St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 December 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON IHBEPENDENL’ m:m“-——;——-—‘-WALKVRTON, . . = INDIANA | ——— | CRANK ATTACKS MAYOR TYLER OF LOUISVILLE. 3 e | Treasury Balance Lowest Ever Recorded . —Prendergast’s Life Hangs in the Bal- ' ance—Chicago Girl Forger and Embezzler Glven Two Years at Boston. i Murderous Louisville Lunatic. : - A CRANK made an attempt to kil : l\'layor Henry S. Tyler, of Louisville, ’ Ky., in his office Tuesday afternocn. | The Mayor was sitting in his office alone when a well-dressed man walked in and said he wanted it proved that | his father had not committed suicide. | The Mayor at once percsived that .the man was a crank, and told him he ! knew nothing about his father. The | fellow then said: “I came here to de- ! mand my rights. I own property near the city limits, and I do not want them | extended.” He then pulled a revolver ! ~_and told the Mayor he was going to DR .24 0L is_something of | s n 0 w'”*“flaf‘!“&;}‘n.*: %m ing' or assistance. 1t took th B om- - bined efforts of two officers-to | take the man to the jail, next door, l where he gave the name of Phil J. Schwarz, He was locked up cn the charge of lunacy and carrying con—’ cealed weapons. Schwarz is 32 years | of age. He has been trying to get on | the police force for some time. At the E time of his arrest he had a huge peti- | tion to the Mayor in his pocket. The father killed himself seven years ago. i The Prendergast Case. ‘ CHICAGO dispatch: Assistant State's Attorney Todd began the argument for the state in the Prendergast murer trial. The jurors, rested from he wearisome sessions in which e.\'-f ert testimony yplayed the greater ' part, paid close attention to every ut- | terance of the prosecutor. Despite the | vigilance of the bailiffs to exclude all | who had no actual business in court, ! the room was nearly filled when | Mr. Todd began his argument. | Neither Mrs. Prendergast, the as- | sassin’s mother, nor his brother John ! was present to hear the prosecutcr de- | clare “either the mother or the son | has lied.” Mr. Todd pursued a plan of | impeaching the testimony of the de- | sense and tearing down the evidence ‘ by which it was sought to prove Pren- ' dergast’s insanity. Mr. Todd prefaced his speech with the statement that all promises made to the jury in the beginning, as to what would be proven, had been kept, and reminded the jury that each man had sworn to inflict the death penalty if it were justified by | the law and the evidance. Cash Running Low. WASHINGTON dispatch: The prospects are that during the week the available cash balance of the Treasury will reach a figure lower than has ever —? o mwao~ndad in 3tc higtoanvy At the

$90,487, ana it is generally expected that it will fall below $90,- - 000,000 during the week. The total bal- ] ance Dec. 1 was $95,199,616, showing a reduction during the month of §4,712,348. The loss, however, has fa.llen»‘ {nore largely upon the currency balance | han upon the gold reserve. The marked excess of expenditures ove: re- ' ceipts, itis now believed, will show a | ~ deficiency in the revenues at the close of the calendar year of approximately 837,000,000. ‘ BREVITIES, ‘ EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt in | Bedford and adjacent parts of Pennsyl- | vania. | EX-GOVERNOR BENJAMIN BIGGS, the | most extensive peach-grower in Dela- I ware, is dead. i HENRY WILLIAMS blew up the saloon of David Shell at Ironton, 0., with | a dynamite cartridge. ! PRINTING-HOUSE row, at San Fran- | cisco, had a $200,000 fire, and the Even- | ing Bulletin was among the sufferers. ' JEFF CRAWFORD, a negro, was com- | mitted to jail at Yorkville, S. C., for ! the alleged murder of W. H. Black- | burn, a white man. » L. S. CONKLIN, of Fort Dodge has been added to those who wish to succeed Mr. Wilson, ,of lowa, in the] United States Senate. ' AT Brooklyn, N. Y., a little girl| crossing the street with an armful of : Christmas presents, was sun down and killed by an electric car. CONDUCTOR SCOTT, of the train that | caused the collision and appalling dis- ’ —Taster at Battle Creek. Mich., has been $ acquitted on the criminal trial. ! PRrRAcCTICAL jokers thought to have \ fun with John Rudy, a young man, near i Muncie, Ind., by impersonating a sheriff's officer and making a presended arrest, and their vietim is now insane. JouN C. HULTZ, a lawyer of Sullivan, Ind., was shot and killed by a | masked assassin, and suspicion attaches | to ex-Sheriff Willis, who was arrested. ! The men were close personal friends until Willis began to suspect his wife. AT Boston, Mass., Esther M. Thurbar was sentenced to two years'imprisonment at hard labor by Judge Nelson in the United States District Court for forging postoffice money-orders that i had been sent to her roommate, Miss Seymour. Miss Thurber came to Boston from Chicago, where she is alleged to have embezzled SBOO from a former l employer. CALVIN TBOMAS, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Sellers at Bainbridge, Ga., was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged. THE stranded Chicago liner City of New York is being battered to pieces by a storm at the Golden Gate. GEORGE CLANCY, brother of Congressman John Claney, of Brooklyn, I N. Y., was murdered in a saloon by a skulking enemy, who slashed hirm from , behind with a butcher knife, cutting the arteries of both legs just below the dhee, s

: EASTERN. 3 ALFRED H. LITTLEFIELD, Governor of Rhode Island, died at his home in i Lincoln on Thursday of a complication of lung diseases. ‘ Miss ANNIE D. HALLOCK, school teacher in Bridgeport, Conn., saved one boy and three men from drowning at the risk of her own life. ! GEORGE C. MAGOUN, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Atchison, . Topeka and Sante Fe railroad, died at “his residence in New York. | Miss DR. Maßy J. HENDERSON, con~victed of eriminal malpractice in Boston, Mass., was sentenced to eight years in the House of Correction. ! L. L. KANN alias S. H. Hart,who ab- , sconded from Buckley, Wash., with % §30,00 funds of the Buckley State : Bank, has been arrested in Baltimore. ’ GROSS irregularities amounting to ' millions of dollars are reported to have " been discovered in connection with to- - bacco refunds in the New York Custom | House. ! A RAILROAD accident occurred at , the Hollis station of the Worcester and i Nashua division of the Boston and { Maine Road. Three persons were ' killed instantly on a grade crossing. | The party was out sleighing. ’ AT New York Friday morning a po- ; liceman while standing in front of the ; Fourth District Civil Court, an iron mesmmaestructure five stories high on iéed the outer walls 'of the building vibrate. He immel dia%ely rushed inside and informed Judge Stuckler, who was holding " court. There were some 800 people in ' the building at the time, mostly Polish Jews The J udge quietly informed the ; people that there was some question of | the safety of the building and they all !departed quietly, and court was .a-(l-l . journed to the Thirl District Civil | { Court on Sixth avenue. The building | has been condemned several times. { THE doors of the St. Nicholas Bank, i New York, were closed Thursday morn- ; ing by C. M. Preston, Superintendent | of- the State Banking Department. be- | cause of impairment of capital. The i bank is a State institution. Although l | Tumors affecting the solvency of this 1 bank have been in the air for months. l | yet the stoppage of the bank was a { complete surprise to everybody, with | ! the exception of two or three members ]of the Clearing-house Committee. ’ | Even the ofticers of the bank had no i knowledge of what was going to bappen, . and the president of the bank, | l Arthur B. Graves, and the cashier, | William J. Gardner, were the most l | surprised men in Wall street when they came down-town at 10 o'clock in Ithe morning and found the following ! notice on the closed doors: "This bank is clecsed pending examination. CHARLES M. PRESTON, Supt.” \ WESTERN. ‘ | AT South Haven, Mich., John MeNeil, father of Ambrose McNeil, an artist of Chicago, died, aged 75 years. WHOLESALE grocers of Indiana met at Terre Haute to form an association for the maintenance of sugar prices. ART Slms and Louis Grether, Akron, Ohio, high-school boys, fought six

y e ground 131,090 barrels for the last week, against 140,985 the week before. | SEVEN HUNDRED men started out from Minuneapolis, Minn., on a wolf ‘hunt. They returned without a scalp. THE United German Society of Hamilton, Ohio, assigned to Christen Benninghofen. Assets and liabilities, $lB,000 each. CULBERTSON THOMPSON, son of the late Judge J. C. Thompson, killed himself at Quincy. He had been suffering from the grip. ' ONE hundred and ninety-seven plans tor the Warhington $1.000,000 State ‘ Capitol at Olympia have been placed in competition. l MRS SUTHERLAND, the divorced - wife of R. J. Sutherland, committed fsuicide at Albuquerque, N. M., by cut- ' ting her throat. ' REMAINS of five Aztec towns which formerly had a population of from fif- ' teen to twentv thousand have been -disecovered near Eddy, N. M. ’ A PROMINENT society woman of 'Sioux City, Mrs. S, R. Russell, has commenced suit for SIO,OOO damages for ' breach of promise against Charles T. Fitts, a prominent hardware merchant. A DISPATCH from Cerrillos, N. M., | says: “A race war has broken out at Laguna del Gallo, Lincoln County. A dispute arose between Mexicans and Americans over the ownership of a herd of sheep. In a battle that followed five Americans and nineteen Mexicans were killed.” MicHAEL McGILL, an employe of the Cleveland Stone Company at North Amherst, Ohio, while suffering from 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. THE “Black Creook” is winning another big success at McVicker's Chicago Theater. It only seems yesterday since this spectacle of uncommon splendor and of a reputed wickedness, which exceeds its merits in these days, left Chicago. There is no lessening in the extravagant richness of “The Crook.” Its ccintillating armor, its scenery and quaint specialties are even better than they were during the summer. The applause the opening night was great. Pretty Louise Montrose and ' tumbling Tom O'Brien were called out again and again, as was the “Bowery” ballet, and the wonders this time of the production, “The Heras.” The Heras are a family of acrobats who perform in full evening dress, two women and five men, the women wearing dresses. They are indeed remarkable. THE other evening a man and woman, well dressed and of good appearance, entered C. D. Peacock’s jewelry store at State and Washington streets, Chicaco, and asked to be shown come diamond rings. After overhauling forty l trays of rings an inexpensive solitaire was selected and a deposit made. The 'couple promised to return the next morning and pay the vrest of the money and -get the ring.

‘They left the store and a few minates | later the clerk, in counting his trays, | found but thirty-nine. On overhauli{xg 3 the stock, he found that une of the most valuable trays was missing. The police were notified, but the well-dressed ; couple had apparently succeeded in," making their escape. The value of the goods taken is hard to determine. Mr. Peacock said that the trayseach : contained from $5,000 to $50,000 worth | of diamonds, and that the tray taken | was one of the most valuable he had. SOUTHERN. DR. ROBERT HOGG, of Bramwell, W, | Va., shot himself through the head. | ALLEN COUSANS was hanged at | Knoxville, Tenn., for the murder of his | wife in May last. i THE Revs. W. B. Sutherland and | James Smith, Supervisors of Dickinson % County, have beer committed to jail at | Clintwood, Va., for contempt of court. Two WOMEN named Williamson and Alexander were drowned in the Tombigbee River at McCary’s Ferry, Ala., while attempting to rescue the child of the latter. : NORTH CAROLINA people are worked | up over a curious display in the heav= ens the other night. To some persons | it looked like a star with a brilliant tail, while to others it resembled a fiery serpent. One colored astronomer dis tinctly saw the letters “W. W. W.J§ while another traced the word, “Pré~ | pa!‘e.” oy y £} e el | ~ WASHINGTON. @ C. W. COCKERILL, of Glasgow, M, | Clerk of the House District of Colu bia Committee, died at Washingzton. § | . MR. WILSON’S tariff bill will be taken up immediately upon the assembling of the House after the holiday recess. | THREE new States are likely to be | admitted by the present Congress. They are Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. A PLOT to kidnap Ruth Cleveland, in expectation of a large ransom, was dis-_ covered by the Abilene (Kas.) police in letters written from Washington to a crank. Two women are implicated in the scheme. The kidnaping was to have been done in January. Steps have been taken to arre=t the gang. THE minority report of the Ways and Means Committee, embodying the views of the Republican members on | the proposed tarift legislation, was given out Thursday night. From their peint of view the surprising feature of the Wilson bill is that it will lower the revenue §74,00,000 below the revenue of 1893 and this while the treasury is already depleted. The bill is called a makeshift, instead of a manly attack at the princip’e of protection, and according to the minority all the objections raired by the dominant partK l held good against this bill. An attack | is made on the free raw materials prop- | osition and on the proposed change | from specific to ad valorem duties. ; The report closes with a dissertation | on the effect of the bill on labor. FOREIGN, GERMAN parers think the fate of m Rexchstag s that ot ladigdl”_in - | M. REYNAL, French Minister o o Interior, has advised police prefectsito watch the meetings of Socialists. IN GENERAL TRANSSHIPMENTS of grain at the ‘ ports of Kingston and Portsmouth, Ont., amount to 15,00 ,000 bushels. FRANK GORDON, of Chicago, was' murdered for his money by Mexicans in Presido County, near the Rio, Grande. ; JUSTICE FRAZER, of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of that | province. | A.S. TANNER and Ralph Grant quar- ' reled about escorting Miss Virginia ' Gleason from church at Selma, Ala. : Grant was killed and Tanner is in jail. | The girl was crazed by fright and has l not recovered her mind. { THE Baltimore and Ohio Finance ° Committee has authorized the payment ! of the customary dividend of 3 per f cent. on the preferred stock on the | business for the six months ending ! Dec. 31. The net earnings of the en-! tire system for November show a net : increase of $96,957. i l MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. 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THE BLAST OF DEATH;t : R A OSSR | t A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN TEN.: . NESSEE, ! Missouri Pacific Traln Robbers Despoil | Even the Porter—Santa Fe, Most Exten- | sive System In the World, in the Hands of Receivers. Sawmill Workers Blown to Pleces. A BOILER at Whittle's sawmill, near Knoxville, Tenn., exploded. The plant : was completely demolished and four men were instantly killed. All of the | men leave families who are dependent ' on them for support. Five more were . injured. So great was the force of the | exposion that a cylinder head from the engine was thrown a hundred feet away with such force that it struck and | knocked out a support from under the ! Marietta and North Georgia Railroad ' bridge. : i Thorough Work of Train Robbers. ’i THE southbound passenger train No. ; 82, on the Iron Mountain division of | the Missouri Pacific, was held up and | thoroughly robbed on Saturday even- | ing by five masked men at Semin- ' ole Station, Indian Territory, five miles south of Coffeyville. The ! ‘engineer, James Harris, was care- | *Wi‘t;g a Winch e?&’i', while the re ‘proce:d-d to rob the mail, express car t ‘and every passenger on the train, from i | the smoker to the sleeper. They even | took everything the porter had. The leader was a tall man, who went through the cars and relieved the ! frightened passen%zers of their money ' ang valuables, while the party kept up a fusillade with their Winchesters | and revolvers. They secured a la.rp:e! amount of booty, it is thought fully | SB,COO. S Santa Fe in Court. THE expected in the railroad world has happened. The Atchison, Topeka | and Santa Fe and St. Louis and San‘ Francisco Railroads and branches, comrising the Santa Fe system proper, Eave been placed in the hands of three ! receivers. The apnlicution was made | by the Union Trust Co.of New York. Al-| though the press of the country has an- ‘ ticipated the result for some time past, not until the death of Chairman George | (. Magoun at New York, was any im- | mediate action contemplated. The | ! Santa Fe has over 9,000 miles of track, | ' and was the most extensive system in t the world. The directors make a state- i ment giving the cause for the action as the siudden failure of the pending negotiations for relief frcm the financial stringency. ' Throat Cutting War. ‘ INJUNCTIONS failing to rid the Fili-! ‘ son General Electric Company of the | numerous competitors in the electric { lighting business at Chicago, the big | trust has determined to run them out L of the field by cutting prices below all ' competitors. A sweeping reduction of 25 per cent. on every grade of lamp it manufactures has been made, and cir- ' culars announcing the cut are being : throughout the land. DR. MEYER, alleged poisoner at New York, will recure a new trial through the incanity of Juror Lowe. ; ELwoop, Ind., is to have another tin plate mill, such an enterprise hav- ‘ ing been incorporated with $300,00 i capital. j NOTWITHSTANDING efforts at com- | promise, Director Piarce was one of . seven indicted for bank wrecking as Indianapolis. : | AT St. Louis, Theodore G. Case, of { Chicago, secured a judgment against ; the St Louis and Hannibal Railway for . 83,500 for legal service, 1 ; ~Mgs. MAGUIRE, wife of a laborer { living in Niagara Falls, N. Y., has i been informed that she is the heir tc “an estate in England which will give § her $4,350,000 and a life intercs® in the | Molesworth estate. | 1 Davip L. How, proprietor and cash. } tier of the First National Bank of . Shakoje>, Minn., shot himself. De- | , spcndency and domestic and fina-ncia,f! | troubles are assigned as the cause. He | i had $55,000 insurance cn his life. I i JOBN RUSH, who keeps a hotel at - Odells Lake, Ohio, rccently saved the i life of a lad who had bLroken througt | the ice while skating. The boy was pearly frozen, and Rush gave him sz drink of whisky, which made the boy ! drunk. His father had Rush arrested | and fined 310 for giving whisky to ¢ minor. ' | SHOPPERS in John Wanamaker's | | Philadelphia store were startled by | the attempt of a young girl to commis | suicide by taking laudanum. Her life | was saved with difficulty. The gir! | gave her name as Marion Carlisle, anc said her home is in Frankfort, Ky. She | arrived in the city the previous even ‘ ‘ ing, and, bzsing a stranger withou | ' money, walked the streets all night. | TrOMY LAFOR, the New Orleans millionaire colored reul estate owner, i died at the age of 82 years. He was ¢ | i native of New Orleans, bit was edu. | cated abroad, being fluent in English. | ! French, and Spanish. This year he i built a colored orphan asylum and| home for colorei aged and infirm | Lafor owned hous s in every section! |of the city. His wealth isestimatcd at | | $820,000. ' ' THE barn of J. L. Shallcross, a stock: man at Anchorage, Ky., was burned.’ I together with thirty horses and 10( | head of cattle. The loss is $45,000. The Bay View Lumber Company at i West Norfolk, Va., was destroyed by | fire. Loss, about $50,000; insurance - unknown. ! AT Baltimore, Md., S. H. Hart, whe - was the President of the State Banlk of Buckley, Wash., was arrested on the ! charge of embezzling $30,000 of the | funds of that bank. The authoritie: of ' Buckley offered a reward of $1,600 for ! Hart's arrest. : ' SPAIN is urging an immediate sett! - ; ment upon the Sultan of Morocco. ! One regiment may b> recaliel. 5 GLADSTONE announced in the Com- ' mons that the Duke of Edinburgh re- g nounced one of his allowances, amounting to §75,000 yearly.

'HOW TO BE( OME FAMOUS. One Act Often Enougt to Win a Death. less Name. In the annals of the past are written the names of many men and women who became famous or notorious through the commission of yne act. Soldiers there are by the score whose memory wi'l be connected with a single battle; authors, who will be remembered for only a single book or poem; men in all the various ‘ walks of life; speakers, lawyers, statesmen, rulers, murderers and sther criminals, who but for the performance of one act wonld have re‘mained in obscurity forever. ~ Sparta left no literature, no monu‘me::ts, no ruins, no art works, nothing but Thermopyle, and yet that people and the heor ¢ defense of the - pass in the mountains by Leonidas ;will never be forgotten while time itself shall last. We see Horatius at ;the bridge, defending it against the | advancing army of Porsena, but we never hear of him again. Cincin- ! natus left his plow §to become dictator of the Roman people, but henceforth all historians neglect to men'tion him. Regulus won a deathless ' name by returning to Carthage, after ~his warning to the Romans, ana sub- ' mitting to a cruel death, but this is ' the only time his name is mentioned. iufion‘ma.mm“uwzawmuiors, eroes and others wha once ! and once only to the reader. | In more modern times how many ' even great men are thought of except 'in connection with a single event. | Charles Martel defeated the Moham'medans at Tours, and for this one achievement Christians of all future % ages will reverence his name. Wel;]ington and Blucher were great soldiers before the battle of Waterloo, but had that battle not been fou:ht their names would not be as they now are on the tongue of nearly every ' school boy in the land. Cernwallis appears only at Yorktown. Who remembers anything about the hero of l New Orleans except that memorable | engagement which was fought after !a treaty of peace had been already ! signed? Harrison will live in history ‘as the hero of Tippecanoe, Commo- | dore Perry for the glad message he | sent after his victory on lLake Erie, ; ““‘We have met the enemy and they | are ours;” Capt. Lawrence for his ' dving words, *‘Don’'t give up the | ship,’ and Winkehied for his one act in opening his arms to receive the | Austrian lances. Noone remembers Gates’ disistrous expedition in South i Carolina, but no one forgets his viec--1 tory over Burgoyne at Saratoga. The i battle of Gettysuurg made Gen. Meade ! forever famous. | As the centuries pass Benedict Ar- | nold’s noble work at Montreal and | Saratoga will fade away. He will { not be forgotten, however, as the | traitor. Sergeant Jasper at Charles- ' ton won for himself a niche in history, { by holding a flag above the ramparts, . but no mention is made of him again. | The Seriptures continually refer to : s men of whom no future reference is sade. MWeaw, RWawanlve.seldierly. ! brother of the deceitful Jacob. we ' catch but a passing glimpse of, when [ he gave up his birthright for a mess |of pottage. Rehoboam, Sargon Tig- | lathpileser, Sennacherib, Asa, Sar- | danapalus and many more, narrowly j escaped oblivion. Nebuchadnezzar | was the Napleon of his age, and yet | we get only a few snap shots at him i from the prayer of Daniel and one or :-two historic writers. Judas might have been easily forgotten but for the i betraval of his master; Pilate isseen i but a single time in :the pages of the | Gospel, although we learn more about | him from Josephus; Stephen the tirst | martyr, Ananias and Sapphira and ! dozens ot others, are destined to live i in the minds of all future genera- { tions because of the accident of for- . tune which made them a single time I worthy of notice by historians. ; The love of noctoriety has led tc , many tragedies, mnst men knowing i that they are likely to be soon for- { gotten if they do not do some great | good or some great harm. Guiteau | preferred being know as a great crim- | inal to being never known -at all, and the same ambition for fame or { itch for notoriety made Erostiatos ! the incendiary of Diana’s temple. | By this single performance he became { immortal despite the most strenuous | efforts of the Town Council of { Ephesus. After he had been put to ' death it was ordered that his name | | should never be pronounced, but the | passage of the edict defeated its ob- 1 | Ject, and every ancient historian who ‘ i had occasion to mention Ephesus re- | called the story of Erostratus and the ! { Temple of Diana. l ‘ For this reason 1t Lehooves public | i and prominent men and women to \ | be on the outiook for assassin cranks. ' Prendergrast will be known in his- ‘ tory as the murderer of Carter Hari rison. Russell :age ontlived Nor- ' i cross, his would-be murderer, but , | Who can say which name will live | | the longest? The love for notoriety | ; is strong: and if men can not become | ; famous by fair means many will by | ' foul. Preston Brooks is recalled as I ' the South Carolina hot head who as- | 'sauited sSenator Sumner, and who | can recall one thing that J. Wilkes | ’ Booth ever did before he murdered ’ i Lincoln? ’ Lhe same is true in the literur}'i world. Defoe might as well have | | never written anything except Rob- [ ! inso Crusoe, though he esteemed 1t | only lightly. Cervantes is known ‘ I only as the author of L'on Quixote, | Bunyan as the author of Pilgrims | i I'rogress, Milton as the author (nf'[‘ ' Paradise Lost, Baxter as the author | , of Saints’ Rest, Goethe as the author of Faust, Meredith as the author of ‘ Lucile and Pce as the author o The | l Raven. In music, sculpture, pniut-l ' ing, and architecture the same isaiso | true, and the moral that may be ‘ | drawn from all this is that man ' stauds the best chance of be‘ng re- ’ 'membered who does one thiqg and ! does it well. 3

P ——— B - P O DOINGS OF CONGRESw. e ———————— MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. | At the Nation's Capital —What Is Being Done by the Scnate and House—oOld Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Consid< ered. The Scnate and House. Brazillan cable, federal elections and public relief were the measures that were discussed in the Senate Tuesday. President Cleveland seut the name of Wayne MacVeagh to the Fcnate for confirmation ~as ambassador to Italy, and a big ~batch of Presidential appointments were taken up and confirmed.. Chalrman Wilson, of the Committee on Ways and Means. formally introduced the new tariff bill In the House. After filibustering which delayed matters the House passed the urgency deficiency bill. senators on Wednesduy discussed the need of go-d roads and passed the urgency deficlency Dbill without amendment. Mr. Hoar attacked the lezality of Blount’s appointment as Commissioner to Hawail Nominations of many Illinois postmaseters were sent in. Wavne MacVeagh was confirmed as ambassador to Ttaly. The New York and Now Jersey bridge bill, as amended lin conference, was passed by both houses. Secretary Carlisle’s report was submitted to Con-ress. He.recommends an issue of bonds to increuse the treasury’s resources. fl The House of Representatives did n® @ ing 'Thursday, a spirit of opposition « & O velopin'z to everything preseusca - [ m ¥ upon the assembling of the Housu a after the holiday recess. In the Senate, Senator Cullom made objections to the confirmation of two Illinois postmasters : who are not wanted by his colleague, Palmer. Eight comraauders of merchantmen in Brazilian waters submitted an appeal for protection against allezed interference of insurgents. Both houses adjourned to reconvene Jan. 3, 1804, EXPENSIVE GOVERNMENT. The Senate Costs Over a Million Dollars Annually. Though the United States Senate is composed of but 88 men, its running expenses are over $1,000,600 gearly, a sum greater than was required to support all the departments of the Government the first two years of its existence. That a large part of this sum is squandered in large salaries to superfluous and other employes, and in paying steep prices for everything, useful and useless, that it buys, is obvious to anyone who will read the annual reports of the secretary of that body. The appropriations for the Sznate are recapitulated by a correspondent as follows: For compensation and mileage of Senators, $495,000: for clerical and other employes, $418,000: for “contingent expenses,” $126,009; so that while it takes less than a half million dollars to pay Senators. it requires more than a half million in addition teo make them serviceable to the country. It is under the head of coatingent expenses that one can most often “smell a mouse.” This fund in numerous instances resembles charity, in that it “covereth a multitude of sins.” Out of it funerals, “junkets,” and odds and ends of various kinds and amounts are raid. Occasionally, when there is a great pressure for place, an appropriation for furniture or material is diverted to the payment of employes: and walking paintpots, car- - : ; range sights .| about the Capitol. Again W on the rolls as “folders of documents,” who are either emplO{ed in some other capacity cr not at all, and yet certify monthly to having folded so many thousand speeches as will entitle them i to draw $75 or sloo—vretty fair wages for wrapping up books and speeches. This fund is used also to pay for three btarbers, whose occupation as such is nowhere disclosed, they being probably classed as laborers, and thus euphemistically dis;i?uise-i the tonsorial ar- - tist is compelled to share the modesty of statesmen. iow the World Wags. JOHN W. KNIPE and son were killed by the explosion of a thresher boiler at Logan, Ohio. Ep ROsSs, colored, 19 years old, was l arre-t>d for breaking into the depot at Fort Gibson, 1. T. SURVEYOR OF CUSTOMS ALEXANDER, of Omaha, has sent his resignation to the President. TEN prisoners disa med the guards in the Palarm convict camp, Arkansas, and secured their liberty. HENRY GERBER, a Warsaw (Ind.’ gardener, was fatally beaten by a murderous visitor in search of pluander. THE strikes at Olneyville, R. L., involving 5,700 persons, fell through, the manufacturers making slight concessions. THE Buffalo Real Estate Exchange appointed a committe: o five tc urge ’th«g Legislature to enlarge the Erie ’ Canal. : A NEW YORK relative of Montana ‘ Millionaire Davis thinks there is a plan to defraud her and wants the case re- ' opened. ¢ ‘ GEORGE DEBRULER, a peacemaker at Petersburg, Ind.. found it necessary to ‘ kill James Campbell, one of the beiligerents. ANNIE WAGNER told ‘her story in her trial for poisoning the Koesters, at Indianapolis, making a good iml pression. ll HoG cholera is epidemic near Webi ster City, lowa., anl hundreds of ani- { malsare dying. The loss so far reaches | $45,000. | NEWTON HANKS hanged himself to | a rafter at Pittsburg, Kan. He was | attired in feminine clothes of the finest | quality. | JoHN HEACOCK, a reje-ted suitor, | killed Annie ard Sadie Hemple, near Burbank, S. D., and then put a bullet } in his brain. A. J. SMALL, agent of the Big Four ! Railroad at Kesslers., Ohio. has been | arrested, a shortage in his accounts l being alleged. CAPT. PAUL KERZ, a river man and l a prominent citizen of Galena, I, ' dropped dead from heart failure on the ! street there last evening. l HUNTER WILSON, a stockman in Baxter County. Arkansas, was mur- | dered and his wife fatally wounded by robbers who secured $1,0060. BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON has renounced political activity for some time in order to travel and collect material for a new dramas, which is to - deal with social questions, especially labor problems.