St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 February 1894 — Page 6

■m—w— Ml I mil Illll■ll■l 111 i« WALKERTON INDEPENDENT, WALKERTON, ... INDIANA -3- ■ ■ ■ - — - J- - . , , _ LUNATICS IN A PANIC. FIRE IN A ROCHESTER, N. Y., MADHOUSE. Chaska the Sioux Fast Acquiring the Ways of Civilization—Keppler, the Cartoonist, Dead—Cleveland’s Appointees for Fat Chicago Offices Named. Panic in a liospita I. The Roches'er State Hospital at Roche ter, N. Y., was burned the other morning. The flames spread rapidly, owinz to the lack cf water, and the building was destroyed. From the moment when the first alarm was given the inmates were in a state of intense excitement. Their shouts and c:ias for aid were pitiful. The safety of the inmates demanded their removal, which was accomplished without loss of lie. The burned building was a four-story brick structure, 10 ( by 70 feet in dimensions, and was built fifteen years ago. Dr. Howard, warden of. the institution, says the loss will amount to $120,000. There is no in- _ surance. At the time the fire boko cut there were in the building 220 male inmates, 213 female inmates, and 110 keepers and officials. Left His White Wife. The fact has become public that Mrs. Cora Bell Chaska, who created a sensation about three years ago by marrying Chaska, a Santee Indian, has been abandoned by her copper-skinned husband, and is now living with her halfbreed children in Southern Nebraska. To make matters worse, Chaska has taken an Indian wife, and is living openly with her on the Santee reservation. The attention of the Indian Department at Washington will be called to the matter. I’uck Loses Its Head. Joseph Keppler, the great caricacurist, editor and part owner of Fuck, died at his New' York home, in the 50th year of his age. Mr. Keppler had been sick for six months with an affection of the spine complicated with lung trouble. It is believed that this was brought on largely by his labors in Chicago during the World’s Fair, where he conducted and personally supervised the production of a World’s Fair edition of Puck on the Fair grounds. Woman Suffrage Officers. The woman suffrage convention, in session at the National Capital, elected the following officers: Susan B. Anthrny, President; Rev. Anna Shaw, of Phi’adelphia, Vice President at large: Rachel Foster Avery, of Philadelphia, Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upt n, of Ohio, Trexsurer, and Mrs. Ellen B. Dietrick, of Boston, and Josephine K. Henry, of Kentucky. Auditors. " NEWS NUGGETS. “The lee bridge at Niagara gave way Sunday. Bill Nye, who has been seriously ill at Niagara Falls, has recovered. Mr. and Mrs. H. Clay Evans celebrated their silver wedding at Chattanooga, Tenn. Galusha A. GROW, Republican, is chosen Congressman-at-large from Pennsylvania by 150,0003 majority. The Griswold Linseed Oil Works at Warren, Ohio, with eight tanks, containing 80,0C0 barrels of oil. were burned Sunday night. The loss is $275,000. John D. Denning, the wealthy Benton (Ill.) stockman who disappeared in East St. Louis Jan. 24 and who was supposed to have been murdered, ha< been found. Eight men were overcome by gas in the basement of the power-house of the sth street cable in Kansas City, Kan., and one of them, Supt. C. P. Kline, may die. Alfred Hosmer Linder, the Har- : vard University student who was in- ' jured in a boxing match, died, not hav- 1 ing recovered consciousness after he , fell to the flo r of the gymnasium. Delegates of the first district of- - Amalgamated Association of Iron < and Steel Workers at Pittsburg. Pa., - decided to stand by the organization and the Amalgamated wage scale. < An ingenio is fraudulent ticket has : been discovered by George De Haven, < General Passenger Agent of the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Real at 1 Cincinnati. Thousands have been is- 1 sued. ( Chicago nominations as follows were , made Tuesday by President Cleveland: ] For Collector'll Custi fuT TTartin J. 1 Russell: for Appraiser, Frank G. Hoy ne: < for Marshal, John W. Arnold: for Subtreasurer, D dos P. Phelps. OVER forty heirs of Jm.ih Baptiste. Becruitte, who,at the time oi the Louisiana pat chase, owned a farm in what is new the heart of St. Louis, have brought suit against the present owners on the ground that Mrs. Peeruitt *’s half of the property was sold without her knowledge. The property is now worth $50,000,000. THE Court of Appeals at Kansas City has in effect decided that all acts done by the City Council at special se sions for nearly three years before June, 189?, were illegal, bat held them to be valid on the ground of public policy. Had the court construe! the law strictly' the amount of mischief which would have resulted could not be estimated. A negro wearing five suit ? < f clothe i was found unconscious in a hay mow at Muncie, Ind. ■ Frank Cripe, who has served eleven years on a life sentence for murder in Indiana, was pardoned by Governor Matthews. Joseph Hardin has escape! from the State Penitentiary at Chester, 111. P. W. Talbot, of Chicago, committed suicide in a Detroit hotel with prussic acid. Business reverses were the cause of the act

tWBaBMBMBanaMMoaBMannBMHBii EASTERN. Eighth annual convention of the Nation Association of Builders met in Boston, Mass. The schooner Minnie Rowan was wrecked off GoLt Cliff, Mass. The crew suffered terribly before being rescued. New Jersey Republican Senate passe l the police and anti-race track bills, on which it L hoped to make a test case. A conspiracy among Chinamen to get their countrymen into this country has been discovered by the oTeitls at Buffalo, N. Y. Wm. O. Dimock, agent of the Merchants Dispatch at Buffalo, N. Y., shot and killed himself while suffering from the grip. The jury in the case of John Y. McKane, after being out all night, came into court at Brooklyn, and asked the court for further instructions in regard to some points in the case. After Judge Bartlett had given the desired information the jury again retired. After brief consultation they' returned and announced agreement for conviction. WESTERN. CONFESSION and arrest of James T. Clark in connection with the Michigan election frauds caused a sensation. The unemployed at Indianapolis, Ind., refused to work at shoveling snow when given the opportunity. (’Harley Burnett, a Munc’e, Ind., negro youth, was arrested while lying in wait to assassinate a school janitor. Robert Jones. Peoria. 111., was sentence! to ten years in prison for maliciously shooting his father with intent to kill. James E. Stone, murderer of the Wratten family, Washington, Ind., was hanged at midnight at Jeffersonville prison. Milwaukee lake front watchers shouted for joy when they found the twenty-two men at the crib had weathered the storm. To a committee from Dubuque Governor Jack-on, of lowa, declared him-elf against the mulct law and in favor of local option. William Dryden, serving a sentence for burglary in the Walla Walla (Wish. penitentiary, was shot dead while attempting to e-cap \ Fourteen students hate l oon suspended from the Ohio Wesleyan Univer ity. charged wi’h various act- of vandalism and insubordination. While chopping wood near ( harle—ton, Ind.. George and William Lutz, 10 and 14 years of age, were pinioned to earth by a falling tree and received fatal injuries. Three hundred unemployed men marched through the strecti of Ha t Lake City demanding work. The City Council will give 2 >0 men employment for live weeks. Three hundred hi employed men marched through the streets of Si lt Lake City demanding work. TheC ty ) Council will give 200 men employment i for five weeks. Foreign insurance c< m; aides doing business in Ohio have united in a test case to enjoin collection of the 24 per cent, of gross receipts charge I bv the Insurance Depa: tment. Foreign insurance companies doing business in Ohio have united in a test i case to enjoin collection of the 2? per cent, of gross receij ts charged by the insurance de pat tment. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, wife of Judge James B. Bradwell. and the founder and managing editor of the I Chicago legal News, die! at noon i Wednesday at her home. ll> Michigan avenue. Chicago. The came of death was an abdominal tumor, from which it was impossible to gain relief by a surgical operation. Mrs. Bradwell had been confined to her bed since last September. She was (>3 years । of age. Further advice-have I een received ■ at Topeka from Western Kansas show- ! ing that the suffering for want of coal ' is not confined to Lane County. I etters from Grove, Logan. Greeley and Sheridan counties ask for c ntr butions of coal from charitable peop’e, but more particularly ask for tree transportation from the railroads for supplies of fuel which the people ami local authorities proposed to obtain in some way. From these same counties ci me appeals fcr seed, spring wheat, and free transportation. TWO MEN men were killed and another badly wounded by three de peradoes who held up the Southern Pacific overland train at Roscoe. California, at I 12 o’clock Thursday night. The dead | are Fireman Arthur Masters and aj tramp named Granger. He was riding j on the pilot of the engine. Engineer I ; David Thomas was badly- wounded and ! । took to the bush, leaving a it a I of blood b -hind him. The amount of booty obtained by the robbers is uncertain, but it is said that they escape! with several sacks of gold dust. Fire partly destr ye l the Illinois state building at Jackson Park Sunday afternoon. As there has been n > fire j in or around the building for months, the only conclusion tßc firemen could reach was that the fire, like the others at the Fair grounds recently, was started by incendiaries. Wreckers have been at work tearing down the building for some time. All the flooring had bee x removed, and in fact there was little if anything left standing but the staff-incased shell. The loss, therefore, was nominal. Four thousand dollars’ worth of lumber was burned. Flames were discovered Friday morning issuing from the third story of the wholesale drug house of Farrand, Williams & Clark, Detroit. Owing to huge snow drifts in the streets : and the large number of telegraph and j trolley wires, the fire department was [ seriously delayed in getting to work ■ and the flames gained great herd way, I and rapidly spread to the entire five ) stories before they were got under ! control. The drug firm estimate their i loss on stock at sl4 J,OOO. which is in- ) sure! for about $120,C0?. Loss on , building, $30,000; insurance, $25,000. Col. Boyle and Gen. Falk, who were । sent to Hurley, Wis.. on a trip of in- ■ vestigation, have r eturned to Milwau- I

kae. The situation is a serious one they say, with no immediate prospect of betterment. After the present supply runs out the people will have to care for themselves, as the committee will have nothing with which to meet the demands. The collection of taxes is proceeding ilt wly. According to Col. Boyle ail the big pre perty-holders are slow in paving their taxes, and the Town Tre isurer stated that there is at present in the treasury $60,000 worth of delinquent tax certificates. Owing to this delinquency the SB,OOO devoted to the po: r fund is not available. Fire Wednesday morning destroyed the granti colonnade between the Agricultural Building and Machinery Hall, at .Ircksi n Park. The loss will amount to several thousand dollars. At <ne time the destruction of the two adjoining structures seemed inevitable. Everything points to incendiarism. The lie occurred near the same place which was twice ignited, presumably by fire-bugs. It was discovered by a guard, who first, noticed a thin volume of smoke curling around one of the pillars. Firemen and Fair officers agree that the fire was of incendiaryorigin. They regard it as another attempt of the kind made so frequently recently. An examination of the burned column where the fire broke out i hewed that a lot of debris hud been fore d through a small hole and then lighte l. The guards have been given orders to make every effort to arrest incendiaries. Citizens of Lincoln, Neb., lead’ng men and pre minent educators of that and neighboring States, celebrated the quarter-centennial of the founding of the- University of Nel raska. Conspicuous among those present were many members of the Legi-lature of twenty-live years ago which granted the charter to the institution. The opening exercises in the nature of a welcome meeting were held at the opera heme. Governor Crounse presided and was followed in his address by Mayor Weir and Chancellor ( anfield, as well a* the heads of the different colleges oi the city and State, Five-minute addresses were also made by members of the Legislature of 1869, as follows: Lieiit.Gov. Majors, Isham Reavis. Nathan Blakely. John B. Furav, William McLennan, J. F. Gardiner. G) M. Humohrey, and R. H. Townley. During the afternoon Gov. Crounse. and other State otlieers, with meml»ers of the faculty and the regents, held crowded receptions at the University building. Leroy Harris, the forger of postoftiee meney orders, who was captured in I Buffalo, is now in Chicago in charge of ( Inspector Stuart. The Inspector has! had an exciting experience in getting) Harris. The man was arrest 'd while I calling for mail at the Buffalo postofiice. He was at once taken ls*i fore Commissioner Fairchild. When the charge against him had been i read he was told to hi Id up his hand and be sworn. Instead of doing! io he presented a revolver and orden a all the mon in the office to thr< wup i their hands, livery hatat went up and Harris backed out of the door ami disappeared. Mr. Stuart was in Chicago at the time of th arrest. He worked . up the plans leading to the capture, i bu' was called home on busine-s oefore ' the arrest was made. When he io [ reived word that Harris had oseaped he ) • started immediately fi rßuffalo. Theio > he learned that his man was at Niaga a Falls. Ont. He was taking his time about getting under .over, feeling sure he could not b? taken out of Canada without a good ileal of trouble. Mr. Stuart f. und Harris Suturua. : highland withoutany formality started with him for < hicago. SOUTHERN. Fhe Horn Lake levee be.ow Memphis broke. I'ive thousand acres are inun , dated. \\ illiam Leon ard was hanged at Frederick, Md., for murder. He is ' aid to have hud four living wives. The Suj'i-cme Ciurt of Missouri re-: used to reopen the cas • of Jacob 1 j Broun, a negro sente: eed to be hanged , • March 15 for murder. Fkom Celjiitt Ci unty, Ge-rgia. ) comes news of a double tragedy. Frank j Bird, an employe of a man named ■ Brice, while burning over a tract < f ! land w as a-saultc 1 bv John < ooi er.w ho also ciain c! the land. Cooper drew a ! revt Iver and Bird struck him with a । club. As he fell < ooj er .-hot Bird. C oper i> dead and Bird dying. William Leonard was hanged at Frederick. Md.. Friday, for the killing ! of Je se Anderson, a railway trackman, Sept. 5 last, at Lime Kiln, Frederick County, Leonard at the time of the murder was drinking heavily. He rei eatedly admittel the killing and -aid in extenuation that he was crazed by drink at the time of what he always spoke of as “This sal affair.” Anderson had offend-d Leonard by telling th j latter’s brother-in-law- of his drunken condition. The murderer claimed to have had four wives and seventeen children scattered in different parts of the world. WASHINGTON. Peckham’s n-initiation to the Supreme bench was rejected by the Senate, the vote being 32 t > 41 against. A resolution requesting submission by the President of additional Hawaiian correspondence w-as adopted by the Senate. The authorities at Washington have been in communication with Admiral Stanton, recently in command of the wrecked cruiser Kearsarge. as tithe po-slli’ity of saving the hull of that histoiic craft. It is understood that Admiral Stanton and the officers of the Kearsarge have expressed the opinion that there is little or no chance of ever floating the Kca saage again. The ( hies of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the t tai values of the exports of dome-tic breadstuff’s, provisii n, and mineial tils from the United Stares during the month of January, P 94, and during the seven months ended Jan. 31, 1894, as compared with similar exports during the corresponding periods of the preceding year, were as follows: Brea!stuffs: January, 1894, $13,434,708; 1893, $13,925,101: seven months ended Jan’ 31. 1894. $108,927,568; 1893, $122,668,880. Provisions: January. 1894, $15,412,667; 1893, $13,198,902: seven months ended Jan. 31, 1894, $103,769,818: 1893, slOl,857,265. Mineral oils: January, 1894 $2,413,991; 1893, $2,788,474; seven

^fctns ended Jan. 31. 1894, $17,880,448: 13, $240,931,506. ’ • FOREIGN, ISSIAN police claim to havediscova plot to free Poland. Among arrested are a number of editors riests. AKER of the Commons ruled the had exceeded their authority in ng a financial clause of the parish ils bill. E broke cut in Shingawa, Japan, >ef( re it was extinguished 315 s were totally destroyed, includhe police station and city hall. । women were burned to death jveralothers injure!. 5 American Line steamer Pai is, in Randle, which sailed from ampt n fcr New- Ycrk, was sd early Friday mornirg Iving at r off Rcche’s point, at the enJ to Queenstow n harbor. Shortly daylight the Paris set signals xer ruader was disabled. It was lea ned that the Paris had sen able to use her rudder at all. hat she had used her twin S B teering apparatus on hexi. rhe accident is reported to occurred when the steamer was liles west of l^ueen town, Tho has 84 Hr t mid lOXS s 'eond jgvr . On Monday u heavy sen r tho rudder of the Paris, snaphe j ost off in the trunk. Thg er held her westward course unesday afternoon, when it was deto ।ut her about. Ono of her es was sts pped an 1 little dittiwas experienced in turning her d. IN GENERAL JOHNSON won the two-mile and Davidson the halt-miie skating race at Orangeville, Ont. Congressman W. L. Wilson has , almost recovered from his illness. Ho has left Kamai Citv for Mexico. Seven freshmen at Rutgers College were suspended for two weeks and ordered to leave town for hazing a student. The Izandreau claim, involving $5,(HP,OOO. was decided adversely by the United States and Chilian joint commission. Seventy-five Temachmrs were killed in a battl? with Mexican troops, j Twenty-five who were made prisoners । were shot. Receiver Wilson, of the Santa Fe. I ha< ordered payment of taxes levied by Kannos count ies, accompanied by writtei protests. \ MOVEMINT is said to be on foot "to consolidate the Unite! States Oil Com- j pany and the Producers and Refiners' ' j l^>e Line Company. Capital of the' two concerns is about S2JXM).QOO. A MOVEMENT is s lid t > bo on so -t to ■ ciOM’lidat' the Unite 1 st ite- Oil Com- I pdny and the Produ e:> and Refiners’ Pipe Line C< mpany. C apital of the i tMp concerns is ab nit S?,O Obituary: At Boston. General Edwfrd F. Hincks. At San Francisco, 1 Cdonel J. D. Steven-on. aged ninetv-I **-#-X*r^^ingro n . i a-sod Assist-I ant Surgeon Jamas F. Keenan. At Abington, Mass., Banker Daniel B. Dyer, aged eight v-tw ». At ( harlottetown, P. E. 1.. Lieutenant Govern >r J. I S. Cam 11. aged eighty-one. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of I Trade savs: xius ba.- been a week of record break! ig. In wheat, hi stiver, in some forms of Iron and steel, in Vonnellavllle coke, and in , well-known cotton and voo:cu goods tho ! lowest prices ever known have been made, und It I- gratifying that failures of Importance have not resu!te«L While no action especially affecting business prospects was taken at Washington the continued ditcassim of revenue and moj.otary mens- 1 urea and tho uncertainty regarding them I have a constant unfavorable influence, and j । indifferent markets have caused sudden I fluctuations in prices. Wheat utGO’, cents I | is not only lower by 4', cents than It was | for a single day last year, but lower than i it bad ever been in the previous sjventyI seven years. A visible supply of over 7IE - 000,009 bushels Feb. 10, with sales and receipts from farms continuing large, has completely destroyed faith in tho official j reports of the yield last year, and caused | enormous liquidation. Receipts last week I were but 1.510.3 U bushels, against 2.001,04- ' | fcr the same week last year, but Atlantic i exports were only 659.0G2 bu hels, against . 1.013.015 last year, and the recent decrease in fore gn demand has teen an important i factor. Some trust companies have ar- । ranged to advance money against wheat as j collateral security, but with results not as , yet one txraging. Corn and other products ■ fiuctuatX tut little, though receipts of corn wei® large. ■JARKET REPORTS. F CHICAGO. Cattle- iConimcr. to Prime.... £3 ro @ 5 25 Hogs— SifeppinK Grades 4 to ct 5 50 Sheep— lair to Choice 2 25 & 4 ut Wheat— W l ’- ~ 65 5R Corn— : 4 35 ^^fe^cAamervi:::: 26 27 Bettertß, ls EGGS j,,, £0 (<S 60 Potatoes INDIANAPOLIS. f» ITT > dipping 3CO @5 00 11? fK2 c Light 3 00 (<? 5 25 sm-nr (Phmon to Prime 200 @3 50 wheat— N9.-2 Red 5* 5415 corn— Njj2 white 3435 u Oats- Nb.h White 31 32 ST. LOUIS. Cattle... 4 3 on @ 5 00 Ho«s 3 0 , s 25 M heat-nix 2 Red 52 et 53 OATS~\nA 2 12 33 tI? 30 RIE—No. 2 52 @ 54 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 ® 4 75 H°gs 3^ ((i , 5 50 Sheep..... 20l ^4 3 75 w HEAT—N o . 2 Red 57 @ 57 l 6 Corn-No. 2 37 ss 2 Mixed 30^ ri 31 Rae— No. 2 51 c® 53 „ DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 <s 4 75 GO 5 50 ?.? EEP 2 00 @ 350 , M HEAT—No. 2 Red 57 & 57' i Corn— No. 2 Yellow 35 <gi 37" Oats— No. 2 White 31 (<j 32 ... TOLEDO. M heat-No. 2 Red 55 @ 56 3 Yellow 35 :'sio 2 White 31 @ 32 LXE-N0.2. 49 & 51 ; x. BUFFALO. m bv Al v^ O v Hard 69 @ 69’2 tcßx No. 2 Yellow 40 ei 4i Oats-No. 2 White : 35 36 Rye-No. 2 53 @ 55 XVnv.^ x- MILWAUKEE. Coß^No^t’. 2 .^ I .^ ® 3 5 ^ Ryf^o 0 ? White 30 ’ 9 1 —a\O. 1 43 AS @ *0 1 oi,k— Mess 12 00 @l2 50 „ NEW YORK. £^ tle 300@ 5 00 j H° c,s 3 75 @ 6 CO BHEEP 2 00 @ 4 (Ml WHEAT—No. 2 Red 62 @ 63 Corn— No. 2 43 @ 45 I Oats— XVhite Western 38 @ 41 i 1 Butter— Choice 21 @ 27 1 . POHZ—Mess... 13 50 (dl4 2i ’ 1

BAD MAN FROM TEXAS JIM MITCHELL KILLS THREE MEN. Contest Over the Supreme Bench Settled by Confirmation of Senator White of Louisiana—Norton Uros.' Big Factory Burned—McKano in Stripes. Outbreak of an Old Feud. The old Jaybird-XV<x>dpecker political feud, which originated in Fox-t Bend County, Texas, had a bloody sequel in the Houston Grand Central Depot, Monday night. Among the ’ passengers who alighted from a train were a man named York, D. Sutton, constable of Eagle Lake; Milton Sparks, his wife,child and brother,also of Eagle Lake. As soon as Y’ork step] ed on the p atform Jinx Mitchell, who was in the depot, opened lire, which was as promptly returned, York falling after firing a see nd shot. Mitchell kept up h murderous fusillade until he had fired five shots. The result was that in addition to York being instantly killed, Sparks was shot t > death, and Dan Gleason, 'an omnibus driver, was also killed. Mrs. Sparks, wife of the murdered man. was b tdl v wounded a, was aho a child she earned. A Mrs. McDowell, an aged woman. received one of the bullets and her chances of recovery are slim, while S] arks brother received a wound. Mitchell was locked up in the city pri on and there was considerable talk of lynching. White Wins Honors. The nomination of <enator Edward D. White, of Louisiana, as Assoziato Justice, was sent to the Senate Monday afternoon, and. in accordance with Senatorial courtesy, it was confirmed in executive session without ref--1 erenee to committee. The Senxtors I were all full of expectation, because it I had been whisj en I that one of their number was to be chcsen. and that Gray, of Delaware, was not the man. Not more than three or four of them had an inkling that it was to be White, of Louisiana. The President’s action mt t with general approval. BREVITIES. General Jubal A. Early has fully recovered from the effects of his recent accident. < . S. Hudson, formerly pastor of the I Anderson, Ind., Methodist C hurch, has become insane. Fjght unrecognizable corpses and the timbers of twovcssels were washed ashore near Provincetown, Mass. (tOVernur Markham, of California, । has brought suit to have the immense । Blythe estate escheate 1 to the State. .American Line steamship Paris ; wa> disabled when two days out from Southampton and was compelled to out back. Death of King Lobengula is contirmeJ. The African mona ch succumbe I to disease, not to a British bullet M aster builders discus-ed the uniforin contract. Officers were elected and Bal imore selected for the next convention. Government ownership of the Nicaragua Canal and annexation of Hawaii we e favored by’ the Transmis-issippi < ’ongress. Effigies of Secretary of Agriculture Morton and of Carl Morton were found hanging in several points in Nebraska ('ity. Ninety-three per cent, of Illinois school children have been vaccinated in accordance with the order of the health board. Enraged because h< r sweetheart eloped with her sister. Bertha Kasper, of Cleveland, horsewhipped the young man's father. THOUGH depesed by the Dubuque Presbytery and a new past< r appointed, Kev. J. H. Stark still holds the fort at Waukon, lowa. Because he married an actress Hol ert L. Cutting, of New York, forfeited all interest in his grandfather’s immen-e estate. The Northern Pacific receivers will oppose the motion by labor leaders fox* 1 an amendment of Judge Jenkins’ objectionable order. There is being built at Buffalo a United State- revenue cutter designed ’ for service on Lake Michigan. It will . be called the Calumet. 1 Encouraging reports of the prog- i ress of the movement were made to ' the National Woman’s Suffrage Con- 1 vention in Washington. Dubuque land owners are not worried by the claims cf the heirs of the town's founders, whore title was de- । clared imperfect in 1853. At Brooklyn, John X’. McKane was sentenced to six years in State's Prison. McKane's conviction was reached by a jury, and his crime is that of a’di-g and abetting, if not actually participating in, election frauds which were ])er] etrated last Noveml er. The immense tin-can and japanned ware factory of Norton Bros., at Chicago, was destroyed by fire Mondaynight. The direct monetary damage is $6 >O,COO, and as 600 men and'women are thrown out of work by the fire the loss is much greater than to dby these figures. Indianapolis' unemployed threatened trouble, alleging outside men were employed on the streets by contractors. Testimony going to show Madiline Pollard had a bad reputation was given at the hearing in Lexington. Ky. In answer' to an address from the International Eisteddfod. Gladstone said lie favored a AVelsh university. A. Kerr Smith, who had served five terms in Congress, died at Lancaster, Pa. He was 79 years old. The Southern Pacific will refuse to ■ honor' Santa Fe tickets reading via Los Angeles. Dissatisfied land owners have ’ brought work on a Florida road to a stop by planting dynamite bombs along . the right of xvay. t

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What They zlre Doing; for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. Tie entire time of the Senate Wednesciay was ecnsumed in the di-cu-sb n of the House bill to compel the Ro<-k Island Railway Company to stop its trains at the new towns of Enid and Round Pond, in Indian Territory. Th' whisky tax and the position cf the 'Woman’s Christian Temperance Union on the question was brought up by Senator Frye. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, presented a resolution, which was adopted, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for the record in the case of the investigation of the Boston custom louse, senator Palmer spoke in favor of the Ro k Island blit Senators Craie. of Wyoming, and Martin, of Kansas, opposed, while Peffer, of Kansas, advocated it. The day in the House was given up to tho discussion of Bland’s seistniorage bill. Ibe debate was without incident. Vice President Stevenson came to the rescue of the Oklahoma town-si e hill in the Senate Thursday, and by his vote broke the tie and passed the bill compelling the Rock Island Railroad Company tn stop its trains at th** new towns at Fnid and Round X'ounU. The measure cn the final vote stood 27 to 27. and the Vice President promptly exercised his 1 rerogative by casting the deciding vote In favor of the bill. The debate on the Bland seignorage bill in the House w as characterized by several strong Democratic speeches against the mea“i»re. The Senate ad.iourned a few minutes past 4 o’clock Friday afternoon after spending the better part of two days considering the nomination of W. 11. Peckham of New York to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court The vote had just been taken on a motion to confirm the nomination. and the result, which was rejection by a vote of 32 to 41. was known. In the House Mr. Bland began his coercive tactics to compel a vote on the silver seigniorage bill. Most of the Republicans and the Democratic opponents of the measure started a filibuster with the intention of forcing him to produce a quorum of the advocates of the .Ei! 10 pass it, and the entire day was consumed in roll calls At 4 o'clock Mr. Bland abandoned any further attempt to secure a quorum, and after having passed a resolution instructing the sergeant-at-arms to telegraph for absentees a recess was taken until S o’clock, the evening session being devoted Io the consideration of private pension bills Mr. Kilgore of Texas blocked all proceedings The President sent to th- S nate Monday afternoon the nomination of Edward D. White, Senator from Louisiana, to succeed Justice Blatchford cn the Supreme bench, and it was 1 romptly confirmed. Ihe other work of that body was confined to cons'deration es the Wilson till. The House filibustered all day over Bland s stiver seigniorage ’bill. In the House, Tuesday, the opponents cf Mr. Bland’s seigniorage bill adopted filibustering tactics throughout ibe session. In the Senate, Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, closed his Hawaiian speech, in which be upheld the policy of Mr. Clevelunl. The Senate received from the President a batch of nominations for Chicago. Senator Bill violated the rules in making his speech public and has arouse I the wrath of some members. It is a matter of uncertainty as to when the Senate sub-committee will present the tariff bill. Postmaster Hesinp. of Chicago, pleaded with the House Committee on Buildings for a new Government bul ding. Coins from Private Mints. The Constitution of the United States provides that no State shall coin money; but it seems that individuals might do so. up till about the time of the late civil war. Os co irse. it hat always been again t the law to counterfeit or imitate the coinage of the United States, and so. necessarily, a coin issued by a private mint would have to be so ’ distinctive in hape 01 markings as to show that it was not intended to pass as Federal money. For this reason the SSO geld coins <1 tokens issued by seie.a ; i;ia,c in±n.s in California during the flush times oi the 50’s were octagonal in Miape. Gold coins were also issued bv the Mormons of Utah at about the same z-time. and the same thing had been done by parties in Georgia and North Carolina. Probably the latest of the-e private mints was the one established in Denver in the early <os. It is said that the coinage of this establishment being brought to the attention of Secretary Cha e, that eminent finarcior was much, astonished to find a re-pectabie firm of banke -s engaged in making and uttering mone.'. and was .still furthei surpri ed when the Attorney General of the United States declared they had the right to do so. This incident caused the passage of a law absolutelj- prohibiting individuals from issuing or circulating anvthing intended in any man ner to rCL-ve as mcney.—Wa-hingtoi: Star. Why. Indeed? "Whv should a police officer in chase of a fugitive in the street feel called upon to use fireaims'? That is a querj xvhich it i s difficult for the police tc answer. A man cn the police force draws a good salary —about twice as much ay with his education, he eoul.] make in any business. He is supposed to be in good physical condition, so that he may run d nvn any criminal who seeks safety in flight. But it would le safe to wager that no two police officers in ten on the San Francisco force could overtake a fairly athletic criminal if the fuzitive were given a start of ha I a blcck. The majority of our p lice are too fat; their lungs are in such poor conditi n’that if a fugitive runs up a steep street the chances are all in favor of his escape. It is only fair to demand of the police that they keep in as fair condition as ti e regular armi, but every on' knows that -uch a coir.pari. 0.1 would be fatal to the force. AVhv not have legu’ar police inspection’ and throw out the men who a- - fat on beer and xdlenessr— San Francisco 4 lironicle. Applying a Drastic Keniedy. “I suppose, now. that you will be go;n< r home to your mother in the mon - ing?” “I ju.-t won’t. I have tried that an I it doesn’t seem to do any geo L lam going to bring mother here this time.” ■ —lndiana] olis Journal. Knew His Business. “I don’t see hoxv you can afford tc give a pair of rubbers with every pair of shoes. ” “My friend, there is nothing equal tc a pair of rubbers for getting away with slices. See?”—lndianapolis Journah