St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 March 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, ... INDIANA SHORTS GO TO COVER.

badly squeezed in the sugar PIT. Death Comes to Canadian and Penn^*. vania Miners- Express Companies on the Lookout for the Dalton Gang—After Gen. Diack's Pension. Sugar Shares Boom. Between 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, when business opened, and 11:30 about 100,000 shares of sugar stock changed hands at the New York Board of Trade, and during theie dealings the price of the certificates moved or rather rushed from 88 to 100, turning at par and receding as rapidly as they had advanced to 92. After’another upward spurt the price seemed to settle about 93. The excitement attending these extraordinary sales ■was intense, and the dealings as reflected in the quotations were most irregular. For awhile all other busi^ess seemed at a standstill. During < ^ffe-fush compamßgel^^j^^a^Q^

5° At \ c C round ICO the sales were 400 cer- 1 The laics were between 95 and 93, at which price iho amount dealt in was enormous. It was to corner belated shorts that the drive was made, and there was nothing fi r the gentlemen who had sold what they I had not g< t but to go into the market, | buy and deliver, or make terms to be dictated by the purchasers. Daltons Loose Again. The American Express and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas officials are much disturbed by news trom the Territory of the movements of the Dalton gang" of outlaws. For several months these criminals have been fortified in Sapulpe Mountains, fort; miles west of Vinita. Friday night the? broke camp, and heavily aimed, redo toward Vinita. Shaft-Sinkers Are Killed. FOUR members of a gang of mineshaft sinkers were killed in the Rich-' mond shaft near Scranton, l’a. The ‘ accident was caused by the fall of a shelf of rock from the side of the shaft ' near the bottom and a consequent explosion of a blower of ga< Five others of the shift made their escape. Three Men Crushed. AT Bruce Mines, Ont., three miners were killed at the Ophir gold mine by the rock caving in on them. The dead ' men were: Frank Percy, James O. Heath and Anthony Savage. Gotham Official's Suicide. Julius C. Lully. Secretary of the Aqueduct Board of New York City, |

committed suicid * by shooting’ himself with a revolver, which was found be- ' side his body. Forestry Congress. Representative men interested in the forestry question participated in the opening of a two days’ session of the National Forestry Congress at Albany. N. Y. ‘ Murderer Shot to Death. At Jesup, Ga., Sylvester Rhodes, who murdered a prominent white man named Emmet Dozier a week ago, was captured and shot to death. NEWS NUGGETS. Dave Johnson and Mansfield Washington, colored, were hanged at Baton Rouge. La., for murder. W. R. Johnston, late City Clerk at Steubenville, Ohio, indicted for cm- ' bezzlemcnt. was arrested under a new charge for misconverting public funds as agent. The Italian Consul at Riode Janeiro, * Signor C. Bertoia, died of yellow ; fever. The spread of yellow fever eon- | tinues. Ab- ut 200 people a e suffering from the disea: e. The engagement is announced at Washington of M. l’atenotre. the French Ambassador, and Miss Elver- j son. daughter of the publisher of the Philadelj hia Inquirer. Simon Smith, a negro, is locked up at Lancaster. Pa., on the charge of —TOdertakermbo^nW^^^cWr’^^Bß

whom he was employefl. The section of the big redwood tree exhibited at the World's Fair is to 1 e set up on the ground 4 of the Agricultural Department at Washington and i transformed into a museum. Arthur G. Earle, of the firm of j William H. Earle A Son-, proprietors of the l’ark Avenue Hotel, died in New : York under a surgical operatic n for | appendicitis. He was a member of several yacht clubs. Jules Carnatt, a farmer living i north es Andersen, Ir.d., caught Hill Mays and Mui ray t ain in the act of I robbing his me.it storage house [ and emptied a double-barreled shot- | gun into them. Murray is expected 1 to die. Both men belonged to the no- I torious Goodman gang, and are wanted on other charges. Representative Hopkins has filed in Congress a petition signed by fifty or sixty old soldins of Aurora asking Congress to equalize the pen-ions of Judge Long, of Michigan, and Representative J. C. Black, of Illinois, by raising the pension of Judge Long to MOO per month and reducing Congre ;s---man Black’s pension to 1’59 per month. The object is to enter a protest in the Long case. Thomas Robinsox has b en arrested for murdering James Corrigan in a dime museum in Toronto, Ont. George Hair, a gambler, shot and killed Jacob Dunsmore in St. Joseph, Mo. Dunsmore's wife was the cause of the shoe ting. Hair is still at large. The Gold King, Strong Granite and Washingion Mines at Cripple Creek have resumed operations on eight-hour shifts. This is a substantial victory for the miners, and they are sanguine of compelling every mine in the camp to adopt the eight hour law.

EASTERN. Four Cornell students have been arrested at Ithaca for refusing to answer questions before the Coroner's jury in regard to the recent hazing outrage. They are: F. C. Taylor^ Plainfield, N. J.: C. L. Dingens, Buffalo; C. H. Mitchell, New York City, and C. B. Gorby, Pittsburg.

Theoi ore F. Baker, former paying teller of the Consolidation National Bank at Philadelphia, Fa., who stole $47,010 of the bank’s money, has been sentenced to seven years and six months in the penitentiary from the day of his arrest and to pay the costs of the prosecution. 1 A terrible explosion occurred in the waste separating the building of the Repauno Chemical Company at Gibbstown, N. J. The force of the shock was so great that it was felt in towns fifteen miles away. Levi Evins, one of the workmen, was blown to atoms. The separating building was destroyed and the surrounding structures were damaged. Cape Ann, a quaint old Massachusetts fishing town, is in mourning for the loss of fourteen sturdy fishermen, who sailed in the schooner Henrietta last November for Newfoundland’s banks, and for four others of the crew of the schooner Resolute. Reports of; the two disasters have just been re- I ceived, and as is the custom with the I simple folk of Cape Ann the occasion j was made one of universal lamentation I

1 At Trenton, N. J., Joseph I alias John Malwitz, sentenced tnWWF yea s in the State prison, sawed the 1 bars of his cell door and gained access j to the corridor, where lie obtained a I rope, and then lassoed Keeper James ; ( T. Walters and choked him into un- I I consciousness. Centerkeeper Joseph | | B. Lippincott appeared on the scene I and the convict secured the gun of the | unconscious man and killed Lippincott, j Wallwitz was recaptured after a . desperate fight. When the convicts in Sing Sing prison were marched from their cells ! to the lower dock on Friday morning, I the last man on the line was John Y. ' McKane. His hands rested on the | shoulders of a horse-thief from New j York. McKaro, with his companion, filed into the large breakfast-room and I sat down on a rude wooden stool. In front of him was a tin cup filled with a pint of black coffee, made of burned I . bread crusts, and two slices of unbut- , j tered bread. This was McKane's first . , breakfast in prison. McKane ate his breakfast. As soon as breakfast wa< i lover McKane was marched to the clothing shop, whore he was placed in I the hands of th ■ instructor for his first lesson in cutting trousers. WESTERN. j TIFFANY &C 1. have been robbed of ft gold cup, studded with gems and worth $30,(10), which they wore making for a San Francisco gentleman. James Butts has for the second time leen found guilty of abducting | Ellen Cherrington, at Galesburg. 111.,

and sentenced t> ten year- imprison- ' merit. Miles Finlen shook dice with Col. I C. S. Warren, at Helena, Mont., to dee’de whether the latter should ] ay him $15,000 or $59,d00 for a mining opt ion, I and won. William Loch, aged 72, a well-to-do merchant residing at Young.-town, j Ohio, went to the barn and with a halter strap hanged himself. The c.epression in business and domestic trouble caused the act. Freight engine 1.210 < f the Baltimore and Ohio Kiilroad exploded at Nuzum's Mills. W. Va. The engine was sidetracked ut the time. Engineer । Stevenson, Fireman Law. and Frakeman Mecue were terribly injured. j Ex-Casiiif.r William E. Bakr, Jr.. of the St. Louis National Bank, has ‘ been arrested charged w ith eml ezzling $57.(00. Barr's father is said to have been making good the shortage and I the directors were keeping the matter quiet, but were forced to order the arrest by the bank examiner. i AN important meeting of the WestI ern Union of Insurance Mantgcrs was । held in St. Louis at the I’lanters' Hotel. I The vexed question of commissions was discussed at length, and the manage s of several companies who a e charged i with blocking the low commi-sion move came in for some sharp criticism. | AT North Baltim ire, Ohio, lire broke out on the stage of Henry's Opera House and spread with gieat rapidity. -xAuj entire block.

sumed. - * up Jls follows: Dr. Henry. ’ n “Y tn > iAI McDowell. $15,00 c Hush mg A Spitler, $25,000. Insurance. >3',OH on the whole property. I The large woolen mill of.J. S. Eli- ; fritz A C >., at Hillsboro. Ohio, has been closed on judgment taken by three 1 banks for about sis,o io. The trouble was brought on by the my-terious disappearance of J. S. Elifritz. the senior I member of the firm. He was last heard from at the Palmer House, Chicago, I Feb 17. Upon leaving there he or- • dered his sample cases and goods sent ! to St. Louis, which was done, but he has not called for them there and has I not Icon heard from, though every ' effort has been made to find him. H s accounts appear to b ? all right and his absence can be accounted for only on the theory that he has been murdered. His wife and children are almost crazed with grief. It is rumored that a paper has been circulated in the vicinity of Georgetown, Colo., favoring the secession of the silver States from the Union. It is thought that the idea is being advanced by cranks who advocate a peaceful retirement of the silver States for the purpose of annexing them t > Mexico. Rebellion is not threatened if the Government rejects such a proposition. The petition has been circulated in a number of mining camps, and one has also been sent to Denver. It is said that Mayor Parker, of Georgetown, is at the head cf the movement, but denials of the statement have been made. C nservative pe plc of the State look upon the proposition with no favor whatsoever. Five men att •mpted to h del up the east-bound Rock Island passeng rtrain three miles east of St. Joseph, Mo., Friday evening at 7:25. Torpedoes were 'placed on the track and one of

the robbers industriously swung B । 1 danger signal red light Engin» ’ Patrick McKinney at once divined S ' . purpose of robbery and put on afß 1 L head of steam. He and his fireirfl crouched down to the floor of the and hot a minute too soon, for wM the robbers .-aw the move they fired! volley into the engine and cab,® luckily hurt no one. The train das hl through amid a shower of bullets, th bandits wild with rage firing into the coaches as they passed and creating i consternation among the passengecm I who crawled down under th i seats a™ hid their valuables. When the traW I reached Stockbridge it was found ov< 100 bullets had hit it. The robb< 3 are undoubtedly the same gang tl t has twice successfully held up trai ■ Officers are after the gang. Residents of Salt Lake City are i a state of terror over the stranj) spectacle of mountain lions, coyote i and other wild animals roamis j about the streets with the t - most composure, as if it were no u * usual thing for them to come into a city of 65,000 inhabitants in search if food. People in the outlying sections ft the city are almost afraid to ventuf) out of doors, so fearful are they |f meeting one of these wild hearts Jf prey. The utmost consternation pi# vails, and the city authorities are n® endeavoring to rid the city of the iJ- | । welcome visitors. Unusually heawki ; snowstorms in the mountains have | priced the wild animals of an oncgKo ' tunity to secure u n ta ~ ^RSuous with hunger.-to seek it in 61^1 cattloß^ been seized upon fir । lions and coyotes and devoured. Hunc ■ ers have obtaine 1 permission of th^ | City Council to kill lions within the I citv limits and two of them killed one • weighing 300 pounds, and 9 feet in ! length. j “Affairs at the Detention Hospital ] | in Chicago were conducted in an inhuman and sham -fully disgraceful man- । ner during a part if not all of 1893,” I declares a committee of the Board of Cook County (Illinois) Commissioners. This committee, emsisting of five commissioners, has been at work investigating affairs a* the Detention Hospital since Jan. 4, and has but recently completed its labors. The Commissioners were led to make this inves igation thr< ugh letters from the physician< at the Kankakee Insane i Asylum, saying that many patients arriv d bearing numerous marks of mal- ! treatment, and that some even died apparently from the effect of these injuries. The disclosures in the report to the Bi aid are horrifying. Patients, the committee says, have been strapped down and beaten and their wounds neglected so as to result in blood poisoning and death. < Ithers are sent on to Kankakee w th the marks of narrow straps upon their bodies, showing that they had been strap] ed down tightly for long ] eri< ds, and yet the phys c ans at Kankakee have found no < ceaston for rostra nt in the ca-es of these sum- patients after their arrival there. A strange i feature of the revolting ease is that a large number of the barbarites were practiced by the f -male attendants upon patients of their own sex. The male attendants, though, wore ciueT i enough. N<> rega d appears to have been paid t > the decencies of life. Male attendants it is said, were called in frequently to disrobe <r assist in disrobing female ; atients. and other fenia'e patients who dared to ] rote-t were threatened with punishment if I i they did not keep silence. SOUTHERN. John Black and ex-Senator Howdill I of 1 arbo irvi'de. Ky.. accuse ('. F. Davidson ex-ea-hicr <f the Cumberland Valiev Bank, of defrauding them of $17,0 0. (’apt. Rogers’ command has jailed at Rio Grande City. Tex.. Will and Ben Bennett and l’abo Flores, charged with murdering a witness against them in a horse thief case. The visit of Croker, the Tammany boss, to Texas, aecoiding to an Austin dispatch, was for the purpose of securing the support of Gov. Hogg and his faction for Senator Hill for President. Four liegn e . Ike Taylor. Yancy Hawkins. Tom Tinsley, an 1 Abe Washington. confessed lynchers, were sentenced at Star City. Ark., the first >wo to live years each and the latter pair to < ne year each in the penitentiary. The Columbian Fire Insurance of America, which assigned at Louisville, claims aGCt- of s lAejio •. The failure is charged to the refusal of the insuran"C commissioners of Blinois anil other St a e- to license the company to do business- „ ri< h a it chief, and Gov. Hogg and^^Srty ’ Tentertai am at Houston. Tex., by Left-Handed Fishing Club. After banquet the < roker pnrtv procee^AM^ San Franeisc •. stooping at i tonio and El Paso. j Judge D. M. Key. of the Ur.» li States Distriet Court of Tennessee, nies the re] ort that he will rciir<.^>/ his seventieth birthday, and expoa.jp to lemain on the bench for an 'ther ten ' years. He says h-is in perfect health and that it would be shabby in him to draw $5,Ui u from the government for . d i-ig nothing while hois able to work. While a dance was in progress in I Madison County. North Carolina, Geo. ’ i Hensley told his wife it was time to go home. W. R. Shelton. Jr., told her to 1 stay as long as she liked. Both men ! ' took hold of her. Hcns’ey shot Shcl--1 ton through the heart, lut despite his I wound Shelton shot Hensley three j times and then fell lifeless, with his . I pistol ready for the fourth shot. Hensc ley H to the woods an lis supposed to have died. . | The starving people of Starr County, t j Texas, have re eived comparatively < ' little assistance in response tj their • appeal to the world for help. Their i । condition cannot be described. Many - ranches have been deserted, and a - j number of deaths from starvation . । have occurred. Cattle and other live . stock have died by the thousands. The f county is literally burned up, and water 3 for domestic purposes must be hauled - long distances. ! A BLOODY riot occurred Wednesday in the Kanawha coal region in which at least one man was killed, three fatally injured, and many others hurt. The 1 j trouble was at Eagle, W. Va., a mining . ' t iwn on the Chesapeake and Ohio S ; Road. A crowd of striking miners atf ' tacked those at work, and in an instant

the trouble grew far beyond the power h of the local officers to control. The Sheriff telegraphed Gov. McCorkle, and three companies of State troops were at once dispatched to the scene. i WASHINGTON. Martin J. Russell has been confirmed by the Senate as Customs Collector at Chicago. New York Republicans propose to nominate ex-Vice President Morton for Lieutenant Governor of the St te. Joseph Donjan, the crank who threatened Vice President Stevenson, has been sentenc d to eighteen months' imprisonment. The Federal authorities have been notified that fifty Chinese, on their way to Texas from Mexico, will attempt to cross the Rio Grand? at Piedras Negras, an American having c ntracted to land them in the United States for SSO per head. The official statement of treasury receipts and expenses shows that for the eight months of the pre-ent fiscal year the expenses of the Government have exceeded the receipts by S4B,(H)O.<XX), the aggregates standing: Receipts, $199,5 X),OW, expen es, $247,500,000. This shows that the Government is running behind at the rate of $6,000,- ( pop a month. *1 nK* 112 mr struggle in the House over tho c °) nn ? e tlie ph t s< ^j|Wt<>rage and the silver bullion MMBfPn'eusury was ended Thursdav by J l^passage of the bi 1 by a vote oi 167 to 130, a majority in favor of the bill of 37. The*'special order to bring the bill to a vote was adopted by a bare quorum immediately after the House convened. This broke the opposition of the filibusters and they were (powerless to do anything further to | place an obstable in the way of the ibill. All the amendments offered to 'the measure by its opponents were defeated, the one which polle 1 the most votes being Mr. Outhwaite's amendment to strike out the second section. FOREIGN, &T is authoritatively denied that &resident Carnot has demanded the recall ot Ambr ssador Duffer in. I The American sealing schooner Emma Jeneau has been confiscated by Fussia and h r crew thrown into ®son. ■News comes from R< m' that Rev. Dr. Burtsell has won his case and can retarn to his old charge, the Church of the Epiphany, at New York. William Ewart Gladstone, for years the ruler of British polities and l th4 most unique figure in the public life of the age. has made his fin il exit frdm the stage of action. His rosignati n of the Premier hip was t ndered to the Queen Saturday, and the Grand Old Mai of England will new retire to the enjoyment in his remaining years of distinguished honors earned during over sixty years in the service of his country. The Qu?en writes^ formally accepting Mr. Gladstoitfjg resignation and announcing the rd Rosberry to fill the office of Premier. IN GENERAL, C’X’GRiassMAN Wilson is reported t» ba much improved and his friends j Iwlieve he will recover. RETURNS fiotn Brazil indicate the j election of Senhor Prudent - de Moraes for president, and Senhor Victorias for I vice president. The Mexican revolutionist, Gen. ; Juan M. Gorlina, who e escapades ' along the Texas border twenty years < ago area part of history, is dying at his home in the suburbs of the City of ^|rxico ; Obituary: At Harrisburg. Pa., Col. W. W. Jennings, banker, aged 55. —At Winn - onne. Wis.. Jacob C. Horn, who was pn sent at the Fort Dearborn massacre, aged t •>. —At La Forte. Ind., ■ Ruth C. Sabin, aged 92. i R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says; | unn uo more definite in formation tbaa , a veek ago regarding the outcome of tinan- • clal or revonuo disputes perhaps more I people have come to the le lef that tlio : end will answer their wishes. Certainly rather more are takln: llmlt.-d risks In i business, especially In stocks. A snletintlal basis Is the slowly growing demand for goods, cmsel by gradual exhaustion of stocks held by dealers, and this has further enlarged th’ working force in manufactures. More works have res lined or increased hands or hours than have ; stepped or reduced MARKET REPORTS. . 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GETS OUT A GATLING. GOV. M’CORKLE SENDS A GUN AGAINST RIOTERS. Flames Devastate Deadwood — Another Crank at the White House—Great Unrest in Pittsburg Mining Field—American Unjustly Imprisoned by Mexicans. This Is Ominous. The big gatling gun at the State's prison in Moundsville, W. Va., was ordered shipped Monday for use, if necessary, in quelling mine riots. Twenty loaded cars of the Chesapeake and Ohio road were burned at Foint Creek, ten miles below Eagls. A general outbreak is momentarily expected, as the strikers are becoming emboldened by their recent successes with the torch. Col. Wyant, under guard of a full company of militia, was taken from Montgomery this morning a prisoner to be tried on the charge of shooting at the strikers. The arrangement was made by the miners with the connivance of certain people to arrest Wyant, take him to Montgomery and turn him over to the mob of miners. When the soldiers came accompanying the Sheriff in mak ng his arrests for murder, dynamite cartridges fuse l with percussion caps were to be lighted and thrown among the troops and posse. Dynamite cartridges were distributed, one of which is in the possession of the Governor. They were to take Wyant to Charleston, where his life was to bz taken and then the li it was to be made down the i ailroad. .As it happened, however, only a small part of this program was carried out. A conspiracy of a startling nat ire is being unearthed. A man was - arrested on Morris Creek with two Winchesters and a peculiar-looking dynamite bomb in his po; session. He says he will turn State's evidence and canfess to a plot that is being hatched to blow up all the works along the river. He said also that he knew where a great deal of dynamite was being stored for this purpose. Dea<lwi»o 1 Almost Destroyed. Fire broke out in Deadwood S. D., Monday morning at 6 o'clock in Fashold s saloon and destroye I all that part

of the city lying between the center of Main street and Chinatown. No wind was blowing at the time or the whole city would have bom destroyed. As it is. the best portion of the place is in ruins. The loss at rough estimate will reach over $1 SOJ tA. Dements Whalen & (haves, Starr A Wallock, Haines & Hein an 1 Gib Stone A Co. are the heaviest sufferers. The firemen seemed to have no control of it from the fact that it originated in a frame structu e built of rough pine and the headway it made was appalling. The insurance will not exceed $25,0 0. (■old Strike Kuns SS.OOO to the Ton. The latest st ake at the Cochita. N. M., gold district shows free gold running to the t n. The rush of pro peetors continues, and a sec »nd stage line from Santa Fe to the new camp was opened. Col. T. S. Moore, formerly of Denver, let contracts for a telephone line to connect Cerrillo- and Ccchita with Santa Ee, and f or a sixtyfoot ferry-boat to run on the Rio Grande at ih ■ stage crossing. Homes Arc Wrecked by h Hurricane. A SEVERE st >rm passed over Butler, Mo., Sunday night, doing c msiderable damage. The house of Jasper Smith was destroyed ami he a d his wife and two daughters we.e injured. One little girl is not expected to live anl Smith's Jaw was fractu ed. A house belonging to George Norris was also wrecked, but no one was hurt. BREVITIES. Hugh Miller, who says he is a cousin of Senator Brice, arrived at El . Paso, Tex., from the State of Pueblo, Mexico. He says he has been in jail there three years and nine months and f was robbed of SbJ O>. He says he deposit d s<>.o it in one of the banks there before going to Mexico, but cannot remcm! er which one. G neral Jubal A. Early died at Lynchburg. Va., after an illness of a few weeks’ duration. His death removes from earth another of the pr<minent figures-of the late civil war. He had made Lynchburgh practically his home sine ■ he quit the saddle and hung up his saber at the time the cause of the South was finally given up as lost. The railroad and river coal miners of Pittsburg district were in session in Pittsburg Monday with forty delegates, representing 12.000 miners. It is proposed to demand a uniform rate of 3 cents per b shel for mining. President Five has been advocating a national strike, and it is probable that action will be taken urging the national officers to m ve in the matter. A MIDDLE-AGED man of respectable appearance presented himself at the White Hou e Monday and noticed the guards that he was Abraham Julius Kisler, of Baltimore. He said he had come in obedience to a divine revelation to take charge of the building. He called attention to the populist movement to secure control of the other branches of the government and its ultimate success. and declared positively that he had be n empowered to save the executive mansion an 1 turn it over to the Jews for safety’. He was not embarrass ‘d when his credentials were demanded. but began issuing orders in such a threatening way that he was arre ted. An ice gorge in the Missouri River at Sioux City gave way and carried two steamboats to the bottom. The Mount Washington Glass Works at New Bedford, Mass., will become non-union. The present employes will strike. The Paris police made nine more arrests cf anarchists. Among those taken into custody was Francois, -who, it was formerly claimed, was an accomplice of Ravachol in the explosion which shattered the Case Very. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage ha; withdrawn his resignation as pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, having- received assurances that the church debt has be n satisfact rily a-ranged. Dr. Talmage will go abroad in June remaining till autumn.

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF SENTATIVESOur National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed; and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. After two weeks of obstruction Representative Bland <n Wednesday finally secured the adoption of his motion to limit debate on the seignioraie bill. A quorum having been secured, Mr. Outhwaite, from the Committee on Rules, reported a sieclal order to discharge the committee of the whole from further consideration of the pending bill and providing that after two hours' consideration in the House the previous question should be considered as ordered on the bill and pending amendments no intervening motion to be in order. He demanded the previous question. The speaker had his name called on the demand of the previous question on the adoption of the special order and it was sustained 170 to 10 one more than a quorum. 'I he vote was then taken on the adoption of the special order. The quorum was lost on the vote on the adoption of the special order—los to 11. three short of a quorum. Mr. Outhwaite. stating that this question would come up as soon as the house convened again moved an adjournment. It was Carried. The senate held a two hours’ session the whole of which was given to a speech by Senator Frye in opposition to President Cleveland’s Hawaiian policy. After a short executive session the senate adjourned. The Bland bill for the coinage of the silver seigniorage and the sliver bullion in the Treasury pas el the Hou-e Thursday by a vote of 167 to 130. The bill as passed was In the nature of a substitute for the original text of the measure, but the changes do not affect the material features of the bill. An analysis of the vote shows that 143 Democrats. IS) Republicans, and 8 Populists (total 167) voted for it. and 79 Republicans and 51 Democrats (total 130, voted again-t it The bill for the rescue of the armament of the wrecked Kearsarge passed just before adjournment. An unimportant session of the Senate took place, confirmation of the following nominations being the only feature: Granville Etuart of Montana. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Paraguay and Uruguay; collector of customs, Martin J. Russell. Chicago. Collectors of Internal Revenue— James W. Hunter. Fifth District of Illinois. Iowa: Bert J. Wellman at Manchester. Illinois: Thomas A. Mcllvaine at

Tuscola, Thomas E Garner at Paris. Charles C. Chain at Bushnell. Julian J. Beall at Mattoon. Christian W Barnhart at Wilmington. The Senate adjourned to meet next Monday. The House Friday entered upon the consideration of appropriation bil s. The fortification bill, carrying something over $2,000,000, was passed in twenty-five minutes and then the pension appropriation bill was taken up. An altercation occurred between Mr. Meredith of Virginia and Mr. Funk of Illinois over the former's attempt to prove that there were many fraudulent pensions on the rolls which almost resulted in a personal collision. Mr. Meredith, who was the aggressor, rushed over to the place where Mr. Funk was standing and shook his fist in the latter's face. Hot words were spoken, but friends interfered, and the Speaker restored order before any blows were struck. Mr. Bankhead, Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings, offered a resolution for the appointment of a subcommittee to go to Chicago and investigate the Po-t---oftice Building there, witli a view to determining the question of its safety, eta Mr. Bankhead explained the pressing necessity for examination. The amount involved was large and the committees were unwilling to make a recommendation without a peronal investigation. Ihe resolution carried an appropriation of 51,500. It was passed. The debate on the pension appropriation bill continued all day Monday in the House. and at times considerable spirit was displayed. The principal speakers were Messrs. Dolliver. Hepburn, Enloe, and Cannon. The Senate held a short session, and but little business of Importance was transacted. A brief debate on silver was precipitated by the intention expressol by the Vice President to refer the Bland seigniorage bill, which had just been received from the House, to the Finance Committee. Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, oppose 1 this disposition of the bill, and asked that it be allowed to lie on the table subject to being called up at any time. This was finally erdered. Mr. Stewart at the same time offered a free silver amendment to the bill. The only other event of interest was the offering bv Mr. Morgan, o! Alabama, of a resolution looking to the appointment of a tariff commission, which he offered as an amendment to the tariff bill. A number of bills of minor importance were passed. 'lhe feature of the pension debate in the House Tuesday was the speech of General Daniel E. Sickles, of New York. Mr. Milliken (Rep.. Maine) made a brief speech in favor of liberality in pensions, an 1 was followed by Mr. Grosvenor <Rep, Ohio). The charge that there was wholesale fraud in the pension rolls General Grosvenor stamped as false and malicious. i Mr. Coombs (Dem., N. Y.) decried the constant attempts to make political capital out of tlie pension business, and the unjust charges of hostility to the system upon the Southern Representatives. The Southern members, he said, had quietly acquiesced in the demands for pensions. They did not even reply to the taunts of the other side. Mr. Blair (Rep-. N. H) said that the cry that the cry that the pension rcli was a roll of dishonor, tainted with fraud, had long been heard in the land. As far back as 1681, in order to get at the fraudulent pensions, the entire roll was published. It was examined in every communiiy, and as far as he knew not one single, solitartr_caae of bjMA-OjL developed. Mr. Mahon (Rep, eluded the debate for the day. At the end of his remarks the committee rose. Mr. Dockery presented a bill from tl e joint committee on expenditures in the department to improve the methods of auditing accounts in the Treasury Department, and then at 5:40 o'clock the House adjourned. The Senate confirmed a number of postmasters. How to Train a Canary Bird. As soon as the ycung canary is large enough to sit upon a perch in the cage take it in the hand every day. fcndle the little thing, feed it with the lingers, and in the course of two weeks you will find it at the cage door ready to come out when you approach. Let it fly about the rooms, perch upon your shou’der. and in time you will notice that it will be doing all sorts of things that will amuse and interest you. B L this kind of training the birds will sing much sweeter, and in many ways repay you for your extra attention. This and That,. Prudence is the better part of shrewdness. The most accurate weather i eport is the thunder clap. The rich man h is hi- mug at the barber shop. The poor man takes his there. ’Tis the accounts of a side do rsalcon that are kept up by a double entry system. Speaking of “sage dressing.’’ what’s the matter w th Socrates putting his coat on?