St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDE™ENh WALKERTON, - . - INDIANA KEPT THEIR WHARFS ENTIRE CHICAGO FLEET STORM BOUND. Terrific Hurricane Strikes Savannah and the Coast— Passage of the Wilson Bill— Figures on the World’s VI heat —Ann Arbor Case Settled. Boats Forced to Seek Shell er. The north gale that swept Lake Michigan Monday night was the heaviest that vessclmcn have experienced this season. With few exceptions all craft, both steam and sail, remained in shelter in the harbor, and but few boats arrived. Quite a large number of beats came in during the day, before the severity of the storm made itself felt, and what wind they experienced was very favorable. Not until lata in the afternoon aid the sea get so _• high as to stop navigation, anl it kept increasing steadily all night. Vesselmen recalled that this was the anniversary of the big storm of last year, when the steamer Western Reserve foundered on Lake Superior, drowning its entire crew of over twenty men and its owner, Peter Minch, with several members of his family, who wore taking a trip up the lakes. Death in Its Track. The city of Savannah, Ga., presents a scene of desolation. Death and disaster have marked the path of the terrific cyclone which raged along the coast Monday night. The ruin at quarantine is immeasurable. Nothing is standing where one of the finest stations on the South Atlantic was located a few hours ago, except the doctor's house, and how this weathered the fearful gale is miraculous. The wharves are gone, the new fumigating plant which has cost the city so much money is in the bottom of the sea, and nine vessels which were waiting there for release to come to the city are high and dry in the marsh and no doubt will be total wrecks. The Cosnine was the only vessel which managed to keep afloat. The tug Paulson arrived, bringing up sixty passengers from Tybee. That place is reported entirely destroyed, with great loss of life. BREVITIES. General J. A. Underwood, of Rico County, Kan., was killed at Frederick while attempting to cross a railroad track. William Van Buren, of Lansing, Mich., who has been United States Marshal since 1860, died suddenly of heart disease. At Lawrence, Kas., the Lawrence Water Company drew the fires at its pump-house and closed the works. Lawrence will bo without water. wua «jurueti io deatli mms Home. His son dragged his remains out and was frightfully burned, byt will recover. Capt. James Ayars, President of the Chicago Board of Underwriters, died at Devil’s Lake, Wis., of Bright's disease. His wife and sons were with him at the end. Successive amendments of 1(5. 17. 18, 19, and 20 to 1 were defeated Monday in the House on the silver vote, and the Wilson bill for unconditional repeal passed by a vote of 240 to 110. Robert Arthur, of Greenfield, 0., one of the wealthiest farmers in the county, while attempting to stop a runaway horse at the New London Fair, was thrown against a fence, receiving fatal injuries. At the same time a guy pole fell against Artie Hoffstaller, son of Daniel Hoffstaller, striking him on the head and killing him. There was a small riot when work was resumed on the North Side sewers at Denver. The contractor had arranged to pay $1.40 for eight hours’ work and a number of men took up their picks and shovels when time was called. The crowd of strikers who are holding out for $1.75 per day immediately set upon the men in the trench and after a lively skirmish drove them off. The situation of affairs in Bangkok is very unsettled. The negotiations between France and Siam are practically at a standstill, and no date has been fixed for a resumption of diplomatic coi-reipondence. Siamese com-, mercial interests are attacked in a vital point by the new demands made by the French government, and it is not believed that Siam can assent to them. Dr. George A. Flippin, a wellknown colored man of Lincoln, Neb., । began suit in the District Court against , M. FL Everett, J. O. Everett, and M J. Marshall, the managers of the I plunge in the Sulpho-Saline bath house 1 m that city, because the defendants had refused him, because of his color, the right to swim in the waters. He claims that this is a violation of the civil rights act. Judge Ricks has made an order allowing the receiver of the Ann Arbor Railroad Company and Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, to settle the $300,(100 damage suit brought by the railroad company against Chief Arthur during the late trouble. Arthur agrees to pay $2,500 and the costs in this case, and also the costs in the case of the Ann Arbor against the Pennsylvania and other connecting lines that were brought into the affair. The Hungarian Minister of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop of the world at 2,279,000,000 bushels, against the official average for the last ten years of 2,280,000,000 bushels. The product of the United States is estimated at 397,250,000 bushels, a surplus of 69,518,000 bushels. A man supposed to be Coley Dodrell, a notorious outlaw, was shot and killed near Gainesville, Ga., by a posse. Some time ago he killed an engineer and the sheriff who tried to arrest him at Gadsden, Ala.

EASTERN. A steam mangle in the Hell Gate steam laundry at New York exploded and scalded nine people, three of whom, It is said, will die. Wallace & Sons, brass and copper manufacturers at New York and Ansonia, have suspended. Their liabilities are $875,000; nominal assets, $2,000,000. The coast from the Capes of Delaware to Cape Cod is strewn with wrecks. Small crafts had little chance to live through the furious storms. In all twenty-nine lives are known to be lost. Heirs next of kin to the late Daniel E. Crouse, who died at Syracuse, N. Y., two years ago, are compromising with a 6-year-old daughter by secret marriage, whereby her portion will be $1,750,000. At the Black Diamond Steel Works in Pittsburg the rush was so great for jobs that several men were injured. The announcement that the plant would resume brought 5,000 men for the 1,500 places. Governor William E. Russell, of Massachusetts, expresses himself as satisfied with three terms in the executive chair and declares that he will not be a candidate for re-election under any circumstances. The fishing- schooner Mary F. Kelly, of New York, was wrecked off Asbury Park, N. J. Four of the crew of eleven men wore drowned. The others wore rescued by life-saving folks and a volunteer crew’ of hotel guests. The drowned men were the captain, the mate, the cook and a fisherman. The coast from the Capes of the Delaware to Massachusetts is strewn with wrecks, and every vessel that comes into port tells a story of death or disaster from the great hurricane which struck New York Wednesday night. Small vessels had little chance to live through the furious storm. In all twenty-nine lives are known to be lost, and forty-seven more persons arc thought to have perished. A TERRIBLE battle occurred at Gilberton, Pa., the other morning. The citizens of Gilberton tore up the tracks of the Schuylkill Traction Company because that company failed to comply with the borough ordinance. The company, with a large force of men, all armed, attempted to re-lay the tracks under the supervision of Assistant Superintendent Richard Amor. A battle followed, in which scores of shots were fired. James Parfitt, aged 25, and William Hughes, citizens, were killed, and Fa•an Davis and Richard Amor, Assistant Superintendent of the company, seriously wounded. Will Connor was also shot in the hand and foot. WESTERN. Two COAL miners were killed at Rouse, Colo., by a wall falling in on them. Twenty-four hundred bottles of beer that had been seized from a cellar in the town of Downs were cracked at Osborne, in Northwestern Kansas, in the presence of 1,000 people and the contents poured into a ravine. r . 2Jannks>uta'ss trcusuiy is empty and the Treasurer is unable to pay the salaries of State officers. The State has plenty of funds, but they arc tied up in the eleven banks which*have suspended in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Heirs of Norman W. Kittson, the St. Paul millionaire, charge James J. Hill and the St. Paul Trust Company with delaying settlement and attempting to wreck the estate in order to reap largo profits in the way of executor's fees. St. Louis authorities propose to memorialize Congress to prevent the building of the drainage canal, by which, it is claimed, the Mississippi, where St. Louis gets its drinking water, will become polluted with Chicago sewage. CREDITORS of the Hercules Iron Works Company have reorganized the company and will remove the works from Chicago to Aurora. The failure of the corporation was caused by the burning of its cold-storage warehouse at the World's Fair grounds. Old soldiers, members of the Woman’s Relief Corps and Odd Fellows, proposing to attend the funeral of Mrs. Paul G. Faber at the German Lutheran Church in Decatur, 111., were forbidden to wear badges in the sanctuary, and none would go on the conditions imposed. The National Association of Fire Engineers concluded its session at Mil waukee, after selecting Montreal as the place for the next meeting. One of the features of the last day’s session was the presentation of a gold badge ‘ to Chief Purcell, of Dublin, Ireland, by ; Ex-Chief Taylor, of Richmond, Va', on behalf of the association. Delegate O'Brien of the Detroit Seamen's Union was shot and killed while leading an attack on the nonunion crew of the schooner Reuben Doud, lying at a dock in the harbor. The sailors sought safety in the forecastle, leaving Capt. William Lennon alone on tho deck. < I’Hrion dealt him i a heavy blow on the head and the CapI tain's wife hastened to shield her husband. O'Brien struck her down. Capt. Lennon then drew his i evolver and shot O Brien dead. Capt. Lennon was locked up. The thiid trial of M. B. Curtis, the act< r. charged with the murder of Police Officer Grant, at San Francisco, ended Friday in acquittal. District. Attorney Baines urged the jury to find the defendant guilty of murder, though he did not dwell on the first degree. The Judge instructed that the °jury might find the defendant guilty of murder in either degree or of manslaughter. The first ballot stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction, ■ the second ballot eleven to one, and the third ballot for acquittal. Mrs. Curtis was very cool, but Curtis was nervous when the jury came in. The defendant at once shook their hands. It had been believed that the jury would hang and the verdict was some- ' what of a surprise. . A FIRE, which in peculiarity of origin and features resembles the historic Chicago fire of 1871, consumed a large section of the city of South Chicago Thursday afternoon. Dry as tinder from the recent drought the buildings fed the flames like oil, and in two hours from the time the first alarm was turned in twenty-five acres of the

residence territory had been leveled to the ground and 1,000 people had been rendered homeless. Sixty thousand people stood by and saw the flames eating their way ‘through the fairest portion of their city without being able to arrest them for one instant in their fierce onslaught. Although no fatalities resulted, several firemen and householders wore hurt. Shortly after 3 o'clock little Dora May^ with another little friend, kindled a bonfire of small proportions in their back yard. A few minutes later, tired of their play, thoy brushed the embers up against the fence with a broom, and throw a pail of water over the whole to squelch the flames. This was the beginning which will be memorable in the history of South Chicago. Fire ate its way into the fence and from the fence into the kitchen of J. L. Babb’s residence. Here a gasoline stove exploded, and fromi there on until no fuel was left in itsj path the fire was uncontrollable. Thoß loss will reach $500,000. 0 SOUTHERN. | The Birmingham (Ala.) City Coun-1 cil has voted to issue city currency. I A MAN was killed and several sons seriously injured by a panic in ?f r church at Clarkville, Tenn., caused bjBL mischievous boys under the chui»^. pounding on the floors. Sam Yeager, relic of the fun-^A®. Cooloy gang, which operated on Pennsylvania border, has escaped frcße< the jail at Kingwood, W. Va. He w»|, to have been tried next week for coinj plicity in the robbery of an old maM named Yope. . | Captain A. B. Blythe, Sheriff of Miller County, Ark., has been fount! short in his accounts nearly $17,0001 He turned over to his bondsmen all hisl property, and it is believed that enough! will bo realized to pay off the amount! duo the county. I Two masked men visited the house of J. N. Hollos, a farmer, near Pulaski, Tenn., at night, and after subjecting him and his wife to torture, a sum of SI,OOO, which had been withdrawn from the bank and concealed under the carpet, was given up. A fight occurred between the people of Coahuila, Mexico, and the impressed Galan troops at Puerto del Carmon. The Galan men were driven off. The loss is put at one hundred and twenty men killed on both sides, but the Galanites lost most heavily. The tight was brought about by the commander of the Gahinites sending a messenger to the commander of the Cardenistas asking him why he ran away from a fight, adding that no Federal troops should take part. The practical answer was the dispatch of a small body of Cardenistas to meet their opponents, at whom they fired and retreated. The decov succeeded. The Galanites pursued till within the ravine, when the main body of the Cardenistas attacked and routed them. Gov. Garza Galan has been summoned i to Mexico City. WASHINGTON. — The President has issued his procla-l mat ion opening the Cherokee strip toj settlement at the hour of 12 noon, central standard time, Saturday, Sept 16. Senator Squire has introduced a bill authorizing the extension to Alaska of the provisions of the law appropriating money for the maintenance of agricultural experiment stations. The Treasury Department at Washington began paying out gold Friday for all cheeks presented. The Treasury, because of its small receipts and large expenditures, has exhausted its ; paper supply money. The Treasury . books showed $97,000,(W gold reserve. } and a net balance of $11.000,000, this balance being composed almost entirely of subsidiary coin. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, Chairman of the Finance Committee, opened the silver battle by addressing the Senate in a lengthy argument in support of his silver-purchase cessation bill. The speech received unusual attention, and, according to a Washington dispatch, was concise and ably delivered. Near- | ly every Senator was in his seat. \ Many members of the House occupied ; the sofas in the rear and the galleries : contained the largest crowd of the ses- ; ! sion. The presiding officer was obliged ■ ■ to threaten to clear the galleries in or- ; der to repress the applause called forth | j by Mr. Voorhees' affirmation of alii- ! I ance to Cleveland and other strong | I points. POLITICAL. , For the third successive time Horace : i Boies, of Waterloo, was Wednesday I nominated by the Democrats of lowa for Govenor, and for the third time, also, Samuel L. Bestow, of Chariton, was chosen for the second place on the ticket. The platform upon which these I men stand declares for a sound and stiu ■ ble currency, for local option, and advo^l cates the reform of State institutions. * Gov. Boies had published an open let- il ter declining to make the race for a I r. ■». nnnuU ion. in t. . .... strength at by many he uppo- <1 to be the possibilities. But he couldn’t stand the pressure brought to bear. And when it became generally known among the delegates Tuesday night that Boies bad announced that he would not decline if it was the will of the convention that he should run. all talk of other candidates subsided. Bestow, win was the ony man who was making a fight for the nomination, pulled out when he saw the drift of things. When the delegates were called to order there was not one among the 1,114 occupying seats on the floor who had a candidate outside of the present occupant of the executive chair. He was nominated by acclamation. For Lieutenant Governor George B. McFall, Mayor of Oskaloosa, was the only contestant with eTv nVT' tho latter won on the first ballot by 662 to 449. FOREIGN, I rance will not send military attaches to the German maneuvers this fall because the sham battlefield is to be around Metz. The news of the decision has caused surprise in Berlin. Herbert Inglis, marine superintendent for the Cunard Steamship and eight companions were drowned in tho Nene River, near Sutton Bridge

CU ^* nd ’ While returni ng from an exa 'SPATCH from Bangkok savs that uifm[has paid the 3,000,000 francs indemanded by France in the ’ -T he French , the dispatch ibF * ■ ? ve Vlo ^ a ted the Franco-Siamese ; featy by occupying the town of Chant- , bi? E ^ AN Nils Nilson of the British r Ap Dunsyne, who was reported to a t s ea from consumption, eally died from extreme cruelty at tho lands of the mate, according to tho j rew s statements. I LERA * s raging all over < For the last fortnight tho < . oltewing returns are given: Govern- i of i °d°liu. hl7B new cases and 1 L 3 ^deaths; Government of Toola 253 1 eases and 78 deaths; Government 1 "'l° Cases and 28 deaths. . ’ F2 D „ n io? ? ast , three days 171 new < IdßuCs and 24 deaths have been reported 1 , Ji the city of Moscow, and in the city 1 | W Bertsch, during the last five days, m new cases and 23 deaths have been | reported. S According to a semi-official an^ouncement made at Rome Tuesday ! Evening, “Admiral Brin, Minister of ^Foreign Affairs, has instructed Sig. irßessmann, Italian Ambassador to i French Govern- 1 A dismissal Os the Mayor Ot ’ the Italian Government, appreciat- 1 P mg the friendly disposition thus shown ’ Placing complete confidence in *the efficient and impartial ac- - tion of the French magistracy for tho punishment of the guilty parties, is happy to be able to consider the incident satisfactorily closed.” The Italian Government is taking steps to punish the officials who are held responsible for not preventing rioting in Romo. The Baris correspondent of the London Standard says: “The con- ■ sequences of tho Aigues-Mortes affaii | are making themselves felt in every 1 town where bodies of Italian workingmen are employed. The excitement is growing intense in the Italian Colonj of Marseilles.” IN GENERAL The will of Dr. Hamilton Griffin be- i queaths everything to his wife and leaves nothing to his stepdaughter. Mary Anderson Navarro. The Dominion liner Sarnia sailed from Liverpool for Montreal twentysix days ago, and has not been heard from since. It is feared that something has happened to the vessel. The Argentine rebels have captured the town of Corrientes without a blow, the garrison retiring to join Col. Acuna's forces. The relicts afterward left the town and attaeke I and defeated Acuna after six hours’ battle. Chauncey M. Depew will receive a million dollars by the will of a Cuban planter who is suffering from an incurable complaint. Eighteen years ago i Mr. Depew loaned the Cuban SSOO ^0 develop an invention for crushing cane j sugar. Following is the standing of ths clubs of the National League: w. L. VC W. L. Vc. 1 Poßtonß. ...71 31 .ci*-, finctnnatls 48 52 .4M rittsbux«M. <X> 4.' balthnoie:-..47 55 .4CI Phtladelp'ia.ss 43 574 St. Louis... .40 56 .451 ' Clevelan>lu .55 44 .556 Chicanos .. 60 .412 New Yorke. .63 47 .53u Louisville*..39 58 .V 2 Brooklyn*. .51 60 .605 Washi'ut'ns.3s 67 .343 The loss of the steamer Dorcas, with the barge Etta Stewart in tow. has been confirmed. The Dorcas, Capt. Angus Ferguson, left Sydney, N. R, for Halifax, with the barge in tow, both coal laden. The barge carried a I crew of live and the Dorcas a crew of seven. In addition the chief engineer [of the steamer had his wife and four s children on board This makes the । loss of life seventeen. New York and London hop buyers have dropped just $4,050,000 by their failure to prevent the hop growers on the Pacific coast from raising money enough to harvest their crop. A few weeks ago, when it was known that the hop yield of Europe would fall 100,(X)0 bales short of the demand, a bunch of New York and London dealers who had plenty of money at their command set about to corI ner the Pacific coast yield, which this ! year is 20,000 bales above the average, or 150,000 bales in all. The scheme j was to advance money to those needing , it. Ezra Meeker, representing the i growers, secured an advance of $150,000 j from the Milwaukee brewers, and rei newed negotiations with Lindsay, Bird I & Co., of London, who have finally I cabled that they had arranged for the | cash to harvest the crop. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. [ Cattle— Common to Prime.... $3 25 c® 5 25 ' Hogs —Shipping Grades 3 75 @ 600 Sheep— Fair to Choice.. 3 00 & 3 75 Wheat— No. 2 Spring 60 & 61 Corn— No. 2. 36 n? 3? Oats— No. 2 23 @ 24 Rye— No. 2 44 -*5 Butter -Choice Cre!>mery 24 c<« 25 i EGGS—Fresh 13»sC<S 14M : Potatoes -New. per i>u 65 INDIANAPOLIS. CATtt.e- Shinning .1 so ©-5 jj ter’Cuimuuwrnmc 300^3 60 tit heat-No. 2 Red 56 @ 6. No. 2 White f>A-rs—No. 2 White 2 * @ 28 / st. r.ouis. Battle 3 00 b oo Wheat— No. 2 Red 58 59 Corn— No. 2 83 g? 34 Oats-No. 2 25 @ 26 Rye— No. 2 *8 & 50 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 oo @ 4 75 Hogs 3 oo @ 5 75 Sheep 3 oo & 4 2o Wheat— No. 2 lied 58 @ 58Js Corn —No. 2 40 & 41 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 26’22i 27^ RYE-No. 2 , 49 50 DETROIT. CiTTT K* 4 4e* Hous *. 3 00 6 00 i 75 Wheat-No. 2 Red 69 @ 60 : CobN-No. 2 42 @ 4212 - O ATS—No. 2 White, old 29 & 30 , TOLEDO. J Wheat-No. 2 Red 60 @ 6016 ] Cohn— No. 2 Yellow @ 41 , Oats-No. 2 White £> & -6 1 RYE AO BUFFALO. Wheat —No. 1 Hard 69 @ 70 , fe^No. 2 Yellow 43^® 44^ Oats— No. 2 White "-as t ' E MILWAUKEE. I Wheat-No. 2 Spring 58 @ 59 j Cohn —No. 3., 3< @ 33 O^S-N0.2 White g Rye-No. 1. « & 4b Barley— No. 2 06 @ 58 POBK-Mess 12 75 @l3 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 so @ 5 oo Hogs 3 oo @ 6 so Sheep 3 oo @ 4 oo t Wheat— No. 2 Red 671*@ 68.*$ q Corn— No- 2 45 @ 46 Oats— Mixed Western 30 @ 32 c Butter— dreamery 21 @ 26 p Pobk— New Mess ... 14 25 @l4 75

IDLERS IN THE RANKS. CHICAGO LOAFERS JOIN THE LABORERS. Vicious Battle Between Police and Marchera—Sickening Horror on the Long Island Railroad—No Money to Care for California's Grapes. Chicago Has a Riot. ' In a short but bloody battlo Saturday afternoon between a score of Chicago policemen and an angry mob of nearly 1,000 idle men the bluecoats put their assailants to flight and scattered them to the four winds with broken heads and brui ed limbs. The battle was fought within the shadow of the t hty Hall and was the climax of the daily parades of unemployed men that have been taking place * for- early a week. The last parade, which culminated in a bioody riot, was entirely broken up, and no more will be permitted. Five officers were injured in the riot. At least a dozen of the rioters were badly beaten bv the officers billies. Two of the ring-

leaders, Victor Horovitz and Joseph i W enzel, had their scalps laid open by i policemen's clubs and were captured. 1 2*. riotera were cap- ! Itii in ten tAveir names. I tho mob was dispersed’’and' UlKl I)OVOnd II Slliull UFJUy of Hluccofits in the vicinity of the city hall there was no sign of the recent 'battle. Tho ■ trouble was precipitated by a U. S. mail wagon trying to cross‘the line of parade. Plenty of Grapes. Little Money. The grape crop in California this

year is a fair one, but both vineyardists and winemakers lack the necessary funds to take advantage of it. They are consequently appealing to various banks for the financial aid required, but so far have met with little success. If the growers and winemakers do not receive some financial assistance promptly they will in all probability lose their crops, while the State will suffer to the extent of at least several millions. So far as is at present known there are only two winemakers who have definitely stated their intention to buy, and the total amount of their intended purchase is oniv some 7,000 tons. Mangled in a Wreck. Long Island City. L. 1., dispatch: An accident that cost the lives of fifteen jieople and injury to forty occurred shortly after midnight Sunday morning in the little village of Berlin, near Calvary Cemetery, in the Town of Newton. The Long Island Railroad train that left Manhattan Beach at 11:15 o'clock was overtaken by tho train that left Rockaway Beach fifteen minutes earlier. In the frightful collision that ensued the two rear ears of the five that made up the Manhattan Beach train were demolished and the middle car was overturned. Hardly one of the scores of passengers aboard these three cars escaped unhurt. Buinmers in the Parades. It is said that the largo part of the so-called unemployed who have been parading Chicago's streets and shouting “we want work” are bummers and loafers who would not work if they had a chance. Careful inquiry of the employing firms has been made, and it is assert'd that not more than 25,(MX) w rkingmen are idle. Whenever one of the “we want work” parades is marching all the saloons, dives and free lunch joints are practically deserted by those who usually frequent them, and the habitues are to be found in the paraders' columns. Change that Means Better Tinies. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: T mprovernent ebserved last week has becou., much more distinct and general While actual transactions have increased but little, the change in public feeling Is noteworthy. There are fewer failures, cither of banks or ot important commercial or manufacturing concerns, than for some weeks past Many disasters hare been avoided by a more general pooling of resources and a greater spirit of mutual helpfulness and forbearance than were seen some weeks ago. NEWS NUGGETS. There was another anti-French riot at Naples. Three members of the mob were killed and ten wounded by the police before they were dispersed. Reports from Paris say that James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, has not recovered from his recent accident, and that another opera- । tion will be necessary. Col. E. A. McNair, one of Duluth's pioneers, died suddenly from heart failure. He was eating supper when seized, and he died before medical aid could be rendered, ( 01. McNair went to Duluth from Davenport, where he was pr.unincnt : IYV /lh of th© Chicago and Rock Island : Railread.

At Santa Fe. N. M.. the United States Court of General Land Claims confirmed the Piedre Numbre land grant, covering 38.0)0 acres near Abiguim, in which are the Chama River placer deposits. The court then adjourned to Nov. 13. At this term it considered causes involving 1.500,000 acres of grant lands, and gave final decisions confirming to private owners 220.000 acres, and in behalf of the Government refused to confirm claims amounting to 400,C00 acres. A most distressing drowning acci- | dent occurred at Sloop Island, near ; Parry Sound. Ont., by which Mrs. John B. Miller, wife of the President of the 1 Parry Sound Lumber company, and ! her eldest son, Clausen, both lost their [ lives. The Nebraska Prohibition Convention has nominated Mrs. Ada M. Bib tenbender, of Lincoln, for the Supreme bench, and Mrs. C. A. Walker, A. E. Rickey and Mrs. C. J. Heald for regents of the State University. Ground has been broken for the midwinter exposition at San Francisco. Corrigan, Ives & Co. have attached the Buffalo iron mine for $420,000. There are previous attachments, secured by the Northwestern Railroad, by unpaid miners and others.

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What The, Are Doing for the Good of I he CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed; and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The House met at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning and the silver debate whs opened at once by C. W. Stone (Rep.) of I’ennsylx ania, who spoke for lepeaL Mr. Dalzell (Ber.) ot Pennsylvania and Mr. Covert (Dem.) of New York pleaded for uncondlv’ n . al ^ Mr ’ ^iK'h (Dem.) of Now 1 or k fobov ed in the same Hue. Mr. Hatch (Dera.) of Missouri, in speaking in favor of free cpinage. advocated a caucus of the Democrats of the House an l Senate to interpret the Chicago platform —every man of whom would pledge «his life, fortune and I.ls sacred honor” to abi le by the decision. Among the bills introduced in the Renate was one by Mr. Pasco (Dem.) of lorsda as a substitute for the minority bill of the Finance Committee (proposing silver coinage at 20 to 1;. '1 he substitute • proposes a commission of three citizens . of the United ; tates to ascertain

and report before January, 1894 tl»e intrinsic relative value of gold and silver, and that on such report the Secretary of the Treasury shall fix I and determine the ratio. Ti e President senttothe Senate the following nomina.Dodge, ot XV sconsln. to t M. ttorney Gent rat, vice XV Louisiana, to be Receiver of PubncMon°evs. New Orleans; William D. O’Toole, of Washington, to be Register of tho Land Office at Seattie. Washington; I. J. Wooten of Delaware, to be Agent for the Indians of the Nevada Agency in Nevada. Also a number of recess appointments, including

the Co lector of Customs at New Orleans and a half-dozen Postmasters. 'J he Vice President announced in the ^enate Thursday the appointment of tho Committee on the Commemoration of tho One Hundredth Anniversary of the laying of the Corner-stone of the Capitol as follows: Senators Voorhees Sherman Ransom. Chandler, White, Squire and Martin. The House joint resolution, making the act of May 14. 1890. as to town sites, applicable to the Cherokee Outlet, was reported back to the Committee on Public Lands with an amendment requiring the trustees who are t,o be appointed to be residents of the territory of Oklahoma at the time of their anpointment, and an effort was made by Mr. Berry (Dem) of Arkansas to have it passed, but objection was made by Mr. Manderson (Rep) of Nebraska and the bill was placed on the calendar. The silver debate was then resumed in the Senate, as also in the House. Saturday, in the House, ex-Speaker Reed and Bourke Cochran spoke in favor of the repeal of the Sherman law. Mr. Bland followed Mr. Cochran, advocating free silver, and was followed bv Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee: Mr. Gear, of Iowa; and Mr. Wilson, author of the Wilson repeal b’H, who all oppose the Sherman law. The debate in the Hou=e was ended. The Senate will probably go right along talking silver, as it has be.en doing for several days. It will do this for two weeks, and probably longer, before the final vote will be taken. 'J he House was occupied Monday altogether with tho silver question. The Senate, by a vote of 32 to 29. decided that Mr. Mantle, of Montana, and Mr. Allen, of Washington, are not entitled to seats In that loly, and that the Governor of a State has no right to appoint a Senator to fill a vacancy caused by the expiration of a regular term not happening bv resignation or otherwise. The House bill to repeal tlie Sherman act was laid before the Senate atsd referred to Abe committee on finance. The bill allowing the banks to increase their circulation up to the par value of the bonds deposited by them was taken up, the question being on the amendment offered by Mr. Cockrell for the redemption of such two e ■ cent, bonds as may be made and the payment therefor in a new issue of treasury notes. The amendment was rejected—yeas 23, nays 29. Mr. Cockrell then offered an amendment authorizing the holders of any United States bonds to deposit and receive in exchange legal tender notes equal to the face value of the bonds, the bonds to be held in the treasury subject to redemption in the same amount of legal-tendor notes, which are then to be destroyed, and no interest to be paid on the bonds while so held in the treasury, but when again withdrawn the interest is to be paid, less l’» per cent, per annum; but without action the Senate proceeded to executive business and soon adjourned. FIENDISHNESS UNPARALLELED. Crippled Beggars Manufactured to Orde» in Austria. The most fiendish cruelty which has ever come to the notice of the Austrian authorities has been disclosed by the ariest of a orang of men whose profession was crippling young children to become beggars. The gang, which had followed this horrib’e practice for years, was discovered in Biskupitz, Croatia. Austria, and there was found the house which the fiends used for the purpose. The business to them ’ has been a lucrative one. Young chil- ■ dren were stolen from their parents ■ and taken to the operating house. Io ■ cated on the outskirts of the town. । Then they were bound and subjected ।j to the most inhuman tortures. When j the police forced their way into the house last week a horrible sight met 1 their eyes. On cots were two girls, ; between 12 and 14 years of aire. suffering- friirhtful ag-onies. Ka<-li of thorn hud both legS broken, which had been done puri posely to make them cripples for life so that the profession of begging which

I they were to be compelled to follow would be the more profitable. Bound ; on a bed near by was another girl of about the same "age. Her right arm was broken, and both eyes had been gouged out. Two other children hardly less horribly mutilated were found on cots in the cellar. Manv instruments, which had been used in producing I physical deformities, were uncovered in the cellar and were seized for evidence. The discoveries have caused i the most intense excitement. How the World Wa^s. I The Fourth National Bank of Louis- ■ ville, Ky., has resumed. It is denied that Miss Florence Pull- ' man is to marry Prince Isenberg. A. V. Blythe. Sheriff of Miller Coun- ; ty, Ark., is SIO,OOO short in his accounts. It is said that Miss Annie Howard, of New Orleans, will marry Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago. Expert Hayes, from Comptroller Eckles' office, has gone to Indianapolis to unravel the affairs of the Haughey Bank. A mob of unemployed laborers at Denver drove away seventy-five men who were working on a sewer at $1.20 a day. In an address at Kissingen Prince Bismarck declared himself opposed tc the centralization of the imperia, power.