St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 February 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDEN:. m:m_f——_.——————,—— | WALEEBTON, . .. ... 'INDIANA TAR R T SSASY U I e IS We e HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT HARD BATTLE BETWEEN ORT!Z AND VASQUEZ. Notel Forger Escapes from an Indiana Jaii—Brazil's Rebel Admiral May Die— Distinguished German Pianist Dead— Mexican Woman Devoured by Bears. One Hundred and Fifty Killed. SALVADOR adviecs say that a des Berate battle teok place at Tegucigulpa <tie2n the forces commanded by Gen. Crtiz and President Vasquez, lespecJMively. Gen Ortiz succeeded in opening a breacl in the defenses of the city. The number of woun fed on both ~ tliesis large, although it is not yet d *l'nitely known. Oane hundred and fil.y were kiled. Luving the battle ~ there wasa hand-to-hand tight batween ~ the regiments « f infantry. Gen. Crtiz ~ claim . the victory and says the road to - Teguciga’pa is now oren. Tie teleoun sto Amalpa, h wever. say the city 1s still in pofiaa‘giog of Vasjuez., : : Armstrony at Larze. JALVIN ARMSTRONG, Tipton County's Deputy Trcasurer, convicted of emt e zling $423,200 of the pub ic {unds, cscaped from fail at Kokomo, Ind., the othe: evening. While the jaler was feed 1 g the yrisoners he pretended to be aslcep, and while the Sheritt was in aremcte part of the jail he slipped out § a Dbar previcusly sawed off, ran down the corridor to the street entrance and waz gone. He was not miszed until morning. Watson Pitzoer, of Tipton, who was in the conspicacy to release Cal before, was arvrested suspected of furnishing him money and a saw while attending the triat Armsteong was to have been taken to the p.ison on the day of his escap.. Admiral da Gama May Die. ADMIRAL SALDANHA DA GAMA, the Bra-ilian rebel commander, who was wounded in the neck and srm during the battle of Armacao, is in a critical condition. It was at first supposed that the Admiral s wounds were insignificant, but now it i 3 said that he is so geriously injured that he may die. Every eff rt is being made to save the Admiral’s life. Caught in a Cave-in. THIRTEEN lives were lost in a mine at Plymouth, Pa. The men we:e caught in a cave-in. All the victims, with the exception of two, have families. Onme of those lost his wife only a month ago, and four little children survive them. Consejuently the disaster may throw eleven widows and thirty-six children on the world's charity. L S NEWS NUGGETS, BrRADY, Corbett’s manager, will send a man to Europe to arrange with the National Club for the Jackson fight. - IN two hours a blaze in the Colt [Mirearm Factory, at Hartford, Conn., h d | destroyed about $150,000 worth of pro - erty. MRS. HERRAT, Bonne Terrve. Mo., locked her two children in and left the house. The house and children were burned. JOSEPH REINDEAU was found in the woods near Concord, N. H., and two persons arrested for killing him were released. r ; TaHE Board of Trade, Duluth, Minn., was destroyed by fire. = Loss, aboitt £IOO,OOO. Frozen hydrants handicapped the firemen. A. M. VAN AUKEN, chargel with forgery, was arrested at (uincy. He was unable to leave the hospital, and the Sheriff accented a bond of sf),mm‘ for his appearance when wanted. | MGR. SATOLLI has written a letter | uphelding Bishop Bonacum, recently tried at Lincoln, Neb., and condemning Fathers Corbett and Phelan for taking a church case into the civil courts. A VERY sad occurrence is reported from the Upper Gila, Mexico. A Mexican woman named Sisto Wesley, who had lost a little child a short time since, went to the graveyard to mourn over the grave of her little one. and while there two bears set upon her and devoured her. HANS GUino voN BuLow, the distinguished German pianist anl composer, is dead, in Cairo, Fgypt. Von Bulow's career is one of the most remarkable among those of the great modern masters of music in Europe. He was born at Dresden, Jan. 8, 18 0. Unlike many other famous a ti-ts and ereators in his field of art he did not give in early childhood the slichtest indication of the remarkable gifts with which nature had endowed him. It was not until after a serious illness of | brain fever in his ninth year that he | evinced a taste for musical study | DELEGATES from all United ,\‘mn»‘\ territory west of the Mississipi River | and of the portion of Louisiana lying east of that river assembled at San Francisco in the sixth annual session of the Transmississippi Commercial Congress. 'The obect of the congress is to consider questions relating to irrigation, arid lands, the silver issue. mininz lands, matiers relating to the department of the interior and to the Pacific and Gulf coasts, as well as the question of the Nicaracua Canal. Over twenty States were represented. W. J. McUonn-11, of Boise City, Idaho, was the President of the Congress IN return for a loan to the Government years ago, H. F. De Haven, Peru, Ind., expects to secure $4,060,000. ExXISTENCE of the Commercial Club of Indianapolis. Ind., is threatened over an alleged misappropriaticn of funds. TWENTY perscn;: are rveported to have frozen to death during the blizzard in Oklahoma. Near C ossa farmer living in a tent kiiled his wife, five children and 1 i nself in order to end their sufferin..

T IREIIIEIRTITIIIS B, LZASTERN. o - CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW denies the story that he is to wed the widow of Colonel Ellictt F. Shepard. FOUR herds of cattle in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., are found to be suffering from tuberculosis. MoORE than 200,000 persons in New York are out of employment. More than 80 per cent. are suffering. ‘ AFTER years of labor to solve the perpetual moticn problem Charles Heine hanged him:elf in New York. NEW YORK anarchists are moving ty> secure the release of Alexander Berkman, the would-be murderer of H. C. Frick. CORPORAL TANNER has had an additional two and one-half in<hes amputated from the stumps of hi: legs at Brooklyn. PHILADELPHIA Grand Army posts pretested against the use in the schools of Ellis' history. saying it was flea<onable in tcne. THE Right Rev. Father Casey, Vicar General of the Erie diocese.is dead. He was 48 vears old, and left an estate worth $250,000. THE First Nattonal Bank of Watkins, N. Y., was compelled to close. | Cashier Love, who has disappeared, is PREDDeoshauty i, s 800 | Tak Philadelphia Trade League has decided to start a popular subscription for a mcentment to George W. Childs and A. J. Drexel. LATIN placards threatening “death to rich men” were found fastened on the doors of Chauncey epew, Astor, Vanderbilt, and other wealthy New Yorkers. THE Godey Publishing C mpany, publishers of Godey's Magazine and various books and periodicals in New | York, assigned. The magazine is one of the oldest in the United States, WESTERN. i DRAINAGE-CANAL strikers attempted | to wreck an Alton train. ‘ BURGLARS attacked Mrs. Duhrer | and a woman companion at St. Louis, i The former shot and wounded one man. | ~ FORrR printing unpleasant things in his books Historian Bancrolt was ex- | lpellorl from the Society of Califoruia | Pioncers, ‘ Ar Chicago, “The Modern Churen” was formally inaugura‘ed. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jounes conducted the first | services ’ ~ THE registration of Chine-c¢ at San | Francisco is on the inerease. Two hun- | ‘dred and twenty-five certificates av: i< | sued daily. ~ FREQUENT postoflice robberies in 'Ohio and Indiana lead the Government | inspectors to think an organized f;:mg'! is at work. TWENTY-ONE pupils, seven of them | girls, were suspended from the Mount Horeb (Wis. ) academy for attending a masked ball. A MASKED man held up a rassenger train near Carson, Nev., and in the express car secured a box of coin containing $2,000. UNDERTAKER JUDSON. charged with perjury in saying he buried bodies which he sold, cannot be found by” Milwaukee officers. DUBUQUE, lowu, Droweries and ,iiq-! nor dealers appointed a ¢ mmittee to | work with the Levislature for favors- | ble legislation. | DrRUMMER LoOBB. of Minneajo'is, ; Minn, ¢omplained to Cleveland (Ohio) | police that he hed been “held up” by ' fellow travelers, = ' ; AGRICULTURAL HALL. Jackson Park, | Chicago, was damaged %20,000 by fire set bv incendiaries. Two yprevious at- 4] tempts had failed. | RESOLUTIONS criticising Secretary | Morton were adopted by the National ! Farmers' Alliance. An address to the ; public was issued. | ‘ PASTOR JONES, of a Union Grove, | i Ohio, negro church, was arrested for ' “following the vocation of prophet without a license.” HENRY RENKEN is raid to have embezzled $15.00) from the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Talmage, Neb.. recently suspended. A BRANCH of the Harrison international Telephone Company is to be formed in Missouri, &and the operation of exchanges begun. MyNoIE, Ind.,, Free Methodists stampeded through the windows of the woodshed where a revival was in pregress at the cry of fire. i PROCEEDINGS have been begun against six of the largest lumber firms of Minnesota on charges ofl stealing over 10,000,000 feet of pine from forests belonging to the State. THE Pauline Hall Ogera (‘ompany,! accompanied by Richard Golden, pregented the “Princes: of Trebizonde™ | last week at McVicker's Chicago 'H""_.i ater. Offenbach’s brilliant opera bouffe was given a mo t enthusiastic \, leception. This, no doubt, was due to { the company presenting it, which cer- ‘ tainly is the strongest seen in Chieago in years in comic opera. It includes Eva Davenport, Josephine Knapp, John Ransone, Fred Solomon. Richard Golden. and others. “Princess of Trebizonde” will be presented during the entire engagement. \ A1 Lincoln, 111., a plof was d'scovered by which Ida Shells ard Georgie Will- | iams had intended to Turnish the notorious “Dave” Goodpasture with dynamite encugh to blow up the county jail. Goodpasture, with a compan--lom,. Davidson, was sentenced t 5 gix yedrs lin Joliet for larceny. The two girls had secured three sticks of 45 per cent. power with cap and | fuse, and Goodpasture expacted by the aid of a string dropped out of a corridor window to get his explosives from them. DBut as Sheriff Hayes and ) | his deputy were nearly worn out the | prisoners were locked in their cells - | nearly an hour earlier than usual, and thus the dastardly scheme was unwittingly foiled. : T faithful Sisters of Charity who | have been nursing the patients at the : hospital for contagious diseases in ('hi- | caco have been themselves stricken | | with s«mallpex. Two are down with the disease, one being so seriously sick

that her life is despaired “of, the| other quite ill, but not danseronsle | 'BO. These sick nurses are Sjstes | Kate Schleich and Sister Albing Hyme | mert. Sister Hummert has f,hg ease In Its worst form, and it h» doubtful if she will lecover. Schleich is not 25 ill as her comrado. | and it is thought she will recover. | There are now ninety-one cases of the | disease in the hospifal, not including | the sick sisters. There were 342 teans | of the disease in the hospital duripe | the month of January. During T m«»»nth the average number of new cases per day has been about four, SOUTHERN. a JACK I RINCE, bicyclist, beat a horse | in a ten-mile race at Jacksonville, Fly, ALL the conviets on the Retrieve plantation near Velasco, Texas, forty | in number, escaped and bloodhofi%% are on their track, e A J. CLAYTON, living in Cumberland | County, Kentucky, was tortured by robbers uvntil he revealed where his | money was hidden. Mississippi and Louisiana were | swept by a cycline. On> death is pe- | ported at Greenviile, Miss., and angfh- | er near Port Hudson, La. § { A SPECIAL from Nashville, TEs | says: There was a striking scollliy. | | the Gospel Tabernacle here Thyflles | 5 ndionce. was ex-- SROT | John J. Ingalls, of Kansas. ThollXSenator was deeply interested in r. Jones' remarks, and when the call §as made for those who had reyen’ed dnd wanted to lead letter lives to come forward and shake his hand, the first to respond was the ex-Senator. “Mr. Jones,” he said, “vour sermon has touched me. 1 indorse every word you have raid.” “May Ged bless you,” was | the evangelist’s ve-ponse, and the | dramatic scene closed. i NEAR Houston, Texas, train wreckers removed the rails and fish-plates on ! the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail- | i road. When the passenger train came { along the engine passo! safely over, t but the baggage and mail coaches { jumped the track and roll~d down the f tank, followed by the smoker, which { landed on top of them. .Joe Elliott, { & brakeman, was sent back to flag a { freight train that was soon due., He I had not proce-ded 100 yards when a { volley from ambush was fired "I}’:‘" him. Four bullet: took effect in his } body. The erew in the meantime, aided ! i by passengers, were at work extricat- | ing the men buried in the wrecked [ ears, and feared to go to the flagman’s | |re cue, He, however, erawled, bh'ed-t { ing and wounded, back to the train. | Cther members of the train crew weps { seriously injured by the dnrnilm(‘nt.i | Sheriff’s posses ave in pursuit of the { bandits, ! WASHINGTON. i ’ CONGRRSSMAN G, W, HOUK dropped ! | dead while making & call in Washingl ton. He was 64 vears old. CONGRESSIONAL action is urged as ! necessary t) bring about a uniform bill of lading and classification THE President has vwmmutul’%l_ sentence of S. K. Kennedy, con : of falsifying the records of the ¢ -~ National Bank, to two voars @ ix months, s ’ f ' POLITICAL. i i o ': I AL L McLAURIN was elected by the | »: Mississippi legislature to succeed F. | |C. Waithall in the Unitel States | l Senate ! i DEMOCRATS stayed away, and the ’ | Now Jers v Republican legislators : | elected & State Treasurer and ('uuip-g ; troller. f § THE President has sent to the Senate ; | the following nominations: William G. | ‘i Qweeney, f lowa. Sut ‘\v"\“l“flf Customs } [ for the port of Dubuque, lowa. Post | i masters: Michigan—J. W. Parkhurst, | K oldwater. Nebraska—J. H. Harley, t | Lincoln. South Dakota— A, W. Pratt, | { Aberdeen: Joehn Stolte, Chamberlain, ; TH ¢ \labama Kolbite Cenvention i nominated a foull State ticket as fO]-: | lows: Governor. Reuben F. Kolb, of | i Monteomery: Secretary of State, J. C ‘ | Fonville, of (lenshaw County: Audi- | | tor, W. B. Lynch, of Macon County; | Treasurer. T. K. Jones, of Hale Coun- ; | tv: Superintendent of Fducation, J. P. | ; (‘)H\‘(-;:‘ ol Talapcosa ('('\Hlt.\'l Att raney i | General. Warrven Reese, of Montgom- i | ery County. l | FOREIGN, ’; | % i EGYypr's Khedive opened the Gener- I | al Assembly in person. He was cheered | { upon finishing his speech. ; | PopPE Lro will soon print an eneyeli- | | cal in which he will urge uaion of tte | Eastern and Western churches. l SATISFACTION is felt in Russia ovar the speech of the German emperd upon the importanee of a commercis | treaty. . . GLADSTONF told a correspindent i would not resion, snithat he woltsle (. figcht the knglish lords to the bit ; { end. (T | Tae British stcamer Primrose ag i ile German steamer Adolph Wallle! ! mann have been wrecked.” Their L'l‘c\\l\; were saved. i ‘ A DIsPAICH from Pernambuco :a_vs! { that the torpedo boat Destroyer and | { five other Peixotist war vessels started | { from Pernambuco. bound south. ‘ t AT Kisheneve, the capital of Bessa- ' i rabia, Col. Gregorieff has been sen- | | tenced to death by a military tribunal. | ‘ Col. Gregovieff was convicted on the ! [ charge of being an Austriun spy. | | A DISPATCH received in Paris fmmi | l the Governor of Senegal states thata | ! French flying column is reported toi : % have been surpried by the Tauregss, | | near Timbuctoo, and defeated. No'! i i further details are given. ! .1 A SERIOUS railroad accident is re- | | ported from near Paris. The train so | which the accident occurred was bound s | for Brussels., with a number of pa sen- | l gers, and was thrown off the rails. It -! is announced by the raiiroad officials l that seven people were kil’ed and tweny | ty injured by the disaster. i ; QUEEN VICTORIA, who is temporarily | - | sojourning at Osborne House her resi--1 l dence ¢n the Islé of Wight is enjoy- | 1 | ing good health. An unfc:-ded ru- | < l mor in some manner gaine . urrency !

;g e = ; MWide(liv disseminated that her Majesty was dead, and from all parts of ‘the world Inquh'ie_s have been received. ‘On Tuesday evemn(ii she gave alarge dinner party at which were present Empress Frederick of Germany, the Prince and Princess of Wales andy their daughters, Pincessess Victoria and ‘Maud, and Prince and Princess Henry of- Batienberg. No doctor has been seen in attendance upon the Queen for some time except her household physieian, Dr. Jemes Reid, who was present at the dinner last night. THE most famous ship of the navy—the cld corvette Kearsarge—has gone to the bottom. The story of her ending was told to Secretary Herltert in a brief message which he reccived from Lieutenant Frederick Brainard, an officer of the ves-el, dated at Colon. | The message, in substance, is as fol- | lows: _ Kearsarge sailed from Port an Prince | Jan.io, for Bluefields, Nicaragua. Was {vgfizfi ,g'ntgloncudor reef Feb. 2. Officers and crew The Kearsarge was ordered on Jan. | 27 to ];roceed to Bluefields to protect American interests that were alleged to be endangered by the troubles %)e-, tween Honduras :nd Nicaragua. Roncador reef, on which the Kearsarge is g.xppo,-.‘ed to have struck, is some two ‘hupdred miles to the northeast from Blucficlds. Immediately on receipt of the cablegram Mrem{ Herbert sent @ message to Lieutenant Brainad diPecting him to charter a vesssel at QIR T Procedt 5 (80 16 His assistance ¢f the shipwrecked men. It is presumed that they are| fiet on the vreef. Commodore msay, Chief of the Bureau of Navigaticn. who kiows the neighborhood, said that the officers and crew would be in no danger on the reef except in very ! eavy weather, and they could easily reach Old Providence, an t island between the reef and the Nica- | ragua coast, in their boats. No fears ! fcr the safety of the ship's company | are entertained at the Navy I)npart-‘ ment in view of lieut. Brainard's dis- | pat:h. The Kearsarge was one of the | o!'dest vessels in the navy with a splendid history. The event with which | the vessel is most closely associated in the public mind was its gallant fight with the Alebama, the Confederate privateer, near Cherbourg, France, June 19 1361, i IN GENERAL i | Corn. BONNIER, in command of tho,; French expedition against Timbuctoo, | was killed by natives, with seventymen., | REPORTS from the Indiana-Kentucky peach section indicate that the crop has been practically ruined by the cold ! weather, : ' DEMANDS of the Union Pacific | threaten the existence of the immigrant pool, on which the stability of rates depend. | A COMMITTEE of the Shiloh Battlefield Asscociation will urge Congress to ‘ purchase the battlefield for a naticnal memorial park. l UNITED STATES MINISTER THOMPSON and Rear Admiral Benham caled | upon President Piexoto at the Brazilian palace in Rio. i THE Iron Trade Review this week says: The market for soft steel has furnished further oncon agcing indications, the past v cek, ard an advance of from S 0 to 70 ceqt:over the lowest prices touched bhin . tuken place. OBITUARY A\t Bloomington, IH.. Architect Henrv A, Miner ;i;:wll Yl':ff‘\cight At Rome, italy, R. M. Ballan tyne, author. At t'eru, Ind., Professor Charles Houch., At Great Fails, ! Mont.,, W. H. landis, aged forty”H‘\':‘. Tue Mexican War Department has issusd its official report of the fight with the band o atleged revolutionists under command of Victer Ochoa: at . Canyvon del Manzano, in the state of C hihuahua. In the tight the I ederal forces lost an officer and five men and 1 two officers and twentyv-four men! woundel. The tro ps killed Hx:l'flwg of the telligerents and took eichteen ! prisoners WHEN May wheat closed Tuesday | night at 67% cents in New York it was thought that bottom had been reached. The opening price Wednesday was t7¢, but inside of fiftecn minutes the ' price fell to 67¢, 674, and finally with one drop to 66%, amid the greatest excitement seen in the wheat pit in years, ! There was a slight reaction after the final record of 661, which is the lowest price at which May wheat has ever | sold, but the market continued weak and active with unusual sales. | MARKET REPORTS, | CHICAGO. ‘ CATTLE—Common to Prime.... 350 @ 550 | HoGs—Shipping Grade 5........ 40) @550 | SHERP—Fair to Ch01ce.......... 220 @4OO WHEAT-NO. 2 Red . .....0.00 s 58 & 59 RN, B i % @ o | BNS 202 @ W i BEE-Ne % 44 @ 47 BUTTER—Choice Creamery..... % @ 928 BaGe—tresh - ... .sl 1@ 15 P OTATOES—Per bu............ 50 @ 6 | > INDIANAPOLIS. : ECATTLE—Shipping.....ccvrienee 30 @ 560 E’Ho«vs‘ Ototeelighboce-==7700 300 @ 5 50 5%:3?-—Commun to Prime..... 200 @& 350 : “\WHEAT—N0.2Red.............. 55 @ 56 f L CORN-—No. 2 White.............. 8 @ fhaTs—No. 4 White.............. 31 @ 38 : ST. LOUIS. i . LLo s o RERIE . e A M ÜBAT—No.2Red...c...ooiinee oS- 0% o EUREN-NG. D 3B @ 4 it sty U ST A S L 30 @ 31 FORK-—~MERR v s 0 1300 @l4 00 CINCINNATI. i BRPEE. 300 WS M. s @b BN g L 200 @S 50 SEHEAT-No. S RBed. ... ... .. o 8 fa N N 0 36 @ 37 DArs--No, 2 Mixed. ... ......... 3@ 39 BN S @ §2 DETROIT. i SISO LER . . 30 @ oes o T @san BRREESEES -L. o o oo @ 3 50 WHEAT -No. 2 Red.............. 58 @ 59 CORN—No. 2 Ye10w............. ¥ d ot | Ble N 0.2 White.............. obo @ Byt TOLEDO. ! WHEATNo. 2 Red ............. 67T @ 58 FORN--No. S Mixed. ... .......... 8 @ 355 AN S-No. 2 White .- ..... ... 3 @ 32 BNO . 9 @ o BUFFALO. | WHEAT-_No. 1 Hard.. .. .. ...... oA 70 g CORN--No. 2 Yellow.. .~ . ... 0@ 41y $HAds Noo2 White . . 8% @ 36 SRR oNa: 2 68 @ a5 . MILWAUKEE. i WHEAT—No. 2 5pring........... 58 @ 58 SN NS 3@ 381 SATS--No. 2 White. ... .0 . ... 2@ -30 RN Lok 6 @ 47 BARLRY-—No. 2 ... 48 @ 30 | Bl Mosa -o0 0 aok @2 m NEW YORK. SMENER D ... . 300 @560 e 0 85 @6OO R RER . L %00 G ! [ WHEAT-No.2Red.. . ... ... 62 @ 64 ' ONG 9. 43 @ 44 OIS White Western. .. /0.0 39 @ & | 8UTTER—Ch0ice................ 2% @ 28 ORI MeSs.. L 0 00 13 @M

'ALL BUTONE RESCUED ‘ s e ———————— CREW OF THE KEARSARGE SAFE | AT COLON. Shipwrecked Officers and Men Brought te Terra Firma by the Steamer City of Para—Another Bomb in Paris—Kilied in ' a Wreck. Kearsarge Crew Safe, WITH one exception, every member of the crew and staff of officors of the United States cruiser Keersarge is safely housed at Colon. The rescue Wwas performed by the City of Para. The cas'aways, numbering 175, were found in very comfortable circumsstances at Roncadcr reef, and all were enjoying gocd health. But for the drowning of one man, the rescue would have b2en one of the most remarkable ever recorded. The drowned man was Anderson Robbins, a second-class fireman. On arriving off the reef the City of Para found the £ea quite rough, but for this full preparation had been made and the plans were executed in a remarkably short time. The joy of the castaways on be; ing taken abeard may be partially imagined but nos de.er&ed. ; l2J:lm old warship was aband ned on Roncador ?et wfth the stars and stripes still Mlying at her peak. » Vengeance in a Bomb. l A YOUNG maa from motives of re-] venge exploded a bomb in a case be- | neath the Terminus Hotel, opposite the | St. Lazare railroad station, in Paris. I ' A man who had just dined raised ;his arm anl threw something intoi | the middle of the room. A ter- | | rific explosion followel. The ocecu- | - pants of the room were paralyzed with | terror. No one dared move, fearing . another explosicn. When courage re- | turned they found the case xlled with ‘ smoke. Lying on the floor were not , less than fifteen persons wounded, | and moaning and bleeding. The | bomb had landed upon a table l around which a party had been ! sitting. Nearly all of these were ! wounded about the legs, scme griev- | ously. The man responsible for this | cowardly act had not bren allowed to escape. As socn as he had thrown the i bomb he ran out. The alarm was given ' by pers ns outside who had heard the - noise, and chase was at once made. ' A number of policemen joined ;| in. The fupitive drew a rovolver, turned, and fired sev- l eral shots, killing a workman and wounding a number of others. One of ’ the men struck was a policeman. His wound is considered fatal. The man ! was captured 150 yards from the case. | Tone man who gave his name as Breton admitted to the police that he was an anarchist and t:d the doctor who dressed his wound that his main object was to avenge Vaillant. Killed in a Wreck, A SPECIAL from Bellevue, 0., says: Two freight trains collided (n the Wheeliug and Lake Erie Road in the storm this morning two miles west of this p'ace Three men were killed. The trains were ranning at full:speed, the blinding snow preventing the engineers from seeing the danger. The collision was terrific, both engines being | smashed into scrap iron. The freight cars were broken into splinters and piled up in utter confusion. A wreck- | ing train with physic’ans was sent ' from Norwalk. wWhen it arrived the | trainmen were still in the wreck, and | were extricated one by one. | | Swept by a Blizzard. | A STORM, which was almost unpreeedented in the area covered and the | amount of snowfall, swept through the | Western States. In the cities, and in ! Chicago especially, business was .stopped by the combination of North- | ern blizzard and Southern hurricane | which swooped down on the z‘it_\'. | BREVITIES, | SR ' GOv. LEWELLING thinks Mrs. Lease is mentally unbalanced. . Two WEST VIRGINIA brothers are said to have lived at Acme for forty | vears on charity. .~ THE Supreme Court of New Jersey may be called upon to settle the Lezis- | lative muddle in that State. ' SIMPLE ceremoniss marked the funeral of Congressman Houk at Dayton. Ohio. The city was erowded. | CHARLES J. M. GWINN, ex-Attorney General of Maryland, died at his home | in Baltimore from an attack of grip. | By carrier pigeon from Saber Island | it is learned the schooner Robert J. | Fdwards was lost with all hands. | | MIKE GORMAN, express robber, | cavght at Salem, Ohio, will return to Saltillo, Pa., without a requisition. i % MosEs HULL, Spiritualist lecturer | "and author, of Chicago, was stiiciken | with paralysis while at Anderson. Ind. ‘ ‘ MALVERN CRESSWORTH, i !XllUlllé" man, claim= to have found a deserted | city in an unvisited secticn of Mexico. PLANTERS of the Lower Mississippi Valley will import German labor to ‘ - supplant the negcoes. who are unreli- | able. ‘ i HEIRS of Jesse L. Vermillion, An- ! derson, Ind., are in a legal fight over disposition of the cld man’s £300,000 estate. ! ARCHIBALD MCKELLAR, prominent in the politics of Ontario, diel at Hamilton. He was born in Scotland in 1816. | NEW YORK police think the placarding of millionaires’ houses was the work of a joker or a crank. | COMMANDANT GRAHAM, of San Francisco, may be court-martialed on charges of tyrannical treatment of his ~lnen. | AL BAUER, ex-base-ball umpire, was suspended as city detective at Columbus, Ohio. ' HENRY BRUCE and Charles and Robert Plunkett were lynched in Arkansas for the murder of an aged couple. . JOHN HART. the Rockford murderer, was sentenced by Julge Shaw ttbui‘ hanged. . REV. JOHN DINGLEDEY was convicted of cruelty to inmates of an orphan’s home at Richmond, Ind., and; fined s€oo. )

R R T DT THE NATION'S SOLON i SOLONS. e —————— SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE. SENTATIVES. Cur Naticrzl Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Propcsed, Discussedl and Acted Upon. Deings of Coneress, In the Eenate Thursday senator Terkins of Californiaz presented memorials of the San Francisco Chamber of (ommerce praying for the annexation of Huwalii. the laying of a cable from the United Stutes to Hawail, and for the completion of the Niearagua canal under .overnment control. A memoriai of the wcol growers against the Wilson Dbill was prescnted by Senator Sherman. Senator Wolcott jresented, without readin: severul amendmeants to the Wilson tariff Lil. After the morning hour the resolution of Senator Stewart denying the rizht of the Secretary of the Treasury to issue the United Stutes bonds and questioninz their valility came up as the regular order. ‘'he memorial resolution in wemory of Representative Mut.ch\er‘_ ot Pennsylvania, who died ut the bezinning of the present Congress. was then presented. Adresses were dellvered by senators Quayv of Pennsylvania, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Hansbrough of North Dakots. and several oth©ors, and the senate udiourned until Monday. In the House the deadlock on Mr. Bland's silver seignioraze bill was broken after four hcurs of continuous fillbustering. when. by u vote of 176 to 4, the House went into the committee of the . whole for consideration of the bill. Onthe final vote sixteen Republicans and all the : populists voted aye, while twenty-two ! Democrats who were ryresent refused to l vote. A billfrom the joint committes on ! expenditures in the departments to» make uniform the methods of acecounting in the ; departments was taken up and passed. i Friday the entre ¢uy in the House was ; consumed in debate on the Bland silver. ! seigniorage bill. the speakers being Messra ! Bland, C. W. stone of Pennsyivania. Mct Keighan, Harter, and Kiigore. After 3 some unimportint routine business, on i motion of Mr. Bland. the House went into | committee of the whole for the consider- | ation of the bill. Mr. Bland explained i in a few-words that he had never agreed to i the striking out of the second section of this | bill, which provides for the ~oinage of all | the bu'lion in thbe treasury. Aside irom ' the question of ra‘sing revenue he re- ' garded the second section as more im- . portant than the firstt Mr. McKeighan 'made a free silver arzument. A gold ' basis uand a2 hizh tatifl. he Seldd lwas discriminatinz against the west in | the in‘erestof the East. «If I had the power.” he said, «I w»onld strike down the | tariff that pro‘ects the East and force it into competition with the West, as the East forces us into competition » Mr. Harter, of Ohio, then took the floor in opposition to the bill. Mr Kilgore, of Texas, ' who made the concluling srzument of the afternoon, contended that if the Government was in necd of money it was better | to coin the sllver seigniorage than borrow | money and pay interest upon the loan. ' The House adjourned Saturday almost immediately after thereading of the journal out of respect for the memory of Representative Houk, of Ohio. Mr. Outhwaite. of Ohio, announced the death of Mr. Houk to the House und requested the appointment ¢f a committee to accompany the remains to Ohio. Appropriate resolutions were adopted and the House adjourned till Monday. The Hawallan controversy occupied the principal time of the senate on Monday, senator Gray of Delaware opening his argument in Gefense of the policy of President Cleveland. Eurly in the session an interesting incident oc-urred in the presentation by Senator Cullom of a petition sitned by 30,000 wool growers of the West protesting against the wool schedlule M the new tariff bili. 7he speech {ot senator Gray in the Hawailan mat- ] ter was< devoted principaliv to an attempt { to prove the compiicity of Minister Stevens ‘whh the revolutionists, A messaze was { received from the Ilouse =nmnouncing the ! ceath of Congressman li-uk% e¢f Ohio. Senator Drice offered a resolution of reI gret and cr ndclence, and the senate adjourned. Iln the House, afier the transac- | tion of some minor busine-s, by spccial | order the remainder of the day was coni sumed in paying a propriate tribute to the memory of the late senator Stanford, of California. At the conclusi uof the eulocies. as a further mark of respect, the liru<e at 4:15 o’elock adjourned. | The Hawaiian resolution was again ! the subject of discussion in the Sfenate Tu 'sday. Senator Gray resumed his arzument in support of President Cleveland's policy and reiterated his charges that the revulutionists were dependent upon the United States minister and the United States forces for support of their movement. The House spent the day in debate on the Bland seigniorage bill. the principal speeches bheing those by Mr. Culberson of Texas in favor of the measure and Mr. Ccombs of New York in opposition. Mr Warner. a Democrat from New York. who concluded tha detate for the day. amncunced himse'f in { favor of permitting the Government to coin ! and issue all kinds of money. Terrible Cruelty. A case of fiendish cruelty has been | discovered at Bellefonte. Fa., and Mil- | ton Harman and his wife are ncw In | the county jail. They are charged ! with inhumanly beating the latter’s 10- { vear-old child. The boy was found ly- { ine in a bedroom with bread just ocut lnf reach. He had been starved and | beaten times without number, and his | emaciated little form was covered with | bruises. sores, cuts and burns. Partof | his upper lip had been torn away by ,f the fat: er. { Flis arms and chest were covered { with cats, which had Feen inflicted | with a butcher knife. Across the t:ahdomen was a horritl2 burn which | the father had made with a red-hot ‘naker. One ear had been lopped off with a corn-cuiter, dipped in tar and | thenstuck back on the head. The boy i had been d>prived of foed so long that | he had grawed his finger ends to the i second joints. He is a hopeless cripple. | One of his legs was broken several ! years ago and. as his mother denied i him medical attendance, the f_racml'e | was never reduced. The child was § completely covered with filth. and the | police who found him we ¢ amazed and i horrified at the sight. ‘ Didn't Understand the Methods. ‘ President of insurance company—l gnm afraid our advertising man 1s uc | good. He sent a shipment of blotters i to Philadelphia. i Secrctary —What of that? | President—They don't ue blotters | there: tl ey wait for the ink to dry.— | I rooklyn Li‘e. Bl e | This and That Y ARN is made of leather scraps. COLORADO has 2.000,000 acres irrigated. | Mgexico's biggest gold nugget l weighed 14! pounds. | Tuk pew bridge over the Missouri | River at Omaha has been opened. | A XNEw gold ticld, twenty miles square, has been discovered near Hartzel, Colo. THE purer the water the more active y it is in corroding and pitting iron oI | steel plates.