St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 March 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA WAR CLOUD LOWERS. RUSSIANS AND PRUSSIANS ENGAGE IN A FIGHT. More Nominations by the President —Cashier Langan, of Lima, Goss Scott Free— Poisoned by a Copper Kettle —Wiman Begins Defense. May Lead to War. A sensational story is current in military circles at Moscow that a fight has taken place on the Russo-German frontier between a detachment of Russian dragoons and a number of Prussian Uhlans. Several are reported to have been killed on both sides. The fraca; arose out of the fact, it is claimed, that Prussian Uhlans were using the Russian eagle fixed to a frontier post as a target. The aggressors, it is said, were the Russians, who, after making a request that the Prussians select some other emblem, a request that the Prussians ignored, charged upon them. A brisk an 1 sanguinary engagement followed, in which several men were killed on each side. The Russians fought with fury and the Prussians were finally forced to retreat. New Intern'd Revenue Stamps. Commissioner Miller, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, has decided to issue a new series of internal revenue stamps to take the place of those now in use. The new stamps will be smaller in size, more artistic in finish, and different in color from the old ones. The vignettei will be changed and portraits of modern statesmen, chiefly Secretaries of the Treasury, will take the place now occupied by statesmen of the past. Wiman Pleads Not GuUty. Erastus Wimanappeared in part 1, General Sessions, at New York, and pleaded not guilty to the indictments against him. He immediately left the court-room, his bail of $25,000 being continued. No date was set for the trial. news’nuggets. Senator Hill is reported to have said he would fight the Wilson tariff bill at every stage. The Waco Electric Railway & Light Company was placed in the hands of a receiver. Assets, $300,001; liabilities, $200,000. An unknown man was run over by a Rock Island train and killed near White Water, Kan. He is supposed to have hailed from Minneapolis. Judge Riner, at Cheyenne, has ordered the Union Pacific receivers to pay employes the old scale of wages until further order of the court. Suits for 520,0 )0 damages have been filed by Henry Blomeyer and Charles Gier, of Richmond, Ind., against the Pennsylvania Railroad for injuries. Howard Morris and C. F. Rand, receivers of the Penokee and Gogebic Mines in Wisconsin, have been authorized to issue $390,000 in certificates. A terrible boiler explosion occurred at the big iron-works at Alexanderovsk, Russia. Twenty-five men were, killed and tea were seriously injured. The Rev. A. J. Warner has called a convention of negrees at Birmingham, Ala., for March 21. The object is to discuss the general emigration of the race to Africa. William E. Rusedolph, of Cleveland, shot and killed himself in his room at the Phit nix Hotel. Pittsburg, Pa. Domestic trouble is said to have been the cause of the deed. Flint bottle manufacturers are restricting production owing to wage changes contingent on the passage of the Wilson bill. Eight factories have closed down during the last two weeks. The French chamber of deputies, by a vote of 465 to 2, has invalidated the election to that body of Daniel Wilson, ex-President Grevy’s son-in-law. Wilson was charged with electoral corruption. Frank Stephens, of Hammond, Ind., has sued the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railri ad for $30,000 damages for injuries receive 1 by being run down by a passenger train at a crossing. Jacob Kissinger, a farmer at Portland, Ind, found in a stick in his tarn a quantity of powder and shot. The charge was sufficient to have wrecked his homo if the pkee of wood hud been placed in a stove. The indictment against ex-Ca-hier L. Langan, of the National Bank at Lima, Ohio, charging him with embezzlement. was dismissed, as the prosecutor did not believe there could be a conviction. Two MEN have died and a do en others are dangerously ill from eating food cooked in a copper kett’e at a public sale at Somerset, la. The dead men were Jeremiah Ringler and Alexander Rhodes. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Treasury— Augustus Healy of New York, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of New York. State—Charles Jones of Wisconsin, Con ul General at St. Petersburg: Albert Fowler of Maryland, Consul at Stratford, Ont.: George Truesdell, Commissioner of the District of Columbia General Vasquez, the fugitive President of Honduras, has been given an asylum in Salvador. The United States Rubber Company's shops at Millville. Mass., emp’oying 1,41 0 men, will resume operations. Samues Seitz assaulted Charles Clark at Lima, Ohio, with an ax. Neighbors interfered a.d saved Clark's life. The two men quarreled oversome timber on Seitz's farm that Clark had bought.

EASTERN. Councilman C. F. Wadsworth, an Englishman by birth, hoisted the British flag over the stars and stripes, at Philadelphia, but decided to haul it down when a mob threatened to tear down his house. Lewis Wister, one of two brothers who owned property worth $8,000,000, much of it in the heart cf Philadelphia, died in a hovel in Atlantic City. Both men lived in absolute squalor. They have no relatives so far as known, and when the surviving brother dies the property will probably go t j the State. The Mansfield coal region rioters were sentenced at Pittsburg by Judge Ewing. Cf the thirty-five foreigners convicted seven were sentenced to the penitentiary for terms ranging from fifteen months to two years and six months, and twenty-eight were sent to the workhouse for terms running from two months to one year. Erastus Wiman, formerly nominal but not an active partner in the firm of Dun, Wiman & Co., New York, was arrested Wednesday evening and locked up in the Tombs on charges of forgery in the second degree and embezzlement. The complaint on which the arrest was made alleges that in the last four years preceding 1893, when Wiman's connection with the firm ceased, he embezzled $229,018 and forged two checks for nearly SIO,O X). The four New York witnesses in the tidal of Dr. Howard, at Jackson, Tenn., who pleaded guilty to the charge of perjury, were each fined SICO and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the Columbus Penitentiary by Judge Hammond. The names of the four witnesses are: E. H. Brockway, Wm. J. Gleason, Edgar E. Smith and George H. Heatley. They testified at the trial of Dr. Howard as to the manner in which his business was conducted in New York and London. As A practical joke a crowd of Cornell sophomores at Ithaca, N. Y., introduce 1 a volume of chlorine gas into a hall where the fre hmen were having a banquet. Besides having a most noxious odor, this gas is deadly to any person having any heart trouble. As a result of the idiotic prank. Thomas McNeill of Pittsburg, and Mrs. Jackson. colored, a cook, were killed. The murderous folly of the sophomores has created intense excitement and indignation throughout the city as well as in the college cloisters. There i- an air of gloom over the famous old university. The university authorities are investigating the affair and have already suspended sevcial sophomores, and the city officials are taking a baud in the matter. It is probable now that the perpetrators of the hazing will have to stand trial on a charge of murder. The citizens wc e so extra- I ordinarily worked up over the affair, ■which they universally consider a diabolical outrage, that there was earnest and general talk of lynching the murderers. WESTERN. Denver was chosen by the national wheelmen for the next meeting place. । Negroes were barred from membership. I About 1,500 minors re-umed work in I thi Eastern Ohio district upon terms agreed upon at a Columbus c nference. ! By robbing a stage coach near Spear- ■ fish, S. D., two Mexicans, armed with rifles, secured a la-go amount of booty. The trustees to whom Governor Me- : Kinley conveyed his property at the ' time of his failure have raised money to meet his obligations and have trans- ; ferred his home back to him. A strike among the carpenters on the new Stock Exchange Building at Chicago has spread to all the trades employed at that building. The strike has been characterized by violence. j At Quincy, 111., lire starting in the Reliable Incubator Company's works | caused a loss of $198,000. The lot sis are well covered by insurance. The City Hall was c nsiderably damaged, i Fire at St. Louis caused a loss of $251,000. The principal losers are: The Tyler Desk Company and Udell Wooden and Willow Ware Company, j The building was owned by IL H. Culver. Fifty men started from Reno. Nev.. ' for Verdo to search for the four wood- ; choppers who are buried under the j snowslide. The slide is in a nariow canyon and is over a mile long, with ! the snow at the bottom fifty feet deep. Dr. Francis M. Abbott, one of the best-known practitioners in Indianapolis, who is over 69 years old. was attacked by highwaymen Wednesday ' night. The physician refu-ed t) give up his money and shot < ne of his as- I sailants dead. The other tied. The Grand Jury sitting at Mast n. i Mich, to investigate the frauds con- . nected with the canvass upon the sal- । aries amendments to the constitution , of the State in 1891 and 1893 practi- : Cully concluded its labors Friday after- ; noon. From sour, os that are regarded ! as entirely reliable it is learned that ; five indictments, involving ten persons. | four of whom are State officers, wc e filed. Steele Mack \ye died at Timpas. ' Col., Sunday morning from complete I exhaustion. His wife, known on the I stage as Helen Marr, and a professional nurse were with h’m. He died in a private car on the Santa Fe road, in which he was being conveyed to Los Angeles, Cal., ■where it was believed his health, could he have lived to reach there, would have teen benefit -d. “You are lying under a mi-take,” said the Rev. Mr. Woods to County Attorney Boone in the Law and Order League ca c e being examined into by a special court at, Wichita, Kan. “And you are a liar under no mistake,” County Attorney Boone retorted. The s case earned much interest. Jacks- n, the spotter, while on the stand exp s d the inside workings of the Anti-Liquor League. The testimony was plenti- • fully mixed with recriminations. At St. Louis, Mo.. Mrs. J. G. Chap- ' ler and Mrs. Annie Guerrin. a widow, have been at outs for some time, the ’ former alleging that the widow was endeavoring to supplant her in her i husband’s affections. Friday afternoon Mrs. Chapler i neaked into Mrs. Guerrin's house and, meeting the widow in : the In-11, dashed a handful (f cayenne pepper in her eye : with the remark:

“Now you can't toll a gocd-looking j man from a bad-lookmg one.” While ' Mrs. Guerrin’s eyes were badly injured, her eyesight will 1 e saved. At 3:30 o’clock in the morning fire broke out in Vcrdemark & Brothers’ large shoo store at Fort Wayne, Ind., and before itwa> extinguished a loss of $100,009 ensued. The stores of Vordemark & Brothers, shoes: Central 1 elephone Exchange, William Myer & Brother, hatters, and S. B. Thing & Co., shoes, were completely destroyed, while Mergentheim A Co.’s millinery and notion store was flooded with water. All a e well insured. While this tire was at its height, the large brick school house on Clay street was fired, and destroyed, entailing a loss of $20,- • *’o. Dr. Myer's barn was aho burned shortly afterwards. The fire.; are thought to have been the work of incendiaries. Ik the alley between Michigan and Wabash avenues, near Fourteenth street, Chicago, is a pile of old logs that has attracted no more than ordinary attention. It has been there . nearly two years, almost uncaiedfor, 1 and wholly unprotected from the I haiyl of va dais. Its only protection I has been the ignorance of the people o^j the history of the logs. Not a dozen® people in Chicago knew the real vakiMH of t hat wood pile, but if it were genej® ally known that atmo*4 every"onS oj those logs was sp it by an ax in thA hands of Abraham Lincoln there prohSw ably would be little left to show as aW whole the famous log cabin built in ' ] u 3o by Lincoln and his father | Tae project of bringing the lit- ■ t.'e log cabin t> Chicago ' was a commercial one. Because Libby Prison wa - br< tight there and was successful as an exhibit the idea spread that there were many other historical structures in this country that would be equally attractive in Chicago. So the John Brown Fort at Harper's Ferry was tprn from its pretty home and set up as a show. It was a failure. Then an alleged Uncle Tom's cabin was sprung on the city, and it served a fate almost a? bad as that of the fort. These failures deterred the projectors from erecting and exhibiting the cabin. The owners of the calm as it stands to-dav have no • idea what they will finally do with it. They are paying rent for the ground• upon which it is store I, and have been for two years. SOUTHERN. The Montgomery Mill and Lumber Company of Montgomery, Texas, has failed. Liabilities, 950,0 0: asseti not given. D. 11. Reagan, dry goods dealer of Victoria, I'efvdge and Edna. Tex., assigned. Liabilities, 900,090; assets, $7 ’,O 0. J. R. MlT< Hell <>f Richmond, Tex., wa indicted by the grand ,ury forth > murder of David J. Sutton. Milton Sparks, an 1 Daniel Gleast n at the Grand Central Depot, Houston. George S. Roberts died suddenly! at Baltimore. Md. His wife, who wa# with him when he expired, and whs has, owing to a bronchial trouble, nor I spoken for nine year-, gave a lot* i shriek and recovered her voice. Representative Strait, oFSlrnw Carolina, feels that he has been lgnorJß by Fourth Assistant Postmaster Geflll ! oral Maxwell in the distribution o| 1 fourth-class postoffices. He has writtem ' a letter to Mr. Maxwell to tell him that he is a liar and a puppy. Gore may’ - flow. 1 The steady rains during the latten ’ days have caused a freshet in all the streams mar Ponsa ola, Fla. The i town of Geneva. Ala., on the Choctaw- : hatchie River, near th- Florida line, is more than half submerged, and the ri; er is - till rising. The flood at that point is said t > be th- trr< atest since the memorable flood in 1865. 1 At Austin, Texas, Sheriff White on Thursday arrested Jamis Hogg, Gov- ; ernor of Texas, for alleged violation of the State game law while in Nacogdoches Count; recently. The arrest is ; made, it is said, to vent personal spite. The Govern r says he will paj- the fine. An investigation, however, shows that i Travis county, like many others, is exempt from the operation of the game law. Will Smith, Ben Oakes, Jack Hol- ' comb and Frank Cas sells were prevent- ; ed from burning and looting the town iof Gadsden, Ala .by being arrest?d and placed in jail. Their plot was to cuU । off the water supply, set tire to several stores simultaneously, and. taking ad*j vantage of the c infusion, make a general sack of the < ity. The arrested men are leaders of a notorious gang which has terrorized Etowah County I for several years. A female confederate disclosed their plot and aided in । their capture. Information come* fri m the Starr ! County section of Texas to the effect that a famine is threatened. Fifty pein ! cent, of stock are dead: no crops on any kind have been rabed or harvested!, I during the la t year and grtßt I tion and absolute want exists. Mat*js I persons are compelled t > subsist on^ i roots, prickly pears, etc., even fleslQ | that has been stripped from the ca: j 1 casses of dead animals is eaten to sat-f । i<fy the pangs of hunger. Resource! ! are exhausted and it is impossible to . lonuer a-sist the starving. ; Henry Spencer, a condemned mur- । derer, who has been confined in the i Tuomas County. Ga., jail, shot the i jailer, Tom Singlerry, and made his ! escape. Singleterry died two hours i later. The jailer went to the cells to [feed the prisoners, and while he stopped t) set the food on a table Jim Cas-idy called on him to throw up his hands. As he said this the jailer struck him in the face with a leek which he held in his hand, felling him to the floor. Henry Spencer seized the jailer's pistol from behind, and as he turned shot him in the face and again in the neck. Five of the prisoners escap d into the pine woods. WASHINGTON. Members < f the New Orleans Sugar Exchange want a sugar man appointed in the plac • of Senator White. I’exsion agents have been sent revised rule -for the belter protection of the Government against fraud. The last of the Columbian postage stamps have been sent out. Hard times affected the proceeds of the sale. The sen ation in Washington society is the desertion of Commodore W. K.

|.Mayo by his 20-year-old wife. The I ^M^odore is 70 years old and the wedding was strongly opposed by the friends of both parties. FOREIGN, By another bomb explosion in Paris five persons were hurt. One infernal machine was found just in time. to ^ a ^le between insurgents and Brazil Government troops the latter ^ro ieported to have suffered defeat. | Disorder marked the reassembling Os the Italian Chamber of Deputies |he members almost coming to blows. S Emperor illiam of Germany .’visited Wilhelmshaven with Prince Henry of Prussia to inspect his war ships. | A powder magazine exploded at Metteren, Austria, killing a large jnumbor of people and woundiny many [others. J . The governments of England, France, lltaly and Austria have advised the BSultan of Morocco to accept, the deimands of Spain for the settlement of ■the Melilla troubles. y- Advices received in Lcndon from ■Guatemala announce that the Central ^American Republic has suspended payP fc .ent, owing to (he decline in silver, fei its external debt. The news that ^Guatemala had suspended payment on [her external debt, owing to the decline lin silver, was received in a letter adIdressed to the banking firm of Messrs. ; Martin & Co. by the Guatemalan Minister in Paris. Senhor F. Cruz. The announcement was posted in Capel court and caused great excitement in the city and a decline in Guatemalan bonds IN GENERAL The < hicago and Ei ie, as well as the Grand Trunk, lefu-es to u c the ‘not negotiab'e" bill of lading. Obi uary: At Saratoga, N.Y.. Commander Edwin T. Wo dward, U. S. N.. aged 59.—At Hartford, Conn., Horace R. Morley, the insurance actuary, aged -66.—At Thomasville, Ga., Father John Bray, aged 5.’. The Mexican Treasury is considering plans for the estab’Lhment o" a national agricultural bank for the purpose of loaning money at reasonable rates to the owners of largo haciendas to move their crops. Obituary: At Indianapolis, exMayor Jam -s L. Mitchell. At New York, Mrs. Monette Leii. aged 105. At Columbus. Ohio, J. M. Westwater, aged 78. At Alliance, Ohio, D-. Chas’ Kay, age 1 90. At Pittsburg, Pa., Thomas Barnes, aged 77. J. H. JOLLY, a Keokuk grocer, went to England some time ago after money bequeathed to him. He was heard from at Halifax on the ret; rn trip several weeks ago, in i a? he has not arrived home fears uro entertained that he has met with foul p’ay. Grand Master Workman Sovereign. in a pub'ie s; ceeh at Des Moines, la., Sunday afternoon declared he would violate the injunction placed upon him by Judge Jenkins ut Milwau"Swiii icgMiklXo the employe^ of the Northern Pacific road It was at a । m eting of railway men called for the purpv»e of organizing a branch < f the American Railway Inion. Several hundred men were present. George Howard, Vice President of the union, made a speech about two hours ling, and then organized a union of 175 members. At the com lusii nos this Gen. J. B. Weaver made a short speech. He said: “I recognize in the American people three classes—the producer. manufacturer, and distributor. You are of the last class and you are doing right to organize. In order to get your rights you must combine, just as do the men with whom you are associated. 1 am g'.a 1 to see all movement- of this sort and wish you every success." General Master Workman J. R Sovereign at at the closing of his spec h said: “I shall speak t > the employe- of the Northern Pacific a- 1 have the right to. and a: sure as there is a Gid in heaven I will violate the injunction of Judge Jenkins and d< fy him to impose on me a fine of ssoo or six months in ail. The injunction he issued is the most infamous document against workingmen ever recorded, and he would be a poor laboring man indeed who did not have the backbone to go against it. It is a disgrace to our modern civilization and deserves the severest condemnatii n. I fe.tr no courts. If there is a United States Marshal here now let him serve his process.” MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 5 25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 (0 <u 5 50 Sheep—Eair to Choice 2 25 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 58Ji <4 50’3 COBN—No. 2 34 @ 35 Oats—No. 2 2O’u<# 30 -3 Rye— No. 2 45 48 Butter—Choice Creamer;- 21:27 : . Eggs—Fresh 17 <<4 1> ^Potatoes Per bu 60 CO INDIANAPOLIS. 1■ a" 11 Htiipphm 300 e? -00 1 Hogs—Choice Light 3 00 & 5 so , Sheep—Common to I’rlme 2 00 & 3 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 ® 53*2 Corn—No. 2 White 34F® 35)3 Oats—No. 2 White... 31 13, 32 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 @5 00 Hogs 3 00 @5 to Wheat—No. 2 Red 56 @ 57 Corn—No. 2 33 & 34 Oats—No. 2 20 <<s 2;i : i Rye—No. 2 52 & 54 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3<o & 4 75 Hogs 3 to nt 5 00 Sheep 2 00 © 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 (<? 58 Corn—No. 2 87li@ 3SGj Oats—No. 2 Mixed 32 32’4 Rye—No. 2 51 I 53 " DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 75 Hogs 3 00 «« 5 25 Sheep 2 00 @ 3 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 ® *314 Corn —No. 2Ye low 36 (<4 37 Oats—No. 2 White 30 & 32 TOLEDO. -Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 59 Corn—No. 2 36 c<® SGtj Oats—No. 2 White co’s Rye—No. 2 43 to ’ B CPF ALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 70 @ 72 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40 41 Oats—No. 2 White 35 @ 36 Rye—No. 2 53 & 55 ~ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Nc, 2 Spring 57 571^ Corn—No. 3 33 @ 34 Oats—No. 2 White 29 l <j@ 3014 Rye—No. 1 43 @ 45BaRLEY—No. 2 48 0 50 Pork—Mess 12 00 4M2 50 „ NEW YORK. Cattle 3 00 @ 5 00 Hogs 3 75 @ c 00 sheep 2 00 @ 3 50 M heat—No. 2 Red 64 @ 65 Corn—No. 2 43 44 Oats —White Western 38 @ 42 Butter—Choice 24 @ 27 Pork—Mess 13 50 @l4 25

TIRED OF THE CHASE. FUGITIVE SENDS FOR AN OFFICER VOLUNTARILY. Big Steel Steamer Helpless in the Ice— A Famous Law Knocked Out—Mr. Davis Wants a Popular Vote — Hot After Artz. Armstrong Gives U >. Cal Armstrong, escaped convict and defaulting Deputy Treasurer of Tipton County, Ind., was quietly arrested at the Dalmer House, ( hicago, Monday by an officer from Kokomo. Ind., and taken to the penitentiary at Michigan City, Ind, where he will serve a sentence of three years. Armstrong was a preacher, then got into politics, became Deputy County Treasurer under his father, commenced playing the races and patronizing pool rooms, stole $6 >,< 00 county money, was arrested as a defaulter, tried, sentenced to State s prison for three years, broke jail at Kok >mo, and came' to Chicago. He expected friends to furni h him money with which to reach. Mexico, but they fai ed him. As a result he telegraphed Sheriff Simmons of Tiptcn County to come and get him. saving he could be found at the Palmer House. The Sheriff sent an officer. When 1 e arrived Armstrong was there and gave himself up. The arrest was made so quietly that not a single person about the hotel, n t even Det ctive McCarthy, knew anything al oat it. Crash at the Crib. The Ferdinand Schlesinger, a steel steamboat 315 feet long, one of the biggest vessels on the lake < rushe I i .to the four-mile crib at ( hicago Tue.day morning, tearing away what the hurricane if three weeks ago left of the lan ling on the sou h of the structure. Fortunately the big vessel was drifting or the fourteen men who were working on the intakes, Keeping them e’ear from anchor ice, would have been swept t > a watery grave. What in uries the ve-sM sustained Cribkeeper Charles Johnson could m t say, as it backed away and lav to about one mile from the crib. No signals of distress were shown, however. All night a heavy swell was on an 1 the s mtheasterly wind drove the ice floes against the crib with terrific force. Before darkness the floes commenced piling against the little brick house, and by midnight tl ey were thirty feet high. It was to this powerful and appa ently irresistible tide that the co lision was due. No one on the crib raw the boat pass, bat a man named Olson, who went out at 1:27 to see that the signal lights were burning all right, caught sight of the boat ju -t b >fote it struck. He was so astonished that he just stood there, and when the impact cam • he was thrown violently against the railing and narrowly escaped falling into the lake. The boat had apparently been ca ight in an eddy, whien rendered its rudder useless, for it swung almost completely around as if on a pivot, striking the crib stern foremost. Act 14 Void. The much-battered interstate commerce act received a hard blow in Judge Grosscup's court, says a Chicago dis--1 a‘ch. The c urt, in dismissing + he rule recently made against certain railroad men, to show cause why they should not answer questions touching violations of the act, practeally nullified the criminal provision; of the law. The famous Counselman decision, in which it was held that Conn elmen need not an;we - que ti ns about violations of the inter fate law beeaiGe answers to such questions might criminate himself, is practically repeated, and this is part of the amendment to the act which was expressly design d to meet the constitutional objection which ('ounselm in raised. To Submit It to the People. Mr. Da vis introduced a resolution in the lowa Legislature asking a postponement of the final vote cn the Wils m bill in Congress until after the next e’eetion. to give the people of the United States a chance to vote on the quest! The resolution was adopted by a party vote. BREVITIES, Ik 1 isa during a performance of “Othello” at the Theater Nuovo a pet.vd was thrown into the auditorium through a window in the rear of the stage. The explosive missile burst witn a loud report and created the greatest excltment. but did rot injure anybody and did not damage the theater. The Centerville Ala. Female Seminary b urned down on Thursday night. The 1; ss is $15,099, with no insurance. A party of young peo/Jc returning from a"ball gave tae ala in i i time to avert g.eat loss of life. As it was, sixty girls escaped in the r night garments, and suffered intensely from the cold. C. P ’. C. B. Graham, an Englishmin. distinguished for his mi itary record, died at Whatcom, Wyo., Friday afternoon, having been long in illhealth, as a result of wounds ai d hardships. He was a member of the famous Light Brigade, immortalized by Tennyson. and one of the survivors of the six hundred wh > rode into the “valley cf death” in the great charge of Balaklava. He was a prominent Mason and Odd Fellow. He leave; a wife, to whom he was married three years ago. Matthew Johnson was electro uted at Sing Sing. N. Y., for the murder of I mil Kuekelhorn. Daniel Slaughter, who killed two of the guests at a wedding in North Carolin i, was taken from the Sparta jail by a mob and hanged. W. C. Baker, of Kansas City. Kan., whose voucher was raised frem $8 to SBO by Adjutant General Aitz, is not inclined to let the matter drop with Artz's resignation. It is said that Baker will institute criminal action against Art:. Thomas Ryan was accidentally shot and killed by August Tetzloff, while hunting, near Akron, Ohio. Thirteen barges of coal, value 1 at $36,000 and towed by the steamer Coal Citv, were lost in a collision at Memnhis.

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What Thej Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. In the House Wednesday the day was i pent in an attempt to secure a vote on the seigniorage bilk No opposition has developed in the Senate to the ( hicago appointment; General Joe Shelby was confirmed as Marshal for the Western Missouri District, opposition being turned by a joke. Rumored retirement of Fenator Mills frnm the Finance Committee led to an interesting tariff discussion in the Senate. Senator Morgan’s Hawaiian repo-t was adopted by Republican votes in the Committee on Foreign Relations. The House held a disorderly session Thursday. Members arrested to secure a quorum threaten leral proceedings. A bill to give effect to the Paris tribunal findings in the Behring Sea case was presented. Pursuing custom, Washington’s farewell address was read in the Senate. Mr, Martin v, as selected tc carry out the ceremony. Members of the House under arrest were ■ discharged Friday, but Mr. Biand was unable to force a vote on the soianiorage bilk He was considerably ruffled, and “Anarchists” and “revolutionists” were some of the terms applied to obstructionists by him. House Democrats will in caucus consider a rule by which members may be forced to vete to make a quorum. Subcommittee of the Senate finance committee is said to have reached an agreement on the tariff bilk Saturday’s session of the House was brief and devoid of interest For over two hours roll-call followed roll-call, the opponents of the seigniorage bill throwing aside all pretense of not filibustering and boldly injecting motions to take a recess and to adjourn in order to prevent a vote on Mr. Bland’s motion. Speaker Crisp, who had been indisposed, was back at bis post. The galleries were thronged with spectators. After the reading of the journal, at the request of Mr. Grosvenor. Ohio, tl.o time for paying tribute to the memory of Representative Enochs of Ohio was postponed from March 3 to March 17. Mr. Reed took the helm. He moved that the Hou=e take a recess for two hours. and afterward modified it to 13 o’clock Monday morning. Mr. Bland shouted so as to be heard over the confusion that prevailed something about filibuster and bonds The motion was defea ed on a rising vote. Mr. Reed made the point of no quorum, whereupon Mr. Bland move! a call of the House. The call developed the presence of 258 members. Mr. Bland then moved that all leaves of absence granted except for sickness be revoked, but upon the statement of the speaker that there were none such he withdrew his motion, and the vote occurred on Mr. Reed's motion for a recess until 10 o’clock Monday. As there was still a disposition to filibuster Mr. Bland demanded the yeas anil nays. Mr. Reed’s motion was lost. 27 to 158. Mr. Bland, rising in his place, shouted: “It is quite evident that the bondholders have control over this country and I therefore move that the House adjourn.” Without division it was carried. The proceedings in the House on Monday were full of exciting incidents over the Bland seigniorage bill. There was a good attendance both on the floor and in the galleries. Immediately after the reading of the journal, Mr. Hatch. Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, stated that his committee claimed jurisdiction over the anti-o itions bill, which had been referred by the Speaker to the Ways and Means Committee, and he moved that it be referred to the Agricultural Commit ee. Mr. Hatch’s motion was carried. Mr. Boutelie, as a privileged question, then had read a long resolution expressing it as the sense of the House that Mr Willis should be recalled from Hawaii. The battle over the silver Lill was then resumed. After speeches by Representatives Pence. Patterson, Fithian. Tracey, Bland, and Neill came a row between Mr. Pence and several gentlemen whom he attacked. Mr. . Pence was called to order and the language excepted to was read.after which he was allowed to explain. His explanation did not satisfy, and the House voted by 63 to 30 not to permit him to proceed. The Senate * held a short session. Mr. Morgan, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relai Hons, presented the report on the Hawaiian investigation, and Mr. Frye gave notice that he would address the Senate on that ' subject. The Senator passed the joint 1 resolution providing for the ap; ointment of a commission to the Antwerp International Exposition, and at 12:37 went into executive session. At 1:20 the Senate i adjourned. Resolutions were presented in the House . Tuesday afternoon by Congressman Somers, of Wisconsin, to investigate the ac- “ tion of several United States Judges who ! have issued injunctions in railroad cases, ‘ most prominent among them Justice 1 Brewer, of the Supreme Court. They include also United States Judge Taft, Judge Ricki of Ohio ; Judge Pardee, of Texas; Judge Beatty, of Idaho, and Judge Dundy, of Nebraska. These cases all involve the righ s of labor- * ing men to strike and the decisions which ■ are called in question extend over । a term of years. Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, introduced in the House a ! bill to amend the Revised Statutes so as to permit in civil cases the verdict of threet fourths of the jurors constituting the jury > to stand as the verdict of the jury and . such a verdict to have the same force and effect as a unanimous verdict. Said Mr. Bryan: “Disagreements are usually caused by one or two members of the jury and a three-fourths verdict wcuid settle most cases, making a great saving of costs.” The Senate held another brief session in which nothing of importance was accomplished, and at. 1:20 o clock adjourned. after an executive session of halt an l.our, la order that the caucus might Le continued. It Suited the Occasion. A young Swede was recently scalded to death bv the explosion of a boiler in ’ Oregon. As the y< mg fellow had been very popular among his associate;, a committee wa; appointed to erect a ’ small monument over his grave. After ' considerable hard werk the cimmittee * prcduced a stone with the following inscription: “Sacred to the memory of our ei--1 teemed friend, Lars Larson. > Besides Those in New York. I A list of the millionaires in the f United States shows that there are 10 in Alabama. 6 in Arkansas. 162 in California. 17 in Colorado. 79 in Connecti- ’ cut, 16 in Delaware. 31 in the District of Columbia. 6in Florida. 11 in Geor1 gia. 3in Idaho, 349 in Illinois, and 37 in Indiana. x , The Coldest Winter Known. • The coldest winter on record wa; । that of 1709. in which rive s and lakes ( were frozen and even the ocean several , mi'es from shore. In Europe fro t penetrated three yards int 1 the ground, and people perished by the hundred m their homes. How the Chinese Woman Makes Tea. In China a cup of tea is made I y first pouring boiling water into the cup and ' then dropping the leaves in an I allowing them lo soak a few mcments.