St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 December 1894 — Page 6

P AT s T P 8 ——————— T —————————— LW N WALKERTON [NDEPENDENT. WALEERTOYN, ~<« 7 CINDIANA T = s GIVES SPAIN A HINT. UNCLE SAM TAKES TIME TO REBUKE INSOLENCE. Pugilism in America May End with Bowen'’s Death—Chicago Ballot for Mayor Is Tampered With—-Disgrace for a Talented Wom=an. Impositions Must Cease. Mr. Taylor, the Uuited States Minister at Madrid, had an important conference Monday with Senor Griozard, Minister for Foreign Affairs, relative to the imposition of excessive duties upon imports into Cuba from the United States. He informed the Senor that he had been directed by his government to inform the Government of Spain that if it persisted in exacting these discriminating duties the action could be regarded by the President ~only as inviting the exercise by him of the - power of retaliation conferred by the act .~ of 1800. This threat has caused a commotion in ministerig] circles. The action of our State Department indicated © in the cablegram from Madrid in - warning the Spanish Government of its intention to resort to retaliation should Spain continue its present policy with respect to American exports to Cuba will doubtless have the effect to bring at once to a focus the long-drawn-out negotiations which have been in progress with results very unsatisfactory to that government. None of our foreign relations has of late given us so much trouble as those with Spain. For several years this government has been urging the claims of American exports for the remigsion of heavy fines and excessive taxes amounting to $5,000,000. These taxes and fines were imposed by the Cuban. customs officers in direct violation of all treaties and absolutely without any other warrant than existing necessity for funds. The Spanish Government practically admitted the justice of our claims, but failed to make any restitution. May End Pugilism. The remains of Andy Bowen, the dead ‘pugilist, were interred Monday, and with his body was buried prize fighting in New Orleans. The fatal termination of Friday night’s contest has had the effect of arousing a fierce sentiment against any more ring battles. The newspapers editorially demanded the abolition of the jcontests., Mayor Fitzpatrick by his prompt revocation of the permit for Saturday night’s fight between Ryan and Dempsey showed that he took a serious view of the situation. The Attorney General has discovered that the so-called lim-ited-round contests are prize fighte and nothing more, and he has written a letter to the Auditorium Club that he will enJoin any club which attempts to give another exhibition. It is said that the Governor is greatly scandalized also, and it is therefore certain that there will be no more glove contests of any kind in New Orleans until after the Supreme Court gives its decision, and sporting men are inclined to think the end of pugilism in America is near. S BREVITIES, Bucyrus, Ohio, is endeavoring to secure the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight. Business men are said to be behind the project. An automatic telegraphie transmitter has been inventcd which, it is said, will send 200 words a minute over the wire. l King Humbert hasg prorogued the Ital- i fan Parlinment at the request of the pre- | mier. Dissolution is expected to follow. ! The America Board of Commissioners | for Foreign Missions has issued a state- ‘ ment regarding the Armenian massacres., C. P. Huntingten, the railroad magnate, ‘ is making a bitter fight against the re- | election of Senator Perkins in California. | If further restrictions are placed upon | American trade with Germany, the Ad- | ministration will have recourse to the re- | taliation act. | Four games will be played by the Uni- | versity of Chicago football team in Cali- | fornia—three at San Irancisco and one | at Los An«eles. | August-: Burdeau was buried at Paris | after exercises in the Palais Bourbon | which were attended by ministers, diplo- | mats and legislators. 1 Conductor Cellister and Brakemen Sib- | ley and Brown, of the Northwestern road, } were arrested at Boone, lowa, for rob- | bing freight cars of bonded goods. ¥ Dr. R. L. Miller, of Norfolk County, Virginia, was arested for torturing with a hot shovel and a pair of hot tongs a | white lad in his keeping because of the failure of the boy to learn his lessons. Dr. Miller admitted burning the boy, but said it was because he was bad. * George M. McDonald, President of the Guarantee Investment Company, is in , jail at Chicago. His sentence is eleven months. Me¢Donald was convicted of violation of the postal laws, in that the Guarantee Investment was, in effoef, o lottery company, and its use of the mails \‘ therefore tllegal, ' In transferring the records in the eleetion commissioners' office it was discovered several of the packages containing ballots cast at the Chicago special Mayoralty election had been tampered with, So far, it has been impossible to judge what persons had a motive in doing this. The special election is now a matter of contest in the courts. Miss Emily Suffern, daughtar of Judge Suffern, of Haverstraw, N. Y., a prominent jurist, who died several years ago, leaving his family in poor circumstances, though he had been considered wealthy up to the time of his death, was arrested in Stern Brothers’ dry goods store at New York for shoplifting. She was not prosecuted. An unsuccessful attempt was made near &'pper Sandusky, 0., to wreck the Pennsylvania’s New York and Chicago limited. The Japanese minister of foreign affairs has jssued a statement regarding the atrocities at Port Arthur asking the withholding of public opinion until the facts can be ascertained. The boddies of the Schultz children, who wandered from their home near Waupun, Wis., were found in a bog. The Minnesota IFederation of Labor resolved to ask the Legislature to stamp all convicet made geods.

R S R A S A SO SR Ss W "'_—_—h—_——-*—*_ EASTERN. ‘ The first fruit of the Lexow inquiry at | New York is the conviction of ex-police Captain John T. Stephenson of bribery. | The National Miring Board of Arbi- I | tration abrogated the scale of wages so | | far as it related to the Pittsburg district. | Evidence before the Lexow committee ‘ | at New York showed that Police Captain g Timothy J. Creedon had to pay $15,000 for his promotion from the rank of ser- | ’ geant, A representative of Charles B. Rousse, l 'a millionaire of New York, is at Rich- | mond, Va., to establish a museum of con- ! | federate relics. The details are to be left | ‘ ' to a committee of nine confederate gen- ! | erals, | John Worthy, President of the Commercial Trust Company and Metropolitan Railway Company of Chicago, died at the Murray Hill Hotel in New York, Wednesday evening. A surgical opem-' tion for carbuncle had been performed, , which hastened his death. ’ ’ An inspection of tenement houses own- l ed and rented by Trinity Church corporation in New York shows them to be in I wretched sanitary condition. Population { of the tenements is 1,681. Average yearIy deaths are 273, or 35 per cent. higher than the general rate of the city. At Burlington, N. J., a dissolute character known as “Al” Clymen crept noise- | lessly up to Mrs. Bridget Doyle, a widow, ' as she knelt by her bedside in prayer and seized her by the throat and plunged a shoe-knife into her side with such foree | thattheblade wasbroken off at the handle. He was captured later and begged to be shot. : Frank A. McKean, cashier of the In- ! | dian H#d National Bank at Nashua, N. | H., is missing, 'nd is supposed to be a de- | faulter to the awount of at least $30,000. \ United States Bank Commissioner Dorr, ‘ who is examining his accounts, has al- | ready found a shortage of that amount. : { Apparently McKean had taken notes | f from the bank's funds and sold them on | | his own account. MecKean is a thirty- | | third degree Mason, ex-Mayor and vx-i' | Treasurer of the city, and was a candi- | | date for Governor in 1875. I WESTERN. ‘ , Missouri hogs are dying of a disease re- ] | sembling pneumonia. ] Mabel Briggs and Alma Leonard, of | Eau Claire, Wis., has again lapsed under | the hypnotic control of Dr. Pickin, and | are in a state of nervous prostration. ‘ Mabel Briggs and Alma Leonard, the | Eau Claire, Wis., girls who claim to have been hypnotized by the Pickins, astonish l their friends by their strange actions. | Jake Folshaw, Lesliec Webb, and Abe | Winsor, who robbed a stage coach near ! Bowie, A. T, last January, have been _ sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. | S. 8. Harvey, accused of swindling a | score or more of wholesale business | houses of Chicago by buying goods on i credit and disposing of them under cover, has been captured. f Mrs. I. R .Notsen, an Omaha school | teacher, has disappeared with her two | children under circumstanecs which indi- , cate she may have murdered the children | and then committed suicide. { Sheriff George Brooker, of Mason | County, Illinois, died from the effects | of a guashot wound received while at- ! tempting the arrest of John Fuller, an in- | Bane man who had been released from the | asylum at Jacksonville, pronounced ‘mrea:_,m__‘ . o o " | witie o«&mfi killing at his uncle's near West Franklin, Posey County, Indiana. The uncle, | who was drunk, held Willie over a kettle | of boiling water and accidentally dropped | him into it, scalding him to death. The | uncle was arrested. Joseph Landes, cashier of the St. Clair | 'Cuumy Bank at Osceola, Mo., charged iwith embezzlement on fourteen counts, | has been sentenced at Warsaw, Mo, , where the case was taken on a change of venue, to two years in the penitentiary. i The remaining thirteen counts were dismissed. ‘ Two hundred men spread out in a i straight line over the whole township of | Trenton in Fond du Lae County, Wiscon- | sin, are sweeping the surface of the earth { inch by inch over prairie, across swamp | and woods, in search of two little chil- ‘ dren, aged 2 and 3 years, of Chris Schulz, | who have been missing from home since | last Monday. ‘! The celebrated case of the Government | vB. Van Leuven et al. for alleged pension | frauds was brought to a conclusion at | Dubuque, lowa, Friday afternoon. Ar- | | guments were made by W. W. Irwin, of * St. Paul, for the defendant, and by Cato | Seils for the plaintiff. The jury retired { at 3:30 p. m. and in an hour brought in a | % verdict of guilty as charged in the second | count of the indictment. The plaintiff's | face paled under the announcement and {he was much affected. It was not gener- | ally believed the jury would convict, owi ing to the fine line drawn as to the evi- ' dence, ; The Meadoweroft Brothers, Chicago bankers, charged with having received | deposits when they were insolvent, were | convicted Thursday of embezzlement, | and sentenced to one year each in the ! penitentiary and to pay a fine of S2B, | double the amount lost by John Collins, | the prosecuting witness. The charge upon which they were convicted is but | | one of handrads similar, which might be f \hlma\:ht against them. 'The brothers are | | 83 and 35 years old. The jury was out | | thirty-three hours, and until the last | | ballot stood eleven for conviction and ! { one for acquittal. The trial lasted nine ; days. ‘ Charles Ratchford was removed to | Emergency Hospital at Detroit, Mich., | suffering from a deep cut in the head re- ‘ ceived in a drunken row. He was taken | ‘tn the operating-room and placed under i' 1 the influence of ether, but was so weak i from the loss of blood he collapsed and l ltlw surgeons had to resort to artificial | % respiration to bring back life. Then they | ] succeeded in stanching the flow of blood ! { by clamping a pair of forceps on the ends ‘ lof a severed artery in the temple. } | Ratchford suddenly regained his senses, ’ ' drew a large jack-knife, and, opening it, ! | dashed out of the door and into the street, | - 1 followed by a half dozen hospital attend- | | ants. He ran half a dozen blocks through | Michigan avenue brandishing his knife | , ‘ and threatening everybody who tried to | : i approach. At Griswold street Policeman ‘ | Dunnebeck seized the man and had him | : i conveyed to Harper Hospital. He would i | have bled to death had not the forceps ( held the injured artery together. ‘ ’ | David Svragg, his wife and six children ‘ ' 1 lived four and one-half miles from Ridgei way, Mo. He was an industrious farmer, 1 e well-to-do and greatly respected. About | l I noon Tuesday, without having given any | giens of dementia. he walked into the

' kitchen, took up the butcher knife o f§ calling two,of his children to him maac | an attempt to cut their throats. \wien | blood spurting from their %W% ( cried for thelr mother. Thinking i | ‘ wife, for whom he has shown the wnet | | marked affection, was about to escape. he i turned his attention to her. The blendy | l trail about the premises shovviif'?ff’"‘?"; 'ferocxous struggle ensued in the death | combat. The screams of the childean sobbing for their mother, seemed o in. 1 crease his anger, and two other ch J?fi 3 were soon his victims. The oldest ghild a boy of 10, and the two children whose i lives' he first attempted to take, rap to & neighbor’s and gave the alarm. @p! | one child of the family of six was lof a i ,bfll}y 6 months old crooning in thea", This was murdered next. Then he went J out by the side of his wife, and, deg rin the same knife over his own thro '-'f’gei‘] | across her body lifeless. There cap.« e | sibly be no other cause than insgy ty ’ Spragg was never quarrelsome, wag mt | Intemperate and never abused his fam(ily. He was always indulgent and ppov ’ dent. The three children who m%::}; | are 6 months, 2 years and 4 years old. | The two children, ¢ and 8 respectively, | Who escaped with the oldest child, gre - badly lacerated, but the wounds Wfifierhaps not prove fatal. ; {3 Under the center of the Chicago River in the Washington street tunnel 1 runcaway Milwaukee avenue train T y - night dashed inte a Madison street trgin, the grip of the former and the Ogde tavenne trailer of the latter teléscgping | score or more passengers hurt, sOK. : ##ri- | ously. According to the little infofmation that could be obtained from the grip- | man of the runaway train, his grip broke ! just as he reached the arch of the tunnel. - His heavily loaded train shot forward - down the incline and before he could set | the brakes it had acquired such headway | that the brakes were practically useless. | The rails were wet ani slippery, and the | train slid onward with ever-increasing | momentum toward the cars in front of it, notwithstanding the gripman bore down pon the brake lever with all his weight | and strength, and poured sand on the ; rails. He yelled at the top of his voice |“"d rang his gong, hoping the gripman ashead would understand and let go the ‘ cable, but he did not seem to comprehend. Passengers on the runaway train were t thrown into a panie, and some tried to | get out, but the cars were so erowded | that they simply wedged each other in | tighter. The crash came just in the midi dle of the tunnel under the river. There ' was a bump, a ripping of timbers, a grind- ‘ ing, erushing sound, and the two trains | came to a standstill, wrenched and broken | at the bottom of the grade. Then were ! heard other sounds, There were shrieks | of fear and groans of pain. lire added | its terrors to the stampede which follow- | ed the wreek, but fortunately the flames | were extingunished before additional inCjury and suffering were intlicted, The | work of rescue and clearing away the | wreck was conducted by the firemen, and ! occupied two hours. i SOUTHERN., | The damage by the recent earthguake | to the Cathedral at the City of Mexsico is L estimated at §300,000, é A receiver is asked for the Southern ' Malleable Iron Works, of Chattancoga, Tenn., Chicago stockholders in which are charged with gross frauds. : | A dispatch from Atlanta says the United States Grand Jury has iggiesed thirty-six prominent men of rray County, Georgia, for white-capping peditibille. Faleoner, of Austin, Bpxas, i b N :-; % hil ‘;% fio. stroyed a portfait of ius wife Lus band, punched the head of his motßer-in-law, and then committed suicide. The Dwight Manufacturing Company will build a 500,000 cotton mill at Alabama City for the reason, it is alleged, the Chicopee mills cannot compete with those of other States, owing to the restrictive laws of Massachusetts, At New Orleans, La.,, Andy Bowen, the Southern champion light-weight, was knocked out in the eighteenth round Friday night by “Kid"” Lavigne, of Saginaw, Mich.,, before the Auditorium Club, Bowen is now at the Charity Hospital and ‘l;..fl condition is ¢« Zr\illa‘l‘(‘!i ll'f{il'{ll. Illh physicians say it is concussion of the brain. One of the bhad symptoms was that the pupils of the eyes were different colors, and a spell of vomiting caused the man's friend’s much alarm. The knockout blow was this: Lavigne feinted with his right and as Bowen ducked his elbow cought Bowen's chin. As Bowen straightened up Lavigne's right ecaught him on the point of the jaw and Bowen fell back, his head striking the platform with full force. The entire Lavigne party has been aicrested. S WASHINGTON. I'rom returns to the Agrienltural De- l partment the condition of winter wheat l Dec. 1 is placed at 89, against 81.0 last | year. ‘ Horace White and Secretary Carlisle presented bills for currency reform before the House Commitiee on Banking and Currency. Secretary Carlisle and Comptroller Eckles explained the new currency plan to the House Banking and Currency Committee. A resolution calling on the President to begin negotiations to sceure the independence of Cuba was offered in the Senate ' Monday. g % A proclamation declaring o — lands granted the St. Paul Railroff the Sioux reservation has been-isSuéd by ! the President. | Messrs. Dolph and Sherman on Tues- | day addressed the Senate in behalf of ‘ the bill to grant Government aid to the { Nicaragua Canal. ! President Cleveland has transmitted to ;‘th() SNenate the correspondence relative | to the Armenian outrages together with ‘ a letter from Secretary Gresham. | In the House Thursday Mr.:Cockran's ! motion to recommit the urgency deficien- | ¢y bill, with instructions to strike out the appropriation for the income tax, was i defeated—yeas, 49; nays, 168, ' Secretary Carlizle has ordered syit { brought against the White Lead Trust to [ recover $25,000 illegally drawn from the | Government as alleged drawbacks o pig . lead which was never ixnpm't(’d.«_b. | Senator Blanchard has introduced g bill in the Senate to refund to the Citizeng’ | Bank of Louisiana $1,569,790, being the | amounts exacted from the bank by Gen- | erals Butler, Banks, and Canby during | the war, with 6 per cent. interest. ‘ Senator Blanchard bhas introduéed g bill directing the Secretary of the Tregsl ury to refund to the Citizens’ Bank of | i Louisinna $257,013, the amount eXacted ! of the bank in 1862 by Gen. B. F. Butler, | commanding the United States army at ' New Orleans, $70,000 exacted by Gen. .

Sthag . < 3 In 1863, and $1,242,777 exacted by | | Gen. Canby in 1866, with interest at G | | per cent. yh!gston dispatch: Word reaches ;;‘thrz: ::lsz vtt;st cattile interests of the o niing an invested capital of |ot less than $500,000,000, are atl))out to :ej'gapple in a deathlock struggle with the s.;";gg’t'fn;";:t} :nli t}fflf the direction of the i ged with P. D. Ar- | mour, Nelson Morris, and Swift, the Chi- | cago kings of the meat trade. The United States is to be the battle-ground. Free | sugar is a necessity to the free exportation of meat products to the great con- | suming markets of Europe. The imposition of a duiy on sugar was promptly met by the raising of an embargo against American beef by Germany and Denmark. Germany has indicated clearly that she does not propose to recede from the position taken with regard to American meats until the discrimination against the beet sugar interests of the German empire is removed. The American meat trade with foreign countries approximates $150,000,000 a year, and anything that threatens this mighty business in a vital or important way instantly touches the ‘ pockets of one of the most powerful and | fighting combinations ir existence. In! this fight the meat men feel that they can command the aggressive support of the Senators from every Western and South- ’ ern State and put up a combination that will be invincible., 'The department of agriculture may be relied upon to help the ~cattle men. This is the first real danger Lthat has mensced the sugar trust, e £ FOREIGN, ‘ The Turkish Cabinet may resign, it view of the complications growing out of the Armenian troubles. The victorious Japanese are expected to attack Fu Chow shortly, and to make an early advance on Pekin. The Greck parliament has voted to hold back or destroy this year's crop with a view to improving the market. The Japanese entered Port Arthur and butchered the defenseless inhabitans, the reign of terror lasting three days. Bicyelist Lenz, who was on a tour around the world, is believed to have been killed by brigands in Asiatic Turkey. Diplgmatic action has been suspended at Constantinople in consequence of the exchange of views between the powers. Freiherr von Berlepsch, the German Minister of Commerce, resigned because bills which he had drafted were rejected. The British Government has decided to send an independent delegation to investigate the Turkish atrocities in Armenia, News that Emperor Francis Joseph had approved the ecclesinstical bills created enthusinsm in the Hungarian Reichsrath. English Tory leaders are arousing antagonism to the new Russian loan, and insinuate that Rosebery is interested in the speculation, IN GENERAL The United Evangelical conference adopted a rule to limit the terms of office of presiding elders to eight years, The court of inquiry held Capt. MeIntosh responsibfe for the wreck of the Wairarapa, by which eighty lives were lost, Bradstreet's reports a decrease of 1,219,000 bushels in the available supply of wheat in the United States and Canada, President Diaz, of Mexico, has declined many offers of men amd money, be leving there is no danger of war with Guatemala. The United States Supreme Court dismissed the appeal in the famous BentonNewby pension case for failure to sign the appeal bond. l:\“‘\‘i\‘\'('fi of the Atchison and ‘Frisco petitioned for severance of relations with the Atlantic and Pacifiec and for discontinuance of four non-paying branch lines. The National Water Purifying Company, of New York, has filed a suit against the New Oricans Water Works Company for §134,000, the alleged value of a filter plant which they put up, guaranteeing it to filter all the water required. This the defendants claim the filter company failed to accomplish. Two large English firms who hold much Newfoundland paper, and who were expected to fail Monday, are still holding out. Their survival so far greatly adds to the hope that the Union Bank of St. John'’s will be able to continue business. The Im{-m'x‘i:l‘i )llhi.\!i‘_\’ declines to interfere unless the colony is willing to accept a royal commission to investigate its affairs, the commission to be applied for by the Legislature. The ministers, knowing their defeat is certain should (l:t'}' face the Assembly, tendered their resignations Wednesday. Mr. Green, leader qu the opposition, has been called upon by the Governor to form a cabinet, 'The I run on the St. John's savings bank coni tinues. Quantities of specie for the Government and private concerns are now on the way from England and Canada. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prima, [email protected]; hogs, shipping grades, $3.50 @4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2@@3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 54@55¢; corn, No. 2, 46@47c; oats, No. 2, 29@30c; rye, No. 2, 484150¢; butter, choice creamery, 23@ 23Y%c; eggs, fresh, 21@22¢; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, Do@loc. ' . shipping, s3@ 5.75; hogs, choice light, $3¢i4.75; sheep, common to prime, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 52@53c¢; corn, No. 1 white, 43@ 431%c; oats, No. 2 white, 33@@34ec. St. Louis—Cattle, s3@o; hogs, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 52@@53c; corn, No. 2, 46@47¢; oats, No. 2, 30@31c; rye, No. 2, dd@dHsc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.5025.50; hogs, s4@s; sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, dHa@ss4%e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45@46¢; oats, No. 2 mixed, 32@33c; rye, No. 2, S4ahoe. Detroit— Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s4@ 4.75; sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 1, white, 55@56¢; corn, No. 2 vellow, 44@15c; otts; No. 2 white, 34@35¢; rye, No. 2, So@Sle. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 54@35c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46@47¢; oats, No. 2 white, 33@33%¢; ryve, No. 2, Ho@s2c. Buffalo—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s4@ 5; sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, HBV4 @d9%c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 48(@49c; oats, No. 2 white, 36@37c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 7@ BSc; corn, No. 3, 43@44c; oats, No. 2 white, 32@32%c; barley, No. 2, 52@55c¢; rye, No. 1, 49@50c¢; pork, mess, $11.75@ 12.25. I New York—Cattle, s3@6: hogs, $3.50@ 5.25; sheep, s2@4; wheat, No. 2 red, 61@ 62c; corn, No. 2, 52@53c; oats, white. Western, 3S@42¢; butter, creamery, 23@ 24c; eggs, Western, 22 25c¢.

e ————————————————————————— f 'PAYING MORE WAGES . e e e eenn ENCOURAGING FEATURE OF THE BUSINESS WORLD. o — Council Bluffs Has a Tragedy in a Bank —Death of Robert Louis Stephenson | —City of Cleveland Aroused Against Criminals—McDonald in Jail. Trade Winds. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly Review of Trade says: Dun’s review is enabled, by the kindness of several thousand manufacturers who have forwarded statements of their pay-rolls for November, this year, in | 1893, and in 1892, to make encouraging comparison of earnings for that month, which shows an increase in total payments of 15.2 per cent. over last year, but a decrease of 18.3 per cent. in comparison with 1892; 10.2 per cent. more persons ' were employed than a year ago, but 8.6 per cent. less than in 18092, The average of earnings for over 250,000 hands is 4 per cent. larger than in 1893, but 141, per cent. less than in 1892. In some of the industrios more hands are at work than in 1862, but in others the decrease is large. Neither the larger orders in some branches nor the depression of prices in others, afford a safe indication of the general movement. But tho working force does not lessen more than usual for the time of year, the demand for goods does not seer to diminish, though in most departments it is considerably below the capacity of works in operation, and the i volume of business transacted is a little | larger in comparison with last year than | in Novewber. Great Novelist Passes Away, Advices from Apia, Samoa, of the date | Dec. 8, are that the novelist, Robert Louis 5 Stevenson, had died suddenly of apoplexy. { At the time of his death Mr. Stevenson ; ' bad half completed the writing of a new | | novel. Some time ago Mr. Stevenson, { who was suffering from lung trouble, i went to the South Pacifie for his health. | He became enraptured with the Samoan ! Islands and decided to take up his resi- E dence and spend the rest of his days there. Ie took a close interest in S:\-, { moan affnirs and has written many let- | | ters to the newspapers in favor of the na- ! | tives as against the treaty powers under | | whose direction the government of the | ! islands is conducted. % Gen. Harrison Out of the Race. } A Baffalo (N. Y.) dispatch says: Col D. 8 Alexander, who was United States { District Atterney for Northern New York Lunder P'resident Harrison, returned from { the West. He stopped for two days in f]ndi:n.:n;miis. and spent some time with sex-President Harrison. In an interview with a Buffalo Express reporter Col. AlP exander said Gen. Harrison assured him | that under no circumstances would he be i a candidate for President again. He ? said Gen. Harrison gave his reasons very freely and imposed no conditions on him to held the talk confidential. |§ Shot in a Bank. l { John Huntington, remittance clerk inl the Citizens' State Bank of Council | | Bluffs, shot and narrowly missed killing i I'. N. Hayden, of Chicago, and A. Cromt\\‘vll. of Minneapolis, superintendent and | luspector respectively for the Fidelity {and Casualty Company of New Yurk& | City. The shoeting was done a few min--i utes nfter 11 o'clock Sunday, in thé priviate oflice of the bank in the presence of ; Charles . Hannan, cashier, and J. D. ' { Edmundson, President of the bank, and | { was the outcome of a SSOO shortage which l‘ ‘h:ul been traced to Huntington. i Cleveland Orders Its Toughs to Go, l The murder of W. H. Price and the es- | cape of the murderer in Cleveland, Ohio, i have brought the auvthorities to the con- | { clusion that the entire operation of the | police force must be revolutionized. Every ‘ gambler, thief, crook. divekeeper, owner | of any resort where thieves are known to : { congregate, every loafer and drunkard, | tand, in faet, every person whose presence ’ | in the city menaces the safety of the pub- } { lie has been warned and ordered to leave ; { the city at once. | ‘ NEWS NUGGETS, E , A { Delegates from thirty-five Indiana cities ! | assembled at Indianapolis to form an or- | | ganization to develop the resources of the : State. | Henry Harbuck, about 80 years uld.l from Collinsville, Ala., was run over and | killed by a train on the Texas and Pacific | Railroad at Marshall, Texas. i { A Chicago undertaking firm is reported | to have stolen coflins they have used dur- : { ing the last five years out of country | | graveyards in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan ] and Wisconsin, and, after refitting, resold | | them to country firms. 1 ; At Memphis, Tenn., the jury in tho! i case of Smith and Richardson, concerned ‘ : in the lynching of six negroes some weeks | | ago, returned a verdict of not guilty. | l They were released and the cases against % the other suspects were quashed. I | A crclone, which swept over Little | | Will's Valley, near Atlanta, Ga., blew | George Stovall out of a house and against ! | a tree, killing him. A negro child on Gil- | | land’s plantation was killed and two oth- | ! ers hurt. Two dozen dwellings were | i wrecked. | Henry R. Pomeroy, a charity patient at the Indianapolis Hospital, died Thursday. He was 70 years old and last winter { both himself and wife were inmates of the county poorhouse. Although an object of charity at the time of his death, | he had been a personal friend and neigh- | ‘bor of Lincoln, a companion of Grant, and .an acquaintance of Arthur. Ide was ‘ ¥ once part owner of the St. Louis Globe- | Democrat. | ‘ Mr. and Mrs. David Slocum, a wealthy couple living near Edinboro, Pa., were | robbed Saturday night by six masked ‘;burglm's. They started to torture the | couple, but just as the oil was being ap- | plied to Mr. Slocum’s feet one of the s burglars found a money chest. This and | other hiding places showed SIO,OOO in gold ; and greenbacks. The burglars escaped. ‘ Many lives have been lost by (‘:Ll‘th-} | quakes in the New Hebrides Islands. ‘ > i the Illinois Board of World's TFair | | | Commissioners report an unexpended bal- | | ance of the Fair appropriation of SSOO,- | - 000. . i | °f, -‘4;‘ '.nl ‘f ! ‘ Joseph Truskey was hanged at Sand- | | wich, Ont. Daniel Robertson was hang- \ ed at New Bedford, Mass.; Alec Williams | was hanged at Elberton, Ga. ‘ ? ) Three white men were shot and badly | wounded by negroes at Cabaniss, Ga. | The whites started to kill a negro, who ‘ | escaped and called up d mob of friends.

“ e e T —. SENATE AND HOUSE. e ———————————————— WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. S Proceedings of the Senate and House of Bepresentatlves—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solons. The House on Tuesday, after a spirited debate, passed the bill legalizing the pooling of railroads, by a vote of 166 to 110. Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky reported the urgent deficiency bill. Mr. Dingley of Maine asked unanimous consent for the consideration of a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information first as to whether the articles of the Behring Sea tribunal had resulted last season in saving the fur seal herds from that destruction they were intended to prevent; second, information as to the number and sex of seals killed by pelagic sealers; third, the protection of fur seal herds on the Pribyloff Islands; and fourth, the revenue derived by the Government from the seals during the past and the expenditure of the Government for the protection during the same period. The business of the Senate was confined to confirming nominations. By a vote of 24 to 34 the Senate refused Wednesday to take up Mr. Vest's resolution for an amendment of the rules. An unsuccessful attempt was made to se- - cure consideration of the bill to strike out the differential duty on sugar. Consideration of the urgency deficiency bill was begun by the House. A motion to strike out the appropriation for the collection of the income tax was defeated. A majority ’ of the House Banking and Currency Committee is said to be opposed to the administration plan for currency reform. In a ; letter to the committee, Lyman J. Gage, -of Chicago, recommended the issue of $250,000,600 in 21% per cent. bonds and the retirement of legal tender notes. The Senate adjourned Thursbay until . .\lu:y‘.;l)‘. Practically all the time of the | session was consumed in the discussion | of the bill to establish a national university at Washington and the Nicaragua * canal bill. The House passed three ap- | propriation bills—the urgent deficieney, | fortifications and military academy—and { made fair progress on the pension bill. { Mr. Cockran secured a record-making vote on the appropriation fer the colleetion of the income tax by moving to recommit the bill with instructions to strike it out, but his motion was defeated by 120 majority, the vote standing 49 to 169. The fortifications bill as passed carried 1,870,057, 85,473,640 less than the estimates, and the military academy bill - $457,678, $127,372 less than the estimates. The pension bill carries $141,381,570, 8200,000 less than the estimates, and $£10,260,000 Jess than the appropriation for the current fiscal year. The time of the House was consumed F'riday with debate on the pension appropriation bill, and although it abounded in charges and counter charges it lacked interesting detail. The bill carries $141,E 381,570, and was passed without amend- | ment. The Hitt resolution of inquiry calling on the Secretary of State for the correspondence relating to the payment of $425,000 in copnection with the fur seal controversy was adopted. A resolution . &nuthorizing Commander Dennis Mullen, ~of-the Tnited States navy, to accept a | medal from the Chilean Government was | adopted. The Senate was not in session. f In the Senate Monday a communica- | tion from Secretary Gresham relative to g the continuation of the bureau of Ameri- | can republies was referred to the Com- } mittee on appropriations. Mr. Blanchard, -of Louisiana, presented petitions praying ! for the passage by the Senate of a land | forfeiture bill. Mr. Hill, of New York, presented a resolution calling upon Secretary Carlisle for a copy of the income tax regulations, which was passed. The - bill for a national university was placed on the calendar. The Senate resumed consideration of the Nicaraguan Canal biil. In the House Mr. Herman, of Ore- - gon, presented a preamble and resolution } declaring that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty | was an obstacle to the construction of an ! interoceanic canal and that it should be abrogated. Fifteen of the sixteen penl sion bills favorably reported from the I'riday night session were then passed | without objection in exactly four minutes. | Mr. Mcßae, chairman of the Committee | on Public Lands, moved to pass, under a ; suspension of the rules, the bill to protect | publie forest reservations. Mr. Wells, of | Wisconsin, charged that rascality was be- | hind the bill and predicted that those who i were pushing it through with whip and | spur would live to regret their action. i The vote resulted 159 to 53 and the bill | was passed. The army appropriation bill | carried $23,259,.808—5168,616 less than | the estimates. The bill was passed withg out amendment. ! D ieflets. ! Gold is beginning to go out again,sl,- | 581,123 having been withdrawn from the ! National Treasury in a day. | Logan Clendenning, the first patient | treated by Kansas City physicians with ‘ anti-toxine, has entirely recovered. | Consul Gilford at Basle, Swit'zorlur'xd, [ warns Swiss not to eturn to their native [ country expecting to get work, for the field of labor is evercrowded. Henry Whilt, J. D. Boster, and George Adams were arrested at Huntington, W. Va., on the charge of robbing George B. Sanford, a farmer, of $1,500. Remnants of the commonweal army in the State of Washington will march to l Olympia and demand an appropriation for ' publie highway improvements. Emperor William has presented gold watches, with his portrait and monogram, | to two Bedouin sheiks, in recognition of | their services to several German archae- | ologists. | | ITerman Shafer has been expelled from !fllv Southern Indiana M. E. conference { and the church at Columbus, Ind., fsm i renting a stere-room to a man who will | seli liquor under a government license and | is a druggist. l George D. Sherwin, a well-known at|tul'nv_\' of KKausas (‘h'\".‘\,["" died from | the effects of a self-administered dose of ! morphine, taken to alleviate suffering due % to asthma. | J.W. Wheeler, of Elizabeth, N. J., has [ been appointed receiver of the J. W. Fow- | ler Car Company of Elizabethport. The l assets are about $128,000; liabilities, | £130,000. Morris Loerishal, one of the best known | pension agents in Northern Ohio, was I indicted by the United States grand jury ! at Toledo for using fraudulent affidavits ] to secure pensions.