St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 June 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INBEHENUENr WALKERTON, - - . INDIANA ate a noxious root. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT AN ASYLUM. McKeesport, Pa., Overrun with a Kiotous Mob of Strikers—King Humbert Without Premier or Cabinet—Sandy Hook’s Dazzling Electric Light. Five Poisoned. At Tarrytown, N. Y., as a result of eating a poisonous vegetable, which they hai mistaken for flagroot, five little inmates of th • Sisters of Mercy Heme died in great agony. The dead are: James Forrestal, aged 10 years; John Callahan, aged lu years; Thomas Cas more, aged 10 years; Augustus Powers, aged 12 years; John Donnelly, aged 12 years. Seven other of the inmates are seriously ill. The home is situated in Wi s n Park, on the hill back of Tarrytown. There are about 200 children in the home. The b >ys wore out playing in the park in the as ternoon when one of them disc vered a pungent root which he declared, after tasting, was Hagreot. About dusk one of the boys was taken with cramps, and within an hour all who had eaten of the poi onous root were deathly sick. Physicians were called from Tarrytown, but their efforts were of ' no avail. Riot at McKeesport. The immense ] lant of tho National ■ Tube Works at McKeesport, Ba., sixteen miles from Pittsburg, on the Monongahela River, was in the possession of a mob of 5,00 > strikers Tuesday, who de lared their intention to battle with new workmen and officers. The city at night was in a state j of insurrection, and anarchy was rampant on every street. The bloody scenes of Homestead, on the other side of the river, were enacted and in all probability they will le repeated. The i men are just as determined as those ■ who held the Carnegie mills against ! the invasion of the Pinkertons, and , will fight against a iy and everyth! g. ; All efforts ou th ■ pa t of the Mayor and poll, o officials to disperse the ' strikers resulted in failure. Tho com- j pany has, apparently, thr wn all re sponsibility on tie city officials and sheriff < f Allegheny county. 'I ho i trouble is the result of a strike that i occurred at the mills, May 14, a;a nst | a 15 per cent red a ti m in wages. BREVITIES, The reunion of graduates of Phillips Exe er Academy, set for Jun ' IP, has been postponed until next year. Alexandria, Inh, has ccntrac'.ed for a water-works system, to cost 0,000 and to b j completed in four months. Fike at Duke Center, Pa., destroyed the residence of John Long. Two ehil- _ dron, aged 7 and 12 years, were burned to death. In an accident on the Atlanta, Ga, traction street car line one motorman was killed and another mortally wounded. Eight passengers were hurt John Stanley and Clarence Cox surrendered themselves to Sheriff Fox at Kn xville, Tenn. They are charged with killing Henry Snodderly, ( J 0 years of age, and his wife. When Father Dominick O'Grady was called in Judge Kumler’s court in I Cincinnati to answer the charge of . killing Mary Gilmartin, he was not ; able to come into court. The Chinese Emperor has an effective method of stopping strikes. He I recently promulgated a decree ordering the ringleaders t > be strangled and the othe.s banuhed. The strike col- I lapsed. AN American, T. H. Pritchard, of Michigan, en route to the hacienda of Francisco Lopez, Mexico, was waylaid, killed and robbed I y bandits. Mr. Pritchard is said to have had a large amount of money in his position. T\VO MASKED men entered a train detained at Thompson Fails, Mont., at 3:45 o'clock Sunday morning and held up the passengers, securing about $155, and making good their escape. A posse went in search of the robbers and it is thought they will ba cap- , tured, as t avel is nece-sarily slow on i account of the high wate”. The great electric light recently erected at Sandy Hook was operated < Monday night for the first time in the i East. Tne light was exhibited at the World's Fair. Chicago. So intense and far-reaching were the rays that places far down the Jersey coast, on £taten I-land and Coney Island were plainly visible. Vesse's at anchor in the bay showed up alm st as plainly as in daVtime. It is c aimed that tine liyht cun , le ihr wn without difficulty a- far as i Phi adelpb ia. The Italian crisis has come to a head with the resignation of Sig. Crispi and his Cabinet, announced m the Chamber of Deputies at Rome. King Humbert le erves his decision with respect to acceptance or refusal. The action of the Premier is the iesult of a Cabinet meeting held after the debate on Crispi s propo al that the Chamber intrust a committee of eight en, to be macle up of members of the sveral political circles, with the task of preparing a? d presenting on June 30 a measure for re orming the expenses of the public service in order to introduce the greatest possible economies, the House, in the m anwhile, abstaining from any discussion of financial matters. H. 11. Heffner, a former member of the Chicago Board of Trade, committed suicide at New Orleans. William Walter Phelps is seriously ill with laryngitis, complicated with fever, at his home at T< aneck, New Jersey. Representative Houk, of Tonnes ee, has introduced a bill in Congress to reimburse the soldiers of the rebellion or their heirs for the average annual difference between gold and the value of the paper currency in which they were ; ai l.

EASTERN. Rabbi Hirsch dedicated a new synagogue at Rochester, N. Y. Fire at Darlington, Mass., destroyed four large ice houses and other propsrty valued at $125,000. Mus. Mary W. Armour, of Westmoreland, N. Y., aged 70, a cousin of the Chicago millionaires, is mysteriously mi-sing. Bessie Ki- noricks, believed to be Mrs. F. J. Raichell, of Morgan street. Chicago, a member of tho Crystal Slipper Opera Compan., died nt a lodging-house at Pittsburg, Pa. Chauncey P. Williams, President of the National Exchange Bank of Albany, N. Y., is thought to have been drowned while fishing in the Adirondack Mountains, his boat in which he set out having been found capsized. Mr. Williams was 77 years old. The Methodist Missionary Society of New Yt rk contradicts the w idely circulated dis; atch saying that Miss Imhoff, a teacher at Yonezawa, went into the temple devoted to the God Usoyug and preached again t and sneered at their deity, when the angry natives st med her and put. her eyes out. The facts are Miss Imhoff held service in her own usual place, and en her wav home a stone thrown by some one broke one of her glasses and drove pieces of it into h<y eye, which, it is hoped, will be sac WESTERN. The Rev. John Brown has resigned from the pastorate of the Grace M. E. Church at Akron, Ohio, to take orders in the Episcopal Church. j Bi TH parties to a Milwaukee divorce j suit are deaf and dumb. The wife’s ? grounds for divorce are er. el treatment and the husband's abuse of her because sho used more coal in the stove than he thought she should. James F. Malonf, of Wisconsin, who wa> appoint© 1 Register of the Land Office at Perry, Okla , at tho opening of the Cherokee Strip and w ho ' resigned in Jan ary, is being tried on an indk-tmeLt for br.bery. Melville glover, a prominent farmer and Justice of the Peace living | near Guthrie, O. T., was bitten by a! rat ten davs ag \ Tho bit > careely drew b’ood, but in two dnys he was taken sick and is now a raving maniac. Michael Jansen, aged 5L -hot and fatally wounded his wife at Butte, Mont., R'cause she an 1 her grown-up children were inclined to hold him up to ridicule. He then uttem tod suicide, inflicting »n y a shgh' scalp wound. 1 Mrs. G. B. Wallfn, wife of an Indianapolis hack-driver, wa seized by two men. on Delaw ar ■ street, thrown into a wagon, chi 'reformed, driven a long distance to a vacant horn •. r >bbed of her dress and money, and had her liar cut off. . I’helds Perkin, one of tho men who stole $40,000 belonging to th-' United States Express Company from the iron Exchange Hank nt Hurley, and who was a few weeks av<> pardoned from the penitentiary, died at New London. \\ is. The golden w tiling ce.ebration of Judge and Mrs. S. W. Moulton, at Sheli byville, Ind., brought to their home 250 guests. Tho gift of the lawyers and bus ness men of t* <» city wa- a miniature ship five feet long laden w it h golden roses. The Bank of Enterprise, at Erterprise. Kansas. was clewed by Bank Examiner Breidentha'. The bank has been in bail condition for some months, and the failure wa- n ■: ’unexpected. Liabilities are about $20,000, with small u-sets , Papers in the sensational breach of promise suit of Victoria A stein vs. Clarence II Saulpaugh were till d at Mankato, Minn. Tho plan’;:! an - B‘»t>,O K) damages, and i- -aid to pos r-s a large number of inter -ling 1« Uerthat will aid her in getting it THE Pan-America i Tropieal Fruit and Coffee Company, which w a- o: .-ai;ized at Kansas Citv some month- a. o has be n chartered under the Nebraska State laws with a capital of- '.’oo. The company has a deed for 4J* 0 acres of valuable lat.d near lake isaOeila. Guatemala. । Treasurer Stark arrived at Tah- | lequah, I. T., Thursday with sl3l, o- 0, the first installment of Sopot >,>'i 0 be paid the ( her kees by the I'nited States Government for the Cherokee Strip. Tho country is fall of cutthroats and trouble is looked for b-fore i the payment is over. Chased by a friendly gale and t’e I whirring wheels of a dozen sturdy : legged bicyclers, Itl-year-old Erederick i Rau Wednesday won the eighth annual I Chicago road race in 0:57:1(1. He dashed across the white tape that marked the end of the course, with J. J. Bezenek a close second. Della Mck dy, wife of Capt. Moody, of Los zlngeles, Cal., who suddenly dropped dead fiom heart disease while • ijc t.nc u boi-torons st ranger from the i Ues Angeles, was found stretched | across the newly-made grave of her i husband at Evergreen cemetery, with I a bullet-hole, through h r heart. She had committed suicide. Mr. and Mrs. John Spkuance. cf Oakland, Cal., while on their way from California to Dansville, N. X'., were relieved of a bag containing $4,500 worth of diamonds and $175 in money. The bag was missed just before the party reached Buffalo. Mrs. Spruance left fi r Butialo to examine some jewelry bearing the description given, found in pawn shops by detectives of that city. A Pueblo, Colo., < i-patch says: It has rained incessantly for thirty hours all over the ea tern part of the State. The rain fa 1 is one of the heaviest ever known. In this city the Arkansas t Iver broke the levee in six places. From Union avenue viaduct to the post office, throe quarters < f a mile, all cellars are 8o ded and water ri-es two feet above the first floc rs. The electric street cars have stopped running, the works being flooded. Hundreds of men are out in boat- rescuing families' and removing goods. The five railreads entering the city are tied up. The damage amounts t > at least SIOO,000. 'I he flo d is now recc ling an I it is thought all clanger in this city is practically passed. A most distressing accident hap-

pen*d ©a the Wisconsin Central at Mannville, a deserted station three miles nor th of Marshfield, Wi- Tu«day night. The St. Paul limited' U l’ of baggage and two coaches, three sleepers and the private car of Howard Morri-, was L o i ailed at that place by a defective switen, resulting in the deat i of five and many injured. The rear coa< h of a train on the Albany and Colum R.Xv"' ‘ he bv hrokW- J -i as overturned \Ve,i b 1 la ls ut Holt , Ga M ednesday morning, and forty people were injured, two or three of whom will in all probability die. The train consisted of si< coaches loaded with ^“^omsts from Andersonville to ab tend Decoration Day exercises at the Katie nal Cemetery. Georges. Newcomb, assistant special agent ot the Western Indiana Railroad, who was shot in Chicago the other night on an incoming Grand 1 runk train, made an unto'morten) btatement, and on the strength of it Special Agent James C. Maxwell of the Grand Trunk Road, was locked’ up at the Harrison Street Police Station Before the police get thr ugh with the case they exp ct to prove that th> re wai a huge conspiracy between detectives employed by the Grand Tri nk Road and ' a gang of con! deuce men to divide the plunder got from the peo; le robbed on t eJ t. ains of the company. loz some time^ confid nce-men have been boarding the/ trains of the Grand Trunk Road ai^^ ribbing tho pas-engers. So serioi»L have the-o outrages been that Nevv^ comb and Mux .veil wore deta lei to board incoming passenger trains, catch the thieves at their work if possible and ai ro-t them. Newc mb charges that whileen route t> Ar her avenue to apprehend tl ese thugs. Maxwell boldly admitted that he had catered into a conspiracy to “protect” these highwaymen in tin ir < |H rations and generously oi’ered to divide his share ! of the pr ce ds with Newcomb. S» convince 1 wa- the dying man of the jierfid. ar dvi lainy of his brother officer that he firmly be ieved that the suspicious characters they found on the rear ear of tho Grand Trunk train were Maxwe 1 s accomplices. He lelieves tnat they had N'en inf rmed by Maxwell that the road would be clear , for their operation-, an! that when he । sei. nd the thug who a moment later ! shot him it was bv Maxwell's order that the shot wa. tired SOUTHERN. Morgan \\ n i e was executed at Golumb.a, S. C . for murder. Hi NRY Frith -ho! and kilb'l H M. Taliaferro, traveling for GoyleA Sargent, of St. Louis, at Bunkie, I a. । Frank Bullard, a negro, was lynched at Jackson, Tenn He attempted t> murd©.- Miss Thomas, a white girl, and her life was saved by Bui ard s brother. D;t Zehali.os. the Argentine Hcpublic - Mini ter to the United States, hi-son. and Secretary J. sterling Morton and • ngre man A Her y*>f Kentucky are visiting t e hist< rlc p aces around Lexingl m. Ky. At Orrville, Ark. Tuesday night Pinkie Johnston, ace sod an ther s o< pro woman nam d of stealing seme of her w.urirg apparel, and* fatal quarrel ensued. Alter bca s Je-s e isit- in cnsibih y, the Johm-’.ufi! woman procured a ra or and almijß sever d the head from the body. I'm murderess Is In jail. " An extensive deal, involving 2,600,(MM) acre, of land, lying on the Rio Grande in tho Mexican St res of Ueahulln and Chihuahua has I e<-n clo ed. Tae land was sold by ex-Gov. G nzales, <>f « hih i ihua to the Mexican Coffee, ( lion un i ('.» oni. nt ion < ompanv. W. H, Ellis, whois interested in Mexican coloni. ation • clienii ', w:,l coioniz. I\(MK) negrt es • n part of the land. In the United State, Circuit Court of Appea s at New Orleans a decision : was rendered which finally settles the I suit- of the relative- of the Ita ians ; killed in the pui ish prin n March 14.1 l“' , .d. 1! e suit was for damages for the act ol the lynci er-. Judge Dan A. I Pardee read the deei-ion of the comt, \ which was that Ln the ab-enee of a statute giving right of a tion i) sue i for damage to lie by mobs the suit i was to l e dismissed", and the city! freed from its liability fir damages. । The - b -’atut on this subject reads: i ’The different munici-al c rporationsl in his State shall be 1 able for the I dam ge d< nc to prop rty by m >bs or : other us-em Jae- in tin ir icsiiective limit-.” Thi- iuw. the court hell, lim- * ited the liability of municipal ties to; dumaec to property and gave no a- - m for damage to ife. The case decided was that of tip- Widow Givanni Al bagnate against the city of New Orleans, and the decision will govern in five similar cases, in all of which juries returned verdicts of ssffMk) damages against the city. WASHINGTON. The President has approved the acti to provide for the sale of the remainder of the Otce re orvation in Nebra-ka । and Kansas. d The monthly deb 1 statement shows’, a net cash balance in the Treasury 'I ■ 7CM.: 5, of which $7-.GP3,267 gold reserve. It a-o -hows that thiS interest-bearing debt May 31 was $635,U -■ 41 CIO, an incr. ase of only- $46 *. ThJ| debt on which interest has cease® sin e ir.atu it, was $l,B5s.‘UK), a dejj ciei-e of $3,(>4). The non-intoresu bearing debt was s.3B:>j It J,329, a del crease of $37,’.3.>. The aggregate on interest and non-interest bearing debt! was si,ol | d i l< ~u<), a decrease of $(540,-1 S7P. The statement of the cash ini the Treasury is ts follows: Gold! $1,8,067..''16; silver, $512, T‘4,054; pa® 1 er. $!C6.08»i,!72: bo ids, minor coins etc., $16,03’,320, against which there ar,? demand lab liti s aggregating s. 05.-12^,!*28, making the decrease ii the available cash balance for the men h $7,27 3,450. FOREIGN. The Chamber < f Deputies at Madric adopt d by a vote of 01 to 14 the pi in ciple of the bill to suppress anarchy. The report is ] ositively denied ii Brussels that Gc. many has prot?ste< to the Government of the Independen Congo State against, the recent conven tion with Great Britain. The death of Matador Espartero ii a bullfight at Madrid last Sunday wa discussed in the Spanish Chambei

The Carlists and. Republicans gave notice of a joi .t resolution demanding that the Government ston bull-fmh“ ing in Spain. IN GENERAL M arsan & Brosseau, hay shippers, at M< ntreal, have suspended. The!’ liabilities will amount to over $100,(M 0. The report that the American fishing schooner Robert .1. Edwards was wrecked on Sable Islan l, near Bali ax, and all hands lest is confirmed. Alexander Lindsay,Kirs. Ingram, a neighbor’s wife, and his brothers thi ee children, aged respectively s, 1- and 13, were drowned at Smith’s Falls. Gnt. 1 HE heirs of Jacob De Haven, who lent the government $450.00 > during the Revolutiona y War, met in Chicago and determined to pro ecute their claim for that amount with interest. 1 he total sum claimed is computed at $2,:>00,0u0. The steamer ( ity of Windsor earri d away all four gates of the look at Port Dalhou ie, on the old Welland Canal. Her engines refu <d to work, and the s eamer was em'.ied about 25 > yards out in the harbor when she struck the pier. At tlse general offices of tbe Great ’ ? No^hoi 'i roA<l it Is - uitl the ‘ of : Ltho otlh e employes will b - adF vanced .*0 per cent, of tho re ent cut. ‘This gives ri-e t > the expectati n that kthe wages of all tho employes of the ’ road will be increase I before long. The Hamburg-American steamship Normmnia held the record for the fastest passage from S uthampton by the long, or s uthern, route nearly twenty-four hour-,. At S:i(i Eri lay night the American line steamship Paris arrived at the bar and took away ; tho Ni rinarnia s prize. The N r- : nrinnia made 3,)h3 mile- in 6 days 1! h urs and I! minutes. The Paris made 3,1 lit mil< s in 6 days 11 hours and 33 m : r utos. Th eexcitement < aused at St.Thon as, (Ant., by the t a ing down of the Stars and Stripes from the fr nt of the; I nitod States ( >: sulate by men of tho Queen > < )wn Hille- < f Toronto ha- n t y t abated. Di-trii t Ad utant Genei a’ >mit i I- in St Ihiwa- under orders from Ottawa inve t gating tho outrage, and I asobtaim'd fuff particulars. Officer'of thequo ns<>wn Billes d<nv the flag wa- torn down by members < f that corya, but the act wa wit es-ed by a number of citizen*. They distinctly a-'ert thi' flag was p I’o i down by members of tho Qu >« n s < Avn Rilles in uniform. All to I the .same story. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues i-tand a.- folk ws in tho ■ ham; I n-hip ra o: I’er Per W L. cent. W L. cent. Haltl-nore n 1/ .< < st. i.ontu .IT l< ,<M iMi'Surt* । 11 .« New ia l- *7 Cleveland* D H ♦ iln lnnatl 1< IJ .sst phtlalelu a r > Il ♦ t oulavfllev •> H .UI BmIMI 1 IS M Chic* •• I 1 Itr^osivn*. 11' * WMblurt'n v l’> .MT *s~»tiuih isi iva iumkI'er Ter VV L cent. W L. cent. filonz City -i - .* . Grd Rapid* « U kU>e*» UV v t > *ST Ml w* See, j IS . M n 11 .’sl MUnpln I SI .3 4 Toledo*. IT 1.1 Detroit* TH 6 JRE Weather Bureau in it- weather crop bulletin til* «re>Wr piril .* of lU* country koi of »ho Rocky Mouotalu* the cldht t lom^raturov have been unutuallv low <u<! I In ‘Minnelr or rw: ardrd the <ro . th

Os Tnaetuth-n In tb* Slain* f the re- tr*l valley* and ai«O In th” rn portion* of lb* olkn r«Xlvn» »nl fro»i« occurred In tb« the Ohio. Upper Jll*'l**lpj L j and I”''<•< M > ri Valley*. Th*<!*nmn | re»u ting fret . Iti e fro*t» of the ; rare * i t! in ■»» frat * ippxe! In Kentucky. Mt*j wurl. an ! r. nth < «r line, but In the Htt'i I of the N rth«M' cr are re over!n< from ti n effect* f 'r . t Drought c adlI tier.* are rep rte I from 1 wa Nebraak* I ! and Wromlnf. a: t rain l.necOd n < oloraH. Ok dte a. Ao»n*»« M » ourl, and In portion* ■ f o* -rcl*. Alabama. Tenne*- ! ••• Ic>nl<tana. M.« »t!pp!. and e<u IL G. Di N A t'■ Us We 'klv Review I of Trade says: HU a Sign of cheer n? import that In * finished bu»lucs», rvpros' iite l by clear.ius and railway tonnage. ti.ere has Lo“i» ie » '■ t o reuse *tnce tie strik” began than might h»TB been eijectrd. Hut in Inchon • bu-i---nrt* the orders which start tho wheel*, to result in tonnage and payment week* or months later, there seem* to be an actual ■ det reasa Meanwhile the ci n-rqu< nt InI terruptlon of traffic and industry increases i Thes oppase f iron furnace*l etween tho Alleghany Mountains . nd tne Mississl pl ! Hiver ha* become complete. and a great I number of concern* rn nufaeturlnz iron. . | and others requiring soft coal or coke for ! fuel, have been forced to st p I u.lut* j cannot Increase In volume undec su b cirI cumstances. and yet payments through ail i clearing houses for the week show a de- | crease of oniy 31 8 per cent, compared with j last year. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Tritne.... firo ’* 75 Hogs—Shipping Grade* * 0 • ft 500 Sheep— 1 air to Choice 30m " 150 Wheat—No. 2 Red. sH4is9 54 4 1 Corn—No. 2 37 » 3s Oats—No. 2 3t @ 3' Rye— No. 3 <7 - 4 j huTrEß—Choice Creamery.. .. IB & Eggs—Fresh 10 ct 404 1 Potatoes —Per bu ”0 <<9 rvj INDIANAPOLIS. c Cattle—Shipping 3 CO & * Ml Hogs—Choice Light tlO e' .v ■ Sheep—Common to Prime 200 ' 4' 0 SrWsiEAT—No. 2 Red 51 ci ■ 1 - ; 71’085 —No. 2 White 40 21 -1 7 O ATS—No. 2 White 3* 3» i A ST. LOVIS. •BSTTIe 3 01 U 4 so |tlfOGS 300 <<® 5 00 Whea r—No. 2He i £043 514 Corn—No. 2 35 76 36 OaiS —No 2 36 |<l» 64 Butter—Creamery 174 I- - CINCINNATI. Cattle 2 50 @4 to Hogs 4 00 U 5 <0 Sheep 2(0 rt 4 Su Wheat—No. 2 Red. 53 ><t -’3 4 Corn —N 0.2 Mixed 41 . t 44 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 30 *’ Rye—No. 2 £1 63 DETROIT. Cattle 2 to «t 4 0 Hogs 4 00 ct 5 00 Sheep 2 < 0 c? 4 1 " I Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 cJ ; 4 I Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40 41 . 'I Oats—No. 2 Mixed 40 41 5 J TOLEDO. I Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 t<4 ‘ 1 I Corn—No. 2 Yellow 39 ■S’ 4 " Oats—No. 2 White 37 33 I Rte—No. 2 4 '9 51 BUFFALO. a 1 Wheat—No. 1 White 59 ft 2 4 | No. 2 Red 56 ft •’ I Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 ‘A 4 ” Oats—No. 2 Mixed 39 40 I MILV/AUKEE. , I Wheat—No. 2 Spring 53 ft 5'5 Corn—No. 3 3’ »3 Oats- No. 2 White 37 c>« 3» Barlet—No. 2 64 Rye—No. 4 ^ <9 [ Pork—Mesa U 75 (S'* 23 NEW YORK. _ _ ' Cattle 300 ® 1 ‘‘ . i Hogs 1 7o «* ® ®, Sheep 3 w ’ 4 Wheat—No. 2 Red £ ‘ 1 ' Cobn-No. 42 1 I Oats—Mixed Western *2 4 BUTTER—Best 1’ ® ", I Eggs—State 11 uts 1 3 *

FAILED FOR §700,000. ST. JOSEPH GROCERY HOUSE GOES TO THE WALL. Republicans Win In Illinois and Oregon Elections—News of a Bloody Battle Between S riking Miners and Troops—Fierce Storm in Washington State. Crash at St. Joseph. Steele & Walker, of St. Joseph, Mo., doing the most extensive grocery business of any firm on the Missouri River, made a general as -ignment, uni immediately afterwa - d a run was c mmeneed on the First National and Central Savings Banks, b >th of which were reported to be in.olved in the failure. To add t > the excitement it is reported that the as ignment of Steele & Walker was necessitated by the loss of large sums of money in speculation in grain. James W. Walker, the junior partner, is said to have done a good deal of business on ' arluus boards of trade, and in that way to have impaired the resources of the firm. No definite statement os asset- and liaboiiies can bo secured vet, l>u the liabisites arc said t> be not far j from s itKi.OjO, while the a-sets are ro-pos-ted at SOOO,O,h> to SI,COJ,OOO.

lix t I'* In In<llnnA« A TELEPHONE message to In^anapoils, Ind., Monday night from Shelburn said the troops were fired on by strikers under cove- of the night. ; Communication is ba 1 and it could . only lie lea ned that four of the I s rikers were killed in a return vol ey. Brigadier General McKee sent a call for the sec- nl Gatling gun, the first being at Canne. burg. Shortly after midnight a special train was secured, and the rest of the Indiana light artillery under comman I of Capt. Curti-, Sp uker of the la-t House, was started over the Vandal a via Terre Haute for tho tc?n? of the outbreak. R sh dispa che- from the Governor were sent to seven different military companies to nroj a-e to m irch at any hour on Tue-day There was much exri’o t ent at the State House and the Governor was up all night. There were e ght companies at Elburn, counting the two that camo up from Cannelburg. This would give McKee about stM) men. Oppose ito them were nearly 2.001 de p-rate st ik -rs. A nies'e- ger frotti Shelburn sai I tho st • ker- tired a vils all afternoon to attract the men from the hills so? miles around, but it was not thought any such thing as an attack on the militia was contemplated. Bound on a Lonely V<>tr<c. Cut. Adolph Frietsch, of Milwaukc ', who prop cos to cn ss he Atlantic in a ten t>n schooner, has arrived a’ Buffalo wih his little craft,; the Nimi He evpects t> mike the | voyage from New York to Stockholm I in forty daya Captain Freitsch will attempt the trip witaout a companion. Ten I’erwon* Kilted in a Cyclone. Advices from Tuxpan, Mex., state that a terrific wind-torm has passed over the village of Yahualict. about j seventy mile- m tho interior, destroying a number of store-bu blings and dwellings uni killing ton persona and wounding flfte n others.

NEWS NUGGETS. The Provincial L« G’i-dature of Can- i a in has b. e 1 diasolved and nomination i da sot for June 23. Napoleon Barney of Detroit, fire- ! man on the tug Lorman. uim ed over- i board in I ake Huron and wasdrowned. The vi-ible supply of prain, as com- ' pi ed by the New York Produce Ex- : change, is as follows: Wheat, 59.3V5- I OO bushels; deerea-e, 1,935,00 • bush-' <b. Corn. 7.490,01 0 bushe's decrease, ; 17.2,0 bushels. ( at,. 2. 4 ti.ood bush- • els; decrease, 24i.0 0 bushels. Rye, I . • ,•«»> b;i'h ' decease, 19.0 0 bush- ’ cßa ley, lo'j (1) bushels; decrease, : 2,0) > bushe's. AT Kans s City, Mo., W. L. Marsh tried to k li his wife and daughter Monday afternoon in the court-room of Justice cf the Pea”e Shannon. Mrs. ' Marsh wa» shot above the h art and was taken to the poli e station. The bullet tired at the daughter struck her, 1 but glanced off. Mrs. Marsh and her daughter we e at the .Justice’s to get a warrant for his arrest for threatening to kill them. Joseph N. Cartef, Republican, was ; I chosen to the Blinds Supreme bench, i M< nday, from the Fourth udicial Dis- i trict. by a plu ality upward of 4,0 U i In Oreg< n. Monday, the Republ cans | ’ elected their entire ticket, from Gov- ! I ern r down, with th • possible ex ep- 1 ; tion < f .superintendent of Sc .uo’.s. The j 1 Legislature w 11 be close : nd the I’opu- I ' li-ts mav hold t ie I a ance ■ f power in the .senate, though t ie Republicans j claim the.,’ will have a majority in both । h< uses. A terrific windstorm occurred at 1 Ta oma. Wa-h.. wrecking a score of ' houses and baainess bio' ks and bury- ; ing half a dozen persons under the debris. Tho yachting sloop Constance, with four persons ab ard, is supposed to have been capsized on Puget So.,nd. At C lequa, Chehalis, Centralia, Ellensburgh, and other points on the Northern Pacific Railroad a dozen ho ses and stores were blown down. The storm was accompanied by heavy rain, thunder and lightning. The ve- । locitv of the wi d was fifty-four mi es !an hour. Many fishing smacks were i washed into the 1 ay frem the Puyallup River. Andrew Jackson, of Sherrill, Ark . quarreled with bis wife and she seized a shotgun and killed him. Congressman Jerry Simpson has arrived at Berkeley Springs. W. \a. His complete recovery is considered doubtful. AT Indianapolis Ju 7 go Baker, in the United States Court, ov rruled a motion for a new trial of tho wreckers of the Indianapolis National Bank, and sentenced F. A. Coffin to ten years and P retva B. Coffin to five years in the penitentiary. James E. Malone is being tried at Perry, Ok., for bribery whi’e he was Register of the Land Office. Job A. Turner, formerly a wealthy merchant of Eoston, c mmitted suicide at South Carver, Mass. Business reverges wjre the

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. In the Senate Thursday Senator Turpfa offered a joint resolution declaring that It was no longer to the interest of the United States to continue ths treaty with Russia ratified April 21. and that notice be served upon the Emperor of Russia that the United State- purposes to terminate that treaty at the expiration of six months, tho time required to be given by the treaty. He also reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs a resolution, with a unanimous recommendation that it pass, a substitute for the Hawaiian resolution reported some months ago. It made no reference to annexation and passed unanimously. The tariff bill was then taken up. General Sickles introduced and the House passed a resolution instructing the Secretary of War to do w hat is nee.'-!ary under the act of March 3, • 11-93. for the preservation of the Get'.ys- , burn battlefield. The bill f ran additional . Judge tor >bs northern district ot Illinois passed, after which the bill to repeal the tax on State bank circulation was taken

The huxar setxeaule —as Vrlilay’* In the Senate’s tariff taik. The House passed the Senate resolution directing the Secretary i f War to transmit to the Senate reports of any surveys or estimate- for the construction of locks or dams in the Mississippi River between the Chicago. St Paul and Milwaukee Kallwa- bridge and the falls of St. Anthony which he might have in bis possession. The Senate bill providing for the carrying out of the award of the Paris tribunal of arbitration f< r the protection of seals in Behring Sea was also passed. A resolution directing the Piesident to give six months’ notice to the Russian Government of the abrogation of the last treaty between the two countries under the rules was sent to the Committee on Foreign -Affairs. The House then went into committee ot the whole io consider the Brawley State bank bill. At an evening session several pri- ' ate pension tills were passed. A resolution providing for the payment of the expenses of the bribery and other Investigating committees out of the contingent fund was adopted by the Senate Mouday. At 10:30 the tariff bill vas taken up, the sugar schedule then pending The galleries of the House were unusually well tilled. and on the floor was a goodly array of occupied desks during the early part of tbe day. As tbe afternoon wore on the attendance thinned out. and when the adjournment came there were not a half-hun-dred members on the floor. Two Senate bridge bills were passed, one to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River by the Pennsylvania and New Jetsey Railroad Company, and the other extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Calumet River. The Brawley State bank tax bill was discussed by Representatives Dalzell and Rayner for the o position and by Representatives Cobb and Oates in favor of it. • and then the House agree) to a Senate 1 joint resolution appropriating $lO 000 to : defray the expenses ot the sugar investigating committee Compronds* amendments to the sugar schedule in the tariff bi 1 were all adopted in the Senate Tuesday, insuring its passage at an early date. While tn executive se-slon the Senate, for tbe second time ; within three days, cons rmed the nominaI tion of Jerry Donahue to be postmaster !at Decatur. 111. He was first con- ! firmed on the 2d Inst.. but at i the instance ot Sen at-r Cullom th^__ i matter was reopened, and. after some j discussion of the merits of the case be-

? tween Senators Cullom and Palmer, the Senate decided to stand by Its former aci tlon and reconfirmed Mr. Donohne In i the House a resolution was adopted to I vote on the Brawley bill after the call of ■ the committees. Sir. Cox offered hl* amendment j roviding for the total uncon- ; ditlonal repeal of the tax on State banks* Mr. Bryan said he w< uld propose a bill which would provide a larger circulation of paper money under the exclusive control of the Federal Government. JOHN^ BURNS. Pen Picture of England’s Great Labor Leader by Justin McCarthy. The m st conspicuous man among the newer mt mbers of the Labor party in the British House of Commons is John Burns, writes Justin McCarthy. ;M. P. He has about him the chai in of a strong, self-reliant manhood—he is aoove all things a man. You can see t .is in his < ark. soft, gleaming eyes. , They are eyes whi. h invite confidence. : John Burns is a working engineer who has led a toiler's life, a loat and ashore and under various conditions. He has I worked along tho-e mysterious African I rivers whic 1 are associated in the j minds of most of us with the expior- . ings of Stanley and of Emin Pasha. | He has wo. ked’ in London sheds and ' yards. He is a fine and powerful I s eaker, and can control a vast meet--1 ng of workingmen with irresistible . force. He is a gieat democratic in- । fluence, and political parties and social 1 organizati ns can hardly reckon withi out him. He seldom speaks in the j House of Commons, but when he does speak he speaks well an i goes straight to the p<dnt He never speaks but on s< me subject which he thoroughly understands and about which he has something important and direct to say. He has a tire and even thrilling voice, and cm always fee’s that some day when his time comes and his own question is uppermost he will make a great speech. AVhy Diamonds Arc Not Cheaper. A traveler who has just returned from the gold and diamjnd fields of South As i a says that there are enough diamonds in tha’ country to stock feur or five w r.ds with buttons almost, but that the mines are in control of a great syndicate, of which Sir Cec I Rhodes is the head. He was shown thre ugh the com; any s establishment aiuf s -.w thousands of bucket - tilled with diamonds, but the c-. mbination cc ntro: Ing them keeps track of the market, and when prices are good a Quantity of the gems are taken to London, care teing always taken not t ' send enough to glut the market. Any man caught trying to smuggle a diamond cut of the country is given seven cars at bard labor, so it is a dangerous business Scientific Drop;. In Corea umbrellas are of oiled paper. have no handles and are simply wo l n over the hat. The eyeball of an owl is immovably fixed in its socket, hence the look of wisdom that that bird always appears to have. In the horse an eye in which white predominates indicates a vicious nature. An important invention has been made in the adaptation of magnetic electricity to the prevention of the slipping of car wheels. The use of it is said to increase the hauling powe’ of an engine many per cent.