St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 December 1893 — Page 6

■WALKERTON INCEPENDENi. WALKERTON, . . . INDIANA SUCH A FUNNY JOKE. ANOTHER VICTIM OF A PACK * OF FOOLS. Distressing Deaths of Children by Fire— Frightful Disaster Off Massachusetts Coast—Men Imprisoned in a Burning Mine—Dake Steamer Burned. Practical Joke the Cause of Death. The Pittsburg, Pa., police are searching for four practical jokers of Pittsburg who went out turkey hunting with Jacob Miller, a farmer of Bakerstown. The party had several bottles of whisky and drank freely from them. The four young men weie feeling rather gray and decided to play a joke on the old farmer, who was carrying his gun at full cock. One of them slipped up behind him and attaching a string to the trigger of the shotgun pulled it. Part of the charge entered Miller’s stomach. The men brought him home, saying he had shot himself accidentally. After they had disappeared Miller told the circumstances of the shooting. He - ,gald he -would get even if he recovered, ~but hoUiect. Babes Burned to Death. At Blue Field, W. Va., two children were burned to death in houses almost adjoining each other Tuesday. A 4-year-old son of Charles Dunne, while playing in a room alone, set his clothing on fire and was almost burned to a crisp before his mother, who had left him but a few minutes, came back. An hour later, while Mrs. Belle Mays was at Dunne’s house tendering aid in their bereavement, her 3-year-old daughter fell into the fire at home, burning herself to death. At Vincennes, Ind., a 3-year-old child of Jas. D. Williams, grandson of the late Gov. Williams, was burned to death in the yard of her parents. The little tot was playing around an open fire, built for the purpose of heating water, when her clothing caught fire. NEWS NUGGETS. Curt Davidson, the murderer of Birdie Baugh, the daughter of his employer, died in his cell in the county jail at Canton, Ohio. S. Hirschberg & Co., wholesale boot and shoe dealers, at Boston, have made an assignment. Liabilities, $160,000; nominal assets the same. Charles Adsit was killed at Huntington, Ind., by a runaway team. He was driving, and held to the lines until the heavy wagon turned over upon - him. The British steamer Asphodel went > ashore at Rehoboth, Del. It is valued at $150,000 and has a cargo of sugar valued at $200,000. Tugs are at the scene. Harper Whitmire murdered his mother-in-law, Mrs. Christina Hess- < ler, and Jaer daughter, Mrs. Florence | Martin, near St. Joe, Pa. He then j cut his throat, killing himself. The ship Jason went ashore at East- I ham, Mass., Thursday afternoon, and out of a crew of twenty-seven only one man was saved. The ship sailed from Scotch ports and was laden with jute. Two clerks in the office of the Gen- ■ eral Superintendent of the Lake Shore Road at Cleveland have been doing a large business selling free passes, to which the names of superior officers I were serged. It was announced that the Pennsylvania Company had purchased two- ! thirds of the capital stock of the : Cleveland and Marietta Railroad Com- ! pany, together with a large tract of ' contiguous coal land. John Y. McKane, the Gravesei d ' “boss,” now being tried at New York ; for defying the orders of court during ; the recent election, will have to stand trial before his church at the conclu- ' sion of the present proceedings. At Langdon, Pa., fire swept away six j dwellings. Four were occupied. Jacob Gunnly’s C-year-old child perished in ) the flames. In one of the houses Mrs. I Joseph McGuire lost $1,500 in cash. The loss on the buildings is $30,060. The Crystal Ridge mine, near Hazleton, Pa., is burning and a number of the men are imprisoned. The flames are said to be filling the slope. Eleven of the miners at work have been accounted for, but four are said to be still in the mine. The steamer Waldo A. Avery. Chicago to Buffalo with grain, burned in the Straits Tuesday night. The burning boat was beached at McGulpin’s Point, five miles west of Mackinaw City. Both steamer and cargo will be totally destroyed. The crew escaped in safety.

A LOCOMOTIVE on the Texas and I Pacific exploded shortly after noon I Monday about a mile west of Bastland, i Texas. The engine was running at j that time at the rate of about eighteen | miles an hour. Charles F. Elliott, engineer: Jesse Beaver, fireman, and Frank Spencer, head brakeman, were instantly killed. Howard W. Ream, who posed as a nephew of Norman B. Ream and victimized a Chicago hotelkeeper some time ago, is much wanted by the Hereschoffs, the Rhode Island boatbuilders. Early last month Ream ordered a $150,000 steam yacht of the boat firm and they had begun work < n it before they discovered that he was a swindler. Edward Cady, a victim of morphine, killed his two children at Erie, Pa., and then put a bullet in his own brain. Both Michigan and Wisconsin authorities are now taking active measures for the relief of suffering in the upper peninsula. W. B. Dungan of Sioux Falls, S. D., shot himself because Miss Clark of Milwaukee, who is visiting friends in a suburb of Cincinnati, would not see him. Dungan became acquainted with her in Chicago and has followed her to California and Cincinnati.

EASTERN. | Michael Hennessy, while drunk, pushed his wife into the fire near Taylorsville, Conn. The woman will die. i Arthur Anderson and another 12-year-old old named Foster were > drowned while skating at Millville, N. H. [ The New York iron mine magnate, Charles L. Colby, contributed SI,OOO to the starving miners of the Gogebic range. Dr. John R. Paxton has disappeared. Friends and relatives of the New York preacher are considerably alarmed. The teredo navalis, or shipworm, a destructive insect known on the Pacific coast, has made its appearance in Boston harbor. The ravages of the pest are alarming. Mrs. Harriet Burrows, aged 57 years, serving a life sentence in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania for the murder of her husband, committed suicide by hanging in her cell. The General Assembly of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, in session at Indianapolis, unanimously voted to consolidate with the other farmers' organizations of the country. William McC. Grafton, Chief Engineer of the Signal Corps of the Pennsylvania lines wost of Pittsburg, was held up and shot at near his home at Sewickley, Pa. His assailant shot him, but a package of letters over his heart intercepted the bullet and saved his life. At-New York. Thursday, Princeton, defeated Yale at football by a score of 6to 0. At Chicago, the Chicagos defeated the Bostons 8 to 4, and the team from Michigan’s University won from that of the University of Chicago by 28 to 10. Snow and blood and darkness were features of all the games. No fatalities are reported. William H. Tarrant was arrested at Pittsburg. Pa., charged with passing counterfeit money. Tarrant would rent a room from a landlady, tender her a S2O counterfeit bill, paying his rent in advance, and receive good money in change. He said he was a machinist ard worked in Muskegon,Mich. He had bought twenty counterfeit bills in Chicago for $25. He tried to pass the bills in Detroit, but said money was too scarce there. He had nearly SI,OOO in genuine currency in his possession when arrested. Wrecked engines, smashed cars, and disabled cabooses are strewn along the Wyoming division of the Lehigh Road from Coxton to Packerton, Pa., while freight trains are stalled in many places along the mountain, having been deserted by non-union crews. The new men appear utterly unable to run the trains with any degree of safety. At Fairview, on top of the mountain, an empty engine, going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, crashed into the rear end of a caboose in which were seated Frank Wilson and another unknown, who were instantly killed. A few moments later the caboose caught fire and was soon destroyed. WESTERN. The safe of the Goshen, Ind., postoffice was robbed of $l4O. i H. C. LANDERO killed Alexander : Howard, at Topeka, Kan., as the result I 1 of a quarrel. Christopher Bunner was killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of C. B. McKinney, ten miles south of Muncie, Ind. R. C. YOCKEY, one of the notorious I Dalton gang of outlaws, was shot in Tulsa. I. T., by Sam Childers, a half- ! breed Creek Indian, and probably will die. James H. Francis, a ticket broker, I fell dead on a street at Kansas City, i Mo. An autopsy developed traces of poison, and the police are investigattng. j James Dunnaway was struck by a ) train at Portsmouth, 0., ami cannot i live. He is a prominent Democrat and ' served several terms in the Legisla;ture. Two Mormon bishops are in the Indian Territory making extraordinary efforts to convert the Indians. A large I number if converts will leave for the I new Mormon settlement in Mexico early in January. j President Edward R. Bacon says ! there is no truth in the report that the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad was to extend from Beardstown, Hl., to Quincy, 11l , to connect with the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City railroad. J. H. Smith, a student in the commercial department at Oberlin, 0.. College, was convicted before Judge Ricks in the Federal Court for carrying on an illegitimate liquor traffic, by which means he was paying his way through college. The sentence of the Judge imposes a fine of SIOO and thirty days in the workhouse. Bishop Paret, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Maryland, in a statement Tuesday strongly condemns

[ the Catholics’ appeal for a division of the State school fund. The Bishop says: “The argument made by Ro- ' man Catholics that they are paying a | double tax is utterly fallacious. They ■ pay but one educational tax. that to the State for the public schools. The other expense is a voluntary religious contribution. ” M. B. MICKAPHER, a storekeeper at Marion, Ohio, left his place of business for a short time, and when he returned found a dozen or more tramps in his place. He ordered them away, but they refused to leave, and instead opened fire on him with revolvers, a couple dozen bull t; burying themEelves in his body, killing him instantly The tramps lied the town, after helping themselves to what goods i they wanted, and so far have eluded arrest. Savings banks of Chicago Jan. 1, 1894, will inaugurate a policy which is of great interest alike to their savings depositors and the general public. They will reduce the rate of interest from 4 to 3 per cent, on all new accounts. Six months later they will apply the reduction to all sav- ! ings accounts on their books, this i will be done under an agreement en- , tered into by the banks. The ext.reme difficulty of obtaining an inter-

1 1 est for money sufficiently large to justify the payment of 4 per cent. i a the chief of several reasons given 'for the reduction. Officers of the savings institutions think that among the results will boa wave of fresh money in the investment, security, and real estate markets, and possilSly i n the channels of active business. The places of those who withdraw funds to seek a higher rate of interest they think will be filled by others, and the sum total of savings deposits will no t suffer. Fire gutted the three upper floors of the five-story Haymarket Theater Building at Chicago Friday. For two hours thirty companies of firemen fought as fierce a blaze as has visited the West Side of the city since John M. Smyth's big establishment just across the street was destroyed. The bitter cold air and stiff w est wind made active work almost impossible, but the firemen succeeded in checking the flames before they reached the auditorium or stage of the playhouse. The entire amount of damage don® by the flames reaches $160,000. When the fire was discovered about 9 o'clock, all the occupants of the building were beginning to start in the day’s work. A panic seized the persons on the upper floors when the fire rushed along from room to room with frightful rapidity, and it was feared that lives would be sacrificed before all could reach a place of -afety. Charles E. Boyer, the elevator conductor, bravely stood at his post and made several trips to the fourth and fifth floors through the smoke and flames and saved the lives of several who hatigiven up all hopes of getting out alive. Lpung Boyer performed deeds of h<» ism which few men would have undery.’yjfch Time and again lie shot the eW-ator up to Iho upper stories and down fainting women and y.-nic-stricken men. Not until the elevator cable got so hot that he could not handle it did Boyer quit the machine, and then he had assured himself that nobody remained up stairs. His last trip was made to carry up a company of firemen. At the sect nd floor the cable parted and the passengers were thrown to the bet om of the shaft Fire Marshal Campion and several members of engine company 7 and truck 2 wore cut about the head with broken glass. SOUTHERN. T. C. Brauer, cattle dealer of Richmond, Va.. failed for $35,060. Several towns in Tennessee in the neighborhood of Jackson report the prevalence of smallpox. Mitchell H. Marshall, a forger who is wanted at Cincinnati, wa-ar-rested at Huntsville. Ala. Protesting his innocence of wife murder. Van Baker died in the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville. Lulu White, of Princeton, Ky., who prided herself < n her strength, died from carrying a barrel of ba© n to win a wager. Charged with hiring recruits to fight against the Republic of Mexico, Victor L. Ochoa was arrested at Ei Paso, Texas. The Carolina. Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad, running from Edgefield to Aiken. S. was placed ii tke hands of a receiver at Aiken. Turman A Hamilton made an assignment at Shreveport. La. They arc commission merchants, cotton factfys» and grocers. Assets, $122, ties. $111,712. T 'U^ ——===== WASHINGTON. A PERSONAL friend of J. J. Van Alen, recently confirmed Ambassador to Italy, has made public letters showing that Mr. Van Alen has dedined to serve. He gives as a reason that he made a contribution to the Denu cratic campaign fund from patriotic and business motives, and cannot accept a position of honor which may be misconstrued into a reward fpr a conscientious act. President Cleveland. in a personal letter, asks Mr. Van Alen to rescind his decisiou not to serve, but the hitter insists on not accepting. Mr. Van Alen's friend would say nothing more than that the letters _explained themselve-. A reporter in Washington was sent to see Secretary of State Gresham about the matter. He said the letters were correct. He would say nothing else. The widely published story was Jhat Mr. Van Alen gave $50,000 to the Democratic fund to buy the Italian Ambassadorship. • R. E. Preston, the Director of the Mint, has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury the operations of the mint and assay offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. The value of the coinage executed at the mints during the fiscal year was: Gold, $30,038,140: silver dollars. $5,343,715: subsidiary silver coins, $7,217,221: minor coin, $1,086,102. Total, $43,685,178. The total amount of silver bullion purchased under the act of July 14. 1890, to Nov. 1, 1893, was 168,674,682 fine ounces, costing $155,931,002. The average price per fine ounce was $0.9224. The coining value of the total amount purcha«d (in silver dollars) was $218,048,431. '^2 total number of silver dollars coirSßunder the act of July 14. 18! 0. fr® l Aug. 16, I*9o. to Nov. f, LS93, was .JY 087.285. The seigniorage coinageZm the same was $6,977,098. The balai(ce of silver bullion on hand Nov. 15. 1893, purchased under the act of July 14. U9O. was 140,494,825 fine ounces, costing $196,758,280. POLITICAL. W. C. Owen insists he is a candidate for Congress against W. C. p. Breckinridge. George B. Swift is in nomination on the Republican ticket, and John P. Hopkins on the Democratic, for Mayor i of Chicago. i Alonzo M. Foss (Rep.) was re-elect- ■ ed Mayor of Dover, N. H., by 689 ma- । jority over Robert J. Shaw (Dem). The I Beard of Aldermen and City Council are strongly Republican. foreign, Twenty-one persons were killed in a fight to prevent troops closing a Catholic church at Krosche, Russia. Von Caprivi declared that the socialists in assailing the army wc i o seek- . ing to undermine Germany's ex tence • I Credit Mobilier, of Rome, L.. 3 sus .

■■■■■mawMMMaMaHMNaMnnMßi pended payment. Many other failures are expected to follow the big concern. KING LobenGULA has been captured by British South African forces, according to reports received at London. Louise, the abducted Princess of Tahiti, has sailed for her island homo on the brig Galilee from San Francisco. Marseilles Cathedral, the corner stone for which was laid in 1852 by Napoleon 111., has now been consecrated. In the English Commons ocean derelicts were considered. The body is ' ready to co-operate with America for their removal. Forty-three persons were killed and 183 injured by a collision of i passenger and freight trains in north- ' ern Italy, most of the sufferers being i emigrants who were going to America by the way of Venice. Princess Louise of Tahiti, who was abducted from her island home to this country, was brought to San Francisco from New Westminster. B. C., on the steamer City of Pueblo, and will be * sent back to Tahiti on the brig Galilee, i Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the Secretary of l egation at London, born an Astor, at her death left an estate probated at $7,000,000; her sens to have their full share at 21 years of age, and the daughters to have the incomes of their shares through life. IN GENERAL Balfour is the name of a new town sfle at the gold discoveries in Col- ’ orado. Canadian Parliament will be called Thursday, Jan. 25. Preparations of the estimates is being ] tuhed. An incendiary fire destroyed Jackson City, the Monte Carlo of the District of Columbia. Loss, $15,000. San Salvador lias been requested by United States Minister Baker to arrest Louis F. Menage, the Minneapolis embezzler. Admiral Stanton has reached the United Stites. He declares the out- i come of the Brazilian revolution is a ’ doubtful matter. The three young French Canadians — Mercier. Demontigny, and Pel’aud charged with attempting to blow up j the Nelsi n Monument in Montreal with I dynamite, < nt red a formal plea of not | guilty. (n■ of the principal witnesses ' aga'nst the accused has left the city. ! Some of the data collected during 1 the recent trial of the Columbia show that if the sjwed of the ship is to be judged by the English standard it made the remarkable spei-d of 24.34 knots per hour, making it the fastest ' ship in the world, not only ■ in the i navieibut in tho eommercial fleet as I well. These data were obtained by the patent log which is the basis of English speed trials where they extend ove • more than the measured mile. This instrument attached to ti e Columbia, made it appear that it had run 93.96 knots in LIP minutes, or 24.34 knots per hour. But th ■ actual dis- i tame traveled was but eighty-eight i knots, making the actual speed 22.8 1 knots. A DISPATCH from Rio Janeiro states ' the insurgent Admiral, Mello, has ! finally succeeded in forcing a passage !

th© f> rt- guarding the •nti-ane. .-f' “axvOoßay'd Rio Janeiro, and that his j ''trag-hip. the Aquidaban, is now < n the ! high seas. The passage was not effected until some desperate lighting had been done. Advices from another source state that when the Aquidaba i was seen approaching the forts a hi avy tire I was directed against it. It replied 1 briskly, and the tight was kept up until , it ran past the forts and was out of danger. It was seen that some of the , shots from the forts took effect, and it , is believed the Aquidaban sustained I considerable damage. The govern- 1 meat forces, particularly the troops ; manning the water battery, suffered severely from the effects of the rapidfire guns on board the warship. Considerable damage is said to have been done to the forts by the big guns of the Aquidaban. which appeared to have been well served. The government forces generally suffered severely. After the Aquidaban was out of range she stood away for the south. It is conjectured at Bio that she will effect repairs as rapidly as possible at sea and then cruise in the vicinity of Cape St. Roque, to intercept the Nictheroy and America, the improvised warship s now on their way from New York to re-enforce President Peixoto. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. : Cattle—Common to Prime..,. $> 50 et 6 75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 oi ©5 75 Sheep—Fair to t h rice 225 © 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62\© 63’ 2 Corn—No. 2 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 29 © 31 Rye—No. 2 <7 © 49 Butter—Choice Creamery 26 © 27 Eggs—Fresh 23 © 25 Potatoes—Per bu 55 @ 65 INDIANAPOLIS. j Cattle—Shipping 3 oo @ 5 50 I Hogs—Choice Light 4 10 @ 5 75 j Sheep—Common to Prime 2 oo © 3 co - I Wheat— No. 2 Bed 57 © 53 i CORN—No 2 White 35 @ 35 g, Oats—No. 2 White 31 @ 31g ■'< ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 oo © 5 5u Hogs 4 oo @ 5 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 59 @ 60 : Corn—No. 2 33)&@ 34g i Oats—No. 2 28 @ 28g Rye—No. 2 46 @ 48 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 oo Hogs 3 oo © 5 75 Sheep 2 oo @3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 59 & 59g Corn—No. 2 39 © 40 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 © 32 Hye—No. 2 53 @ 55 DETROIT. ■ ■ Cattle 3 oo © 4 75 Hogs 3 oo @ 6 oo I Sheep 2 oo @ 4 oo . Wheat—No. 2 Rod 62 @ 63 . ; Corn—No. 2 Yellow 38 © 38g : Oats—No. 2 White 32 © 33 . I TOLEDO. . > Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 © 63 I Corn—No. 3 Yellow 35 @ 3? I Oats—No. 2 White 2' & 31 ; Rye—No. 2 49 @ 51 BUFFALO. - i Wheat—No. 1 Hard 71 g@ 72g , ; Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ 43 | Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ 35 I I Rye—No. 2 54 © 56 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 57 © 58 Corn—No. 3 34 © 35 Oats—No. 2 White 3n © 30g Rye—No. 1 46 @ 46' 2 Barley—No. 2 49 @ 51 1 Pork—New Mess 14 00 @l4 50 l I NEW YORK. I Cattle 3 oo @ 5 so I Hogs 3 75 © 625 . I Sheep 2 25 @ 3 75 ■ Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 © 70 - , Corn—No. 2 45 @ 46 i Oats—White Western 36 @ 41 ■ Butter—Choic'- 25 @ 28 - , Pork —New Mess 15 00 @ls 75

FOUR DAYS IN PERIIT DREAD NAUGHT’S STORMBEATEN CREW RESCUED. Disasters on the Great Lakes This Season ' —Delfino Pays the Penalty—Rome, N. Y„ ! aiul St. I aul, Alinn.. Suffer Disastrous ’ Blazes. Snatched from Death. Four days and nights without food ' or sleep, clinging to a wreck, exposed i to seas end snow-storms until almost 1 frozen to,death; such was the experi- ! ence of the crew of the little schooner ! i Dreadnaught, who are now at the i Emergency Hospital in Milwaukee I bound up in cotton batting. The Dread- | naught’s crew were re cued by the steamer Syracuse. When thirty‘miles southeast of Racine the lookout on the Syracuse discovered the little vessel drifting about in its helplc s condition. It was a mass of ice fr m stem to stern, j The crew of the' Syracuse at first ; thought it deserted, and drawing near- : er saw two men on deck covered with ice from head to foot. Ropes were thrown them as the Syraeu-e came alongside, and they were hauled aboard. They were nearly dead and the ice had to be chopped from their clothing before it could be removed. They were provided with dry clothing and given stimulants until they had somewhat revived. Although ‘swollen all over and frostbitten in many places their hands are the worst, but the doetors think they will bo all right within , a few days. Losses on the Great Lakes. In navigating the great lakes in tho season just closed 123 lives were lost and fifty-three boats, with an aggregate tonnage of 24,25^, and valued at $1,040,400, pa-sed out of existence. Partial losses by st: an ling, collisions, and fire bring the grand t ital of losses < n boats to $2,112.5'". The shallow waters of Lake Erie claimed nea"ly half the loss of life, while by reason of the Philadelphia-Albany disaster Lake Huron is second. Tabulated by lakes I the loss of life was: I Lake Erie .WlLake Ontario 4 Lake Huron 33;Detroit River 5 Lake Superior u — Lake Michigan 12| Total 123 Os all the immense crowds carried on lake steamers during the World’s । Fair year only one passenger was lost James M. Cutler, the Chicago I real estate dealer, who fell off the , steamer City of Toledo near Jackson ■ I’ark. Three passengers, however, ; committed suicide by jumping overb< ard. John Delfino Is Executed. At 11:50 o'clock a. m. Monday John Delfino, the Italian barber, was suc- ' cessfully electnaut d in the State । Prison at Sing Sing, N. Y*. Tne crime for which Delfino paid the death pen-> alty was the murder of Mrs. Caroline Gessel, an Italian woman living at 467 Degraw street, Brooklyn. Delfino and the woman's husband were rag-pickers and the families were intimate. On Dec. 27 last, Delfino and another Italian ■ named Joseph Pegar went to the Gessel I house to spend the evening. The party I began drinking. Pegar went out about ■ 8 o’clock for a can < f l>eer and returned, i YVhen the pail was empty Tony Gessel, , the woman’s husband, went out for an- ! other can. He had not been out of the , house but a few moments when Delfino

■ jumped up and. drnwinu n revolver j from his pocket; srrtrt to ttrewruman: ! “You tell your husband too much.” He fired three shots at her. All of them took effect. Two Extensive Fires. The New York locomotive machine works of Rome, N. Y., t ok fire Mtn- ' day evening and mo-t of the buildings ' were destroyed. The property was valued at $500,004 and was insured for $3(0.0(D. j At St. Paul, Minn., fire destroyed ' the Powers Dry Go ds Company’s , building, and its contents. The total loss is estimated at $lO5. < 00. and is ful ly covered by insurance, both building and stock. BREVITIES. The United Presbyterian Church edifice at Aledo. 111., was burned Sun day morning. Loss, SII,OOO. The Fifty-third Congress is now in session, with a full attendance. PresiI dent Cleveland message was submitted Monday. Fire in the vaults of the Government buildings at Cincinnati destroyed, among other papers, all the pension cheeks that had been paid for years. | Roland Reed, the comedian, is 1 very ill at the Queens Hotel, Toronto, with an acute attack of the grip. Reed has canceled all of his engagements for three weeks ahead. Curtis Davidson, who killed Birdie Baugh at Alliance. Ohio, died in the count.v jail at Canton. His death was caused by blood poisoning from a selfinflicted wound in his neck. A. S. Tanner and Ralph Grant quarreled about escorting Miss Virginia Gleason fr< m church at Selma, Ala. Grant was killed and Tanner is in jail. The girl was crazed by fright and has not recovered her mind. Michael McGill, an employe of the Cleveland Stone Company at North Amherst, Ohio, while suffering frcm an attack of delirium, took off part of his clothing and crept around town on his hands and knees in the snow in search of a place to go to bed. He was found in the road under a railroad bridge frozen to death. Colonel Joseph D. Potts, well known for many years as a railway official, died at Milton. Pa., aged 64. Two warehouses at Duluth, owned by William Dunn, of Chicago, and valued at $38,000, were burned with contents valued at $70,000. i Alfred Henderson, on being sen- : tenced to life imprisonment at Fort Madison, lowa, begged to be hanged, and took poison in court. Emetics were administered by force, and he i efused to tell how he had got the poison. I Physicians say fully one-half the ; population of Pittsburg and Allegheny i County. Pa., are having the grip. j New York City banks held, on Dec. ' 2, a total of $197,933,200 in lawful money ' —viz. specie, $93,564,400, and paper, $104,368,800. i

f ■nnw ’congresses opened. FIFTY-THIRD SESSION PROMISES TO BE LIVELY. । Tariff, Silver, and Hawaii Among the i Topics to Come Up—Galleries Crowded | by Society People—lncidents in the Sen* । ate anti House. Scenes on the First Day. Washington correspondence:

1H E 53d Congress is now in regular session assembled. The stars and stripes float over each end of the eapitol—which signifies that both houses are doing business at the old. stand. The assem- ’ bling of the great §jjoint body was,com--1 paratively speak^ing, commonplace. r Tne interest which i attaches to such an |event was less because the extra session had taken the

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edge off the appcHtc of curiosity. Nevertheless there was plenty to interest the stranger. He who is present for the first- time at an opening of Ccntrress sees below him -.he m< n who make the wheels of tlie nation go round, as it were. He feels thsvlie is at the fountain head of things. He real* • izes that he is in the midst 'of big affairs and he is pleased. He ha-, of course, read < f Congress. To be in its pre-ence, to see it work, to appreciate that here are born measures which grow int< tails anc dominate the nation, beg-ts a new sensation. He can’t he p fee.ing impressed. It is for that reason every cr.-> of tho:several thousand in the gaberfes pays close attention to all that is done for that reason that the thousands ir the corrid. rs 'tan.', there, the patient ones hoping that in some way they may get in, the impatient struggling, pushing and elbowing, but, wit', no better result. ! The crowds in the galleries on opening day are always of a higher order than at any other time. Nc one is admitted except by ticket: and tickets are obtai: al 1 from members only, unless some recipient sees lit to give his pasteboard away. There are always many women i t the galleries. And. most of them rear their best attire. The Senate is deemed, and is, the mere exclusive body. And the very nobbiest of the nobs go there, and for form's sake are bored as they watch the slow coaches, while all the time could they but disguise themselves they would much rather be _in the House. But lots of n >bs, women as well as men, select the House and go there early. They wi'.-. at least many of them, come often during this first session of Congress. Much for Conuress to Do. i Th u:gh this -e-sion is regular there are many reasons for believing that it will be extraordinary as well. There are bills of great importance to pass, bills which will give birth not to pure debate alone but to ill-feeling, anger In some instances, probably, an! repartee swiftly developing into blunt contradiction. Some of the debaiesjsii 4 **^ \

nish a aooa fdQnot; - oeiore tne ees-ton is ovet. 4 question will be discussed from A and back again. A great many have already prepared speeches on it. The rest will either prepare them or speak on the spu ■of the moment. “And I wish the majority would be impaled on the spur,” said a correspondent who has listened to the tariff debate for lo! these many years. Then there is the silver question. One might think that the people had had enough of silver talk and be forgiven for the thought. But not so Brother Bland. He believes that prosperity will never e me til! the country lias free silver. He will seek to obtain the sanction of Congress for free coinage at every opportunity. Then there is the Hawaiian incident. which will serve for discussion. Republicans view it greedily, and they are licking their chop> in anticipation of the feast. How they will hold the Democratic party, and the administration in particular, up to scorn! How they will tear Secretary Gresham’s letter to Cleveland' How they will rip ! up the back any reference the President may make to it! And then the war of words. For the Democrats will talk back. Scenes in the House. ' The chief in'erest centered in the House on opening day. The -cene in the Senate is very respectable; but the scene in the House is breezier. There is more life in the Houec. The blood, pubes fa-ter. The members are more apt to do things’, and incidents are more likely to happen. The galleries were packed long before a corporal’s guard of members appeared on the : floor. All but the press gallery. J'hat didn’t fill till a few ...emenrs before the clock told that the hour of 12 o’clock had come. Then that gallery also was full. In it were correspondents representing almost every nj «.-pager of importance in the country, several representing Canadian papers and a few papers across the At’antic. Ar the boyish chaplain rose to offer prayer a stillness fell upon the House, and from the rooms back of the prea? galleries came the tick, tick, tick e s the telegraph sending the stories d the scenes within the hall throughout the length and breadth of the land. The chaplain’s prayer over, the hubbub of conversation r- -e from the arena and was augmented by the comment in the galleries. At 1:15 p. m. Exc- utivc Clerk Frulen appeared in the Ho ise and delivered ; he President's m ssage. which ■ the clerk was directed by the Speaker to rea 1. VfCttiijr of the Senate. The a-sembling of the Senate was tame. That is not surprising. It is invariab.v tame. 7he galleries were filled. u:‘ course. They are always filled on the first day. This is due partly to the pre.-cncv of the families oftheSena ors > t m si y to the overflow from the House. There is very little to attract the Washingtonian to the Senate, sav© when some prominent j Senator - to speak or some vote on an inapor^aet question to be taken. Ihe ' Senator- tile in. or rather come in. on the first day just as they do on every । other day.