St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 April 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - . - INDIANA TIME CARD IGNORED. AND FOUR MEN ARE HURLED TO ETERNITY. A Mammoth Tobacco Factory Burned— Plotted to Kill a Prince —Witches in the West—Many Important Offices Filled by President Cleveland. Four L.iyes Crushed Out. A terrible railroad accident occurred at 6:15 o’clock Monday on the Jacksonville Southeastern Railroad about three miles south of Edwardsville, 111., near Glen Carbon, a mining village. No. 29, a local freight going south, and No. 10, a passenger accommodation going north, collided, completely wrecking the freight train, both engines, and one passenger car. Four men were killed and a number of others seriously injured. The killed are: Cal Ahspaugh, engineer of No. 10; Jim Hambley, fireman of No. 10; Hugh Woods, fireman of No. 29; and Scott Welsh, a workman in mine No. 1, at Glen Carbon. McKeenan, driver at mine No. 1, Glen Carbon, cannot live. The local was in charge of Conductor W. H. Church of East St. Louis, and the passenger in charge of Conductor C. F. Craven of Jacksonville. The cause of the accident is attributed to negligence on the part of the local trainmen. A change of time was made on the passenger, making it fifteen minutes earlier than heretofore. The local trainmen have been in the habit of side-tracKintr their train at Glen Carbon. The local conductor thought he could reach Glen Carbon in time and pulled out. The engines and freight cars are a mass of old iron and wood heaped in one huge pile. The engineers and firemen were hurled a distance of several rods. The scene of the accident is in a deep ravine near a sharp curve in the road. All the physicians and surgeons of Edwardsville were soon on the scene. Appointed by the President. President Cleveland on Monday sent the following nominations to the Senate: William Edmund Curtis, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Genio M. Lambertson, resigned; Charles S. Hamlin, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice John H. Gear, resigned; James H. Eckels, of Illinois, to be Comptroller of the Currency; James F. Meline, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States; T. Strobo Farrow, of South Carolina, to be S cond Auditor of the Treasury; John B. Brawley, of Pennsylvania, to be Auditor of the Treasury of thb Postoffice Department; James J. Willie, of Florida, to be Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; Henry W. Egnor, of New Jersey, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Newark, N. J.; Dudley O. Watson, of Michigan, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Michigan. NEWS NUGGETS. Cuban revolutionists have almost perfected preparations to overturn their Government. Many clubs have been formed in American cities to assist them. The Duke Tobacco Factory at New York was burned, causing a loss of $400,000. Fire also destroyed the Dresden pottery at East Liverpool, Ohio. Loss, $125,000. A dispatch from Berlin states that three railway officials and four officers have been arrested for plotting to kill Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Their plan was to blow up with dynamite the train which will carry him this week to Viareggio, where he will be married to Princess Marie Louise, daughter of the Duke of Parma. Considerable excitement has been occasioned at Jansen, Neb., by a supposed case of witchcraft. The lingering illness of a little girl led some ignorant and superstitious neighbors to investigate the feather-tick upon which the girl lay. They found the feathers wrought into curious shapes, and sent to Missouri for a faith-cure doctor, whom they afterward tried to mob, but upon his restoring the girl to health by three treatments he was given twenty dollars and sent home. At New Orleans anxiety for the missing Italian steamer Stura, now thirteen days overdue, has increased since the arrival at that city of the British steamer Wickham from Palermo, which reports having had fine weather the entire voyage, and came over the route which the Stura is supposed to have taken. The Stura sailed from Messina Feb. 13, Palermo Feb. 18, with 29,150 boxes of lemons and 2,800 boxes of o.ranges, called at Gibraltar for coal, sailing from there Feb. 13, since which nothing has been heard of it. It is an iron vessel, registered 1,496 tons net, carries a crew of forty-five men, and is owned by the Italian Navigation Company of Palermo. There were 140 wells completed in the Pennsylvania oil fields during March, thirty-three of which were dry, and the new production was 7,650 barrels. This is an increase of forty-five wells and 668 barrels over February. At the close of the'month there were 130 rigs and 206 drilling wells under way, six fewer wells and twenty-three more rigs than for February—twentyeight —or an increase of seventeen in active operation. The Lima oil fields of Ohio and Indiana completed 188 wells in March, with twenty-four dry holes and 8,946 barrels production, an increase of 733 wells and 3,126 barrels production over February, There were 190 rigs and drilling wells in progress in these fields March 31, a net increase of seven over the figures of the preceding month. Chicago and Boston capitalists have formed a company to erect a $3,000,000 abattoir at Fort Worth, Texas. By the upsetting of a boat in Lake Pontchartrain ten members of a picnic party were thrown into the water. Mrs. Thomas Kelly and three children were drowned. Receipts at Monte Carlo, Europe’s great gambling resort, for the year ending March 31st were 24,000,000 francs, which warrants a dividend of 205 francs a share. Five hundred franc shares are worth S2,SCO francs.

EASTERN. William P. Brooks & Co., dealers In furniture at Boston, have failed, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. The Rev. George R. Bliss, D. D., professor iu the Closer ■ Theological Seminary, died at Chester, Pa., aged 77 years. The Lombard Investment Company, which deals in Western farm mortgagee, has been prohibited from doing business in Massachusetts. Friends of Senators Hill and Murphy are reported to have secured a controlling interest in the Albany Argus, which has heretofore been a strong Cleveland paper. A certificate of in< orporation of the American Stave and Cooperage Company, whose capital stock is $4,000,000, was filed in the office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey. The Governor of Pennsylvania has issued the death warrant of Pietro Buccieri, an Italian, who murdered his nurse, a Sister of Mercy, in a hospital ’ at Reading. He will be hange l June 1. I The New York Times is report d to ! have been sold so • $950,000 to a syndi- I cate headed by Charles R. Flint. Dr. Charles R. Miller, the present editor; Governor Flower and H. Walter Webb are also interested. George H. Galt, one of the best known men in the art world, of New York, died suddenly at his studio in the Association Hall Building. He was English by birth, but had dwelt in that ; city many years. Forged drafts for $10,090 on the First National Bank and another for SSOO on the City National Bank of Gloucester, Mass., have been received by those institutions. The drafts came from the First National Bank of San Francisco and are signed “Allen L. McDonald.” The person signing them is under arrest in San Francisco awaiting information from Gloucester. The most costly and luxurious train of cars that has ever c rossed this continent left New York at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. It is composed of six elegant Wagner coaches, and it will carry Dr. W. Seward Webb, his family, and a few invited guests to the Pacific coast and back. This train constitutes a perfectly equipped hotel on wheels, with an uncommon supply of the comforts of a home. WESTERN. Nathan Strawm, of Crawford County, Ind., has celebrated his 101st birthday. Navigation <n Lake Erie between Cleveland and the head of the lake is open Doxey Music Hall at Anderson, Ind., recently rebuilt at a cost of $125,000, was burned. Colonel Corbin of the Fourth Infantry, an Illinoisan, will be appointed to succeed General Carr. Milwaukee intends to investigate the recent fires, with a Grand Jury, which will convene in May. The date for the reciprocity convention to be held in St. Paul, Minn., has been fixed for June 5 and 6. Henry Schoenfeld, of Chicago, has been awarded the National Conservatory prize for the best symphony. E. D. Farnsworth, ex-Grand Sire of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in the United States, died at San Francisco, aged 75. Matricide Latimer’s escape from the jail at Jackson, Mich., is likely to lead to the restoration of the death penalty. John J. Rhodes, of coal-combine celebrity, was arrested at St Paul for perjury. This is the first crushing step of the investigation. The dead body of a man supposed to be named Glasscock, was found near Joplin, Mo. The evidences surrounding the body indicated murder. W. L. Bradford, Clerk of Oklahoma County, 0. T., was arrested for appropriating $6,000 belonging to the county. His bail is fixed at $15,000. Mike Chambers, in jail at Sacramento, Cal., has confessed he is the man who murdered Fred Fetterman some months ago at Huntsville, Tenn. The Western I nion has purchased the Edison Mutual Telegraph Line, having headquarters at Fort Wayne and now operated by the Postal Company. A serious land slide on the Great Northern coast line, a short distance north of Edmonds, Wash., killed Robert Baker and seriously injured Charles Rode and Frank Kelly. F. Ewing Dent, a salesman for J. H. North A Co., furniture dealers in Kansas City, has disappeared. He has a brother in Chicago connected with the firm of Dent & Doggett. An old man arrested for begging in St. Paul was found to have bank books and certificates of deposit on New York banks to the amount of over $20,000, besides several hundred dollars in cash.. There is so much water in the Heart River near Mandan, N. D., that business is suspended on the east end of the Missouri division. The bridge at the sixth crossing of the Heart, just west of Mandan has been moved from its moorings. All west-bound trains stop at Mandan. Lord Leslie, who until Wednesday was an accountant on a St. Louis paper, his title being unknown there, committed suicide by jumping into the Mississippi. He was the last of the house of Leslie, which dates from 1646. He had been a scrapegrace for years, being involved in one scandal after another. A romance reached its climax at Kansas City, when William J. Thompson, who is the son of the Duke of Gloucester, owner of the racing track at Gloucester, N. J., and Miss Joli, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were married. The newly married people went to the Indian' Territory, which they will make their home, where young Thompson is the treasurer of the Pioneer Lead and Zinc Mining Company. Mrs. Mary Polinitz, the mother of Dr. Polinitz, sentenced to be hanged on May 5, has appealed to the Governor of Georgia for the pardon of her son. She is more than 80 years old and made a piteous appeal for clemency, asking the

Governor to let her go down to the grave without experiencing the disgrace of the execution of her son. She lives in Marengo County, Alabama. The family is one of noble birth The father of Dr. Polinitz was forced to fly from Germany in the revolution of 1848. Secretary Hoke Smith has received a telegram from Commissioner Gibbons at Athens, I. T., saying that unless steps are immediately taken to prevent a collision between the two rival factions of Cho. taw Indians, bloodshed Is imminent. Secretary Smith at once communicated with the Secretary O s War with the result that the officer in command o" the United States troops nearest the scene of the threatened trouble has been instructed to prompt! v inform himself of the exact situation and take such action as it seems to warrant. Agent B( nnett, at Muscogee has also been directed to proceed at once to the locality and report upon the situation. The Denver and Rio Granda passenger train from San Francisco to Denver left Leadville, Colo., thirty minutes late Friday night and was ditched about a mile below the city. The train was heavily loaded, there being over 200 passengers on board. There were eight passenger cars and two baggage. The rails spread from the end and the two sleepers were first to leave the track. Then followed five 1 coaches. Four of these wers turned on their side and passengeng were hurled in all directions. Ti^ sides of the cars, tbo steps, and wiM dows were smashed. Lights all wetra out, and a scene of confusion reigned. It took a short time to get at the injured and they were taken to the Leadville hotels. No one was killed, but many received cuts and bruises and seventeen were injured more or less seriously. _ _ SOUTHERN. Samuel Crosby, a Newport. (Ky.) awning-maker, blew the top of his wife’s head off Wednesday night with a shotgun. No cause is assigned for the deed. Crosbj- is under arrest. Francis M. Brown, a Maryland millionaire, was murdered and his body thrown into a well. His skull had been fractured and his throat cut. Robbery was the incentive. A negro has been arrested for the deed. A bottle containing a message alleged to have been written by a cattleman on the missing steamer Naronic has been found near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. It says the Naronic had collided with an iceberg and was sinking. An end has been put to the heavy car robberies suffered at Paris, Texas, by the Santa Fe ami Frisco lines. The other night W. D. Nelson, a guard, saw two thieves leaving a car and, failing to halt them, fired, killing Lee Stephenson, a negro. Tuesday afternoon, at Sewanee, Tenn., occurred the death of Gen. E. Kirby Smith, the last survivor of the Confederate leaders bearing the full rank of General. For -eventeen years he ’ad been Professor of Mathematics at the Southern University. He was 69 years old. At Little Rock, Ark., the motormen and couductors, about forty in number, of the City Street Electric Railway Company, decided to strike ami r. I to operate a car until their demand for* twelve hours’ work a day is acceple<W At present they are required to work ' eighteen hours a day. A fire at Llano, Tex., destroyed 1 property to the value of $‘>5,600, with ■ $20,000 insurance. The losers are: W. I A. H. Miller, building, $22,000; B. H. . Lauderdale, building, $12,000; B. Yates, j drug store. $10,(03; H. W. McGhee, bar, i $7,500; Dr. C. F. Darnall, office ami j household, $2,0 A 0; C. R. Porter, house- . hold, SI,OOO. The tire was incendiary. I The stopping of the investigation into ' the affairs of the Gate City National . Bank at Atlanta, by order of Attorney ] General Olney, has been explained. ■ The grand jury was about to find tru ■ 1 bills against two officials of the lank,in i addition to Defaulter Redwine. There i is now $400,000 in the bank's vaults, collected since the bank closed. This ; amount, with other assets, would en- i able the depositors to get dollar for dollar if the business was properly managed. The indictment of any more bank officials would have imperiled the bank’s affairs nancially and the reopening would have been impossible. This would work great injury to the depositors. The Nashville, Tenn., Bank of Commerce made an assignment Monday, and the Merchants’ Savings Bank also closed its doors, though it is said the latter will resume business in a few days. The assets and liabilities of the Bank of Commerce are each reported to be approximately $97,700. After the failure of the Commercial National Saturday, runs were inaugurated upon every bank in the city, and the officials immediately drew upon their correspondents by wire, so that by Monday morning over $2,000,000 in currency had been received to stem the tide. All were successful except the two named above. It is thought no loss will result. Developments at Louisville, Ky., seemed to prove to those who have made the examination that the whisky warehouse receipts now held by various local banks as collateral for loans to A. R. Sutton are forgeries. The amount involved is between $120,000 to $150,000. This covers only Louisville banks. It is claimed now that Sutton scattered these bogus receipts all over the country. His method was to send them to his agents and have them negotiate loans with the banks of their respective cities. Notwithstanding these startling disclosures Sutton still remains in town and has not been arrested. He has made no attempt to flee, but on the contrary has put on a bold front. He met a committee of bankers and remained closeted with them nearly all night. He claims that his assets are between $500,000 and $700,000, and this statement is borne out by the books, which were examined by experts. After the meeting detectives shadowed Sutton to keep him from I leaving the city. He is still under sur- | veillance, but no steps have been taken : to cause his arrest. WASHINGTON. Secretary Gresham has called for the resignation of Dr. F. O. St. Clair, chief of the consular bureau of the State Department. Commander Whitney, of the United States man-of-war Alliance, is engaged

to marry Miss Etta Ah Fong, daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant at Honolulu. Henry Clay Swain, for years assistant cashier of the Second National Bank of V ashington, D. C., was burned to death at Sea Isle, N. J. He was a prominent figure in Washington society and one of the few surviving members ot one of Cape May County’s most aristocratic families. The nominations sent to the Senate on Thursday by President Cleveland are as follows: Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, to be Ambassador Extraordinary ami Minister PlenlVOtentiarv to Great Britain; James D. Porter. ?Hn^ neS T>? e ' - to ® nv °y Extraordinary and wlvfl I otentiary to Chili; James A. McKenzie, ot Kentucky, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to" Peru; Lewis Baker, of Minnesota, to be Envoy Ex£V nister Plenipotentiary to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador; Pierce M. P’? j° f - V® 0 ?,?* 8 ’ to be Envoy Extraordinarj and Minis .er Plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Honduras: Edwin Dun. of Ohio (now Secretary of Legation at Japan), to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan. John M. Reynolds, of I'enifsvlvania to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior tvice C yrus Bussey, resigned). Lawrence Maxwell TAI’ i 10 ' to ’ j e Solicitor General (vice Charles H. Aldrich, resigned!; John I Hall of Georgia, to be Assistant Attorney General (vice George H. Shields, resigned). To be Consuls of the United States—L. M. Shaffer, of n 68. Virginia, to Stratford. Ont.; Harrison R. Williams, of Missouri, to Vera Cruz; M. P. Pendleton, of Maine, to Pictou; Theodore M. Stephan, of Illinois, to Annaberg: William T. Townes, of Virginia, to Rio de Janeiro; Claude Meeker of Ohio, to Bradford: Newton B. Eustie, of Ijouislana: to be Second Secretary of the Legation of the United States at Paris. FOREIGN, Prince Bismarck is report'd to be failing rapidly. His principal troubles are insomnia and neuralgia. The Turkish Government has denied that there were any anti-Christian riots in Cmsarea an l other cities of Asia Minor. The French Ministry, after service of only eleven weeks, has again resigned, because the Chamber of Deputies insisted on heavier taxation of the liquor interest. A great sensation has been caused in London sporting circles by the inexplicable disappearance of the famous racer and winner of the Waterloo cup, Fullerton. The horse was taken from the stable of Colonel North at Eltham on Saturday. J. W. Hobbs ami H. Granville Wright, charged with frauds in connection with the failure of the Liberator Building Society at London, have been sentenced to twelve years’penal servitude each. George Newman was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. A well-dressed man deman led an immediate interview with President Carnot at the Elysee. The janitor questioned him, ami he replied he was a son of Joan of Arc, and has been divinely directed to come to Paris to be appointed King of Dahomey, in order to civilize darkest Africa. He was taken to a lunatic asylum. IN GENERAL There is a possibility that the knitting mills of the Dominion will form a combination. Six of the largest typewriter companies in the country are reported to be forming a combine with a capital stock of $80,000,000. Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian High Commissioner in England, has resigned because the Dominion Parliament failed to ratify the French treaty. It has been discovered that the steamer Haytien Republic has smuggled at least ten tons of opium into the country within a year. High Treasury officials are said to be implicated in the scandal. The Vanderbilt system proposes to run a fast “World’s Fair flyer.” to make the trip between New York and Chicago in nineteen hours, five hours less than the time of the fastest train now running between those cities. Messrs. Bourgf. and Chaffey, respectively, the Chief Accountant and the Postal Clerk of the Northwest Government, have been suspended. Il is understood that their defalcations amount to thousands of dollars, and there are intimations that others are involved. The tests of the contract bar-iron for chain-making have been completed at the Charleston Navy Yard. It was privately announced at the navy yard that the tests were very satisfactory, and, the price being considered, the iron submitted was remarkably good. Yet, if । the requirements called for in the specii flcations are insisted upon, the iron must be rejected. MARKET REPORTS CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime $3.25 @ 6.C5 Hogs— Shipping Grades . 3.30 @7.50 Sheep— Fair to Choice 4.00 @ 6.00 Wheat— No. 2 Spring 75 @ .76 Corn— No. 2 40 & .41 Oats— No. 2 20 @ .29^ Rye —No. 2 46 @ .43 Butter— Choice Creamerv 29J-@ .30^ Eggs— Fresh 14 @ .15 Potatoes— New, per bu 70 @ .80 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shipping 3.25 @ 5.&0 Hogs —Choice Light 8.60 @ 7.50 SHEEP —Common to Prime 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat —No. 2 Red 62 @ .62*4 Cohn— No. 2 White 41 @ ,415a Qais— No. 2 White 35 @ .36 Bi. LOU IS. Battle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 & 7.00 Wheat— No. 2 Red 64 @ .65 Corn— No. 2 34 @ .35 Oats— No. 2 30 @ .305a Rye— No. 2 51 @ .53 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat— No. 2 Red 66 @ .67 Corn— No. 2 415a@ .42^ Oats— No. 2 Mixed 34 & .35 Bye— No. 2 55 & .57 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hoos 3,00 @ 7.25 ?HEEP 3.00 @ 4.75 WHEAT—No. 2 Red 69 @ .70 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 41}6@ .42(4 Oats— No. 2 White .37h@ .38J4 TOLEDO. Wheat- No. 2 68?a@ .6914 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 42 ‘@ .42)4 Oats— No. 2 White •• • • 33)a@ .34^ „ BUFFALO. cattle— Common to Prime 3.50 @ 5.50 Hogs— Best Grades 4.00 & 7.50 '•HEAT—No. 1 Hard 79 @ .80 No. 2 Red 74 @ .75 ... , MILWAUKEE. ” heat— No. 2 Spring 66 @ .66’4 Corn— No. 3 331^ . 3 ;>’4 25 ts ~7^°- 2 White 34H® .35^ Bxe— No. 1 53 ,aj .55 Barley— No. 2 62 @ .61 Bork— Mess 10.75 @17.25 NEW YORK. cattle 3.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 8.00 o?EEP 3.03 @ 6.50 Wheat— No. 2 Red 76 & Corn —No. 2 51 @ .52 Oats— Mixed Western 37 @ .41 Butter— Best 29 @ .32 Pork— New Mess 18.75 @19.2?

CARNIVAL OF DEATH. IN THE MINE, A BURNING HOTEL, AND BY THE PISTOL. .1 Kansas Fairy Who Wants to Sell Stamps at the World's Fair—Flames Destroy I.ife and Much Property at Several Points. Aroused by Flames. Fire at 4:30 o’clock Saturday morning destroyed the Higgins House, Bradford, Pa., ami five lives were lost and the injured number twenty-two persons. There was an awful panic in the hotel when the guests were aroused. The men and women rushed from their rooms into the hallways, filled already with smoke and flame, and jumped fiom | the windows. The jump was a bad one । to take. From the upper story it wai i thirty feet on the west side, with a plank I bottom to strike on. On the east side j was the creek, and the distance was forty feet, but several persons made the leap for life into the stream and were rescued. The total loss on all buildings ana goods is estimated at about $50,000. The loss on the railway company’s building, freight office, effects, papers, • etc., amounts to SIO,OOO. The entire j loss of the company, including freight ears and liabilities, will be about S3O.- ' 000; insured. L. L. Higgins’ hotel, cig factory, etc., loses Bl s ,0O0; light insui uce. Other Josses foot up SB,OOO. Work of Flames. At Walnut Ridge, Ark., thirteen houses were destroyed by fire. The Star Hotel and several business houses were burned. Two persons, a man and a child, perished in the hotel. Another man was probably fatally injured, and two others sustained broken limbs by jumping from the windows of the hotel. The loss will aggregate $100,( 00. Montreal, Que., was visited Friday by the third disastrous fire within thirty days. ; The total loss will reach SIOO,OOO. The i McKeesport, Pa., Electric Light Company’s plant was des royed by fire. | The loss will be from $75,000 to SIOO,000. The city highways are in dark- . ness. The Duquesne Electric Railway ' and the Citizens’ Electric Railway are also left without power. At Galena, Md., fire destroyed twenty frame buildings, causing a loss of $25,000. All Goods in Demand. R. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The fail of largest influence in the rec- । ord of the last week has been the increased distribution of goods. The stringency often I seen about this time does not appear nor are ether money markets close. But while imports greatly exceed exports, it is not , s ite to calculate that outgoes of gold will ; not again disturb confidence. Hence the break in important speculations has its ■ hopeful side. Instead of rising after the close of the Lancashire strike, cotton fell which may accelerate exports, though stocks of zYmerican cotton in Europe are still a third larger than usual at tills season. Miners Meet a Terrible Death. The carelessness of a Hungarian miner in filling his lamp in the slope of th.' Neilson shaft at Shamokin, Pa., Saturday morning, caused a fire by which ten men lost their lives. The bodies were removed to the surface, where the most pathetic scenes were witnessed. Three of the men were married and had large families. The others were young men, averaging less than 25 years of age. Only two mules were gotten out alive. Eb e were found with their necks resting over each other’s bodies. How they got together in this position is a mystery. There are altogether thirty dead mules in the mine. l ow Ends in Murder. E*. Ross Smith, Portland, Oregon, shot and killed Miss Effie Clark, of Spokane Falls, Wash., Saturday night in Evanston, II!., and fired two bullets into his own head. The shooting occurred in the presence of Miss Abernethy, Miss dark’s roommate. Smith fired three -hots at the girl, all three of which took effect. Miss 1 lark died an hour an 1 a half afterward. Smith was taken to the police station, where he died at 3 o’clock Sunday morning. The cause of the tragedy was disappointed love. Would Be nn Exhibit Herself. Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen has receive I an application from a Kansas postmaster for the employment by the government of his daughter to sell postage stamps at the Chicago Columbian Exposition. He states that she has had much experience in selling stamps, and mentions as one of her qualifications the fact that she is the largest postal clerk in the country, weighing 472 pounds. She is 24 years of age, and as an evidence of gcoJ faith the father incloses his daughter’s photograph. BREVITIES. A train on the Georgia and Florida Railway went through a trestle a few miles from Jug Tavern. Ga., and was totally wrecked. One was killed and seven were injnrel. American students in Bolivia were attacked while conducting a Masonic funeral by a mob urged on by priests. The instruments were smashed by the infuriated mob. The chapel built by Father Mollinger at Pittsburg, Pa., together witn his dwelling-house and stable, will be sold to Father Duffner, the present pastor of the Church of the Most Holy Name, within a few days. Negotiations have been going on for some time between the heirs of Father Mollinger in Holland and the Troy Hill congregation, and a < ablegram from the heirs was received accepting the terms offere 1. The price is $30,C0 Ralph Shotwell, a toy, was burned to death In his father’s home at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Secretary Carlisle wishes to have the fact announced that no one who has been discharged Iron the Treasury Department will be restored. Doxey’s Music Hal! and theater at Anderson, Ind., burned to the ground. Loss, $70,600; insurance, $25,009. Mrs. Mackenzie, widow of the late Andrew Mackenzie. Premier of Canada, is dead. Bob Talton, who was to have been Range I at Talequah, I. T., was granted thirty days’ respite by Chief Harris. The spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, and card-loom unions at New Bedford, Mass., organized the Textile Trades Council.

SENATE WILL SOON ADJOURN. The Extra Session Expected to Close Early In AprlL The extra session of the Senate will soon adjourn. There will be five or sis more days of the debate upon the ques« lion of seating the appointed Senators from Montana, Wyoming, and Washington, and then a vote is expected to give all of Tdiem their seats. The debate, however, is being conducted on nonpartisan lines, and the intention is to ietermine an important question of doubt whether a senatorial term shall end on March 3, irrespective of action or non-aetion upon the part of the Legislature in electing a successor to the Senator serving, and the Governor can on that day appoint a successor in the absence of an election, irrespective of the fact that the Legislature has not adjourned and may elec*: a Senator the day following the appointment of one. In other words it is the purpose to determine whether there is any connection between the appointive cower of the Governor and the elective power of the Legislature, and whether the one must have any respect for the other. It is believed also that the resolution to elect a Secretary, Sergeant-at-arms and Chaplain jof the Senate will, after a little brush upon the part of the Democrats, go over j till the Senate comes together next , winter. The programme is to refer the resolutions proposing an investigation into the characters of Senators Roach ! (Democrat) of North Dakota, and Pow- ! ers (Republican) of Montana, to the 1 committee on privileges and elections for consideration, with the understanding that they will not be reported. 1 When these steps have been taken the Senate will be ready to finally adjourn. A quorum cannot be kept over a week longer. A call of the Senate Thursday ■ revealed but forty-seven Senators in Washington. Many of them are paired md if a party question had been upon a vote there would not have been a quorum. CONGRESSMEN SPURRED UP. Talk of Japanese Control of Hawaiian Islands May Hasten Action. Hawaiian affairs have come to the front again. The announcement that Japan wants to annex the Sandwich Islands is attracting the attention of ' Congressmen. Expressions favorable to annexation to the United States are now heard from those who have heretofore opposed'the proposition. It is conceded upon every hand that to back down from the position we now occupy on the islands—to lower our flag from the palace—will not only be an acknowledgment that we were in error \ but that this Government is fickle if not cowardly and paltering. It is suspected that the talk of Japanese control is an English move, and it is spurring up our legislators, many of whom are growing anxious for the report which is to come from Special Agent Blount. It is believed that Mr. Blount ; will make some kind of preliminary reI port upon which the Senate can take action before it adjourns, and that the President will not dismiss the Seftate until he hears from Mr. Blount. A protectorate is likely. Should any step be taken by Japan, England, or other foreign power to annex the Sandwich islands this government would protest. It is bound to secure at least a neutral administration of the affairs of the islands. More interest is being taken in Hawaii just now than has been shown since the inauguration of resident Cleveland. It is believed that we will shortly make a move in some direction and that our status will be changed. — CHOLERA RAGING IN RUSSIA. Alarming Reports of the Spread of the Dread Disease. Cholera has made its appearance again in St. Petersburg, and it is known that fatal cases are of daily occurrence, although the authorities have not resumed their policy of last year of making regular daily announcement of the new cases and deaths. At present the authorities are pursuing a policy of suppression and withhold from the public all information as to the spread of the disease. Very disquieting rumors have been received from the interior of Russia, and the Minister of the Interior is taking action which indicates that the Government must possess special information of the gravest character. The Minister has ordered the reopening of the medico-sanitary stations in the Volga provinces, where the cholera carried off many thousands last year, and special steamers with sanitary staffs will cruise in the river, stopping along the Volga to pick up any cholera patient or any dead from cholera-stricken vessels plying on that stream. The Government is also causing to be formed sanitary commissions which will look after the health of the people at the points to be reached through the railway system of Russia. THEY WILL BE IMPEACHED. Proceedings to Begin Against Ex-Officials ot Nebraska. The commission appointed by the Nebraska Legislature to investigate the State officers and ascertain if.there was evidence enough to impeach the Board of Public Lands and Buildings, reported to the House unanimously in favor of the impeachment of Secretary of State Allen, Attorney General Hastings and Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings Humphrey. The commission was composed of representative Attorneys from the Republican, Democratic and Independent parties, chosen by the party caucuses of members of the Legislature. The impeachment pro ceed'ngs will now be pushed. Overflow of News. The New York Home Rule meeting netted $14,000. The High School building at Pipestone, Minn., burned. Loss, $20,000. The sash, door and b’.in l trust has made a 5 per cent, advance in prices. The anti-pool room bill passed the Illinois Assembly by a vote of 124 to 7. A large part of the business portion of Toronto. Kan., burned, causing $40,000 loss. Burglars secured S7OO from the safe of the Swift Chicago Beef Company at Sommerville, N. J. The Michigan Assembly passed a bill providing for the use of voting machines at elections. The sum of $150,009 was secured on the forged whisky warehouse receipts negotiated at Louisville, Ky., by A. K. Sutton. Secretary Herbert has decided to name torpedo boat No. 2, being built by the Dubuque iron works, the “Ericsson. ”