St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 April 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKEP.TON, . . . INDIANA SOLDIERS EXEMPTED. relieved from residence on HOMESTEADS. Ominous Outlook at Connellsville—Bloody Biot at Kansas City—Election Results Mixed at Chicago—Grain-Laden Boat Bounders in the Straits. Soldiers' Homestead BightsThe Senate Committee on Public Lands has agreed to report favorab’y Senator Kyle's amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill providing that any honorably discharged soldier of the late civil war, not now the owner of 16) acres of land, and who has not availed himself of the privileges under the land laws of the United States, may acquire title to 160 acres of land by making application therefor in person at any Government land office and paying the minimum price of $1.25 yer acre. The law now requires a residence of six months on the part of the ex-soldiers. Bullets Mixed with Ballots. Bitterly opposed in both reLgion and politics, two Kansas City, Mo., factions came together in a bloody conflict at the polls in that city Tuesday. It cannot be stated which side is responsible for the affair, as the partisans of each loudly charge the other with being the full can e of ti e trouble. More than a hundred shots were exchanged between the combatants in less than that many seconds, and when the firing ceased men were lying dead, dying, or injured on the I pavement. The riot was the culmina- | tion of a bitter feeling which had been ' manifested by actions and words ever since the polls opene 1 in the morning. The two antagonistic elements were solidly divided in their choice of candidates for Mayor. The ; aggressive support that each side gave to its candidate during one of the hottest campaigns ever known in the city engendered a strong sentiment. It was, therefore, in no amiable mood that the workers of the respective factions came together at the different polling places throughout the city, and that these workers came expecting trouble to occur before th^ day was over was apparent from th’ number of deadly weapons that ! wero drawn when the first pistol-shot was fired. The riot that resulted so fatally was the climax of a series of smaller riots that took place at other points earlier in the day between the same opposing religious factions. Barje liarnum Sinks. The steam barge William 11. Barnum. laden with 55,000 bushels of corn, struck an iceberg and foundered ab aut six miles from Mackinaw City. The crew was rescued by the tug Crusader. Ice is flowing in the Straits, but it was not thought sufficient to do any damage. The Barnum was owned by J. J. H. Brown, of Buffalo. The cargo is ■ — —fullv insured and the boat partly inrared. NEWS NUGGETS. President J. 11. Calloway, of Douglasville, Ga., College, shot himself through the heart. Peace has been restored in Samoa, an armistice having been arranged between the opposing forces. The weavers in the Riverside Mills at Olney ville, R. 1., went out in a body. A general strike will follow. For the first time in the history of Harvard University a Catholic priest conducted the regular Sunday services for the students. Obituary: At Newark, N. J., exCongressman George A. Halsey, aged 67; at Pittsburg, Edward B. Wall: at Wilmington, 111., Franklin Mitchell, aged 82. R. D. Walsh, County Commissioner at Rockport, Texas was killed by B. S. Weir. The difficulty was about the occupancy of a house. The slayer is at large. The Daily Telegram, a new afternoon penny paper, is announced to appear at Boston. It is to bo published by Torry E. Wardner, will I e Democratic, and will advocate the advanced school of bimetallism. A manufactured ice pa’ace is to be built in Baltimore, to bo oj ened June 1. Skating will be had the year round. It will resemble in constru > tion the (hi construetea in the Cold Storage Building at the World's Fair. Republicans made gains in Chicago's aldermanic election on Tuesday. , and the body stard* 42 Republicins , and 26 Democrats, instead of 38 to 30 j as formerly. Political lines, however, j were not closely drawn, and the posi- t tions of Assessor, Collector, Supervisor, and Clerk, in the various towns. e are filled by men in many instances t who do not I o'ong to thu lea»ling ( party. I A Connellsville (Pa.) dispatch ; says the situation in the coke region 1 is now at the most cr.t cal stage. At first it was thought the Frick men would remain at work bA this iinnrc - sion was dispelled when the men at Trotter came out. The company has made no attempt to resume, and will probably not do so until the strikers tease hostile demonstrations. The feeling among the foreigt ers throughout the entire region is very bitter. They arc said to bo well supplied with dvnamite, and will not hesitate to use it if the occasion presents itmlf. Bill Dalton, the notorious outlaw, was fatally wounded in a fight with officers in the Indian Territory. THE lowa Senate has passed a House bill allowing the manufacture and sa o at wholesale of intoxicating liquors th ATire in which three children aged and twelve years, lost b«r four miles tion on the mi victims foreman of the icai.

EASTERN. ALEX. Ross has pleaded guilty at Pierre, S. D., to an indictment charging him with embezzling $25,600 from the First National Bank of Leadville. T. V. Dickinson's jewelry store at Buffalo was seized by the Sheriff on executions for local banks and New York merchants. An employe of the American Exchange National Bank of New York conspired with an outsider and swindled the concern out of $33,000. Rev. Sylvester Malone, of Brooklyn, is to succeed the late Bishop McNierny, of Albany, as Regent of the University of the State of New York. A general strike of the 10,000 coke workers and miners of the Connellsville. Pa., region was ordered by the executive committee of the United Mineworkers, t> g> into effect next Monday. A. J. Moxham, president of the big steel company at Johnstown, Pa., and Tern L. Johnson, one of the heaviest stockholders, are in Cleveland seeking a site for a new steel mill to cost about $2,000,01X1. AG. A. R. DELEGATION representing the State of Michigan arrived at Pittsburg, Fa., to secure quarters for the State Department during the anneal encampment next fall. The delegation also arranged for headxinnrtffWb for Judge Charles D. Long, who is a candidate for Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army. A special from Middletown. Md., ' gives particulars of a frightful dasn j down South Mountain of a runaway team of six horses driven by Albert Miller. The rubber on the wagon broke; the saddle horse, a valuable animal, fell and broke his neck, throwing Mr. Miller and so injuring him that he now lies in a comatose condition, with his death anticipated. Judge Dallas has filed an opinion in the United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia, holding that Chinamen cannot be naturalized. Judge Dallas says that the act of Congress of May 6, 1882, entitled “an act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese,” forbids the admission of Chinese I to citizenship at any time after its pas- i sage, and is still in force. Fritz Kloetzer, a Dolgeville iN. : Y.) shoemaker, killed his wife and four । children at his home and then commit- I ted suicide. Ho had been out of work I for a long time and despondency is supposed to have led to the deed. For | weeks he had been selling off his fur- ■ niture piece by piece to pay for bread ■ for his family. The bodies of the ent ire ■ । family of six were found stretched on afew blankets in a back bedroom. WESTERN. Judge Caldwell has made a ruling in favor of the Union Pacific employes in the wage scale hearing at < Imuha. Six hundred cigarmakers employed ; by Eugene Va'lens & Co, Chicago,: went on strike Thur;day on account of ; the discharge of ore of their number, I Albert St. Cyre, for coming late to work. Gold has been discovered at the ! summit of Hahn's peak in C dorado, j and prospectors are already on the ' mountain above the clouds staking i claims on the south slope, inhere there | is not much snow. The report of the receivers of the ' Bear Valley Irrigation Company filed at Los Angelos shows an indebtedness < f $1,221,259, not including exj eases of $1,500 per month. The en'umbered assets of the corporation appear to be fully $2,00 ).000. The Paddock Hot 4 people at Beatrice, Neb., indorsed a draft of -5 i f< r J. T. Marshall a week ago, in accord with a telegram purporting to c me from the Red Cross Vinegar < ompauy of St. Louis. The telegram was forged and tile draft protested. Indiana has inaugurated a m woment that promises to prove the nucleus of a great national organization by the formation of a State fish and game protective association. The first step will be to ask the United Slates Fish Commissioner to restock Indiana streams. Obituary: At Payton, Ohio. Major W. D. Bickham, editor of the Day ton Journal, aged 67; at St. Paul, Anson I Northup, aged 76: at Los Ange'es, j Cal., H. C. Lett, of the Utah commis- i sion; at St Paul. Captain George Hayes, inspector of steam vessels, i aged 60. At Spokane, Wash., John Horton, a carpenter, fell from the new Post street bridge into the Spokane River above the main falls and was swept down to death. He made a gallant fight for life, cheered by 400 persons on the shore and bridges, but it was I hopeless. The most appalling disaster Pecria, I 111., has known since the wreck of the j steamer Frankie Fol-ora, three years ago, occurred Frida , morning. An j immense standpipe belonging to the j Peoria Water Company suddenly burst, i causing terrible damage. One boy j was killed and at least ten other per- | sons were seriou-ly injured. In addi- I tion to this five houses and barns were crushed, several others were swept from their foundationsand an immense ( amount of damage was done to mr- ; rounding property. At Bozeman, Mont., a man exiling । himself Robert Dutton made oath that i he is the man who, a few months ago, ' killed an old farmer and his wife । named Williams at Brompt on, Canada. ' near Toronto. Robert said that one > Walter MeWhirrell was accused of the 1 crime and has just been found guilty j and sentenced to be hung next June, i Dutton had seen an account of the trial I and conviction of MeWhirrell in a . newspaper and did not wish to have an i innocent man suffer for a crime he himself had committed. After sign- । ing the affidavit Dutton made his . escape. Reports from districts widely sep-j arated, including Illinois, Minnesota, lowa, North Dakota and Nebra-ka, say that the recent frosts were not so disastrous to the growing wheat as had been reported. Since the thaw, the plant has crane out in good shape, and backward enough to be out of danger from any frost not more than ordinarily late Although in the aggregate largo areas were damaged, the percentage will not be more then ten. and the

yelds that were killed will be replant ’ in corn, and it is expected that U field of the latter will be greater onp" 16 count of the increased cultivation. ^ ac " Three families, consisting altoge®| of between twelve and fourteen £ iei sons, were buried by the snowsli" ® r * near Wallace, Idaho, Thursday. Th “® 8 bodies are buried under thousands el ^ tons of snow, and any possibility °* any of them beiny rescued alive is of the question. The Bnowaccumuli J out on the mountains to a depth of -^ted feet, and the late rains caused the h4 x ty mass to move at several places. A tion 300 feet in length, near Black J ec ’ mine, became detached and sta 1 - ? 3r down the steep mountain side. Be the inhabitants of the cabins in its ^^re could get away the avalanche was® 13 ^ them. ®pon The hopes of the lake vessel-merg now centered in the iron trader T« at e the key of lake business forthe coif: ° season is to ba found. Busin^FjE? 11 ^ far done in selling iron ore an. taring boats to bring it from l 3 stay" perior and Green Bay is at the u notch ever reached by lake coa 6 In past seasons vessels carried \ Vph?) for loss money than these for the season, but never b Q f° re |ha VQ large fleets been tied up in which promised so slight a mar'J^ of profit. Some say that the muTL” i 3 so small that it is infinitesimal a? diyt that only the bsst luck ca. j owners who, have

Wheat jumped 3cent^, buU * ’ ta about as many minutes on the Chicago Board of Trade, Wednesday! The ' weather was the prime factor. »gome 1 of the morning papers had existing crop damage reports, and theseWwere re-enforced by quite a run of the|g an)O kind of news through privates .dispatches received on the floor. The pit, was aflame with excitement. Itrhe ma-ket went up from 581 cents ie tir iy to 614 centi. and closed at 60} Qents. But other markets did not Allow us fully. Liverpoil was quoted Iwer, and there was free selling against i calls, all of which led to a reaction of 1 i cents, followe I by a good recclvery. Alexandria, Ind., was starteii Saturday night by a terrific noise ayif a powder magazine had exploded. It was a natural gas explosion in a Building which a"commodated a barber : shop and the American Express I office. This sti nature was blown j to pieces anl the ruins were fired. । The rear of the Whitesides block was badly shattered. Seven men were lin the barber shop. Buried in the । ruins and dead were: Harv Bouryer, I Jessie Harrell, Ora Ball, Charles I Hoover. The tollowing were rescued j by the firemen from the ruins, bt& more or less injured: James Scow William Pylie, Henry Heard. Harreu and Hoover leave families. The othe® were all single men. SOUTHERN. Israel Johnson, colored, was hanff' i cd at Union Springs, Ala., for the mar- : der of Wash Robert!. i Ritchie a Co.’s warehc use at Sonw Camden. Ark., was burned. Loss, ; 000; insurun o, $16,000. w Three workmen were killed and fiw : seriously injured Friday afteriii><jr> while tearin/ awaj an old bridge necting the east tin I west wardA "wP*' Radford, Va. This structure fell car- | vying the e ght men with it. THE Augusta Ga. cotton mills are ; reported to be in splendid condition, i with sufficient orders on hand to run them for six months, even if no more orders are booked. Ono mill has just receive.l a $250,000 order froma Nortlr 11 I ern firm. In the embers of a watchmans । shanty on the Missouri. Kansas and Texas Road n< ar Denison. Texas, the body of an unknown man was found with his sku 1 crushed. Helal been niurdt red and the cabin fired to conceal the crime. The expected ha- happened, and the Ititter animosities stirred up by the ei^ deavor to enforce the dispensary law l in South Carolina has resulted in a bl< oJv clash between citizens and constabulary. A fight took place between citizens and constables at the railway station in Darlington, Friday afternoon, as the constables were leaving : town, and four nun were killed and three desperately wounded. Eduardo R. Gonsales, Manning Davis and Jim Upkins. Federal coni victs, were hango I at Paris. Texas, i The crime for which Gonsales paid the death penalty was the murder of John J »anieL, a singing school teacher, in I Blue County. Choctaw Nation, May 16, 1893. Manning Davis' crime was the murder of John Roden, a neighbor, Dec. 26. 1891. The crime for which Jim Upkins yielded up his life on the gallows was the murder at Ardmore, I. T., Sept. 6. 1693, of his 6-year-old । step-da ighter. ; ON the farm of Caph Harwood, on Dry Creek, near Pulaski. Tenn., John i Inman and his wife left their three | children alone in the house. The ' smallest, a boy of 4 years, overturned I the lamp and was burned to death.' i The Other two children were saved. I On the farm of George Whee’ess. on , Weakley Creek, two nwro women ■ living in the same ho :se leJt-J home and left their younu babies in i the house. <>n returninjr they fount! the house destroyed and the babes । burned t> death. WASHINGTON, — j Thursday it was reported from ■ Washington that Speaker Crisp deI dined the nomination by Gov. Northi en as successor of Senator Colquitt from Georgia The Senate Military Committ e has I ordered a favorable report on the bill i to pay $3,951,915 to California: $104.10J j to Nevada, anl $335,152 to Oregon for i moneys expended in the suppression of 1 the rebellion. The President has approved the act : to regulate the making of property returns by officers of the government, I the act repealing section 311 of the rei vised statutes, and the act for a charter for the lowa and Nebra-ka Pontoon Bridge Company. Secretary ( Jar lisle has sent to the House a letter recommending an appropriation of $3,325 to reimburse the Bishop of the Greek Church of Alaska for funds expended in furnishing the people of St. Paul Island with necessary supplies. The affair has been the

The Bland bill for coinage of the seigniorage silver bu’lion has been 7b President 's objection to the bill in brief, are that the bill is y w rawn a ? d would rob U 8 °ur ho b elievei the coinage h^l^soingniorage might be sa.ely and advantageously done preiSrnnWs, Wore S'™" ‘bo » mw- f \ h ° treasury to issue bonds at hone n" f lntor t st ' He expresses a ® cm P r o b ensive adjustment in moneta i'y affairs in a short time in away to ac.ord to silver its proper place 111 our currency. foreign, - ' The wreck of the Kearsarge on Roncador reef has been blown up and the debris burned by natives. Ambassador Bayard has been pressing upon the attention of the British Foreign Office the necessity of speedy action upon the proposition to replace the existing modus vivendi relative to the seal fisheries bv one on broader lines to conform more do ely to the decision of the arbitrators. There is reason to believe that Sir Julian Pauneefote, the British Ambassador here will soon receive authority to consummate such an agreement, by which the small differences between the two partreaty respecting the extent

of the closed zone will be adjust -d on the basis < f the forty-second parallel. This would make it impossible for sealing vessels to lawfully take seals anywhere in the Pacific north of the buunda-y between California and Oregon alter May 1. IN GENERAL A committee of the Toronto Legislature recommend ? the granting of a charter tithe Huron and Ontario Ship Canal Company. Pension Attorney M. d. Ellis, of Indianapolis, has been disbarred from practicing before the Pension Department for unprofessic nal conduct. Obituary: At St. Augustine, Fla., Williams. Hall, of Chicago; at Baden, Ja-ob Rosenhain, the composer and pianist, aged 79; at Dublin, Most Rev. Charles Parsons. D. D., Protestant Lord Bishop of Meath. R. G. Di n \ Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: The more active tone in business is due to several causes, blowly, but yet quite perceptibly, the force at work increases. '1 he advent of spring compels the dealers to replenish stocks, and the aggregate of orders, if smaller than ustral at this season, is distinctly larger than tn January or February. Except in speculative markets, prices do not recover, and In some instances have gone lower, but the absence of sensational records Inspires hope that the bottom may have been reached. Business, though small. Is exceptionally cautious and safe, and its slow gain Is more encouraging than a heavy expansion Failures for the week number 2,38 tn the United States, against ICO last year, and thirty In Canada, against twenty-eight lost year. The Wedcrn Union Telegraph Company and the Bell Telephone Company are on the verge of a legal battle. Their community of interests has sustained a truce that has now become much worn by the ravages of inherent The whole network Ffron harmony is threatefle I with total collapse. It romains L r time to rev« al whether diplomacy can avert what promises to bo the giant corporation struggle of the era. The present upheaval, which has not yet taken definite shape, is interwoven with the merged histories of the two concerns very intimately, and Ihas le-n brewing sin 'e l s 7!>, the vear ’the Bell company assumed position aI a rival for business. ; The White Star steamer Teutonic, from Liverpool and Queenstown, arrived at New York quarantine after a passage which the officers say was one of the most severe in their experience. Sunday morning the wind blew with hurricane force, accompanied by hard siuulls and high seas. Seamen Alct 'oomb and Coleman, who "had been ordered to secure a ventilator on top of No. 2 house, forward, were knocked down by a heavy sea. McCoomb was picked up in a badly bruised condition, having an arm and a leg broken. Coleman had his jaw broken, besides being badly bruised about the body and head. The cabin I passengers were much alarmed, and a j few of them were thrown down and . brui-ed. One < f them named M. Sehleifer slipped on deck and broke his leg. The storm lasted up to Monday night. Sunday the vessel logged but 394 knots, and Monday the day's run was only 3c2 knots. market reports. CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime.... $3 SO 4 75 Hogs —Shippitg Grades 4 co 5 00 SHEEP—Fair to Choice 3 00 <’ 4 75 Wheat— No. 2 Red CO i<« 61 'Corn—No. 2 36 @ 37 Dats— No. 2 31 32 Rye— No. 2 4? si BUTTER—Choice Creamery .... 22S Eggs— Fresh 1" H mTATOEs—Per bu .... r M & CO INDIANAPOLIS. CUTTLE—Shipping B'o " < T lajrht " 2 2? <-omnion to Prime ~ 3 • ■■IK?—No. 2 KeU 51 54^ JBkn -NO. 2 White 37G ss^j No. 2 White 33,'a® 34!<j ST. LOUIS. L jMFTLE 3 00 @4 50 ■WS 3 CO @ 5 OO \|hEaT— No. 2 Red 66 @ 57 CORN—No. 2 '34 @ 35 Hats— No. 2 31 @ 32 Bye— No. 2 50 & 52 CINCINNATI. Cattle * m @4 50 Hogs 3 oo 5 25 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 58G Corn— No. 2 39 @ 4" Oats— Mixed 2-Y'X 35^ Rye —No. 2 55 @ 56 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 50 Hogs a od @ 503 Sheep 2 50 @ 3 ?> Wheat— No. 2 Red 58 @ 59 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 38 (3 39 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 35 @ 36 , TOLEDO. W HEAT—No. 2 Red 58 @ 59 Corn— No. 2 37\@ 38^ Oats— No. 2 Mixed 32 @ 33 Rye— No. 2 . @ 51 „ BVEFALO. XX HEAT— No. 2 Red 60’4@ GlVj Corn —No. 2 Yellow. .. 42 @ 43 j | Oats— No. 2 White 37‘ 2 @ 33^ ’ Rye— No. 2 53 @ 55 „ MILWAUKEE. XX HEAT—No. 2 Spring 57 @ 58 Corn— No. 3 37 38 Oats— N«. 2 White 34J*@ 35^ Rye— No. 1 as @ 49 Barley— No. 2 55 @ 56 Pork— Mesa 11 25 @ll 75 NEXV YORK. Cattle 3 '>o @4 50 Hogs 3 75 @ 5 50 Sheep 310 @5 00 " heat— No. 2 Red 63 @ 04 Corn— No. 2 45 @ 46 Oats —White Western 38 @ 42 Butter— Choice 2o;y@ Pose— Mess 13 75 @l3 25

’ TOWED INTO FATAL.' I L > NEWS OF THE SAFETY OF A CIG OCEAN LINER. I ’ ' * 1 Annual Disturbance in the Connellsville Coke Region Occurs on Schedule Time ■ -Omaha Alive with Bur S lar g -Le Caron, , the Spy. Is Dead. Steamer Ems Is Safe. The North German Lloyd steamship Ems, Capt Reimkasten, from Bremen March 17 and Southampton March 18, for New York, long overdue at the latter port, was 1 owe 1 into Fayal, Azores Islands, Monday by the British oil-tank steimer Wild Flower. The Ems has her propeller frame broken. Her saloon passenger list embraces twentylour names, among them Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dahlgren and Compte del Borghetto J^he steerage passengers number something over a hundred. The agents of the company have instructed ( apt. L. St-aermer, who is in command of the Kaiser Wilhelm 11., to call and tranship the passengers for New York. I he Kaiser Wilhelm sails from Genoa. It will be race sary to send a ship to rayal with a n;w rudder frame, to take the place of the broken one. Kint o‘ Coke .Miners. The throat ir d strike of the Connells ville, Pa., coke workers ccc rred Al- nday and was immediately followed by wild scenes of rioting and disorder. The reports received at the head quarters qf the United Mine Workers' Union in Uniontown say that over 5.000 men went out. To get the men out in one case intimidation in the shape of dynamite used to destroy the property of the operators was used. A midnight special from Uniontown says th ■ officials of the miners' union have received advices to warrant them in the statement that from 15,000 to 17,000 men will be out. This means a total suspension of work in the region. Sheriff Wilhelm has sworn in 500 deputies and will distribute them through the region. A number of arrests were made. The lioters were immediately bailed out. Bad Place for Thieves. William Edge awoke Sunday night at Omaha to find a man ransacking his house. The burg’a • fie I and Edge followed him. Beco ning bewildered the thief returned pist the Edge house, and Mrs. Edge captured him and turned him over to ler hu-band He proved to I e John Webber. Elmer Buchner was caught byUhaTes Wilson going through the latter's bed-room. Buchner fed, but Wilson caught him after a long cha e. l’at ick Hi nley went thrt ugh s veral housei and was captured by an officer with the .'tolen property in hi- possession. Ed Matthews found a man in his room. He grappled with him, but the burglar was the strongest and escaped. Chopped His Head Off. Lewis J. Ratliff was killed at Howard-town, Ky.. by a man named Mahoney. Rat'iff went to Mahoney's distillery early and quarreled with the owner, who struck him a fa, rful blow in the bead with a hatchet. The infuriated man then drugged Ratliff's lifeless form a short dislanee and placing his neck across a ’og. completely severed the head from the body. Rat- I liff leaves a widow and several childien. Mahoney is a quiet and peace- 1 able man and has never been in trouble. BREVITIES. Judge Dallas has filed an opinion in the United States Circuit Court at Fhi a lelphia holding that Chinamen cann >t be naturalized. I’HiLii’ M. Isensee, convicted of embe zling sl'o,ooo public money while C ty Treasurer, was sentenced to four yra rs’ imprisonment at New Whatccm, \Ash. Patrick Walsh, editor of the Augusta Chronie’c, has been appoint, d by Governor Northen of Georgia to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Senator Colquitt. A delegation of letter carriers appeared before the House Postoffice I Committee in advocacy of the bill pro- | vid'ng so • a salary of $1,2 0 in cities ' where the po ttl revenues exceed $5( 0,000. Attorney H. W. Hobson of the Gulf Road claims the abrogati n of all traffic agreement; with the Union Pacific is more in favor of than against the Gulf R ad, as it leaves it free to make advantageous agreements. George Barkus, an employe of the Standard Oil Company of Columbus, Ind., while working at the pumping station went near a red hot stove and his clothing, saturate I with gasoline, ignited and he was horribly burned. Heirs living all o e the United States are to tend a Pittsburg lawyer to England to reco.er $1 Jk O.OCO of the / •■( ./uuiea llolmej ] aid to the 1 <r< wn and held in trust. Holmes died at Belfast in 1727. lie was a projector of the South Sea Bubblq once chairman of the c zmpany, and worth many million a Major Henri Le Caron, the British Go ver nice it spy who acquired such world-wide and unenviable notoriety in the investigation of the charges against the late Charles Stewart Parnell some years ago, died Sunday at London from an internal tumor, with which he had been afflicted for some years. The bedy of Joseph Olds, the ninth vi'tim < f the Cay lord mine disaster at Wilkesbarre, Pa., was recovered. Theodore A. Rockfort, a lawyer, whose office is at 150 Broadway, New York, died at ('ineinnati of heart disease. Mrs. Mary' Antonia Castno Majors, member of a California Spanish I family, has begun suit f.r $50,00) for breaeb, of promise in the United States Circuit Court at San Franeic 'o against Harry S. Cowell, son of the Santa Cruz millii n lire limo king. President Cleveland has refused to authorize Minister Thompson to join the Briti-h and Italian ministers in a petition to the Brazilian Government to withdraw its demand for the surrender of the nsurgent 2ldmir.ll de Gama, now a fugitive 0:1 a Portuguese ! man-of-war.

THE NATION’S SOLOM SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Gur National Law-Makers and What Thej Are Doing for the Good of the CountryYarious Measures Proposed, Discussed and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. "ednesday, the House was engasod with contested election cases, the seat of Mr. Joy (Rep), of Missouri, being at stake. Ine rnajjrity report of the committee had gone against Mr. Joy. The vote on the substitute for the report of the majority of the committee, presented by the minority, declaring Mr. Joy entitled to bis seat insulted: Yeas. 102; nays, 146. 'lhe substitute was rejected. Mr. Burrows of Michigan >noved to reconsider, and Mr. Springer, of Illinois, moved to lay that motion on the table, I-riends of Mr. Joy then precipitated another filibuster by making the point of no quorum on the division, and the roll call was taken. No quorum Oa motion of Mr. Patterson the House at 5:45 adjourned. In the Senate Senator Berry, of Arkansas. called up the resolution authc Izing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to receive at the subtreasury in New , York from R. T. Wilson & Co. or assigns. , the money, amounting to $6,740,000. to be paid to the Cherokea Nation, and to place the same to the credit of the Cherokee Nation. It was agreed to. Then the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and when the doors wero again reopened took up the McGarrahan bill. Senator Morrill of Vermont speaking in opposition to the claim. Mr. Hunt of Virginia followed Mr. Morrill, and argued In favor of the bill. At i o’clock Mr. Hunton conclude ! his speech, and Senator Vilas rose to address the Senate, but yielded to a motion for an executive session made by Mr. Pugb, which was carried. At 4:05 the Senate adjourned. 1 he House Thursday renewed consideration of the Joy-O'Neill contest, but it is still unsettled. In order to get a quorum to transact business, the Sergeant-at-arms was directed to arrest all absentees, and the Speaker countel a quorum, as was done in the days of the Fifty-first Congress by ex-Speaker Reed. Scenes of the wildest confusion prevailed. In the Senate, The bill prescribing limitations of; time for the completion of title to certain lands disposed of under the act of Congress known as the “donation act,” and for the protection of purchasers and occupants of the lands, which are situated in the States of XVashington, Oregon, and Idaho, was passed by a vote of 40 to 7. The House joint resolution appropriating SIOO,OOO addith nal to carry out the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act was passed. The McGarrahan bill was passed without division. It refers the claim of William McGarrahan to the Rancho I’anocho Grance to Ihe Court of Private Land Claims, which shall report its findings to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall issue a patent to McGarrahan f this decision shall be in his favor. In recognition of the personal sacrifice Speaker ( risp made in declining the Senatorship there was a burst of applause again Saturday morning when he ascended the rostrum to call the House to order. Immediately after the reading of the journal, Mr. Payne, of New York, arose to a question of personal privilege and made an explanation of the incident which occurred late Thursday afternoon when the Speaker had stated In reply to a seeming defiance of the Cbair by Mr. Payne, when the latter was ordered to rake his seat, that he would recognize a motion to bring the contumacious member to the bar of the Housa Mr. Payne stated that on that occasj reply which he made—Bl l l» his seat yhen be c'±l— ggafl£—iSM spo.ise "tusomeuiing said by 31 r. waite, not to the Chair. Mr. I ..., uv ^s* statement led to mutual explanations from Mr. Outhwaite and the SpeakI er, which seemed to clear uu the ini' cident. The struggle over the G’Neill-Joy contested election case was not resumed, as the day, by a special order adopted some time ago. was devoted to eulogies upon the late Representative O'Neill, of Pennsylvania. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the House, as a further mark of respect, adjourned. The principal interest in the Senate Monday centered in the speech of Senator Voorhees, chairman of the Committee on Finance, who thus launched the tariff question upon the sea of senatorial debate. In the House for five hours roll call followed roll call in an endless attempt to bring the filibuster against the O’Neill-Joy contested ejection case to a close, but at no time was the House able to muster a quorum, and the fight was finally abandoned for the day. Just before the II use adjourned Mr. Patterson gave notice that upon reassembling lie would ask the House to sit in cent nuous session until the ca<e was decided; 170 wa.s the high-water mark touched on any roll-call. This is nine short of a quoru m. After nearly three weeks of filibustering the O’Neill-Joy contested elec ion case was finally disposed of Tuesday, when Mr. Patterson, Chairman of the Committee on Elections, Informed the House that he proposed to insist upon the censidc-ition of the pending election case until a vote was reached, some of the members who have been dodging suddenly decided to help make a quorum. The result was a vote in which a quorum was shown and the case was taken np. This action was so sudden and unexpected that even the contestee in the case was absent from the House at the time. So quickly was it disp sea of that when he finally came in be found that he was no longer a Congressman. In his absence lie had been unsealed and Mr. O'Neill had been sworn in as the rightful member from the North St Louis district. The House then immediately proceeded with the consideration of the English-Hilborn case, two hours being allowed for debate The resolution aoelario^ Mr. Milburn elected was lost by a vote 'of 83 to 136. The quorum failed, and a truce was then declared for the night. At 5:30 p. m. the House adjourned. 'J he Senate talked tariff. A Striking Coincidence. A pushing medical gentleman who had only been a short tin e in practice was fetched from his Sun Jay sch ol devotions by the beadle. The doctor took ud his'hat, raid a short prayer, and the service went on without him. Nobody pretended to have seen the incident. though everybody xvonlered who was in tro ible or whether the doctor had revived an old form of advertising. A little while a'terward the beadle, with the softe-t step, went to tlfe pew of the chief undertaker in the rarish. A short whispered consultation, and away xv nt the man of black. As he put on his overcoat to follow the doctor a broad smile passed over the whole congregation.—Lixerpool Mercury. FACTS IN FEW WORDS. On the Alps vinegar is made of milk whey. There are 115 missionary schools in Basutoland, with 6,923 scholars. The United States issued four thoutand million postage stamps in 1893. Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag on June 14, 1 l i i. The leaves of a tree in Dutch Gui- ' ana are so rough that they are used as sandpaper. , .