St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 February 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, ... INDIANA BEAUREGARD IS DEAD. SUCCUMBS AT NEW ORLEANS TO HEART DISEASE. After a Hard Winter of High-Priced Coal the Reading Combine Is Burst — The World’s Fair Will Be Closed Sundays. Last of His Rank. Pierre Gustave Toutant BeaureGABD, the last survivor of the Confederate military leaders who attained the full rank of General, died at New Orleans Monday night of heart failure. Since the close of the war Gen. Beauregard had made his home in New Orleans. He had been for years past a commissioner ' to supervise the drawings of the Louis- । iana State Lottery Company, and for his services in this capacity received a princely salary, estimated at $30,000 a year. He was a member of all the leading clubs and a liberal patron of the arts and the opera. In 1888 he yielded to the popular demand for reform in the municipal government and consented to become a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Public Works. He was elected by a largo majority, but resigned the office after a tenure of a month. He also served as an engineering expert in a number of important cases in recent years.

The Reading Is Floored. The Philadelphia and Read ng Railroad is in the hands of receivers. Its credit and its power in the financial vorld are gone, and the ownership of its panic-blown, widely scattered stock is unknown. The rise and fall of one of the most extensive and ambitious railroad combinations ever attempted are embraced within the comparatively brief period of one year. It was lust a year ago that the formation of the great Reading-Jersey Central-Lehigh Valley alliance was publicly announced. The dissolution of the Reading combination was begun by the opposition of the New Jersey authorities and courts to the formation of a coal trust. Although Mr. McLeod and his associates pooh-joohed that opposition fora while, they finally had to give way to it and a complete severance of the relations between the Reading and the Jersey Central was announced. No Sunday Opening. The fight in Congress on the Sunday opening of the World’s Fair is over and the Sunday closers have won. The compromise measure allowing the Fair to be open was defeated at the committee meeting Monday, and the matter is now definitely settled. NEWS NUGGETS. The loss bj’ the fire at West Newton, Fa., amounts to $40,000. Seven business buildings at Clark, S. D., were burned, causing a loss of $90,000.

Sculptor Parke is making a Lust of President Harrison, which is to bo placed in the Indiana building at the Wmvl.u^ ' '"** Democrat, of Grand Forks, was elected United States Senator on the sixty-third ballot at Bismarck, N. D. Pope Leo’s jubilee was celebrated at Rome in the presence of many thousand pilgrims and ecclesiastical and diplomatic dignitaries. Philadelphia’s carpet-weavers are on strike against a reduction of wages. The strikers number 30,000 and the trouble threatens to spread. Ecuador is indulging in an orthodox South American revolution. A bloody battle in Esmeralda resulted in a victory for the Government forces. Two medical students have been arrested at Albany, N. Y., for bodysnatching. Four co pses, taken from St. Mary’s Cemetery, were recovered. Judge Jenkins, of Wisconsin, is prominently mentioned in connection with the vacancy resulting from Judge Gresham’s acceptance of a Cabinet portfolio. T. B. McGuire, of the General Executive Committee of the Knights of Labor, denied the truth of the report that an amalgamation of the Federation of Labor with the Knights was imminent. St. Louis Socialists have selected an entire city ticket and issued a platform embracing nineteen demands, the most important of which is that the city shall own or operate all street railways, telephones, gas,- and electric Tight companies. S. C. Hastings, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California and founder of Hastings Law College, a branch of the State University, is dead. He had lived in California since 1849, and amassed a fortune of several million dollars there.

Mexican workmen, it has been discovered, have been nightly carrying away in their dinner pails from the ; Bonanza mine in the Harquahala Mountains, Arizona, several pounds of gold orc of riohnn^a. This is the world, ami many thousand dollars have been thus taken. Grip car No. 688 of the Wabash avenue line, at Chicago, in the space of two hours fatally injured John Ebens of No. 77 High street, broke its grip, smashed a baker’s wagon, stuck in the slot, charged a coal wagon, and being derailed thereby tried to enter the Wellington Hotel, and finished by causing the death of a valuable horse. Cigarettes, according to the attending physician, killed W. E. Lewis, 24 years of age, at Brooklyn. Judge Howel d E. Jackson has been confirmed as the late Judge Lamar’s successor on the bench of the United States Supreme Court. George E. Spencer, ex-United States Senator from Alabama, died Sunday night at Washington. Plans are being perfected for the establishment of a central bank at Des Moines, with a capital of $1,000,000^

EASTERN. Delegates of the Sons of the Revolution and Sons of the American Revolution, two societies, originally one, in which a split occurred in 1889, are in session at New York. A proposal looking to the unification of the two bodies is being considered. The New York World’s Fair Commissioners have struck a snag. They want $300,000 more for their work and the Senate seems to be opposed to the appropriation. The Commissioners have been accused of extravagance and their bill has now been la d aside for investigation. The Pennsylvania Company is making war on the Order of Railway Telegraphers. Last Sunday those employed at Louisville, New Albany and Jeffersonville were informed that if they remained in the order they would not be placed in the lino of piomotion. ’The majority refused to leave the order, and their places are now being filled by non-union men. At Hayest, a small station on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad, two miles south of Springville, N. Y., there was a collision between north and south bound freight trains, which resulted In the derailing of half a dozen cars, the wrecking of two engines, and the probable death o! Herman | Wreck, of Buffalo, engineer, who stuck to his post. Chicago’s mammoth pork trust will I have a competitor in the shape of a syndicate in Philadelphia. Arrange- , ments have already been made for the staiting of the concern, and a contract has been closed with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which will give material aid to the venture. The men backing the new industry, who are nearly all Philadelphians, have raised a capital of $300,(00 to begin with. In a plain garret room, without even a picture on the walls, in probably the most humble home in the city of New port. R. 1., a little son of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Malloy has been lying for several weeks unable to move. The child is suffering with water on the brain, its lower limbs are paralyzed, and its stomach congested. Wednesday evening the mother, while watching her little one, was terrified to see a face appear on the pillow next to the one on which the child lay. Lights were shifted into every position, but thereon the pillow was a face in nun’s heartdress, the forehead, nose, eyes, mouth, and chin as plainly outlined as if chiseled ou‘ of pure marble. The more minute the observation the more striking did the features stand out. The face gradually faded away. The child has taken c. urn for the better. WESTERN. Buckstaff’s virtified paving brick works at Lincoln, Neb., were burned. Loss, ODD. Wallace Porter, of Ashland, Wis., has sold 60,000,01 0 of pine stumpage to Chicago and S’. Louis parties. Henry Nelson an employe of the Oliver Plow Works, at South Bend,was dangerously injured by the bursting of an emery wheel.

E. F. Welles A Co., general merchants, Colorado Springs, Colo., assigned, with liabilities of §43,00:1 and assets of $35,500. July, has been found guilty of murder iu the first degree. Chief H arris has refused to interfere in the case of Talton, convicted of murder. He will be hanged in Talequah, I. T., Feb. 2*. The N< rthwestern Spice "'orks at Sioux City. lowa, 'nave been sold for SII,OOO by the receiver. Creditors get 50 cents on the dollar. The St. louis Grand Jury has made a final report charging the county officers with misappropriation of fees. No indictments were found. Miss Gertie Mack, of Wanatah, Ind., has disappeared. Her friends are divided as to whether she has eloped or : been foully dealt with. The jury in the McDonald will con- | test this morning returned a verdict for ' the plaintiff. This breaks the will of ! the late Indiana Senator. General Roeliff Brinkerhoff, of Mansfield, Ohio, will succeed the late ex-President Hayes as President of the National Prisoners’ Aid Society. The Michigan Supreme Court has granted a writ of mandamus ordering a ' certificate of election to be issued to ! Congressman Belknap in the Fifth DisI trict. James Barkis wai shot and killed at Bergholz, 0., by Simeon Sheckler, a mining boss, and his I rother, Daniel Sheckler. The murderers were arrested. A flour trust, embracing mills in Chicago, Minneapolis, Buffalo, St. Louis. Milwaukee and tributa'y points, is said to have been successfully organized. Iwicakey and Nunupa, alias “Marks and “Too-Too,“ Indians, charged with murder at Humphrey’s ranch, near Pine Ridge Agency, have been indicted at Deadwood and pleaded not guilty.

Mrs. Blanche C. Fish, of Sioux City, has secured a verdict of SBjiiM) damages from the Illinois Central for , the killing of her husband, who was a brakeman in the employ of the rail- । road. Northwestern Nebraska, Southern South Dakota, ami Eastern Wyoming were visited by an earthquake Wednesi day. A slight quiver of the earth was ‘ noticeable, accompanied by a low, rum- । bling sound. j The lower house of the Missouri Legislature passed a bill fixing maxiI mum telephone rates in St. Louis and I Kansas City at SSO per year; in St. Joi soph and Sj ringfield at S4O, and in all . other cities at S3O. There is little prospect that Dr. Graves will ever again be tried for the ' murder of Josephine Barnaby at Denver. The county authorities refuse to I again pay the expense- of witnessed, ' and the case will probably be dropped. | Tur. Waukesha pipe line to Chicago j has w n a decided victory in its fight | for right of way. Judge Fish, at Racine, Jias overruled the demurrer of the antipipe line agitators against the application for the appointment of commission-

ers to condemn the unsecured right of way. The Turtle Mountain half-breeds, who were cut off from the ration list by the commissioners sent to settle Indian claims to North Dakota lands, are in r< volt. They threaten to break into the storehouse at Rolla. Extra police have been sworn in to quell the expected revolt. Reports from the Priest River Valley, Idaho, state that the severity of the winter has driven the Indians to desperation. They raided Jim Reynolds’ ranch and drove off the cattle. Seven ranchers followed and a fight occurred. One Indian was killed and two wounded, and two white men were wounded. Robert L. Walker, banker, capitalist, and manufacturer at Youngstown, Ohio, made an assignment Friday to Hal K. Taylor, and it is probable the failure will carry Gov. McKinkley down, the wreck leaving him without a dollar. Walker executed mortgages < n a farm and his homestead to partially protect Gov. McKinley, who was indorser on his paper for large amounts. Gov. McKinley and Walker have been close personal friends from boyhood, and when Walker d sired his signature on negotiable paper it was freely given, the Governor having the utmost confidence in his friend, and believing that he was solvent. McKinley is in Youngstown try^ME^ ascertain the extent of his liabillnH J indorser. If not too large an he will make an effort to take care^ML otherwise he will be bankrupt. The tented field of Kansas is byWt^ mon consent in bivouac. Tn^e is not likely to be any more armed trouble The troops guarding the State Hou^ have been relieved by better counsel?'1 he basis of settlement is that the Pot* ulists abandon their right for the tiid| to sit in the assembly chamber ol occupy the State House. The Rm publicans therefore do not pro! test against the Populists fillinjl their State offices. The Populist housJ will how hold its sessions either in th*.! basement of the statehouse or in rooms] engaged elsewhere. Mr. Dunsmore! says it is only for a short time anyway.; The Republican house will hold its sessions daily until it is advised that its acts are invalid. The Governor will keep hands off, and every body will await the decision of the Supreme Court, expected soon, as to the validity of the varied contests.

SOUTHERN, Two negroes wore found dead near Palestine, Texas. They hail been shot NA i t hal gas has been discovered at Brinkley, 'Fen!). Th- find is thought to be rich. The Wegman Block at Fort Smith. Ark., was burned, causing a loss of sll 0,600. Arm stus Gonz ales, a convicted wife-murderer, hanged himself in the I'eeville, Texas, jail. Ex-Governor R. M. Bishop, of Ohio, w ho has been sick at Jacksonville, Fla., for a month past, is dying. Dempsey I.amh, who assisted recently to rob a train on the East Tennessee Railway, was arrested at Paint Reck, Tenn. F Fire destroyed the premises occupied by the Alabama Gas and Fixtun^^MuI any ar.dG, W. Harri- at Tnr Texas l ive Stock Association met at Austin, with the object in view of drafting a bill for presentation to the Legislature looking to the quarantine interests of State cattle shippers. Detectives at Denison. Texas, have evidence that “Texas Jack,’ now In jq»L charged with the murder of several women, is Dave Spears. It is now thought that -->eral murder mysteries will be cleared up. WASHINGTON

Lieut. Reynolds. of the navy, who was run over by a cable ear Wednesday night at Washington, D. C., died. Lieutenant Reynolds of the navy, who was run over by a cable car on Wednesday night at Washingion, D. C„ died. J. ^. L. Findlay, of Maryland, it is reported, has been appointed United States representative on the Chilian arbitration matter. The Senate committee at Washington has adde 1 $112,00H to the appropriation for repairing and extending the Chicago >ost>ffice. The House appropriated $20,000. During the recent fumigation of the White House valuable papers and jewelry disappear, d. The President has discovered that the papers were burned, 1 tit has been unable to find any trace of the valuables. POLITICAL. Adlai T. Ewing is reported to be slated for the Japanese mission. Mr. Cleveland announces that Hoke Smith, of Georgia, will be Secretary of the Interior in his Cabinet.

Goveknor S. B. Buckner, according to the Louisville Evening Times, is slated for the Austrian Embassy. Judge Wm. Lindsay, of Frankfort. Ky., has been elected to suece.'d .1. Gt Carlisle in the United States Senate. Mm Clbvelaxd announced Friday evening that J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, wdio visited him at Lakewood, N. J. at his request, was tendered the Secretaryship of Agriculture and accepted it. At Lakewood, N. J.. Mr. Cleveland officially announced the names of four ^embers of his Cabinet Tuesday evening. They are: Walter (). Gresham, of Illii ois. Sccrc'n y of State; John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, Secretary of Finance; Daniel S. Lamont, of New York Secretary of War; Wilson S. Bissell, of Buffalo, Postma ter General. FOREIGN. The following statement of the contents of the home-rule bill, which was presented in parliament Monday, has been officially handed to a press correspondent: The bill oilers Ireland a legislature, a free deal in all Irish affairs, and an executive government r.sponsible to that legislature. In ali the main principles and in the political machinery it is provided much belter than the bill of ISSG. The Irish parliamentary party, at a meeting spacially

summoned after the delivery of Mr CM stone’s great speech, cordially accented the new home-rale legislation as a saUstaccorv scheme of Irish national self-government subject to endeavors in committ™ ' prove the proposed flnanX?a ranges X and to have the time shortened wiXi? ’ land question is to be withheld ' K purview of the Irish NaUon^^ the We are authorized by the nartv mtt this resolution to the rL i t 0 V aus " . Michael Davitt. T HE island of Samothreki. in the .1 gean Sea, was shaken by an earthquake. All buildings on the island were destroyed and many lives lost. Several severe shocks were also felt in Zante

IN GENERAL Attorney General Miller will prosecute all sugar firms who refuse tc supply information to the Census Bureau. The late Charles F. Chickering, who. was at the head of the great piano firm, is declared to have been a defaulter tc the amount of $232,717 at the time of his death. , Prof. Baldwin of the Toronto University has been offered a professorship in Psychology in Princeton University. He has not yet decided whether he will accept or not. William C. Whitney’s will, Swhieh disposed of a $3,003,000 estate, ^comprised only 200 words. Everything - is given to her husband. 1 Boardman Hall, Cornell’s new law building, has been dedicated. It is a memorial of Judge Douglass Boardman, the first dean of the university’s law department. President Harrison has issue! a proclamation creating the Sierra forest reserve, comprising 6,000 square miles, in the counties of Mercer, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern, California. At Quebec, Aid. Bainville created a I sensation at a meeting of the Commit- | tee of Public Accounts by admitting I that he had received, while a m mber of Parliament from St. I aurent, 3 per cent, of the bonus of sl'o,ooo granted by the Legislature to the Canadian Atlantic Railway in 1890. The matter will be investigated. g®A SEABCH for hidden tn asure at the

-City of Mi xi o has been authorized I v the Mexican Government. Exploration is being conduct* d under th- supervision of an officer apj ointe.i by the Secretary of the Treasury for $400,000 in the building formerly occupied by the Convent of the Conception. The monev is said to have be n buried in the old convent more than a c* ntury ago. Hawaii is going to be j art of the Unite I States. President Harrison Wednes lay afternoon transmitted to tlie Senate w ith ids approval the treaty of annexation. This marks the first step. The next is the ratification of the treaty by the Senate. Then will come legislation by both branches of Congress for the government let Abe islnn !s, which will estabtheir position in the Union. The treaty is simple and eon a.nsonly a few | articles. It is signed by John \V . Foster as Secretary of State, and by the j Hawaiian Commissioners, Messrs, j Thurston, Marsden, Wilder, Castle, and Carter. In addition to its rat IL a ion by I^eimte It must be approved by the T1,.. government sugg-stea is similar to Inal of Alaska. Tur. steamer Belgie arrive 1 in Sun Francisco from IL ng Kong and Yokohama via Honolulu at 3 o’clock Friday moioing. She reports the American flag still flying and everything progeessing smootnly under the new government. On the ‘th inst. martial law was declared off by the provisional government of Hawaii. Everybody W’as anxiou-ly awaiting lows from the United States and the sentiim nt in favorof annexation was steadily growing. Ex-Queen Liliuokalanl is -till in retirement ar her private residence. She is confident that her envoy to the United States will hav ■ a succes<ful mission. The United States steamer Mohican, which sailed from Mare I Island Navy Yard Jan. 29. was just entering the harbor of Honolulu as the Belgie sailed, but there was apparently no necessity for any increase of naval force. A deta-hment of sailors and marines from the United States ship Boston is still i quartered on shore, and the whites and natives are willing to await action by the Washington Government. The provisional government has, in a great measure, won over public confidence, having amply demonstrated its ability to cope with the situation.

MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime .... 13.-5 ' 6.26 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 @ 8.75 SHEEP—Fair to Choice :■ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73 @ .74 Corn—No. 2 41 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .31’i Rye—No. 2 7‘-> @ .53 Butter Choice Creamery 27’ 2 @ .28'4 Eggs—Fresh .28 @ .30 Potatoes—New, per 1 u .u. <4 .85 INDI VNAFOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 5.50 Hous (11.>ke Light 3.70 & 8.59 • SHEEI' t ommon to Prime 3.< " ' 5.00 WHEAT —No. 2 Red .. . . I'B @ .68 ; 3 ‘&>RN—No. 2 White .. .42 - .42 2 No. 2 Whit ? C ST. LOVIS. BATTLE «-<«* 5.25 ■tOGS 3.1 'I @ 8.50 WHEAT—No. 2 Red .G .. ■’ Corn—No. -33 2 Oats —No. ® .3 RYE-No. 34 @ CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 -" f ' ® ®-?? Hogs 3 ,e0 u Sgo Sheep 9 ® Wheat-No. 2 Red ® q 3 corn—No. 11 Oats- No. 2 Mixed y 3 22' -Wa Kye—No. 158 DETROIT. cattle 3 - 00 ® 4.75 JI , ( .q 3.00 @ 7.50 bdEEP. 33 '" Wheat—No. 2 Red Corn—No. 2 Yellow 43 2 @ .44 2 Oats—No. 2 Wliite 33 ® .39 TOLEDO. Wheat —-No. 2 12 @ .73 Corn —No. 2 White 42'2^ .43‘n Oats—No. 2 Wliite -SOU live 57 (® .59 BUFFALO. Cattle —Common to Prime 3.50 G 5.50 Hogs—Best Grades 4.W @> 8.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 82 @ .83 No. 2 Red 77 U@ .78'4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 66 @ .67 Corn—No. 3 11 & >*2 Oats—No 2 Wliite 34’2® .35'j Rye—No. 1 57 & .58 Barley—No. 2 62 @ -64 Bork—Mess W. 50 @20.00 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.5a @ 5.25 Hogs 3 -°° ® 9,00 Sheep. s - (l ° ® 6 -°° Wheat—No. 2 lied 80 ® .81 Corn—No. 2 • 52 ® - 53 Oats—Mixed Western 34 @ .40 Butter —Best 27 @ .29 Bork—New Mess 20.75 321,25

ALL SIGNS MAY FAIL.' but a panic is uncomfortably CLOSE. C. & I. Raad Has a Bad Wreck, anil Seven 1 eople Are Injured—Mr. Yaeger an Embezzler and Insane—Suicide of George W. Kendall. Puzzling Condition of Trade. R. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review ol trade says: Exports of gold for the week did not reach $6,000,000, as at one time expected, but were probably no m ire than $2.000.0J0, and the Treasury re er ve, over $109,030,00J, not diminished. Moreover, quite large purchases of security on foreign account are reported, which would cancel heavy adverse merchandise balances, and to that ’extent prevent gold shipments. The financial outlook depends largely upon the fact that exports of the principal products In January were $29,00j.0J0 smaller than last year, while imports at New Y’ork alone were $17,000,000 larger than last year, which indicates a considerable excess of imports for the month, and explains the heavy outgo of gold. In February thus far exports from New York have been but little below last year’s, though at’ cotton ports very much smaller, and meanwhile Imports show an enormous increase—over 3) per cent. Rut those who drea 1 disaster may well remember the rule—that a panic that is expected never comes The business failures occurring throuzhout the country number 23 s ne compared wills totals of W last week. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 299.

Destructive Collision in Indiana. A destructive wreck occurred on the Chicago and Indiana Railroad, north of Brazil. Ind., in which seven persons were badly injured and considerable property damaged. The injured are: W. D. Crong, Kentland, Ind., internal injuries, fatal; E. Jackson, fireman, crushed in the chest, injury fatal: Conductor Spriggs, hurt in back and abdomen, injury fatal. Many others received bad but not fatal injuries The wreck occurred about as follows: Through freight train, north-bound, was stalled on Rush Creek grade and was compelled to stop for assistance. Being aware that two heavy freight trains were closely following the freight the conductor sent a brakt man back to signal the coining train. The first train was st pped, but the engineer of the rear train failed to see the signal and dashed into the caboose of the preceding train, tearing it all to pieces and dera Ing several coaches. Tr e colliding engine was also derailed and piled among the box cars, which were heavily baled with freight. The coaches caught lire and wee consumed, warping the wrecked engin 1 s - badly that it will be a total loss.

riniiitin-. Break th.- Will. Ar Noblesville, Ind., the jury in the McDonald will cu e returned a verdict for the plaintiffs. Several interrogatories were propounded by defendants as to th- g nuinoness of will and duplicate and of signatures of testator and witnesses, which were nil answered in the negat ve. One Interrogatory as to the soundm ss of Senator McDonald’s mind at the time of making his will was answered affirmatively. The defendant’s attorneys were asked if they wished anything farther. They replied nothing at present. None of the parties to the suit were present The defendant’s attorneys say they will move for a new trial and, failing, w 11 appeal to the ■hUH'VJUtC 1 - ur*. At Helena, Mont., H. C. Yaeger, Grand Recorder of the A. 0. U. W., was arr-sted under two warrants, issued by virtue of as many indictments returned by the grand jury. The gran 1 jury examined his record as Public Adm nistrator md found him guilty of malfeasanc • in offic ■.embezzlement, and failure t<> make report as demanded i y law. Yaeger was field in $23,000 bail, in default of which he is now in the insane w ard of the county jail. The examination to determine his sanity resulted in a disagreem- nt of the jury. Couldn't »t md the Pain. Col. George W. Kendall, for many years Western agent for the Equitable Loan and Trust Company, of New York, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart at his rooms in the Wellington Hotel, Chicag >. He xvas suffering from sciatic rheumatism, had been confined to his room for several days, and was arranging a business matter with a friend by which $5,000 in commissions was to be divided, when he jumped from his chair, exclaiming: “I cannot sttnd this any longer,” and walked rapidly to the bath-room and shot himself.

BREVITIES, Augustus Kiebick, the village Blacksmith at Battleground, Ind., went to purchase some lumber. He became intoxicated, was arrested, and passed the night in jail. In the morning he borrowed money with which to pay his fine. Then he purchased some laudanum, returned to the jail and drank .t. He said he could not return home and face his disgrace. He died. He was 60 years old and married, but had no children. He was an Odd-Fellow and Knight of Pythias.

In the Circuit Court of Louisville, Ky., in the trial of Bert Wing for the murder of his wife, Judge Charles Eaves, the aged father of the victim, arose in court after the prisoner had pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in the first deg and pleaded with the jury for the lif' >f his daughter’s murderer. Notwit ' mding his plea the jury was out full,, an hour beio e they brought in a verdict lor imprisonment for life. Several of them were for hanging, and but forjudge Eaves a verdict to that effect would have been returned. Edwin Booth proposes to make a farewell tour of ten "weeks next fall, and tvill then retire permanently from the stage. Mrs. Anne E. Field, of Willmar, Minn., has been drawn on the United States petit jury for the next term of United States Court at Minneapolis. A. C. Schmidt’s wall paper an 1 paint store at Crookston, Minn., and two buildings owned by H. F. Brown and occupied as a cigar factory and case were burned. Loss, $16,000; insurance, SIO,OOO. Judge Charles M. Webb, of Grand Rapids, has be< n nominated for Judge of the State Supreme C ourt by the Wisconsin State Bar Association. Ex-Secretary Wm. C. Whitney, according to rumor, is the real purchaser of the N< w York Times. The price laid is said to have been sß’o,ooo.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’s Capital—What Is Being Done by the Senate and House—Olid Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. The Senate chaplain bad the unique experience Monday morning of beginning his prayer for a legislative body not a single member of which was present to get the benefit of It. In the course of half an hour there were enough Senators present to constitute a quorum. The Senate refused tc consider the New Mexico Statehood bill in the morning , hour—yeas, 14; nays 30. Senator Cullom Introduced a joint resolution to transfer to the State of Illinois at the close of the Columbian Exposition the naval exhibit of the United States Government as a naval armory for the use of the naval militia of Illinois, and asked to have it considered and passed. Senator Cockrell objected, saying that this was simply the entering wedge for Chicago to get everything that would be sent there for exhibition. The resolution was referred to the committee on naval affairs. The Senate then took up the Nicaragua Cana' bill and ' Senator Frye addressed the Senate in support of the measure.

The Nicaragua canal bill was before the Senate Tuesday for a couple of hours. Lm Was then Inta nwido so t-bv sundry civil appropriation bill might be proceeded with. The canal bill was the subject of two speeches and of a running djseussion, in which Mr. Sherman, who is in charge of it, took a leading part. After a short conflict between the Democrats and Republicans of the House the Democrats were obliged to yield gracefully and to agree to the terms which the Republicans presented. These were that general debate on the invalid pension bill should be continued until the minority was accorded six Lours debate. During the discussion of the bill in committee of the whole. Mr. Hatch indirectly gave notice of the course which he would pursue in reference to the antioption bill. He had, he said, waited patiently for days inorder that the consideration of the appropriation bills should be completed. But he now gave notice that unless the appropriation bills were disposed of in a reasonable time he would ask for the consideration of a mea ura the anti-option bill), which, being a revenue bill, had a right of way. The Nicaragua canal bill, though having the advantage of being the ‘-unfinished business," had to give way Wednesday in the Senate to the sundry civil appropriation bill. AU the amendments to that bill reported by the committee on appropriations, including the World’s Fair items, were disposed of with the exception of the series relating to river and harbor improvements. and these were in full tide of debate when the President’s Hawaiian message was delivered, and then, without the delay of a minute, on Senator Sherman’s motion, the Senate went into executive session. The invalid pension appropriation bill monopolized the attention of the House. The general debate was enlivened by Mr. Bout -lie of Maine, who made or ® of his vigorous and characteristic speeches, but the House at larga looked upon the controversy without excitement, and it ended without any gain on either side. The debate in the House over the pen-sion-appropriation bill was brought to a dramatic and almost violent conclusion late Thursday afternoon by a scene which was only prevented py the Sergeant-at-arms and his mace from degenerating ‘nto an exchange of blows. The excitement was intense The Speaker appealed to. members to put an end to this most unseemly scene and take their seats; but it was several minutes before his appeal proved of any avail. When order was finally test ared the House, finding it was in no temper to proceed with the consideration of the bill, adjourned. The session o? the Senate was occupied in the ccnsideraXnVme^dment involving ^eont Anu a nee rise to a long and heat<‘J sion. The sundry civil a propriatioa bill occupied the attention of the Senate Friday. The amendment which bad been discussed Wednesday, and the effect of which is to continue In force the law f< r Federal supervision of elections, was carried by a party vote. All the committee amendments having been disposed of. and the bill being open to general amendment, the question as to the Issue of 3 per cent, bonds to maintain the gold reserve was precipitated on the Senate. The amendment was offered by Mr. Sherman, and a pMnt of order was raised against it by Mr, Stewart. The point was. after discussion, overruled by the Vice President and an appeal from that decision was laid on the table by a vote of 28 yeas to 18 nays. The merits of the amendment were discussed for the rest | of the day, and the adjournment came beI fore the debate closed. The pension bill was passed by the House and went through free from the various pension an.eidments which have been proposed of late. It appropriates the sum of $166,400,000 for pension payments during the next year. It is the largest pension item on record, and. indeed, the largest appropriation of any kind which the House of Representatives ever made. There were no personal conflicts on the floor, although there was a strong undercurrent of bad feeling. In four or five instances a passionate word would have worked the trouble- 3he postoffice appropriation bill was considered without final action. The Senate Saturday passed, by a vote of 36 to 16, Senator Sherman’s amendment to the sundry civil bill. It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, at his di cretion, to issue 3 per cent five-vear bonds to an amount not exceeding $>1,030.00). in order to recover gold to the Treasury. Senator Mills’ amendment to make the bonds redeemable at tl e pleasure of the United States was defeated; as also was one offered by Senator Stewart providing tl a’ the bond-- shall not be d -posited : s a basis for national bank issues

March of Pestilence. The cholera has never crossed the Pacific Ocean. In the small-pox pestilence of 1187 over 1,000,00) died. Plague broke out in London in 962; 50,000 persons died. In 954 ‘‘swollen throat” plague destroyed 49,000 lives. Memphis scourged by yellow fever in 1879; 485 deaths. In 1885 cholera destroyed 100,000 persons in Italy alone. First general plague in the world took place B. C. 767. In 1361 a fever in London and Paris caused fearful mortality. About 890 small-pox spread all over Europe and North Africa. Terrible pestilence at Constantinople in 746; 200,000 perished. A long-continued plague in Europe, Asia, and Africa in A. D. 558. “Black mouth” in London in 1094-one-third the population died. In 1172 Henry 11. forced to evacuate Ireland on account of plague. In 1204 Ireland was almost depopulated by famine and pestilence. In Chichester, England, 772, “sore throat” carried off 34,000 people. In A. D. 427, mysterious pestilence in Arabia; men’s eyes dropped out. The “black death" appeared in Italy in 1340. Spread all over Europe. In A. D. 250, 5,000 persons died daily at Rome. Total deaths, 1,000,000.