St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 March 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. '' ”—* — ~ ■ in—— —— J WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA ■ " — 1 " " ".' I | CLEVELAND WILL RUN. HE INTIMATES AS MUCH IN HIS LETTER. Saloonkeepers Have Their Innings in South Dakota—The Match Trust Annuls Contracts—They Fought lor Love—2lllegheny Officials in a Scrape. The Lawmakers. In the House, the 15th, on motion of Mr. Durborow, the Senate joint resolution was passed authorizing the Librarian of Congress to exibit certain documents at the World’s Fair. The House then went into committee of the whole (> r. ; Blount, of Georgia, in the chair) on the free wool bill. Mr. Coombs (New York) concluded his speech in favor of the ( bill. Others took part in the debate. In the Senate, Senat >r Morgan introduced a bill to increase the facilities of the Postoffice Department for obtaining the use of buildings for postoffico purposes. It proposed to interest private capital and enterprise in the construction of p >stoffic ) buildings on long terms of lease and to have fixed a maximum rate of rental. It was ’ referred to the I’ostoffice Committee. Mr. . Peffer introduced a bill which was referred j to the Finance Committee, to regulate the value of certain coins and pieces of mon w and to give all sorts of current money the legal tender quality and to prohibit and prevent discrimination in favor of gold coin or bullion as money. Mr. Hale presented the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill, and it was agreed to. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the Military Academy appropriation bill. It was passed, and the Senate went into executive session. When the doors reopened the Senate adjourned. Martindale Will See Them Later. Edward Martindale, from Green ’ County, Ind., a schoolmaster who has i wielded the birch at th? Shady Nook ' schoolhouse this winter, won the i heart of pretty Alice Scraggs, his bright- I est scholar, and the wedding day was ! set. All arrangements were made, when ) Edward informed Alice he must go home I and would be obliged to postpone the i event. A letter was received from St. Louis containing the single sentence, “Will see you later.” Monthly Fines Not Legal. At Pierre, S. 1)., in the action of Frank Burchard to recover money paid ■ city officials in monthly fines for the violation of the prohibitory law, a verdict was rendered in full for Burchard. The case is a test case and it will probably be followed by others over the State where saloons have been allowed to operate through fines. Burchard alleged extortion, false pretense, and threats of prosecution. He’s a Can date. Grover Clevelanw’s letter in resppgse to one written him by Gen. 1 Bragg, in which the General asked Mr. . Cleveland w-cciTdho a ’eahdfda+e f' for the*-i>emocrutm uomiuathm ivr the Presidency on a tariff-reform platform, is made public. It states prac- ! tically that he would accept the nomina- । tion. | Fouglit tor a Grus; Widow. Near Wilsonville, Neb., a rattling mill took place between two rivalk'for. j the favor of a gushing woman, aged • about thirty-five years, and a grass widow at that. The men were about I nineteen years of age, ami named Warehime and Bower. Bower had Warehinm whipped in the first round. Bu?k Taylor Hurt in a Fight. Buck Taylor, formerly with Buffalo ' Bill, was one of the principals in a fight , with four cowboys at his ranch near : Bolgis, Wyo., and was so badly hurt ’ that it is feared he ■will die. Two cow- s boys were badly cut with knives during ; the fight. j Collapse of the Ma eh Trust. The anti-trust laws of different states have alarmed the match trust, an it has j notified its customers that in future all ■ its contracts are off. It has been con- ' ducting business under the name of the ' Diamond Match Company. -- - = i NEWS NUGGETS. — The steamer Missouri, laden with ' flour for Russia, left New York Wednes- j day. Canada will shortly inform the world that the World’s. Fair ought to be closed on Sunday. The defense of Andrews and Taylor, * the Siebolt lynchers at Darlington, Wis., ’ is insanity. < The Minnesota Supreme Court has j pronounced the license law unconstitutional and void. ’ All employes of two Boston hotels have been ordered to wear beardless « faces or quit their positions: Rev. F. N. Rice attacked Bishop Fos- ; ter, of the Methodist Church, in Baltimore, an I called him hard names. The Senate of the University of St. ■ Andrews, the oldest in Scotland, has decided to open to women the university’s I departments of theology, arts, and Sciences. Three more officials of Alleghany City have been arrested for alleged embezzlement, blackmail and conspiracy. \ They are John R. Murphy, Chief of the ' Department of Public Safety; Assistant I Superinten lent John Glenn, and D - tective Donaldson. . There was a dynamite explosion at the barracks of the Repuolican Guar I j in Paris and Parisians fear anar my. I An invitation has been accepted by ex-President Cleveland to deliver an address at the dedication of the new college chapel at Valparaiso, Ind., on the Ist of May. Mexican bandits near Durango, Mexico, looted an iron safe containing SIO,OOO, which a mining superintendent was conveying across country on a wagon. Over 100 Congressmen, embracing practically the entire delegation of Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin, have petitioned the River and Harbor Committee to recommend an initial appropriation for the proposed twen-ty-one-foot channel from the lakes to the Atlantic.

EASTERN. A bill in the New York Legislature repealing the use of the electrical chair ami substituting hanging has been reported favorably. ; William A. Lozee, cashier for Mol- . leson Brothers, paper dealers, of New Ycrk, is accused of the embezzlement of $31,000, which was lost in gambling. ! Fire at the Jersey City terminus of . the New York, Lake Erie and Western • Railway destroyed $60,000 worth of | property, and ono man was burned to death. At Willis Place, Mass., a village of 200 inhabitants, there have .been three deaths within a short time from trich- • inosis, consequent upon eating bologna sausage. All the indictments against Sheriff Flack, as New York, and his son, who were once convicted of conspiracy in securing the elder Flack’s divorce from • his wife, have been dismissed, the conI viction having been reversed and there j being no longer a reasonable hope of again securing a verdict against them. Gen. B. F. Butler does not approve of the so-called Australian ballot. He said to the Massachusetts Legislative Committee on Election Laws, Thursday: “When you have thirty-six names on a । ballot, the voter gets tired before he fini ishes making crosses. The result is that ; the candidate for Governor gets 15 per j cent, more votes than by’ any other system.” A horse-whipping incident at Brockton, Mass., was all the more interesting ‘as it was a clergyman who held the whip. He was Rev. Father McGrail, of i St. Patrick’s Church. The culprit had imposed upon the priest, borrowing mon- j ey ostensibly to send to his suffering ; family in Ireland, but in reality for | the purpose of supporting a mistress. I When the priest learned of this fact he ' gave the man a horsewhipping, and the j latter left town. That was last April. ; Recently* the man returned to Brockton ' and lived openly with the woman. Father j McGrail learned of the fact Thursday, I and, meeting the man near his house, ' administered a second horsewhipping. | Frank and Lewis Moore, of Cro- ; zier’s Mill, Chester, Pa., died from poiI soiling. It is supposed that the lads stole and ate the lunch of some other boy’ that was dosed with arsenic. It is known that Frank and Lewis were both taken ill immediately after eating I dinner at the mill. Suspicion points to a terrible method of discovering the pilferers of the lunch baskets. This method, it is thought, was to dose a cake or a piece of pie with arsenic. An elder brother of the boys made no conceal- : ment of the fact that it was a customary thing among the spinning-room boys to steal each other’s lunches. Foreman Benjamin Clark also said that numerous complaints had been made about this boyish habit, but that it was impossible to detect the pilferers. All the boys in the spinning-room have been arrested in j order to learn who is re onsible for the j deaths. Fire Ss® $40,000 Worth of property on the south ■ side of the public square? Many servants in the houses of wealthy and influential people of Paris opd its i suburbs are active nihilists. i Three men at work in the Ft venue ■ tnnnel at Ouray, Col., were killed by an \ explosion of blasting powder. j A St. Mary’s (Ohio) dogate a lot of ; leavened biscuit, and when they rose t sufficiently he was blown to pieces. Mrs. Sarah Althea Hill Sharon ' i Teery has been adjudged insane and Committed to the California Insane i J Asylum at Stockton. I Lewis Gordon, who assaulted the i . wife of John Perriton, near Carrollton, i | Mo., a few days ago, was taken from . the custody of the Sheriff at the town i named and hanged by a mob. j “The Old Homestead,” which is at present being presented at McVicker’s j Theater, Chicago, by Denman Thomp- ' son and the entire original cast, is doing I the most phenomenal business in the history of the Chicago stage. “The Old 5 Homestead” is truly a pome, of nature, j therefore its wide popularity is not sui> ; prising. i Charles B. Emory and Joseph ■ Emory, brothers, Irving on a farm near j Warrensburg, Mo., have been on bad i terms for some time. ’They quarreled j 1 and Joseph made for his brother with a " heavy stick of wood. Charles ran to | । the smoke-house, where he procured a ^shotgun, and as his brother was about [ > to attack him fired, killing his assailant. i । The slayer gave himself up to the au- j I thorities. | The clothing manufacturers of Mil- ■ , waukee, Wis., to the number of eleven, i ■ met to protest against the Senate bill prohibiting the “sweating system” in the | making of ready-made clothing. A com- : mittee of five was appointed to prepare • a remonstrance to be forwarded to ■ । Washington, but beyond a desultory ; discussion nothing else was done. Mil- : I waukee manufacturers claim that there I ; is none of the complained-of methods practiced there. j At Paoli, Ind., a 17-year-old daughter i of George Marlett died of trichina- j I spiralis. Six weeks ago Mr. Marlett ' killed a hog and his family ate the pork | in an underdone condition. Mrs. Mar- \ ■ lett and the daughter were taken sick. । The wife is still in a precarious condi- ; । tion. Doctors after the death of the ' • daughter made a microscopic examina- : tion of a cutting in the biceps muscles, ' and found an abundance of the deadly ' trichina-spiralis therein. At Cincinnati, Ohio, at a meeting of i * steamboat men and merchants, a report I addressed to Senator Frye, Chairman i ‘ United States Senate Committee on i Commerce, was read and approved, it i ; says in substance that th * steam vessel | ; owners of the Ohio Valley represent | that after a careful consideration of -< Senate bill 1775, with the exception of ! ; provisions copied from the present laws, | find the bill wholly impracticable in its application to the construction, navigation, and inspection of American steam vessels. The traffic managers of the roads in- ( terested in Kansas business held ameetj ing in Chicago to consider the new rates ; on low-class freights ordered to be put ■ in effect March 16 by the Kansas Railroad | Commissioners. Full confirmation of [ the news was on hand when the meeting convened, and there xvas general rejoic-

ing. It was decided to stand by the Atchison grocers in their fight against the Kansas Commissioners, and lend them all the aid possible. As a result the rates now in effect (which are the new Commissioners’ fifth-class rates) will be the tariff until the courts decide the difficulty The famous investigation of the elevator and wheat ring systems of Minnesota was resumed by the Legislative committees at St. Paul, and some sensational testimony was taken. The charge has been made for years that the ring at Minneapolis has bee fixing the price of wheat in the State, and it was charged before the committee that the railroads abetted the ring by refusing cars to track buyers. General Barrett testified, and produced a contract to prove it, that a man named Stowe, at Wadena, had been given $l5O to pull off and buy no wheat in competition . with the Northern Elevator Company, and that the manager of the company said the farmers at Wadena would have to pay for it. A letter from Traffic Manager Shelby, of the Great Northern Road, to the Union Store Company at Morehead, threatening to cut off their cars if they did not quit overbidding the elevators for wheat was shown. General Barrett proceeded to say that he could prove that a regular combine existed by wliich the millers and elevators controlled wheat prices ami prevented the railroads from supplying cars to any but members of the ring' or Who paid the ring prices for wheat. The committee has decided to go thoroughly into this branch of the subject, and it is expected that something very sensational will develop. SOUTHERN. The pure food bill passed the Senate : without a division after unimportant i verbal amendments had been made. I I । James S. Clarkson, ex-First AssistI ant Postmaster General, is sercusly ill of inflammatory rheumatism at Asheville, N. C. CAESAR Puck, a Tennessee moonshiner xvho was wounded in the affray in which Deputy Marshal Stuart was killed, has died from his wounds. The Attorney General of Kentucky has begun suit against the Frankfort Lottery Company for violation of the statutes and constitution in continuing its business. Three negroes in jail at Memphis, I charged witli leading the assault in which four deputy sheriffs were shot Tuesday, were taken from the jail by a ! mob and shot to death. At Yazoo, Miss., J. 'Messingilia and j his 17-year-old son xvere murdered by 1 unknown parties. They had been killed by blows on the head with some hard weapon, probably a hatchet. A colored servant girl, aged 15 years, working for the Helmer family on the Grenwell plantation near RayI ville. La., was hanged by-a mob of masked men. The girl had conceived a dislike for a colored hostler, and determined to poison him. To this end, she poisi^ty* the coffee which the lumily had ini. I ihgii 'uiike u ?or t In’WTWiBiBIwCLX.rP’I entire family and several servanls'’.®**^ taken ill, but none died. The girl confessed. Her action was reported about the country, and the lynching followed. The startling news comes from I Whitesburg. Ky., that a pitched battle ■ took place between four persons. J. L. | Asher and Mr. Polly had a light, but i neither xvas seriously injured. The i skirmish did not quiet the matter, as Asher called to his aid Combs and Polly | called on Dick Williams. The four j started fr, m their homes toward the same spot. Forty shots were exchanged, a ball from the gun of Williams finally | getting home. It struck Asher in the ' left breast and penetrated his body. He ; died instantly Polly and his partner ' were captured. Much excitement prevails. WASHINGTON. Senator Morrill is .reported, to be dangerously ill of pneumonia. He is in his 82d year. The Department of Agriculture reports that farmers hold, of last year’s crop, 171,600,000 bushels of wheat and ■ 860;000,000 bushels of corn. The wheat । reseiwe is the largest ever reported. The Behring Sea controversy is the ' absorbing topic of conversation at Wash- : ington. Senator Palmer, of Illinois, I voices the prevailing impression of the i - affair as follows: “The rights of Ameri- j , ca must and shall be protected, but ' ' there will be no war with Great Britain ■ over the seal. It is the intention of the : : President to protect the seals, and he will use Avhatever force is necessary to • ■ do so. I do not think Lord Salisbury i I will offer any armed resistance. ' His refusal to agree to a renewal j of the modus vivendi is, I take it, J a disinclination on his part to take j trouble and incur the expense of p'o- ; licing the sea. If he makes any ob- 1 jection to our seizing Canadian poachers, he will make it through the courts, ; not by force of arms. Senator Sherman i ' agrees with me in this opinion.” The! St. James Gazette, London, Conserva- i five, accuses the Washington govern- i i ment of exaggerating the difficulty of I arriving at a modus vivendi with Great i Britain in regard to the Behring Sea ! seal fisheries. The paper suggests that , ; each side go sealing as usual, each ren- ; ■ dering a fair account of its catch the ! \ party found by the arbitrators to be - wrong afterward paying compensation. POLITICAL. The Thurman Club, of Columbus, I Ohio, a Cleveland organization, h: s : voted to print and distribute an address ' by Dr. C. S. Carr, one of its members ‘ ; now resident in Elmira, N. Y., in which | Senator David B. Hill is denounced as a ; j “deformer of the body politic.” 1 our of the six delegates chosen by the South Dakota Prohibition Convention to attend the national convention of that party were members of the Farmj ers’ Alliance, and refused to subscribe i ; to a declaration in the platform that! ; prohibition is the paramount issue be- i ; fore the country. I’d soom r practice law in Ohio than j । be A ice President,” said ex-Governor Jamed G. Campbell, of Ohio, the other day. “The \ ice Presidency doesn’t count for much nowadays, and the Vice : j President isn’t heard of often. But I i don’t believe, however, I would take to ! ' the woods at the first note of alarm th--jt i . might sound in rr direction for the j

Presidential nomination. No, sir; I wouldn’t refuse it, but then I’m not. a candidate. In one sense I’m a Cleveland man, because j[ think the sentiment of the people of the country is largely for him. He is, I think, the best representative of the reforms the Democratic party is demanding and contending for. The Ohio delegation will be largely for Cleveland, but It probably will not be a solid Cleveland delegation. We elect delegates by districts, you know, and of course it may bo that some other candidate —Hill, for example—will have a few of the delegates. But Cleveland will have the great majority of the Ohio delegates.” FOREIGN, Edward P. Deacon, who killed M. Abeille for too great intimacy with Mrs. Deacon at Nice, has been released on bail, George Woodgate Hastings, member of Parliament, has been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for embezzling £6,000. Mrs. Florence Ethel Osborne, on trial in London for larceny and perjury, xvas sentenced to nine months’ imprisi nment at hard labor. John Dillon, the Irish member of Parliament, sustained a dislocation of the shoulder and other injuries by a fall upon an icy pavement in London on Wednesday. An English syndicate has succeeded ; in forming an American type-founders’ | trust, which includes all the chief foun- ■ dries except two. The capital involved > is $15,000,000. Henri Rochefort, through his paper, demands that M. Beaupaire, the public I prosecutor of France, be deposed from office on the ground that he has subordi- : nated justice to his own ends. The Lancashire coal miners, who will suspend work March 12, have adopted a resolution that their vacation shall not exceed a week, but that they will work only five days each week hereafter. A London dispatch says: The Spanish steamer Navarro, which left Boston Feb. 17 for London, has arrived at Gravesend. On the first night out fourteen cattlemen xvent to bed in the fore- j castle after having lighted a lire in the stove, and the next morning seven were discovered to have been suffocated. Th'> seven men who lost their lives wire buried at sea. The other seven nn n. had nearly been killed by the gas from the Sto*e, and it was days before they ■ recovered. IN GENERAL 1 The capital of the Canadian Mills Company, or milling trust, has been increased from $l,(>0(l,000 to $5,000,0n0. The Standard (hl Trust is in danger of going to pieces. A meeting of tho certificate holders has been ealb d to vote on a resolution to terminate the trust agreement. The recent decision of the Ohio Supreme Court declaring the combine illegal is the cause of the i action. h. th<> I'wnch roy<nue exUnito.jsi^^^^^i quirt' of American in section pf pork, says; " I'he svstem i" us perfect as anything ear. be. There arc no weak points in it. I visitetl tin- different pork centers, ami I came to the conclusion that it is neither possible nor advantageous for anybody to pack or export a single hog that has not undergone a microscopic inspection." There is great complaint among the manufacturers of bottles over the depression in the glass trade. The Pottery and Glassware Reporter in summing up the situation says: "Bottles ami prescriptions in flint and green glass are duller at present than fpr years past. During the last two weeks the Atlanta Glass Company, Atlanta. Ga.; the California Glass Company, California, I’a.; and the Washington Glass Company, Washington, Pa., have gone into the hands of a receiver." R. G. Di n & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Distribution of products Is unquestionably improving. Transactions arc on the whole larger than a year ago in spite of depression at the South, being much larger at i the West Nor is the improvement confined ! to that section, though general there: it is ! also more distinctly felt in Eastern cities, ! and there are net wanting signs that trade . at the South, though still much embarrass 'U I by tho low price of cotton, is steadily i gaining. With all the great industries J active, with money abundant in spite of I gold exports, and with speculation kept in i wholesome check, the outlook would seem j to b? unusually favorable, nbtwithstandI ing general complaints that prices are low I and margins of profit unusually small. MARKET REPORTS, - CHICAGO. i Cath-e—Common toPrime.... $3.53 @ 5.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.5 > («. 5.z5 i sheep l air to Choice 4.00 ■< 6.25 I Wheat—No. 2 Red 85 @>6 j | Cobh—No. 2 39 @ .10 ' Oats—No. 2 281a(^ .■■'•J's Rye—No. 2 62 ei .83 Butter—Choice Creamery 28 ci .29 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 12^fcJ .U'j Eggs—Fresh 43 .14 Potaloss—Car-loads, per bu... .30 @ .40 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle-Shipping 325 @4.75 Hogs—( hoice L ; ghl 350 c' 500 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.10 5.50 । Whe ; 1-No. 2 lied 21 @ .12 Cons —No. 1 White 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 Mbite 33 @ .34 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.5 ) @ 5.0 J Wheat No. 2 Red 89 @ .91 Corn—No. 2 3; @ .37 Oats—No. 2 30 & .31 Rye—No. 2 89 @ .91 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.53 @ 4.53 Hogs 3.(0 @ 5.0) I Sheep 3.0 > @ 6.'0 Wheat—No. 2 Red 91 @ .95 Cohn—No. 2 42 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 32 & .33 : DETROIT. Cattle .3.09 @ .5.00 Ho is 3J 0 @ 500 Sheep g.ro @5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 (" 95 C >rn—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .35 I TOLEDO. 1 Wheat—New 93 @ .94 ! Corn—No. 2 Yellow 43 .4 > Oats—No. 2 V> bite 31 @ .33 Hve Sy '^3 BUFFALO. Beit Cattle 400 @5.7.5 Live Ho >s ; 3.75 5.25 , Wheat—No. 1 Lard <lB @1 03 Corn— No. 2 if, @ 47 MILWAUKEE. ; Wheat—No. 1 Spring f 5 .8? ; Corn—No. 3 39 1* .41) I Oats—No. 2 u bite 31 @ .32 | Bte-No. 1 85 & 'S3 Barley No. 2 53 @ . ; Pork.—Mess ’. 10.75 @11.25 I NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 4.75 : Hogs. 3.00 @ 5.50 1 Shi ep 4.(0 B 7; . Wheat—No. 2Red ].ost.j@ 1.16J2 I Corn—No. 2 49 @ .si ■ O ts—Mixed Western 36 @ .37 1 Bu ter —Creamery 2) .29 Pork—Mess 9.75 @10.51

BLOODY RACE WAR ON.' MEMPHIS RIOTERS LYNCHED BY WHITE MEN. The J alter Overpowered—Negroes Cry for ' Vengeance—A Mob of 5,000 People Surround the Bodies ami Threaten the Lives of tho Vigilantes. Shot Like Dogu. Memphis, Tenn., was in the control of ! a mob AVednesday morning. Three of the negro rioters arrested for shooting the Deputy Sheriffs have been lynched, two others are missing, and are supposed to have been made way with by the rioters, and a crowd of five thousand excited negroes surrounds the place where tho bodies of the dead negroes lie, loudly crying for vengeance on their slayers, says a dispatch. At 3 o’clock in tho morning a mob of about seventy-five armed citizens surrounded the County Jail and compelled Jailer O’Donnell to give up the keys to the cells where the negro rioters were confined. After securing tho keys, the mob made a rush for the cells, and placing ropes around the necks of Tom Moss, Will Stuart, and Cal McDowell, they hurried them to the Chesapeake & Ohio yards. The negroes were then placed together and in less than three seconds over twenty-five rifle shots rang out and the negroes fell, dying almost instantly. Tho mob then quickly dispersed and it was not until daylight I that the extent of the lynching was ' realized. Early risers were horriiied to find the bodies of the three negroes lying ■ on the ground riddled with bullets. Two i other negro rioters are missing and the i belief is that their bodies will be found later. The bodies were taken to the office of Jack AValsh, and a crowd of negroes began to gather. It rapidly increased, and now 5,666 people surround the place 1 where the dead bodies are. Further i trouble is feared. Tho negroes are reported to be arming at “The Curve,” and a telephone message has just been sent in that they have killed two white men.* j The riot and collision between blacks and whites, which has now ended in a general lynching bee, occurred Saturday night last in the suburbs of Memphis at a place known as "The Curve.” i This is a locality notorious for its toughness. It is a resort for roustabouts and thieves, and the authorities have always experienced great difficulty In maintaining lavV and order there. Tho neighborhood is thickly populated ■ by negroes, who had committed several assaults of an aggravated nature upon white citizens. i Calvin McDowell, a negro who keeps i n grocery and barroom at the corner of < Mississippi and Walker avenues, was up ! on Saturday before Judge Dußose on a charge of assault anil battery. Having been released on bail, he returned to-his place of business, and gathering his friends, told them that the whites were getting ready to mob them. When McDowell was before him, Judge DuBose said ho intended to purify the district in which McDowell end his supporters flourished, and this is supposed to have given . McDowell the idea that an organized roils wast^o be maje upon tho negroes. Lal or tn the day a warrant was issued for To'” Steward, o«eof McDowell’s gang. > was charged with assaulting ■■ man. As a determined resistance was anticipitated, nine deputy sheriffs were sent to make tho arrest. These deputies were Perkins, Cole, Barnard, Richardson, Harold, Webber, Moore, Yetger, and App, and they arrived at the McDowell place about 11 o’clock Saturday night. I pon entering and inquiring for Steward they were t 'd by the proprietor that ho was.in the backroom. Upon entering this room, which was dark, they were met by the flash of a number of revolvers, shotguns and rifles. Deputy Sheriff Cole received a charge of shot in the face and breast, completely tearing out his left eye. A bullet which struck Him in the shoulder passed”complctely through his body. Officer Yerger was struck by the porti. n of a charge in the head, but while some of the shot lodged in his sctPlp most of them missed him. Deputy Harold was shot in the neck and throat and left side of the face, and is in a dangerous condition. The officers, who stood close together, made an excellent target for their assailants, while they themselves were at a great disadvantage, as they were unable to locate the negroes except by the flashing of thqir weap ns. The officers returned the fire as rapidly as possible, however, and then charged in a body. Tho negroes rushed pell-mell through the back door, many of them abandoning their weapons in their flight. White people attracted by the firing flocked to the scene, and with their assistance thirteen of the negroes were taken from variou I hiding places. The excitement was intense, but the prisoners were kept under ' guard and, for the time being, safely transferred to the.jail. On Sunday fourteen more' negroes were captured and looked up. j In the room in which the tragedy occurred were found six shotguns, a Win- ■ Chester rifle and a large quantity of ammunition. This discovery, to which ' was added the report^that the men who did the shooting belonged to a secret organization among tho negroes formed : for the purpose of making war on the whites, roused popular excitement to a : white heat and, notwithstanding tho i presence in the city of military organ--1 izations numbering 1,14’0 men. the de- , termination to deal with the negroes in a summary manner was too strong to be checked and the lynching followed. The dicmt people of tho Arkansas town where a mob of savages, calling themselves citizens, burned a ’ gro alive, will probably hold a mass meeting to protest against the murder, because they think the notoriety of ifxvill injure their reputation. Os course it will, and no amount of mass-meeting resolutions will remove it. Such barbaric cruelty is an advertisement to the country that such a place is the best section for decent folk to shun. V> hen this fact is fully realized there will be fewer lynchings and outrages of this particular sort.—Baltimore American. A daily newspaper published in South Africa in the English languagh has just entered the forty-seventh year of its existence. The paper is the Natal Witness, published in Pietermaritzburg. Statisticians say that an average man of 154 pounds weight has enough iron in his constitution to make a plowshare and enough phosphorus to make 506,600 matches. A luxurious salad that is now seasonable is made of oyster crabs. He or she who partakes is quickly at peace with aW mankind.

THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measures I Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solons. In tho House, the 9th, the tariff debate began, and will continue for some time. In the Senate, Mr. Halo from the Naval Committee, reported back his bill to further increase the naval department, with an amendment appropriating $590,090 for experiments in tho developin' nt of torpedoes and in the procurement of torpedoes. Placed on tho calendar. Mr. Squire moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate passed the bill In relation to tho collection district of I’uget Sound. The motion was entered. Mr. Morgan introduced a bill in the Senate declaring that all laws and parts of laws are inoperative, which exempt from the payment of duties all articles of commerce which are not on the free list, entered in the custom houses of the United States, for transpi rtation through the United States, to or from any British possession. Among the bills introduced and referred was one with the following curious title, presented By Mr. Cullom (by request): “To test ai I try tho science of spelling, and to provide for establishing 100 schools forth t purpos?; and to establish a spelling school in tho World's Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago in 1893.” The pure foo l bill was then taken up. and after the adoption of several slight amendments it was passed without division. After an executive session of nearly three hours the Senate adjourned. On the 10th. the time of the House was entirely occupied by tho tariff discussion. In the Senate several bills were reported from committees and placed on the calendar. Tho agricultural meat inspection deficiency bill was taken up and passed. The following bills were passed: To survey and mark the boundary between the Sates of Nebraska and Si uth Dakota, on tho Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations. Making Laredo, Texas, a sub-post of entry. Tho “unfinished business” was taken up. being the Senate bill to provide for the erection ot public buildings for postoffices in towns and cities where tho postoffice receipts for three years preceding have exceeded $3,000 annually. No action w s taken on the bill, and after a brief execui live session the Senate adjourned. j In the House on the 11th. Mr. O’Neill of Pennsylvania pres> nted for reference a petition of cltlzensof the Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania urging Congress to pas- alaw to prevent the landing of criminal and pauper immigrants, to revise tho naturalization laws, and submit a constitutional atneudment providing that no State shall grant the right of suffrage to any per1 son not a citizen of the United States. The \ balance of the session was devoted to tariff ! talk. Among the bills introduced and referred to committees of the Senate was one by Mr. Stewart proposing a constitutional amendment that after 189" no person who has held the office of President shall be eligible to that office within four years after the expiration of his term of office. The urgent deficiency bill was then taken up and passed and the Senate adjourned till the 14th. On the 14th, among the papers presented In the Senate and referred was a protest by the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church against the enactment of further oppressive legislation against the Chinese people as tending to cripple missionary work in China । through retaliatory measures. The Senate joint resolution ajithorizing the ’ Librarian of Congress to exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition such books, papers, documents and other articles from the library of Congress as may relate to ; Christopher Columbus and. the discovery and early history of America, was reported ; by Mr. Pettigrew from the Committee on the tjuiidricentennial, and was passed. S' nate bill to authorize the construction of a combined railroad^ wagon, arid foot passenger bridge across the Missouri River at I Y'ankton, S. D.. was taken from the caleni dar and passed. The S mate resumed ths consideration of the Postoffice Building bill. It finally passed—yeas, 24; nays, 21, The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a communication fr m the Secretary of the Interior submitting the agreement concluded between the Commissioners ot the United States and the Cherokee Nation for the cession of the Cherokee outlet, and stated that it would lie referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. A bill was passed to establish a pirt of delivery at Council Bluffs, lojva. Facts and Fancies. There are so many reformeis who never want to do any work at home. Cotton soaped in olive-oil and turpentine, and put in the ear, often stops earache of the most painful kind. . An old clipper ship has just made the fastest time on record between Japan and this country, being out but twentytwo days. The Bank of Scotland issued onepound notes as early as 1704, and their issue has since been continued without interruption. j Only citizens who are able to read I . ;d write have the power to vote in | Bolivia and several other South Ameri--1 can republics. In England an American diploma of medicine does not entitle its possessor to call himself M. D. If he does he may • be prosecuted. A fur establishment in Chicago has just completed for a feminine resident an ulster in which are 125 mink skins and 350 tails. The remains of ancient hot air baths and sweat houses still exist on the Island of Rathin, on the northeast coast of C< unty Antrim, Ireland. A distinguished Egyptologist has recently unearthed, with a lot of his mummies, a will probably made 4,450 years ago, but, curiously, quite modern in form. j In Eastern New Mexico nearly 600,000 acres of fruit and farm lands have been reclaimed by the construction of storage reservoirs and irrigating canals during tho past two years. 1 Don’t expect a man to do anything for you on account of anything you have already done for him, but if you intend doing more for him, tell him and get what you want in advance. The father of eleven sons has applied for a salaried position in a base-ball club. He says he never played a game , in his life, but he has had twenty years’ | . xnerience in making base-hits. Os Passing Interest. ; There are about 10,060 bee colonies in A entura Countv, California. Sixteen tons of steel pens are exported from Birmingham weekly. A condi ctor on a street railroad in 1 Philadelphia speaks four languages. Brooklyn city officials took dinner in a newly finish >d sewer the other day, I Some watches now made are guaranteed to keep time to within ten seconds a month. There are 487 schools in Irkutsk, Siberia. The population of Siberia is nearly 966,000.