St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 May 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - INDIANA IT IVAS INCENDIARY. PROOF THAT THE TABERNACLE WAS SET ON FIRE. Tremendous Blaze at Boston Does Great Damage ami Kuin# Homes-British Coal to Supply Shortage— G. A. R. Eneampmeat a Grand Success. Was Set on Fire. The belisf that the destruction of the Brooklyn Tabernacle was cause 1 by an incendiary is growing to an almost absolute ceitainty in Brooklyn. A son of Thomas G. Shearman, the lawyer, furnished a clew. He informed the police that Charles Coogan, an insurance man in New York, has told him that his son, who had been with him at the morning service in the Tabernacle Sunday morning, had said he saw a man in the loft among the organ । ipes during the service. Henry Browne, the o. ganist of the Taberuaele, said th ,t he aLo heard somebody moving about the organ pipes while the service was in progre s. Another meeting Os the trustees of the Tabernacle win held at the ievidence of Dr. Talmage. The statement was made that after a complete financial settlement there would still remain about $30,00! to th * credit of the Ta erna.de fund. No definite action was taken concerning the rebuilding of the Tabernacle. Boston's Fearful Blaze. A CIGARETTE butt tin own into a pile of waste paper under the bleachers or 25-cent seats in the Boston base-ball grounds Tuesday afternoon started a lire which destroyed more than 140 buildings occupying about sixteen acres o' land in the crowded tenement-house sectit n of the south end. The monev loss is i 609/00, and in all other respects the conflagration is the most terrible that Boston has seen since fifty acres were burned over in 1872, for more that »O families are homeless, and they are the kind of families who seldom indulge in the luxury of fire insurance. All the buddings on the following entire streets are in ashes: Burke. Coventry, Walp de. Sarsfield, all parallel: alf of Berlin street, four blocks on each side of Tremont street, three blocks on each side of Cabot street, three blocks on the west side of Warwick street, and two blocks on the north side of Newburn street. Besides the lit tel Walpole two apartment hi uses on Sterling stieet were burned, three on Western street, two on Hammond l’a-k. two on Windsor street, and all those on Yendlay place. A Grand Army Success. At the opening of the national encampment, G. A. K., at Rockford. 111., fifty thousand people saw 2,10 i soldiers march by with the same preci ion that marked the dress parades of thirty odd years ago, and the demon^^«t"ation was pronounced the most sucof the kind ever held in the Rockford never before saw such a crowd, and may not see another lik < it for many a year. M n of national prominence were there to be cheered by the enthusiastic thousands who lined the streets, and a stirring feature 1 was the review of the procession by 5,000 school children. Altogether it was a memorable day that will find a p'ae • in Rockford’s archives. I ve”ythine was well managed, so that there were no awkward hitches t > mar the proceedings. Coil from 1 nj’an 1. There have been 50,000 tons of linglish and Nova Scotia coal sold to arrive in New York, a porti n of wh ch has already been shippel from Cardiff. Liverpool and Glasgow, and from Sidney. Nova Scotia. The co-t is within fifty cents per ton of the ordinary price of soft steamer coal delivered at New York. The bulk of this has been taken by the companies supplying stea nets to till their contracts. There are negotiations on foot for the purchase of 100,000 tons mope to be delivered here between the Ist and 10th of June by the same parti s for the same purpose. From this fact it is inferred that the coal companies int md fighting the strike to the finish. NEWS NUGGETS. Madeline Pollard is in New York under an assumed name for the purpose of consulting the publisher of her bock. Lillian Russell and her hu-ban I. Sig. Perugini. who is known in private a- John Chatterton, have agreed t > separate, after four months of wedded bliss and spats. SOME ch thing and a part of a wrecked eatboat were 'ound on Thompson’s Island and an investigation indicates that a boat hired bv four Tlar-vnt-d Suilotil ■ was overturned and u’l of them iln wned. Right Honorable A. J. Mtn dell.'. I president of the British Board <f I Trade, has resigned because of disclosures in connection with the New Zealand Land Comp my. of which he had been a director. San Salvador advices say General Joaquin Lopez, who displa. el great bravery at the battle of Cha’ichuana, has I can ordered to take command in Sonsonate, where it is thought the rebels will make their last stand. The greater part of Santa Ana is destroyed. The rebels there are said to be surrounded. President Ezeta has returned and turned over the command of the army to his brother Antonio, who is still suffering from wound-. In a battle between Tuareges and Tibboos in Central Soudan the latter lost seventy men. The Great Northern trouble, which threatened another strikeo i that road, has been settled by arbitrators, who decided in favor of the employes. At Green River. Wyo., on advice of President Clark it was decided not to risk destruction of the Union Pacific’s property in an attempt to check the industrials’ train and the project to block Green River bridge with loaded cars and engines was abandoned.

eastern. Half the people of Norway, Me., a town of 3.0 0 inhabitants, are homeless in consequence of a conflagration that swept over the place. Two firemen were painfully injured by falling from ladders while fighting the fire, and the hev. Mr. Rideqyt had his shoulder broken. The loss will be about $239,OOo’ UP ° n wllich lhc insurance is $139,1 IF, the big man-killing elephant at Central Park, New York, who had killed nine men, became so dangerous that it was decided to kill him. Poisoning by cyanide of potassium was the moans, but for a long time the big brute re acted carrots and apples in which it had been placed. Finally h s accepted balls of wet bran which were 1< aded with the deadly stuff, and in twelve minutes he was a dead e'ephant. Talmage's great Brooklyn Tabernacle is gore. It was swept away Sunday. as the two preceding tabernacles had been swept away, by a tiro of mysterious origin—a tire so " stirring and sensational in the time of its starting, in the lightning-like rapidity of its spread, in the nu newness of escapes of human life, in the inefficiency of the Brooklyn Fire Department, and in the destruct ion which it spread through a tine residential quarter for blocksjiround, that, its ] arallel has never been known. The total loss will be clos;> to $2,000,000. Dr. Talmage had just finished his farewell address, prior to going upon a European tour. The barrel house at Emery’s refinery in Bradford, Pa., took tire Sunday ; afternoon, presumably by spontaneous ; combustion, and was do-troyed. While the tiremen were making a final stand and thousands of people were watching them there was a t on endous explosion A tank rar holding 4.100 gallons of benzine had let go with a nrghty nar. Fortuna’ely tho burning I e .zine, which was flung into the air in sheets of liquid tire, bad consumed itself before settling down ' over the crowd. The explosion was ! followed by a panic that cannot be de- | scribed. In the stamjiede men a- well । as women and children were thrown ; down and trodden over by the flying ' masses that surged up from behind. Thirty-five of the firemen were burned so that the skin ] eelod off their faces and hands and the hair was singed off their heads and faces. of the many others who are slightly burned there is no record and the number of the in- i jured in the stampede will probably reach 100 persons. With ail the suffering this fire will cause the property loss will not exceed $5.( 0 *. WESTERN. The new Fire and Police Board of Denver has ordered that all gambling- i houses and lottery shops be do—-d. The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis freight h* u-o in columbus, Ohio, was burned. Loss *» \d o, Mrs. Mary F. Lease, who w.t* threatened by a crank, is suffering from nervous prostration at Kansas City. Assistant Secretary H amlin, of the Treasury, it is said, is going to San Francisco to personally inve-tigate charges of wholesale fraud in the custom house there. W. A. Latimer ha# l#-en apj ointed j receiver of the failed First National ■ Bank of Sedalia. He will resign as National Rank Examine and • nter upon his new due- a- < n . Nine urre-ts w< r* n.a ■■ a' WL ar, Minn., by deputy Unit*': Sta'v- marshals on a charge of .n'< rfering with the United States mail- Warrant- ar<out 'or thearres; of '■ :i oth- r County Clerk M. s. Bi rr, *4 Kansas City, Mo., re-igned his t-flic ■ in i preference to fu ni.-hu g an increased: | b< nd. as ordered by the court when alleged shortage in hi- ac mints wa- I being investigated. Tur. Grand Jury at San i ram i-eo i investigating the Ueople’- Hem - Sav- , Ings Bank case ordered indictments against Director- Hiram T. Graves, i ( harles Montgomery, A. 1- Jenkin, and R 11. McDonald.' Jr. A ULOUDHUKsr at Stillwater, Minn., Wednesday, -wept through the business part of the city, and in the twinkling of an eve damage to the extent of a million dollars had ben d>» r , to street- and buildings. One man wakilled. The system of confining mure than < ne prisoner in a -ing’e cell resulted in a bloody tragedy at the Bridewell in Chicago. George Dunlap, a prisoner.! liecan.e suddenly insane and with a cell bucket pounded to death his cellmate, James Maher. Night Watchman John Farley narrowly escaped sharing th*' fate’ of tho unf< rtun ite Maher. Only the timely arrival of ; two dip t’es pievented the maniac, from braining Farlev. THROUGH passenger train No. 24 of the Illinois Central, north-bound, was ; wrecked at Buckley, 111. Engineer | Samuel Edgerb' wa- in-tantly killed. The engine was derailed and turned on ! its side ami s vera 1 c f the I a gage ' car- and coaclies were derailed None of th-- pas—mg'Ts were injured severely. although they were all shaken up 1 and bruised in the am-ident. Aside from the engineer none of the train- ! men were killed. The fireman sus- I tained severe injuries. Ix the trial of the wreckers of the I Indianapolis National Bank the Gov- ; eminent introduced a letter from the ' Controller of the < ’urrency to Haughey, . the President of the bank, dated m ! ISSS, and ordering the doors closed un- I less their affairs were placed on a sub- | stantial basis at once and the laws i obeyed. The left r was a scathing le- j buke. and show ed that nine years ago I the bank was rotten to the core and I had not a dollar behind it. Haughey’s I reply to this letter was also produced, * in which he pleaded for mercy and the bank was allowed to continue in business under protest. The letter produced a sensation. Ex-Attorney General Miller created a stir in the ranks of the Government's attorneys by stating that he would show that Cashier Rexford never swore to the report made to the Controller of the Currency just prior to the failure of the bank. If true, this will knock out some of the counts in the indictment. THE secret of the many sporadic outbreaks in towns far from Chicago, the stronghold of small-pox, is out at last.

7^°, Is transmitted ~bv V>m product of the sweat-shona sentatives of the State d RepreHealth ot nil„ ol , diana and the United Stateß Hospital Service have been on ground, and find clothingprocess of manufacture for’ wholesalers, in many sweat-sh where there are ca>es of smaU-Ws ni ? (i the g<>, d s are sent out wit} I slightest fumigation. The manuffle turer? have been asked to meet W' healt.i representatives, and unlys® tIM ake step* for tWr 6w5 £ ®c® their goods will be barred out of S dering States Furthermore, u n ß the local health department shows^B' ethcii ncy by at one? stamping jtj i-malhox the Lni ed States Gove® ment will bo called upon undeCongres. to take hold of the situate in Chicago. Another gushe- was st tick in (9 Neodesha, Kan., oil fields. A chatio of sixty quarts of nitro-glycerine tee lowered into the Theodore Johans well. 5,50 f t et deep, followed by a fifteen pound go-devil, which exploded nitro-glycerine charge, and the k'ASe sigtit wa - on. For fully fifteen minimi J the oil was thrown many feet alAs the ton of the seventy-four-foot p>ve rick and continued to flow at inter|W’' until a stream of oil fully eight iro-’# B deep was flowing through a rarW 6 leailing from tho well. Work on storage tanks hns begun and is nuvhed vigorously. Soide" of sB?”* have a capacity of‘4o,(X)) barrels.® Capt. McGrath, of the free ery department of the <'hica^^ a«toffice. is using every effort to ca^h a bold thief who has rifled postal litter : I boxes of hundreds of valuable liters within the last few days. The thief is i a shrewd one, and the authorities are ! a* far removed from him a- ever. In i some unaccountable way the ief has secured jh ssession of a Yale kev to the street letter boxes, and, dress* d in the full unif* rm of a letter carrier, has tqanaged for a few days to carry on his thievery w ithout -u-pieion. The district# in which this bogu- collector operated, and perhapis still operating, include that in the i business center—a rich field for thieves of hi- kind The discovery I that such work was going on was made ! when various authorized collectors ■ opened the l»oxes at proper intervals of time and found that their usual contribution- were either missing entirely or had been roduc -d by the robbery of everything except circulars and other communications not appearing to eontain anything which promis* d cash returns. A fight took place at North Yakima, Wa-h., l>etween Marsha’s and Coxeyit»s. Deputy Marshals Chidester and Jolliek. of Tacoma, wore shot: the latter may die. Twenty shots were tiri-d in the melee. Messrs. Savage, Weaver and McAdoo, ail Seattle citizens. received flesh wound# from revolver -hot-. “Buck,” a Seattle < oxey-! ite. who wa- the loade • of the crowd, had two fingers broken with a club, i Di-patche- -ay that great excitement reign** in Yakima The fight wa# the result of a determination on the jairt of th*- < o.i* v men t > m t leave attain which had I--on held by them there. The doputb - determined to taka the train, and charge 1 on the crowd । The industrials swarmed over the train and outnutnlierei the. M»r* -hala, so that tho latter g<M| o U P > after two attempts to ou-t tbeTk rn )J-, and steamrul liack to YakMaß miles from the sc*»u" of Htw se if flo. and sldo-tracked. Tho Uoxeifff 1 . retreated, breaking a owR. h an> I* ing reck# * n the track, but aftor> ttr d removed thorn A- •*«>n a- theWCht u .<> • t!, r* *w il the , > .: o io 1 * ■ tua-s an attempt t© di-’.* dg*- them. The t ain l*ucked into -* lah .'-tatum. Adjutant Filling of Seattle went to Yakima from Ellen—bur.- later on rrM demanded foixi and shelter f*>r the army. The City Council i gia-.D ?he army b-avc t > sleep in the : city ha ’.. and f<»*i wa- given them. SOUTHERN. The independent cotton seed oil men ' of T'-xa- have organized the Cotton-s.-tui Cru-bers' Association, to fight the trust. John Por ,er,anlzarxl County,Ark., farmer, tried to ford Strawberry River with a wagon. His wfe and three children were drowned. AT Newport and Covingt *n Ky., three hundred union carpenters struck bu*“ause of tho refusal of emplovers to pay the union scale. Tw* hundred more are exj ected to come out. lx a shooting scrape tietween police and Unite! States soldier.- at Rio Grande < ity. Texas, one of the latter and an innocent bystander were killed. Ti e ofl eer- were trying to arrest live soldiers for carrying pistols. The five comj anies of Alabama State troops w. re ordere 1 to report at their armories in Birmingham. A 1 dispatch say-: People talk of the situation with l*ate l breath. Arro 3 > of striker- near Pratt City attempted to wreck a number of coal cars, an I were only prevented from aecomplish- | ing their en I*. avors bv shots from th,' guards. A number of shots were oxl changed. J WASHINGTON. £ REi'KEsr.xriATi ve Bynum, of Indiana. has introduced a bill in Congress for pensions at the rale of 1 cent . . per day for each day of service. All the bills for the extermination of the Russian thistle that have been I pending in the House Committee on Agriculture have been renorted adi ver-ely. I Some attention will soon lie given by ' j tho House Committee on Pensions to 1 j the ( umming- bill granting pensions to I certain persons in the life-saving I service. Representative Alexander, of I North < arolina. has reported to the House from the Committee on Agriculture the joint resolution introduced Ly Representative Heard, requesting ' tho President to cause correspondence and negotiations to be had with Great Britain for the purpose of securing the abrogation or modification of the regulations by which cattle imported into Great Britain from the United States are le ,uired to be slaughtered at the port of entry. A Washington dispatch says that the reduction of the treasury gold below $94,000,000 has started a new spec- ! ulation as to a new bond issue. The :

temper of Congress is such that no legislation is expected on financial measures, so it leaves the Secretary with no discretion except to use the means the law gives him by selling bonds to replenish the treasury when it is depleted of gold. So far no steps looking toward a bond issue have been taken, and if the gold output ceases n °r o - necessary, but among well-informed treasury officials, if the pre-ent conditions continue, a bond issue in the near future is looked upon as almost unavc idable. FOREIGN,' | British House of Common?, ■ Rosebery’s government had a narrow . e cape from defeat, when a motion to > reject the budget was defeated bv a vote of 308 to 294. lENthou-and jierson? are reported > killed by an earthquake in Venezuela. | The cities of Merida. Laguni'.la*. Chi- > quara and San Juan and many villages ‘ are reported destroyed. The St. Petersburg police have ro- , cently made wholesale capture’, of nihiti t?, 100 being arre ted in a batch. Some of the capture! nihilists confess e! that they had accomplices in London and Pari-. Striking miners made a desperate attack upon a detachment of gendarmes who were guarding a colliery iu Tolhh Gatrau. w ith the object of uriving away the uion who wore at work. The rioter# were warned to di - perse, but insteak of doing so they began jilting the police officers with , stones, wounding a miml>er of them. ■ The gendarmes, after a last warning. I opened fire upon the rioters, killing | nine of them and wounding twenty others. The mob then fled in all dl- ‘ rections, threatemng to return in arger numlie: s and avenge the death I of their comrades. The Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry As- | quith, Secretary of State for home affairs. was married in St. George’s Church, London, at neon Thursday, to Mi.-s Margot Tennant, daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, of Glasgow. The ceremony was a most brilliant affair, i Ten chi dten a* t d as bridesmaids, I Among them were Mis- Violet Asquith, daughter of Mr. Asquith by a former marriage; Mi— Dorothy Drew, grand daughter of Mr. Gladstone: and Mi-s ' Muriel White, daughter of Henry White, formerly Secretary of the . United States Legation. Richard 1 Burdten Halden, M. P., was best man. The ceremony was performed by tho j Bishop of Rochester in the presence of a company of the beM-known people *>f London. Tho pro-ent# to the bride wore numerous and costly. IN GENERAL The Coaintess of Glasgow, wife of the G ivernor * f New Zealand, ha# arrived at San Francisco on the way to England. Rate-cutting in the tran-atlantie stecragff budne-s ha# carried the price of passage from London to Now York to 112.50. The May cotton report, as consolidated by the stat stician of tho Department of Agriculture, show* the prop rtion of the prop, *ed breadth already planted on the Ist of May was i *1,6 j#»r et*nt . against 8*.3 p?r cent. • last year, which i» a little over four point# h>w.'F than the amount usually plant- dat that «lat ■ The rej orto 1 |na* l>n j»>int < t., n; a on <>' 1. * per । cent, les* than 'a-' y<-ar. The club- of tho National an 1 Western leagues stand as follows in the * ham; i nship ra e: I er Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. <Te»elan i» It « * New YorMs io J .‘8 italtlmvre .» * • »<rv*>klru» 8 11 .5i I* tt»bur<e IS C St. ROUIB . #ll .4 1 PbUaleh * * T i t ulca^oe ' 13 ,'.?t Boatoua 11 * .'"9 Loulevltlea 5 li .27# Clactanatl • * SJ, WaehlnzUn 3 H -U3 IwEsrin- lg tee oambs. Per Per W L. cent. W. L. cent. Toledo* . u 6 .sc# Mlnne’pTla ' 8 .*47 sloui City * 5 .>'43 Indian v'le 7 11 .*3 <»rd Rapl'DU 7 Mllwa'kees 4 * .333 Kansas C'v 8 7 .533 Detroit#. 5 13 .278 Internationa!, comp ications may re-.lit from the capture of an American tishmg party off Pe’.eo Island by the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel. The party consiste i > f forty g ntlemen fr> m I ineinnati. Dayton. Springfield, Ohio, and Decatur, fll., wh * were on board two American tug-, the Vi-itor and Leroy Ibooks, and were fishing f,r black bass. The vessels were dismantled. placed in charge of an armed crew and towed to Amherstburg, Ont. The gentlemen were afterward released. Great excitement and bitter feeling is felt on the island against the Canadian < ttieiais for this insult. MARKET reports. CHICAGO. Cattle-Common to Prime.... S 3 .’0 4 73 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 ru 5 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3 <Xj i<i 4 75 Wheat-No. 2 Red. 57 .a 68 , Corn—No. 2 . as iS 33 Oats—No. 2 34 •*« 5 Rte—No. 2 46 si Butter—Choice Creamery 15 * 16 ; Egos—Fresh 9 eS 10 ; Potatoes—Per bu 70 3 80 INDIANAPOLIS. i Cattle—Shipping 3 00 4 50 Hogs—Choice Light 4 00 g 5 25 Sheep—Common to Prime 2CO i<s 4 00 I Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 54 I corn-No. 2 White. to'. e 41^ (Oats — No. a White 08 <4 88*5 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 4 50 Hogs 3 00 5 25 I Wheat-No. 2 Red 53 54 I Corn—No. 2 ?8 39 ' Oats—No. 2 36 37 Rye—No. 2 49 ® 51 CINCINNATI. ! Cattle 2 50 @ 4 50 Hogs 4 00 vi 5 23 SHEEP 2 I*’ A4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red :... '4 ~t 54-> , Corn—No. 2 42 @ 43 ! Oats—Mixed 40 ej 41 I Rye—No. 2 53 c? 55 DETROIT. I Cattle 2 50 4 50 Hogs 4 00 ,k 5 25 ! Sheep 200 (.? 4 50 I M heat—No. 2 Red 56 5; ! 2 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ 43 ; Oats—No. 2 White 38*6^ 39 1 - I TOLEDO. I Wheat—No. 2 Red 56 ® 57 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40b> <5 41'4 Oats—No. 2 White 37 3s " Rye—No. 2 49 (<5 51 „ BUFFALO. Beef Cattle ITI me Steers... 300 ®4 75 I M heat—No. 2 White co 61 ! Corn—No. 2 Yellow 43 44 Oa .s—No. 2 White 40 «a 40>4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 56 @ 57 Cohn—No. 3 #3 @ 39 Oats—No. 2 6hite 36 @ 37 Barley-No. 2 5) 55 Rye—No. 1 49 (rt 5 0 PORK—Mess 12 (Ml (Ul2 50 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 75 H°GS 3 75 @ 5 75 Sheep... 3 00 @475 M HEAT—No. 2 Re-d 61 ( a 6*1., Corn—No- 2.. 44 ( * - Oats—Mixed Western 39 @ 41 ! Butter—Best 14 @ 17 i Fobs—. Hess 13 75 25

COAL DIGGERS MEET, BIG CONVENTION OF MINERS AT CLEVELAND. No Talk of a Compromise with the Operators Considered-New York Murderer Shocked to Death—Congress Cutting Close to the Bone. Strikers Are Firm. Every train arriving in Cleveland Monday brought delegates to attend the miners’ convention, and a number of mine operators were also early on the ground. While it has been’said the Pittsburg district o; erators have been insisting right along that their men a e willing to work at 55 tents a ton if they could I e asmred protection, it was not long after the miners arrived before it became apparent that, so far as the delegates represent the feelings of the strikers, the men are not at all willing to return for the same wages. Secretary P. J. Mcßryde voiced the sentiments of a go d many delegates when he answered a suggestion as to a compromise. “No, sir,” he said; “we d d not come here for a compromise and thus far we have no such word in our vocabulary. Nothing short of what we ask will give the miners living wages, and for that we ■ contend. We can hold out f. r three months, but we have no desire to do so. For that reason we came to this conference.” Mr. Mcßryde would rot for a moment consider the effect of settlement in different Realities without reference to what is done elsewhere. “The only condition under which work will he resumed,’’ he continue I, “is a settlement for all the States, as was originally announced.” The declaration means that the miners and the operat ts of the Pittsburg district are as far apart as j ossible. Economy of the House. A Washington dispatch says that the tendency toward economy in appropriations has been so great that grave fear is expressed that the result may be trouble from some of the tribes, us well as a crippling of the service, unlees the Indian appropriation bill is amended before it passes. Representative Wilson, of Washington, has been investigating ihe subje t. and he is prepare 1 to show tne II use that the cuts on the Ind an service go to the b ne. The cut on the Apache Indians from $125,(M0 to $ 0.0 C will necessitate a reduction next year of 1,000,000 pounds of beef and 3 *,* <D jiounds of flour. It is his opinion. ba ed on the authority of those in the service, that this cut on so d is likely to leal to trouble from the Apaches. It will also be slu wn that the Indian police service will le made inefficient. The pay of the officers and private# amounts to $115.5(0, the police cost at contract price $21,4(K) and the ration* $5,060. From this it will b; urge-i that the police service cannot l>e kept efficient at the proposed figure. The cut of $213,0 ) 0 on Indian schools will l>e opposed as an cml a rassment to the educational part of the service at a time when incr* a*ed attendance is showing the good effects of the policy of educating the Indian*. There are many «ther sjecific items which will las pointed out as likely to cripple the service and cause mutterings and possible uprisings among the Indians. BREVITIES. Tin: drug !:rm of Spaeth A Studley, the oldest in I.a Porte. Ind., failed, with liabilities of $4,G00 and assets of ss.<$ s .< ot. AT U nne’lsville, Ind.. Fred Wagner wa- fatally inju:ed by a bursting grindstone, which kn: eked him twenty feet through a door. The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Arkansas has appropriated ?s,<>M for a national Pythian home and sani* i tarium at Ho: Sp -ing*. While suffering from delirium tremens, J. M. Payde, a merchant of Unulafina. Ala., ; um; ed from a window of a hotel at Montgomery and was killed. Isham Eugene Byars, ccnvi- ted at Birmingham, Ala., of murdering his cousin, Eugene Walker, an army officer. has been sentenced to be hanged June 22. The body of a man supposed to le Prof. Anton Stamm, one of the editors

of the Encyclopedia Britannica was found hanging to a tree in Central Park. New York. Joseph M. Glick, a leading Ashland. Pa., politician anl Republican candidate for sheriff, committed suicide by shooting him-elf with a i evol ver. The deed was prompted by financial troubles. Lucius P. Wilson died in the electrocution chair at the Auburn. N. Y., penitentiary. Monday. At his own request he was photographed in his cell. Wison was executed for the murder of Detective Harvey July 31. 1*93, in Syracuse. Harvey was shot through the head as he was attempting the arrest of Wilson and his brother for burglary. , Four of the body of industrials which I started down the Yakima River from I Ellensburg, Wash., in a boat, were drowned by the capsizing of the craft, which became unmanageable in an eddy. Twenty-one men escaped with a drenching. An ther collision took place between deputy marshal and North Yakim i Wash. <•< mmonwealers, and two of the latter are now confined at the hospital, suffering from gun-shot wounds. William Phillips, a United Brethren preacher, lost his life while cleaning out a well at his home near Leatherwood. Ind., being overcome by choke damp. His brother came near sharing ’ the same fate while attempting his icsi ue. At Keokuk. lowa. J. S. Dygraff. an insurance agent, killed his divorced wife, shooting her five times. Hethen turned the revolver on himself, inflicting injuries from which he scon died. Tuey hal but recently lieen divorced. Female students will hereafter l>e admitted to the University of Vi- ginia. Major B injamin F. Worrell, who was dismissed from the treasury de] artment last January after seventeen years'service. committed suicide on the Capitol grounds at Washington.

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE« SENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What Thej; Are Doing for the Good of the Country—, Various Measures Proposed, Discussed; and Acted Vpon. j Doings of Congress. Tho senate continued Wedaeiday to entangle Itself in the amendments to tho tariff bill. The House passed the bill to authorize the East St. Louis and St. Louis Bridge and Construction Company to build a bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Mr. Springer, of the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported favorably hi# biil to suspend ihe 10 per cent tax on State hank issues during money stringencies, andgave notice that he would call It up a week later. Mr. Cox gave notice of an amendment to repeal tor all time the 10 per cent tax. The House tbenj went Into committee of the v. hole on the naval appropriation bill. It bav* Ing been agreed to limit debate to seven, hours, each side to have half. Mr Meikle-i John stated that at the proper time he would offer an amendment providing that if the damage sustained bv the Government fiom the subatltution by the Carnegie Company of fraudulent plates exceeded the sum of JIIO.OOO. the amount of the damage should be recovered from thee mpany. * Mr. Pendleton replie Ito the charge that s the President was Influenced by the publl-, , cation of Andrew Carnegie's letter favorIng tarltt reform. one would "believe that Mr. Cleveland would tliink a letter ( from Mr. Carnegie on the tariff question f was worth $140,000 or would be worth any - sum at all. After some discussion the com- - rnittee rose and the Hcu*e at *;3O ad- . journed. John Patton. Jr., the new Senator from ’ Michigan, was sworn In Thursday to succeed the late Senator Stockbridge. The ’ Senate devoted Its time to discussion of the amended tariff bill. ’* be emblems of mourning covered the desk of the late Representative Robert F. Brattan, of Maryland, on which lay a bunch of roses when ihe House met. Ihe message of the President transmitting Hawaiian correspondence was laid before the House. Some routine business was transacted, and .Mr. Kern called up the House bill for resurvey of Grant and Hooker Counties, Nebraska, and asked unanimous consent for Its consideration. The bill was passed. The House bill granting the railroad companies in Indian Territory additional powers to obtain right of way for depot grounds was passed. Mr. Talbot briefly announced tl.e death of bis colleague, Mr. Bruttan, and offered the customary resolutions. The resolutions were adopted, and the Speaker appointed the following cemmittee to attend the funeral- Messrs. Talbot, of Maryland. Jones, of Virginia; Causey, of Delaware: Berry, of Kentucky; Meyer, of Louisiana; Hepburn, of lowa, and Hudson, of Kansas. The House then, at 12:39 p m., adjourned. Friday, after a ; rosy debate and agreeing that hereafter for an indefinite time the tariff should be taken up at noon each day, the Senate adjourned. After action on'some minor bills the House went into committee of the whole to consider general appropriation bills (Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, in the chair), and the naval appropriation bill was taken up, Tae debate continued some time, taklnr on a very acrimonious character, and charges and countercharges of “colonization” In the navy yards were freely passed. At 5 o’clock, it b> Ing Friday. ’ the House, according to custom, took a re- • ces* until 8 o’clock, the evening session tc be devoted to private bills on the calendar. 1 8 enday the Senate made but little prog- . re in the tariff bill discussion. In the House several unimportant bills were passed. The only Important one gave the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon E ectrfc Railway Oompany an entranco Into Wa*blnjrton. Wben the District of Columbia bl.l was taken up the even tenor of business was interrupted by a negro in the center of the gallery arising In his place and shouting: “Mr. Sieakerof the House of Representatives.” Instantly the House was in confusion, and all eyes were turned upon the new orator in the gallery, 'ihe Speaker, who was the f r*t to regain his composure, directed the doorkeeper to remove the man. He was of powerful physique, however, and the doorkeeper was unable to oust him for some time, the negro endeavoring to deliver bis alleged divinely inspired message to the effect that the Lord had commanded him to come to the Speaker of the House and order him to pass the Coxey bllb Other portions of his message referred tc the Capitol, the White House and the Treasury, but the exact purport was not learned in the confusion. The interloper was finally ejected and business resumed. The resignation of Representative Barnes Compton, of Maryland, was laid before the House, after which a bill was passed authorizing the Braddock and Homestead Bridge C* mpany to build a bridge over the Monongahela River at Homestead, Pa. At 4:08 the House adjourned.

Consideration of ihe tariff bill was resumed in the Senate Tuesday after several bills of miner importance had been passed and a resolution, introduced by Mr. Allen, calling for Information as tc the number and class of persons unemployed in protected industries, had been discussed and laid over. Three items in the chemical schedule were passed and that Mr. Aldrich broke in with an amendment to place a duty of 15 per cent, on coal tar products, which was defeated. Among the bills presented in the House was one from the committee on labor, reported by Mr. McGten, making Labor Day a holiday. It was placed on the calendar. The naval appropriation bill was then taken up The paragraph authorizing the secretary of the navy to use 5450,000, appropriated by the act of March 2. 1880, for the construction, armament and equipment of three torpedo boats to cost not more than $450,030. was adopted, and the bill was then pasif^. I The House then went int> committee cU the whole and the agricultural appropria- U - tlon bill was taken up. No amendments had been made in the. bill when, at 5:05 o'clock, the committen rose and the House adjourned. W mien Want More Pockets. At the congress of women on the subject of improved dress, held in New York the other day. one of the sneakers asserted that the first refoi m should be in the direction of more pockets. “It is all very well for us to say we^are the equals of men.” she added, “but when men move around with from twelve to fourteen convenient pockets in their clothing, while we have only one, and that so hidden away that it i- as bard to find as a match in the dark, we are not their equals, and they know it.”—Albany Express. This and That. < 'OKE is sent from West A irginia to Mexico. Coal is dearest in Africa; cheapest in China. BOSTON telephones to Milwaukee, ] 300 miles. The largest locomotive weighs buu,000 pounds. The Bank of England covers nearly three acres. . A SILKWORM’S thread is 1-bU'part of an inch thick. Six women of England are engineers of town drainage. - —