St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 March 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . INDIANA A NEW STAR IS RISEN. PETER JACKSON, THE “PUG,” COVETS HISTRIONIC FAME. Pearful Disaster in Chicago—Ten People Killed by a Falling Wall—High Wind the Cause—Carter Harrison Will Kun for Mayor. Ten Fives Crushed Out. By the falling of a wall of the gutted John York Building, Nos. 765 to 781 Halsted street, Chicago, at 1:15 o’clock Tuesday morning, one •two-story frame building and one two-story brick building adjoining were crushed and two families almost wiped out of existence. Ten were killed and several fatally hurt. The wall was shaken by the high winds that prevailed during the night, but no danger was felt until after midnight, when the cracking was heard by persons on the street, but no alarm was given. When the iiall came the two i buildings were crushed and covered by | chance to escape. The crash roused every one on the block, and, as the ruins took tire at once, a 2-11 alarm was turned in and ten engine companies began the work of rescue.

Not a Howling Success. Peter Jackson made his first appearance us an actor in San Iraneisco at Stockwell’s Theater in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” There was a big. good-natured crowd to welcome the dusky pugilist. He is the biggest Uncle Tom on the stage, his massive shoulders looming up even in the dress of the old slave. Peter has overcome much of his nervousness and tries to do something more than merely talk his lines. The imitative faculty of the African enables him to do much more on the stage than Sullivan ever could; still, Peter is not a howling success as an actor. NEWS NUGGETS. Kino George Tcbov, of the Tonga Islands, is dead. In the placer district on Hasayampe River a white man named Michaels killed two Mexicans who attempted to jump his claim. The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company has been awarded the contract to manufacture $2,000,000 worth of armor plate for Uncle Sam. Fire at St. Paul destroyed the factory of the Minnesota Shoe Company. Loss, $213,000. Two firemen were badly injured and cne of them will probably die.

Chicago Democratic primaries, Monday, elected delegations largely in favor of Carter H. Harrison for World’s Fair Mayor. Washington Hesing was defeated. John M. Covlter, President of Indiana University, has been offered the chair of botany in the new Chicago University at an annual salary of $7,000. He is President of the Botanical Society of America. On the Passumpsic Kailroad Division of the Boston and Maine, jus^ above St. Johnsbury Center, Vt, two through freights collided at a culvert. The killed are Fred Clark, Fred Green, ami Charles West. The Brussels office of affairs of the Congo State has receive 1 dispatches to the effect that Arab slave-traders under Tippoo Tib’s son had been defeated and 500 prisoners and 600 rifles taken by Commander d’Hanis. A Baltimore special- says: ‘ Blood may be shed in Virginia waters this week. The Maryland oyster men insist on despoiling the oyster beds on the Virginia boundary, and the Virginia oyster police now threaten to shoot to kill. Two Maryland vessels have already been captured, and the Virginia police fleet has been ordered to the scene.” At Syracuse, N. V., in the ( ourt of Sessions Orrin A. Skinner, formerly of the law firm of Goudy,Chandler A Skinner of Chicago, was sentenced to five years at hard labor in State Prison. He was captured in Syracuse for forging an acceptance of a draft for $125 diawn on a resident of Chicago n imed Cowan. Skinner tried to victimize the Commercial Bank as well as the Robert Gere Bank that prosecuted him. The referendum institut d by the liberal societies of Belgium to learn the sentiment of the people on the suffrage question was taken throughout the kingdom. In Brussels, where some 25,000 votes were east, a large majority favored M. Jansen’s proposal of univercnl manhood suffrage. The Socialists - oted for it to a man. CathoTieand the more moderate liberals abstained from vot ng.

Fred G. Shaeffer, a legislative re- j I porter for the State Journal, Lincoln,' t Neb., was arrested Saturday evening by i 1 Sergeant-at-ar ms Dungan of the House, ; 5 taken before the Bribery Investigating * Committee and asked to exp'ain the | source of h's information whereby he . , was enabled to publish the secret pro- | ceedings of the body. He th clined to i give the source of his information and । appealed to the House, which sustained I him and ordered his release. Postmaster General Wanamaker I and several gentlemen of national j prominence have closed a deal at Ma- ; rion, Ind., by which they are aide to control over live hundred acres of land I which lies between that city and the I National Soldiers’ Home. Ti e capital I stock is SIOO,OOO. The company in- j eludes United States Treasurer Nebeker, C. W. Fairbanks of Indianapo- ; lis George W. Bo>d of the Pennsyl- ; vania Bailroad Company, ex-Governor Steele of Marion, and others. A published story from Pittsburg which states in substance that Charles Prentiz a poor plasterer of that city and his sister Louisa, who formerly lived in Lewiston, Me., are heirs to a fortune of $200,000 left by an aunt, is not credited at Lewiston. A convict war is again threatening In Tennesee. Governor Turney has announced his intention of withdrawing the standing army. The miners u id n meeting Saturday and decided by vote to liberate the 500 convicts in the valley and lire the stockades.

EASTERN. JuntA N an Wagner, 80 years old.aiV mother of Mrs. Dudley Buck, wife <.r the Brooklyn composer, has been burned to death by the accidental upsetting of a lamp. The southern express on the Penn- I , sylvania Road collided with the Morton accommodation train, near South Street I Station, Nt est Philadelphia. Three cars ! of the accommodation train were wrecked. A rumor gained wide circulation that the special train bearing ■ President Harrison from Washington to New York was one of the trains in col- j lision. This, however, was untrue. Five persons were killed and a dozen I injured.

Rochester, N. V., dispatch: Train I No. 5 on the Nt est Shore was wrecked । at Palmyra Tuesday and fifteen persons are reported to bo killed. The 1 tialn left New Nor.< at 8 o’clock and I was due in this city at 10:10. The train , usually consists of two coaches, two j sleepers, and a baggage-car. The I sleeper is said to lie on its side in the ! ditch. The information was first eon- । veyed to this city 1 y Central wire from I Palmyra, a man having been sent over । from the wreck, which is a mile from the Central track. Hugh O’Donnell, Jack Clifford and ' Hugh Ross, leaders of tho Homestead i ^rfkeT*"charge '^wMF’PfWty conspiracy । and treason, were released on SIO,OOO | bail each. The accused have been in jail for three months. There i was gr< at rejoicing at Homestead i over the arrival of the liberated leaders. 1 Their coming was not Known and but lew people were at the station when they stepped off the train, but the news ■ soon spread and the homes of the men I were crowded all day with friends who | came to offer congratulations.

Notwithstanding the boisterous weather the ceremony of raising the American flag on the steamer New York took place at New York as arranged. On board the New York the captain, his officers and crew were togged out in their finest, and the decks and works were as bright, and clean as a parlor floor. '1 he saloons and cabins were draped with tings and bunting, while flowers and potted plants were in all the great cabins and reception-rooms prepare I for the President. As tho invited guests arrived each re: eived n beautiful souvenir of the occasion, on which was printed the records made by the New York, showing her to be the fastest Atlantic liner afloat with one exception, tha f of the City of Paris. The New N oik’s record Is 5 days PJ hours and 57 minutes. She is 527 feet long and 63 in breadth, and her horse-} ower is 18.40(1. Her tonnage is 10,500 and she has averaged 20.13 knots an hour. She is a twin screw steamer.

WESTERN. St. Lovis will have n<> switchmen's strike this year. Allen Manvel, President of the Santa Fe Hallroad Company, died Friday at the Hotel Del Coronado, Sun Diego, Cal. His death was <nused by physical and mental prostration aßurnvuted by Bright & disease. AT West Lake, .Mo., the boll. . b. <■>« grain elevator of McCormick A Jones explo led. Robert Davis and E. C McMillan were killed and Nelson McCormick mortally hurt. Two other employes of the firm were less seriously injured. A Topeka, Kan., dispatch says that the Republicans and straight-out Denrocrats have practically decided to elect another man Senator from Kansas, ami the seat claimed by John Martin will be contested by either Bailey P. Waggoner, of Atchison; Colonel A. A. Harris, of Fort Scott; Ed Carroll, of Leavenworth; or W. 11. Rossington, of Topeka. The eastbound mail and express. No 20, on the Pittsl urg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road, was wrecked two miles east of Columbia City, Ind., by a broken rail. The engine, mail and baggage cars passed safely over the break, but ’the last two cars were precipitated down an embankment twenty feet high, the ears turning entirely over. One man was killed and many hurt. By a cave-in at Shaft No. 3 on the South Joplin (Mo.) Mining Company’s ground Tuesday afternoon, four miners were killed and another hurt. Ihe killed are: W. D. Hanes, John Krokroeki, ground foreman; W. H. Mitchell, Henry Pyles. The injured man is R. E. Coy. The accident occurred in a drift while the men were engaged in putting in ‘imbers to support the roof. The roof gave way without warning and all were buried except Coy. The bodies were all recovered after four hours’ work. They were badly mangled.

The Spring Wheat Millers’ Association is now in operation. It has at present a membership of several hundred millets, representing a daily output of flour reaching into the hundreds of thousands of barrels. The States covered are Minnesota, North Dakota, I lowa, Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and the spring-wheat mills of New York Stae at Buffalo. liohesi ter and Niagara 1 alls. Ihe conI ception of a combine dates from I the organization of the Southern Min- ' nesota Millers’ Association three or I lour years ago. The principal object I of that Association was to fix the minii mum price at which Hour should be sold, j The headquarters of the Association is i in the Corn Exchange Building, Minnej apolis. Should the spring wheat deal- : ers’ combine prove a sue; ess there is little doubt that the winter wheat dealers, who constitute an equally powerful : branch of milling, would organize in : like manner.

John W. Mackay, the mining millionaire and President of the Postal Telegraph company, lies in bed in his I room at the Palace Hotel at San Fran- j cisco with a bullet hole in his back just below the shoulder-blade. W. C. Bippey, the man who shot him, , is at the Becciving Hospital with a bullet wound in his chest, self-inflicted and probably mortal. It was a case of attempted assassination. The intended victim will surely recover, and the shooter will almost as surely die. 1 here is only one e< nclusion as to the motive, ami that is that Bippey was practi ally in-ane through losses In I mines and mining stocks, and that his mania, a.-suming the homicidal form, was directed against John Mackay as the author of his misfortunes. I As far as can now be learned Mackay 1 did not know Bippey, and, in fact, the two men had never met. It was simp y

wouki have made him a cripple fo r f at At Des Moines five grave were caught in the act. Two (ls ^° ,S are prominent men. The arresS I parties are: Dr. John NV Ovo.t , |W. Martin, laborer; John E J ’ liveryman; NV. E. Burris hnJ ’ b oan - | John NV. Schaefer, Assistant"s’ aiU | Observer of the United States NVp h"* ; Bureau. Dr. Overton is a ,“ ther inent member of the facultv । Drake University Medical School * ti crime was committed between tlm b/ of 2 and 3 in the morning i^N Cemetery. The corpse which ■ laised from its resting place was that of a man of a5 or 60 years ai d had a Thinamenf

'the man was William Case. The^u were made by Night Captain Mo? , gan and Officer Buttin O s the regular police force. Great throngs 'Oi people went to the niokme during the forenoon to view the co n g s U e ° One glance was enough in most cases' 11» rope which the ghouls had tied around the neck and arm remained a it had been fastened, and this, together with the mutilated body, scratched and lacerated by its contact with the frozen earth over which it had been dragged, made a sight that none but an ikonr nerved man could gaze upon Mitl&’i* a shudder of honor. ExannmJ} ” the grave slewed that tk*? ha I dug down into it over the hi iM^f l the corpse, ha I then fastened n rope about the neck and yanked it un. William Case, the man whose body wAs stolen, belonged to the G. A. R. Case was an old resident of the city. His family is poor and the county paid bis sum ral expenses, on that account necessitating interment in the potter's fie’.d.

SOUTHERN. Dan Pam hall, a 10-year-old boy, has 1 een convicted of murder at Fort Smith, Ark. 'I he Hurry Bissenger Tobacco Company’s factors at Louisville was burned, causing a loss of $250,000. Governor M< Kinney ordered the howitzers at Richmond, Va., to lire a ralu’e of seventei n guns nt intervals of ten minutis. in r« epret to the memory of General P. 'l. G. Beauregard, on the day of his funeral. Ri g a i i vs,balls,pyrotechnic displays, trades' j aradi s.nnd numerous other attra' tions are I emu arranged for by the p* ople of Norfolk, Va.. in connection with the world’s navy display in Hampton Roads in April and May.

WASHINGTON Conori -.su W Owen Scott is said to be likely to succeed Frank W. Palmer as Public Printe;. Tut marriage of Miss Flor, nee MHler daughter of the Attorney General of the United States, to Clifford Arrick. of V ashington, took place Wednesday ev enlng, I’iiimufm Harrison has conferred the honor of the nomination to the Judgeship of tl.<-Sixth Judie al Circuit, made xneant by Die r. -lcnalh 11 f J udae Jackson, promote!* •«»*»«•—v. of the Rei »- <•■■■ upon Benton Hanchott, of Saginaw, Nii< h. The peculiar thing about the nomination of Mr. Hanchott is that it was made in the face of the fact that the entire Michigan delegation in Congress and many promimnt Republicans of that State, including Mr. Hanchett himself, were; earnestly urging the appointment of Thomas J. O'Bt.en, of Grand Rapids. Washington dispatches say that an issue of bonds to meet the demand for gold will likely take place Soon. Secretary Fo-ter has entered into a contract with Drexel. Morgan A Co. to exchange bonds tor $25,000,000 in gold at the moment the emergency arises. The loads have been printed and are ready for delivery when the Government finds it necessarv to demand gold of the firm named. ’ If there should Ue an unexpeet. d demand for $ poi n.ooo or $5,00J,000 of gold at any time now there would I e forced a bond issue. The I onds, which will draw 1 per cent., are to be sdd at a premium, which will make the net interest 3 per cent., anticipating the interest till maturity. The gold is to be delivered in London or at the sub trea-ury in New York at the pleasure of the Government. Bonds are to i-sue only to cover gold delivered. This contract will bind the Cleveland administration should it desire gold and the emergency continue. It was deemed best, a few days a o. t<> anticipate the worst condition of affairs in order to protect the SIOO,OO >,00l) of reserve gold and make the listing of gold an impossibility. Undtr these arrangements the Government has access to $2;>,009,000 of gold at any time, the option on it. as it were, and yet it will not be compelled to take it unless the free gold in the treasury is exhausted. The interest which the Government will have to pay on these bonds is as low —3 jer cent.-r---as it can be made for an exchange of gold. The contract binds the Cleveland administration to issue the bonds as stated, and take the gold from Drexel, Morgan A Co. when our free gold is CXi hausted.

POLITICAL. Judge Bernard McKenna, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Pittsburg. Ex-Gov. Geo. W. Glick, of Kansas i is said to be slated for the Commission- ; j ership of the General Land Office. ! The Michigan Republican State Con- ■ I vention at Detroit nominated Judge J. ! ! F. Hooker, of Eaton County, f or ' j Supreme bench. The Prohibitionists of Rhode Island ; have nominated Henry B. Metcalf for ■ Governor. For the first time in the hig. lory ot political parties in the State I women sat in the convention as delegates. Mm Cleveland’s cabinet i 8 now I complete. The President-elect has announced that he had selected Riel I aid Olney, of Boston to be his Aft : ney General, and Colonel Hilary°a' Herbert, of Alabama, to be his Seer ' tary of the Navy. This is the cabinet ■ list complete: Secretary of State, Wal > ter Q. Gresham, of Illinois; Secref-i , , of the Treasury, John G. Carlisle I ''^ ; Kentucky; Postmaster General, Wil i son S. Bissell, of New York; SecreS rVt of M ar, Daniel S. Lamont 'A- - New York; Secretary of the Na* 1 Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama- . | Attorney General, Richard Olnev f y Massachusetts; Secretary O s thejn e terior, Hoke Smith, of Georgia; Secre y i tary of Agriculture. J. Sterling Morton^

ihe Myoming Legislature adjourned without electing a United States Sen» tor, and Gov. Osborne performed tha^ duty by appointing A. C Beckwith n Evanston millionaire. BecS?’ b ! been for venrs , "ecKwith has way and another nl on ® department of the Union Paine Rail road He has been in Wyoming ow twenty-one years, and has been si® cessful in a financial wav Mr Be £ with is about CO years of'^e ^Va Commissioner from Wyoming to The mfr^n 8 1 “ F ’ and wa 9 a delegate to the Cm- S ocrati '’ National Convention Gov. Osborne is loudly denounced bv [he members of his party for m akin J the appointment. * waning IN general Ex-Secretary NVhitney has sailed tn a eimse to Bermu la and the West indies. Capt. Prevost, of the Montreal Fire Do; artment, was fatally injured at a fire which destroyed a business block in that city. 1 koi i Shou Wiooiss explains that the SO%OI*O < old the pi vMODt whiter was caused by the near approach of Mars to Jupiter. Considerable anxiety is felt owing to the non-arrival of the Allan Line Mongolian, due at Halifax from Liverpool four days ago. She has 400 passengers. Collis P. Hi ntington, on ■ of the Directors of th' United States and Brazil Steamship Company, says the stockholders must go di ep into their pockets if the line is to be continued in operation. It is in a very bad financial condition. I ire at Montreal destroyed property worth $20i1.000. The ] rincipal losers aie Richard Smardens, boot and shoe factory; J. E. Mullin A Co., loot and shoe factory; Keegan. Milne A Co., electrical supplies; Doyle A Anderson’ wholesale teas.

Meager reports of a terrible Indian massacre on Sorrow Island, a distant trad.ng post, have been received at Vancouver, B. C. The massacre occurred several weeks ago. Some River Inlet Indians went to the island to hunt. I hey clashed tome of the Kitkatalas tribe, who were also hunting, ami the ill feeling was intensified by one of the intruders molesting a Kitkatalas girl. The offender was killed by her tribe and a general tight ensued. * The River Inlet men were vanquished, and all of them, over twenty-five in number, were put to death with the exception of three chiefs. '1 hex' were imprisoned, but it was finally decided to kill them, and they were accordingly shot. Reports on the winter wheat, as received by the Farmer's Review, show that in most of the States a critical point has been reached, and on the next few weeks w ill depend the future of the crop. In Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. there has been so much freezing and flawing, alternating with ice and snmvythal. m*Miy of at^.^ur^goundents TnaVl to tell "the of the plant. In Ohio more than half the < corespondents report the condition ns good, snd most of the remainder report fair. A very few report the condition as bad or doubtful. In some of the counties that report the condition as good, the plant had made but small growth when it went into winter quarters, I ut as it has been covered with a good blanket of .-now all winter it is at present in good condition for an early spring start. Altogether the outlwok ijn this State is better than most of the wheat States in the ■ West. In Michigan the gr und is covered with snow to such a i depth that little can be told concerning the condition of wheat. It ; i is known that on many of the level . | fields, ami especially on the low lands, . ice has formed under the snow and that - damage is almost certan to result. Be- • sides this the condition last fall was not . j good in certain counties on account of the late sowing and the ravages of the | j Hessian fly. In Missouri a few of the • j correspondents report wheat in good | condition. more report fair, and i j most report the condition as t bad or doubtful. In Kansas and Ne- ; \ braska the general outlook seems to be . good, but there is so much uncertainty . ' about it that it will require a few days . I of warm weather to reveal its true condition. In lowa the fields are still cov- ; j ere 1 with snow to such a depth that it . : is believed the crop is yet safe, but the ' danger will come when the snow melts. [ : The same is true of the wheat in M is- . i consin and Minnesota.

market reports. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime *3.25 ■ 6.00 Homs—Shipping Grades ... 3.‘c 8.50 Sheep—fair to Choice 3.00 c £ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73 is l -74 Corn—No. 2 40 @ -G Oats No. 30 (<? .31 Rye No. -j 52 W- .53 IICTTER Choice Creamery -27'<_,^ Eggs—Fresh 22 ; -j Potatoes—New, per bu 75 is, .sj INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shipping 3.25 & 5.50 Hogs—Choice Light.... 3-c0 @8.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 @ JkH Corn No. 2 White Oats—No 2 White 31'i@ .35*4 ST. LOUIS. C ^TTI E 3.00 5.00 Hogs.. . ..” 3.00 8.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 .68 Corn—No. 2 37 & .38 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Rye- No. 2 54 @ .56 CINCINNATI. Cattle 360 & 5.25 Hogs 3.00 c? 8.25 SHEEP 3-00 @ 7.25 Wheat No. 2 Red 72 ,72q COHN-^No. rm . U y Oats-No. 2 M’xed 34 yt .35 Rye No. 56 .58 DETROIT. Cattle :, .eo @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 <5; <-0 Sheep 3.00 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 72 ® .73 CORN —No. 2 Yellow 42 I >j@ -43'2 Oats—No. 2 White 38 <<!» .ay TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 72 @ .73 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 42 c .42?a Oats —No. 2 White 35 cs .36 RYE 57 @ .5.1 BUFFALO. Cattle Common to I’rime 3.50 o' 5.5' Hogs—Best Grade 4.0' O >.OO Wheat- No. 2 Red 76 ' .77U CORN No. 2 Yellow .47-g MiI,WAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 63 @ .70 CORN—No. J'.l'j Oats—No. 2 White at've"' .35 RyE No. 1 56 .58 Barley- No. 2 -62 cr .G 4 i’OßK—Mess 18.10 (S<lJ.2o I NEW YORK. I c atti F 3-5° @ -V SO ■ Hogs/7 ;u ” ‘if SHEEP 3 'oo C' o-'S Wheat—No. 2 Red @ -w Corn—No. ■'■j Oats—Mixed Western 38 .39 Butter—Best ! Pork—New Mess 20 - 00

COME FROM SING SING. CHICAGO’S SUPPLY OF READY made CLOTHING Y ' Hushiegs Vnhampered by the Gold Shin ?Caned Ka,lßa9 r ° pullßtl ‘ 111 Wro, g --Culled on the Deity a„ d Fell Dead Feather Combine. ^ead— Prison-Made Clothing in Chicago. Convict-made clothing, imported from New York, is handled by Chk• ™ 7 n '° n BalerS ‘ Chica 8° ’namPacturors inSV 1 ” 1 h ’ and Presence C 1 in SO[n ° measure responsible for the “sweaters." These ^^’ons were made by a witness H e <P T g 7 an ? lned Bepresentathe ioVnt e nnel 1 durin « ,ho session of tne joint committee of the State Legislature at the Sherman House. The witness was Charles H. Lobenstein designer and foreman for C. I*. Kellogg & Co. His evidence was corroborated by T. F. Vaughn, of the firm of E. Rothschild & Bro., who said that every clothing house in the city handled more or less of the goods manufactured at Sing Sing by Cane, McCaffery & Co., of New York City. "This Is the milk of the voconnut," said Mr. O’Donnell. "1 regard it as the most Important information that the committee has yet found. Ihese prison-made goods lower prices, and to compete with them the manufacturer must oppress the contractor, ami to this is largely due the evil of the ‘sweater.’ ’’ The Trade Review. R. G. Di n A Co.’s weekly review of trade says: While $3,000,000 gold went abroad during the week and $500,u00 more is expected to go. there is no increase of apprehension about the monetary future, and the business world pays little attention to the action or inaction < f Congress, though the inereasfnx probabilities of an extra session are regarded with some interest The Treasury lias mt materially changed its balances in spite of gold shipments, and exports of merchandise from New York are a little more satisfactory, closely approximating last year's thus far. Imports continue extraordinarily lur.’e, and the outgo of gold must be expected to remain h?avy a« long as present trade condlt ons last, unless foreign purchases of American securities should come to balance the account. Ihe business failures occurring throughout the count-v number 230. as compare I with totals of 233 the prior week. For the corresponding week of last year tho figures wore 270.

BREVITIES. I hi: marble I’ohshersof St, Louis will go on n strike. Tin. Gate City National Bank of Atlanta, Ga., has collapsed, owing over half a million. • Vl< i; riIESIDENT-ELECT STEVENSON hus appointed his eon Lewis as his private secretary. British Columbia banks after March 1 will only accept American silver at 2i per cent, discount. J. R. Roberts Company’s basketmaking plant at Poplar Bluff, Mo., has . bin ned down. Loss,s4o,ooo; insurance, • dlapse ot the ftoor in Odd FelloW]^ Han Weston, Ont , while a Mason^® social was tn progress. * The Bethany, Mo., roller mills and woolen factory, owned and operated by McClure A Co., were destroyed by fire. Loes, $24,000; no insurance; cause, spontaneous combust ion. Ar Nashville. Tenn., in the Criminal Court, Harvey NVeakly, on trial for murder, fell dead in the witness stand. When asked if he hail killed the victim, NVeakly said he hoped God would strike him dead if he ha I. Hardly had lie spoken when he fell dead to the floor. The Kansas Suprime Court has decided that the Republican House is the legal House of Representatives; that the l‘o; ulist Asse.nbly is not a House of Representatives, and has no standing as a law-making body, that all his acts are illegal, and that it has never been nor could lie a legal body. Boston and New York sole leather firms, representing a capital of j40,000,000, have combined with the view of controlling the output of the tanneries under their control and the price of sole leather. The head and front of the movement is Thomas E. Proctor of Boston. It is said there are ninety firms in the agreement.

An aluminum violin has been conetructed by a musician of Cincinnati and has been tried in concert as well as in private. It cannot be distinguished by its tone from the wooden instrument. It is claimed that it is superior to wood in durability, freedom from accident, and susceptibility to moisture. It is too early in the history of the new industry to tell of its comparative cost. Anarchist Johann Most delivered the third of a series of lectures at Newark. N. J.. Friday night, and only by a good use ol his I'-ys 'Hd ho <>s<>.apo from the police. There was a motley crowd of 100 men of different nationalities present. There were no police in the hall and after satisfying himself of this Most mounted the speaker’s platform. He at once began a 1 ersonal attack ui on the reporter of a German newspaper, who was present, and wrought up his ignorant listeners to su'h a pitch that ho could not control them, and they sprang from their seats and rushed at the reporter, erving, “Kill him! Kill him!" Just as the crowd reached the terrified newspaper man. an alarm was given and several policemen rushed in from the street and rescued him. Most fled. The loss to the Southern Pacific Company in the 1 urning of its San Antonio, Texas, paint shops and car shop and fourteen passenger coaches and the Pullman sleeper Ellanno is much greater than estimated at lirst. The loss will reach SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. The Treasurer of the Phillips Brooks memorial fund r< ports $79,527 subscribed. The “Seo” has made a round-trip rate of $35 from St. Paul to New York, and $lO to Boston. The American Bell Telephone company was given until Aug. 25 next to put in further testimony in the suit of the United States against it and Prof. Bell. This is an old suit wherein it is alleged that a certain patent was ob- I tamed from the Patent Office by means of fraud. 1

THE .SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measures Discussed ami Acted I pon-Gist of the business. The National Solons* n,J n ,i the llouse ’ Tuesday, the hours were mostly employed in filibustering against the car-conpier bill. Day and night were devoted to tie coisideration of the postoffice approprialiim bill, the deb vte on £ onfinfd t 0 the spidal service provis.on. Rut the car-coupler measure met "ith determined opposition. Mr. Richardson led the opposing party and. by j ariiamentarv maneuoiTit. prevented an y action being taken The first o" what is said to be a dally series of contiicts between the appropriation bills and the anti-options bill until tho \ S acU ‘ d 1,11 was the feature of Wednesdays session of the House. The members were worn out from Tuesday nights session, wh en Tested until morning. and the day passed tamely. Mr. Hatch hal giown tied of the delay to. which the anti-opt sns bill is bein^ subI jected. and when It was moved to talie ■ I lie postoflicc. itpitroprl al ton Nie onized the mot’o i with the measure of । which he is champion. Being defeated he ; made the same fight also unsuccessfully when tho j ostoffice bill was pas-ed with the special mail facility appropriat on included in it. and again when the Indian appropriation bill was called up. Members were thus put on rec rd, and then the Indian Question was discussed languidly for three hours. In the Senate Senator < handier, from the Committee on immigration, submitted a report on his bill establishing additional regulations concerning immigration in the' United States by increasing by three the number of excluded classes of aliens. Tlie consular and diplomatic appropriation was next brought before the Sen ite. but the consideration of executive business was resumed instead.

Good progress was made in the Senate Thursday in disposing of the absolutely necessary work of Congress. Within less than an hour two of the general appropriation bills—the diplomatic and c insular and the military academy —were read, considered and passed. Then the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, which apjroptiatei about 522,000,000, was taken up and considered up till the time of adjournnunt. NVithont di-posing of the legis.ative bill, the Senate adjourned. On motion of Mr. Hitt in the Bouse, a bill was passed for the relief of George NV. Jones, late United States Minister to the United States of Colombia. Mr. Jones, who was the first United States Senator from the State of lowa, was present, and when the Speaker announce 1 that it Lad been agreed to he arose and returned his hearty thanks to Mr. Hitt, for his successful effort The sundry civil appropriation bill, with Senate amendments, was laid b -fore the House and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Peel (Ark.) moved that the House go into committee of the whole for the consideration of general appropriation bills. This motion was antagonized by Mr. Hatch (Me.), who wished the consideration of the anti-option bill. Mr. Peel’s motion prevailed—yeas, 152: nays, 75—and the consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was resumed. Without disposing of the bill the committee rose and the House adjourned. Mr. Hatch receive! another reverse Friday in bis efforts to secure consideration of ^itH-option bill It was his third reranks. There was a disposition to criticise Mr. Hatch for lack of judgment in bringing the bill forward in antagonizm to the appropriation bill. Mr. Hatch, who was presiding over the committee of the whole, left the chair and addressing his successor said that for three legislative days the Indian bill had been under considerat'on. There was not, he continued, an Intelligent member of the House who did not absolutely know that at this hour of tho session the appropriation bill was being used as a means of obstructing the consideration of the anti-option hili, and that the opponents of the lat'er measure, the friends of the demonetization of silver and the friends of the Senate rider to an appropriation bill were in an absolute agreement and conspiracy, and no gentleman from this time until 12 o'clock March 4 could shield himself under any sort of subterfuge unless he was willing to go on record not only as opposed to the antioption bill, but as the opponent of silver and the friend of the 3 per cent, amendment. The House was brought face to face with this issue, and be gave notice that he would continue this struggle in the interest of the people as against the interest of Lombard street and Wall street until the people’s rights were preserved. The House then took a recess until the evening session, which was to be devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. Jhe debate in the Senate was over the question presented in the legislative appropriation bill, whether the Utah Commiss on, which has been in existence for the last ten years, should be abolished, as proposed by the House, or continued in office, as recommended by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The question was decided in favor of continuing the commission.

A fight was Inaugurated in the House Saturday. It was over -<he sundry civil appropriation bill which contains the Sherman bond amendment. 1 here are in all 207 amendments to the bill. Mr. Holman desired that alb-except the Sherman amendment, upon which there was to be debate —be nonconcurred in. Mr. Bland, as leader of the opposition to the sherman amendment, objected u less it was agreed I that that amendment should be. after ; debate, also nonconcurred in. This sug- | gestion of Mr. Bland’s raised the antauonI Ism of Mr. Cockr.m. and no agreement was arrived at. The silver men then resorted t> filibustering tactics, which were itfeetu il. ax<l after a speech by Mr. B and the bill went over without action. After four hours passed in discussing various amendments (ot little importance) to the legislative appropriation bill the Senate passed the bill, insisted on its am mfiments, and requested a conference with the House on the disagreeing votes. Fought Without Firearms. Gideon defeated the Midianites B. C. 1245 through fright at the sound of crashing earthenware and the flash of lamps during a night attack. At 20» feet onlv the best Spanish armor could resist'the English arrow. Many museums have steel corselets pierced through by an arrow. Ar the coming of the Spaniards, 1 4 , J2, the most effective weapon among tho Caribbean Indians was a wooden lance, the point hardened in the fire. lx the fourteenth century armor became so heavy that many soldiers only : 30 vears old were deformed or per- । manently disabled by its weignt. Bfriu’sent ytions of slingsand s ingI ers in Assyrian and Egyptian monuments at least 2cOJ B. C. . The Australian wummera is a s.ia gnt stick with a tube in the end in which the handle of a dart is placed, the throw-stick remaining in the hand. A complete suit of horse armor comprised the champont, ?} e ad piece; manifaire, neck piece; l 01 ^ 1 1 shoulders and croupier o\er the hips The Gauls, to make handles for their stone axes, cleft the branch of a tree placed the ax in it, and left it till the wound in the wood had been completely healed