St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 April 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENi. WALKERTON, . . . INDIANA LOWEST EVER KNOWN WHEAT GOES TO 57 1-4 CENTS IN CHICAGO. Some Board of Trade Men Think It Will Yet Reach 50 Cents—Noted Washington Editor Stricken with Paralysis—General News Notes. May Decline Further. May wheat broke all records Tuesday, and sold on the Chicago Hoard of Trade at 571 c cents, the lowest price ever recorded. It was the climax of the depression that has forced the market lower and lower during the last three weeks. Where the descent will st >p there is no telling. There are many who say that wheat will reach 50 cents a bushel or maybe les*. The oldest grain trader' on the floor, according to a Chicago dispatch,

cm remember nothing like the present movement. Unless some altogether unlooked-for incident turns up there is no doubt that wheat will flatten oat until it becomes next door to rainless. The lowest point touched by wheat previou* to Tuesday's record was 57L which it touched on March 24. On .April (i it had come back to G il, ewing to the frosts that were so gene al throughout the country during the last few days in Marchand the first few days in April. The tendency is all downward. 'Tuesday sixty poiin I of good milling, from which forty pounds of first quality flour could be made, was worth only 571 tents. The speculators bought an I sold it in 100,(OJ bushel lots at that price, and for a time it looked a* tho ign the price was going still lower. What wdl be done with all the wheat the crops will yield cannot ba told. The shipments to importing countries are nearly two million bushels more than tho estimated re juirements. Everywhere in the United State* tho crops are •unusually largo except in California, where the droughts will cause yreat damage. But the crops on this side of ^he mountains w.ll be so plentiful that the 20,(100,004 bushels that tho yield may fall short in California will not be more than a mere drop in the bucket. It will not be felt at all, William Mctiarrahan Dead. Wm. McG area h an, the celebrated claimant to the New Idiia mine, died at Providence Hospital, in Washington. Tuesday. Ho had been a familiar figure at the Capitol for thirty years, and was well known to a majority of Senators and Representative*, a major- I ity of whom were believers in the jus- I tice of his claim. A bill to permit al trial of his case in the Court of Claims wa\ passed by Congress, but was vetoed by President Harrison. Several other bills had been passed by one house or the other, and a score of committees had reported favorably on this claim. Bomb at a Railroad Depot. A dynamite bomb was placed on nia Railroad depot at Watts Station, Pa., the other night, and exploded. The building, a one-story brick structure, was wrecked. The object of the dynamiters is not known. Superintendent Brockway It Relieved. The board of managers of the Elmira, N. Y., reformatory relieved Superintendent Brockway from duty and gave him leave of absenc* j ending the examination b; the special commissi n appointed by Gov. Flower. NEWS NUGGETS. Dr. Pepper has resigned as Prov* -t of the University of Pennsylvan a. A. H. Naboß shot and inert illy wounded J. C. Horn in San Francisco. ! John Armstrong was killed by ' Henry Vickers during a po’iti* al row . at Stinson, Ky. Patrick Ryan, of Minneapolis 1 Minn., was killed while trying to st>q a runaway team. The Chemung River i* fifteen feet above low water mark at Elmira, N. i Y.. and rapidly rising. Earthquake shocks continue in ■ Greece. The latest estimate place- tho number of deaths at 1( 0. At Terre Hunt', Ind., the County Board of Health vaccinated every one of Frye's band of Coxeyites. Frank Collins and Lewis Holden were sentenced to bo hanged July 25 at Fort Smith, Ark., for murder. A. H. NAHOR, solicitor L r the Argonaut, shot and morta'ly wounded J. C. Horn, a printer, at San Francisco. Mrs. Amelia Mueller, a Cleveland. Ohio, widow, killed herself and tried to murder her father and mother. EK-CmEU OF Police. Stonf and exTAeut. * lay. of Denver, w -re fin al *loo : each for storing dynamite in the city j hall during the recent, p lie • b< ai d row. The wife of Unit ?d States Marshal Turner, of Atlanta, Ga., ha- gon * insane because of threats against her husband, who had bien a-rc-ting whitecap-. The Coxcvite-at Butte broke into

the Northern Pacific roundhouse, seized an engine and train, manning j them from their own numb. r. and started ea^t at forty mile- an hour. Two iuttee girls, aged 2 and c. were ; found murdered in tiie woods nearTus- j cogee, Ala. In a mill-pond near was found the body of an insane negro. It ; is thought he killed the children. Bishop Bon acum, of Lin oln, Neb., charged with mismanaging church property, is to be removed. James Brooks shot and killed Wes Wilson, near Oskaloosa, lowa, in a dispute as to which should dance with a married woman. All were colored. In the New York Court of Common Pleas Michael Donnelly, iron merchant, plaintiff in a suit on trial, fired three shots at P. J. McArdle, the defendant. None of the shots took effect. Donnelly was quickly overpowered and taken to jail.

EASTERN. The New York Legislature has passed the bill abolishing days of grace on notes. Fire at Now York destroyed the tin factory at 328 to 332 James street, can - ing a loss of $65,000. TpE Albany (N. Y.) Medical College graduated forty-four students, among them M. T. Ward of Chicago. Amos Waters and John Rickards, telephone linemen, wore killed in Philadelphia by an electric wire. A wealthy New York butcher, G. M. Hoffman, killed himself. Grief over the death of hi* wife prompted the act. Augvst Loessler, 63 years old, was found dead evidently murdored in tho basement of the building at New York where he was employed as a watchman. Fike early Wolr.esday guttol the Merchants’ Hotel, Bangor, Mo. Tho house was tilled with guests and many jump'd from the windows. Several were severely injured. President Mayer, of the Baltimore and Ohio Road, in a statement to tho directors, says after paying all dividends, including percent, on com-

mon stcck, the net earnings for the last six months of 1893 were $ MlOjiOJ. 1 The New York book publishing- firm of Charles L. Webster A Co. has made an assignment. The resources are reported to exceed the liabilities I y letween and *200,00 >. The firm was c<mp >:ed of Samuel L. C'emens (“Mark Twain”! and Er, der i -k J. Hall. The New York State G. A. R. Department, through its Council of Administration, has practically decided to reinstate Fa nham P. st, G. A. R., of New York C.ty. which was expelled from the order last winter, a'l that is necessary t > effect the roinstat unent being the sanction and confirmation of the determination of tho State Council by the Nat onal G. A. R. Department Council of Administration. At the meeting at which action was taken theie appeared a large delegation representing the post. John J. Finn and ( apt. Brogan made appeals for the reinstatement. They showed that the post has been perpetuated since its expulsion anil since that time has given away $1,020 in charity and d me other works of mercy. WESTERN. Miss Rose Hendricks, daughter of the late Vice Preudent Thomas A. Hendricks was married at Greensbury, 0., to Charles Zoller, Jr. George Croft, an Oskaloosa, lowa, saloonkeeper, ami Herman Krueger, of Menomonee, Wis., two jealous bus- I bands, killed their wives and c mmit- । ted suicide. I TWENTY creditors of the Lost ria, •Ohio, Light and Power Company pro- ' posed t > ex-Secretary Foster to take the plant and a sume the liabilities, which was accepted, OWING to heavy rains on the I'pper Mississippi and tributaries a (lisas-| trous llotxl is threatened at Aitkin, i Minn., and vicinity. The water there Is now within rix inches of high-water i Clark. Every logging dam in the ) country will be forced to open within a few days. Th* Sandy River dam at McGregor is washed aw »v. and tho j Northern Pacific Railway bridge is in | danger. Fire broke out Friday a ternoon in the old Ci wn Linseed Oil Works at 1 St. LouK The lire started in the ele- ; vator attached to the works, which is i leased by the Ryan Ci mmission ‘ ompany, and is used for storing wlua’ R. M. Johnson, Superintendent of the ( r wn work-, said the lire must have been caused bi sp mtanoous c mbustion. He thought the O" to the Crown works won d Iks fully M’Ji'.Oai The Kyan Com: anv will lose ab .t $30,0 0 ’ ONE of the gi>a searchlights whb h astonished millions during the nig t illuminations at the. World's Fatr a-t summer has been taken to Civvplnnd. Ohio. It is being place! on the ; w steamship Northwe-i, of th.- c*.ii Northern Line. It* leu* G thi: ty-'ix inehe* in diameter and the light ha- a LJ.O'AG’andi • power. The light w.c form one of th:' neve features of t e Northwest, an 1 pa * ugers will U? able t > see a good d< a of s p a'n In u:A ’ u- well as by dav. Rains throughout t'u Centra a. <1 Western State* have broken t < drought, which Lad beeom a sore menace to croj s California alone is suffering from lack of moisture . 'h er< fiehls and vineyard- area: k- b ght< d by the e ntinue I dry weather. In the ( entral Stat Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, ! Kansas and Nebraska abundant rains ! have been falling during the hist ten days, and crop i r speet - ar ■ bright, in fruit section-, however, frost ha* done much damage, an i i i place- threatens more. In tho clay bank of the Holloway | Brick Company, south of Canton. Ol io, i two men met instant death. The, • wore Thoma* Petrol's, of North In- 1 ■ du.'try. uni i»tto Sheneman. of Ma*- : I sillon. loth single men. 'They were working in the shale bank un L r a • ledge when a heavy mu>s hanging atM»vo them became loosened and L . crushing Iwth men beneath several’ tons of mud and sha c. They were I dug cut I y < ther w< rkm m. Let both ' men were dead, having I een killed in- '. stantly. Actor William IL Crane called at j

the Four Cm son Friday. at St. Louis, j j and identified George Fields, who was ! arrested for writing obscene letters to ! I Hay Hamilton, as the negro wlm robbed I him of *Jpls in New S ork six weeks . ; ago. Crane was playing Brother ' I John'’ at the star Theater. New York, I and employed as a vabt a young negro i i rawed William Hell. Cine day Crane | left $l, x ls in one of his pocket-. Hell, ■ it is alleged, stole the money and gave it to Fields, who promptly left bell in the lurch and went to < alifornia. Dell was arrested, :nd is now serving- five years in Sing sing. Fields admitted his guilt. There was received the other day at the Fourth National Bank at St. Louis, Mo., a draft for the benefit of a Hussian nobleman who is now lying in potter's field, having died uncared for and friendless in a cheap boardinghouse March 2K just about the time the needed assistance was mailed to him. It was learned that a draft for

SIRS, drawn on Knauth, Naehod®~ Koenig, bankers, New York, in f^y^ of Baron Hugo von Loudon, acconW/or nied by a certificate of identifleat^gahad been received by Ferdinand DielH>n, the Austrian Con-ul. from the dMa, man’s brother at Riga. By the alleged defalcation of J ■ IL Adams, chief clerk of the roadr® lll tor’s department of tho Rock IslaK®' that corporation loses, it is ostimatW®* SG,OJO. though the officials of tho >‘Ws- - that the loss is much less. Evend effort is being made to capture Adaijm' Friday ton or twelve men at Blue and, 'll!., were discharged from t®^ servko. It is said that Adams, wlw had charge of the pay-roll, induced^ number of the men employed in tlsa rondmaster’s office to receipt Tw amount* placed on the nay-roll by h wl and representing many hours' nr ® work than that actually perform and that after pay-day Adams n these men and a dividend was declai of tho money drawn in excess of 1 amount actually earned. This ope T’ lien, it is claimed, has been going T" for several months, and ha* be® shared in by many more men thF‘ those actually discovered and chargel. " ▼" SOUTHERN. • < Henry Montgomery, a i egftv waß 1

lynched near Lewisburg, Tenn. » Lloyd Rodebaugh hanged hi^y' ° children at his home in < Whoun Caf F" ty. W. Va., and then killed himseirj Z. F. Merrill, assessor and collector of El Paso, Texas, i* mi*sing. and a shortage of $24,000 ha- been discovered W. H. Thomas & Son, whisky dealers and distillers, have failed at Louis ville. The liabilities are between $50(1OO.i and 1600,(0). The South Carolina dispensary law has just been declared unconstitutional, two Supreme Court justices concurring in and one dissenting from the opinion. IT was reported in Louisville. Ky . that. Frank Phillips and a detective named W. Bevins were killed in a tight by the Riekett boys, near the heal of Sandy River, near the Ken-tucky-Virginia State line. J. J. Morgan and Jame- Mason, merchant* at Faxeit.-ville. Ark., quarreled on the streetsand began firing at each other. Over a dozen shots were exchanged. Both men received wounds which will prove fatal. The trouble originated over burine-s rivalry. WASHINGTON. Tn a 1 dter to the Chairman of the Patent Committee of the Hou*e Attorney General < »lney rajs that the proofs in the -uit of The United States vs. Bell Telephone are now in and the case will probably lie heard by the court some time in June. Then* i* before the committee a resolution authorizing it to inv. -ligate tho matter of the Telephone Com|«nv. but n » action ha* been taken by reason of the suggestion of the Attorney General that an Sa-ve-ligation by the committee previm^ to a hearing in court w> uld prejudice the case. The estab ishment of a new divi* i h in the UaKHk AJO ?! „ ■ musv.” by Secretary Smith to CongreJ 1 The exponi’ incident thereto wgl i a-ri; rebate at«o r an I vsiHcolrist of forty-four skilled examltler> an I eight clerks and assistnuts. Patent Commi**i nor Seymour says ea« h of the thirtv-tao examining divisions contains on tho averag- more than I*’-,ots) d< modi • patent* and alwsl the same number of foreign patentThese a:e now defectively and insuf* ficientlv via silled 1 xamira’um <f| application* must lie done promptly, for <!e a> is oft n a* great an evil a* no a lion at alt It m sst l-e dom* at tho rat »of ab> ut !ho app eat ion» a we< k, or 15’ a day for the w ho e office, or H*® for each dhoion in the office for every working day in the y« ai. Till re|K> t of * aptain John I’hfiijK commander of the I 'nh< d •*?»!• * cruiser New ^ ork, r« iating to defect# of construction said to have develoipl during th trip to Ri »d© Jatviro, ha* /a-' I e n n < eel at tho Nat i I>partment. Wh« n ( apia n Philip got tn sea, the tejiwt -ay- he found that th*- so ward turr* * was rigid I and could not b • turned either ■<»jh• t ■ ■ -' a a■ • , ' : ■ the aft©turret could is- moved only ten deg. atutin.v Th« r the di-M'O. om an-made that the amm. nit on heist- w. -e aLu de'eetive a <1 in n-painng the -hip na r««wlv rwap d b-ing blown U.K Lit r. the report -avs. the magazine <-f the eight-meh g m- Hm-ab ne i the de truction of ti c ship The officer o' the deck was about to move a < uaniity of -m ike e powd- rfr m the genera’ ma2a h,e into tho* • r> servoir* »hen | he found that the. were l.eated t »aj t». m] eruture of P<) degree*. The two! mngsi/m esa- -said to bo pin- en against* the fire holes of the -hip, and are thus I rendered usele s. POLITICAL. 1 The Vermont Republican State | m ..ti- will lie ’ old nt June 20. i * X..R- —MAN EiTHI'N ■ aims ’(i have fifty-six delegates instructed fort him ami to l> • -are *>f renomination. I T. .1. Jarvis has been appointed United State- Senator from North ('arolina t > > ecced the late Zebulon B. : Vance. INDUSTRIAL Thi: trout 1 ■ at D< treii, Mich... between the water board and the Polish laboiers, who refuse t > do piecework or ail* w any or.e else to. was renewed I Wednesday morning. A mob of about ! 700 assembled just outside the city j limits, and when the small gang api peand they drove them away with shovels and picks. The police force : was insufficient to quell the disturbance, and. with the labor -r , were driven from the scene. A dispatch says that no further attempt will be made to resume operations until a full meeting of the board can be had. Four rioters were slain. A C )NNELLSVILLE Pa. dispatch says that tffe Whee’er and Morrell rioters were arrested Wednesday by a posse unde - Deputy Sheriff Richards. The deputies arrived at the Wheeler works before daylight in a special ear. As scon as the guard Hues could be thrown

out, a mob of strikers was cornered, and the other employes of the company were detained to identify the I rioters who beat Engineer Charles Semons and Joseph Ashton. Several rioters are in hiding, and it will be some I b3 /°r e the y all captured. Vat rants have been issued for thirty I as . 6oon a- 8 all have been caught ’ they will be b ought to Connellsville on a special train. Three-fourths of all the miners of bituminous coal in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Illino's, Tcaaessee- Maryland, Missoui i, Colorado and Indian Territcrvat noon Saturday laid down their t ols and maugurated the biggest strike known in the Lnited States, according to I 1 resident Mcßride of the United Mine I Am ® rica - He estimates i that 132,000 out of 180,000 miners have w J ork - It i« conceded that ; tWpt'O minu-s, did not go out, I but it is believed at headquar- , ters they will join. It is understood many operators in Ohio, Illi- I uois and Indiana, and a fair proportion • of these in Penn-ylvania and West v irginiu are willing to meet the mine’s, and hope is entertained that the, strike will not be of long duration. Disinterested persons, pointing out the fact that the demand for coal is not large now, express some fears as to the suece s of the strike.

FOREIGN. President Peixoto’s forc?s have captured Derterro, the Brazilian rebel stronghold. The reception of tho evicted tenants’ bill by the House of Commons was so unfavorable that, according to 1 a Lond* n dispatch, it is doubtful whether the government will proceed with the measure. News is brought by the steamer* I ocu that two marines from the l nited State* steamer Marion and four Japanese women were burned to death by the tire which recently destroyed a quarter of a mile of property in Yokohama. The marines were mum d Moore and WixsL The Brazilian Government has n-«ti-fiei the diploma‘ic cu p* that th- republic is at peace. A seizure of the personal effects < f Admiral Saldanha da Gama was made recently by the gowrnm -nt |M>liee. Amon; the papews found wen* documents, which i tin- loyal paper- print, showing com-I plicity of the British and Portugese official-with Da Gama t> restore tho monarchy, and expressing full sympathy with the rebel cau-e In a leaning edit »iial the government organ. O Tiempo, ojMinly charge s Great Britain and Portugal with aidirg the revoit It asks why England an I Portugal were so anxious t » interfere in favor of Da < ama when the r- lvel ships were daily tiring on the cit . killing many innocent persons. IN GENERAL George Gould ha- purchased the yacht Vigilant, winner of the Amer- * ica - cap, for ?25.0»i. The reported disc wery of a wonderful deserted city in the S erra Madr© Mountain- in Durango ha- been veri- ! fied at Mapimi, Mexico. — Gpera < < mjisny Eu resulted In rrw re-lgratlon o' M ’c. Eake, who hu*' she is tired of the continual 1 I. k- itr.g Over the part of < arm» n Dr. Silveira M irtine. the Brazilian revolutionist at Mont video, recetved a telegram laying that the in- ' -urgent force* under Admiral de Mello have occupied Rio Grande < ity. Eire origb ating from a rubbish heap df-tro.cd thirty-four busice«- । live*. I w'>’cra! dwelling hou a hotel, u flourtnliL the L; i coyal Uhureh. tho t digraph, telephone and post offlc.--ami the steamer 1 *-•••i-ior at Hunts-! ville, tint. Tho ios- i< *i t’ i , l ’»». The Whisky Trust has •elected the ' old b ard of officer*. «- follows*. Prcsi- ’ dt iiL J. B. tiro-nhut, Peoria; \ < Pre-ident. John Pc g- Terre Ha .to; • Tr.-a-mcr. W N Hobart, t imunnati: I Ses-retarv, P, J. Hennessy. t'hieago; : A--imt N L Huggin-, Pe rim The chibs of the National I eag a stand a fvi.ow- iu tm- > iiampion hip I race; Per Fer W I o ’ W. I Bostons 3 I *• LculsviUes I 3 .331 Btßlmorr 1 -■ Put«rurir* 1 3 Clactnaati ! 1 * W*s->Miijt’u i ' • FteUadrlp'a 3 I Brooklyn* ■ '■ •»» UtereiaaUs. 3 I .W CMrszos 3 St. Loaia .'i I ■«' New Yorke. -■ 3 market reports. CH.('AGO. CaTTI.F Common t I'rtns- . *’• ‘ <7’ He— Shlvpitift C.r* los » • » -•-« I SWIKP F»tr toChoie- o i ' l WiDYi-Xc 4 Re*i .1 to l COR’ No. 2. . . W l 4 ‘ I Oai- No.. r ' I Rte No. : •« •! a Hi":t r n * . ■•. <• * : a• %• i B Swtscr Common to I’Gmc * » LWUEAI Xu .!. 1 -e 4Ak to eW- s;* *•«» * «o is# 40’s X>a.~ Nu. j White 36 37 sr. Lot is. ( CATTI.S 3'o 4 50 I Hotis. J O 5 fO L Wheat- No. 2 Red 65 A 55’4 1 Cohn No. 2 36 .v 37 I Oats—No. 2 as g st !.-. i No ... g 54 CINCINNATI. CATTEE . 3'o (it 4 50 HOUS .. 3"0 ■’ ’> 50 I SHKEP.. 3IN vt 4Oe I Wheat No. * Red ’7 . i 5»4 I Corn—No. a 4i -_ * 4j i Oats—Mixed ’ . : 36 . Rye—No. 2 55 57 I DETROIT. Cattle 3 w .<? 4 .io HOUS 3(0 i<l 5 51 Smeep 3 00 ® 4 («» Wheat— No. 2 Red 5* ■. X 53’^ COBN—No. 2 Yellow 41 1 41 Oats—No. 2 White :a TOLEDO. ’ Wheat—No. 2 Red 5* A 59 iCorx—No. 2 4"-j jOats—No. 2 Mixed 34 \<4 35 I Hye—No i w 52 f- RCEFAI.O. ■ Reef Cattle- I'rime Steers . 3 " > 5 75 [WHEAT—No. 2 Red fly I Corn—No. 2 Yellow 44 ^6 45 | Oats—No. 2 White 89 o <u 1, MILWAI kee. r'» heat—No. 2 Spring 59 & 59’a SCORN—No. 3 39 @ 40 ■ Oats—No. 2 White 35 36 I Rye—No. 1 4.> e t 50 Harley- Go. * 57 c® 69 I I'dRK— Mt»a I .... 1.1.... Il T> @l2 25 L NEW YORK. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 75 ; ”CG5............................ 3 75 el 5 75 Sheep 300 @ < 00 wheat-No. 2 Red I'. 64 at 65 Corn—No. 2 43 @ 45*9 j Oats—White Western 40 vc 45 <VTTEB—Choice 22 uS 23 <ORK—Mess 11 25 13U 75

SET FIRE TO MINES. I hocking valley strikers use ' THE TORCH. Commonweal Armies Given Warning to Stay Away from Washington — Judge Lynch Uolds High Carnival in Louisiana—Death of a Famous Banker. This Is Ominous. T.IE torch of the incendiary is at work in the strike region of the Hocki ivs< Va Iey ’ ald the ,e rible scenes of ( I**4 may be repeated in th it once fameus sccti n. Monday morning, at > . e sonville, n iners discovered the 1 . Mon lay mine on tire. The flames I | c start cd near the mouth, an! all ! efforts to quench the blaze have so fa • been unsuccessful. Those familiar with I J}?*; situatio 1 say that there is a pc.ssi- । bi ity of the tire extending t >the Brush (. reek mines and in that event tho loss would run up into many thousands of dollars, ft was the work of strikers. The fire recalls similar incidents of incendiarism, and e peeially the burning of a h mper guarded by Pinkerto 1 detectives during the big st ike in >4. It was claimed at that time that tho hopper was tired by the detectives to ' ko»*p tpthe oxcitumein. In thi« cuh j 1 there i* a notable abse .ce of Pinkertons upon whom susp'eion can fall. Demand Five More Lives. Four negroes have already paid the penalty for the brutal assassinatii n of Manager Boyce < f the Ba nno p anta । tion, in Madison Parish, La., and it is n t unlikely that several more will have su nmary justice dealt, out to , them. Madis n Parish is torn wide o.en with o cit'ment. ( ne of the J negroes inculpate I in the as assinatibn of Bo ce was shot on I ^aturca after being caught. Judge . Lynch hel 1 h’gh carnival during the night at Tallulah. A mob gathered in front of the jail, he'd a c inference, and de ided u|xm the guilt of three ni'ii incii'cerate 1 there. Then the mob went dvlib irately to work, and with a battering-rum burst in the side t f tho jail and forced o}h u the door. Sam Slaughter, Tom Claxton, and Dave Hawkin- we <• led out a ;d swing up to the l alustiade of the c< urt house. i Their b >die- were hanging there in | D <• morning. <'laxti n an I hi- four | a’s ’ are still in t c swamp. It seems cer- ! tain that they will be lynched. I tide *>»m Speaks. A PR«L a mation was is-ued Monday afternoon b, the < o nmi-sioners of the D-u ict of < olnmbia warning Coxey's m- n and the entire army of the discontented that i: is useless t • go to Washingt n, as t. ere i- no work there, and Congie*s cannot l> • forced t » mak-* laws by their phys ical presence. Thi* proclamation means much more than appears upon the -urfae It wa* not is-ued until a t r a proh ng.sl interview with the Pn *ide;it. hi* t abinet. the District t < mmi-sioner*. and t.e Chief of the metropolitm police. It indilate; clearly what the attitude of the President is to b‘ in the event that Coxey's army or any oth» r I shall atte n; t to violate the laws es , the District. There can be no ques- ■ tion tha* P the lluu-i**— “*•• — ——r ^———■» «i» hi ■«U -h lav ad pn»»<^rVr Hie jwjr .—tfi • I resident will ! < ome to their aid with th • force at his ‘ disposal. The < ity of Washington will le protected and Con;ress will not be intimidate L I it Mx An* Dend. Fk<>m the latest information to be had at Monterey. ( al . it i- known that jat lea-t six live- w> re lost Ir *m the ship Lor Ange < *. which -truck on tho |ro k* off I olnt Snr. Three Mes have Is en cast ui» n the b ach near tue lighthouse. It is beliexed tba‘ later re ort* will reveal a -till grea er In-,-of life. The steamer Lo* Anodes ! bn- settle I Le’.ow the surface of t e | water, Nt thing can I»e rave l. There > w.i* no inmranc ! upon the ves el or ,he • a - go, which is e timated to b- , worth 11 111 ij i I>en<i. .L -- SKLb.MXN, of J. iS. Seligman tank.'', of New York and L ndon, died at Hotel del < oronado in ( alifomu, from pneumonia and Br ght's ills-a-e. H - went to Cor<n tio direct from N't v. York with hi* wife and I daughter. IL* condition had bo onto *«» *e iou* on hi- a rival that all the nu-mIM-rs es his family wee telegraphe i for, bat he di d before tl cir arrival. p »v C lear* a I oarUin * Purr Wavm. Ino., is having a stnad-[»ox scare, the first case s nee I*’. • ha', i- g dovelo: cl. Th ■ । atient is Ceorgiria B< ml. the • -xcar-oi l daughter of -teph.'u D. Bond, She is -n- -: po-ed to have contrite c i the disea* - at j ( cieiaml- Her homo is In the mo t I fashionable b- ardiug house in the city. • uh i th<‘ Inijird "is. v th the e><* ‘ptiou BREVITIES. A WIND-STORM reir Kok-mo, Ind., did 52",0» o amag • to farm b Hidings. The Michigan militia will encamp at Island Lake, near Brighton, on Aug. 14. An epidem’c of measles is throitened at the State Normal Schoo] < f Indiana There are I.l(H> young men and women attending thesch >ol. T«>es* ate imprisonment on an unsatlsficd peace bond of F 0 ’. M s. Eli leu Eorthman made a desperate but : iin*uev ssful attempt tocommit suicide 1 under the wheel* of i n tlectric ear in ' St. Louis. Patrick J. St LLtV \N was hanged at San cueutin. Cai., for wife murder. The Mui cic. Ind.. Pulp Company ha* seeur d a verdict for sls? (D against the National Eilter Company of New York for damages t * stock through defective filtration in the plaintiffs' mi!'. Henry Bitter, en route to Brooklyn Penitentiary, e eaped from the train a’ South Port mouth. Ohio. Ho was under life sentence for six train robberies in Arkansa*. There is uo : clew to his method of escape. In deciding the complaint of A. W. I Wishard to set aside the Legislative apportionment in Indiana of I 10, Judge Brown, of the Circuit Court at Indianapolis, su-tained the demurrer of tho State, holding that it was not j within the jurisdiction of the court to review the action of the Legislature.

। THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Onr National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Xarions Measures Proposed, Discussed and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. w The llouso devoted the in ire day Wednesday to debate on tbe consular and diplomatic appropriations bill It touched a wide variety of subjects and at times Was brimful of interestin’ personalities. The Hawaiian policy of the present administration came in for a [ rood share of attention. The ap- | pointment of N t Van Alen as minister to Italy provoked a very extended discussion. The lilll authorizing the erection of a stone bridge acr >ss the St. Louis River, between Minnesota and Wisconsin, passed the tenalc. The venerable Senator Morrill, of Vermont, spoke < n the tariff, as did also Senators Turple, Cameron, and Quay. Mr. Harris, at 5:10 p. m., moved an executive session and it wa* agreed to. and at 6:30 the Senate adjourned. The day In the Senate Thursday was almost entirely consume I Ly a speed* against the pending tarUT bill by Senator Verkins, ot Callfiunla. Hut littlcs V>ix**ii»e»*s4 wuh ’ %ratti**«*«• t®<! Clui-inx tlio mornlHg l»oxir. * dgrccineiit of the Senate to tl»«? report of the conference committee on the urgent deUciencv bill being the most important. The Peffer resolution for the appointment es a committee on communications for the purpose of hearing the grievance* of Coxey’s army was debated by Senators Spooner and Al en, both of whom favored it. but it went over without action by the expiration of the morning hour. At 5 o’clock eulogies were pronounced on the late lieprt.se itative W. H. Enochs, of Ohio, after which the Senate at 5:15 adjourned. The House 1* making very slow irotre-s with the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill Almost the entire day was devoted to thrashing over the old straw In the Hawaiian controversy. After 4 o’clock half the membership of the House suddenly fade! away to alt-nd the opening ball game of the season, and when this act was observed Mr. Canr.c i carried the committee of the whole to a vote oa an amendment to prevent tae increase of the salary of the Mexican Secretary of Legation. The Den.ocrats were unable to produce a quorum, an*! after a roll call the Ib use adjourned. Tiiere was a passage at arms, figuratively -peakin;', between Representatives Burrows ami Wheeler Friday. Mr. Wheeler was taunted with talking four columns of the Congressional Reco: i in precisely one minute and retorted that protest came with had grace from one whose hands -were red with parliamentary murder.” Mr. Burrows recalled a previous example of Mr. Wheeler’s fluency, a speech that occupied five minutes in the delivery having taken up fourteen columns of the Record. A motion was made to refer the subject to the Committee on Printing, but Mr. Wheeler cried quit* by asking leave to withdraw bls remarks. Outside vt this episode the proceedings were very uninteresting. I ra■ tically no business was transacted. Under the rules. It being Friday, the day was devoted to business on the private calendar. Three small, unimportant bills were passed, and the rest of the day was spent in the fruitless discussion of a bill lo settle some Tennessee war claims against the Government amounting to 122.000. It was fnally ended when Mr. Enloe made the po nt of no quorum on a motion to re’ommit the bill. Tho evening session was devoted to pension business. Tt.c Senate talked tariff. In the Senate, Monday, Mr. Washburn s. oka three and a halt hours, and at the conclusion of his speech, at 4:3-. Senator I»olph delivered another ins aliment of .r-i-inO ^A.*- trTol too hour for closing the tariff debate had arrived. and some dlseu-sion a* to tho intent of the agreement ensued. Senator Gray for the Democrats maintaining that it was not intended to shut off tariff debate at 5 o,clock, but to prevent any other business from coming in between 1 and 5 o’clock The Republicans declined to go on. and at 5;02, on motion of Senator Harri*, the Senate went Into executive session, and at 5:20 the doer- were reopened and the Senate adjourned. The House devoted the entire dav to business from the Committee on the District of Columbia- Two bills were acted upon. The ■ fir-t. which was passed, was a bill extendIlng the time allowed the Metn Wlitau Street Railroad Company, of Ma«h!®ton. to change its motive power The Yther । bill was one t<> permit bookmakln ’ at the j regular spring and fall meetings of tho jockey clut - and drl' in: park* of the District of Columbia. The bill wa* defeated by *7 to 63. 'lhe Uou-e then, at 5 o’clock, adjourned. On I nesday the Senate listened to Mr. Mills, who spoke at length upon the tariff. The close of Mr. Mill-’ speeeh was greeted Iy a hearty round of applau*e. It had been expected that the speech would be n uch longer. It ccn-un.ed just two hours ind I fte :n minute- The Republicans, wlr expe ted the I'er ; oerat* would consutne the entire day. were n-*t prepared to gi> * Accordingly, on motion of Mr. Harri*, tl * Senate went into executive se*- ’ sh’ii at :2 p. m-. and at 4:19 adjourned. Tho H u-e re-umed consideration of the postoff.ee appropriation bill The pending a- • ndment t > strike out the appropriation for the fast Southern mail v- as defeated. An’’amendment providing a limitation < ( ten years upon the payment of money order*, and for the destruction i f l ouey order file* at the end of that time, was adopted. Mr. Quigg opp s<-d an amendment making all publlcai t ons purporting to be issued periodically ..ml t- sir— r; , rs *u! oct t postage at i third class rates when transmitted jthrugh the malls The amendment ' affects Seaside Library publications and JI- .ik- 'reprints given a* premiums ! with country newspaper subscripit- • - ■ te. Mr. Pi.-sler, t whom Mr. ' ,'i.igg yielded a portion of his time, cp- : ; -e*l the amendment in the interest of cheap literature f r the farmers. Mr. Hopkin*, Mr. Daniels. Mr. Bingham, and Mr. O'Neill al*o made speeches against the amendment ‘ The amendment, on a vote, was stricken from the bill—2o to I*3. Remarkable Case of Treason. A new form of hiffh tr ms m will soon be dealt with in the German courts. A voung man at Erfurt went before th© doctor* and wa* exam ued for compulsory military service. They found his | body ta’t oed with seditious sentiments, which a:c described as imulti injr to the Emperor. Across his breast. I for instance, ive e the wo ds: “Down t with tyrant*.’’ The authorities placed i the voune *< c.ali*t under arrest and 1 he is awaiting trial. The Production of Iron. The pro suction of iron in thiscoun- ' try is increasinp aster in proporticn ' than the increase in popu ation. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The art of turning wood was invented by the Greeks. More people die in spring than in I any of the seasons. The moss roe wa- well known in Europe before 1724. Foreigners took t>3 per cent, of the World’s Fair prizes. A <xX>fers‘ union wa* formed at Weihenslephan in 1146. ’ Beloium was the first country to male hypnotism a crime.