St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 21 January 1893 — Page 4

I A R I BTSOO T WALKERTON INDEPENDEN, %_:==—-__——=_—_.==== WALKERTON, s - INDIANA \ CAUGHT AT A CROSSING. ANOTHER REFROACH UPON THE CITY OF CHICAGO. Meeting of the Women Who Want to Voto —Chicago Threatened with a Coal Famine, with the Mercury Way Below Zero— Fall of a Paper House. , : Seven Are Injured. , THE Chicago, Rock Island and Pa- | cific “Cannon Ball” express, which left Chicago at 11:15 o’clock Monday night, ‘ ran into and completely demolished | street car No., 181 at the Forty-sev-enth street crossing. Seven per- | sons were injured, one fatally, The | car was driven by Charles Saunders, and in charge of Patrick Taylor as conduector. It contained s'x persons, . and not one of them escaped injury.! Conduector Taylor says as he approached the crossing he looked ahead and, al- = though the gates were up, he saw the | train coming. He notified Saunders to/ stop, but some one called out that the way was clear. What- | ever the cause, the car was started | and was fairly on the track when | the swiltly moving train bore down up- | on it. The driver applied the whip to | the horses and made a desperate effort | 1o clear the t{racks, but cou!d not, and | the engine struck the car near the rear : platform, breaking it in two. The rear | part was hurled twenty-{ive feet through | the air, knoeking down a telegraph pole | thirty feet away. ] Fear a Fuel 'am'ne. | AroxaG with the fact of the intolerably | cold weather that Chicago has been en- | during for the past week comes the in- | teiligence that the city is in danger of | a coal famine, and that, if the cold spell continues, it will entail intense suffering | among the destitute, and even hard- | ships among the better eclasses, for many establishments may hav: to shut down on account of a scarcity ot fuel. | There is a decided scurcity of coal in some quarters, and some¢ of the smaller dealers, however, have emply bins staring them in the face, and the consequence is that their immediate yatrons, who buy coal in small quantities, are having a hand-to-hand con- | ‘flict with Jack Frost. The eastern railroads are the principal sufferers, and many of their engines have “died” on the tracks, their only relief being | the confiscation of coal consigned to | Chicago » wholesalers. Their plea is | simply that they cannot move freight | unless they have motive power, and | they shovel much of the coal from the flat cars into the engine to bring the re- | mainder to its destination. i Womon Suftragists. THE first regular session of the twenty-fifth annual convention of the | National American Woman Suffrage Association opened in Washington Mon- | -day. On the stage were Miss Susan B. ! Anthony, President; Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Vice President; Mrs. Rachel Fos- f ter Avery, Secretary; Mrs. Alice Stone | Blackwell, Recording Sccretary; and ! the Treasurer, Mrs. Harriet Taylor ! Upton. The meeting was called to or- | cer by Miss Anthony. Mrs. Shaw, the | Vice President, spoke of her work in | organizing local associations, especially | in Kansas. Good progress had leen | made everywhere. The national asso- | ciation was shown to have an active | membership of 13,150. The report of | Mrs. Upton, the Treasurer, showed theo associatian .to be in a satisfactory ! tinanrcial condition. ‘ Niagara's Great lce Bridge. ‘ IT is said that the ice bridge at Niagara Falls is one of the most ample | and substantial seen for years. The steady zero weather of the last week | has filled the upper river with ice, which is pouring over the falls in vast quanti- | ties and adding each hour to the jam | which is called the “bridge.” The process of format'on thus goes on, the latest arrival of ice being carried under | that which is stationary, and gradually raising the who'e up higher and higher. | They heavy fall of snow and the elouds of mist at the falls, which settle on top, freezing as fast as they fall, form a | natural cement. NEWS NUGGETS, WiTHOUT any warning other than a low, rumbling noise, the four-story brick paper warehouse of Martin & W. H. Nixon, Philadelphia, collapsed, and seven men were caught in the ruins, three of whom were killed and one in- | jured. GISBERT WAESCHER has arrived at - San Francisco, after riding horseback | overland from Chicago. It took him | ninety-eight days to travel the 3,000 | miles by the circuitous route he trav- | eled, and he had many thrilling adventures He rode one horse all the way, and both man and beast fnishedi the trip in good condition CHATTANOOGA, Tenn is without a drop of water. Th water company’s supply gave out, owing to the freezing of the river and the water in the suct on pipes. Every business house, factory, newspaper, and residence is affected by the damage. The electric lights went out one night and the city was pitch dark. In case of fire not a drop of water could be secured for work. AT Charleston, S. C., the unprecedented cold weather has caused the most inten=e suffering among poor and rich alike. The peculiar construct on of the houses renders them almmost incapable of being heated with a tempera- | iure below 30 degrees. The mercury went down to 22 degrees. Benjamin Lamb, a street-car driver, is the first | vietiza of the cold. He was frozen Friday night after finishing his day’s work and died three days later. | TuE Moors have liberated the Spanish commandant at Alhucemas, whom they kidnaped recently. ALBERT SMITH, alias George Hultz, wanted for the murder of Miss Mary Crom'!ey. has been arrested at Goshen, Ind. DiRECTOR KERBEDEZE of the UladiKavkaz Railway has btought for the Russian Governm-nt 2,000,000 pounds of grain, which will be distributed among the starving poor of Toola, Voronesh, and Reazan, whose tens of thousands are faminc-stricken,

SR B S NTS A D eSS et e e s N ’ EASTERN. Mgs. ANNIE T. FLORENCE, widow of | the late actor, W. J. Florence, has mar- ] ried Howard Coveney, in New York ; City. | THE committee of prosecuticn of the New York Presbytery in charge of the | | Briggs heresy case has decided to appeal the case directly to the General Assembly which meets at Washington _on May 19. | BusHING ACADEMY, a noted educational institution at Ashburnham, Mass., . was destroyed by fire. Loss, $160,000; insurance, $90,000. The 225 stulents ‘:escaped without injury. The flre , originated in the chemical latoratory. , Slix FAMILIES on Erin street, Pitts- ’- burg, Pa., and three families op Perry_ville avenue, Allegheny, in all twentyfive people, narrowly escaped death I!rom asphyxiation by illuminating ‘gas. As it is, several persons are |ina critical condition, but all will likely i recover. TWENTY-EIGHT acres of land in East Providence, buildings and other properi ty, what is left of the Richmond Paper ‘ Comypany, have been sold at auction to | Charles Fletq%er for $42,000, A few ' months ago the machinery was sold for about $45,000, The plant originally cost nearly $1,000,000, / Tue National Association of Wool‘ | Manufacturers began its twenty-eighth | | annual meeting at the Fifth Avenue | | Hotel, New York City, Thursday. One , gos the objects of the meeting is the ! - election of a successor to William Whit- | 'man, who has for eight years been the ' President of the association. | ' THE Yale and Harvard unions have been unable to secure the services of | Professors Handley, of Yale. and! Taussif, of Harvard, as judges at the debate at Cambridge, and Professor | Seligman, of Columbia, and President | Andrews, of Brown University, will officiate instead. The third judge will Rmbably be Speaker Barrett of the | Tassachusetts House of Representa- | tives. i Miss YZANER CorneEmMaN, the alleged | widow of George Dawson Coleman, the Lebanon, Pa., iron king, who died in ' Paris in 1891, leaving a will making his mother, Rosalie Parent Coleman, of Philadelphia, his sole heir, has filed a bill in equity at Lancaster, Pa., praying that a partition be made of the real estate owned by him in this country, and that his mother be requirsa to aecount for the rents and profits receivel since his death. The property is very valuable, and inecludes the big ircn furnace in East Donegal Township, known as Marictta, WESTERN. MicHIGAN lumbermen are organizing | a comblne, | SIMON GOLDMAN, paving teller of the German National Bank, Denver, Col., has ‘disappeared with $14,000 of the bank’s funds, | FIRe starting in the toy store of Henry P. Fabriciug, at St. Louls, dam- | aged his stock $25,000, and the bullding, | owned by Henry Londerman, $5,000, Both fully insured. | , WOLFGANG STAUBLER, proprietor of the Northwestern Hotel in Menominee, 3 ’Mich.‘, was shot and killed by George Sporer, The trouble grew out of an old feud. No arrests, : THz Unior Block, in Hastings, Mich., | burned. E. Y. Hogle'dry geols, luscsls,ooo, and Ira Van Valkenburg, hardware, about the sanze. The bLulding was valued at $45,000, JOHN SHARKEY, the landlord of the Emmeit House of Davton, Ohio, was arrested under indictment of the Butler County (Ohio} Court for complicity in the murder of Grant Fox. Tre St. Louis grain bloeckade continues as bad as ever, The elevators are full to the roof, and it is estimated that fifteen hundred carleads of grain are blockaded in the railroad yards. THIRTY-EIGHT salmon canning companies, comprising nine-tenths of the industry on the Pacific coast, agreed to go into a combination for the purpose of limiting the output and maintaining prices. THE Smart Building at Kansas City burned. The total loss was $245,000, divided as follows: Jacquard Wateh and Jewelry Company, $150,000; Foster Woolen Company, $:0,000; Art School, building, $40,000, J. W. Evaxns, special agent of the Santa Fe Roal, with a posse, has captured Bill Deal, Bill Hernian and Wade Stewart, near Paris, Texas. They are charged with robbing the Santa Fe agent at Dougherty, I. T. ; As A result of a dispute over city taxes extended over five years Omaha’s city treasury attached four fine Pullman palace cars valued at $50,000. They were to go out on the Burlington train, | but were chained to the track. I Jou~ B. Yorxk's large dry goods house | in Chicago was totally destroved by fire, { The burned building was a brown-stone front, three stories in height, and was completed less than a year ago at a cost of about 40,000, The total loss on building and stock is estimated at $250,Qoo, THE Wichita Electrical Railway was sold by the Sheriff under a mortgage of $300,000. The property was bought in by the bondholders, capitalists of Boston, and o! Keene and Nashua, New Hampshire. There will be a' reorganization of the company, but the management will remain in the same hands, A A SroxaxeE (Wash.) dispatch says: An avalanche swept down the mountain side in Salzso last Wednesday | night and buried two miners, James | Switzer and Martin Flaherty, under 150 | feet of snow. The men were working | in the Lee mine when they heard a ! noise, and rushing out to see what it | was were overwhelmed, ‘ | A WRITER in the San Francisoo Ex- | aminer tells how, when a young man, | he answered a small “agents wanted” | advertisement, engaged with the ad- | vertisers as canvasser, and during the | winter made $630 clear of expenses, | This he invested to advantage, and is ! now worth half a million—all from a | small advertiseraent. There are a num- | I ber of advertisements in this paper, anl | the above is proof that it pays to read i them. i | A% Bt. Paul, Minn., County Auditor i J. H, Burns was indicted for “fraudalently presenting fraudulent claims to i public officers for payment.” There are three indictments, Burns has been de- |

ing the county printing, and, it 13% claimed, made overcharges to the amount of several thousand dolla; I'3; i lI)Ie:lwas arrested and released on $1,500 | ail. : THE Board of Directors of the g, Louis Exposition has engaged Sousa’s | new marine band of Chicago, John Phillip Seusa, conductor, for the ful] term of the next exposition, commenging September ¢ and closing October 21 Among the membersof this now famous organization ure eight well-known soloists who formerly belonged to Gj). more's band. Cray HOPPER, the Toledo, Onio. young man whose case ol suspended animation has attracted so much attention, died Friday morning. The undertaker for the second time prepared the body fcr burial. The minister again conducted the funera! services ang | the body was taken to Woodlawn | Cemetery, where a grave has heen wait- * Ing to receive it for two weeks. The youth was supposed to have died from dropsy, Deec. 29, The usual funeral yreparations were made and the hearse was at the door to convey the body to the cemetery when the parents yielded to the vague premonition that their son was notdead. EIGHTEEN passengers were injured; and the lives of 150 jeopardized Frida) night in a rear-end collision between { the Crete accommodation train on the - Chicago and Fastern Illinois Railroad and the through limited on the Chicago and Erie at a Chicago crossing. The three coaches of the suburban train were telescoped and in an instent fire broke out in the wreckage, Two men and one! woman pinned under car seats were ros- | cued from the flames with diffieulty, A, | B. Watkins may die from injuries re- | ceived, Several persons blame Fm;:i-2 neer Truman, of the Erle, for the acei- | dent, but he says no one came back | from the delayed train with a lantern | to warn him that it wss in his way, | SOUTHERN. ' PRESIDENT DilAz, of Mexico, in exerciso of the authority granted him by Congress in the law passed Oct, 31, 1832, has made important modificaticns in the mining laws of June 4 and 6, | 1891, AT 5:15 o'clock on Wednesday morn- | ing there was a distinet shook of earth- ¢ quake feit in Frederick, Md. Gools were thrown from the shelves of stores | in Jefferson. The shocks lasted five to ten seconds, { BY a premature blast in the new yards of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway near Denison, Tesas, two men named George Hampton and Jerry Kylie | were Kilied and two other latorers setiously injured, Gov, Browx, of Maryland, had !nur§ of Dr. Hill's murderera remaved from | the jail at Chestertown, Md., at mid- | night Tuesday to prevent a riot, 'l'bng sentence of the four has been coms- | mtited (o life imprisonment. ! Jayves A, MeERrRiLL, 50 years old, for- | 1t w;i) a clerk in the office of the Baitimore & vhio Railroad at Baitimore, has ; been atrested in Philadelphia charged | with defrauding the company by fill - out passes and selling them. ' . THREE masked won walked into the’ depot at Daugherty, Texas, a lonely | station on the Santa Fe road, about 9 - o'clock at night and held up the station | agent and one passenger, but only suc- : seeded in gottng a small sum, : Gov, McKixsey, of Virginia, has | written Gen. Martin T. Mdacmahon, of New York, wiho has the placing of organizations for the inaugural parade, asking that the Virginia Cavalry be made the special escort to Mr. Cleveland. A petition signed by the Virglnia Congressmen accompanied the letter. ‘ WHILE neighbors were sgitting with | the corpse of Miss Jane Adams at! Clarksville, Tenn,, Mrs. Adams attemptod to fill a coal 01l lamp froma fulli can. An explosion took place, and she was 8o Ladly burned a= to cause her death the next day. Mr. Adams, two of his sons and one daughter, were dangerously burned in endeavoring to extinguish the flames from Mrs. Adams’ clothing. The | burning oil set fire to the house and ! perscns present had hard work to save | the corpse and the building. | THERE is considerable excitement at Jackson, Miss., over reports of outrages | committed against wealthy Jews in| Southern Mississippi. Mr. H. Hillock, of Pike County, has been the principal sufferer at the hands of the White Caps, | Within the last two months he has lost | twenty-seven houses by fire. His negro | farm hands have been ordered to leave the county. At present he maintains | an armed guard at his private residence I to keep from being burned. Mr. Hilloek | claims that he has been damaged a:; least 350,000 and says he will move to New Orleans. The negroes are being driven from all plantations owned by Jews and labor is demoralized. POLITICAL. l SeExatTor Trrrie has been renomi- ig nated by the Democerats in the invii;n.:\g Legislature. The Democratic legislative caucus at St. Paul has nominated | Daniel W. Lawler for United Smtcs‘; Senator, ! KANSAS has two houses of Repre- | sentatives in session in the same hall, | the Republicans and Populists ha\‘ingg organized independently of each other. ; Forty deputy marshals have so far managed to prevent an open warfare. ‘ | ~ THE Democrats of the New York Assembly have nominated Edward Murphy ‘ for United States Senator. Dan J. l Campau, of Detroit, is the candidate of the Michigan Democratic legislati\'el caucus to succeed Senator Stockbridge. | H. P. OWEN, Populist District (‘lerki at Eureka, Kan., refused to give up the office to T. J. Sowders, a Republiczm.l | Owens claims that the nine votes which constituted Sowders’ majority were illegally cast. The outcome of the fight ’ for the office is watched with interest, ! ! THE first vote for United States Senator in the Montana Legislature resulted: Wilbur F. Sanders, 31 (Reps.); Samuel Mulville, 3 (Populists); W. A. ' Clark, 16 (Dems.); Samuel T. Hauser, 6 (Dems.); Congressman Dixon, 8 (Dems.); Major Maginnis, 2 (Dems.); | Robert B. Smith, 1 (Dem.). ] Gov. LEWELLING Thursday recog- . nized the Populist House as the legal i body of Kansas’ Legislature. An application for an alternative writ of mandamus was made by the Republicans to the Supreme Cou:t io compel the

gocietary of State to deliver to "‘L*v“ '~ Douglas the papers in coy- | 'ain contest cases. The three Demo. ~rats announced that they believed the | - P€publican organization to be the legal one, and that they will co-operat e perate with . om, The Populists pave passed resoutions that they will “yield only at the | N T ” Oint afwfillxe’ ::ggoniet. . ItP is said the : nize the Populist oy‘Fanization. r - ’ : VASHINGTON. ‘£ : e ‘ | thm United States Senate has passed | € quarantine bill giving the President E:;:;m POwer to prohibit immigration | e :entry of imports and appropri- | 1 ng $1,000,000 to carry out the provis- | Oqg_ot the measure, ; s GEN. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER died sud- | .’:{fly of heart disease at 1:30 W ednesday | orning at his resiaence in Washing- | ton, D. C., on New Jersey avenue, opgggl&e th‘e Capitol Although 74 years hu‘lge. Gen. Butler had boen noted for b remarkable health and robustness, ut he often declared that his end Wwould come suddenly. No lat ‘ ater than diesday, In discussing Mr. Blaine's gprsering illnoss, he made use of the f on: Blaine may outlive me Wi The General arose shortly after o'clock Wednesday morning and had & vomiting spell. West, his servant, ned to his master’'s assistance, but the General murmured, “It is too late; help me ba 'k to bed.” Within five mins utes ali was over, FOREIGN, THERE were 10,919 deaths from cholera at Hamburg in 1802 SIR Fraxcis KNOLLYS, private sec- | retary to the Prince of Wales, says | that his royal highness will not use his | new yacht to visit the World's Fair at Chicago this yvear, Sir Francis adds that the prince has no intention of visiting Chicago. ‘ A DYNAMITE bomb that had been i‘ placed in front of the building occupied | by the Catholic c¢lub at Seraing, ]io'l-’ gium, exploded Tuesday morning, com- | pletely wrecking the front of the struct- l ure and causing great damage. Fortu- | pately not a single person was hurt. | There is no clue to the perpetrators of ; the outrage. Seraing is the center nf' an extensive coal mining distriet, and it | {8 supposed that the explosion was in | some way connected with the strike of | coal miners in Western Germany. A canamitTors aceldent oceurred Tuesday at Penzanee, Cornwall. While ! a number of men were at work in xhu; Wheal Owl Mine, at that place, water| suddenly rushed in and diowned many of the miners, As soon as the rush of the water was heard those who were ! nearest to the shaft ecrowded into !hn: cage and were quickly drawn to the | sur.ace, Others at a distance wvrn? | overtaken by the water anl their cries | could be heard resounding through H..-" galleries. The number of men drowned was thirty, THE French ministry resigned Tues- | day, owing to differences In the Cabinet | ‘er the arrest of Bailhaut, ex-Minister | Public Warks, and other mattera, | hu greatest exeitement prevailed at Farie when the resignation was made thlle, and people thronged the streets i O such an extent that the police wereo | ardered ou to disperse the crowd l The President at once charged M. Ribo! i with the duty of reconstructing the | ministry. It {8 openly declared that ! the President and M. Ribot are not in earnest in the Panama prosecutions, ithat they have no intention of bringing the bribe-takers to triai, and that the jrosdcution of De I.r\\").fl', l'wn'\{l.'.", Cottu, and Eiffel will be nothing more | than a farce. It is also charged ti:u'l ¢fforts are being made to postpone the | exposure of certain guilty parties until the law of prescription will haye taken effect. IN GENERAL T!I!‘, R« ad ng « ombine is r»-pnrtml to ( te interested in the svndicate which ! has obtained control of nearly all the coal mines in Nova Scotia. The new ! combine hac a capital of £18,000,000, ! Ture Rev. Father Callaghan, of the | Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary in New York, has received a novel request from Hotei-keeper Dineen, of Hurn:z,! through Father Brown, of St. Vincent's Church, at Springfleld, S. D. Mr.| Dineen said he and neighbors wanted a car-load of marriageable Irish girls shipped to Huron. Mr. Dineen said that husbands were as abundant as blackverries in July, and land could be had for the asking in South Dakota. Those who were not anxious to marry at once could get steady employment and good wages for an indefinite period. 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"o 2 e . TRADE TOOK A REST.' ‘ P es R INDICATIONS OF SPEEDY RE-!. SUMPTION. AR L : Hawaii Threatened with Devastation— West Virginia Gas Well on the Rampage : —Tennesseeans See a Novel Sight—Engi- I neer and Fireman Killed, o Prospects Are Brighter. R. G. DUN & Co.’s weekly review of 1 trade says: ] ht;llll:lunyx;uues:e;:: t::)“xlnest,s'l incident to the : than usual but sever:swef::fg: I‘:ms e ! , as given :nrg)\;?roful stimulus to trade in heavy boots | for th: sgilnagnguri?leszn:r: ngl prepurau?ng : ly and with the utmost Bco!:|gtit(l,:nlccu‘)e- | spite of reports that more 1d el'll Bt abroad, and in spite of uxceggi t‘l‘. =1 garding legislation on the rlno'xea nu:;sure- | the businoss world seems lnéllfu?dX gn: ‘ lieve that there will te no serious fi . |el ewmbarrassment, especin ly us the ::.;c : f commercial indebt o ‘l)ow _— tr(l: 4l inde .edness 13 remarkably ailures have been coraparatively unimportant. No Interrupticn of industrial activity is seen, thougk iron is somewhat more depressed. but in other importAnt branches a distinct improvement {s noiiced in the Preparation fors; ring trade e——— Maunaloa Preparing for Upheaval. A PRIVATE letter from Prof. Chartier, of New York, who has been spend ng several weeks at the Voleano House in Hawaii, gives some interesting details about the inactivity ‘of the great volcano, Maunaloa. He saysthep't of the crater is fast filling with lava, and that the Columbian vear will probably be marked by one of the greatest eruptions | on record. Every night the whole dome of the mountain is illuminated by the fires from the lava asif lit by a gruat! electric plant. Many severe earthuake shocks have been felt recently, and these are regarded by the natives as ’ signs of an outbreak, just as the ap-pearan-e of a peculiar red fish in Honrolulu harbor has maiked death in the Hawalian royal family. The last great eruption was five years ago. Was the Asphyxiation Aceldental? Joacuim KUSTER, an aged Indianapoiis German, together with his wife, Sophia, was found asplyxiated. Neighbors broke down the door, anl beheld the woman dead, sitting on the side of a ted, and the husband unconscous, I¥ing «n another bed. The man was partially resuscitated at the hospital, but not so as to be conscious. The natural gas in the stove had been turned oY and then on again, and it is believed that the old couple were tired of life and took th's means of ending their existence together. Fitty Kiiled in an E pldsion, A DISPATCH to the Central News from St. Taul de Loanda says: “A train crowded with Europeans and natives was halted on the Congo railway ncar Matadi recently, and the engine was detached to join a wagon loaded with 54 boxes of dynamite and eighty-two casks o gunpowider. The engine moved down grade with great specd and collided with the wagon, exploding the dynamite. Fifty persons were killed, includin z Legqueque, head of the Societe Anonyme Belge.” Fatal Somerset of an Engine. A LocoMOTIVE used on the Vandalia coal mine branches turned upside down at Jeszup, Ind., whilerunninz very fast, instantly killing the engineer and lireman. The accident was cau-ed by spreading rails, and occurred with such suddenness that the men hal no chance at a'l to escape. Thoy were horribly mangl«d. None of il:¢ other men of the erew were injured. BREVITIES, Finre destroyved the building and eontents of the Neufeld Manufaeturing Company at Chicago. Loss, SIOO,OOO. At Indianapolis Thomas Caruthers, a w 11-known Western commerc'al trave eler for George Kinsey & Co., iron dealers, of Cinecinnati, was found dead of heart disease in his room at the Bates House. AT Nashvilie, Tenn., Sunday was bit- ! terly cold. The Cumberland is frozen tight from bank to bank, and during the cay was visited by thousands looking at the unusual sight. Ponds near the city have bLeen crowded with skaters, a scene rarely witnessed there. THE great Rock Run gas well, which the local authorities were assured was l securely plugged, let loose at Wesl Union, W. Va., driving people from their houses in its vicinity, where fires | would have been death, and forcing the | c¢losinz of the town school. Repor!s! cav tnat the well is flowing so strongly | that it cannot be plugged. } CHIEF OF POLICE GASTER, of New| Orleans, was found guilty by Judge| Moise of misdemeanor in having failed | to arrest and detain violators of the| Sunday law when requested to do so by | the Distriect Attorney. The case was brought before the court in order tc settle a dispute as to the method to be pursucid in enforcing the Sunday law. A motion for a new ir'al was overrul- d, and the case will te taken at once to the! Supreme Court for deecision. SiNCE the death of Commodore William F. Weld, of Boston, the fazts concerning a munificent gift made by him to Harvard University have come out. The amount of the gift is to be $95,000. It was given to found a new jrofes orship in the law school, in just what braneh of law it is not stated. Commodore Weld gave this money comre time ago,with the distinet underst .nding that the fact was not to te made pub.ic before his death. | EsERTs Bros., Detroit roofers, failed. ] They gave the Peninsular Bank a mori- | gage for $37,000, | OITO JOHN:ON, of Crystal llil's,‘ Mich., was found dead in his room :n! Krause's Hotel in Milwaukee. It is supposed that he blew out the gas. | Axr St Ticn's, Mo, Joseph Heisler, charged with nuurder in the first degree, who has been confined in the insane asylum for some time past as ins: ne, | made his ¢scape. Heisler is t‘hi‘l'.—"“}‘ with killine a (-(Axl('l‘«)vl man named L[('.’Z-, derson Jordan in St. Louis May 3!, 1’*"’1" TaHE Whisky Trust has again ad ! vanced Irices 5 cents a gallon. | Miss Eva Wixroxn, of Shelbyville i Ind., feil against a red-hot stove, being numb from a :leighride, and burx‘.(x:, her right cheek so that she will be disfiguved tor life.

______.,.—____—__‘__—_— - . THE SENATE AND HOUSE. \ WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important RMessures Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solons. The Senate was in session Monday for five hours. Half of the time was spent on Mr. McPherson’s (N. J.) joint resolution :g‘“:l?flzmg and directing the Secretary of ill{:ve reasury to suspend all purchases of r under the Sherman aect, and the oOther half on the bill granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additicnal gl‘:“e:’“pon }he Marine Hospital service. - McPherson addressed the Senate at length in support of his joint resolution. Mr. Mpl’he_rson had not finished his speech ;lt 3 o'clock, when the quarantine bill was b"d:lll:ef‘l:;g 1113(;05enate as the special order, M: Mcl’her:on "'t:‘de tcfilpgranly to allow Committee on Ba ki:)nc e T decisive vote ushn dnz} g Souean by o and bullion pl?l'ch:se \rm Andrew banking . epeal bill, together \ With the Cate amendment forth i of silver bullion now in \hu = ouage through the committee and ordeerése;‘t,ss“ry’ Port to the House. A motion ot Cre(Tenn.) to cargy.out the State banik plgos in the Chicago platform was de(eat.ed“bnn{( 'éc' 1. Mr. Townsend (Cal.) offered yth}a | Steward free-colnatze bill. This was voted down. The Cate amendment was then adopted, and then Mr. €ate was authorized to report the bill as agreed to by a voteof 8 to 3. The bill as agreed upon provides that national banks upon a deposit of interest bearing United States bonds shall be entitled to receive circulating notes to the full par value of the bonds ;liep'osit,ed. At present 90 per cent. is the i limit, The bill granting additional quarantine rowers and imposing additional duties upon the Secrotary of the Treasury and the marine hospital service was passed by the Senate Tuesday. After the quarantine bill was passed the special crder, the bill &0 hibiuinz immigration for vne year, was per- ° mitted to lapse. The anti-option bill was I taken up, and Mr. Vilas (Dem., Wis.) completed his argument agains: it, There was 10 action on the bill, the Senate adjourning for lack of a quorum, The House met Tuesday morning in continuation of Monday’'s session aud resumed consideration of the bill for the admission es the Norfolk & Western Railroad into the District of | Columbia, and after a sharp dis cussion it was passed. The House - proceeded to the consideration of the Crain joint resolution, proposing ~amendments to the Constitution, substituting the 31st day of December for the 4th day of March as the commencement and termination of the official terms of mem—bers of the House of Representatives and of the United States Senators and providing that Congress shall hold its annual 'meetinz on the second Monday in Januaary. and substituting the 39th of April for the 4th of March as the date for the commeacement, and limiting of the terms of the President and Viee President. The vote ordering the joint resolution to a third reading resulted: Yeas. 49; nays, 121; thus defeating the iaeasure. The House then adjourned, Inmediately after the reading of the journal of Wednesday Mr. Blackburn (Ky.) rose, and, announcing the death of Senator Kenna, offered resolutions expressive of tho sorrow with which the news of the death was received. A committee was appointed to take charge of the funeral. and as a further mark of respect the Senate adjourned. No business but the reception of the Banking Comiittee’s maiority and minority reports on the repeal of the Sherman act was done in the House. Senator Kenna's death was announced, and the House adjourned. . Both houses of Congres: left work Thursday to take part in the funeral of Sena‘or ] Kenna. Funeral services were heid in the Senate chamber. The body of the dead senator was carried into the Senate wing of the Capitel and laid in state in the mar-ble-room under a guard of Capitol police. ll‘hu casket was not opened. When the Senate was callel to order Senator Faulkner. colleague of ‘the deceased, secured for the West Virginia legislative delegation the privilezes of the floor, and the Senate took a reces:. A bier had been placed at the head of the main aisle. Soon the members of the lower house entered the chamber led by Speaker Crisp. who took a place beside the Vice President. The President, his Cabinet, the Supreme CourZ Judges and the mourning widow came next. They were followed by a pro-~ cesslon of robed priests preceded by acolytes Dbearing censor and candles. Capitol police bore in the casket and Bishop Keane, of the Roman Catholic university, in purple rode: with the priests ranged about the coffin. The Dbishop preached the funeral sermon. In the senate Friday Mr. Sherman (O.) reported back to the Senate the bill to extend to the North Pacific Ocean the provisions of the statute for the protection of fur seals and other fur-bearing animals The bill was passed. At 2p. m. the antioption bill was taken up, the pending question being the amendment offered by Mr. White (La.) to strike out the last provision of Section 2. The proviso is #that such contract or azreament shall not Le made, settled for by delivery or settlement of !dn‘fcrenco. cr by any other mode of performance or settlement in or uron any ‘ board of trade,” etc. The amendment was { rejected —yeas, 15; navs, 32 So the pro- | viso is retained in the bill. In the Houss 'filihustcr'in: was indulged in all day !fl}.'(linS[ the consideration of private war | claims bills, with the result that nothing i was accomplished. : { Most of Saturday’s session of the senate { was occupied by Mr. Morgan of Alabama {on the Nicaragua Canal bili. In the course of his speech he spoke sadly of the Monroe | doctrine as «worn, torn and fragmentary,”™ | and as having been kicked by the Senate | into «doll rags.” Mr. Morzan, speaking of the provision of the bill for tea Governmen directors (out of fifteen) said that if ' the French government had its own directors in the Panama Canal Company tke \ robberies which had taken place and which { had disgraced and nearly destroyed the i French republic would not have been perpetrated, and that the fraud and corruption aand villainy which was now shocking the sensihilities of that ! great and nable people would have been !avoided. At the conclusion of Mr. Mor- ! gan’s speech the anti-option bill came up as ill special order, but (in antagonism to it) | Mr. Walcott (Rep.) of Colorado moved to | proceed to the consideration of the first ' bill on the calendar. On that motion Mr. | Washburn (Rep.) of Minnesota demanded | the yeas and nays, and the result was—'Yl‘;lS. 9, nays 3l—not a quorum \"oting 'After a brief executive session the Senate { adjourned. The time of the House was !privncipulh' consumed in consideration of | the bill ratifyinz the agreement with the | Cherokee Nation of Indians for the cession ?to the United States of the tract of l:lr}d | known as the «Cherokee Outlet.” The bill ‘ aas passed and the House adjourned. Fortunate Sweden. Sweden has a larger area of wo_dland than any other country in Europe. Tae paval review at New York next spring, following the _‘rez;d»-zv;'-gus at Hampton Roads, Va., will not take placs 'unlcss Congress makes add.ltmna! proi vision for its proper celebration. LS T e e | Mz. RosiNsoy, of Pennsylvania introduced in the House a bill increasing from §1 to $2 per barrel the internal revenue tax on fermented ligquors. SECRETARY TRacY has awarded the contracts for constructing the cruiser Brookiyn and the battle ship lowa te Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia