St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 August 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON IHDEF’ENDEN L WALKERTON, . . . INDIANA BAG OF GOLI) STOLEN ST. PAUL THIEF RELIEVES HIS FINANCIAL STRINGENCY. iluffalo Loses the Mammoth Coatesworth Elevator by Fire—Tire Horror at Chicago—Riots in Bombay—Four Women Drown at Chattanooga. Rohl Bank Robbing. Renaldo Lares, a trusted representative of the Merchants’ National Bank at St. Paul, accompanied by I. H. .Jacobs, porter of the Merchants', had just come into the First National Bmk io ntake a settlement with the clear,'nghouse Monday afternoon. The funds consisted of three bags containing $5,000 each in gold in a small steel box. and other money, making in all about $20,000. Arriving at the teller's window, Lares opened the box, and, removing the bags, placed them on the window ledge at his right side. Resting the bags for the moment on the ledge, Lares began to pay in the loose money, and was busy with this when he heard a step at his right, and, turning instantly, he saw the robber grab one of the bags and dart around the post toward the door. Lares, made a leap and succeeded in reaching the door almost as quickly as the thief, and would no doubt have been able to catch him or at least follow him had not a man, undoubtedly the accomplice of the thief, here interposed by crowding Lares to the wall and giving the man with the bag a clear sweep. The , clerks and clearing-house men rushed out into the general banking office, but the gold and robbers were as completely gone as though the earth had closed over them. BREVITIES, There was no foundation for the rumor that Queen Victoria had suffered i a stroke of paralysis. Rachel Boyle, aged 24 years, during religious excitement Sunday, cut , off a portion of her lip and then broiled I it as an offering to God. She is now in ’ the Philadelphia Hospital. George Hoey, the theatrical man-1 ager and son of the late President Hoey, of the Adams Express Company, 1 is missing, and his family fear for his safety. He was heir to $1,000,000. Hindoos and Mohammedans in Bombay have been engaged in bloody collisions, in which more than fifty persons are known to have been killed, while fully 1,200 have been arrested. Friends of Gov. Waite, of Colorado, say he has determined to call an extra session of the Legislature next month. A muddle in the law authorizing a million-dollar canal necessitates this. I Ohio banks refuse to cash checks of ; the Standard Oil Company because of the scarcity of currency. For years these checks, with which the employes are paid off, have been used as currency in Northwestern Ohio. A little naphtha launch was run ' down by an excursion steamer in the i river near Chattanooga, Tenn.. Sun- I day, and of the eight persons on board the launch four women were drowned while the men were saved. The Coatesworth elevator, at Buffalo, N. Y., one of the largest on the lakes. 1 has been destroyed by fire. The loss will reach $1,500,000. The firemen succeeded in kee ing the tire from the Kellogg elevator, which stands next to the Coatesworth. ) Five people were killed, two fatally injiuel, and nine very seriously hurt in a fire at the Senate Hotel, at 183 Madison street. Chicago. The fire started abo.it seven o'clock in the office । of the hotel, and is supposed to have ' been caused by the overturning of an oil lamp. The danger of an outbreak at the Frankfort (Ky.) penitentiary is growing more alarming every day. Deputy ' Warden Rooney, as a precautionary! measure, began a search of the prisoners. On 128 he found a cae-knife sharpened and turned into a dagger. The cells were afterward examined, and nearly 200 more such ugly looking instruments of death were found John L. Sullivan narrowly escaped death in a New York hotel bar-room a few days ago. A man whom he had insulted years before refused to drink with him. Sullivan undertook to in- , duce the man to change his mind by j knocking him down. The latter in a twinkling pulled a revolver and sent a bullet after John L., who had turned at the sight of the weapon and was running for the door. AT San Francisco, Cal., sojne time ago. an attempt was made to smuggle nearly 200 tins of Victoria opium ashore from one of the Sound steamers. The stuff was seized, condemned, and offered for sale a week ago. No one would give $5 a tin for it and the Govern..l w <mW not wii it so.- 1,.-... 'ci,., matter was reported to Washington, and instructions came to burn the tins and their contents. Evidence just discovered seems to indicate that Henry Brown, colored, who was hanged for the murder of a peddler in East St. Louis in December, 1880, while an accessory, was not the principal, the murderer being J. C. Jackson, another negro, who was acquitted of tlie charge. The murder occurred in Brown's cabin, and was the culmination of a plot formed by Jackson to rob Levine. Fire at Jamestown. N. D., destroyed the Capital Hotel, Metropolitan block, and other property. Loss, $50,000. The Bureau of Printing, in the Treasury Department, is now working overtime in the issue of new national bank notes. Barrett Scott, County Treasu:cr of Holt County. Nebraska, left home a week ago. The discovery that less than $70,000 of the SOO,OOO which the county should have on deposit is missing leads to the belief that he has absconded

EASTERN. Witnesses at Providence, R. 1., In s the Mrs. Barnaby murder case, have agreed to attend the second trial of Dr. Graves, to bo hold at Denver in October. The directors of the Lehigh Valley J Railroad, in view of the default of the Reading Railroad Company on bills due, dissolved the lease of the road to p that corporation. J Robert H. Coleman, the Lebanon (Pa.) iron king, has made an assignment. The liabilities are $5,000,000 h and the assets $10,000,000, but they cannot be realized upon. a The largest steamboat in the world has just been launched at Chester, Pa. She is a sister ship to the Puritan, of the Fall River line, and 440 feet long over all and 03 feet beam. ' Dr. Herman Mynter, of Buffalo, believes that he has Sophocles’ skull. ' It was dug up near Dekelsia, (Treece, By the Lector's brother, who is general director of the royal possessions of Grtjece. ' The Plymouth collection of hymns, for nearly forty years associated with the name of Henry Ward Beecher, is to be thrown out of use in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and a new collection compiled by the present pastor substituted for it. Attorney General Hensel, of Pennsylvania, has refused the writ of quo warranto requested by certain citizens of Gettysburg to deprive tiie trolley lines of its franchises on the battle-field, and decided all the points involved in favor of the trolley company. THE Madison Square Bank, New York, which has closed its doors, has been to a great extent a w< man’s bank, having a woman’s department with parlors, reception rooms, etc., on the Fifth avenue side. It numbered among j its depositors many actresses. A large number of lawyers’ and down town businessmen's wives kept their rhoppirg accounts there. WESTERN. Snow Hill, Md., burned the other night. Only two stores and a few dwellings were saved. The loss is about $300,000. A. D. Baker, proprietor of the South Eend (Ind.) Wagon Works at Mishawaka, has made an assignment. Liabilities, $120,000; assets, $55,600. First Serot. Wili.ard E. Read, of Company H, Seventh Cavalry, was instantly killed at Fort Kiley, Kas., by colliding with a runaway horse. Nat Parker, supposed to be from Chicago, wai found dead in bod in a Minneapolis hotel Death is supposed to have been caused by morphine. The Indianapolis Cabinet Works has passed into the hands of a receiver. The concern was indebted to the suspended Indianapolis National Bank for $400,G00. Charles McCormick shot Janette . Neil at Jackson, Mich., and then shot ‘ himself, dying a few hours later. The I girl had refused to marry him, and is । probably fatally wounded. A delegation representing eight western counties of Kansas, met with the Executive Council at Topeka for a conference in rega’-d to procuring seed i wheat to be used this fall. j Fire at Milwaukee burned over nearly two squares, including L. J. Petit & Co.’s storage warehouse and . the Northwestern Sleigh and Carriage I Works, Total loss. $150,000. I Armed guards are stationed at packing houses at Fresno, Cal., since Sunday's fire there. Anonymous letters have warned the citizens that men are organized to burn property in Fresno. | The probable average yield of wheat in Illinois this year is estimated at thirteen bushels an acre, and of corn j thirty bushels to the acre. The esti- ; mated yield of wheat in Michigan is fourteen bushels an acre. i The Cadwallador Flouring Mill at ; Fostoria, Ohio, was blown up by boiler ‘ explosion, and C. Davis, Secretary of the mill, and Fred C. Myers, book- I keeper, being in the office over the en1 gine room, lost their lives. 1 The woods all along the, north shore ’ of Lake Superior, from Two Harbors ; to Grand Portage, are afire and burn- | ing fiercely. There are only a few : Bottlers in the district, and the greatest loss will be to standing pine. The powder works at Pittsburg, 111., blew up. The shcck of the explosion was felt in St. Louis. A message says that the mill belonged to the Phoenix ■ Powder Company, and that two men : were killed and several injured. A MONSTER golden eagle attempted to carry off Joseph Maynes near Toledo. The bird had lifted Maynes, who > weighs 151 pounds, from his feet three ; times, when a companion came to his i ; assistance and the eagle was captured. At Omaha a masked man bearded a motor train in the north i art of the city and covered the motorman, conductor and two passengers with a big : revolver. He secured several quarts : of nickels from the conductor and es- i caped. operating through the Pacific North- • west, were arrested at Portland, Ore. I Only experts, it is said, can tell their ) product from the genuine dollars, and I a large amount of the spurious coins | in circulation. j Two tramps undertook to run things i to suit themselves when they found | Ellen Bean, a seventeen-year-old girl, j alone in her home near Capron, 111. | Ellen secured a shotgun and fired both I barrels, killing one tramp and badly I wounding the other. I The assets and liabilities of the Lud--1 low Shoe Company, which assigned at • Elgin, are given as $162,000 and $236.0(M) respectively. A propr sition to the i 3 creditors is made on the basis of 10 per । r cent, cash, 15 per cent, in six months j and 15 per cent, in one year. Charges against Archbishop Katzer, ! of Milwaukee, have been made to Mgr. i Satolli by the English priests of the 1 Green Bay diccese. They claim that s , the Archbishop, while Bishop of Green ! 3 Bay. favored German priests at the ex- ; ' pense of the English clergy. The Oklahoma Statehood Conven-

tion at El Reno voted to appoint a committee to prepare a memorial to Congress showing the reasons ana necessities why Oklahoma should (3 admitted to immediate Statehood i connection with the Indian Territory Charles G. Eddy, one of the oldest railroad men in the West, and until six months ago Second Vice President of the Reading system, committed suicia G Thursday night by shooting himself in the head in Washington Park, Chi. cago. His friends are unable to assign any reason for his act. Governor Osborne of Wyoming will not appoint any one to the Serial torship made vacant by the resignation of A. C. Beckwith until the Senate shall have decided, in other casespending, whether or not a Senator appointed after the failure of the Legislature to ole jt is entitled to a seat. Richard Wood, of Denver, and two companions undertook to beat the record in sliding down Pike's Peak on a toboggan. Their break became useless when about half-way down and the toboggan jumped the track, throwing the men seventy-five feet down the mountain side. All three may die. Cashier Fred GrotefenD; of the Bank of Shasta County. Redding, Cal., is a defaulter for over SIOO,OOO. He has squandered his father's estate, amounting to $70,C00, and has wasted many small trust estates left in charge. All his stealings have get o in mining stock speculations. ^3/Ali. the fiintlS of the Joseph iW’ UOtl+tv VA '«»•-/* «*«-» -T J - < Indianapolis National Bmk, Mr r fJau4 ghey being administrator. The widow and heirs, who have been fighting over the late United States Senator's will, have lost everything save a couple of pieces of property in Indianapolis. A contract has been let to D. G. Kirschbaum A Co., of Denver, to complete canal No. 1. in the Colorado irrigation scheme, for $1,023,000, the work to bo done in eighteen months. The canal will lie eighty-six miles long, starting at a point near Canon City and running eastward to a point just below Colorado Springs. H alf a million in yellow gold ar rived in Chicago Friday morning, with a quarter of a million more to follow Saturday; and a few hours later the brawny employes of the express companies were rolling packages containing an equal amount more on trucks which will head for the First National Bank, where the preceding $750,000 went. Half a million besides will come in a few days for the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. A million more for the same institution will follow. Armour A Co. got a consignment of $500,000. The Bank of Nova Scotia will receive $250,000. This shining flood of money was due in (’hicago inside of two weeks. There are $3,000,000 in it. And it is not the last of the flood, either, in the opinion of the bankers to whom it is consigned the delighted bankers, it might be said, for in this new and successful call u}*>n the strong-boxes of London for money to add to our circulating medium they ice far-reaching effects. Steamers arriving at New York bring consignments from London and Spain. SOUTHERN. TWO PERSONS have died of yelkw fever at Pensacola, Fla., and everybxiy who can do seis leaving the eit^^ For years a county-seaf^^^^i^s raged in Worth County, Ga., and jm w for a third time the court-house has been fired and burned, and at last all the records of the county have been destroyed. Eighteen I auks of New Orleans are united in an agreement to suspend payments until further notice, because to force their collaterals upon the depressed market or to call in loans at this time would mean general disaster. The First National Bank of Nashville. Tenn., has closed its doors. Its individual deposits amount to $1^05,507. The < 'ity Savings Bank, of the same city, has decided to suspend payment for sixty days. The assets are $151,419 and deposits $40,707. The decision of the New Orleans banks not to pay out more that SSO on any one day to any single depositor has resulted in the closing down of several big factories. Currency is at a prembmi of s'3o per ?I.W). and there iff) little available even at tha’ figure. WASHINGTON. President Cleveland left Washingt< n Friday morning a sick man. He wants r st and quiet, and above all things freedom frem public business. While various stories were afloat, there was no disposition among those who knew of the facts to denv that Mr. Cleveland has been suffering under a great nervous strain, and that for him to remain in Washington would have been fraught with peril. The decision that he should leave for Buzzard's Bay was reached before he sent his message to Congress. There is. therefore, nothing in the story that he was fretted by the criticism on the message, or by the failure of Congress to act upon it immediately. The truth is. that after his arrival in Washington it was felt that he was in no condition to attend to public business. He h 3l ' 1 a Cabinet meeting and repaired u.m lx , H.-. ■ ane>- l.i~ • 'm.nr-, h me. Since then the only persons who have seen him at Woodley were Secretaries Carlisle. Gresham and Lamont, two or ■ three Congressional friends, and his i brother, the Rev. William Cleveland. The silver fight is now on. according ; to a Washington dispatch. The House i Democrats met at Mr. Carlisle's resi- ! dence the other night, and after listeni ing to a lecture from him got together ; in the morning in conference and came i to an agreement through the surrender jof the free silver men. The net result i of the conference was an agreement that Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia. . should introduce a repeal bill the first ■ thing after the House was called to or- । der and Mr. Bland should offer areso- । lution for immediate consideration, and then general debate should proceed ! for eleven days, with possibly a j few night sessions, to be followed by three days of five-minute debate. A i vote will then be taken at once on such j amendments to the Wilson bill as may i be offered. Then a vote will be taken : on the Wilson bill, and the Sherman l act will be repealed. It is the intenI tion of the silver men to offer a substi- : tufe looking to free coinage at the

existing ratio, but in the event of f-n ure to carry this plan to a successful end they will arrange a vote on amend jnents carrying a running scale of ratios from 17 to 20 to 1 and should all these fail will fall back to the Bland Allison act and then on the original measure. The substitute bill of the free-coinage caucus was called for nnd presented by Mr. Bland. POLITICAL. THE Ohio Democrats, at their State convention held in Cincinnati, nomina ted Lawrence T. Neal, of Chillicothe for Governor. The nomination was made on the first ballot. Colonel W A. Taylor, of Columbus, was nominated by acclamation for Lieutenant Governor. John W. Sator, of Darko, was nominated for Supreme Judge. B. C. Blackburn, of Coshocton, was nominated for State Treasurer and John P. Bailey, of Putnam County, for Attorney General, both by acclamation The platform adopted ignores the silver question, save to reaffirm the national platform. It favors national banks being permitted to issue currency to the par value of the bonds deposited. FOREIGN, American sealing vessels report ill success off the Japanese coast. in Snmoa and Mataafa has been deported to the ' Union Islands. The International Socialist Congress tat Zurich has approved the establishment of an eight-hour working day. In order to supply the deficiency of small silver the Italian government has ordered the issue of $2,000,000 in bronze coin and $6,000,<X)0 in lira notes. Seventy of the leading members of the Labor Exchange, wiiich was clo- 'd during the recent troubles in Paris, were on Thursday fined 50 francs each and costs for refusing to complv with ) the lav,- for the regulation of trades syndicates. The British Government is said to ' be alarmed at the prospect of the repeal of the Sherman law by the Ameri- ' canfongress and to be discussing the ' advisability of proposing that if the ' I nited State - will continue purchasing ' silver free coinage will* be resumed in India at the ratio of 24 to 1. Earthquakes were felt in several ; districts in North Styria Several . buildings indifferent pa-t-of the affect sd district were damaged by the shocks. No loss of life has been reported. On Saturday the;e was ackudburst in the vicinity of Gratz, the capital of Styria. T: e mountain streams almost instantly 1e» ame raging tor- : rents and the waters swept down into! the valleys, doing great damage. A ' large number of js-r.-ons were drowned. Many held of livestock were earritd away in the flcods and much property was destroyed. IN GENERAL — Orders for new curren ‘y upon a deposit of bonds by nati* nal banks have already reached 816,!H)|.250 since August 1. Ferdinand Schlessinger has transferred the Schlessinger interest in the Chapin mine to his creditors, who will work the property until they realize 1W cents on the dollar, after which they uro to band the property back to Schlessinger. Quebec dispatch; The Italian bark Columbus, from River Saguena. laden with lumber, was struck by the steamship Oxenholm.' off Campe Rosier. The Columbus went to the bottom. The captain of the Columbus claims the collision was caused by carelessness on the part of the officers in charge of the steamer. A disastrous flcod prevails in the ' Canadian River owing to the heavy ) rains in the Pan Handle country. Two hundred and eighty feet of the Santa Fe Railroad bridge at Purcell. I. T.. has been washed away and the river is rising. No freight can be transferred either south or north, and all the road's passenger business has been transferred to the 'Frisco frem Texas points. It is reported that many settlers in the bottom lands will suffer heavy losses. Following is the standing of the clubs of the NationaULeague: W. 1,, pc.I W. L. Pc. Bostons .. fl 28 ,696 Clncinnatis.+2 47 .472 Philaclelp'ia.-4 35 607 St L0ui5....41 49 .456 Pittsbnrsrs. .56 37 .iT2 Baltimore?..39 51 .433 Clevelands. .53 35 .6 >2 Chicago? .. 37 54 .407 New Yorks. 45 44 .5v6 Louisvilles. 31 54 <CS Brooklyns.. 44 46 .489 Washl'gt’ns.32 58 .356 MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime.... 25 & 515 Hogs —Shipping Grades 3 90 <<’ 6 00 Sheep- Fair to Choice 3 oo @ 4 25 Wheat —No. 2 Spring 62 63 Coax—No. 2 3,'C 1.39 V. Oats— No. 2 2415’^ Rye— No. 2 46 & 48 Butter— Choice Creamery 21V«»l 22's Eggs— Fresh 13 @ 13)^ Potatoes —New. per bu C 5 75 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shipping 3 co n' 4 75 Hogs —Choice Light 350 <5 75 Sheep— Common to Prime 300 •' 350 Wheat— No. 2 Red 53 & 54 Corn- No. 2 Waite 40 - 4t Oats— No. 2 White 25*g« 26 . ST. LOL'IS. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 co Hogs 3 to « 5 75 Wheat— No. 211 <1 58 @ 59 Cohn No. ■ 35 36 Oats— No. 2 >. .. -at, Rye— No. 2 48 xl 50 CINCINNATI. Cattle ... 3 oo @ * "5 Hogs 3 oo & 6 oo sheep 3 O' & 4 59 Wheat—No. 2 Red 55 & Corn— No. 2 44 se 45 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 24 «' 26 Rye— No. 2 43 50 DETROIT. Cattle 3 oo & 4 75 Hogs 3 oo Gio Sheep 300 @ 3 75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 60 ?'• ri Corn— No. ! 42’^® 43}^ Oats— N 2 White, old 30 & 30V TOLEDO. Wheat— No. 2 Red co @ ci Corn— No. 2 Yellow 41 & 41A Oats— No. 2 Write 25 <» 23 1 . Rye —No. 2 45 @ 47 BUFFALO. Cattle —Co: ,mon to Prime.... 360 @5 Hogs —Best Grades 4 00 @6 75 Wheat— No. 1 Hard 69 @ 71 No. 2 Red G 2 & cl MILWAUKEE. Wheat —No. 2 Spring 58 fit 59 Coax—No. 3 38}«@ 39)6 Oais— No. 2 White 39 («l 31 Rye— No. 1 48 @ 50 Barley— No. 2 54 & 56 Pork— Mess 12 25 @l2 75 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 50 @ 5 25 Hogs 3 oo @ 7 00 Sheep 3 00 @ 4 so Wheat— No. 2 lied 71 @ 72 Corn —No. 2 48 @ 40 Oats —Mixed Western 32 @ 34 Butter —Creamery <. 19 @ ?2 yoßK—New Mests 14 60 @ls

BATTLE IN ALABAMA. COMMENDABLE WORK OF a sheriff and posse. Fire Losses In Chtea go and Mln . ieapoll s _ Report Qaeen Vlcforla stplcken IHs< ouraging Reception of I ndian Ter . rltory Hurglars-Dog Saved the Cash. Thh teen Outlaws Dead Ihe Sheriff of Clark Countv Ain bama,has hud a pitched battle with the notorious Meachim gang noa r 1 hoimusville. in which thirteen of the Meachmm weie killed and several of t at thev T b BO badl y wounded that they cannot recover. The affair is the outgrowth of a feud of some .'G irs standing which culminated last ' nristmas in tne murder of Ernest Mc- < orquedale. The Meachim gang i B cmiq osed of 150 men, all desperate and all outlaws, who for years have terlorized the northern part of the State. They are the remnant of the famous Sims gang, who have preyed upon the peacefully inclined States of /Alabama and Tennessee ever since the war. A few years ago, in a desperate encounter near the border line, old man Sims, the leader, and nearly all of his family were killed and the gang dispersed. They took to the mountains and reorKumzed. und j t is this Und that has just been routed. of Hard Titn?N. R. G. Dun A Co.’s Weekly Review < 1 Trade says: 2 be long desired meeting of Congress, a President’s message which fully answered expectations, and the arrival of 513.289.000 in gold from Europe, with $10,000,000 more on the way, have not brought the improvement many anticipated. Stocks are stronger, but failures continue; so does the ch sing of Industrial establishments; idle hands multiply and silent shops, and the disorganization of domestic exchanges Is even greater than a week ago. There has been no startling crash, but the formal failures of banks are becoming more com mon. The machinery of exchanges has almost stepped The root of th? trouble Is that over 8131,030,000 of deposits had been withdrawn within two months from part of the national banks and probably 5177,C00,090 from all, besides unknown sums from savings. State, and private banka A premium of I to 2 per cent. Is paid for gold .nd 3 to 4 per cent, for currency. The Government Is printing $1,250,000 bank notes dally. The clearing-house his issued $5,000,000 more certificates and the hope is that confidence may be revived and hoardings unlocked. Cleverly Foiled. At Lehigh. I. T.. four desperadoes went to the house of A. R. Tutt, a clerk of Phillips & Co., general merchants. and forced him at the muzzles of shotguns to go with them to the store and open the door. The authorities of the town |iad received warning of the intended raid and Marshal J. W. Cael and three citizens were in the store. They opened fire and two of the desperadoes fell dead, while two others were wounded. One of these latter confessed they had intended to kill Bookkeeper Barlow and Clerk Jones after forcing them to open the safe. The men lived at Lehigh. One of them is named Pearce, but the other is unknown. Their bodies were turned over to their families. Food for Flames. By the crossing of electric light wires. Saturday, the fertilizer department of the Nelson Moiris packing he,use at Chicago was set on fire, and 82,»O,O o uunmK.. UlnL-ted. Tnccniiaries started the worst fire in the history of Minneapolis. Sunday, the loss from which will reach a million and a • half dollars. In the destruction are in- ' eluded three planing mills, a sash and I door storehouse, bottling and malt I house, boiler works, box and ladder i factory, ice-house, carriage factory, 1 and 150 dwellings. In addition about forty million feet cf cut lumber on Boom Island was burned. Over 1.500 people are homeless. NEWS NUGGETS. The New Y< rk. Lake Erie and Western Railroad has suspended its unmarried employes. A St. John. N. 8.. dispatch of Sunday says: The Rev. L. G. McNeil created considerable excitement in his church by announcing that a cable dispatch had been received to the effect that Queen Victoria had l>een stricken with paralysis. No confirmation hat been received. Wm. Whitemaster, of Oklahoma County. Oklahoma, in attempting to recapture the famous female h rsethief. Toni King, was fatally wounded. King, whose real name is Flora Mundas. shot her pursuer from ambush. She is friendly with the Dalton ar fl Belle Starr gangs, and her recapture will be extremely difficult. < )NE death from .Asiatic cholera and ten cases of illness where strong choleraic symptoms have appear e l is the rec.nd up to Friday night among the 411 quarantined passengers of the steamship Karamania. from Naples, lince its a 'riva 1 at New York. Os the ten si'.sp ct?. biological examimtions have proven that three have the cholera beyond question. George Rohex. a farmer, was going to Shamokin. Pa., with $2,100 in his pocket, and was stopped by three ma kod ap-.-uis. Ko: < n threw his wallet to his dog. wiio <u -uvu . ir ;.,<^ the bushes with the money in. his 1 mouth. The robbers shot at the »ni-1 mal but missed it. They teat Rohen and then ran away. The dog returned to its owner with "the cash it had saved. The Girard fu^naeo. at Ycungstown. Ohio, owned by A. M. Byers, of Pitts- ' burg, exploded, badly injuring six employes, five of them fatally. .j City Clerk Milligan, of Guthrie, O. T., is under arrest for $6,000 embezzlement. The Terre Haute (Ind.) Car Works wore damaged SBO,OOO by fire. BurgL-YRS robbed the Steel, Hardware and Inidlement Company’s store at Pursono, Kan., of .o/elvers* razors, and knives worth : ovo; al hundred dollars. Three negroer, charge! with assault on u whitj woman, we.o caught and lynched near Way Cro?s, Ga. The China sb araer from San Francisco Thursday took back to Chiun the first coolie deported under the Geary act.

BATTLE HAS BEGUN. ’N THE HOUSE AN ORATORICAL CYCLONE OPENS. Many Representatives Give Notice that They Intend to Deliver Speeches on the Subject of Finance— Senate Is Relieved from Hasty Action. . The Extra Session. W ashinKton correspondence:

E plan Euggc-ied Y the anti-silver 1011 By which to get Iver question "on” m the House has been agreed to. and the battle can be -aid to have begun. Congress ha? °setitied down to debate with a degree of expedition almost ; unkn^wn ir its hi--t ry. The action of Jae Hou e on the silver question ie.lieyes the Senate j majority from any hasty aetkn. Tne program in the

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House was definitely fixed by the adoption of the order introduced bv Repretentative Rlan<\- The time will Ym- deVOwtsA exvlu-.lv vT}? » Vivo of the silver question under the mles of the last He u;e governing general f debate. Notwithstanding the apparent lack of interest in the discussion manifested by members, the number of applicants for recognition on the Speaker's list demonstrates that the period alotted to the debate—eleven days under the general rules and three davs under the five-minute rule—will be all occupied. There are at the time this is written I etween ninety and one hundred names enrolled by The Speaker, the great majority of whom probably expect to talk the full hour allowed by the rule. There are a number, however. who have stipulated for shorter periods, generally twenty minutes or half an hour. If it appears that the time for the debate will l»e too short to accommodate all who wish to speak, night sessions will be held to lengthen the period. Rules for the House. Since the House entered upon the discussion of the silver question, under an order which will not exhaust itself until the close of next week, the probability that the organization of the House by the adoption c f rules and appointment of committees would not be completed for two or three weeks has changed into almost a certainty. One of the members of the majority of the committee, when asked about the prospects for action on the rules, said that until the present order of the House had expired there was no need of rules. It was not ] ossible to break in upon the silver debate with ore over the adoption of the rules, even were the new code ready to he reported. So, in his opinion, the committee would not he in a hurry to prepare their report. The member further remarked the probabilit es were that the rules of the House in the Fifty-second Congress which had been leferred to the committee for consideration would not be matei ially changed: in fact, he expected but few changes of any nature from the system under which the last House was directed. Secretary C-* lisle spent an hour or two with Speaker Crisp in his room at the < npit.l. and they, probably touched j upon the subject of rules in the course of their conversation. Nothing could । be more natural than that Mr. Crisp : should solicit an opinion from his predI ecessor in the Speaker's chair, and esI pecially from one who won such high ' reputation as a presiding officer as did Mr.Carlisle in that position,and any suggestions the Secretary saw fit to make would doubtless be most carefully considered by the committee. There is but one rule about which any general interest attaches—the one governing ' closure. The best obtainable opinion is that there will be no radical change from the rule in force in last Congress which gave the Home power to end debate or prevent filibustering upon any proposition whenever the majority so desired. Routine Proceedings. Except the seating of Geo. F. Richardson, Deinocrat, from the Fifth Michigan district, over Charles E. Belknap. Republican, the Hou e transacted no business of importance after the opening session, but adjourned 1 until Thursday. The Senate was in session Wednesday only twenty minutes and a considerable part of that time was occupied l y the Chaplain in an eloquent eulogy of the late Senator Stanford of California. The only item of business transacted was the reference to the Committee on Appropriations of the House joint resolution to provide for the payment of sessional employes of the House during the present extraordinary session. Thursday, the only business transacted by either house was the reading of the journal. The Senate adjourned until Monday neon. Overflow -of News. Lizzie Tgpel was struck by a train at New York and killed. Six miles of the Southern Pacific track is under water near Tucson. Ari. The bank of Marlton. Larsen & Davis, at- Lake Crystal. Minn., has suspended. The Pit neer Pottery C mpany at AVellsvillc. Ohio, ha- failed, owing SIOO,OOO. | •!’ VstAt-J ■ ' L’ ! > 1 ' 11 1 has been sueft-by Miss Lmiuu of Cleveland, for $25,000 for breach, of promise. The President has pardoned Peter J. Claa-en. the wrecker of the Sixth ‘ National Bank of New York, of which he was President. James Eckels has teen appointed receiver of the Vienna Enamel Stamping Company, ct Porter. Ind. Liabilities, SBO.LOG: assets, Sfio.OOO. Gen. James A. Walker and J. C. Wysar. opposing counsel in a big raili rot d suit at Newburn. Va.. came to blows. Finally Walker stibbedMysar in the neck ar.il cut him in the shoulder and cheek. Wvsar got a cun and tried to kill Walker.‘but was prevented from i doing so. Cora Shelby, colored, was shot and instantlv killed bv Officer Cconey at St. Louis. ' The bullet was intended for another, the woman having jumped be- ' tween the officer and an unknown negro just as he fired. The man had snapped a pistol in the officer's face^ which caused the shot.