St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 February 1893 — Page 4

WALKERTON INDEPEHDENi. WALKERTON, . . . nW,,, great loss of life, hundreds reported drowned IN AUSTRALIA. A Chinese Elopement Reveals n Smug-8-li’iS Scheme- Sliver Legislation Stopped—Anna Bit kinson Wants Damages— The Missing Pacific Mail Steamer Safe.

Frightful Death Roll. A dispatch from from Sydney, Australia, says: At Ipswich, Queensland, twenty-five miles from Brisbane, twen-ty-two persons are known to have perished in floods, and it is feared that the loss of life is much greater, as the swollen river is covered with wreckage, from which a horrible stench arises, doubtless caused by the great number of bodies of human beings and animals entangled in the mass. The water is rising steadily in Brisbane. The lower districts are completely submerged. In the lower portions of the main street it is twenty feet deep. The shops and their contents are almost a total loss, as tne hood camo on a 6 ~„p m iv that only a small part of the stocKo could be remove 1. Mon are at work in boats trying to save the contents of thirty er forty stores before the water rises to them. The Brisbane Hi ver bridge, which connected North and South Brisbane, was swept away. All the inhabitants are crowding to the higher (parts of the city. In consequence of the interruption of railway and telegraphic communication only scanty information about the disaster in other parts of Queensland is obtainable. At Maryborough, in March County, thirty persons have been drowned. Most of the town is under water. The Mary River bridge, the largest in the coony, has been carried away. The town has been deserted by two-thirds of its inhabitants. Tiaro, another town on the Mary, is also under water. The list of the dead grows hourly. Many bodies are being found in houses which were supposed to have been deserted.

Eloped with a Mott Street Belle. Chyo Wah and Leo Sing, Chinamen, have been watching at the St. Louis Union Station for a week for Chung Top Woo and Miss Fee Lung. Woo, they say, eloped with Miss Lung, who was the prettiest Chinese girl in Mott street, New York. Chyo Wah said also that Woo had taken with him a sum of money subscribed by New York Chinamen to be used in influencing customs officials at San Francisco to let opium be landed free of duty. He claims to represent a syndicate of smugglers on the coast. Miss Lung, it is said, was the only Chinese heiress in New York. Chyo Wah thinks the elopers went via Chicago. NEWS NUGGETS. Thomas F. Withrow, general couneel of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, died suddenly at __his residence in Chicago, of heart dis57 s obi^t i. f a capit al Gon--uaiSTf nu« ^ uwm the town of Converse. Russell R. Harrison is one of the company’s directors.

The missing Pacific mail steamship j City of Pekin has been sighted about eighteen miles out from San Francisco in tow of a tugboat. The City of Pekin 6 has been out twenty-seven days on her < voyage across the Pacific and is twelve } days overdue. < Miss Anna E. Dickinson, leeturess 1 and actrees, has brought suit at Scranton, Pa., against eight persons, two b■- 1 ing physictans, asking damages aggre- 1 gating §125,000. The suit is the out- i come of Miss Dickinson’s detention, at the instance of those proceeded against, in Danville Insane Asylum for five weeks in 1801. Proceedings have been begun to compel the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company, of New York, to show whether $17,000, alleged to have been locked in their vaults in 1889 by C. H. Sanford, an old man who claims ho was robbed of the key of his b x and his pocketbook after depositing the cash, is in the company’s possession. The steamer Wilmington was destroyed by fire at Lumton station, Oregon. Her eargo consisted of I,OCO barrels of lime, the loss on which is nominal. The vessel was valued at $50,000, and was covered by insurance of two-thirds that amount. It plied from Vancouver and Puget Sound points to Portland. The family of Charles -J. Mohr, comprising himself, wife, and child, were victims of natural gas asphyxiation at Lima, Ohio. They were all at the point of death when found, and the premises bore evidence < f their having gotten up for breakfast, which was on the table, and being overcome lay down, not realizing what occasioned their illness. After several hours’ work Mohr and the boy slightly regained consciousness. Mrs. Mohr’s condition is more serious, and she wMI die. ^mvER legislation is out of sight for this season. By a vote of 42 to 23 the Senate Monday refused to take up the bill for the repeal of the Sherman law. If Mr. Cleveland wants anything done within a year he will have to call an extra session. Then a Congress, Democratic in both branches, may possibly find away of enacting the fiscal legislation promised in the Democratic national platform—that is, the repeal of the McKinley tariff law, the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law, and the repeal of the State bank tax. Gen. James S. Clarkson is laid up at the Plaza Hotel, New York, with laryngitis and rheumatism. Miss Sallie C. Koop, a wealthy young Brooklyn society woman, has committed suicide. Disappointment in love was the cause. Frank Lewis, the Waverly (Kan.) bank robber, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for robbery and then to be hanged for the murder of A. P. Ingleman, v horn he shot while trying to escape.

EASTERN. Fire has destroyed the plant of the M arners Portland Cement Comjany, at Varners, near Syracuse, N. Y. Loss, $175,0(0; insurance, $106,000. Police have found another case of typhus in a New York tenement occupied by twenty-two families, and great excitement prevails over the discovery. Application has been made in New York for the appointment of a receiver for the Home Benefit Association, whoso liabilities in unpaid death claims aggrea-? 10 ’ 000, wllilc available assets are $.11,0/ 4.

- etls Olsen, a Bridgeport, Conn., jeweler, found his sight deserting him and offered nightly prayer for relief. At a meeting the other night he announced । to several hundred worshipers that his eight hud been restored fully. Bev. Dr. Henry Y. Satterlee, rector of Calvary Church, New York’ I and Rev. W. R. Huntington, rector of Grace Church, in that city, are promtnently mentioned in connection with the Massachusetts Bishopric made vacant by the death of Bishop Brooks. Michael Finnegan, 50 years old, who was formerly a Catholic priest in charge of a parish in South Brooklyn, ■ was sent to the penitentiary for thirty | days by Justice Haggerty, of New York, | Finnegan was arrested for begging in front of Bishop McDonnell’s house in Claremont avenue. v i ‘ .ri.' '"^ T TT r has decided against I Bishop Wigger, of tn c .. L. in favor of Father Killeen, tested aga nst the Bishop’s action in ’ closing St. Thomas’ Chur h in Bayonne, and ordering its 600 English-speaking parishioners to attend St. Henry's Ger- i man Church. The new Washington express, via the Reading and the New York and New ' England Road, east-bound, ran into the rear of the Norwi h boat express in : front of the station at East Douglass, ' Mass., on the Nev,- England Road. A woman passenger on the boat train was killed and several others were in ured. A combination ear and a coach of the boat train and the engine and baggage car of the Washington express were wrecked by telescoping.

WESTERN. Illinois’ compulsory education kw has been repealed. The bodies of John Mitchell, his wife and child were found frozen to death in a frame house seven miles north of Topeka, Kan. Dr. Graves, once convicted of the murder of Mrs. Barnaby, has been granted a new trial by order of the Supreme Court at Denver. Fire broke out in the American Book Company’s building at Cincinnati and spread through the block. Tho loss will exceed SIOO,OOI, urineip illy to the book company. Jean Murat shot at an Albuquerque, N. M., policemen and hit a button on his undergarments, doing no harm. Cooper, the policeman, and a companion named Careen then killed Murat. Judge Edgerton, of the United States District Court tor South Dakota, is lying very ill at Sioux Falls. He was attacked by a sort of paralysis upon returning from St i’aui, where ho hud been holding court. C. F. Wahl” prospector, claims to have discovered a rich vein of gold and silver, over a mile in h ngth and four feet wide, in the New York Mountains, San Bernardino County, Southern California. At the Brick and Tile Convention, in session at iLs Moines, lowa, tho topic discussed was the effect of drainaue on yard roads. J. J. V. Billingsley, of Indianapolis, Ind., presented a paper on the subject. Gillette, Wyo., was nearly wiped out by tire. The loss is $160,010. A conflagration at Little Falls, N. 5., destroyed the Hotel Rockton, Grand Central Hotel, Metropolitan Block and other buildings, causing a lost of $206,000.

A natural gas explosion occurred in j the home of John D. Shofstall <n East Church street, Urbana, Ohio. By the explosion his daughter, a young woman 23 years of age, was killed. Mrs. Clark, aged €8 years, died a few hours lat< r । from injuries received and Mr. Shofstall was badly burned. The house was | blown to pieces. Capt. George M. Shippy, in charge : of the police station at Grand Crossing, ’ Chicago, is the defendant in a warrant : charging him with assault. The com- i plainant is Thomas Meehan, an officer of Capt. Shippy’s station, who said his ; Captain almost killed him in a hand-to- ; hand conflict, in which ca h of the contestants drew his revolver and tried his ! best to take the other’s life. The affair ; occurred in a saloon. The place is a road-house. A big gorge from above reached Evansville, Ind., Friday night, and every effort is being made to save the three wharf-boats. The gorge is fifty miles I long and in places thirty feet thick. The ■ grinding is heard above all other sounds, j and is terrifying. Seventy-five coal ’ barges, many of them loaded, are im- | bedded in the frozen mass and will not be loosened until far down toward Cairo. At Shawneetown, 111., the Gov- , ernment gauge marks twenty tout, a rise of over eleven feet within thiee , days. Five mad St. Joseph, Mo., women are looking for George W. McAdams, a fresco painter, who claims Chicago as his home. A few months ago McAdams appeared in St. Joseph, and in almost as many weeks managed to become engaged to and married five different women. His victims were all girls who had a little money, which McAdams would borrow, after the marriage had been performed, on pretense of going to Mount Ayr, Col., to start in business. AH his marriages were performed under different names, and he was only found out when the Probate Judge received a letter from a sixth wife at Kittanning, Pa., asking for information concein ng him. McAdams has fled, carrying with him the money he received Irom his five dupes. SOUTHERN. Fred Schumann, cigar dealer at I Memphis, Tenn., poisoned his two children, Lottie and Frederick, aged respectively 12 and 14 years, and then took poison himself. The children are dead and Schumann is dying. Reverses in

business and melancholy on account of the death of his wife, leading to insanity, are the causes assigned for the act. Sam Smith, a 19-year-old negro, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala., for tho murder of Isaac Burger nine months ago. Martin Foy was sentenced at Ballston, N. Y’., to be electrocuted at Dannemora Prison during the week beginning March 13. Wednesday morning dispatches from I aiis, lexas, told of an assault upon a 1 little girl by a neuro named Bob Dowry, and stated that “to-morrow Dowry will le burned at the stake.” It seemed almost incredible that tho fearful threat would bo fulfilled, much less that it should bo published in the Associated Press dispatches. But Thursday morning tho following appeared from Paris: “Henry Smith a has Bob Dowry, tho negro who m a ? d Inilnlor e<l Myrtle Vance the little 4-year-old daughter of Henrv Vance on the n ght of Jan. 26, was buined to death here by tho infuriated c tizens of a community ho had by his conduct driven to frenzy. The mob n,Cn who ^e consideied to be the best representatives in the community of law, order and jus-

WASHINGTON. The national delit increased $3,000,03 I during January. An amendment appropriating S2O 000 to extend tho Chicago postofflcqA^» 3 hoyn added to the sundry civil bi« V tho House Os Re; rusentatives. > nnti-op&o?i' l i?.J’as passed Wash®)” 'I lie measure now goes*“u where a strong effort will l>o made’By its opponents either to prevent its acceptance or change it to incorporate some of tho features of tho Hatch bill which has already passed tho House.’ Mr. Hatch is said to be willing to accept the Washburn bill entire, as if any attempt is made to change it indefinite delay is sure to occur, with tho possibility of defeat.

Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, has concluded the experiments which have I een in progress in Chicago to test tho effect of tho treatment of lumpy- aw. Eighty-five cattle were slaughtered, all of whi hhad been affected with this disease, and six-ty-eight were found to be completely ( tired. This is even better than tho sh<.w ng made when the first lot of 100 animals wire killed, which showed 63 per cent, of cur.'. Secretary Rusk states that this completes the test and demonstrates the perfect success of the experiment, which, he says, will prove of inestimable benefit to the stock- ; growers. The Secretary says that great Injustice has been done to cattUmen by the ill-considered and mistaken statements which have born made cotccrning cattle nffet ted with the diseust. Judge Howell E. Jackson is appointed to the Supreme Court vacanaf. The President Thurs lay nomin i him to fill the place. Tho appointment was an agreeable surprise to Demtcrats, who had < xpeeted rreshlejt Harrison to name a Republican k> j succeed the late Justice Lamar. Tie appointment is generally commend^, and the Senate will । romptly confirm it, Judge Jacksun having been formerly a member of that body, and accordingly' entitled to that Senatorial courtety I which is always obsppypHii was torn at I’arle, Tenn., Apri 18, 183 i In IH4O his parents removed to Jacksoil. He reeoivi d a classical education, was graduated at West Tennessee Co bgo in 1848, and afterward studied for two years at the University of Virginia. He studio I law in Jackson under his kinsmen. Judges A.W. O. Totten and Milton i Brown, entered the Lebanon Law Scho«l [ in 1855, was graduated the following y< ar, and commenced the practir* . of law at Jackson. He removed t> ’ Memphis in 1859. He served on tie । Supreme Bench by appointment on two I occasions, and was once a prominert candidate for Supremo Judge befon the nominating convention. He re- i turned to Jackson in 1876; was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1880 on the Sta e credit platform; was elected to the Senate as 1 Democrat to succeed James E. Bailey Democrat, and took i is seat March A I 1881, He resigned April 14, 1886, tj ' In come United States Circuit Judge ii Ohio ami 'Tennessee, to which office hl ' was appointed by President Cleveland ; “We cannot allow any other country to take possession of Hawaii, and s» long as I am I’resident of the United i States we shall not do so.” President j Harrison thus replied to a close perl sonal friend who called on him to ills- I i cuss the all-absorbing topic of the day j The President has not iully made up • his mind on the question of annexation ) ; He has an opink n based on the tele- i I graphic reports, but nations do not act 1 ;on reports except they be official ■ ;He said further: “In settling ■ j this Hawaiian question this Gov- ’ ernment has certain duties to dis- | charge. It should discharge those du- ; ties without regard to the wishes o' ; Great Britain or of any other power, ! In short, this government should act a^j if there was no other power in existence i My opinion is that we should guarantee । j to the provisional government a protec- ! torate until w’e <an make a care ul exf i amination into the whole affair. 11 Should find that, the natives are qualified I they should be allowed to vote on the I question of annexation. I hear, however, that they are not qualified. । If that be so, then we should, 1 think, I endeavor to revive the old relations ; which ended with the dethronement of the Queen, but upon a permanent basis. j If that be impractical or unsafe we should favor a permanent protectora’e ' with the Queen nominally reinstated, ! and if that, too, I e deemt d unsafe, we j should, without hesitation, annex the | islands. At all events we cannot allow । any other country to take possession of ' them, and so long as I am President of ; the United States we shall not do so.”

FOREIGN, . The young King of Spain is ill with ' scarlatina. Press riots in Bogota state, Panama, । have been quelled. I M. Gebin, manager of the Financial Weekly, has 1 een arrested for swinding in Paris. Fifteen hundred employes of the small arm factories of Buda Pesth have struck for higher wages. They were induced to strike by Prussian socialists. The New York Herald’s cable dispatch from Yalparaiso says: “Alarm--1 ing advices have been received from

Bolivia. The Indians in the province of Santa Cruz, who are constantly used as slaves, are ready to ilso In rebellion and devastate the toAvns near by.” Deroulede and Pichon, the txvo fireeating French deputies, fought a duel With swords. Both were slightly scratched. The affair grew out of the Panama scandal. Zante, one of the lon'an Islands, has been visited by a terrible earthquake which destroyed many houses and terrorized the inhabitants. Tho earthquake was the culmination of 300 shocks felt on tho island during tho last fivo months. INDUSTRIAL, All the mines of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Company in tho Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys, Pa., employing about 13,000 persons, were put upon eight hours per day. A new scale of w ages at the Edgar Thomson steel works of tho Carnegie Company at Braddock, Pa., has just been announced. The wagos of laborers, tonnage men, and the employes of other departments are to bo reduced. The men do not take it kindly, and there may be a strike. IN GENERAL

The State Legislature of Pueblo, Mex., has abolished bull-fighting. Fire destroyed the aa are-rooms of Ro'land Bi others, Montreal. loss, $70,0( 0. Bicycle tiro manufacturers of tho I niti-a 5«,,,-y ..,.;a km uave formed a trust. Prof. Henry Preserved Smith has tendered his resignation to the trustees of Lane Seminary. A dispatch from Par's says that a decree of divorce has been granted Edward Parker Deacon. Another violent earthquake shock is reported at Zante. Nearly every house was destroyed and many lives lost. 1 f-ESIDENT-ELECT CLEVELAND in ail Interview’ says “tho repeal of tho Sherman silver law is tho great necessity of the hour." Eighteen miners were instantly killed and seventeen injured by an explosion of fire damp in a coal mine at Weennalia, Germany. On account of a conflict in dates with the opening of tho World’s Fair tho Trans-Mississippi Congress will open at Ogden April 24 his tea I of May 2, Adam Gollidav, aged 86 years, married a 4 '-year-o’d spinster two months ago, and he claims that his wife has taken s2i 0 of his money and departed The steamship Peking is now eight days overdue, an 1 it is probable that the Pacitb' Mail (iflic a's will semi another steamer in scan h of her within a day or two

The Canadian Pacific Company has acquired the linos of the Vlberta Rahway Coni any, better known ns the Gait lino, as far as the Lethbridge road, which «onnects w.th the Hill system at Great Falls. M.mt. Prof. Henry Pkeskrved Smith, who was recently tried for heresy by tho Cincinnati Presbytery, has been <«y'c.*|iyated by tho Lane Seminary TmsTlbu. ~. __ — Smith will insist on retiring in the interest of harmony in tho church. A iir.i’RESEN i a rivr. <>f the American Writing Ma< h ne Company, of Hartford, Conn., which manufactures the callgraph, authorizes tho statement, that a syndicate controlling s:o,fi<>o.oo* capital will buy up tho six great typewriter manufactories of the country—the Cullgraph, Remington. Yost, Smith Premier, Dinsmore, and Brooks The Canadian Knights of Labor will send a deputation to wa^ch the ] roceedings of the Dominion parliament this sessioii. Tney are a-king for legislation to prohibit the importation of alien labor under contract as xvell as an a t imposing an annual poll-tax of SIOO on Chinese residents in Canada, the sum to be paid in’o the municipalities where they may reside. Late advices from Alaska a-e to the effect that the citizens of that Territory are earnestly working tor ho i e rule. A I c mention will meet in Juneau this i month to elect a delegate who will ! carry to Washington a petition asking j the following legislation: A deb gate j to Congress, home rule, modifi ation of - the present prohibitory liquor law. and i a law by which public lands may be I taken up by actual settlers.

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BLOODY RESENTMENT. BOGOTA'S STREETS RUN WITH BLOOD. Strange Condition of Trade—Collision Between Chattanooga Iron Workmen—->»e-r.ous Outbreak at Pino Itidgo Agency—* A Minnesota Senator’s Plaint. Riot at Hogot?. There lias been a serious riot at Bog< ta, which lastel two days. Ono hundred men were killed and 500 wounded. The riots are in no sense political. The trouble grew out of a publication in La Cristina of an article by J. Ignac’o Gutierrez, a piofessor in a local Jesuit college, alleging widespread ignorance among the lab oring classes. The capital is still in a state of siege, although it is officially announced that quiet has been restored. A strict lo ml press censorship has been established. On the Warpath. Two Sticks, one of the most unruly of the Ogallala Sioux, an 1 his band, left Pine Ridge Agency Saturday morning, and attacked and killed four cowboys. As soon as Agent Brown learned of it he sent a strong detachment of Indian police after the murderers, who were in No-Water’s camp. A sharp fight ensued, Two Sticks and his son being wounded, and V. hite-Face-Horse and another rengeade killed. Had it not been for the prompt and firm attitude taken by Young-Man-Afvaid-of-Hls-IIo'.BCB the conflict between the Indian policemen and tho Uisaffectcd 1 and led by Two-Sticks a - ouid have led to a scene of carnage second on y to that at Wounded Knee in its awful horror. No-Water, the chief at whose camp the fight oecurre 1, flew into a frenzy and called his so lower ,to av nge them. It was at this stage that Young-Man-Afiaid-o -His-Hi rses sh we 1 tact and gen ra ship. He hurrie Uy got his band to ;ether a id marched his pi o le beIwe n [the police and No-Water’s fo’.lowcrs, and in this way prevented another Indian war. All [snow quiet, but a close watch is I eing kept.

Traders Are Cautious. R. G. Dun <fc Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Actual bu-iness Is surprisingly large for the season, and yet grave fears’ about the future are entriialueil Congressional uncertainties cause the fcir-, but tho prosj crlty and needs of the people make buslikm v.hat It is. Never before has the dlstrlbuti >n t products to consumer- been larger than it Iras been thus far this year. Hence Industries are remarkably prosper—cus. The volume of trade measured by clearlngt in January was nearly 12 per cent, larger than In any previous year, and the railway movement shows a great increase In il.c tonnage transported. Vet It G probably safe to suy that rarely, if ever, except In a time of panic, has business been more cautious’y an 1 conservatively regulated. Monetary uncertainties are excused by the continued outgo of gold, but the passage of tho anti-option bill by the Senate has had no effect upon the market as yet. R'ot at ChattHnoogja. A riot occurred between striking molders tnd the non-unionists who are filling their pla es at the Chattanooga, Tenn., Car and Foundry Works. The strikers waylaid the men as they came <ut of the works. Jack Ryan was the lender of the strikers, xvho were armed xvith pistols and knives. Ono noni uinnce nan ti/ tn? — — h s home. Several others were injured, but none seriously. Manager Jesse Evans, who is a nephew of the ex-Con-gressman, now next in official position to Mr. Wanamaker, ivas choked p.nd roughly handled by the strikers, in trying to stop the trouble.

BREVITIES, Mrs. Whitney, wife of ex-Secretary Whitney, is seriously ill. Tur. friend of Gen. J. Warren Keifer, ex-Speaker of the I’. S. House of Representatives, started a boom for him for the Circuit Judgeship vacated by Judge Jackson. A strong belief prevails that he will be the appointee. Finance Minister Matias Romero, formerly Mexican Ambassador to the United States, has written from the City of Mexico to United States Minister Ryan to express his sorrow on account of James G. Blaine’s death. Mr. Blaine, he says, was a useful man who had rendered giea^ service to his country, and his death was a national loss. An explosion which seriously injured fourteen men took place in 'Worcester, Mass., at the Star Foundry. The men had finished work and the molders had gone home, leaving the laborers to empty the stack. The hot slag struck the wet ground and the explosion followed. wrecking the building. The foundry is the largest in the city. A noted geologist of Baris, 31. La Grange, in making scientific researches in the valley of the Santa Cruz, Ari., made the astounding discovery that a 1 iped lizard-stegosuaus, only known hitherto among the rocks of the Silurian epoch, is found in living specimens in the valley thereabouts. The only change in the < r ature is in the size, otherwise the prehistoric and modern creatures I are identical. State Senator Samuel D. Peter- 1 son, of New Ulm, Minn., sued the Western Union Telegraph Company for $19,000 damages for receiving and transmitting on the night of the re-elec-tion of United States Senator Davis the following message addressed to Peterson: “Slippery Sam, your name is pants.” Peterson voted for Senator Davis and the telegram was sent by one of his indignant townsmen. A bill was introduced in the Minnesota Senate by Bell to prevent blindness in infants. It provides that if the eyes of the babes are inflamed three weeks after birth it sha'l be the duty of nurse, midwife, or parent to report the same to the Health Commissioner under penalty of a fine of SIOO. Both houses of the North Carolina Legislature unanimously adopted resolutions instructing North Carolina’s Senators and Representatives in Congress to vote for the Nicaragua Canal bill and to work earnestly to secure its passage. While fighting ice floes at one of Chicago’s cribs in Lake Michigai., the tub Lucille was sent to the bottom. Henry Hagemeyer committed suicide by hanging in Fulton, Mo. He had beet released a short time before from an insane hospital.

THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measured Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solons. Monday Senator Chandler brought the Hawaiian question forward as a distinctively American i-sue. By a resolution ivhich he introduced in the Senate he calls upon the President to enter into negotiation with the Provincial Governments of the late kingdom of Hawaii for the admission of tho island as a territory of the United States. Mr. Chandler had hoped for the immediate consideration of the reso’ution, but Senator White interposed an objection, and under the rules the resolution went over. The Senate got rid Tuesday of the legislative incubus under xvhich it has labored since the first day of the session. The antioption bill reached the point at which voting began at 3:15 p. m. The first x’ote was on the amendment offered by Mr. Vilns (Wis.) to the George substitute, and the amendment was rejected—yeas 21; nays. 10. Then the George substitute itself was rejected—yeas. 10; nays, 51. And fina’ly the bill was passed by a vote of 40 to 20 There were many members of the House of Representatives, at timeA almost as many of them as there were Senators, present in the Senate chamber during the vets? and tho preliminary discussion of the bill, and. the deepest interest was manifested in tho proceedings as well on the floor as in the crowded galleries. Representative DeArinonl (Mo.) put a little spice into the i r^^ cee lings of the House by makin; an lack upon the civil-service law. Then a controversy as to the Democracy of Mr. Enloe (Tenn.) and Mr. Bland (Mo.) enterta'ned the House for awhile. The House resumed, in committee of the whole, tho consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. The committee then returned to the section relative to public buildings. The next order to be taken up was that which appropriates f r rivers and hartors. The f rtifleation bill was the first of the general bills to come before the Senate Wednesday, and it was passed after a rather interesting discussi n on the subject of coast fortifications. The army appropriation bill was then taken up and was passed vith but a single amendment—increasing the monthly pay of sergeants of the army. The District of Columbia bill camo next in order. Al! the committee amendments were agreed 10, except one that was teserved for action Thursday looking to the erection of a $509,000 municipal building in Washington city. Tho attention of the House was centered upon one item of the sundry civil appropriation bill. That item was one appropriating 116 000,003 for carrying on the contracts already entered into for the improvement of rivers and harbors. The jurisdictional authority of the Committee i n Appropriations was called into question. It was contended that the appropriations should have bean reported to the committee on harbors, but although Mr. Holman was foremost of those who made tills contenti.n against the power of the committee of which he was chairman, that, committee camo out victorious and tho item was decided to lea properone. Without finally acting on the bill the House adjourned.

Thurslay morning the anti-option bill was tho center of interest in the House. The opponents of the legislation were on the alert, and the instant that Mr. Hatch made his motion for the conference, Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, was addressing the Speaker, with a point cf order, that the Senate amendments must first be considered in committee of the while. John Davenport and tho Federal election laws then occupied the attention of the House, brought forward by an amendment offered by Mr. I itch, of New York.to the sundry civil bill. It provides that hereafter no part of any money appropriated to pay any fees to Q‘° J 'iiitcd States comr»issfone ts, marshais. Ing to the clefftWn or mehiumut congress

unless the prosecution has been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant. The amendment was finally agreed to, 172 to 47. Tho Fitch amendment was agreed to—yeas 181. nays 80. The bill was then passed. With the exception of one hour in the early part of the day, and a little longer time in the evening, the day's session of the Senate was held behind closed doors. It was passed in the consideration of the French and Swedish extradition treaties. Mr. Carlisle's resignation as Senator from Kentucky was presented. The District appropriation bill was taken up, considered, and passed. Friday the Speaker laid before the Housa the President’s message relative to the bond transit over Canadian roads. Referred. The deficiency appropriation bill was passed and the Indian appropriation bill was reported. The House then paid tribute to the memory of the late Representative Craig, of Pennsylvania, and adjourned. 'J he question of the repeal of the Sherman act, or at least of the suspension of the silver bullion purchase provision of it, was unexpectedly precipitated on the Senate by Mr. Teller (Rep), Colorado. He made the presentation of some petitions on the subject the occasioi for launching out into a discussion of the whole question, and expressed his confident assurance that the repeal of the Sherman act was not among the possibilities of the present session. At 3p. m. the business of the Senate was suspended in order that fitting tributes might be made to the memory of the late Senator Barbour, of Virginia. Eulogies of the dead Senator were pronounced by Messrs. Daniels, Manderson. Faulkner, Galiinger, Platt. Hill, Hiscock, and Hunton, Mr. Barbour’s successor in the Senate. The usual resolutions were agreed to. and the Senate, as a further mark of respect to tha memory of Mr. Barbour, adjourned.

Ihi Senate on Saturday set apart two hours for the consideration of Housa bills on the calendar, and eighteen of them were pas-el. After that the House bill to ratify the agreement with the Cherokees for the cession of their interest in the Cherokea outlet lands and appropriating more than SS,SOO,GOa to carry it out was taken up, discussed, and passed in the shape of a substitute. Memorial proceedings in memory of Messrs. Gamble of South Dakota, Ford-of Michigan, and Stackhouse, of South Carolina, members of the House of Representative-, were then begun, and after eulogies on each of the dead Representatives the customary resolutions were agreed to and the Senate adjourned. The House made rapid strides toward final adjournment. It passed the diplomatic and Military Academy appropriate n bills with little debate. Mr. Hatch reported back the anti-option bill, with Senate amendments, and it was referred to the cimmittce of the whole. The House then, in committee of the whole, proceeded to the consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bills. After they were passed public business was suspended to pay tribute to J. W. Kendall, of Kentucky. Notes of Current Events. James Campbell, Postmaster General in I fence's Cabinet, died at Philadelphia. In a fire at New Y'onk Mrs. Rebecca Salmon und her two children were fatally burned. An unknown man was found murdered at Jonesville, Ind., having been literally cut to pieces with a knife. Dr. Pabretti. Recorder for the Propaganda, and Vice Rector of the College of the Propaganda, has been appointed Auditor and Secretary to Ai chbishop Satolli.