improvement Is Slow. i CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, of Illinois, is slowly improving, but his physicians 1 seem to think it is sure. He has passed | one good day, his mind was clear most l of the time, and he appeared a little stronger. But he is still weak.. The nervous, racking cough which was so distressing has almost entirely disappeared. Through the night time the patient is generally more restless. The coma and semi-delirium have not entirely disappeared, though these periods are much milder.

BREVITIES, THERE is a steady exodus of negroes from Arkansas to Oklahoma. THe salt market has gone to pieces as the result of the Western New York combination.. " GREEN CAMPBELL, of Birmingham, * Ala., has been sentenced to death by a jury for wife murder. EIIGHT newspapers in Germany have been seized for condemning the Emperor’s Brandenburg speech. ROCKFORD, 111., Camp No. 5, Modern Woodmen of America, is now the largest camp in the world, having 378 members. A HURRICANE which passed over Lisbon unroofed houses, blew down trees, and caused the death of six persons by flying debris. MRrs. JENNIE McCCRACKEN, wife of a Chicago business man, committed suicide at Richmond, Ind., by taking cyanite of potassium. NEGROES near Memphis ambushed and shot several court officials. The whites are roused, and swear to exterminate the blacks. SECRETARY FOSTER denied to a newspaper interviewer in London that he was in that city to arrange for an international monetary conference.

THE iron-mining craze is on the in- ‘ crease in Minnesota. Millions of dollars | are being sunk by corporations, and the \ railroads are (xtending their lines. Ep A. CuDAHY, the well-known packer, and former partner of “Phil” Armour, was thrown from his carriage in a runaway at Omaha. His right leg was | broken. LievuT. HETHERINGTON, who shot his wife’s English seducer at Yokohama, will be tried by the American Consul there, with right of appeal to the American Minister and then to the United States Circuit Court of Cal'"ornia. UNITED STATES troops have been sent to eject the herds of White, the cattle king of Medocino County, Ca'ifornia, from the Round Valley Indian Reserva- \ tion, inte which they were regularly driven when the grass became short elsewhere. TUESDAY night twelve wagon-loads of gamblers were carted from Frank Shaw’s new gambling rooms on South Clark street, Chicago. Shaw establiched a new “telegraph” company, by means of which, he claimed, bets could be made on races, which his company will transmit, and the better can secure his money almost as soon as though the wager was made in Chicago. The authorities objected, and nearly 200 occupants of the rooms were arrested. * TaE widow of Jefferson Davis has sued Robert Belford, the publisher, for £4,000 royalty on the sale of her book of memoirs. TuE families of the Italians who were lynched over a year ago, at New Orleans, will sue the city for fro . $40,000 to $50,000 each. THE report is abroad that the cordage trust is the next monopoly billed for an attack under the Sherman law. CONGRESSMAN OWEN SCOTT denies that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Goveraor of Illinois.

MME. DE STUERS, who obtained a divorce from the Belgian diplomate Tuesday, was, later in the day, married at Sioux Falls to Elliott Zeborowski, who has been in attendance up'n her for gsome time past. The bridegroom is a wealthy New-Yorker.

R EASTERN. -l THE Boston and Maine passenger depot at Newburyport, Mass., was burned; loss $25,000. RICHARD SCANLAN, of New York City, threw a lighted lamp at his wife, resulting in her burning to death. Lucy RIDLEY, an old colored woman, has died in New York at the age of 117 years; she was a slave nearly ninety years. Two SEAMEN of the schooner Fannie E. Thrasher started in a small boat to call a tug, near Boston, and have not been heard of since. THE New Jersey Senate has passed a bill appropriating SI,OOO toward the national monument to b 2 erec’ 1 at the World’s Fair, in commemorat. i of the emancipation of slaves. THE National Rice Milling Company, the purpose of which is to grow, mill and market rice in the United States, has been organized at Trenton, N. J., with a capital stock of $5,000,000. A CHINAMAN, charged with assaulting a little Italian girl in New York, was roughly handled by a mob and might have been killed if the police had not interfered and locked him up. AN explosion of fire damp oceurred at the Elmwood Colliery, at Mat noy, Pa., and five men were badly burned. It is thought that none of them will recover,. The Elmwood is one of the Reading collieries.

] LiLuiAN WEEKS, of 44th street Philadelphia, entered a rope jumping contest with three other school children, all aged about 10 years. Lillian jumped 840 times without missing and died that night. Two ¢f the other children are critically ill. MARY GALVIN, of Duquesne, Pa., folj lowed her husband into a neighbor’s house Wednesday night and threw a [ bucket of lye in his face. Galvin will die. Mrs. Galvin was jealous. Two lchildren were also fatally burned by portions of the lye. } THE late Mrs. William P. Wilstach, of l Philadelphia, bequeathed from SI,OOO to + $2,000 to every known charitable institultion in that ecity; her art collection, jworth $1,000,000, goes to the city of Philadelphia. Her whole estate was worth $5,000,000. AT New York, Timothy Hopkins, the adopted son of Mrs. Mark HopkinsSearles, has compromised his suit against Edward F. Searles for $3,000,000. The twenty-four or twenty-five relatives of }Mrs. Searles have been placated, and now this case is ended forever. Both sides claim a vietory. ! At Jersey City, N. J., custom house ‘inspectors 1 le an important seizure at the Bremen steamship docks. Two men were seen to leave the steamship Lahn and hurry up the docks. They were stopped and the inspectors found four sealed packages of jeweiry in their pockets. Both are employed as cooks aboard the Lahn. The jewelry was vorth about SIO,OOO. WESTERN. AT Dayton, Ohio, Jacob Harvey, for murdering his mistress, was sentenced to hang June 14. A Two-rFoor vein of ore, worth SI,OOO a ton, has just been uncovered in Sherwood, six miles from Fairplay, Col. St. Pavn and South Dakota natives are anxious to meet one H. M. Hymen, who has swindled hundreds of people. HARRY KINSEY, alias George Emery, employed as a brakeman on the Burlington Road, was found dead on the top of a train at Sutton, Neb. His skull was crushed. THE people in and around Gary City, end Plymouth, two villages ten miles up the river from Atchison, are greatly excited over the alleged discovery of a gold mine in the neighborhood.

A miorous attack was made upon a little band of religious cranks known as Disciples of the Flying Roll, in Detroit, recently, in eonsequence of the attempt of J. T. Richardson to recover his child, whom his wife had taken to live with the band. THERE were over sixty horses sold at the Emery-Fasig horse sale at Cleveland, Ohio. Nearly all were roadsters. Over $16,000 was realized. Mamie Woods, roan mare, foaled 1884, by Woods Hambletonian, was sold to W. H. Wilson, Cynthiana, Ky., for $1,830. HENRR NOSTINGHAM, who was SuperIntendent of the Lake Shore Road from 1856 till 1868, was fcuad dead on the floor of his room at the Hawley House, Cleveland, Ohio. His home was in Painesville. He was arrested for intoxication and released. An inquest 'will be held to determine the cause of ‘ his death.

AT Walla Walla, Wash., Theocdore Heirtz, a laborer, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. Heirtz | and his wife separated, and he went to the house where his wife was stopping and fired six shots at her. She ran into the yard and fell dead. He then went to the railroad depot and shot himself through the heart. J. W. CoLuiNs, President of the Cal- l {fornia National Bank of San Diego, which he wrecked, committed suicide. Collins had been under arrest for the past ten days in a charge of embezzlement. He had been unable to furnish | ‘the required bonds and had been con- ‘ fined to his room in the Brewster Hotel in charge of a deputy. Fire broke out at the Eden Musee, a variety theater at Omaha. The place was in full blast and crowded with thoueands of people. The flames originated on the - stage from the -curtain falling against a gas jet. The exits were very poor and many people were taken from the burning building by the firemen. Though many were crushed in their efforts to escape none were fatally injured. Several men Jeaped from the first and second stories. The loss is $50,000, The company has a branch at St. Joe. The building was gutted. WEDNESDAY night the national bank at Coldwater, Mich., was robbed. The safes were broken opc‘n and $20,000 in cash taken, also a private deposit of €40,000 in Philadelphia and Reading preferred bonds. Ten thousand dollars reward is offered for the arrest of the robbers. The job was the boldest and most complete piece of work of the kind ever perpetrated it Western Michigan, and was undoubtedly the work of experts. They blew open every safeand

vault, time-lock and all, and - teok every. bit of cash, including bills, silver, and Eonnies, they could find. The robbery as caused a great sensation here, and the bank was visited by hundreds of citizens in the morning. The vaults and safe were completely wrecked. There is no clew to the robbers. A DECISION wasreached by the United States Circuit Court in the case of The United States vs. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company, involving the titles of pre-emption settlers on the Allen County, Kansas, lands, claimed by the railroad as a part of the land grant to the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad, and assigned to the Missouri, ‘ Kansas and Texas Road. The Government claims that these lands were wrongfully obtained by the railroad. To overthrow the efforts the road has made recently to eject original settlers, the United States Attorney applied to Judge Riner for a temporary injunction, which was granted. The order restrains the Misgouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company from interfering with the peaceable possession of their homesteads by the settlers on these lands. Dr. HENRY MARTYN SCUDDER, son of | the old and beloved ex-pastor of Plymouth Church, Chicago, is charged with the brutal murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. F. H. Dunton, says a Chicago dispatch. It is alleged that the erime was committed at the Dunton home, 22 Aldine square, on the morning of Sunday, Keb. 21. Dr. Boudder “Wag quietly taken into custody Wednesday morning. He was found at his father’s house, 3921 Grand boulevard, where he was confined to his bed. The news of his arrest was not made public until the following afternoon, when certain of his relatives and friends went before Judge Scales, of the County Court, and Dr. Doremus Scudder, his brother, represented that the accused was insane. They asked that he be taken from the custody of the police and placed in the Dxtention Hospital. By order of the E€ourt the request was granted. Dr. Scudder is at the hospital guarded as a erazy man, SOUTHERN. Ix Simpson County, Kentucky, Briggs Caldwell shot and killed Fount Justice and Charles Hancock on account of an old feud. A GENERAL reduction of 10 per cent. in the wages of furnace employes is being put into effect at Birmingham, Alabama. | HARRY GRAY, son of a prominent Atlanta man, lies dying of a bullet wound received while trying to burglarize a neighbor’'s house. A1 Louisville, Ky., William Brand has made two attempts to kill Mrs. Laura Good because she refused to get a divorce frem her husband and marry him. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX noes to thirty-seven ayes was the vote of the Baltimore conference on the question of admitting women as delegates to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Carr. TratorHY MEAHER, ¢ venerable steamboatman, is dead at N e, Ala., aged 79 years. He was .i..uy years identified with business on the Alabany ald Tombigheo Mivors im 4} " + days of stvntnbflhfl“fifl# ' an importer of the last ¢ brought to the United States. 8 was in the spring of 1861. The thirty negroes that fell to his share he settled in a suburb of Mobile, where, being freed shortly after their arrival, they and their descendants have remained. They have never associated with other negroes, are but partially eivilized, still use their native language, and are ruled | by a queen of their own choosing. 'l“lu;\' enjoy a good reputation for indus- ‘ try and honesty, and their colony is one of the curiosities most eagerly viewed by sightseers.

WASHINGTON. FEMLEIGH L. MONTAGUE, an artist, becoming despondent at the lack of public appreciation of his pictures, killed his wife and himself in Washingion. REPRESENTATIVE HERM AN, of Oregon, has introduced a bill in Congress directing our Minister to Turkey to enter into negotiations for the purchase from Asia Minor of between 100 and 200 pureblooded Angora goats. The Sultan having prohibited the exportation, diplomatic arrangements will have to be resorted to. Mg, WarsoN, a Farmers’ Alliance representative from Georgia, in the House denounced as false a newspaper article charging him with having voted with the Republicans in the Craig-Stew-art election case for financial considerations and the promises of money from the Republicans to aid him in his next campaign.

A BILL has been introduced in the Senate by Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, which provides that the United States ghall send a Consul General to the Congo Free State at a salary of $4,000 a year, and a Vice Consul at $2,000 a year. There is now a commereial agent at Boma, and although the salary is $5,000 the place is vacant. The climate is so unhealthy there is no demand for this‘ ginechre, @ 0 f POLITICAL. OxLnAHOMA’S delegates to the Republican National Convention were instructed to vote for President Harrison, TuE New York Recorder has a report from Washington to the effect that exSecretary W. C. Whitney has been commissioned to state to Democratic leaders that ex-President Cleveland will soon publish a letter withdrawing from the Presidential race. THE Congressional Distriet Convention in Indiana, to choose delegates to the Republican National Convention, resulted in every instance in the selection of Harrison men, and that with practically no opposition. Among the delegates is Gen. Lew Wallace. FOREIGN, ~ ACCORDING to an official estimate 105 1 fishermen we: ¢ drowned in the recent storm on Portugal’s coast. - \ Tue British steamer Plato was abani(‘.oncd in a sinking condition near the ’ Scilly Isiands; her crew were taken off | by a passing steamer, ! EMPEROR WILLIAM has received many | letters from workmen assuring him of

e ,';-;‘_1_.,.,,.. \fi.~ so s 1 ‘ .| their loyalty and. expressing regret for the recent disturbances. EIIGHTY-THREE married fishermen were drowned in the recent gales on the coast of Portugal, and their widows and children are in danger of starvation. Two POWERFUL dynamite cartridges were placed in the doorway of the Paris police quarters Thursday night, but failed to explode on account of the rain. A METAL receptacle containing a fluid I the nature of which has not yet been ascertained, was thrown at the Czarowitz. It is supposed that the design was | to kill the heir apparent TWELVE THOUSAND loaves of bread and quantities of sausage, meat and milk were distributed to the poor in Vienna on Sunday. Twenty-seven women waiting to receive food fainted in the line. LiEUTENANT J. H. HETHERINGTON, United States navy, killed Banker George Gowan Robinson in Yokohama recently, on account of an alleged in‘timacy between the latter and Mrs. Hetherington. The man who was killed was known as “the handsomest man in Yokohama.” Mrs. Hetherington is the 1 daughter of Emien Hewes, of Wilmington, Del. Ixn view of the wide publication in Holland of a newspaper article reporting that trichine had been found in American pork at Utrecht, Mr. Theodore M. Schleier, the American Consul in Amsterdam, has addressed a circular letter to the American Counsuls throughout Europe saying that the exact facts of the Utrecht case were that forty-eight pieces of meat were inspected and in one piece only were trichin® found. Mr. Schleier adds: “These are the whole facts in the chse, and it stands to reason that the finding of trichinge in uninspected pork in countries where the previous inspection is not required should not prove an impedient to its use in countries requiring inspection.” IN GENERAL FoUR men, in different cities, are under arrest on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the Sedalia outrage. Two MEN were instantly killed at Parrywood station, near Winnipeg, by the explosion of nitro-glycerine. EpwArDp ERicksoN and Frank Savage, both of Winnipeg, Man., were instantly killed at Parrywood Station by explosion of glycerine on a can in which they were carrying water. JosEPH O'CONNOR, 18 years old, allowed himself to be locked into a freight car at St. Louis bound for Jersey City. When the car was opened at its destination he was almost dead from starvation and freezing. THE searching parties sent out from different parts of Trinity Bay to seek the missing seal hunters have resurned. No tidings of the missing men could be learned, and it is now generally believed that they have perished. Carr, DAvip H. STEMBRIDGE, commander of the British steamer Ottoman, which arrived in Boston for Liverpool, ended his life by shooting himself. He previously commanded the Norseman and this was his first voyage in the Ottoman. AT Montreal, Que., there was an in- } s Crench Canadians from the United | were crowded, and inquiry at the (l:\;:.‘ brought out the fact that 1,800 excursion tickets had been sold at New England points for Canada. THE ex-wife of young James G. Blaine has written an open letter to the elder Blaine challenging him to publish the entire letters from her from which he quoted in his recent statement to the | publie, the intimation being that the excerpts misrepresented her meaning. ‘ R. G. DuNy & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: ‘ Domestic trade gradually improves, even at the South, where much of the trouble seems to have been due to unwillingness of | holders to sell cotton at the low prices rather than to actual loss on such sales. Supplies of money are everywhere ample. It is still the fact that the two dark spots | are directly caused by overproduction. Cot- \ ton receipts this week have been light. ] Efforts to curtail the production this year appear to meet with some success The only possible remedy for troubles in the iron trade is to be applied, according to 1 dispatches, by the closing of some | | furnaces. Current prices are called l about the lowest on record. The rail | combination still waits for buyers. The { trouble in this industry is that too great | and sudden expansion was expected. Copi per is unchanged, tin weaker, and lead moderately active. The coal market continues unchanged, as the combination i 3 i not ready to act, but agents recommend an output of only 2,500,000 tons in March.

MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. CATILE - Commeon to Prime..... £3.60 @ 5.5) Hocs -Shipping Grade 5......... 850 @ 5.0) SEErP—Fair to Ch0ice.......... 4.0) @ 6.25 WEELN-_No. 2Bed, .. ccoonanesnia 8- @ 89 PORN N 0 2 ... i ciisiiin.vea & 8 0 @iwn o Ne. 9 . .. 0. . &8 @M j NG, 2. aviaaiaans Bl B 0 BUIITER—! hoice Creamery...... .28 @ .29 CHEESE - Full Cieam, f1at5...... .12}%@ .13% RGaT—Praßh (Lo, caai v aiieaaes WBGR 1536 PoraToks—Car-loads, per bu... .30 @ .40 INDIANAPOLIS, CATTLE—Shipping.......ccccc.... 8256 @ 4.75 Hoas—Cheice Ligit............. 8.5) @ 5.00 SHEEP—Common to Prime...... 3.0) @ 525 WeEAT--No. 2Red. i.. idisse 81 @ 2% CoRN—NoO.I White............... .400@ .41 O ri--No. A White: ............. 88 @ 323 ST, LOUIS. CATTIR. bl e 200 @ 450 e L iio s 3000 600 WHRAT No SRed.......cvc.ioos 92 @ 03 CORN N 2 . i iiaaiiiaane 81 @ 83 Oime-Neox - oo @ 3 BYE-NOIR. .i it iviiiniee B 2 @ B 0 CINCINNATI. CRTIBR. .. 10 . .00 o 300 @ 450 Hoag (. ..ol il 800 @ 560 BUERP Lv, ii h i BHOD @ G6OO WHEAT No 2Red............... "4 @ 956 GORNENo 8o e oos 4 @ AD Oaas< No.2Mixed. ............ 32 @ 33 DETROILT. Chmare .. . 00, 301 @ 685 OB o s S soan 20 @SN Biseße. (00w o ohs s s 0 800 @ bhe WHEAT —No.2 Red. ...........:. -98 @ .97 CorN—No. 2 Ye110w.............. 41 @ 42 OATS—-No, 2 White....... ... .... 3@ .44 TOLEDO. MHBAR-Neaw. .il i it 98 @ 96 QonN—No 2 Yellow. ............ 42 @ 43 Oam=—No.2 White.............. Bl%@ .54 AR Gl e s G s BUFFALO. BEEFUMILR .00 o 0 e 4000 @ 5.7 YR HO6S .. el 3T @5 WaeEAT--No.l Hard..........Ji. 106 @ lo} CoRN—No. 3..... .............. & @ 4 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT—NoO. 1 5pring............ 86 @ .88 GoRN—No- il taio il el 30 @ 4] Gars-No 2White............... 31 @& 58 LREESNO ] ciasciai Lol B 8 @ BT FBABERY —N0.8.. ol .l i L B 8 d E9 L PORK-—MEBR. ..l iiiven vaccivee 3075 @ll2 | NEW YORK. SATETE. .oo cinid isl 880 e s RO L esl adieeian SOO @5 50 SRR i A BT WHEAT—NO. 2 Red .........c.cax 00T @ 1.00 SaRN—NO S L a4 . @ kT OaTs—Mixed We5tern.,......... .35%@ .384% BUPPER—CYSRIMErY. .. .. .oisooe 21 @ 81 FOWE —MEEA. ... .o iiisincnnnnes 315 @IOSO

A 2 S oR AR ¢ Y v FACTS ABOUT WHEAT. WHAT PRIME SAYS ABOUT THE WINTER CEREAL. It Has Commenced to Grow and the Situation Has Lately Improved—More Grain in the Farmer’s Hands than There Was a Year Back. Winter Wheat. The last fourteen days have been particularly favorable to the winter wheat crop, says Prime’s Crop Report. The moisture has been ample, and the ecrop has not been subjected during that time to any sudden or severe freezing weather, which is one of the features of the first part of March. The ground has been bare of snow nearly all winter and hardly any during the last six weeks. The crop now has commenced to grow. Its gencral condition, however, is not as good as it was at this time last year. That is, it is not as far advanced in growth and the plants are by no means as strong and healthy as they were then, and there has been considerable improvement in the prospects of the crop from what it was thirty days ago, So far the percentage of the winter wheat which has been killed is small. Taking the crop by States it is practically in this condition: In Illinois. Scuthern Illinois reports that February did the growing wheat a great deal of gocd, as there was little if any frost in the ground during most of the month and the weather mild. The effects were beneficial. The crop is still small for'the time of year. Farmers are getting ready for spring work, but the land is too wet yet for seeding. The acreage of spring crops promises to be large and the land in good condition. Farmers are not holding their wheat for higher prices, as was the case in Oectober and November. The reserves in farmers’ hands are but uctle more than a year ago, and millers are buying from hand to mouth. In Central Illinois the frost has been out of the ground for some time and the ground is full of water. Wheat is doing well. Itis thin on the ground, but is firmly rooted and spreading. There has been ne plowing for oats yet, but with clear skies seeding is likely to commence at any day.

In Ilissouri. The winter wheat crop bears no comparison with that of last year. It is much more backward and general conditions not as favorable. It is shortand thin, but it has improved greatly during the recent mild, wet weather. XNo reports of wheat having been wiater killed. In a few of the southern counties spring work has commenced. The movement of wheat has been more frea during the last two weeks than previously, and would have been larger had the roads been in condition for farmers to haul. Millers are good bidders for wheat and have light stocks on hand. 3 Kansas. So far winter wheat has made little growth in Kansas. The heavy rains of the last two weeks have been beneficial, however, to the crop. It already begins to show signs of growth. Farmers did a great deal of plowing in December and January, and are now well prepared for early seeding as soon as the ground dries off. The reserves of wheat in farmers’ hands are about the same as a vear ago. Millers’ stocks are running & {entucky. 2 R ter wheat crop is muc same time last year. During the last ten days there have been some warm days and the wheat appears to be growing a little. There are so far no comeplaints of winter killing, but it is difficult yet to determine the real condition of the late sown winter wheat. The majority of the farmers are inclined to wait until we have enough warm weather to see whether it is going to grow before they plow it up. Little wheat has been sold during the last thirty days. There is more wheat in farmers’ hands than at this time last year. Country mills, however, are not as well supplied as they were then. Indiana. The severe effects of the drought last fall are perceptible at the present time upon the winter wheat crop in Noithern Indiana. The winter, however, has been favorable for the wheat, and the weather has not been extremely cold. There has been no wheat plowed up yet. Before the roads became bad there was a free movement of wheat, but as they are now impassable the movement has stopped. Millers have light stocks of wheat. In Southern Indiana wheat has begun to grow a little. Little winter wheat has been killed. At this date it is hard to get a correct idea of the condition of the crop. Some fields look well and some poor, while the general condition do s not favorably compare with that of this date one year ago. Then it was much above the average, and now it is just the reverse. Thero is little movement of wheat, and the reserves in farmers’ hands are larger than a year ago. On high, well-draincd land a few oats have ‘ been seeded.

In Ohio. In Northern Ohio the wheat crop on the whole does not look as well as it did a year ago at this time. This is especially true of the late sown, which is backward and thin ¢n the ground. During the present week heavy rains have fallen, which were followed by a hard freeze, and the winter wheat is in no condition to withstand this kind of weather. Little wheat was marketed during February. There is fully as much and probably mere wheat in farmers’ hands than a year ago at this date. Spring work has not commenced yet to any great extent. In Southern Ohio the growing wheat has improved some, but the general condition of the ciop is poor. Well drained lands are holding their own and growing, but those not drained are showing up poorly. In Michigan. The growing crop of winter wheat in Michigan is not as good as a year ago. The mild wet weather of last week took of all the snow and started sorae growth. Spring woerk has not yes commenced. The movement from farmers’ hands during February showed an increase over the two preceding months. Farmers are carrying ncore wheat than in 1891, In New York. In Western New York the wheat is all covered with snow to a depth of from six to ten inches. Up to this time the crop is in good condition. Millers carry light stocks, and the flour trade is also small. '—_____________————-———_—__"-"-—__“___“: THE largest raisin vineyard in the world now in bearing is owned by A. B. Butler, of Fresno, Cal. It contains 610 ageres. The annual income from thie vineyard has reached $200,000,

£ X : i DOINGS OF CONGRESS. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. { At the Nation’s Capital-What Is Boing Done by the Senate and House—Oid Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Conesidered. The Senate and House, In the Senate, on the 2d Mr. Dolph pre- | sented petitlons from his Btate favoring government aid for the Nicaragna canal. | The Idaho election case was taken up and Mr. George stated the reasons which 1 would control his own =action in castlug his vote for the contestant. Mr. Vilas argued that the sitting member, | Mr. Dubois, was legally elected and en- | titled to the seat. On the suggestion of { Mr. Qray that some Senators were absent who desired to record their votes on the | question, the vote was postponed. ' | The proceedings of the House were quite uninteresting and confined | strictly to the consideration -of the | District of Columbia appropriation bill. On only one occasion did party politics find a place in the discussion and that was when | Mr. Hemphill, of the Democratic side, pro- ' { posed an amendment reducing the SII,OOO or $12,000 salary which the Recorder of | Deeds of the District of Columbia receives in the way of fees to a fixed salary of | €3,600 per annum. All fees are to be turned into the public Treasury after deductions for necessary clerk hire. The House adjourned with the bill still undis- | posed of. ; In the Senate, on the 3d. the debate on | the Rdaho contested election case was | closed, and the voting was begun. The question of the minority resolutions in favor of Mr. Claggett's right to the seat was decided In the negative —yeas, 7; nays, 55. The vote was then taken on the waJority resclutions affirming the right of Mr. Dubo's to letain his seat, and it was decid‘ed In the afirmative—yeas, 55; nays, 5. The pure food bill was then taken up, but no action was taken on the bill. Ths House resumed consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, also the bill allowing railroad companies togive special rates to commercial travelers. BMr. Otis, of Kansas, antazonized the measare. It was a stroke directed at the funis- { mental principle upon which the interstato commerce Jaw was founded. Mr. Simpson, in speaking of the bill, referred to the author of the interstate commerce act (Senator Cullom) as an “iniquitous rail- | road attorney.,” when he was jromptly | called to order by Mr. Lind, of Minnesota. " { The bill will now go on the calendar of unfinished business.

In the Senate on the 4th the pure food bill was taken up. and Mr. Vest stated at some length his position in regard to it and to such legislation in general. He appealed to the Senate to help enact the bill into law. Eulogies were delivered in respect to the memory of the late Representative Lee, of Virginia, and the Senate adjourned till the Tth. The House Committee on Military Affairs completed consideration of the army appropriation bill. The most important provision in the bill relates to payment for transportation over bond-aided railroads. The total appropriation carried by the bill is £24,245,649, which is £367,830 less than the appropriation for the current fiscal year. The House Naval Affairs Committee practicaliy completed the consideration of the naval appropriation bill. The bill in round figures appropriates $24,000,000. A new drydock at Algiers, La., is provided for in the bill, the ultimate cost of which will be more than $8,000,000. At the conclusion of the consideration of unimportant bills Greek met Greek in the House, and for the space of ive minutes a parliamentary colloquy was witnessed which in aptness of retort has had no precedent in the present session. On the one side was Speaker Cris»r. who stands as the sponsor of the rules of the Fifty-second Congress, and on the other was ex-Speaker Reed, who stands as the defender of the rules and methods of the Fifty-first Congress. Bland bill was e osition to set apart three days for the discussion of the Bbill, the freo siiver men won by a vote of 190 to 84. 7The first balf hour's session of the Senate was consumed in the presentation of petitions —most of them of the stereotyped character from religious associations for the closing of the World's Fair on Sundays and from State granges on various subjects of prorosed legislation. Among the bills introduced and referred was one by Mr. Sawyer to authorize the establishment of a postal telegraph service. It authorizes the Postmaster General, upon the advice and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General, to contract with any person, company or corporation owning or operating telegraph lines for the transmission of correspondence, press dispatches. and postal money orders, at such rates as may be agreed upon by the contracting parties. not to exceed the rates now charged ~ for similar messages. The pure food bill + was under discussion at adjournment.

Serving Two Masters. Uncle Billy recently developed a great deal of interest in religious matters, and it was observed with a good deal of surprise by several boatowners that he was no longer ready and willing to take a hand at the work they offered him. One of the men who had depended a good deal upon his services said: “I'm sorry that you won't work any more.” “Deed, sah, I is puffickly willin’ to wuhk, but I can't wuhk in yoh boat.” “Why not?” “Kase she’s a two-master.” “Why, that's no reason at all.” “Massa, es you wants to 'peril your own soul, 'tain’ none ob my business, but de good book says plain as day dat no man kain't sarbe two masters.” —Washington Star. Miscellaneons Notes. Ix Alaska, 200 miles up the Yukon River, the snow never melts, and in some places it is said to be fully two miles deep. IN the last three jears Annie Besant has fed no less than 120,000 school children in the Tower Hamlets division. Tne chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. WoeN the Psalmist said, “All the days of my appointed time will I wait {ill the change come,” he was evidently in a big retail store and knew the cash boy. THE new census shows that Philadelphia is the greatest manufacturing city in this country, exceeding New York. The value of Phila: delphia’s annual manufacture is $700,000,000, and New York’s $650,000,000. THe necessity of many people’s using the same cake of soap in public washrooms is obviated by a recent invention, which consists of a nickelplated case filled with powdered soap. By pressing a button as much of this as is needed runs down into the hand.