St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 September 1893 — Page 6

WALKEKTON iNOEFENDENi. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA PRESIDENT AROUSED. READS THE SENATE A LECTURE ON PATRIOTISM. Almost a Frightful Holocaust in the Canton, 111., Opera House—Defenseless Man and Four Women Slain in Indiana—Fleeing from Cherokee. Stern Talk to Senators. The President is angry, and the Senators are the cause. Mr. Cleveland, according to a Washington correspondent, believes that patience has now ceased to be a virtue, and that the time has arrived to settle the question physically. This will be done by a continuous session unless the antis in a very few days permit a vote. In his speech at the Centennial celebration there was a sentence the significance of which was lost to all but a few within the sound of his voice. As he reached the sentence he turned abruptly from the crowd in front and faced thj^ Senators, .Jlis face was , re presen talives w hohere assemble to make laws for their fellow countrymen forget the duty of broad and disinterested patriotism, and legislate in prejudice and passion, or in behalf of sectional and selfish interests, >he time when the corner-stone of our Capitol was laid and the circumstances surrounding it will not be worth commemorating.” He paused for an instant as he finished. Those who had heard him applauded, and then he fa€ed the crowd again and finished his speech. Terrible Crime in Indiana. By far the most atrocious and sensational murder that has been committed in that section of the State took , place Tuesday morning one and onehalf miles west of Glendale, Ind. It was the slaughter of Dennison Wratton, a well-known farmer, and his family, consisting of his mother, wife and two children. The deed was done by some one 'who knew all about the family and knew that the women had no means with which to defend themselves, as the only man about the house was very sick and they were too far away from any neighbors to call help. No evidence that would point to the guilty parties has yet been secured, as they have thoroughly covered their tracks. The only wt apon used, it is thought, was a hatchet, as all the gashes are very nearly alike. A pack of bloodhounds have been scouring the immediate vicinity, but have thus far been unable to track down the assassins. NEWS NUGGETS. Rocky Mountain Dime and Dollar Savings Bank, Denver, Colo., has resumed. An Esquimau village consisting of eleven persons arrived in San Francisco en route to Chicago. NOW THE rush to get away from the Cherokee Strip is only less impetuous than was the rush to get in. Yellow fever is declared to be epidemic at Brunswick, Ga., where eleven new cases have been discovered. Collector of the Port Wise, of San Francisco, has refused to appoint twenty deputies without pay to enforce the Geary law. The English yatch Valkyrie, about whose safety fears have been entertained, was sighted Saturday morning 430 miles east of Sandy Hcok. James K. Stratton, the famous mail-box robber, and Joe Kennan, a highway robber, escaped from the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo. Charles Tarr, known by many other names, was arrested at Connellsville, Pa., for impersonating a pension examiner. Tarr says he will plead guilty "when his case is called. James R. Keene is defendant in two suits involving $230,000 brought at New York by Mrs. Minnie C. Rankin. Mrs. Rankin claims that in 1884 Keene received SIOO,OOO from William H. Vanderbilt in trust for herself and that he also owes her $24,486 as balance of salary Keene admits that he received the SIOO,OOO from Vanderbilt, but says it was a loan to himself, and denies that he owes Mrs. Rankin any sum. The new Cant n. 111., opera house was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday evening and in the excited scramble of the panic-stricken audience to escape from the burning building one man was fatally burned and as many as twenty-five other persons sustained burns and severe bruises as they were jostled and trampled upon. The Baldwin-Mellville Company presented “Michael Strogoff.” About 9:30 o'clock some fireworks used in the play exploded with terrific force and blazing brands were hurled mA-all directions. The inflam-j finable material surrounding the stage quickly ignited and in an incred- . ibly short time the building was doomed to complete destruction. Panic seized the audience, who wildly lied from the burning building, but fortu-

nately and most miraculously those ’ in th< parquet, dress circle and balcony escaped serious injury, though many were trampled under ; foot and seriously bruised. The actors were all burned, some of them quite badly. They had scarcely time to escape themselves and lost all their belongings. The exploding fireworks were burled into the second balcony and many of the people there were badly burned before they could escape. The'money loss is fully SIOO,OOO. S. Jacobs, Bernheim & Co., clothing dealers at St. Louis, have tiled chattel mortgages aggregating $187,317. Crippen. Lawrence & Co., loan agents at Denver, have made an assignment. Their assets will reach nearly $1,000,000, with liabilities much less. L/.ne Seminary, which was boycotted by the Presbyterian General Assembly because it sustained Professor i H. P. Smith, is likely to close its doors | When the collegiate season opened last Thursday but four students pre- ■ seated themselves.

EASTERn. A certificate of incorporation of L. Waterbury & Co. has been filed in । Jersey City. This is the first step toward the reorganization of the cordage trust. New York immigration authorities have evidence that undesirable immigrants are crossing into the United States over the Canadian border. A Polish family of five recently arrived in Quebec from Rotterdam? As the new arrivals were destitute the Canadians hustled them across the line and sent them to New London, Conn., and । thence they were sent to New York. The family is now at Ellis Island. The coffee market advanced from 5 to 20 points in consequence of the cutting off of the supply by the blockade at Rio de Janeiro. A member, of the New York Exchange said that no serious trouble would be caused to American coffee merchants on account of I the Brazilian trouble. There are. he i said, 1,800,000 bags of Rio coffee of all : kinds in Europe, and American coffee , dealers are now drawing on this sup- | ply. Before this is exhausted some j way will be devised for resuming im- । portations. This may be done bv the different nations taking concerted action. Acting Mint Director Preston confirmed a statement that an examination of the vaults in the Philadelphia mint bad disclosed a shortage of more than 5,000 ounces in gold bullion valued at $134,000. The vault in which the gold is short had, when it was sealed in 1887, about $16,000,000 in gold bullion. The shortage was dicovered only Tuesday, when the vault was opened for the purpose of coining the bullion. The Superintendent of the mint at Philadelphia is under a bond of SIOO,000, and some of the wealthiest men in the city, including George W. Childs, are on it. Mr. Preston, it seems, is the responsible party in the matter. Ho weighed the gold when it was received In 1887 from the New York Subtreasury, and the superintendent at that time, D. M. Fox, accepted Preston’s figures. Mr. Preston told Secretary Carlisle that it was his belief the gold was stolen by the men who assisted him in 1887 and that it was taken between the time of weighing the bullion and placing it in the vault. WESTERN. One hundred tins of opium were found concealed in a closet in the cus i tom house at San Francisco, Cal. For twelve hours Sunday Chicago firemen fought a prairie fire covering an area of nearly twenty blocks, in !>art adjoining the Fair gn unds. The )ig garbage dump which extends from 67th to 87 th street and from Stony Island to Perry avenue caught fire in some mysterious way at 9a. m. Seven Columbian guards were overcome by smoke and heat. Tuesday night the steamer City of of Ludington of the Goodrich Line went ashore at Wiggint Point, on j Green Bay. The City of Ludington j was bound from Chicago to Manistique I and has about fifty passengers on board, i The stranding was caused by the smoke । from forest fires, which has hung so j thick over the lower end of Lake I Michigan and Green Bay. making navigation very dangerous. The Ludington was pulled off by the tug Monarch without much damage. Over 60,000 baskets of peaches lay in warehouses and on docks on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan Sunday and spoiled. They were bound to Chicago and were to have been brought over by the dozen steamers running across the lake. But tho big storm effectually prevented these boats from leaving port, and with no other means of getting the fruit to its destination there was no alternative and the good fruit spoiled. Several steamers, from Detroit around Chicagoward, were beached in making or leaving harbor. Four of the desperadoes who held up the Lake Shore train near Kendallville, headed by none other than the notorious Bill Dalton, of train and bank robbing fame, are now believed to be hidden somewhere in the hills north of Spencer. Ind. On account of the broken and wild country in that locality and a certain class of sympathetic, lawless woodsmen, who have inhabited those parts since the depredations of the famous Reno gang, it is thought almost useless to follow them. This is the old stamping ground of the Dalton boys before they were driven West after the Reno gang lynching. THE County Judges of Dallas County. Mo., following the precedent set by their predecessors in their own county and by the St. Clair County judges, refuse to issue a tax levy to pay the bonds of the county, amounting, with interest, to $500,000, pledged by the county in aid of a railroad that was never built, which levy was ordered by United States Judge Phillips. Two of the judges, when the Marshals appeared in the county, took to the woods and could not be found. Judge Franklin could not leave home, and the notice was served upon him. The judges have heretofore escaped service by hiding in the woods, and on many cocas ions have held court in their ic- | treat. j The engine and fourteen ears of the first section of the east-bound freight I train on the Chicago. Milwaukee and i St. Paul railway were derailed at 11 p. I m. Saturday at an open switch at /YU. • . - +

Olivia, Milin., a small station on tne Hastings and Dakota Branch, ninety-three miles from Minneapolis. The following were instantly killed: Anthony Brewer, the brakeman: Charles Reddings, the fireman: George W. Remsen, the engineer. At the time of the accident the train was running twenty-five miles an hour, and the engineer, it appears, did not notice that the switch was open. The engine was thrown over on its side and fourteen cars loaded with grain were piled on top of it. The three unfortunate men were found in the cab of the engine scalded in a horrible manner. THE report of the burning of Marshfield. Wis., by forest fires was exaggerated, but Northern Wisconsin is one smoldering furnace. The line of fires ravaged the forests between Marshfield and Lake Superior. Where they will end no one can say. Unless there is rain in Northern Wisconsin toon even greater disasters than have already occurred may be expected. Many families are homeless and desti

tute. As yet no one h.ae been able to j confirm the reports of losses of life, bu® that some settlers have been cut off bn the Hames and killed is very probably I So far all who have been reported aJ 1 missing, however, have been located, i Many persons escaped death only after I adventures of a most thrilling charac-J ter, and some of the stories of the refu-» gees are dramatic. The fire is then greatest since that of 1871. The extend of the damage cannot be estimated owing to the fact that the fires have cut off telegraphic communication with most of the smaller towns. On timbel the losses are the heaviest, and Frank,. McMillan, of the McMillan Lumbe.t Company, in an interview said the lo»f to Wisconsin forests would probably amount to between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. This represents a vast amount of pine as well as hardwood timber^ covering a land area which even thos^ most familiar with tho forests of Wisconsin cannot estimate. SOUTHERN. Fifteen Oil Creek soldiers have been arrested at Knoxville, Tenn,,jon the charge of lynching Richard Daummond some time ago. I From Fort Monroe, Va., the United States cruiser Detroit sailed at |7:30 o'clock Thursday morning for RM de Janeiro, under orders. J A SHOT was fired into a Louisvilleimd Nashville train, between Bo^m«' Green, Ky., and .Louisville, whil»”’i^ ning at full speed, and the ball sJßwk Bailey Barksdale, editor of the T® ae * co Leaf Chronicle of Clark Ville, r rW n -< on the forehead, making a seriouO'Ut not fatal wound. The train was U f) P" ped, but the source and author o^fhe shooting could not be found. , Patent Commissioner SeymVUR has been served with a summons t(JaPpear before the District Supreme Court and show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue to tho State of South Carolina to compel the registration of the trade-mark “Palmetto.” j The application for the registration was, it will be remembered, refused bv | an examiner on the g ound that a | State has no right to deal in liquors i outside of its <wn limits. The decision in the case will establish an interesting precedent. George Clarke and Drew Smith, two desperate convicts, escaped from the Virginia penitentiary at Richmond. Clarke was sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years for safeblowing at Farmville. Va. He is believed to have been the leader of a gang of Infrgla. s who worked several Virginia cities in 1891. He is an escaped convict from the Joliet. 111., prison and is now wanted there. When Clarke was first arrested at Richmond the Chief of Police of Chicago wascommunicated with, and he wrote that Clarke was a trainer of criminalsand one of the w< rst characters in the country. . WASHINGTON. The name of Baby Ruth's sister has boon decided upon, and she is to lie christened Esther. Congressman Oates has intro lured a bill in the House of Representatives to annex Ftah to tin* State of Nevada. Secretary Carlisle is soon to undergo an operation for tho removal of an enlargement of the right arm above the elbow. The only son of Colonel Sanford Kellogg, of Washington. I). C.. because of failure to pass examination at the Naval Academy, committed suicide. The Washington (D. C. banking firm of Woods & Co., which suspended a month ago. has made an assignment to William H. Swander. The assets are given at $33,397 and the liabilities at $26,000. The national convention of boards of trade, at Washington, adopted resolutions urging the Senate to speedily repeal the Sherman silver purchase act. and elected these officers: President. ex-Gov. E. <). Stannard, of Missouri: secretary, R. Ritchie, of Cleveland: second secretary. Frank S. Gardner, of New York. Dr. Don Estaneslav s. Zeballos. the new Minister from the Argentine Republic, who has been formally presented to the President, is credited as on a special mission in connection with tin' arbitration convention which will meet in this city to determine the boundary between the Argentine Republic and Brazil. President Cleveland has consented to act as an arbi-

trator. Baby Ruth's little sister is behaving very much like an ordinary infant these days. The fact that tne President of the United States is ready to leave Senators and Representatives at any moment to soothe her to sleep when she if tired of staying awake or to extract the unclasped safety from her tender flesh doesn't seem to have the slightest effect upon her. It doesn't matter to her whether her papa has been up half the night trying to save the country and has just fallen into his first nap: if she wakes and feels lonesome she will immediately set up a.yell that will briny papa to his feet and an anxious lock to his face in the twinkling of an eye. It is true that she has a nurse, and a very capable one she is, but G. C. often beats the nurse by a full length in a rush for the cradle when the blessed infant gives the signal. POLITICAL. Lawrence T. Neal, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, made the opening speech of his campaign at Newark Thursday. His audience was large, delegations being present from Columbus, Zanesville, Mansfield, and many other cities. Mr. Neal's speech was mainly an attack < n that system of tariff which he was pleased to term McKinleyism. Mr. Neal said that ! the Sherman silver law and i the McKinley tariff law underlie the want of confidence which is the cause of the trouble, and gave it as his belief that prosperity can only be obtained by adherence to the Democratic faith in the matter of ■ both currency and tariff reform. “The s purchasing clause of the Sherman silver law,” said he, “must be repealed, i and the Democratic party stands com- > mitted not only to its repeal but to j the unlimited use of both gold and i silver as money. The Democracy j of Ohio has reaffirmed the deci: ration . and I give it my personal indorsement.” Mr. Neal then expressed the pinion

J that “the greatest foe tc, the prosperity ' |of the people is McKinleyism. ” He psaid: “So long as the Federal system of i | protective taxation is continued we can | . have no general and permanent pros- । ! parity in this country. To regain such prosperity we must apply tho ax to tho toot of the evil with earnestness and kigor, and forever destroy the McKinley methed of taxation.” ■ ( FOREIGN, I The Paris Figaro Thursday morning ?declared that tho British foreign of- ■ flee had no official news concerning the Khedive's proposed visit to England. Charles de Lesseps, who was sen- , 1 fenced to five years’ imprisonment at Paris for complicity in the Panama [ Canal scandal, was released from pris- | on. Tho sentence was set aside on ap- ; peal to the Court of Cassation, which ' decided that tho prosecution had not ( been inaugurated within the time sot i by law. The Town of Villa-Canas, in tho | Province of Toledo, Spain, has been devastated by floods and a large number of lives have been lost. Heavy rains inundated the town. The people | had no thought of danger, though the many streams in the vicinity of the town were rapidly swelling and threatening to overflow their banks. An enormous deficit will be realized ! in the bop crop of Germany this sca- ■ BOn. Consul General Mason, at Frankfort, has informed the State Department that, owing to the abnormal con- j ditions which have existed this season, I tho hop crop will be 19,480,000 metric , pounds less than last year. This year's ! crop promises to be the smallest on I record for a half century. Two women living in separate villages in the district of Kuttenburg, 1 . Bohemia, who have been arrested, : were engaged systematically in the 1 bu.-iness of murdering children whose parents desired to have them got out ।of the way. The two women appear to have had many clients, and to have ac- , I cumulated considerable sums of money. ■ I (>ne of them kept a ledger account, and by the help of this horrible record the authorities will be able to make a larger number of arrests. IN GENERAL The tank steamer Astral, with her captain and crew of twenty-five men, i from Shields, England, is overdue at New York. Fred J. Shaler. of Chicago, has j been elected supreme commander of , the Uniformed American Mechanics of j the United States. OFFICIAL advices received at Wash- ; ington from United States Minister ! Thompson at Rio de Janeiro state that ; the city lias fallen into the hands of ! the rebels, and that the Government of Brazil is overthrown. Henri Newman & Co., dealers in clothiers' supplies'at New York, with a branch in Chicago, have been granted an extension by their creditors. The firm's statement shows a-sets of $2,413,135 and liabilities of $1,622,599. Major John L. Hays, formerly Quartermaster on General Nelson A. Miles' staff, who was made a maniac and an epileptic by a blow received in Chicago a year ago. has had his mind ' restored by trepanning and will recover. The steamer Byron Terrace, lying at her deck at Leamington, Ont., caught tire at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. The captain, the woman cook, and the purser jumped overboard and were drowned. Two deck hands were burned to death. Following is the standing of the club* of tho National League: W. 1,. Pc.! W. 1,, pc. goßtons. ...81 Bfi .6W2 Cincinnati*.s6 62 .475 : Plttsburus 72 46 .610 Baltimores..ss 66 .496 i I’hlladelp’la.OS 40 581 Chicazos .. .53 438 Clevelands. 64 52 .662 St. Louis... .52 6? 430 New \orks..63 s 6 629 LonlßvUles..4s 6” 402 Brooklyns ..62 57 .621 AVashi'gt'ns.39 82 .322 R. G. Dun & Co.’S Weekly Review of Trade says: Returns from every part of the country show decided improvement. Hopeful feel- | Inu prevails as money grows abundant at speculative centers and somewhat easier [ for commercial purposes. Weekly failures have declined about halt in number and more than half in amount of liabilities. । The number of establishments reported as ; resuming work—thirty-one wholly and ’ twenty-six in part—still exceeds the num- ; bor closing—thirty-three tho last week, I besides ten reducing force—so that the i hands employed have somewhat Increased, i The number of unemployed is still very largo. Business is pulling Itself together,

and even the crop report has caused little depression in stock-. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE—Common to Prime.... S 3 25 y. 5 50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3 75 @8 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 2a @ 4 1» Whea*tNo. 2 Spring 1 COBN— / 25 @ MM Oats—N& 2. ; 46 RYE-No.J^i e creamery 20 @ 27 BUTTER-*JJ. 14515$ Eggs—j; e r bu TO & 81 Potatoes? INDIANAPOLIS. 'hipping 3 00 ® 4 50 CATTLE—^ge Light 4 00 @6 30 Ho<,s < i^wnon to Prime 3(0 & 350 NOT 2 lied 60 @ 61 Cobs No, dWhite 42 ® 43 Oats —Nu^lWhite 28 @ 29 I ST. LOUIS. Cattle j 3 oo @5 GO Hogs 5 oo @6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 @ 62 3 , Coen—No. 2 38 ® 39 Oats—No. 2 26 ® 27 Rye—No. 2 41 @ 43 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 00 Hogs 3 00 @ 6 25 Sheep 3co ® 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 60^ <1 6V2 Corn— No. 2. ... 43 ® 41 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 28 & 29 Rye—No. 2 48 @ 50 „ ’ ’ DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 50 Hogs , 3 00 @ 6 00 Sheep 3 00 @ 3 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 @ 68 Corn—No. 2 44 @ 44$ Oats—No. 2 White.' oidi. 30$@ 31$ TOLEDO. M heat—No. 2 Red 66^® 67b, Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42$@ 43$ Oats—No. 2 White 28 @ 29 Rye—No. 2 47 @ 43 ... v BUFFALO. ” heat —No. 1 Spring 73 @ 74 Corn—No. 2 ’ 46 @ it Oats—No. 2 White’ ’ 34$@ 35$ Rye—No. 2.... so @ 52 • MILWAUKEE. M heat—No. 2 Spring CO @ 61 Corn—No. 3.. .... 36$@ 3T$ Oats—No. 2 White 26 @ 27 Rye—No. 1 42 @ 43 Barley—No. 2.. 51 @ 52 Pork—Mess ’ 14 25 @l4 75 NEW YORK. t Cattle . 300 @5 00 Hogs 325 @ 7 00 Sheep 325 @ 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red... 74 @ 75 I Corn—No. 2 52$® 53$ > Oats—Mixed Western B7 @ 38 Butter —Creamery....’ 20 @ 27 1 POBK—New Mess... 11 00 @l7 75

forger is caught. 's HE WAS MIGHTY WELL EQUIPPED b FOR BUSINESS. Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the Laying of the Capitol's Corner Stone —Exodus of Disgnsted Cherokee Boomers —Nine Dead, Twenty Hurt. Mr. Simpson in Limbo. 1 E. S. Simpson is locked up at the Chicago Central Station charged with wholesale forgeries upon the People’s Bank, of Chestnut street, Philadelphia. By means of forged checks he is said to have victimized the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank for $225, and was arrested there Monday morning while he was attempting to cash a cheek for $3,200. When Detectives Corbus and Flaherty searched his rooms at the Palmer House a fraudulent certification stamp of the People's Bank and a quantity of the blank checks of that institution were found. Another Frightful Collision. The second section of the Big Four express, No. 45, south-bound, crashed into the rear end of the fir t section at 9:20 o'clock Monday night, near Manteno, 111., on the Illinois Central. Nine persons were killed and twenty severely injured. The engine of the second section ran clear through one sleeper and two coaches. The accident was caused by the colliding section running so close to the first that a flagman could not signal it in time to stop. The passengers were all from West Virginia and Central Ohio, en route home from the World's Fair. Tho wreck was the worst that has occurred on the Illinois (Central system for 1 twenty years. Several of the injured are beyond recovery and it is probable that ! the list of fatalities will be swelled to 1 fourteen. The citizens of Manteno 1 threw open their dcors, and temporary ' hospitals were fitted up all over the : hamlet. Everything that could be done was accomplished to alleviate suffering. Close of a Century. The centennial anniversary of the laying of the corner-stone of the Captol at Washington was celebrated solemnly and impressively on the broad plaza that stretches out from the east front of the Capitol. The ceremonies were observed by a large concourse of people. On arriving at the Capitol about 2 o'clock the immense parade disbanded, and Chairman Lawrence Gardner, after making a fitting speech, introduced President Cleveland, who made a brief address. At the close of the President's address, which was greeted with cheers, the Chairman introduced William Wirt Henry, a descendant of Patrick Henry of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Henry, as orator of the day, delivered an able address. Vice President Stevenson, Speaker Crisp and others spoke. BREVITIES. Glasgow Tron Company, Pottstown, Pa., resinned. The Duplex Street Railway Track Company, New York, shows liabilities, ' $145,341: nominal assets. $105,250: actual assets, $1,196. Lord and Lady Aberdeen have arrived at Qut bac, and the new Governor General of Canada has entered upon his term. Archbishop Hennessy was in- ' vested with the pallium at Dubuque on Sunday with all the splendor of the Catholic ceremonial. Over 1,000 ex-boomers passed through Kansas City Sunday, en route to their homes in all parts of the country, from the Cherokee Strip. Eastern companies decline to renew their mortgages on Kansas farms, giving as a reason the antagonistic attitude of the State Legislature t ward them. lord Dunraven's yacht, the Valkyrie, which sailed from Queenstown for New York on Aug. 23, has not been sighted since, and some apprehension is felt for her safety. H E. Ringer, a business man of Wells, Minn,, while attempting to enter his own house late at night, was mistaken for a robber and killed by one of his own family. The first shipment of this year's Washington hop crop has been made to London. It is estimated the crop of the State will be about 50.600 bales. Hops this year are of remarkably fine quality. yp A. Baldwin, a physician and mombar of the Georgia State Legislature. was shot and killed by Jesse I’aimer, at Palmer, I. T.. in a quarrel about a young woman whom each admired. Throughout Northern Mississippi notices have been posted on gins forbidding the owners from ginning cotton until the price reached 10 cents a pound, and for disregard of the notice several gins have been burned. Justice of the Peace Victor Estopinal was shot and killed in Jefferson Parish, about three miles above New Orleans, and his son August was dangerously wounded. The murder was committed by a negro—Roselius Julius —who was in the custc dy of the Estopinals and a posse. Julius fled into the swamp, but he cannot escape, and will be lynched. Light rains and a change of winds have cheeked the forest fires in Central Wisconsin, but in the northern part of the State about Ashland and Superior, the change of wind has driven the fires towaid these cities, causing heavy damages and some loss of life. A race war is imminent at Carrollton, a suburb of New Orleans, where a mob. unable to capture Roselius Julian, the colored murderer of Judge Estopinal. lynched his three brothers. The negroes threaten vengeance, and a conflict is expected. In a decree issued by President Rodriguez of Costa Rica, extending amnesty, guaranteeing rights, etc., is a qualifying clause declaring explicitly that the government of Costa Rica reserves the right to extradite Francis Henry Weeks, the absconding embezzler.

STEWART ROUSES ’EM HIS CURIOSITY CAUSES GREAT EXCITEMENT. Wants to Know How Many Senators Owt* National Bank Stock-Says He Doesn’t Own Any Silver Mines—Crossed Swords with HUI. A Monkey and Parrot Time. Washington correspondence;

|HAT gay but balky band qf patriots, the Senate, has been the' center of interest for some time now,' and occasionally in its silver debate sparks fly as from flint and steel. The other day Senator Stew- । art, of Nevada, started the fun. With a manner indicating that he was loaded for 1 bear and ready to kick, when the Senate chamber

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’■ was unusually full^ he offered a resolution that a com-* mittee be appointed to discover, how many Senators owned stock in' national banks. This resolution was a tremendous success in the line intended by its author. It was about such a success as one might expect in pulling out the insides of a piano with a garden rake. Before the general grasp for breath had subsided, Mr. Stewart proceeded to rub salt on the wound he had caused by saying he was sick and tired of Wall street men and New York papers charging that the silver advocates owned stock ip, silver mines. He himself hadn’t owned any in fifteen years. But he had an awakening suspicion that a good many Senatorial opponents of silver owne^ stock in national banks, which would be benefited by repeal, and he thought what was sauce for the goose was just as good a dressing for duck. He had discovered in some musty old tome a long-forgotten law that no person who owned stock in the United States bank, which Jackson broke up. could hold a seat in Congress. If the principle of this law was good then, it was good now: and he wanted to know just how many Senators’ interests were hampered by this silver legislation. If the number whose face- showed astonishment. chagrin, or alarm was any indication. Mr. Stewart's shot had winged about four-fifths of his colleagues. Senator Hill was the first to line up in battle array. With a flush that crept up over the bald spot until it disappeared in the fringe of hair behind his ears, the New-Yorker, shaking what the Honorable Tim Campbell called his “long, acquitive finger” at Stewart who glared truculently, denounced the resolution as an outrage, and demanded that the heel of senaterial disapproval crush and bruise its head. “Whose business is 117’* Mr. 14111 asked, “wHat Senator or who owns any investment, provided he is lucky enough to have it and come by it horn estly." He could not believe that Mr. Stewart offered that in good faith. Mr. Stewart beat a tattoo on his desk with his fingers and was visibly disturbed at the tone and vigor of Hill’s remarks. He was just coming down the main aisle to make a furious reply when Mr. Hawley, who had been all the while writing a letter, suddenly shouted. “I object!” Stewart turned in his testy way and glared, but Mr. Hawley said he objected to further discussion. “Well, object.” said the man from Nevada, “but I give notice that I will have all the time I want tomorrow.” And so the matter drags. Routine Proceedings. In the Senate Tuesday morning Mr. Squire, of Washington, gave notice of a substitute which he intended to offer for the bill to repeal the silver purchase act, and it was read in full. It permits the deposit of silver bullio > by its owners and the coinage thereof into standard silver dollars, of which he is to receive only the amount corresponding to its commercial value. The coinage is not to exceed $4,000,000 a month, or 1200,000.000 in aIL The dollars are to be legal tender, and no certificates are to be issued. The bill to repeal the silver purchase act was then taken up, and Mr. Voorhees spoke at length, urging a vote. Mr. Dubois of Idaho, opposed. Senators Hoar. Platt. Teller and Metts also took part. The H >use transacted no business. The Federal election law causen a skirmish in the House Thursday, but no action was taken. Senator Daniel, of West V irginia. occupied the time of the Senate in a carefully prepared argument against the repeal of the Sherman law: he spoke to crowded galleries and a good Senatorial audience. During the course of his speech many members of the House came into the chamber and took seats in the rear of Senators’ chairs, or stood against the wall. When the routine morning business was concluded Mr. Stewart. of Nevada, moved to take up his resolution for a committee to investigate whether Senators w*ere interested in national banks. Mr. Voorhees' counter-mo-tion to proceed to the consideration of the repeal bill was agreed to on a viva voce vote which was quite unanimous, and Mr. Stewart sat down. Friday in the Senate was occupied by the advocates of the repeal of the Sherman law. The speech of Senator Lindsay of Kentucky, which was his maiden effort in the Senate, and his defense of Secretary Carlisle, whose successor in the Senate he is, was received most attentively. The deadlock in the affairs of the House in order to prevent Mr. Tucker from reporting the bill repealing the Federal election laws to the House continues. The First Train. In 1790 Nathan Reed built the first steam road wagon in America. Four years before Symington, in England, had mounted a coach body on thor-ough-brace springs,and in|lso3 Trevithick put a coach b dy in a frame, attached a boiler underneath, connected a cylinder with cog wheels and thus brought together the component parts of a modern traih. Wives of Famous Men. Nero kicked his wife Popptea, to death. Tea. dyspepsia and a scolding wife made Hazlitt’s life a burden. Lessing married a widow with four children and made them a good stepfather. Moliere, at the age of 40, married an actress of 17, and soon separated, from her. The married life of the famous Palestrina was long and unsullied by domestic clouds.