St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 March 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA WEDS AMBASSADOR. MISS LOUISE ELVERSON MARRIES M. PATENOTRE. (Ceremony Was Celebrated in Philadelphia Tuesday in the I'resenee of Members of Foreign Legations — Important Pension Decision. Captured by Cupid. The marriage of M. Jtiles Patenotre, French Ambassador to the United States, to Miss Eleanor Louisa Elverson, daughter of James Elverson, publ:sher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Golden Days and Saturday Night, took place at Mr. Elverson’s residence, 2024 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Tuesday at 2 p. m. Sir Julian Pauncefote, her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador, and Prince Cantacuzane, the Russian Ambassador, were witnesses for the groom, and the Mayor, Edwin S. Stuart, and Janies Elverson, Jr., brother of the bride, were witnesses for the bride. The Drench Consul was also present in an official capacity. After the usual congratulations an elaborate wedding breakfast was served to the guests, the dignitaries sitting at the bride’s table and the rest at that of the

hostess. Afterward the couple leit on a wedding tour of a few weeks. When they return to Washington they will occupy the magnificent new legation building which the Ambassador has fitted up for his bride at great cost and j with that display of taste for which his nation is known the world over. Major Nevans Dead. Major William Nevans. the wellknown Chicago bandmaster, died Tuesday night. Major Nevans was born a , soldier, as he first saw the light of day , in an army barracks, his father being connected with the regular army of the United States. At the age of 9 years and 8 months “Billy” Nevans was a regularly enlisted drummer of the United States army, being assigned to the First United States Artillery. He took part in the Seminole war and at Fort Myers and others points in Florida he drummed for the troops ai they marched after Osceola, th* great chief. As a strong, well-built, and enthusiastic lad, Nevans, the drummer boy, was one among the first to cross the Rio Grande and invade Mexico with Taylor’s command. Transferred to Scott’s command, he participated in the siege and capture of Vera Cruz, the march on the City of Mexico, the assault on Chapultepec, and came out of the Mexican war a tried soldier, whose courage was oft put to the test. Steamer Kearsarge Blown Up. A dispatch dated Havana to President Winson, of the Boston Towboat Company, from the captain of the steamer Orion says that the United States steamer Kearsarge has been blown up and burned by the natives. March 15 tho out with ovorv wtr Te,,^ /

were wrecked ■■TO oroken and showed the effect of the explosion. Previous to the destruction of the vessel the natives of San Andres Island rifled the wreck of everything movable. Important Pension Decision. The pension rolls will be greatly en’arged by a decision of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds announced Tuesday. It is one of the most important made by the present administration and will admit to the rolls the names of a large number of insane, idiotic and permanently helpless minor children of deceased soldiers, where the pensions ceased by reason of the children attaining the age of 16 years prior to the act of June 27, 1890, the decision holding that the act of 1860 has the effect of restoring these dependent persons to the rolls during life or a continuance of the disability. - NEWS NUGGETS. Margaret Moore, of Kanawha County, W. Va., has been arrested for fraudulently obtaining pension money. What will undoubtedly 7 prove to be a foud equal to that of the HatfieldMcCoy dispute has jut been inaugurated at Thacker, W. Va.. a mountain hamlet, fourteen miles east of Williamson. W. S. Ferrel, an extensive coal land owner and merchant of that place, was called from his residence at mid-

night and shot. Posses of men are forming on both sides and serious trouble is expected. It is estimated by a San Francisco expert who has made a special study of the subject that it has cost this government S6OO for every one of the 1,500 Chinese deported to China under the exclusion act. On the other hand, it is notorious that the cost of smuggling a Chinaman from Hong Kong to this country byway of Victoria does not exceed S3OO. Prior to the recent stringent regulations on the northern border the quotation price for importing coolies unlawfully was S2OO a head. There is bslieved to < be something rotten in the Govern-^-mejit procedure for deporting < hinese, ■Kfch honest investigation won <1 to light. Among other things, investigation would show why many coolies ordered back by the federal Court are al'.owed to remain in the countrv, and .why the steamship companies* who have unlawfully brought thousands of coolies into the country have escaped penalties.

SMALLPOX is declared to be epidemic ; in Brooklyn. | 1 AN Ithaca, N. Y., hoy has been sent to prison for smoking cigarettes. | , 1 HOWARD Gould and Cdettc Tyler, I the actress, have notified their friends MBsd their betrothal. L 7* William Zell, the absconding SeeAetary and Treasurer of the Lehigh | Bl Wal Wilkesbarre Coal Company, who away with $93,000 on Jan. 19, ha? Swrendered to the New Y ork police, wWMdrig spent all the money. •

EASTERN. Patrick Cash, ex-Chief of Police of Williamsbridge, N. Y., was acquitted of the charge of killing James Cleary. 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. The molders employed by the Lockwood Manufacturing Company at Norwalk, Conn., have struck because the company refused to restore a recent cut of 25 per cent, in wages. Patrick Cash, formerly Chief of Police of Williamsbridge, N. Y., who killed James Cleary during a fight at a special election in Williamsbridge about two years ago, was acquitted. Cash's plea was self-defense. The steamer Anchoria, which arrived in New York from Glasgow, reports that a steerage passenger and an American citizen, in a moment of temporary insanity stabbed Charles Macktehom, also a steerage passenger, causing a slight flesh wound. As soon as the ship's officers approached to arrest him he rushed for the rail and jumped overboard. Constable Jamie on, of Graves- ■ end, was found guiltv in Brooklyn of perjury, committed in carrying’ out the program of John Y. McKano at the election last November. The verdict was accompanied by a recommendation of mercy on account of Jamieson's ignorance. Justice Newton, another of the Gravesenders, pleaded guilty to the charge against him—complicity in election frauds —and was sentenced to

ten months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of S7OO, and was started for Sing Sing immediately. James Caulfield, a reporter on a Brooklyn newspaper, has suddenly bo--1 come totally blind in an extraordinary manner. He lost his sight through a flash of light of dazzling intensity from a trolley wire of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company. Caulfield came 1 out of a restaurant and stopped on the 1 sidewalk to light a cigar. A trolley ' car came rapidly along. When nearly opposite Caulfield the trolley wheel slipped from the wii e. The e came a vivid flash. Caulfield threw his head back with a cry of pain. “Take that looking-glass from my eyes." he exclaimed, and he was totally blinded. The dynamite works of the Acme Powder Company, at Black’s Run, Pa., were destroyed by an explosion. Five persons were killed and one badly injured. The works were blown to pieces and buildings in the vicinity wrecked, windows broken and the people within a mile terrorized. Os those killed two were men and three women. The five killed were at work in the packinghouse. Mrs. Arthur, who was injured, was in a dwelling-house near the works, which was literally blown to pieces, and Mrs. Arthur was found among the debris. The bodies of Mollie Remaley and William Arthur have not been found. The body of Sadie Remaley and Samuel Remaley were terribly mangled and were gathered up in a box So far as now known the five persons killed were all who were in the works. All the victims boarded in the house where Mrs. Arthur was injured. The works are owned by E. H. McAbeu A Co., j I'i ILojriin'fli Ferry, n mile

Nothing FO - ’drains of the works except one small building. The plant consisted of four brick buildings. These, with the Remaley boarding-house, are completely demolished. It is supposed that a workman entered the building with a light, contrary to orders. There were 10,000 pounds of dynamite in the works at the time of the explosion. The loss was $15,000. The plant will be i ebuilt at once. WESTERN. Tillie Honeman, a white girl of Keokuk, has eloped with Claude Bland, a negro. James Conroy and William Cleary, watchmen for the Tolleston (Ind.) Shooting Club, were killed by an alleged trespasser. Annie Bauhart, of Massillon, Ohio, will ride a white horse at the head of Coxey’s army. The dispatch does not give the color of her hair. James Cheeves and Albert Perry, of Golden, N. M., shot at each other, the foi m*r being instantly killed and the latter fatally wounded. “Honest Tom” Tuite, formerly City Treasurer of Detroit, Mich., who embezzled $15,000 of the city's funds, has been arrested at New York. A branch of the Savings Union Bank of San Francisco was robbed at 9:30 o'clock in the morning, and the cashier was shot and killed. J. S. Coxey, head of the army of

peace, evidently does not believe that charity begins at home. It is reported that he has turned his father out of doors. A report from Kansas City says that Col. John A. Cockerill, of the New York Commercial Advertiser, is to assume the management of the New York' Herald. By a united effort among such Indiana cities as Richmond, Kokomo, Terre Haute and Indianapolis, Chicago , dressed beef has been practically driv- I en out of the State. Sheriff Moore loft Bedficia. s. d.. for Pierre to secure requisition papers for the arrest of NTholas McCormack (>8 years of age, whois ehargeu vvitn the" abduction of N°ra Howard, ti e 14-year-old daughter of H. J. Houaid. The Fort Thomas and L>owi? stage was held up several miles south of Solonville, Ariz., by two men. Four passengers were on the stage. All were robbed” The mail sacks were cut open and the registered packages and letters taken.

The lowa Senate substituted the Hou-e mulct bill for the < arpcnter liquor bill, and passed it by a vote of 26 to 24. The bill giving women the right to vote at school and municipal elections was passed by the House yeas, 51; nays, 44. The last act in the famous Superior Court World's Fair injunction suit was performed at Chicago Wednesday. Upon the presentation of a stipulation made by counsel in the case Judge Stein dismissed the suit without costs. ' The World's Columbian Exposition,

which was defendant in the suit, alg® released all claims for dntns^ta agairj^q Charles W. Clingman. AJ E. Mason, for the complainants, Edwin Walker, on behalf of the < position, signed the stipulation. g|f'< At Kalamazoo, Mich., Stonewall j] , Do France was found guilty of rassi^^f' a $12,500 forged draft on the First tional Bank of Kalamazoo cn Nov. D after a trial lasting fifteen da^L The case has been the most interes® ing tried there in many years. Tf®r result was not unexpected, a dispatftn says; in fact, with such an array'll* facts as the prosecution presented^ conviction was inevitable. De France®! only effort of defense was his attemrO to prove an alibi and in this he utterly 1 failed. I The development of the oil fields of y Central Wyoming has been greatly im-u peded because of the inability to secure | reasonable freight rates for transport-, ing oil. A company composed mostly of St. Louis capitalists is to lava pipe line to run oil from the Salt Creek wells through Orin Junction to Foi%„ Laramie. From this point it is posed to ship the oil in barges do^f” ) the Platte and Missouri Rivers to St./ Louis, where it wild be refined and on the market. g Fire destroyed the SoulF" 7^/ / 111., public school at 10:/ / Wednesday morning, and in’^F / that seized the horror-stricken.-and teachers several children' f. badly injured. Five hundred boys and) girls were in the building at the time, I and it was only by rare got d fortune j that scores of them were not burned oil’ trampled to death in the mad rush foif the doors. In the excitement follow®

ing the discovery of the lire a crowt of pupils ran up to the top floor in i wild endeavor to flee from th< flames and smoke, and were then hemmed in. Several of them jumpei from the window ledges and were seri ously hint. The burning building wa surrounded by a crowd of agonize men and women whose children wer in danger and who added to the in tense excitement by striving to breal through the police lines to rescue th imprisoned little ones. The buildin was three and a half stories in heigh' and contained ten rooms. Miss Fostei a teacher in a lower grade, discovere the fire just as the children were pn paring to go out for recess. The chi dren were paralyzed with fear for » instant, and made no effort to escap® Then they fell to screaming, and all rushed to the doors. The fire caus® a great sensation in the suburb. M«j whose children attended the sch® locked their shops when they heard.® the fire and ran to the scene to rem® assistance. Women came hurry in from the adjoining houses and a cro® of 5,000 people scon gathered. SOUTHERN. The Tarrant County, Texas, Graft, Jury has returned an indictn^H against R. M. Page, the milliona® banker, for the murder of Albert M, Smith on March 13. The heavy rains which have p# vailed over the southern portion of Texas for the past few days have caused incalculable damage. Many farms have been deluged and crops de-t: A wreck occurred on the branch ofthe

Tex.Vj^l people injured. The whole with the exception of the engine leq the track and rolled down an embankment. William Ingraham, a young farmer, was married near Evergreen, Ala. He an I his bride were serenaded at midnight by a ban 1 of villagers with horse fiddles, horns, and tin pans. Ingraham became incensed at the joke and rushed out of the house with an ax, which he threw into the crowd of serenaders. It struck a small boy named James Dixon and cut his spinal column through. The buy died and Ingraham has surrendered/ TNCacaria, Mexico, has occurred a triple tragedy. Rafael Lopez was engaged to marry Miss Torina, daughter of Marteo Parenza. Having heard reports derogatory to Lopez, the young lady wrote him breaking the engagement. Lopez pleaded to be reinstated, but she refused. The father invited the discarded lover to remain for dinner. The three sat down to eit and Lopez secretly put poison in the food. In a few minutes all three died. The \ illage of Money Point, just outside Norfolk, Va., was almost destroyed by fire which broke out in the sheds of the Roanoke Lumber company and raged fiercely from 1 to I'J o’clock p. m.. Friday, destroying the plant of that company, as well as that of the Old Dominion creosoting works The three-masted schooner Elias Moore, lying at the lumber com- ] any's wharf, was destroyed. Only six houses are left standing in the village, and the loss will foot up at least $300,000. The total insurance is $200,000.

b A DELEGATION of Mormons has ar I rived in the Degolado district, situ--1 ated in the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico, and is making the pre- ; I liminary arrangements to establish there another colony of several thousand polygamous Mormons. The new ■ settlers will como from Salt Lake and other parts of Utah. The concession which tho Mormon leaders have ot»tained from the government is a libI era! one and embraces 2,745.6(10 acres I of rich agricultural lands in one body. If the plans now under way are O'ln pletod in time, there will be a „1< • t Jjdus of Mormons from the l uiteu States to Mexico this fall. WASHINGTON. THE secret service of the 1 reasury | I Department has discovered that there | I are two new counterfeit Government i bills in circulation. One is of the $2 treasury nete and thc other is of the $1 , silver certificate. This is the first counterfeit ever found of the $2 treas- ; ury note. It is of the series 1891, check i letter “C,” W. S. Rosecrans, Register, ' I T? XT N’. .Lm'l’vnn l’iipd’* nnpf i t '

I E. H. Nebeker, i reasurer, portrait or McPherson. The $1 silver certificate counterfeit is series 1891, check letter "A.” Naval circles are excited over an order recalling Commodore Kirkland, en route for Hawaii, and instructing Admiral Walker to take command of our naval forces at that station. Ad- ! miral Walker has just finished a term of sea duty and expected to have a long i spell on she re. The orders are under- * I stood to be due to a well-authenticated . I report that the Hawaiian government , | is about to apply to some other power I

a.i’H.t,, ~ la( . v w Si wlr M J reSlde , nt to have !§ a„d “> «• ” eßtAl ’£ “ Pro- ’ XL G sr b ir c ^ I. I ^migrantsunde?^ T ! f /Chinone "-ill? aV JeC t thc Detection While 111 this cou nMfr/L i lfc does not reneal ■ Gary law it is said to render it F Igatory m many particulars. The mine Coast au^Vestorn Senators are -eady vigorously fightino- it th® ^y-ireaty, it is understood, runs for p 1-°^ ernmont is to OhSe P^vent the Tho “b’ect /f to tlH s , tose^. /l-the Chinese v Venose this Protection and. relieve them from any unusual’ Bprdships, although the right of ^enshlp is not asked nor guaran0. Those who are in favor of tho i think it is absolutely necessary | uPruer to continue tho present friendj ^neutral relations with China, and it pointed out that the cdmmerce between this country an I China has [grown to large proportion, and largo

pums of. American money have been invested in the Pacific commerce, all of which depends largely unon continued friendly relations with' the Chinese Government. — FOREIGN, Lord Rosebery, the British Pre'.nier, is to marry Princess Mau 1. * Dr. Nettleship, the oculist, believes an operation will fully restore Mr. Gladstone's normal powers of eyelight. The Rt. Rev. Montes do Oca, Bishop )f San Luis Potosi, has denied that he ‘.as expelled the Jesuits from his tliocese. L Another conspiracy to kill the King lif Corea hai been unearthed. Ten thousand pounds of powder were found [under the council chamber Twentyiseven conspirators, including the inpormer, have been arrested ami will b o [beheaded. L A Paris dispatch says that a bomb Kvas exploded in the Church of Gallieu, rnear Grenoble. The bomb, it appears, Iwai placed against a screen inside the main entrance of the church, and it Lexploded at 4 o'clock, as the congregagd>n was leaving the sacred edifice asper an Faster service. The explosion injured twenty persons, three of whom nnay die. The explosion cause ! a panic _ f&he church, during which a number j Ahe people were injured by being ' tikpled under foot. * 4 IN GENERAL 4 2 — i‘OLLARD has been offcr- * «$5(K> a week to star in an operatic Ahnanv.

(>C IHERE will be 138 money-order of* k and thirteen postal offices e-tab- . led throughout the country in □ri!. Attachments have been secured kinst the Empire Oil Company, of Aple, Texas, for $32,500, with more T Vfcted. O j>-QUEEN LiIIUOKAT.ANI of Hawaii ■^ported to have been engured to is lift a lecturing tour through the mall l States - Wilson, who has C^l at Torreon, Mexico, has arbeenft 1 Angeles, where ho will riveiA un ^^ h® recovers strength, rema®"’ a boat was crossing PatzcuaWhw j puebl® °f Tzinzuutezan, ro Lal®^® boat, sprunk a leak and beMexic3i cou ^ given or the shore fore h^F^ x young women of tho reached! persons on beard were eightecO drowned, jpn to the charges acain-t In relaw, Appraiser at Boston, the L. A. IVdftbs have reported to the special aft*t there was much direct Treasury t» n ving great looseness in testimony the aft airs of the Apthe conductft s® ll * o respects, and praiser’s offi<ft ai dos the customs i ’guan utter disrA lations. JLeT REPORTS. MAR* ■hicago. wo Prime.... $3 50 ft 4 75 , _ wdes 4 oo (i? s (xi Cattle—CommonWjcp o y* t Hogs Shipring g1‘ c C-SHEEP-Fair to Cbl .r Wheat—No. 2 Red.x; h COHN—No. 2 1 ao

Dats -No. 2 Briery..... 21’< A 22 v Rye—No. 2 -i... io 1 -.. Butter—Choice Creal tn m t 0 ' Eggs—Fresh i jg Potatoes—Per no IN D . 3Ou i 4 7.; Cattle--Shipping., 2 00 @ J Hogs—Choice 53 m bHEEP-Com®‘'“ ™ ' 2 /T, 9 CaTTIjR 1. 310 @5 00 Hogs. A. 63 & 54 WhSaT-^W^’’"' 34 & 35 Cons No. ... y... 31>t@ 32'2 4 . V‘No 2 . 47 4 y KYE-bo. 2 ciNl'TNjl’i'l. CATTX.E 3 00 (<i 4 50 Heus I. 3 00 @ 500 SHEEP. . -X. 200 @3 75 WHEAT-No. 2 Red « C 5 & 6( ; Cons-No. 2 .■ 38^@ 39^ V-irxi 1 ’. 04 V 35-: lUE * DETkoiTA 64 19 66 ft 300 @4 50 Shi ep 1 3 00 @ 4 75 Whe\ P T-N^ 2’^ 00 1 3 75 Corn-No. 2 Yellow Q ® Oats—No. 2 Mixed ® ““ TOLEDO. '7l ® 34 Wheat—No. 2 Red T -- Corn—No. 2 @ 57 Oats—No. 2 White -L 33 • RYE—No. 2 33'2 BUFFALO. ' 50

Wheat—No. 1 Hard Corn—No. 2 Yellow M Oats-No. 2 White ; ** <2 Rye—No. 2 I<< ^2? MILWAUKEE. 0 Wheat No. 2 Spring t C4C Corn-No. 3 LIE Oats—No. 2 White 37 Rye—No. 1 43 2* Barley—No. 2 53 ** *2 Pork—Mess 10 75 NEW YORK. 20 Cattle 3% y\ 7K Hogs 375 £ Vj Sheep 200 £3 K Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 Wk Corn—No. 2 <6 t, Wp Oats—White Western 38 a ® I Butter—Choice 21 h * I Pork—Mess 12 00 W

; DEATH ON ICE FLOES. ; ; SEAL HUNTERS FROZEN DEAD [ ON FLOATING ICE, - Forty Newfoundland Men Carried Out to • Sea on a Huge Pack-Most of Them Re S - d After a terrible Experience, and some May Die. Frrqt. Succu ™ b to Col d. Johns (N F^ hTn ’ ° Ut4do of Stwith in ’ J arbor ’ on Saturday filled of the mon who went m t .17 ' Another followed fom hours Gon »i night Ranges in the posL . caused by currents drove most of the men headlands and ming. though eight nearly died irom the cold. They reported that nine pers ns were far off, and all energies were devoted to rescuing these men. At last a party was sighted from the outer cove and a boat put off to their rescue. In this party therp were six men, all of whom had been frost-bitten severely. A little distance frem them the re cuing boat's crew sighted three more people, of whom two were dead. The Armor Plate Matter. Washington dispatch : President Cleveland's decision in the ca e of the Navy Department against Carnegie, Phipps & Co. was made public Monday. It is in effect a conviction of the workmen in the em loy of that corporation of an attempt to defiaud the United States Government for the benefit of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. It was the workmen who stopped up blow-holes with plugs, who “fixed” sample plates in order that the inspector might be fooled into passing groups of plates which thc e specially treated samples were supposed to represent, who cheated the government offico.’S and deluded even the scrupulous Mr. Frick. Consequently the fine of $400,0 to against the companies is cut down by the hand of the executive to sl4 \ooo, and Carnegie. Phipps & Co. stand clear before the world as martyr • to the dishonest altruism of mechanics earning ab ut $2.50 a day. The i eport caus ed some wonderment in the House when it was delivered in response to the demand of Congressman Amos Cummings' committee. Killed by Robbers. news has reached Dal’as. Texas, of tlie assassination late tho other evening of Captain Thomas H. Dunn, superintendent of tho Olive iron mines near Llano, Texas. His body was found three miles from the mine. He had been shot through the head. Captain Dunn during the day had been to the to vn of Llano and drawn SBOO to pay off tho miners. The assassins took the money and what jewelry their victim possessed. Captain Dunn was a native of Virginia and recently went to Texas from Birmingham. Ala. The body will lie shipped t > Virginia. Sheriff Ligon and posse are on the trail of the murderers with blocdhounds. Reducing Pensions. A Washington dispatch says: A large daily average of notices of reduction of pensions sent out to veterans and other j ensioners is kept up by the Pension Bureau. These are in accordance with the a t of Dec. 21. 1893, and provide for reduction unless additional evidence is filed within thirty days. The notices are sent after a final review of the cans in the board of revision, and all have been forwarded by registered letters during the last three weeks in order to record the time of receipt. Alieauy 2,0G0 have been sent in this way. Trust \ ictory. Judge Butler in the United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia, has decided that the s igar trust did not act ’contrary to the law when it absorbed tl.e I hiladolphia sugar refineries. Shortly after the consummation of the big sugar deal the government brought suit for the purpose of having the trust dissolved on the ground that the combination was contrary to aw. Waite Is Winner. Judge Glynn, in the Denver Distri ’t Circuit Court, dismissed the contempt and quashed the injunction against Mayor Van Horn and Fire and Police Commissi.>ners Barnes uni Mullin, and empowered the latter to assume their duties, t > whieb. they had been appointed by Governor Ataite, at once. _ ___ BREVITIES, Yale, 7, University of North Carolina. 3, was the score at Greensboro, N. C. The Provo (Utah) Lumber Manufactur ng and Building Company made an assignment. < ’harles Lamb, a Welchman, employed at the tinplate works at Elwood, Ind., jumped from a moving train. His head struckt he ties and he was fatallyhurt. A COLONY of 100 people from Wabash County, Indiana, will go to Towner County, South Dakota, this spring. Charles Hicks, of Macy, Ind., attempted to commit suicide by gashing his throat with a penknife. An older brother killed himself recently. The President has approved the bill granting a pension to Hannah Lyons, 91 years of age, daughter of John Russell, the revolutionary soldier, whose statue stands on guard at Trenton Battle Monument. THE Southwestern Kansai M. E. Conference selected Hutchinson for the next year's meeting. Receiver Krisher, of the defunct First National Bank of North Manchester, Ind., will pay a second^ dividend early in April, making i>o Ji-cr cent, of the proved claims.

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed; and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. bruW. enat ° biU for the construction of a br d eo acros , the Monon?abela R 1 the h«i r;? PaSS V V l6 House T “ursday, and the balance of tha time was snent ku bustering over tho O’N. u P 1 n fiH ‘ electinn r,L f. oNe 11-Joy contested trfet txa ’ ,h 0 St - L °uis dlsis in favor o? ° f tb ° committee (Rep“ five U T at,nS J °y bustered an 1 kent the Hn'' 9 ? hey CH - The highest number o l De S 0 dt>a, V° cked ’ cast during the day wasSofi "tblrk? Os a quorum. An unsuccessful ^? b ° rt was made to adjourn over Senate’s princlnni bu in J el ‘"O’ l ''- Die mation of a"Xf Xte'?/ COnf‘reratlon of the tariff bilk ters and considThe strm^g^ Is,SJl s ,SJT e . n<l o d by the joint resoed election case from Missnu?f V.r.eed to. poned until next week. In the case of Whatley vs. Cobb, from the Fifth Alabama District, the report of the committee unanimously confirmed Cobb's title to the seat, and was adopted. The House went into committee ot tho whole to consider the military academy appropriation bill. The amount carried by the bill was ?400,438, against §432.540 for the current year. The original estimates for the next fiscal year aggregated §590,463. They were reduced by the Secretary of War to $465,149, and the 1 ill was passed. Several private pension bills were passed at the night session, the House adjourning at 10:30 o'clock. The Senate did nothing. The House adjourned Monday after a brief session on account of the death of Senator Coiquit. Mr. Turner, of Georgia, who had been chosen by the Georgia delegation to announce the death of Senator Colquitt to the House, sent to the clerk’s desk the usual resolutions of regret and for attending the funeral. The Speaker then appointed the following committee to accompany the remains to Georgia: Messrs. Livingstone, Holman, Bunn, Cabanniss, Maddox, McDonald, W. A. Stone, Cogswell and Grout. The death of Senator Colquitt was announced in the Senate by Mr. Gordon, the colleage of the dead statesman. In a few touching words he briefly recounted the services of the dead Senator in the field ot politics and in his domestic life. The customary resolution of regret was adopted and a committee of ten Senators appointed to accompany the remains to Macon, Ga. The following committee was appoin ed by the Vice I’resident: Senators Gordon. Morgan. Butler, Ransom. Gray, Hoar, Proctor, Carey, Perkins, and Allen. Prayer was offered at the convening of the Senate by Mr. Colquitt's pastor. Rev. Isaac W. Canter, of the Mount Vernon Place M. E Church, and at 12:15 o’clock the Senate adjourned. The House did but little business Tuesday. Representative Been, of Minnesota, Introduced a bill for the reduction of compensation of persons in the government service. It provides that salaries from SI,OOO to $5,000 be reduced 25 per cent, and thr t those from 15.000 to 520.000 be reduced 33L P or cent; all above $20,000 redu ’ed 50 per cent The Senate met at 9:45 and immediately adjourned. A Great Engineering Triumph. A triumph in engineering is reported from the mountains ot Peru, where a t win-screw steamer of 540 tr ns, 170 feet long and 30 Let wide, has been successfully launched on Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable waters in the world, more than 13,000 feet above the sea. This steamer, which belongs to the Peruvian Government, was built on the Clyde, then takenapart in more than a thousand pieces, and shipped to Mollendo by sea. It wai then carried to Puno by railway and transported over the mountains on the backs of llamas and mules, and put together by a Scotch engineer. A $400,000 Pipe. Thc Shah of Persia has in his treasure room jewels valued at S4O. 009,000. His crown contains a mass of diamonds surmounted by a ruby as big as a hen's egg. His royal belt weighs twenty pounds, and is a solid mass of diamonds, rubies ard emeralds. M b n the Shah was in Fu -ope he wore a variety of diamonds and gems, the smallest of which would have been a fortune to the lucky possessor. The buttons of his coat were five in number, and each button was a diamond larger than the Kohinoor. He smokes a pipe valued at $400,000. < ur Trade with Tahiti. This country takesail but a few thousand pounds of the Tahiti vanilla crop. The total imports are from 10,o€0 to 25.000 pounds. The price varies considerably, but does not fall much below $1 a'pmnd. Copra, which is the dried kernel < f the coe anut ® , imrortant exp rt from Tahiti to the United States, and the value of the product exported is often more than $50,000 per year. Colleges AVith Daily Papers. There are seven colleges in the United States whicli maintain daily newspapers namely, Harvard. Yale. Princeton. Brown, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and the Unive sity of California. Here arid There. BUFFALO is the only city in the United States that has given the country two Piesidents. Os all the things in the world that are “better late than never,” going to bed certainly ranks first. Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As we go towards age he taxes our health limbs, faculties, strength, and features. Hors d'ceuvres are small dishes of sardines, anchovies, and other relishes of the kind, served to guests at table during the first course. Beware of thc vulgar things, words . and people, as you would of the gentleman in black’-and-red, for vulgarity and sin are iiist cousins. IF a man does not make new fr:#idship- as he advances through life he • will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. The accordion is said to have been invented in Germany, but there is no doubt that previous to the introduction ' of this instrument in Europe it was known to the Chinese. ' Coffee is found to have a remark- ’ able antiseptic power, its effect in de- ' stroying microbes seeming to be due ‘I to empyreumatic oils, developed in roasting, and not to caffeine,