St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 March 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - . . INDIANA IS AN UGLY CHARGE. DID THE JUDGE ABET THE ROSS , MURDER. Quits Without Firing' a Shot—de Janeiro Wild with Joy—Fatal / Kailroad Collision—Coxey’s Army Wants Transportation. To Impeach a Judge. The grand jury at> Scottsboro, Ala., Las reported a bill recommending the impeachment of Judge M. B. Talley, of the Ninth Alabama Circuit, accusing him of aiding and abetting the Skelton boys in murdering Banker R. G. Ross on Feb. 4. When the Skeltons started in pursuit of Ross Judge Talley telegraphed to the operator at Stevenson, for which point Ross was destined, not to let Ross get away, and when the 'Skeltons had killed Ross they wired iTalley that “Ross is dead; none of us hurt.” Ross’ friends had wired him from Scott -boro that his li'e was in danger and Talley endeavored to intercept the message. Failing in this he Rebels Surrender Without a Shot. ' The Brazilian war is practically over and the cause of the insurgents is lost. There is much rejoicing in Rio de Janeiro at the culmination of the struggle which has continued so many months with no object seemingly but to hamper business and destroy property. The rebel forces have surrendered unconditionally, almost without firing a shot. The officers of the insurgent fleet have taken refuge on beard French and Portuguese war ships. One French vessel has put to sea with many of the rebel officers on board. It is said that Admiral da Gama is on board the British war ship Sirius. The insurgent war ship Aquidiban is not in harbor. Admiral de Mello was false to the Emperor and to President Fonseca and President Peixoto. Ho now proves false to Admiral da Gama. Where he and his vessel are now is not known. NEWS NUGGETS. / John Rodgers, a suspected thief, was killed by vigilantes in Multerry Township, Ind. Calvin Darling, a young farmer living near Mulberry, Ind., committed suicide by hanging. 1 The employes of the Merrimack mills at Dracut, Mass., struck; 2,003 people are directly affected. Freddie Gebhard's last present to Miss Louise Morris, whom he is soon to wed, was a solid silver bathtub. ; Edward D. White took his seat as a Justice of the Supreme Court, the usual ceremonies being-observed. Bondsmen of Charles R. Groth, Secretary of the Milwaukee Fire Department, have made good a big shortage. Because he was discharge 1. .Jacob

4 » n i nr< ixd w uiov uui t. »• i .. .. , - ■ i To punish Western Passenger Association roads for not standing by it the Santa Fe has cut rates to the Missouri River. That east-biund freight rates are being freely cut is proved by last ■week's shipments, which aggregate 86,955 tons. Chicago national banks hold an average reserve of 44.90 per cent., according to reports recently male to the Comptroller. Louis Cyr, of Montreal, has issued a challenge to strong men, especially Sandow, and is willing to compete for $5,000 a side. Bodies of the thirteen men entombed in the Gaylord mine Feb. 13 were reached by rescuers, but were beyond identification. Michigan day at the Milwinter Fair was appropriately celebrated. General Russell A. Alger was among the speakers. Senator Cullom will endeavor to prevent Phelps’ confirmation as SubTreasurer at Chicago until Tanner's term has expired. Secretary Gresham and British Ambassador Pauncefotc are trying to come to an understanding on the Behring Sea fisherie ; case. The Johnson (Philadelphia) Steel Works, which have been shut down sinsc Jan. 1 for repairs, resumed operations, giving employment to 2,010 men. Congressman Houk ha; been snowed under in the Republican primaries in the Second Tennessee District, Henry J. Gibson receiving the

nomination. THEj^ontreal express, north bound, t' ‘‘‘ me in ahoadbrooke, Qu\ Ino engineer on onj of the trains and a train-hand, who was in the cab with him, wore kiled. None of the passengers was seriously injured, and none of the cars left the track. A REGIMENT of 800 unemployed men is organize! at Les Angeles, under command of Gen. Frye, with the avowed intention of getting 2,999,200 recruits, and then the entire body will march to Washington. Notice has been sent to the Secretary of War, and that official has been asked to provide vatic ns. W. C. OWENS began his campaign at Lexington, Ky., for the scat in Congress held by AV. C. P. Breckinridge. Indicted Michigan State officials are fighting for time. Applications for continuances were made in a number of cases. Striking helpers at a Paterson (N. J.) mill attacked those who refused to join them. Several men were hurt. Indiana spiritualists will hold a three weeks' meeting at Anderson, befirinning July 19

EASTERN. AUGUST DIX jumped into the Paseaic River at Paterson, N. J., to commit suicide, but was rescued and locked up. Soon after he hanged himself with a silk handkerchief to the bars of the cell door. Thomas W. Ahl, of Carlisle, Pa., has been arrested on a charge of attempting to bribe a member of the Soldiers’ Orphan Home Commission to secure the selection of the Boiling Springs site for a school. By the wreck of a train of oil tank cars on the Western New York and Pennsylvania Road at Walnut Bend, Pa , the oil was ignited and the train consumed. Fireman Martin was killed and several others injured. W. Percy Thatcher, teller of the Brookline (Mass.) National Bank, is under arrest, charged with the embezzlement of $3,200. Thatcher was in the employ of the Maverick Bank until that institution collapsed. Boss McKane's conviction seems to have had little effect on his followers at Gravesend. A gang, led byelection officials indicted with the boss, Tuesday night broke up a meeting ot taxpayers called in the interest of good government. Fire at Homestead, Pa., destroyed Walton's Hotel, Grove & Trealer's general store, Ed Cronin's furniture store, and Bagley’s steam laundry. The hotel guests were compelled to leave the building fn their nightclothes. J. B. Jones, a fireman, was seriously burned while trying to force his way' into the hotel. Loss, $50,000. While engine 277 and five coke cars on the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula branch of the Fort Wayne Road were passing Kenwood, thirty miles west of Pittsburg, a heavy landslide came down the hill and swept the train into the Beaver River. The trainmen narrowly escaped death, but all got off with injuries of a more or less serious nature. The slide covered the tracks with hundreds of tons of earth and delayed traffic for several hours. The boiler of a locomotive on the Lehigh Valley Railroad exploded at Tannery, Pa.. Thursday evening, killing three men. Their names are: John Dottor and Edward Fox. brakemen, and John Lennay, fireman. Patrick Dugan was in charge and stopped his engine at Tannery and went to the telegraph office for orders. During his absence the locomotive was blown to pieces. All the dead were new hands, having taken the places of brotherhood men in the late strike. The cause of the explosion was low water in the boiler. WESTERN. Bishop Bonacum, of Lincoln, Neb., has withdrawn his charges against R v. Father Phelan, editor of the Western Watchman, of St. Louis. The fast train on the Cincinnati Division of the Big Four struck and instantly killed Charles Glaser, a prominent farmer, near Manchester, Ind. No trace has been discovered of the murderer of Stephen Geer at Jeff ersonville, Ind. His daughter has found in the house a burglar sack made of ducking. James A. KEiPLawealDi^jijijxhanL

charging him with alienating hi» wile s affections. The two-year-old child of Dr. J. W. Rucker, of Shelbyville, Ind, got into his prescription case and took a large dose of morphine pellets. It died two hours later. Hugh Buchanan, claiming to be a son of ex-Congressman Buchanan, of Georgia, fatally stabbed William Miles, a gambler, in a quarrel over a game of cards at Marysville, Cal. Banker Beach, on trial at Terre Haute, Ind., for embezzlement, filed a plea in abatement because the Grand Jury based indictments on data obtained from the bank's books. The Denison, Texas, cotton mill, erected at a cost of $500,000, has been disposed of at public sale for $30,000 to satisfy a judgment for debt. The purchaser was D. J. M. Ford, ex-mayor of Kansas City. Colonel J. T. Doughine, of Chicago, reports specimens of gold ore from the Cochiti district in New Mexico as assaying from $55 to $l4B to the ton, and thinks it may prove the greatest mining camp in America. A woman known as Marian Reis and also as Mrs. Soulard claims to have been the wife of J. Gaston Soulard. the rich St. Louis citizen who died a few days ago, and threatens to contest his will if it does not make satisfactory provision for her. S. S. St. John, of Kearney, Neb., is being tried by the Supreme Court for contempt in refusing to pay $34,000 to the receiver of the Commercial and Savings Bank, of Kearney. The defendant alleges that he was unable to pay more than $12,000. Walter Guy Furnald, the East-

ern crook who is accused of stealing SIO,OOO worth of diamonds from a pawnbroker in San Francisco, has been with Furnald in Los Angeles, were I discharged, as thev were innocent vic- * tims of Furnald’s schemes. Thomas Lavin, a convict sent from I Beckford to the penitentiary at Joliet. I 111., for one year, was ^c.dd- d t > death 1 by the bursting of a new st *am trap i which was being tested. Lavin was a ; machinist and with another convict was standing beside the trap. The Other convict was not hurt. Lavin had but three months more to serve. Black diphtheria, which has been raging at Hanoverton, Ohio, for the last three weeks, is rapidly spreading j to the surrounding villages and the l greatest consternation prevails. Public schools in New Garden, Adair, Kensington, neighboring villages, and the country schools in seven different townships have been closed on account of the malady. It is learned that Philip D. Armour will give $5 10,000 to the San Francisco public schools for the establishment of a manual training school for boys. This generous endowment of a trade school is intended by Mr. Armour to serve as a memorial of his success in

- _ —-i i — । California in the pioneer days when h^ seized the other night. He is confined made money, which served as th® to bed, and his condition is such that nucleus of his fortune. | two physicians have been called in to Daniel Coughlin was acquittedi' attend him. Mr. Gladstone makes light Thursday afternoon, at Chicago, of the 9 saying, it is only a slight murder, on Mav 4, 1889, of Dr. P. W but - hls Physicians take Cronin. This trial lasted four monthS « a y that he Dvmv Hl I? 1 and was one of the most stubbornl/ the itlnf ^7 - 1 ' contested on record in any criminal the sirlrno^ f T' ° us? nn ^ Ctl *v court. Coughlin had once before been ter i„r t ’ th o? at ' convicted of the same charge, ana with uL r°oks C hib after dinirig there served part of a life sentence, but was , at ^ secretaries, and walked granted a new trial. At the time off ® .hcoughSt. .lames I ark,although Ci onin’s murder he was a detective aid „ e night was a chilly one for even the Chicago force. The last trial was an , d r .°h Jß t man to venture out most sensational, and from first to last a As there were rumors of jury bribing and contracted a chill, and, upkindred acts that served to keep inter- V™ 6 ! h ° > ad est alive hurried off to bed. In spite of Mr. =============== Gladstone’s desire that a physician SOUTHERN. should not be summoned, claiming that his indisposition was only a slight matThe dedication of the Chickamauga " aS + snr “ cd , and -kt i K Gladstone was put under treatment. In and Chattanooga National Military the morning his condition was such 1 ark has been postponed till Septem- that another physician was summoned ber, 1895. to attend him, and in the afternoon Thomas Smith was killed and sev- cne of physicians in attendance eral workmen injured by the wreckingi u .P9 n the distinguished patient gave a of a 100- train of th* A T NUmor li,™J state ment to the newspapers which inot a log train of the A. J Memei lum4 dicates that Gladstone’s illness is bei camps near \\ aldo, Ark. 1 undoubtedly serious. The Lebanon Presbytery of thej =—- =— : Cumberland Presbyterian ChurcM IN GENERAL voted at Nashville, Tenn., against th® admission of women as ruling elders Zella Nicolaus is trying to get on and dea ons in churches. g »he variety stage. An effort is being made to disbar Lag! Th k Spanish cabinet has resigned, Cowart, an attorney, of BirminghaMM and Henov Sapasta is forming a new Ala., who has been investigating tho charges of ’anadian govFederal Court officers in AlabanuulSH eminent in suppressing the operations is accused of having stolen his father’s® °f th® Honduras Lottery Company in corn and run an ilHcit_still. _jW this country has been obtained by the ■ '■/IB Postoffice Department. WASHINGTON. WK Sir Francis COOK, who married DavidLescallett, oterk at M.ll in tho General Land Omao at Washing A rho who +n _ ,1-00 1 „ 11 , brings the suit has been married seven ton, was arrested and released on bail years, and the alleged promise to charged, with three other employes, marry was given twenty-five vears with selling stolen certificates of entry ago, when Sir Francis’ first wife was to parties seeking homesteads and still living. town lots in Guthrie, O. T. ttkttvb<d'+u„ m . , ’ under the contract with the (anaA statement has been prepared by dian Government for an Anglo-Aus-the Immigration Bureau showing the tralian steamship service the trip from number of immigrants who arrived Australia to England will be made in at the ports of New York, Philadel- twenty-five days. The trip across the phia, Boston and Baltimore from for- Pacific is to be made in sixteen days: eign ports during 1893. The whole across the continent in four days, and number was 431,712, and these repre- across the Atlantic in five days' sent at least four-fifths of the whole R. G Dun & CoJs Weekly Review of number that arrived at all American Trade savs’ t it 4 . a •« x-videm-es of present improvement In The fate Os sugar in tho new tariff business multiply, but confidence in future schedule seems to have been settled. I improvement does not seem to increase The duty is fixed at Ito 11 cents per I T lier ,° L “ore businest and a larger proj . , . , , , I auction by industries, for the season has pound. Ihe tax on whisky has been ; arrived when greater activity Is necessary increased to $1.1(1. and the bon leu pe- if dealers’ stocks are to be replenished, riod extended. The income tax sea- 1 and those who cannot make calculations ture of the new bill has been retained. beyoritl a few months are the more anxious The above comprises the definite work , t 0 crowd as much trade as they safely can of the committee. It is thought there into these months. I ndertakings reachwill be minor changes in tho bill be- । f n ‘ a ? ’a * Ai Cai c’ a I greater free.lorn ana. In spite of a larger foi eit gets through the senate. present demand, prices of manufactured The decrease in the number of goods tend downward. claims received daily at the Pension St. Johns, N. F., dispatch: On Bureau is shown in a statement pre- board the sealing steamer Walrus at pared at the department. The number Green Pond two men were killed outof pensioners on the rolls is now 966,- right and a third seriously injured. 000, against 952,000 for the correspond- The Walrus was lying in the harbor ing week of last year. The number of waiting to start for the seal fishery casesnow pending is 654,169, a de- when a heavy frost froze the vessel in crease of over i'IJMM) during the year, and dynamite was being used to make The number received during last week u channel to clear water. The men is a decrease of 3,443 from the corre- were warming the dynamite on the spending week last year. galley stove when the explosion took Commissioner Lamoreux, of the, (place. Fortunately other members of General Land Office, after examining. qtuw were not on board at the 1 r i " - ~~ii । - m

uno Lujao pany, decided that n acres of land were errono usly ap^ proved to that company in I<%B. These lands were listed as “mineral” prior to the act making the grant to the company. As the granting act expressly excluded from its terms lands which had formerly been c'assed as “mineral” Commissioner Lamoreux holds that the approval was without authority of law. Ue recommends to Seereta-y Smith that suit be instituted to set aside the tit’e of the company. In the dingy District Court House where Guiteau was tried, the case against Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge, the silver-tongued orator of Kentucky, charged with breach of promise by Miss Madeline V. Pollard, was begun Thursday morning, says a Washington dispatch. For several months both sides have been busy in securing evidence. The suit was commenced last August, a few days after the second marriage of Col. Breckinridge. Miss Pollard has held a clerical position in the Census Bureau, and has done considerable writing for the newspapers. During the past few months she has lived in a house of refuge of the Episcopal Church, and her brother, who is editor of a weekly paper in Kentucky, has been her adviser. FOREIGN, The British ship Somali, the largest sailing vessel Hying the English flag and the largest carrying ship in the world, is long overdue from Hongkong. It is now out 125 days. The greatest anxiety is felt for its safety. The Netherlands Ministry is expected to resign, as the Chamber has adopted an amendment to the princi-

■ pal clause of the Government reform i bill. Inconsequence of toe adoption of this amendment Premier L>r. G. van w- "dthdiaqwMt’erq ’ "" /l CHRI TOPHER Kernel, of | Parliament for Hartlepool and head of i the firm of Furness Withey & Co., * steamship builders and ship owners, has received at London the following i caule message from Bio de Janeiro, ad- | jessed to him by the masters of the । steamships now at that port: Ihe American navy is rendering the necessary assistance in landing the sick and supplying with water. Our navy refuses to grant such assistance. ( an you do anything in our behalf? Mortality terrible. Only hospital available is ten miles from anchorage ” | Mr. Furness immediately upon receipt of this cablegram telegraphed to the foreign office asking that instructions be sent to the British commander at Bio Janeiro ordering or authorizing him to render the n -cessary assistance. Mr. hurness added that the conduct of the British navy at Bio Janeiro during the last three months was such that he was inclined to move an adjournment of the House of Commons in order to discuss the matter. Ex-I’remier Gladstone is seriously ill at his home in London from the effects of a chill with which he was

KmUCU greater. ino tminago to the was trifling. Janeiro dispatch: There Ware reason- to believe Admiral da ^Gama considers the chance of success 'lon the part of the insurgents almost '■hopeless, and that he is seeking an opIportunity to surrender to the foreign ^commanders. This is thought to be due to the failure of De Mello to reenforce him from the south, and to the fear that he may be overwhelmed at any time by the arrival of the Government fleet. This fleet is now engaged in mysterious movements between this harbor and Cape Frio. In the daytime the vessels of the squadron are to be seen in the vicinity of Cape Frio, while at night they hover near the entrance to Rib harbor. It is thought the squadron is awaiting for some vessel or vessels, but whether it expects to be reenforced or to intercept the enemv is only conjectured. The German admiral has demanded of the insurgent commander the payment of an indemnity for the seizure of a lighter which was flying the German flag, and also for firing upon a German steam launch. The lighter at the time it was seized was lying alongside the German steamer Catania. Admiral da Gama has acceded to the demands of the German admiral. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... J 3 50 5 oo Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 y' 5 00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 & 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 @ 58 COBN —No. 2 35 @ 36 Oats—No. 2 30 & 31 Rye—No. 2 45 @ 57 Butt’s# -Choice Creamery 21 ("i 22 Eggs—Fresh 15 @ it. Potatoes—Per bn 55 © co INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 00 @ 4 75 Bogs—Choice Light 3 00 (« 5 00 Sleep—Common to Prime 2 co & 3 25 Uheat—No. 2 Red 55 & 16 CpRN—No. 2 White 35 © 36 Aats—No. 2 White 32 @ 33

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FAMOUS JURIST GONE DEATH OF THE TRIAL JUDGE IN THE MAYBRICK CASE. Brazilian Rebels on Their Last Legs—. Rosebery Will Champion Hon e R tie — Scores the House of Lords — Citizens Boycott a Saloon Ist. Judge Stephen Dead. Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, the eminent jurist and judge of the exchequer division of the high court of justice, is dead at London. He was born in London on March 3, 1829, and had written many legal works, including “Digest of the Criminal Law” and “A History of the Criminal Law of England.” The death of Sir James Stephen is a serious loss to the legal profession, in which he ranked among the highest, but he was chiefly interesting from a popular standpoint as the judge who practically forced the jury which tried Mrs. Maybrick to bring in a verdict of guilty and then sentenced her to death; a sentence which was afterward commuted by the home secretary to imprisonment for life. There is strong evidence that Sir Jamei was mentally unbalanced at the time of the trial, and this, added to a natural bias against the defendant in all criminal cases which were tried before him. has furnished one of the strongest grounds upon which Mrs. Maybrick s friends and sympathizers have based their efforts to secure her release. No Change of Program. London dispatch: The opening of Parliament Monday was accomj anied by a declaration from Lord Rcseberv which sets at rest all suspicion of his attitude towaid home rule and the House of Lords. At a meeting of Liberals in the foreign office at neon the premier outlined in terms of great earnestress and directness a policy with regard to Ireland which will satisfy the most exacting home-ruler, while his characterization of tl e House of Lords was sufficiently hostile to disabuse the minds of that chamber of all hope of a reconciliation between Commons and Peers. The declaration is received on all sides among the Liberals with unbounded enthusia-m. The fear that Lord Roseberry would lay aside the home rule bill and make terms with the Peers was not confined to the Radicals. No allusion was made to they heme rule bill in the speech from throne, but the omission xvav—taore than atoned for by the address in the foreign office. Lord Rosebery was wildly applauded. His opening remarks were in reverential allusion to Mr. Gladstone. He declared that no assertion of policy was needed. “We stand where we did,” he said. The Liberal party was bound to home rule by ties of honor and affecti >n. The policy would be definitely pursued. As for tho lords, he was becoming convinced that “with the democratic suffrage which we now enjoy, a second chamber constituted like the House of Lords is an anomaly. ” It has become a "great Tory organization at the beck and call of a single party leader.” Asks Peace anil Protection from Peixoto. Advices received at the State Department late on Tuesday afternoon Y-fn in Minjater Thompson, at Rio

—.^tw^-rTW^TTMrl’^mr rebellit n is about ended. Two dispatches were received. They were in cipher, dat'd Bio de Janeiro, and when translated read as follows: "Da Gama, through the senior Portuguese naval commander, offered to surrender to the President of Brazil providing he and his followers were guaranteed protection against punishment. Thompson, “Da Gama has gone aboard a Portuguese man-of-war for asylum. “Thompson.” BREVITIES, Mrs. Allen Sparks, living near Kokomo, Ind., aged 78, fell into a cistern and was drowned. Baron Nechtritz, of Berlin, Chamberlain to the Emperor of Germany, has arrived at San Francisco. Charles Hogaman committed suicide at the County Asylum in Lafayette, Ind., by swallowing an iron spoon. greenwood, Ind., citizens have adopted a unique plan to rid the town of an obnoxious saloon. They refuse to sell the proprietor bread or meat and boycotted the house where he secured board. The Midwinter Fair concessions are conducted on a realistic plan. A stage coach belonging to the '49 M'ning Camp was unset while going around a corner at full speed, and fourteen persons were injured. The contract for raising the Kearsarge has been let to the Boston Tow Boat Company, of Boston, which is to receive SIO,OOO for making the attempt and $35,000 additional if the wrecked ship is delivered at the Norfolk navyyard. Exciting incidents in the PollardBreckinridge breach of prom se case

reached a fitting final when, as court adjourned at Washington Tuesday afternoon, Lawyer Shelby, cue of Congressman Breekinridg counsel, struck Lawyer Johnson, attorney for Miss Pollard, a blow in the face. * The combatants were separated before further damage was done, .fudge Bradley will give them an opportunity to show cause why he should not fine them for contempt. Nat Goodwin has recovered from his recent illness. Polish ironworkers at Trey, N. Y., attacked Lewis Primo, aged 20 years, and crushed his head with a clinker. He will die. six of his al’eged assailants have been arre ted. Jacob Yome, an Oxford (Pa.) millionaire. has cause to believe in the honesty of the world. He left a package containing $6,000 on the seat of a railway car, and rerovere i it after a party of amateur actors had used it tc play ball. Antonio de la Torre, an Italian engineer, claims to have solved the problem of per] etual motion by a machine he is exhibiting at San Francisco. It is in the form of a revolving circle driven by rolling spheres. The friction problem is sai 1 to have been overcome by an Archimedean screw. ।

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and Wbat They Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed; and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The President transmitted some additional Hawaiian correspondence to the House Thursday morning. The Senate hill to amend the act to establish the Smithsonian Institution was passed. The conference report on the urgency deficiency bill wa? presented by Mr. Ayres and agreed tc. Mr. It chardson, of Tennessee, from the joint commission on expenditures in the executive departments, called up the bill to reform the method of accounting and auditing in ihe customs department of the treasury. The bill abolishes the office of Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of Customs. The discussion over the bill took a wide range and was participated in by Messrs. Baker, Henderson. Hepburn, Cannon and Dockery. The bill was passed. The House then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill and, after debate, adjourned. The Senate in executive session confirmed a lot ot postmasters in Kansas, Illinois. Michigan and lowa. In the House Friday, after transacting some business ot minor importance, the Houre went into Committee of the Whole for further consideration of the District ot Columbia bill. In the course ot debate Mr. Kilgore denounced the District press as subservient to all jobs in the District to plunder the Treasury. At 3 o'clock the debate closed and voting took place on various amendments. Without completing the consideration of the bill the House took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be devoted to private pension bills. The night session was devoted to the passage of individual pensions, and at 10:25 the House adjourned. In the Senate Mr. Peffer introduced a resolution for an investigation into the Senatorial sugar speculation. The House bill authorizing a bridge over the East River between New York and Long Island passed without objection. A bill was passed appropriating 5200.000 to pay the damages resulting to persons who went upon the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian Reservation in South Dakota between Feb. 17 and 27, 1885. Then came up the Bland seigniorage bill as unfinished business, which occupied the rest of the day. The House completed the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill Saturday, and passed it after defeating the final ^Jort of Mr. de Armond to reduc- me share of expenses of th< L, <rlct to be borne by the gene- | ?ral government. Tho debate was devoid of all general Interest After an unsuccessful effort on the part of Mr. Sayers, chairman of the appropriation committee, to reach an agreement as to the limit ot the general debate on the sundry civil appropriation bill, the House adjourned. ’luesday in the House was devoted entirely to the consideration of a bill relating to the extension ot the time for allowing a street railroad company in Washington to change its system of motive power. The debate rapidly drifted into a discussion of the merits of the cable and the underground electric system, and it was boldly charged that the General Electric and Westinghouse Companies, which ' held stock in almost all the overhead , trolley lines, had retained all the prominent electric engineers in the country and would not spare money to prevent a practical demonstration of tho feasibility of the underground electiic road now in operation , at Buda Testh and for a short distance on the outskirts of Washington. To prevent this Mr. Wall proposed to restrict the motive system to be used by the Metroi politan Roa<Ato underground electric. No

: ate _ Senator Gallinger presented adainend^ meat Intended to be proposed by him to the tariff bill providing that the act shall become operative, so far as importations from Canada are concerned, only by proclamation of the President. The proclamation is to be issued upon conditions specified. Senator Peffer introduced an independent tariff bill In the Senate amending the McKinley law In various particulars. His resolution for an investigation as to whether Senators had been speculating in Wall street was defeated in the Senate. B|Tho proceedings in the Senate Tuesday were of an extremely uninteresting character. Without the intervention of any morning business, except the presentation of a few petitions and the introduction of some unimportant bills, the Senate took up the discussion of the seigniorage billSenators Stewart and Lindsay spoke in favor and Mr. Dolph spoke in opposition to it, holding that its passage would destroy the existing equality between gold and silver. Mr. Stewart was unwilling to have the bill amended, for he believed that to return it to the House would be fatal to it. Mr. Stewart delivered a silver speech along the line of his wellknown theories. No definite action was taken. The House began tbe consideration of the bill making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government, and fair progress was made. Oniy three amendments of any importance were adopted, one appropriating $43,500 for lighting Hay Lake Channel, another of 564,009 for the public building at Buffalo, and another of $30,000 for repairing tbe postoffice at New York. The latter was fought by the Appropriation Committee. The only other amendment of importance was one made by Morse (Rep, Mass.) to cut off the appropriation f. r the Interstate Commerce Commission. This amendment was overwhelmingly defeated. Ijeprosy in the West Indies. Lepers are very plentiful in Jamaica, and they mix with the people without let or hindrance, plying all manner of trades and vocations, even to selling fruit and cakes on the public street, and keeping butcher shops and bakerThn >nt Ima nniridpil a.

ies. me Governm nt nas proviueu a leper hospital at Spanish Town, which ordinarily shelters a hundred or moro-^” lepers. But there is no restriction on their coming and going as they please. Leprosy is fearfully rife throughout the West Indies and in many parts of Central and South America, and the authorities in almost all the various countries are lax in the exercise of control over the sufferers from the disease. and it is allowed to be sj read unhindered. Trucks. A scheme is br< ached in Germany of employing electricity to move heavy trucks and drays. This is merely a development of the electric carriage idea, which has been successfully used in that country for several years. Facts. Co-operative agri ulture thrives in France. Manchester, Va., uses tramps in chain gangs. Syracuse students have human bone cane handles. Over 90 j er cent, of Tennessee labor is native born. Galveston handles every year "00,000 bales of cotton. The city of Caracas, Venezuela, had a population of 50,000 in 1810 and 70,000 in 1891.