St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 November 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT WALKERTON, - . - INDIANA FIRED ON OLD GLORY. HONDURAS IS GETTING VERY OBSTREPEROUS. Fatal Carelessness of a Laramie Druggist —Will Put a Trolley on the Erle—Cape May's Winter Attractions — Trouble at Coeur d’Alene. Costa Rica Fired On. La Ljbertad, Honduras, dispatch, via Galvestc®, Tex.: Honduras fired upon the American flag- Monday mornting. By the alleged orders of President |Vasquez and by the express command of the Commissioner of the Port of Amapala, seven cannon shots were fired at the Pacific mail steamship Costa Rica, flying the stars and stripes, as it steamed away, because it refused to surrender one of its passengers to the Honduras Government. United States Minister Baker was on board the Costa _ Rica at the time. The passenger about whom the trouble arose is Policarpo Bonilla, who recently led the revolution in Honduras, but was defeated by Gen. Vasquez. He then lied to Nicaragua, and 300 of his adherents joined the army of President Sacaza, who was engaged in an attempt to quell a i ebellion. Bonilla had decided to leave Nicaragua in order to relieve the government from all responsibility of harboring him. Poisoned His Wife by Mistake. T. J. Peterson went to a Laramie (Wyo.) drug store and had two prescriptions filled for his wife. The compound for external use contained a strong solution of belladonna, and by some mistake Mr. Peterson gave his wife a dose of the external medicine internally. She died from the effects of the poison. The druggist carelessly neglected to mark the poison as such. NEWS NUGGETS. The Big Four strike at Cairo has been declared off.

Chang, the Chinese giant, died at Bournemouth, England. The recent extra session of Congress cost the country $500,000. Twenty-four new cases of yellow fever developed at Brunswick, Ga. Queen Victoria’s birthday, May 24, will be British day at the Midwinter Fair. In the Florence Hawley murder ease at Bridgeport, Conn., the jury disagreed. George B. Swift was elected acting Mayor of Chicago at a regular Council talk is that ers for liquid

Almost the whole town of Latham, Kan., was destroyed. The flames were of incendiary origin. Cotton gins are still being destroyed by White Caps in the South. Leighton, Ala., is the latest sufferer. Three whales appeared at Cape May, N. J. One of the monsters attracted crowds by its spouting. Frederick Lovcraft, theatrical manager, who committed suicide in New York, left $105,000 life insurance. Numerous forged cheeks in Canada give grounds for believing a regularly organized gang of swindlers is at work.

A smuggler, believed to be the notorious Seifert, leader of the Kootenay band, is under anest in British Columbia. Desperadoes who robbed a train at Olyphant, Ark., and killed Conductor McNally, are being surrounded by officers. Mrs. Mary McGee and daughter, claiming to be from Chicago, are under arrest at Brenham, Texas, for horsestealing. Drummer Merchant ran a Douglassville, Ga , newspaper as a side issue. Angry creditors are now pursuing Mr. Merchant. Lawyer Patrick, of New York, wants Congressman Hutcheson, of Texas, disbarred from Federal Courts for immorality. Lewis Holder and Frank Collins. Indian Territory murderers,must hang, the Supreme Court having affirmed such judgment. WHITES and Indians are arming near the hew town of Harrison, Idaho, Coeur d Alene Reservation, and trouble is feared.

CONGRESS will be asked to authorize the construction of a bridge between Superior and Dnluth for i abroad, foot passenger, wagon and street-car service, ata cost of about $350,000. The French ship Marseilles, of Havre, has foundered at sea. One of her boats, provisioned, was picked up by the brigantine Evangeline. The day before falling hi with the boat a ' steamer was sighted going in an oppo- < site direction to the Evangeline, am it * probably rescued the occupants of the । small boat. It is supposed the cew ! finding the ship foundering put off in boats which afterwards separated. । What became of the other boats is mt ■ knowm. I Negotiations for a commercial | treaty between Russia and Germany ; have been suspended for the present. ” I English capitalists purpose start- ’ ing a bank in Havana, Cuba, if the » Government makes certain concessions ■ in taxes. 1 A majority of the Kickapc o Indians have agreed to accept $260 each and be । enrolled for allotment. George W. Kline, of Toledo, Ohio, abused his wife and she fired four bul- ’ letg into his b#dy, He will die.

EASTERN. Francis B. Bannon, iron founder at Pottsville, Pa., has assigned. The wife of Broker John H. Schofield, of Chicago, has teen granted an absolute divorce by a New York court. George Trauger, a wealthy farmer of Westmoreland County, Pa., was bunkoed out of $5,000 by two “slick” strangers who worked the tin box scheme. S. BLAISDELL, Jr., & Co., wholesale dealers in cotton and wool stocks at Chicopee, Mass., have failed, with liabilities of $275,000. The firms annual sales amounted to $3,000,000. In a dense fog a train on the Reading Railroad stopped to receive orders, and was run into by a train behind. The rear brakeman was killed on the track and three passengers were injured. The resumption of iron industries at Pittsburg is so great that is said 15,000 more men are now at work than were employed a menth ago, and for the first time in six months, there is not an idle mill along the South Side river front. Three of the men injured by the boiler explosion at New York have died of their injuries, making the number of dead six. Several others are , thought to be fatally hurt. The dead , are: Engineer Armstrong, John Gillespie, Thomas Harsan, Samuel McMullen, Hicklin, Joseph Quinn. WESTERN. Strike of coal miners at Lafayette, Colo., has been declared off, and all mines resumed work. Fire destroyed part of the plant of the Peninsular Stove Company, at Detroit. Loss, $40,000. Joseph Bater, of Big Rapids, Mich., had both legs cut off while stealing a ride on a freight train. IN a quar.el about a wagon Joseph Moyer brained his father with a hatchet, near Sedalia, Mo. At a charivari in Elma, lowa, the groom, Michael Kee'e. was shot in the head by some one of the party. By the carelessness of Mrs. John Foley, near Anoka, Minn., her two lit- , tie children were burned to death. ATCHISON is again in the field as a

St. Louis line, having joined forces wiih the Jacksonville Southeastern. Edgar H. Palmer, lawyer at Vermillion, Ohio, committed suicide by throwing himself in fr( nt of a railroad I train. Minnesota has been roblied of millions of dollars by prominent citizens, according to the committee investigating pine land frauds. C. W. Embury, a retired farmer, was killed at La Crosse, Wis., by a runaway accident, his horse being frightened at an electric car. Students at Ann Arbor, Mich., made a wild night of it on Halloween. | and lour of them paid tines in the poI lice court next morning.

restrains the Italians and wounded many otmirs ' M hile court was in session at Columbus, Ind., the County Treasurer's office was entered fn m the outside and the cash-drawer robbed of about SIOO. In his Thanksgiving proclamation, Gov. Fennoyer, of Oregon, asked for prayer that Congress and the President may be favorably disposed toward silver. Private Tacoma, Wash., advices received state that twenty men were eaten alive by wolves at Shensi. Oct. 14 and 15. Wild animals overrun that district.

■ All railroads doing business in • Michigan are now ordered to put some Btieh device as hand-grenades for extinguishing fire in their pa-sender coaches. Mrs. Lydia Bradley, on> of the . wealthiest residents of Peoria, 111., has announced her intention of donating 160 acres as a site for the permanent State Fail-. A Meeting of creditors has been called by Schacht, Lemeke & Steiner, dealers in dried fruits and nuts at San Francisco. Their liabilities are SBO,000 and assets sllo,<oo. Clark K. Royce, ex-Treasurer of the Veterans' Home Association of California, was sentenced to seven years in the State prison at San Francisco for embezzlement. Six indictments have been returned at San Francisco against men and women who call themselves physicians, and who are charged with sending improper matter through the mails. The additional asylum for the insane, for which the ^Michigan Legislature made a liberal appropriation, will be located at Newberry, where citizens

— ~ UIU4CHB nave donated a site of 55 ) acres. The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the bribery statute passed by the last State Legislature. It provides that any bribed voter may recover damages in S3OO from any man guilty of bribery. The last of the b idies taken from the Grand Trunk wreck at Battle i Creek, Mich., have been sent to their homes. The last two were identified ! as Mr. and Mr;. Oliver Dorland, of Til- ' Bonburg, Ont. < In the Helmick murder case at Danville, 111.. Harvey Fate and Frank ( Starr have been sentenced to be hanged 'on Dec. 8, and Elias McJunkins and I Charles Smoot will go to the peniton- । tiary for life. I Indictments have been foun I at. 1 I Milwaukee again t William Plankinj ton, Eugene S. Elliott, Charles L. Cla- ; son, F. W. Noyes and Judge Jenkins ' officers and directors of the collapsed . Plankington Bank. I G. W. Ferris, the designer of the famous World s Fair wheel, has undertaken the construction of a cantilever bridge to connect Cincinnati and Covington—being the sixth bridge across the Ohio at this point. Christopher Schorling, a butcher,

after driving around town with 1 ! sweetheart, Miss Sharp, at Toler.o^ Ohio, wound up in a saloon and th6r^ shot the girl dead and shot himself lla-’ tally. No cause is assigned. Alexander Landau, one of the two brothers charged with killing Augusta Tovel at St. Louis, has been acquitted, ho having proved an alibi. It is probable that the charge qgairfct his brother Lewis will be dropped. Hallet Alsop Borrowe, who became notorious in the Coleman-Dray-ton scandal, was ejected from Delmpnico's, New York, while drunk, and put in a cal>; and for refusing to pay eab fare he was turned over to the polite. The five mills of the George H. Friend Paper Company and the American Tablet Company, at Dayton, Ohio, have been consolidated. The new company is incorporated under the laws of Illinois with a capital stock of $1,100,000. Boiler of Engine 638 on the Iron Mountain Road at St. Louis exploded, and the engineer, George Schroeder, was instantly killed; Thomas Scott, the fireman, was hurled 100 feet and fatally injured; and a brakeman, Ed Keeper, was blown into the Mississippi River and drowned. J The officers of the University of Minnesota refused to yay a special aJessment for sidewalks and water uMb> s < claiming that educational insti were exempt from paying taxesJF,’. Minneapolis authorities contends? _ <l city assessments are not. taxes an^B' ave offered the university buildings for sale. ■ The Columbian Mu. oum at Chi a,go received another handsome gift I It

was a check for $50,000 given by |rs. Barbara Sturges. “The How of mi giey into the treasury has not yet ceiled, either,” said E. E. Ayer, “forthen kre several large sums in sight now w jich will cause some surprise when the; tare announced.” Preparations for an active movement toward raising m jney are being made at the Coniine intai National Bank by John C. Black,| the President of that institution. Col. John G. Chouteau, one ol i the be-d known citizens of St. Louis 4and who is worth about $2,000,060, created something of a sensation by appei ring i on Spruce and Eleventh streets a t 11 o'clock Thursday night, where he owns nearly the whole block, and putting down a brick pavement. He wo re a 1 silk hat and kid gloves, and with a

helper was working as asslduouslj asa, mechanic paid by the hour. \ Vhen ; asked for an explanation he sal d he i wanted it done and there wen a too many people passing in the day time ' for him to do it with c mfort. The expected happened at the VTiil-' dren's Building at tne World's Fe|ir. The long-looked-for abandoned cjJild was found one evening when the chfeck- j ed babies were “rounded up” Lwi’ P a * rental inspection at that refu«e for weary mothers ami fractious offswring. But it was not until the last day tbe last week of the Fair that this pected infant put in an appp®‘ ane *b and tile promoters of the day U scheme point with : atisfactio^V? fact that 9,999 babies vero duly by fond fathers and m< there idW**"'' of the day’s sight-seeing. \ words, this was the only ono^t.^ " ft topee th^n - quies of a k ing. tho ' go's late Mayor were laid to rest I Wednesday and left alone in the qui< t of Graceland < emetery. More than • O- 1 no men walked with a slows Step. keeping time to the solemn measure of the funeral dirge, and ’ probabl.v ten times that number of men and women stood with bared and bowed heads while his bier went on its melancholy way. It was a remarkable procession. Even in that •city of stuj edous happenings it was । notable. It was an army in grief. An army with furled banners and muffled I -I v •

drums and reversed arms, and wearing the emblems of sorrow. It was a worthy utterance of the public woe. Only < hicago could have so sjH>ken in act, and not many men besides Carter Harrison could have evoked the cry of anguish that was symbolized in that waving column of American citizens. SOUTHERN. John Fisher fatally stabbed A j Langston at West Charleston, W. Va. ! IHE notorious Abe Redmond was* taken from the jail at Drake's Branch, \ a., by a mob and hanged to a tree. John Isaacs, 13years old. was killed at Malden. W. Va.. by the accidental discharge of a revolver he had found. Ten new cases of yellow fever were reported at Brunswick, Ga., five,, white and five colored. Eight colored were discharged. J. H. Parks, cashier and manager of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company at Louisville, Ky., was a'-rested < on a charge of embezzlement, > Mrs. John Gleason, who is Abject ( to fainting spells, has twice bo/ 1 the J cause of panic in Louisville tl^-ters, !

and Monday afternoon, when sb Welt a dizziness and fell in the effort t<f retire at ti>.e Bijou Theater, serious 'rouble resulted. It is now announced that she wid not hereafter be allowed in any Louisville theater. Francis H. Weeks, the New York embezzler. wh< sc defalcation, flight, and battle against extradition have so excited public interest, arrived in New Or cans at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning on the steam -r Eoxhall from Costa Rica. Ihe steamer’s arrival had been expected all day and night, and there were many people. at the wharf to get a view of the prisoner, but a large force of police prevented every । one from boarding the ship. Even : the crew when disembarking were ! submitted to a rigid examination and were compelled to prove identity in order to avoid the possibility of-Weeks’ escape. Weeks’ gigantic stealings, place him with John C. Eno and E. W. Harper among the big embezzlers of the time. The embezzlements charged to Weeks aggregate $1,300,000. He was arrested in Sun Jose Sept. 14, and the legal process necessary to get him back to the United States has been in operation ever since. An attempt was made at Coal ( 'reek, ' Tenn., water tank to rob the express ! c«r of passenger train No. 15, Capt. | |

„ay. The woetlT'and there were m jßß^ff^rain Capt. J. J. Atkins, f^Tel of Police of Roanoke, Va., and N. S. Woodard, Iccal agent at Knoxville. When the train stopped for water four men jumped on the platform of the car armed heavily and demanded that the messenger open the door. This was done, but instead of the lone messenger the would-be robbers were covered by half a dozen pistols. Firing in rapid succession from both sides commenced, when the robbers tried to escape. They were captured, however. One, who was mortally wounded, was identified as James Smith of Knoxville, a tough character. The other was an ex-express messenger, name unknown. FOREIGN, Premier Gladstone’s health has. been much improved by his trip to Scotland. Several encounters are reported between the British and the Matabelea in which the latter were routed. A CRISIS is imminent in Italy. The Giolitti ministry is doomed and Zanardelli is believed to be the coming man. A MOVEMENT to secure amnesty for political offenders and workingmen convicted of rioting has been started in France. The Vienna bourse was not affected by the news of the repeal of the silver purchase act, the belief prevailing that the consequent drain of gold to America would not be serious. The erandsen of the late Emperor

I Doni Pedro, a prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, is reported to have sailed for Brazil to lead the revolution against President Peixtoto’s government. Prince Ferdinand, of Bourbon, a nephew of the ex-King of Naples, who was on the staff of General Margolla, j has been missing since the battle with the Riff tribes at Melilla Saturday. It I is not known whether he was killed or is a captive. IN GENERAL. Sir John Abbott's funoral took . place Thursday uft’rno<<i in Montreal. , ■ Canada has decided to not take part i in the midwinter exhibition in San

I Francisco. TEN THOUSAND persons witnessed the unveiling of the statue of the Into ■ Sir John Macdonald at Hamilton. Ont. | The Governor General and Lady ! Aberdeen attended the opening of the ! new Peter Redpath library at McGill j University, Montreal. Sir John Abbott, ex-Premier of ’ Canada, who had retired from public ; life on account of failing health, died nt Montreal Monday evening. THE Chicago and Southeu tern Kaili road is tied up by a strike of employes ' for hack pay. and the man: g r is inI dined to abandon its operation. Monro, Miller A-co,, stock brokJ ers of Montreal, failed. They owe a [ : largo unwunt of no n- v on deals not yet do-ed. I Pom Augusto. -on of CCnU- 1 ’ । camo tri this country with s< me of the Midway Plaisance shows, has been ordered deported by the Treasury De--1 partment nt the e\|ense of the ■immigrant fund, as he is likely t • become a j public ehar je. The Grand Trunk Hoad will be asked to pay $«5.0g0 damages for tne death of | Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bradley in the Battle Ci cek w reck. Application has ' Ix en made at Port Sarnia for the appointment of an administrator, in orI der that suits may I e brought on behalf of Bradley s children.

Information has l»een recceived from Matanza- that the Ward Line steamer City of Alexandria has been destroyed by tire, and thirty-four of a” crew of sixty perished. The Alexandria left New 5 ork < let. 2o,and was i t turning from Matanzas for Havana to load for New York. The Fit} of Alexandria whs built in 1*79 by John Roach A Son,. Pa., and was purchased in I**7 by the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company. Shewasan iron vessel, three decks, and had a gross registered tonnage of 2,914. MARKE” REPORTS. - CHICAGO. CATTLE—Common to Prime.... ;3 50 (3 600 Hous—shipping Grades 4eo <6 75 Sheep-Fair to Choice 2 2> @ 4 io Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62 @ 63 Corn—No. 2 ys | Cz 39 Oats—No, 2 29 % Rye-No. 2 , ”” L nt 11 er—l hoice t reamery 3; E® 2*’A EGGS-Fresh 102 1 Potatoes—Per bu 55 65 „ INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 00 <«? 5 25 Hoos—Choice Light 4 00 @ 6 25 Sheep- Common to Prime 2 co cf 3 oo M heat-No. 2 Ked — Oor.-s No. •» White F OATS—No. 2 White ‘WWMi ST. LOUIS. *

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THANKSGIVING DAY. PRESIDENT NAMES THE LAST OF NOVEMBER. Fearful Tragedy at a Chicago Suburb— Dynamite Horror in a Spanish Port—Repeal of the Sherman Law Already Results in Good. Give Thanks November 30.

The I’resld.ent has issued the following Thanksgiving-day proclamation: By the President of the Uaited States of America—A proclamation: While the American people should every day remember, by praise and thanksgiving, the divine goodness and mercy which have followed them since their beginning as a nation, it 16 fitting that one day In each year should be especially devoted to the contemplation of the blessings we have received from the hand of God, and to the grateful acknowledgment of his loving kindness. Therefore, I. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of the present month of November, as a day of thanksgiving and 1 raise, to be kept and observed by all tbe people of our land On that day let us forego our ordinary work and employin’nte and assemble in our usual places of worship, where we may recall all that God has done for us and where, from grateful hearts, our uiuted titbute of praise and song may reach the Throne o’s Grace. Let the reunion of kindred and the social meeting of friends lend cheer and enjoyment to the day and the generous gifts of charity for the relief of the poor and needy prove the sincerity of our thankssivl ig. Witness my hand and the seal of the United States I have caused to be hereto atfixed. Done at the city of Washington on tbe third day of November In the ye r of onr Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-three and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighteenth. < J rover Cleveland. By the President: Waltkb Q. GbesHiM, Secretary of Stat . Hundreds Blown Up. At Santander, Spain, the ship V 010,

with a cargo of dynamite, was lying at a quay Friday evening, when, in some wav not vet explained, it caught fire. A large crowd gathered in the vicinity, and the police, who were evidently unaware of the dangerous character of the ship's cargo, made no attempt to drive them away. The Governor of the province personally directed the efforts of the firemen. While every effort was being made there suddenly was heard a dull roar followed by a report that shook the city to its foundations. Every house around the quay was wrecked, their walls being blown in as though made of cardboard. The Governor has not be n seen since the explosion. His secretary, who was standing beside him when the explosion occurred, savs he was stunned by the shock. When he regained his

Lilt.- •• ~ v senses he look, d for the Governor, but ( e-uM not find him. It is feared he was . kille I and that his body was blown ( into the bay. Hundreds of people have become insane through terror at the wreck. The list of dead, it is thought, will exceed a hundred. •Rone of Trade Is More Confident. R. G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: ibe ri-ieal of the sliver purchase act <l. es good already. The business world la every part of the country reckons It helpful. Mid the tone of the trade Is more confident. It is hardly time us yet for the effects to be felt to any great extent In manufacture*, but bankers are more liberal In accommodations and merchants more hopeful In purchases. It Is well to rrmenilxT that the act will do less good th in if It had been passed early lu the -prink- or without delay after Congress assembled. It cann >t now prevent several I thousan i tailor.*s which have ulrea ly <»<*- | WniCU Was mn-h needed, but many may expect from the measure larger results than can at this late day be realized. By Fire and Knife. Murder, robbery, and arson were ciumnitted at \\ ilmektc. a Chicago suburb. in the early htours Saturday. I-rank Wheeler, a prominent citizen, caught a burglar in his house and. firing, killed him. He chased twoothors for a half block in vain and returned to find his home in Hames. Mrs Muy Crun. the mt ther of Mr. Wheeler’s 1 wife, was iu the building and was 1

burned to death. Nothing but a few charred bones were found of her body. Underneath it and partly protected by a fallen piece of iron was found a . blood->tained knife. There are teethmarks on the hands of the dead robber and he bears evidence of a fight. BREVITIES. The trial of Dr. Eugene F. West for the murder of Alice Gilmour was begun at San Francisco. S. A. McLean A Co.'s mill and a portion of their salt block at Bay City, Mich., was burned, with a loss of $30.000. ”Bud” Lindsey, the notorious Tennessee desperado, was shot and fatally wound ’d in an encounter with a Deputy United States Marshal at Jacksboro, Ky. The V abash Railroad Company has paid $2,000 to the Wabash County. Ind., Agricultural Society for the destruction of buildings by tire which original d from a snark from a locomotive. < 'ha jo ami} aqj Suuiiq I ' ——' • (I,

County, Iricffs - the club, at < roivn foint, tor *]o damages. The Cunard steamship Campania has made a new record for the voyage between New York and Browhead, which she reached last night. Her time was 5 days 10 hours and 30 minutes. The best previous time, made by the Lucania, was 5 days 13 hours and 30 minutes. The Simpson Lumber Company at San Francisco attached the Swift Improvement (. ompany for $32,000. David Holladay, Sr., died at Weston, Mo. He was a brother of Ben Holladay, the Ovferland stage coach man.

At Kennedy, Ala., Henry Weir and wife locked their house, leaving four children inside, and started for the field to work. In some unknown manner the house caught tire and three of the children were burned to death. I Iho eldest child succeeded in escaping. John G. Glisson, a former business man of Memphis, Tenn., was fatally stabbed by a negro porter in Louisville, Ky. A train on the Iron Mountain road was held up and robbed and the conductor killed, at Olyphant, Ark.

XVOr.KOFTHE SESSION SEVENTEEN BILLS, SIXTEEN JOINT RESOLUTIONS. Summary of the Doings of the National Legislature—Few Results for So Long a Term—Matters Which WiU Confront the Regular Session.

What They Did. At the extraordinary session, closed Friday, sixteen joint resolutions and seventeen bills became laws Three of these joint resolutions were signed. Friday and nine of the bills. The last proposition to become law was the joint resolution amending the act approved April 25, 1890, relating to the admission of articles intended for the World's Columbian Exposition. Other bills signed were as follows: Transferring the model battleship Illinois to the State of Illinois as a naval armory; donating abandoned cannon to the G. A. R. at Pittsburg, Pa.; act amending the Geary Chinese law; to regulate terms of tbe United States Circuit and District Courts in the State of South Dakota; increasing the number of officers of the army and navy to be detailed to colleges: to regulate the fees of the clerk of the United States Court for the Indian Territory; amending an act to prov de for holding terms of United States Court in Idaho Rnd Wyoming! amending section 2>2a oi Revised Statutes relating to mining claims; providing for the construction of steam reve-nue-cutter for service on the great lakes; and an act in regard to the Worlds Fair PrizeWinners’Exposition to be held at New lorK City. . Additional important bills which were signed by the President during the extra session included the famous silver bill repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. Also the

following: Authorizing acknowledgment to the various foreign governments who participated m thecommemoration of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; for the reporting, marking, an 1 removal of dere of the California Midwinter International^Exposition; act to extend the time for completing the work of ihe eleventh census, act amending the act to repeal timber culture several bills relating to the Cherokee outlet, and a bill to settle the Mormon Church fund. One of the first measures presented to the next House will emanate from Congressmrn McGann's Committee on Labor. It will lie a favorable report on a resolution of inquiry as to the comparative effect on labor and cost to consumers of labor-saving machm- ' erv. “The resolution of inquiry, said Congressman McGann, “was not prompted by any spirit of ' criticism, but was set on foot to

seem e information on a point that is beet mmg of vital interest to all classes of 1 c nje. including employer and emIt is the intention of the majority of the Wavs and Means Committee to submit the new tariff bill as soon as.it it is completed to the Republicans,, who will be given ten days to consider it, and frame a m ln o r ~ ftv ‘ report. The bill will probably be ready by Dec. 1, just before the opening of Congress in regular session. By reason of a joint res ^ utlo " n P? S ®®s bv both houses to have all enuolled and engrossed bills printed it is probable that a printing office will be established at the Capitol. It is thought by having the bills printed many errors can be avoided. The New A ork and New Jersey bridge bill will not be passed until the next session of ConI gress. It is now in conference. _ , ver were routed in the House, and the Voorhees measure from the Senate was passed by a vote of 193 to 94. Within two hours it had received the signature of President Cleveland, and the purchases of silver by the Government ceased. Work in the Senate was unimportant. The House Thursday passed World’s Fair prize winners’ ex-position to be held in New York City from Nov. 24 to Jan. 15. The Senate passed a bill extending the time for the registration of Chinese in the United States and doing away with the necessity for the Columbian museum of Chicago paying duty on any of the exhibits it may require for its own use. The Senate bill granting to the State of California 5 per cent, of the net proceeds

of the cash sales of public lands in that State to aid in the support of its public or common schools and making an appropriation for that purpose was also passed. A batch of nominations received the approval of the Senate, and that body then adjourned. Congress has finished the extra session. But little business was transacted Friday by either bouse, and that little simply perfunctory. The session closed without confirmation by the Senate of the nomination of Judge Hornblower to the Supreme bench. Overflow of News. Seven buildings burned at Monongah, W. Va. George K. Ogler & Co., carriage dealers at St. Louis, failed for $50,000. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has obtained a $3,000,000 loan in London. Jacob Kriest was burned to death at St. Louis, Mo., in a lodging house fire. Fire destroyed a dozen business houses at Kittanning, Fa., causing $30,000 loss. Fire at Jonesboro. Ark., consumed -ixteen buildings and U i [6iA\US S 6 A\ I 11,/ A. R 7—’1 V • —I I I ' V ' ,-, ,■ . T' s*. . A

^^dea^LLoui^vhm ~. t ) demented. * 00 ‘"”o 1 HE plant of the Williamsport (Pa.r . Furniture Company was dum'hoed SU - 000 by fire. ‘ The window glass plant of Roedfer- & Hoffman, at El wo d. Ind., burned Loss. $50,000. Abe Redmond wa.-lynched in Char- I lotte County, W. Va., for brutally > beating a negro. J ” The Phonolite Glas Company, incorporated at Denver with $560,000 capital, will manufacture glass by a new prccess. The fight against the ccombine in St. Paul has taken shape i t tic o - ganization of the Minnesota Coal Company.

I On October 29 Philadelphia cele- ■ brated the 211th annivezsa’y of the , landing of William Penn. In a quarrel over the possession of a ranch in Missoula County. M< nt., Tom Cummings was shot deal by Ike Langress. A 7-year-old daughter of W. S Bothwell, of Clay < ity. 111., was burned to death while playing a:\ und an openair fie. Illinois Canal Commissioners are moving on Congress to have the Illinois River deepened and the dams removed.