St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 December 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - . . INDIANA AFTER TWENTY YEARS. CHICAGO GETS ITS OWN FROM THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL. Estimates of Uncle Sam's Expenses for the Ensuing; Year—Congress Again Enlivens Washington—New Jersey Town Scorched —Crashed Into a Car. Chicago Victorious. Chicago has come into its own after more than twenty years of complicated, hard-fought litigation. The Lake Front is its property for all time. The Illinois Central is beaten. Not onlj’ is this corporation worsted beyond appeal bv the final decision of the highest tribunal in the land—the United States Supreme Court at Washington—but it pays the penalty of the appeal from the decision of Justice Hai lan in the United States Circuit Court in 1883, and is worse off now than then. Justice Harlan’s decision left the Illinois Central in possession of the vast improvements it had made on the land it had appropriated. The freld/W 4 ^.Justice railroad company of the wharves, piers, and sidewalks constructed on acquired ground. There is rejoicing in Chicago and despair in London and Amsterdam, where most of the stock of the Illinois Central is owned. Seventyfive millon dollars is a conservative estimate of the value of the property which the city of Chicago will get through the decision of the Supremo Court. . Congress Reassembles. The Fifty-second Congress entered upon its second and last session at noon Monday. There was the usual throng present. The corridors within the great building were filled, and by It o’clock every seat in the galleries and every bit of standing room, too. was occupied. Many of the desks were ornamented with flowers, a handsome basket of roses adorning the speaker s table. There was also a flower in the lipel of almost eveiy Representative, the red carnation of William M. Springer being bright as ever. It was noticed that the supporters of Crisp wore the re I carnation, while his opponents wore the white pink in their buttonholes. The roll-call showed 224 members present. The Speaker recognized Mr. Holman, who offered a resolution that the House was ready to proceed to business. It was adopted. Then some memberselect were sworn in and a recess of half an hour was taken to await the return of the committee. The Senate was like the House opening in miniature. The galleries were just as crowded, but the grave and reverend seigneurs were only a trifle less unbending. The committees were late in returning. But when they finally came they announced that the President would communicate with Congress Tuesday at 12 o’clock. Both houses then adjourned. '"Department, has submitted to Congress the book of estimates for the fiscal year 1893-94. The estimates are as follows: Legislative establishment $3,748,414.71 Executive establishment 21,528,301.1(1 Judicial establishment 664,660.00 Foreign intercourse 1.737,079.90 Military establishment 26,301,885.86 Naval establishment 23,671,315.21 Indian affairs 8.123,211.31 Pensions 166,831,350.00 Public works 18,030,673.72 Postal service (not incorporated)— Miscellaneous ’. 35,507,139.93 Permanent annual appropriations 115,468,273.92 Total , .$421,612,215.66 The estimates for 1892-’93 were $409,608,693.10. The appropriations for the same period were $423,261,970.67. The estimates as submitted are $1,649,755 less than the appropriations for the current fiscal year. BREVITIES, Fire destroyed ten buildings at Crawford, N. J., causing a loss of $150,000. The entire business portion of the town was wiped out. A Philadelphia and Beading Railroad engine crashed into a street car at a crossing in Philadelphia, injuring eleven persons, two of whom may die. Obadiah Sands, an old and wealthy resident of Chicago, was declared insane. the result of a sunstroke received on a forced march in the army during the war. At San Antonio, Tex , Juan Antonio Flores, chief lieutenant of Garza, the Mexican revolutionist, was convicted of violating the neutrality law, but sentence was deferred. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, there were dispatched by sea to foreign countries 5, 198,415 pounds of mail matter, of which 812,628 pounds were letters and postal cards. In the New York mansion where he had lived ana where he died the solemn words of the funeral service of the Presbyterian Church were spoken Monday afternoon over the body of Jay Gould. Jim Cooper, a ranchman, while terrorizing the residents of Bassett, Neb., by ordering every one he met on the streets to stand back at the point of a I rifle was shot through the heart bv Sheriff Harris when he refused to surrender. ■ President Busch says that negotiations for the consolidation of the Anheuser-Busch and William J. Lemp breweries, of St. Lou s, and the Schlitz and Pabst breweries, of Milwaukee, are still pending, but that the deal will be cons immated very scon. John J. Maroney, who was arrested for alleged complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin, died in New York. Judge Lucius R. Bangs, of Buffalo, N. Y., is dead. He was one of the most prominent members of the bar in Western New York. Chicago and St. Paul will probably soon be connected by telephone. Two children of Rudolph Hulse were drowned in the Kankakee River at Kankakee while playing on a cake of ice.

EASTERN. Hugh Ross and Burgess McLuckie, of Homestead, have returned and submitted to arrest on the charges of mur6er and treason preferred against them tor the riots of July 6th. Rev. George J. Brensinger, Secretary of the Unique Building and Loan Association, has been committed to jail In Philadelphia in default of $2,000 bail on the charge of embezzling SI,OOO of the association funds. The members of the Norfolk and Portsmouth cotton exchange have handed to the secretary of the exchange 'heir estimates of the crop of 1892-93. The average reached was 6,786,282 bales, the estimate rangingfroms,9oo,900 to 7,500,060 tales. Members of the General Board of the National League for Gool Roads met in Philadelphia to consider what plans should be adopted for futhering the movement at this session of Congress. Members of the board are in favor of seeking a national charter, and also of pushing a measure passed by the Renate last July which created a national highway commission for the purpose of p x ing t an exhibit of the various pi cesses of roadmaking for the Worlds Fair. This bill was pigeonholed in the House on the ground that ! It was an invasion of State’s rights. Coal has gone up twenty-five cents a i ton at New York. Seventy-five mem--1 hors of the retail coal exchange met, j leoated and wrangled, ana me &vvxvc. j ■ said: “The price of coai was advanced 25 cents a ton. This advance has been made to equalize the advance made by the wholesale companies S pt. 1, who then raised the price of coal 25 cents. We had not up to this date made a proportionate advance, paying 25 cents a ton more for our coal and selling at the old price. We find it impossible to do this i any longer. On the sizes of coal chiefly ■ used by the family the advance at wholesale has been sl.lO per ton since ■ Jan. 1, 1892. Including the advance made to-night the retailers will have advanced their p>rices only 75. cents a ton in that time.” i Jay Gould, the greatest financier that the United States has ever known, died at New York Friday morning. His end was peaceful. Twelve hours before he was prostrated by a nervous attack, and his physician, Dr. Munn, was summoned. Every member of the Gould family was also summoned, and they watched at hs bedside until the end camo. The deafh of the great financier inspired unusual Tegret, but it did not cause any unusual break iuthe stock market, in which for twenty , > years he was the most important figure. . i The market was not even shaken, main- , j ly because Mr. Gould had provided ! against it by placing his immense hold- . ; ings in the hands of men tvhose in- [ ’ tegrity he trusted. There was no cont ' siderable sale of securities known as j Gould stocks, and no attempt to force a panic was made. b The New York World says: Lyman ’ ; J. Gage, of Chicago, is a guest at the ■ Holland House. He is here ostensibly . on World’s Fair business, but politicians 1 say he had an interview with William ’ C. Whitney, and may be regarded as a pretty strong favorite for a place ponents of National Committeeman Cable have permitted it to bo understood that they favored John R. Walsh as the Illinois member of the Cabinet, Mr. Gage is now understood । to be their choice. It was in his behalf । that ex-Committeeman Erskine M. ' Phelps was here a few days ago. He failed to see Mr. Cleveland, but exMinister Tree did. What encourage1 ment he re ceived is yet but conjecture. It is said that the President-elect assured him that as yet he had not considered whom he would choose as members of his official family. When he did he would think of Illinois. "western/ A case of small-pox has been discovered in Minneapolis at the Nicollet House. A passenger train was held up at Malta, Mont., by three men, who secured the local safe from the express car. Mrs. Solomon Levy, of Cincinnati, is under arrest charged with attempting to burn the sixty people who lived in her tenement house. Surveyors are locating a line of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha from Ponca to Newcastle, Neb., a distance of sixty miles. Two government snag boats, valued at $75,090 are in the center of an ice gorge near Yankton, S. D., and it is believed they will be ground to pieces. Colorado silver clubs held a convention at Denver to elect delegates to the El Paso convention. Senator Stewart of Nevada addiessed the meeting. “Bill” Dalton, one of the leaders of the famous Dalton gang, shot and seriously wounded Deputy Marshal Chapman, of Deep Fork County, Indian Territory. Expert accountants have found that W. F. Snyder, of Indianapolis, confidential clerk of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, has stolen over $7,000. By an electric car jumping the track at Tacoma, Wash., several persons were : I thrown off. Capt. James O’Brien, of ; the steamer Wetmore was probably fatally injured. Dick Berlin and Charley Hayes, I two notorious gamblers of South Omaha, have bee arrested, charged ! with the murder of Charles Miller, late j Mayor of the city. Irving D. Martin, Assistant Princi- j pal of the High School at Fort Dodge. I lowa, has been dismissed, he having obtained his position Ly means of forgbd , letters of recommendation. Mrs. Maggie Bradley, who was re- ' cently tried and acquitted for the mur- j der of a baby, has been told by the • women of Wiliis, Kan., to leave the ; county in ten days or they would tar i and feather her. Kit Carson, Jr., has been foun 1 ■ guilty of assault with intent to commit , jnurder in Las Animas, Colo. The I crime for which he was found guilty ; was shooting at an inoffensive stranger i to make him dance. Fire at St. Louis, Mo., destroyed the door and sash factory of the Hofner- j Lothmer Company, a large two-story

brick building. Water from the engines destroyed practically the contents of a large warehouse adjoning. The loss is $100,000; fairly well insured. The firm has a branch at Oshkosh. Prof. T. A. Volrath, a musician Gx Independence, Mo., was horsewhipped on the streets by Mrs. Mary Wasson, the wife of an optician, whom he is alleged to have slandered. Volrath’s wife assisted his assailant by I throwing her husband to the pavement and holding him while Mrs. Wasson applied the lash. Miss Lottie Shields went to the First National Bank in Omaha, Neb., and calling GeorgeM. Winkelmann, one i of the bookkeepers, from his desk, cowhided him. Miss Shields is the daughter of one of the oldest Missouri Pacific conductors. She claimed that Winkelmann had been engaged to her for six years, but recently arranged to many another girl. Gus Hohn an I M. J. Kelly, of Chicago, had a peculiar experience. Hohn tumbled down an elevator shaft and lit upon Kelly. He fell from the third floor while the elevator was at the ground level. Hohn’s right hip was shattered and his knee broken. Kelly, who felt as if he had been hit by a pile driver, sustained internal injuries and his spine was hurt. At St. Joseph, Mo., Polk Harvey, father of Robert Harvey, who killed Robert Little last week, circulated a subscription among h’s friends and raised considerable money with which IO empxo> cduuoel to aotend ms son. His success induced him to drink and he assaulted an old soldier named Albert Jinks. The latter drew a knife and stabbed Harvey four times, fatally wounding him. John Garvey, city editor of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Daily News, tried to step on a moving engine of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, but missed his footing and was instantly killed. The place was on the railroad bridge over St. Mary’s River and the young man tried to throw himself out and thus lose only a leg, but one foot slipped down between the tie timbers and held him fast until the engine, which was not moving faster than a man would wa’k, ground him to pieces. At St. Louis, Mo., James Cleary was shot by some unknown party and died. He hailed from Bay City, Mich., and according to his own confession was a crook. Before he die 1 he said that while he was standing on the levee he saw a well-dressed man approaching him whom he intended to rob. He held the man up all right, but the fellow pulled a gun on him. and as he attempted to run away the man shot him in the I ack. It is not known whether this is the true story. SOUTHERN. Tn t Huntsville (Ala ) oil mills, employing over eighty hands, have stopped w rk owing to the high prix o of cotton seed and the low price of oil. The mills have been running for over ten years. The College Hotel at Florence, Ala., was destroyed ly lire. The building and contents were valued at $22,000; insured for $1',030. The College Hotel jULJiai iMM W Two lien were hanged to a telegraph pole near Benton in North Bossier Parish, La. Richard Magee was the man who shot and killed Mrs. ELie Lingle Carmichael assisted in deceiving Mrs. I ingle by telling h r that Magee was stealing and selling her hogs, which brought her out into the yard, where Magee shot her.- Bpto men had surrendered to Sheriff Thompson, but citizens hanged them. Mag o was the husband of Mrs. Lingle's adopted daughter. Gov.-Elect Jones, of Alabama, was inaugurated before the joint session of the House and Senate. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Stone. The Governor then delivered his inaugural address. There had be n some fear of trouble from the holbites, but the Adjutant General ordered out two detachments of the local battery to the Capitol for the ostensible purpose of firing a salute but really to guard against a surprise from the enemy. The members of the battery wore their sidearms and there was some apprehension of a conflict. The Nicaragua Canal convention met at New Orleans Wednesday. The States represented so far in the convention, with the number of delegates, are as follows: Arkansas, 2: Alabama, 2; California, 11; Washington, D. C., 11; Florida, 16; Georgia, 5; Illinois, 11; lowa. 14; Indiana, 2; Kentucky, 3; Kansas, 11; Louisiana, 150; Mississippi, 19; Maine, 2; Missouri, 8; Michigan, 3; New York, 15; Nebraska. 1; North Carolina, 1; Ohio, 7; Oiegon, 2; Pennsylvania, 6; South Carolina, 11; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 15; Virginia, 3; making a total of 336. Others are coming. ============ WASHINGTON. The annual report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Rathbone shows that the numb r of establishments of new postoffices during the past year was 4,105, a greater number than during any previous year with the exception of 1890, when it was 4,427. The net increase of postoffices over the year ended June, 30, 1891, was : 2,790, and the year closed with j 67.119 as the whole number of postI offices in the I nited States. Os the ■ number referred to above, over onej fourth were made in the six States of j Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, I Georgia and North Carolina, the num- । her in these States aggregating 1,118. ' The greatest increase in any State was lin Georgia, where it was 220. Texas ' was next with 211, Pennsylvania fol- ' lowed with 201 establishments. At ; the close of the fiscal year there were ' thirteen States in each of which there were more than 2,000 posti offices in operation. Os these five are I Northern an 1 eight Southern States. The Northern States are New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, with an aggregate of 16,288 offices. The eight Southern States are Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, with an aggregate of 19,905. The greatest number in any one State was 4,842 in Pennsylvania, 3,565 in New York, and 3,229 in Oh o. These are the only States where the number of offices was more than 3,000. The annual report of Green B. Raum. Commissioner of Pensions, made public the other day, shows that there were on the pension rolls June 30, 1892, 876,-

068 pensioners, an increase during the year of 199,908. There were added to the rolls during the year 222,937 new pensioners and 2,477 pensioners previously dropped were restored to the pension lists. During the year 25,397 persons were dropped from the rolls. The total amount expended for pensions during the fiscal year was $139,035,612. For the present fiscal year $144,956,000 is appropriated, and taking the cost of pension allowances during the first four months of this fiscal year as a basis of calculation, the Commissioner estimates that a deficiency appropriation of $10,508,621 will be necessary to supplement this year’a ; appropriation. An estima’e of $65,000,000 is submitted for the next fiscal year, but Commissioner Raum says that if as many allowances of pensions shall be made during the fiscal year to come as during the fiscal year ended June 30 last, this amount will not be large enough. He says, however, that it is difficult to forecast pension payments so far in advance, and that as Congress will be in session, no embairassment will arise if his successor, in the light of actual cost bf th© work for the first six months of th« fiscal year, finds that a further appropriation will be needed. Under the dependent and disability pension act 920,957 claims have been filed, of which number 403,859 have been allowet. The pension payments under the jaw up to December 30, 1892, amounted to $76,494,443. FOREIGN. Last week’s cholera record for the whole of Holland shows sixteen deaths. Tbe North German Lloyd steamship Spree is more than a day overdue at New York. Much alarm is felt for her safety. The committee appointed by the Internitional Monetary Conference to consider Rothsch Id’s plan has reported. The; decline to recommend its adoption. The national office of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers has heard nothing of the alleged intention of the Homestead men to renew their st: ike. Makin and his wife, the Sydney, N. S. W., bal y farmers, who are charged with having caused the death of fifteen infants intrusted to their care, have been committed for trial on charges of manslaughter. IN GENERAL The first Eng ish mail from China I and Japan via Vano uver has reached ’ Halifax. The Union veterans in the People’s i party have formed an organization tc j riv.'.l thoG. A. R., which they cal! the I “Boys in Blue of America." In attempting to lock his gun, during a hunting expedition near Exmore, i President-elect Cleveland caught and mashed his thumb, not seriously but i quite painfully. The, subcommittee of the Interstate Commerce Committee to investigate the Reading coal combine has concluded its examinations and adjourned to Washington. ■* J .min UIUinUH!I Mull ull vTIIn^ 'wolgK 38A 8-10 grains each, of which 317 22-106 grains are silver an I 38 38-100 grains capper. This was ascertained by an official assay made at Washington. In a great political convention held aU Montreal, a vote on the form of government most favored for Canada resulted in 1,614 for national independence, 992 for annexation to the United States, 364 I for colonial status, and 29 for imperial , federation. Eakly in 1864 the steamer John T. Buffington, engaged in carrying supplies to Union soldiers at the outposts, was sunk by "Bill” Anderson’s guerrilla band in the Missouri River near Rockport, Mo., and of ail the forty or fifty people on board there was not a survivor. Many expeditions have been been forme i and much money spent to find the boat for the treasure that was on it, but they have all tailed. Monday night, while railroad con’ractors were blasting on shore an immense piece of rock made a hole in a sandbar 109 yards out in the stream. A party went into what proved to be the old hulk and found half a dozen skeletons an 1 one mummy. Two small kegs of gold were found and a great many cases of flour, with five barrels of whisky, which is of excellent • quality. Only the forward compartnu nt was examined. In the after part of the vessel much gold and more whisky and guns are expected to be j found. The whisky is of great value. MARKET REPORTS, I CHICAGO. । Cattle —Common to Prime $3.25 @ 6.00 Hogs— shipping Grades a.so gs 6.25 Sheep— Fair to Choice 3.(0 & 5.60 Wheat —No. 2 Spring 71 & .72 Corn— No. 2 41 & .42 Oats— No. 2 so @ .31 Rye —No. 2 .46)2(1^ .47 Butter —Choice Creamery 28 .30 Eggs— Fresh 23 & .24 Potatoes —New, per bn 70 & -80 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shipping 3.2 c @ 5.25 Hogs —Choice Light 3.50 iff 6.00 I Sheep —Common to Prime...... 3.00 (^4.50 । Wheat— No. 2 Red 67 @ .68 Corn —No. 2 White 41 ® .41}a Oats— No. 2 White 35U® ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 6.00 i Wheat —No. 2 Red 68 & .69 ! Corn— No. 2 38 @ .39 Oats— No. 2 31 <g) .32 Rye— No. 2 47 & .48 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.(0 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 6.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 70 (S .701a Corn— No. 2 43 .44 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 36 @ Rye- No. 2..... .53 (^ .co DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 if 5.50 Sheep 3.00 & 4.25 Wheat— No. 2 Red 73 & .74 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 44 @ .45 Oats —No. 2 White 37 & .87 TOLEDO. Wheat— No. 2 74 <3 .75 Corn— No. 2 White 43 eJ .43^ Oats— No. 2 White... 34 @ .35 Lye 52j$@ .53)^ BUFFALO. Cattle— Common to ITime 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs— Best Grades.., 4.00 @6.25 Wheat— No. 1 Hard 81 @ .82 CORN—No. 2 48 @ .49 MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring 67 @ .67^ Corn— No. 8 42 @ .43 ' Oats —No. 2 White 35 @ .36 Rye —No. 1. .52 @ .53 Ba RLE Y—No. 2 65 @ ■ .67 Pork— Mess 15.00 @15.50 NEW YORK. Cattle. 3.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 3.00 & 6.25 sheep 3.00 m 4.75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 77 @ .79 Coax—No. 2 51 @ .52 Oats— Mixed Western 36 @ .38 Butter —Creamery 20 @ ,3i Pork —New Mess.. 14.25 @14.7a

AWFUL NIGIIT AT SEA. HARROWING EXPERIENCE ON THE SPREE. Henry's Curiosity, Cupidity and Stupidity —Scandal at an Ohio Alms House—Wheat ISioekade Soon Raised—Watching for Quarantine Violation. Towed Into Port. The steamer Spree, several days overdue at New York from Southampton, and anxiously watched for by hundreds of people in England and America having iriends on board, was towed into Queenstown with a broken shaft by the British steamer Lake Huron. The Spree left Southampton for New York, and for two dajs the steaming was fair. While the vessel was making high spead through a heavy sea, the main shaft broke and there was a terrible crash. The steamer trembled from stem to stern. The ergines stopped, instantly and the passengers hastened to ascertain the nature of the disaster. There was nothing like a panic. Perfect discipline wa. r maintained. The officers assured the passenge s that there was no danger, and the passengers had entire confidence. All ihe boats, however, were made ready for instant use and supplied with a good store of provisions. The shaft had been broken ten feet from the end. The weight of the screw caused a strain, and suddenly water flooded the stern, and drove all the second-cabin passengersand the stewards from their cabins and the diningsalcon. Thefollcwing night was filled with frightful experiences, and the arrival of the rescuing steamer was most opportune. Gold Rumors C .u.e Trade Depression. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Tae beginning of gold exports In November and their exported continuance, the death of Mr. Gould, and the unfavorable reports from tbe silver conference, have somev.hat affected all speculative markets. There are also s me symptoms of diminished activity in business, and while manufacturers arc generally occupied with orders taken some time ago there is more complaint that new orders do not come forward as was expected. While the vol time of trade is still large, it is not surprising that there should be somewhat less activity during the remainder of the year e :- ccj t in holiday lines. At the same time there is general confidence that early next year will I e lively and prosperous. A setback in speculation would be by no means an unmixed evil, but there are no signs of disturbance at present, though money markets arc working a little closer. Had Management of an Ohio Infirmary. A bad state of affairs exists at the Allen County, Ohio, Infirmary. The County Board of Charities has exposed a disgraceful state of affairs. Dirt and filth exist and the Superintendent is declared incompetent and the management below the standard. There is a ja 1 connected with the establishment and in this inmates of unsound mind are locked when they should be in the asylum. Officials sent one copy of tbe report to the State Board and ma le way with the other to keep the condition < f affairs from the public. Supt. Fensler resigned after an in\estigation by the Commissioners. NEWS NUGGETS. The coming execution of the young negro boy, Wade Haines, at Columbia, S. (’., is exciting a good deal of interest, inasmuch as there are serious doubts of his guilt. One hundeed and seventy-five Wisconsin editors arrived at Atlanta, Ga. They remained one hour and left for Savannah. The party will go to Florida. They will b entertained at Atlanta on the return trip. Royal decrees are published in Spain oermitting the free importation of American vines to repair the losses caused by phylloxera in the growing districts o: S; ain. The districts ment onrd are Barcelona, Almeria. Grenada, Seville, Sa'amanca, Zamora, Onnz, Lugo, Malaga. Gerona, and the Balearic Island*. The Allen I inehas resumed carrying steerage passengers, so a circular addressed to its agents states. The State of Nebraska will be the first steamer to arrive in New York sin e the quarantine r gulations were put in force, and officers at the seaport have been instructed to watch f. r the vessel and enforce the quarantine rules. At his home. Ashwoid. Maury County, Tenn., Luc as E. Polk, one of the prominent citizens of the State, died of typhoid fever. Luring the late war he was Brigadier General in Cleburne’s division, and was well known throughout the Southern States. He was prominent in State politics and had represented Maury County in the State Senate. Chairman George H. Walsh and Capt. Harman, cf the North Dakota Railroad Commission, report that the wheat is being removed at a lively rate, an I that while there is still conside:able trouble, the situation is not as la i as it nrght be. Along the ma n line of the Northern Pacific the stations are pretty well cleared out. The chief trouble now is on the branch lines. Henry Heckkott, an old farmer from Bay City, Mich., was wandering along State street, Chicago, looking at the sights when he was met by a young man who informed him that “the a ms an I legs of the pe:sons who were killed by the steaml oat’s explosion were being washed a-hore on the Lake Front.” The stranger volunteered toshowlleckrott the ghastly sisht. On the 1 aka Front Heckrott found two human sharks, who introduce 1 him to the shell game. It cost him S4OO. Pierre Galland, the world-re-nowned decorative artist, is dead at Paris. It was Galland whodecoratod the I’o el Cont nental in Paris, and specimens of his hand.work are to be tound in the residences of wealthy person* in nearly everv citv in Europe and iu Nev York. T ie Black Diamond m ning troubles at Coal Creek, Teun., are set.led. anu the miners have resumed work. It is reported that the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad is soon to go out of the hands of Re elver Truesdale and to be at once reorganized. Dr. Thatchek Graves, who is undei sentence of death at Denver, for the poisoning of Mrs. Josephine l arnaby, of Providence, R. 1., feels so confident the court will give him his liberty that he has already signed a contract to lecture throughout the country on “Colorado Justice and Prison L fe.”

BIQ MONEY PROBLEMS. Plans of De Rothschild and Prof. Soetbeer Considered with Favor. The plan of M. de Rothschild, reported to the monetary conference in Brussels, is, in brief, that a syndicate of the nations be formed to make yearly purchases of silver to the amount of £5,000,000, and that America continue her purchases of silver as at present. In the event of the price of silver rising above 43d an ounce the purchases are to be at once suspended. Prof. Soetbeer’s plan is to establish one gramme of fine gold as the international unit of value and to stop the minting of coins containing less than 5.8065 grammes of pure gold. The circulation of coin of foreign countries of less than the new standard will te prohibited by the countries signing the agreement, and gold coin of inferior value will be withdrawn within five years. Private individuals will be allowed to coin gold upon the payment of an agreed seigniorage. Gold certificates may be issued againstgold held in reserve. Prof. Soetbeer’s plan also in ludes the coinage of silver in the proportion of twenty value units of that metal to one of gold, but private individuals will not be allowed free coinage of silver. It is the general expectation that M.de Rothschild’s proposals will be accepted by the committee and then referred for adoption or rejection to the conference and the Governments represented, wiih modificatic ns suggested by the schemes of M. Levi and Prof. Scetbeer. One of the modifications will undoubtedly be that all gold coins I elow the value of twenty francs be withdrawn from circulation and replac«ed by silver notes. The adhesion of the German delegates is now*considered certain, as Herr Decbend, formerly President of the Reichsbank, approved the main lines of Prof. Soetbeer’s proposal. The French representatives will also accept the plan of x rof. Soetbeer, which was communicated by M. Tirard, French exMinister of Finance. The American delegates have strong reasons to be satisfied with the reco .'nition of the advocates of monemetalism and the seriousness of the dangers arising from a further fall in silver. The.v are disposed to support M. de Rothschild’s proposals on the principle that half a loaf is better than no bread. BAD AS THE CHOLERA. Typhoid Fever Alarms St. Louis — New Cases Average 150 Daily. The typhoid fever epidemic in St Louis has b gun to increase to aii alarming extent. The most deplorably ; development is the fact that the fatajA . ities have nearly doubled, and that, i whereas the maiady has heretofore been । mainly confined to persons between the ages of 15 and 30 years, it has begun to lay hold on children and on the aged. t Captain Joseph Labarge says that the t plague is due to the recent overflow; for, । since that time, water has stood in , cellars all along the river front and bej come stagnant. There has, he says, I been no overflow within his memory j that was not followed by numerous cases of typhoid fever. Prior to 1850, and be- , fore there was any city sewerage, the fact was known to everybody, and well-to-do people invariably left Jh* -ff*/after an overflow and remained“ awayuntil the danger had been averted by nature’s cleansing process. On the ? other hand the disease is confined al- , most wholly to the city proper, where , nothing lut city water is used and where f the sewerage is good, as St. Louis sewerage goes. The citizens are almost panic-stricken. Two hundred new cases developed Saturday, 115 Sunday, 220 ’ Monday and 118 Tuesday. ! According to a press dispatch Chief ’ Sanitary Officer Francis is now engaged ! in making a thorough inspection of the homes and surroundings of every one of i the many Hundreds of patients reported . to the health department Ly the physicians. His report is not complete, and will not be for several < ays yet. It is apparent to anyone who visits the City Hall that Mr. Francis himself is excited. He is the one official who seems to realize the city’s danger, but his hand s are tied. The truth is that the abatement of the epidemic will rest largely with the street commissioner. Ten thousand men turned loose on the streets with brooms and other implements could not remove the filth in a mon h. The alleys are rich with nastiness, and their pungent odor pervades the downtown districts from Baden on tbe north to Arsenal street on the south. It is a shameful state of affairs, for which there seems to be no remedy. LUMPY-JAW NOT CJNTAGIOUS. Result of the Slaughter and Official Examination of Diseased Cattle. An investigation of importance to the cattle industry of the entire country has been concluded at the Chicago Stock Yards. The result proved that the much-talked-of “lumpy-aw, ” at least in a mild form, is curable, and that the disease, even in its most advanced stages, is not necessarily, if at all, contagious. The test was conducted by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Government Department of Agriculture, and Dr. Salmon, chief of ihe bureau, came from Washington especially for its supervision. Eighty head of cattle were brought from the Riverdale Distillery to the slaughter-house of Hess Brothers, at 40th and Union streets. A few were hopelessly diseased, and had been for weeks with the others, some of which were slightly affected, ihe others perfectly healthy. Gn these the test has been in progress for over two months, and the result was most satisfactory. lodide of potassium wvs used in the treatment. Terse Telegrams. The New York militia will probably attend the World’s Fa r in a body. Kate Green, colored, of Louisville, Ky., beat her 10-year-old daughter to death for lying. Roger Q. Mills has enough votes pledged to secure his re-election by a large majority. The Democratic majority in the House will be 32 over both Republicans and Populists. The Pennsylvania Railroad will spend $2,600,000 in improvements in and around Washington. A decrease in the sugar output of Louisiana from 370,000,000 pounds to 300,000,000 is j redicted. Republicans have control of the Wyoming Legislature, and will elect a Republican United States Senator. It develops that the burglars who dynamited the safe in the First National Bank at Liberty, Mo., secured $15,000.