St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 March 1894 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA THEY DIE TOGETHER. SUICIDE OF TWO IOWA YOUNG PEOPLE. Kossuth, Hungary's Exiled Advocate of Liberty, Is No More—Gov. Rich Is Sustained — Cripple Creek Situation Unchanged—Two Hundred Killed.

Despairing in Their Love. The bodies of John Reed and Etta Shaw, son and daughter of Cyrus Reed and John Shaw, respectively, farmers near Oskaloosa. lowa, were found late Monday night hanging from a limb of a tree near their horses, eight miles from the city. Their parents refused to permit them to marry on account of their youth. The deed was probably committed Sunday night, when they were last seen driving in the neighborhoood. They unhitched the horses, and. standing in the buggy, threw a rope across and lYFpf onq end to each <£, Ku swung off into eternity. Mineowners Stand Firm. A SECRET conference of mine owners has been held at which the situation at Cripple Creek, Colo., was thoroughly discussed. They are determined to adhere to the original schedule of nine hours at $3 and will have nothing to do with a compromise, saying that the matter is now in the courts and must be settled according to the dictates of the courts. The Sheriff has put the Governor on record by sending him a telegram stating the serious consequences likely to ensue if the militia is withdrawn. The owners have also memorialized the Governor, asking that the troops be retained to protect life and property and holding him responsible. Kossuth Is No More. Louis Kossuth, the exiled Hungarian patriot, died at Turin at 10:55 Tuesday evening, after a long illness. His end was extremely painful. He showed signs of consciousness until the last. He expired in the aiun of his son, and died pressing the hand of the Hungarian Deputy, Karolyi. The members of his family and a few of his intimate friends stood around the bedside of the expiring patriot. Urged to Veto the Bill. A document signed by over fifty of the most prominent bankers in Boston has been forwarded to President Cleveland, urging upon him the necessity of refusing to sign the seigniorage bill and stating that it will ruin the banking business, create distrust and in a measure ruin the financial standing of the country. NEWS NUGGETS, The threatened French Cabinet crisis has been averted, the Senate having agreed to Premier Cassimir-Pe-rier’s propo al to establish a minister of the colonies. Miss Katie Farnsworth, of Buckhannon, W. Va., who had been visiting in Chicago, jumped from a Baltimore and Ohio train near Belleville, Ohio, and died shortly after being found. A dispatch from Lucca, Italy, says that while a gentleman was leaving the Pantova Theater Sunday night he noticed a box with a lighted fuse attached to it in a recess of the corridor. The gentleman promptly extinguished the fuse. Six personj have been arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in this alleged attempt to cause an explosion. Advices received from Minianao, capital of the island of that name in the Malay archipelogo, show that a large body of Mohammedan natives made an attack upon the Spaniards on the island of Pantar. In the fighting that ensued one Spaniard was killed and many were wounded. The Spaniards inflicted severe losses upon the natives, 200 of them being killed. Democratic members of the Finance Committee having completed eon-ideration of the tarin bill, it was submitted to the full committee of 1 >emocrats and Republicans Tuesday. T-e most important change made in t. bill is in the sugar schedule, a change being made by which an additional duty of i of 1 per cent, per pound is given on all sugars testing above 98 degrees by the polariscope test, or which are above No. 16 Dutch standard in color. The Michigan Supremo Court rendered a decision sustaining Governor Rich in removing Secretary of State Joachim. State Treasurer Hambitzer and Land Commissioner Berry for gross negligence in failing personally to canvass the returns of the amendment election of 1893. The court holds that it was within the power of the Governor to remove such officials under the constitution and he has power to determine the facts. A judgment of oustSr is entere 1. _ .-M-Da-luth Special says that the rail"'’roails are now refusing to accept heavy freight for the Rainy Lake gold regions in anticipation of an early breaking up of the winter reads. A Chicago firm wanted to ship a twenty-stamp mill over the Me aba Road to be hauled by team from Mountain Iron, the terminus of the road, but it was refused. Provisions are being hurried forward to prevent a famine in the Eldorado during the interval between the breaking of the winter roads and the opening of the water routes. A Mexican counterfeiter has been arrested for circulating tin foil 10-cent pieces. The Servian Episcopal Synod has annulled the decree of divorce secured several years ago by King Milan from Queen Natali *. The en agement of Lucy Hayes Platt, of Columbus, Ohio, to Rutherford Platt Hayes, son of ex-President Hayes, is announced. Miss Platt is half-sister of Mrs. Gen. John G. Mitchell, of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Gen. Russell Hastings, of Minneapolis.

EASTERN. T Emma JUCH, the opera singer, is engaged to marry Assistant District Attorney Francis L. Wellman, of New York', and, it is said, will retire from the stage next season. A freight train on the Pittsburg and Western Railway ran into a landslide at Sample Station and was badly wrecked. Several trainmen are reported seriously injured. Freddy Gebhardt, the wealthy and celebrated New York club man and whilom friend of that once famed but now somewhat faded beauty Mrs. Lily Langtry, has become a benedict. His marriage with Miss Louise H. Morris of Baltimore took place Tuesday. It is reported that Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt has bought a wonderful crown which once adorned the brow of the Empress Eugenio. It is.described as a marvel of workmanship, which cost Mrs. Vanderbilt $300,000. It containes stones, finely mounted in old

silver, lined with gold. The crown is made in imitation of violet leaves surrounding a bunch of violets. It measures twelve inches in circumference. When the White Star steamship Britannic loft New York Wednesday she had on board the organizers of the Wellman north polar expedition. They were: Walter Wellman,the leader and chief organizer; Professor Owen B. French, of the United States Coast and WWWiM Auf.-ffY Jm, '.JIU uh tronomieal observer; Dr. Thomas B. Mohun, Washington, D. C.. medical of- , fleer of the expedition; and Charles C. Dodge of the Bureau if Ccnstruction and Repair Division of the Navy Department, artist and photographer. The party will go to Liverpool first and thence to Tromsoe in the far north 1 of Norway, from which point the route proper of the exploring party begins. Mr. Wellman is quite sanguine of the success of the expedition in solving the polar problem. “After leaving Nor- ’ way,” Mr. Wellman said, “we will proceed directly to the north-west corner of Spitzbergen, latitude 80 degrees, where we will establish our headquarters. As nearly as I can now reckon, about the 15th of May our steamer will take us to the southern edge of the ice bank of the frozen sea. \\ herever this shall be, we shall disembark with fourteen men, threo boats, and five aluminum sledges, making a total weight, exclusive of ourselves and animals, of 6,500 p mr.ds. The march will then begin toward the north. We carry instruments from the Unite 1 States Coast and Geodetic Survey at Washington, and wish to glean important and new facts in regard to meteorology, the magnetics, tides, and all those points of scientific research.” WESTERN. A contract has been let for a new $12,000 schoolhouse at Elwood, Ind. Ssventy-five feet of the intake tunnel at Milwaukee caved in. The workmen escaped. Future accidents are feared. The Arizona Territorial Stock Sanitary Commission finds glanders epidemic. Bicoded stock valued at $12,0(0 was killed on one farm. May Smith, wife of “Paddy” Smith, lightweight pugilist, and brother of “Denver Ed” Smith, threw carbolic acid in her husband s face, badly burn- ; ing his neck and left cheek. i Mrs. Wm. Bahkek. wfWest Indianapolis', Ind.. committed suicide by hanging. Her mind was unsettl d. it was thought, on account of her first husband having met a violent death. The old Athenaum Building, a fourstory structure at Chicago, was bally damaged by fire Thursday night. The two upper floors were burned out. The : loss is $125,000. An audience in the i Schiller Theater was nearly i anicstricken. . At Minneap lis, I o iis and Frank Floyd were sentenced to five years each in the penitentiary for complicity in the defalcation of Phil M. Scheig. the ex-teller of the Bank of Minneapolis, now serving a seven-year senten-e at Stillwater. Dr. J. W. Cartlich, wh i w a member of the faculty of the 11 meopathic Medical College of Kans .< Cit.. and who filled the chair of clin eil medicine, has re-igned. charging thut students were taught to ignore utterly the law of Hahnemann. James Wellington Brown, a polygamist with the phenomenal record of twenty-six wives in the State of Michigan alone, and with other ai\e being heard from at times in xther parts of the United Stat La ist been released from the .ku k-on, Mich., prison. Particulars have been received of a disastrous storm which devastated a section of country in the Cheiokee strip. The cych no blew terribly for about ten n Unites, levd^g everything before it. Sixteen hoK ^vere wrecked and a large numbjZ^ owns and other buildings were woyed. A FLOCK of twenty-eight swans caught in a storm in Irondale, near Alliance, Ohio, after vainly trying to pursue their course, were forced to earth, exhausted by the weight of hail and snow on their feathers. Citizens gave cha e and succeeded in capturing the whole flock alive The birds are valued at c b o. John Galloway, a wealthy retired ‘ farmer of Kokomo, Ind., is under bonds cha ged with larceny of whips, ; carriage robes and wraps from vehicles at a church where a revival is leing held. All the goods were recov- । cred. His wife says she has returned . all she could, as l.e is a kleptomaniac. A commission in lunacy will be sum- I moned. The Denver Union Depot was totally destroyed by fire Sunday morning, the ' loss being $3(10,000. The flames were discovered at 12:30 a. m. in the bag- ' gage department in the south end of the building. At 1 o'clock it reached the central portion of the building and in a few moments the tower was in ' flames, and portions of it began to 1 fall. This caused the northern . portion to take fire. The walls in many ! places fell in The entire city was illuminated. Twenty streams of water ; were playing on the burning building at a point where the flames were ad- . vancing, but it was impossible to save ; it, and three-quarters of an hour from the time the blaze was first discovered j the handsomest and most costly depot ' structure in the West was in ruins. I The depot was about 8 0 feet Jong aid j

wa, built about twelve years^KA It was built of stone. J Edward Wagner, a Gernu/ (laborer living in the outskirts of^Uuluth, Mmn., put three sticks of dyKmite in the oven of the family cool Hove to thaw out while he was at Veakfast Friday morning. The house t now in iw d the fa mily in n burning. 13 year , was instantly ki I. rhe injured te- Edward Wagner, slightly hu V Mrs Edward Wagner, fatally bu; fed an( j bruised; Martha Wagner, bred 1° years, seriously cut and fWuiscd" rJ' agner, baby, aged 2 y ars cu * and bruised. The ruin to t e house and furniture was complete.} where the stove had been was a but hole ; n the floor, through which th ground could be seen. Every dial *f n th fl pantry was broken and eve roo G filled with broken plaster, i wooden ceiling in one oi the rooms, L p>stairs was rent. A door in the s’ £e ro™ was broken off the hinges B with a sledge-hammer. The famife i s j n de titute circumstances amffthe injured are baing caied foit by the county. Like thunder from a clears ky came nows from Denver Thursday 1 Ight of a situation that borders cloo 1y upon v ar. The city was under inar^al law, and the entire militia of ^th^ State with all its equipment wa^urrying to the scene. The occasion %r it nil was a quarrel I etween y 4“ rtEe city. The (TovernuP before removed two membwf of police board, alleging that * ev pro _ tected gambling houses, and fepointed others in their places. It at . tempt to install these men tW provoked resistance from the Bjinicinal authorities, and this resistaa > grew until the entire police fore^of” the city was massed about the Wjtrance to the City Hall, confronteq|half a block away, by several comu| n i es o f militia and t>vo gatling gurs Gov. Waite received from Washington au . thorit . to call out atorce of «eoulars from Fort Logan, under Gen. McCook and at once mobilized the ent^o militia of the State. The situations very strained. Gen. McCook saysjjo will preserve peace at any cost 7 John Hart, who murdered two sisters last full, was hanged » Rockford, 111., at 11:04 Friday morn^ (T- The crime for which Hart was 3x^cuted , was a most atrocious one UtvSopt. 5 ' 1893, Hart was alone on tl.o 'arm six miles west < f Rockford, his ; mother and tvo sisters. Marv a:^ \ e i. lie. During the afternoon thtj^ther ! left the house for a short titno. Hurt called his sister Nellia to the btm telling her that the granary floor had sprung a leak and was letting oats into the basement Ulow. When the unsuspecting girl hud reached the b >ttom of the bu ement steps Hart turned on her. and after choking her t^verely forced her to drink ] aris green out of a bottle. He then struck her on the head with a hammer and shot her in the stomach, leaving her on ttys floor for dead. Going to the front yard to his <der sister Mary Hart shot her so :r times after a‘struggle that left the porch besmeared with blood. When the victims were found Mary was dead, hut Nellie recovered sufficiently to dictate adyinu statement which was a Imitted a- evidence il the trial and d< übtless convicted tuy jnuri deter. Aft ?r e.>i»j,tr.» A**-4e-i Hart <Jothe* pswif: horse v'hLa V.* Rockford, wheae he was arrested a ’ SOUTHERN. The Joe B. Wi liunn passed Louisville with a tow of largos covering ’eight acres and containing ],<W,()OO • bushels < f c< al. Jerky Harlb :gk was hanged at | I Chariest n, S. c.. for the murder of ! Constable Hue!. He previo. sly at- ! tempted suicide. Unemployed workingmen who have ’ been subsibiing on the charity of San Antonio, Texas, captured a Southern 1 ’amtic In ight ts a n and left for California. Will Lani: was killed and Tom Lane fatally sh"t bv J. S. Noel at Mo tring^port, la. The negroes re-fu-ed to pay r< nt acd attacked Noel , when he demanded it. James A. Robinson shot and killed i H. A. McDonald at Tyromn 11. W. | Va., in a quarrel while Robinson was moving off his farm, which he hail ; -old. A pos-e forced the doer of the house and be killed him-Wf. Two of Louisville’s pioneer dry : goods im rchants died at their homes in that city. They wore Jolin Allen tarter. I'resident of the Carter Dry, (r it d< (''mpany, and John M. Robinson. -eni<>r member of J. M. Robinson, Norton a ( o. Richard Terrell, a prominent’ planter, and his tenant. Silas John-ton, i had a duel to th ■ death a? Huntsville. I Ala. Terrell ha I advanced mt ney to * Johnston to make a crop. Johnston ' threw up the job and rtarted from T< r- j roll's nla e with his household goods. I Terrell forba Ie him to remove the i goods unless he repaid the advance^ made. Thereupon Johnston Terrell down with a arose to hi- knee - an 1 plunged a knife । in Johnst, n'- breast. Johnston died. I Terrell surrendered. Trie latter's head j is crushed in and he may die. The fam ms Pickwick Club Building, ' at the corner of < anal and Carondelet i streets New Orleans one of the finest | and best-kn< wn places in the South. 1 was ruin d by tire Thursday morning. I The de] artment worked three hours] before the fire wa- under'control, and ! Canal street was packed with thousands of people. The loss will l»e sls , (09. The tire is thought to have been ; caused by imperfections in the electric m >tor in the kitchen. The building is ten years eld and cost > l lo.oi o. [j had been elaborately furnished at a ' ; cost of $.0.0 »<». Many valuable paint-i ings and much, fine statuary were saved. There was 534.0()0 of insurance I on the furniture and sloo,ooi> on the i i building. The Pickwick is one of the I i oldest and most arist' cratic club-; in ! the South. | STRAW berry-growers in Louisiana have entered into a combination to ' auction off directly from the ear- all strawberries entering ( hicago from ' । Louisiana. On the face of it the i plan seems innocent enough, but it ’ has a concealed significance of unexpected breadth. 11 the Louisiana ] eople are successful with their strawberries growers in Missippi and Tennessee i stand readv to adopt the same meth-

ods. Illinois and Michigan would in all probability fall in line. Further than this, if the plan succeeds with small fruits it will likely be pursued with vegetab’os, and In fact with almost all kinds of farm produce sold on South Water ? he occupation of commission merchants on that street, so far as collecting a commission for receiving and selling goods is concerned, would be gone. The auction house can do the business for a commission of 5 per cent., and even at 24 per cent., while oouth W ater street commission houses usually receive 10 per cent. WASHINGTON. The Bland seigniorage coinage bill has passed the Senate precisely as it came from the Hou e. Judge Bradley rebuked Breckin-ridge-Pollard lawyers anl warned them against carrying concealed weai>ons. The seigniorage bill passed the Senate by a vote of 44 tn 31, the following being the result in detail, the Democrats beingxu inted in roman, the Republicans in and the Populists in SMALL CAPS: TEAS. Aelen, Ilansbrouoh, Pettigrew. Hairia, Power, mlk Hnnton, Pugh, Blackburn, Irby, Quay. Blanchard, Jones (Ark.), Ransom, Butler, Kyle, Roach. — 1,1 niU » y Nhoup, Cockrell, McLaurin, Cuke, Martin, Teller. Colquitt, Milla. Turpie, Daniel, Mitehell {Ore.}, Vent. Dubois, Morgan, Voorhees, Faulkner, Pasco, White, George, Peffer, Wolcott—»* Gordon, Perkins, NAYS. Aldrich. Gibson, Morrill, Allison, Gorman, Murphy, Brice, Hale. Palmer, Cattery, Hawley, Platt, Carey. Ifigains, Proctor, Chandler, Loage, Hmith. Culloni, McMillan, Stockbridge, Varis, McPherson, Vilas, Dolph, Manderson. Washbum, Pi'ye, Mitchell (Wis.),ll Hson —31. Gallinger The pairs were: Camden for, with Gray against: Hill for, with Dixon against; Jones, of Nevada, for, w.th Hoar against; Vance for, with Sherman against. Senators Squire and Ga me ron did not vote. The last day of the debat *a* traded a large crowd to the Senate and the galleries were well filled. POLITICAL. Each house of the Ohio Legislature passed the biennial session resolution after more than two months' lighting. New York's Senate pas-ed a bill making minor grades < f hazing misdemeanors and the infliction of physical injuries fel nious. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls intimates that he will be a candidate for his old seat the coming fall, when the Kansas Legislature will elect a successor to Senator Martin. FOREIGN. BaSE-BALL is bo uning in England. The Britons enjoy a batting game and scores of 30 to 20 are satisfact ry. The English ('ommi n- adopted tho English troops have taken possession of Bluetiehls. Nicaragua The native troops have withdrawn. Collision^ have occurred. IN GENERAL The Portage Ijike Corn] any w ill rej sist tho land decision taking * from it Hk,647 acres of Michigan penini sula hind. MissoUKl Pa* u p s n 't earnings for 1*93 were $2.275,4"»1. decrease, *1.541.1 817; Iron Mountain's, I*s, ,14; inetcase, $32G,4H_’. R. G. Dun a Co.'s Weekly Review oi j Trade say i ibe. us commodities are this week on I ttiv whole the l< west of which there Is any I rec> rd, having declined LU per cent, hi ' March, and averaging 11 3 per cent lower than a year ago, so taat more than a third of the decrease E: volume of all payment- i Is due t<> decline ;:i j rices of things con- : Aumed. I’K f. George E. Morrow has re-i ' signed the chair of agriculture at the' , Univvr ity of Illinois. Prof. F. 11. i ! Dixlge. of ( hb ag ’. wa- appointed in-j structor in atl; eties, to -a< <•. cd E. K. i Hall, who will enter the law depart- I i rnent at Harvard. W. I). Pence was ! made aM-tant professor of civil en- ’ gineering. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime ... $3 5’ c 5 co Hogs— Shipping Grades 4 e '4 75 Sheep— Fair to Choice 2 25 G 3 75 ; Wheat No. 2 Red sr; '■ a; I COBX No. 2 35 j<J ' Oats- No. 2 ' -c ai j Rye —No. 2 4s ^4 42 Butter -Choice Creamery 2o i 22 I Eooe—Fiesh ’ ir <9 12 - I Potatoes -Per bu co <9 • । 1 snipping 3uo c 4 .5 fKm J uo qs 4 75 —Common to Prime 2 > 0 @3 25 ■Eit-No. 2 Red 51 v? .'C j ^^RN—No. 2 White ST 37 Ofe— No. 2 White 33 34 T ST. LOVIS. CA-ITLE 3 00 G 5 00 Hots 3 00 & 4 75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 53 & 54 Corn— No. 2 33 @ 34 Oats— No. 2 32 «5 32^ Rye— No. 2 4‘J @ 51 " CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 69 4 50 Hogs 3 to & 5 00 Sheep 2 00 its 4 00 Wheat— No. 2 Red 56 & 56% Cobn— No. 2 as <1? 39 Oats— Mixed 35 & 35% Rye— No. 2 54 eJ 56 " • •*« DETROIT. Cattle 3 to & 4 so Hogs 3 00 @ 4 75 Bheep 2 00 3 50 Wheat-No. 2 Red 57 y? 57% Corn —No. 2 Yellow 39 @ 40 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 33 cJ 34 ~ TOLEDO Wheat —No. 2 Red 57 @ 37% Corn— No. 2 37 @ as ' Oats— No. 2 White 32% Rye—No. 2 43 m ~ BUFFALO. M heat-No. 1 Hard 71 & 71% Corn —Xo. 0 Yellow 41 @ 42 Oats-No. 2 White 37 @ 38 Rye— No. 2 53 @ 55 MILWAUKEE. ” HEAT—Xo. 2 Spring 55 ® 56 Corn— No. 3 35%(<$ 36% Oats— No. 2 Mhiti 32 33 No. 1 4s 49 Barley— No. 2 51 @ 53 Cork— Mess 10 75 (gn 25 „ NEW YORK. Hogs.. 3 - 5 . 50 sheep.... ;:;::;:::;:::;; ;"”;. 2{ o § 4 ; 0 Wheat —No. 2 Red 62 & 63 CORN—No. .j 4( 4 -, Oats— White Western .. 88 42 Butter— choice 22 23 cork— Mess 12 50 25

A BIG MILL BURNED. 1 LOSS OF NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS. Omaha Counterfeiters Turn Out a Hemarkable Product —Train Wrecked by a Snowslide in the Mountains—Nebraska Convicts Break Out of Jail. Big Fire in Manufacturing District. Fire Monday morning destroyed tho big mill property owned by Frederick , Rump & Bros., manufacturers of table cloths and counterpanes, in the heart of the Kensington mill district, Philadelphia. The total loss is estimated at $240,P0P. The building was five stories high and com; rised three separate mills. '1 he fire originated in the drying-room of the knit-goods mill of Er wn Bros. & Aber'.e. This firm sustains a loss of SIO,OOO on stcck and machinery. The machinery is J. H. A. Klauder & Co.'s stockinet’mill, which has been shut down for a year, wai damaged to the extent of $10,0(0. Hump & Bros, owned the building. 1 hey lose SIOO,OOO tn building and $50,000 on stock and machinery. Nearly four hundred people are thrown out of employment. New Counterfeiting: I) ><l£e. Half a million perfect silver dollars in circulation, unauthorized by the government, is the subject over which many detectives and Omaha bankers are disturbed. For months Omaha and vicinity have been the hotbed of a smooth crowd of “minters." They have coined, so it is said, ? 59?,000 or more of dollars which contain the same amount of silver and alloy placed in the regular dollar by the Government mints. These men simply started an oppo-ition to the Government an l their money cannot bj detected from the gen line. They are making money tiguratiiely and literally. It is said tney realize 51 cents profit cn every dollar they turn out. So cleverly have they worked that the cash drawers and ba ks of Omaha. Council Bluffs, Sou h ('maha, and elsewhere have l«»en receptacles for thousands of these home-made dollars. It is a “seigniorage” on the siv. and has finally at’rac.ed the attention of the Government. No arrests have yet been made, however. The purchase of several thousand dollars' worth of silver at the Grant smelter in Omaha weekly by ? ers ms unknown to the trade gave the authorities tho first clew to th > aflair. The dollars are exactly like those c ined by the United States mint. Caught In an Avalanche. A report was received at Seattle, NVa-h., th it the Great Northern freight train, which left Snohomish Saturday night, was struck by a snow-slide near Snohomish and swept over a 150-foot eml ankment. Six men perished with it. The train is said to have gone entirely out of sight under the slide in the valley. The local officers of the read e aim to know nothing of it, and they express doubt as to the truth of tl.e report. The west bound passenger train was delayed by a snowslide and bowlders on the track near Welling^ ton. 'I'K—‘ —-'iiUis wr* on large that •—r- j . ... t-~“Tl- 1.. . ..... , BREVITIES, W. H. Shaw, D/puty United States Collector at Louisville, was acquitted by a jury on the charge of violating the civil service law. Harry Jones, on ■ of the murderers of Mme. Jane Wright, the employment agent ut Kansas City, Mo., was convi< ted of murder in the first degree. News arrived at Beattyville, Ky.,of the killing of John Burns and Jo.-eph Done re I by (.rant Cecil at the wedding of the latter at the home of Miss Rhoda Mays, the bride. Cecil escaped. A NATIONAL anl inter-State drill will be held at Littl“ Ko k. Ark., tho 1 first week in July. The value of the i prizes ui I aggregate $10,(0 •. The crack e, mi anies of the United States are e ,]s <1 d to part cipate. Charles Caketux. tho murderer of 1 August G< thum, and two burglars j made their escape from the Dodge j County jail at F remont, Neb., by sawii g e .t th • bars of their cell. Notrace of them ha< been found. Carlton was ' sentence i to be hanged Friday, bat the ■ Supreme < o :rt hu 1 granted a stay un--1 til September. Gkorge W. Clement, President of the Foard of Trade of Wichita, Kan., i - ;- d a call f< r the South and West Trade Congress to lc held in that citv Aj»ril 17. The ob;c -t of the congress is to adopt way- and means to establish el >ser relations b tween the West and south and to devise means to faci.itate the same. large ma---meeting of the Paterson. N. J., silk strikers was held, at which a number or fiery speeches were made and the ]>oliceand manufacturers denounced in tt vug t.Tins. The strikers were u ged tv stand firm and drive the manufacturers out of the city rather than be defeated or submit to the low scale of wages. Six persons were killed and many injured by a cyclone at Longview, Texa-. The dead are: Jasper Collins, Alexander Lester, Alexander Lester. Jr, Robert Lester, Sarah Le.-ter, Sissy Lester. Six lives were lost at Lansing switch. At Emery, Miss Faster Alexander. Henry Bras', a child named Murry and three unknown person- were killed. Hailstones weighing fourteen ounces fell during the storm. A SPECIAL from Charleston. Kas., says the forest fires which have l>een raging on Connelton Mountain for several days past continue unabated, and that twentv-five families have been reduced to destitution. No steps have yet been taken to stop the conflagrat ion. The mail rider carrying the mail b - tween Pine Bluff and Sheridan. Ark., was held up by two men while en route ; and two pouches taken from him. The men rifled the pouches. Only one registered package was in the mail. The robbers escaped to the woods. Mrs. Leland Stanford has notified President Huntington that she will be forced to sell Stanford's holdings in the Southern Pacific and the Pacific Improvement Company unless he can raise for her the ss.<Hio.( 0u which she will need in May next year to pay ttiu Senator's debts and bequests.

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What The, Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The Senate spent considerable time on the seigniorage bill Wednesday, and in executive session confirmed the nomination of J. Marsh ill Wiight as naval officer at Philadelphia, but reserve 1 the right to reconsider if found desirable. In the House forty pages of the sundry civil bill were disposed of, making in all eightythree in two days, and leaving only sixteen pages more, exclusive of two paragraphs, those relating to the coast and geodetic surveys and the Missouri River Commission. which were passed over temporarily. No amendments of importance were adopted, although the Northwestern members made a vigorous effort to increase the amount for the survey of public lands. The seignorage bill passed the Senate Thursday by a vote of 45 to 31, after an interesting debate. The Senate then took up and passed the bill to amend an act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge over the Missouri River at Sioux City. A charter was also eranted the lowa and Nebraska Pontoon Bridge Company authorizing it to build a bridge across the Missouri River near Sioux City. After an executive session of thirty-five minutes the Senate passed a bill granting to the Duluth and W’innipeg Railroad Company a right of vay through the Chippewa and White Earth Indian reservations in Minnesota. Bills to extend the time for completing a bridge across the Missouri River between Kansas City and the town of Sibley, Ma, and granting right of v.ay to the Duluth and Manitoba Railway Company across the Fort Pembina reservation in North Dakota, were passed. In the House the bill to ratify the reservation of certain lands In Oklahoma for the Agricultural College passed. Consideration of the sundry civil bill was resumed. In the House Friday morning after the passage of a resolution calling u on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to measures taken by him for local supervision and inspection of public buildings the House went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the sundry civil bill. An amendment offered by Mr. Loud, directing the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to survey San Francisco harbor and approaches thereto, was adopted. To the paragraph appropriate* t 750,030 for expenditure by the Mi^ vUr J River Commission Mr. Broderick an amendment setting aside $7*303 of the appropriation to strengthen ant - improve the river banks at Atchls- ,n an ^ Leavenworth. Mr. Mercer offer- d a substitute for the amendment, bein aside >150.030 of the approprie^uti (he Missouri River. provldirK that it should be used for the 'construction, repair, and maintenance of revetments between the mouth of the Platte River and Sioux City. He insisted that the commission should be made to understand that there was something besides the slxteen-mile reach at Jefferson City which needed attention. The river between Omaha and Council Bluffs should be looked after. In the House Saturday the Senate amendments to the Senate bill to charter the lowa and Nebraska Pontoon Bridge Company and to construct a high wagon bridge at Sioux City. lowa, were agreed to. The House then went into committee of the whole, and the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was resumed. Mr. Bowers offered an amendment to the appropriation of «.‘?0.000 for special council to aid dls- ■ ■fra.i so as to provide thatssoo of this be expended In the employment of special counsel in the cases of the Southern Pacific Railroad to set aside United States patents now pending at Los Angeles. The Chair ruled the amendment out cn the ground that it changed existing laws. The committee then rose. A resolution authorizing the enlisted men of the army and navy to wear a badge on public occasions, on motion of Mr. Outhwaite, was agreed to. The remainder of the day was devoted to eulogies upon th? life and character of the late Representative W. H. Enochs, of Ohio. The House Monday devoted the entire day to the consideration of the sundry civil bill '1 here was no important busi-ne-s transacted in the Senate, the entire day being consumed In the consideration of bills on the calendar. Most of these were measures of -mall importance, among them being several of immediate interest to the people cd the District of Columbia. A number of bills were taken from the calendar and passed, among them a bill to “regulate the making of property returns by officers of the government" and an act authorizing the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Company to bridge tne Calcasieu and Sabine rivers in the States of Louisiana and Texas. The Senate received from the President a message in regard to the occupation of Bluefields. Nicaragua. and also a message relative to Hawaiian affairs. The sundry civil appropriation bill was passed by the House Tuesday without divislon. The amendment of the appropriation for the General Land Office, amending the provision of the act of 1891. repealing the timber culture and preemption acts, which was adopted in the committee at the suggestion of Mr. Holman and which was bitterly opposed by the western members, was defeated in the House. The clauses which sought torequire an accounting by the disbursing officers of sol dets’ homes to the Treasury Department and annual reports by the boards to the Secretary of War fell under Mr. Black's point of order. -The bill as passed carries $217,000 more than it did as reported from ti . committee on appropriaw forr appropriation bills passed by the House (District of Columbia, pension, fortification and sundry civil) carry a net reduction of $24,315,958 as compared with the same bills for the current fiscal year. Helped Morse with the Telegraph. The recent death in Hartford. Conn., of Mrs. Albert Vail calls attention to the fact that her husband, who died in M< rrist >wn, N. J., in 1859, aided Morse in inventing the electric telegraph. In fact. Mrs. Vail for thirty years exerted herself to secure for him proper credit for share in that great work. At the World's Fair he received recognition by having his name displayed in letters of light am ng those of eminent electricians. Soapmakers Long-Lived. In manufacturing operations the average life of soapboilers is the highest and that of grindstonemakers the lowest. Personal Paragraphs. Miss Frances Crosby, who is best remembered as the author of “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.” ha- been blind since she was 6 xveeks old. She is now 62. Lucas Malet, the English author, is of a family of writers. Her father is Charles Kingsley, and her husband is William Harrison, the successful novelist. Three generations of the Benham family followed the sea. The admiral's father wa- a commodore in the United States navy, and his son Harry is a lieutenant in the service.