St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 January 1895 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. WORK OF THE WATER EASTEFIN CITIES ARE GIVEN A LIVELY SCARE. Otic Hundred Lives Lost in Brazil-' Snow Slides Embarrass Mountain Roads—Actors Want to Vote While En Route. Rivers at Flood Height. Towns along the Ohio and the Eastern Water courses, especially Pittsburg, were i given a scare Monday; but the worst, it j is thought, is past. Heavy rains for for- i ty-eight hours swelled the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers to flood height. This is about eight feet less than the last flood four years ago. Over fifty boats ; were swept from their moorings along ■ the Monongahela River. A number of barges loaded with coal and worth $lO,- i 000 each sank. Many mills had to close account of the water getting into the i fly wheel pits. Among them wore the ■ converting and the 32, 33, S 3 and 40 inch j mills of the Carnegie Steel Company at I Homestead. They wore compelled to i stand idle just as the strike collapsed. I The Carrie furnace, the Pittsburg wire I works, and (lit' Braddock wire works at. j Braddock were also compelled to close. Terrible Accident in Rio. A terrible accident, resulting in the loss I of 120 lives, has occurred in the bay at । Rio Janeiro. The boilers of the steamer ] Port Niehtheroy, which had a large num- I ber of excursionists on board, exploded i ( and the shock drove the red-hot coals in ( the furnaces in every direction. The steamer caught tiro and n great number ( of those on board jumped overboard to ' , escape the flames. Altogether 120 per- , sons were drowned. . ( BREVITIES, , „ . I Heavy rams and dissolved snow have started floods in the Ohio River. John Eldii Ige, brother of a wealthy Chicago man. was kilhal for $25 at Denver. I b ire originating in the Eagle flour mills { destroyed the business portion of Hamlin VV. Va. Louis Galloway and wife, who lived ' bear Edwards, Miss., were murdered by ' unknown thieves. 1 An agent of a gang of New York conn- • terfeiters was captured by a deputy Mar- J shal at Torrent, Tenn. General H. B. Deßray, who eomnnuided a brigade in the Confederate army, died at Austin, Texas. Adelia Phelps, Syracuse, N. Y.. is suspected by a coroner’s jury of killing her busband by poisoning him. General Philip Sidney Post, member of Congress from the Tenth Illinois District, died suddenly in Washington. W. C. Mac Cane, a rich mine-owner of Denver, Colo., atempted to kill himself at Norristown, l’a. lie may die. Fire near Baltimore, which destroyed a Standard Oil plant, acid and fertilizer works, caused a loss of $200,000. Kidnapers of little Ray Wickham, of Thorntown, Ind., who were surrounded in the woods, eluded their pursuers. Philip Weinburg, a rich hermit, who carried heavy life insurance, was found dead in the river at Little Rock, Ark. Mrs. William Flint, of Utica, N. Y„ shot her husband and his mother because of the laser's interference in her affairs. In a lecture in New York Felix Adler scored Trinity Church because of the unsanitary state of its tenement houses. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the woman suffragist and temperance advocate, will shortly retire from the lecture platform. Secretary Meßryde has made a final appeal to the Coal Operators’ Association to arbitrate the troubles in the Pittsburg district. Omaha police have captured three members of a band of thieves who have been doing wholesale stealing at prominent ■ Western hotels. Snowslides covering five miles west of Lock Haven, on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, blocked traffic. A freight train east bound was submerged by an avalanche between Ritchie and Hyner. Mrs. W. 11. Bannister, of Tarrytown, whose husband was, until last summer, law partner of Senator Lexow, has eloped with a hackman, taking her child with her. Friends say the couple have gone to ! Bismarck, N. D. The San Francisco Morning Call, one ' of the oldest newspapers on the Pacific coast, was sold at auction by United States Commissioner Heacock to Charles M. Shortridge, proprietor of the San Jose Mercury, for $3(50,000. The Actors’ Protective Union of Boston j is considering a plan for securing for the i PO.OOO actors in this country an amend- I merit to the national election laws where Y>y tlvey will be allowed to vote in the place where their profession may call them on |

election day. j The residence of William Woolfolk, I j near Marengo, Ind., was destroyed by । fire, he and his wife haring barely time | to escape in their night clothes. They I ( credit their escape to the intelligence of a large cat, which awakened them by ' ear-piercing cries and clawing at Mr. i Woolfolk's whiskers. The Humane Society nt Cincinnati, ' Ohio, received a box from Burglar James Anderson, now serving a long term at the Columbus penitentiary. It contained a lot of toys made by the burglar for his children, who are under the supervision of the society. Anderson is tile crook whose escape from the Cincinnati jail caused a great political scandal three yeads ago. His recapture was due to his love for his children, from whom he could not stay away. S. L. Swaim shot and killed Widow ' Cooper and her daughter at the McDaniel farm, twelve miles from Newport, Ark. ! 'Swaim surrendered himself. Maud Fries, of Millville, N. J., 14 years old, had a large shawl-pin in her mouth and when she laughed it slipped down her throat. She is in Philadelphia and sur- ' geons are trying to remove it. Maud "Williams, aged JO years, was attacked by two dogs at Allegheny, I’a., and so badly injured that she may die. The late John "Walter, proprietor of the , Loudon Times, left a jHTsooal estate of £203,573, all of which gm* to his children.

EASTERN. A lighted cigar stump started a fire which destroyed the city hall, postoffice, j public library and opera house at Biddei ford. Me. W. F. Rossman, Jr., bookkeeper of the j Hudson River National Bunk, Hudson, N. Y., lias been arrested, charged with । embezzling $14,000. | A syndicate of New York and Boston i lumber dealers has purchased 800,000 j acres of timber lands in Nova Scotia, including sixteen sawmills. The horrors of the Delavan House fire at Albany, N.Y., increase as the hours go by and the list of persons reported missi ing is increased to seventeen. Storekeep- ' er Bronk and Chief Chef Tomaznia said that there could be no doubt that all of the missing met their doom in the fire. Judge Parker, of the Now York Supreme Court, has decided that the railroad commissioners can use railroad ! passes issued by the Secretary of State ; and that the new constitution does not ; prohibit the Legislature from providing that passes may be issued to State officials when traveling on official business. At Keene, N. 11., a sleigh containing Charles Brooks, aged (JO years; his daugh- ’ ter Ada, aged 25; and Louis Bergeron, . aged 15, was struck at the Water street I crossing by the north-bound passenger ! train from Boston on the Fitchburg railroad Tuesday night, killing them all. Tho ’ bodies were thrown over 100 feet beyond the crossing. The crossing is not guarded 1 by a flagman or gates. The Lehigh Valley passenger train No. 134 from flenevn I Tuesday night struck a sleigh a hnJf-mile east of Willard, N. Y., containing Mrs. Hughes, her son, and Miss Larkin of Ovid, mid nil the occupants were killed. WESTERN. Stephen Rnpere, the distinguished author and engineer, is dangerously ill in tho pauper ward of a St. Louis h ispitnl. William Bowers, marshal of the town of Gallup, N. M.. has disappeared. The citizens believe that he is the victim of foul play. His room indicates the pres cnee of intruders during the night, and the finding of his pistols, star and hat on tho table in tho room is taken as proof that he hns been murdered. Just at midnight Tuesday as the “Owl” suburban on the Northwestern reached the Deering depot. Chicago, it ran through an open switch into a freight standing on n side truck. The tender of the passenger engine crashed into the first conch, badly Injuring live passengers. 'Die collision knocked the freight from the track, and half a dozen curs fell onto tho depot, partly wrecking it The main building of tho Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane burned Thurs lay night at Anna. Th * loss will be $3 O, (MMt. Tho tire originated in the roof of tho center section, where the officers are quartered. The hospital fire department fought manfully. The Cairo fire department went upon a special train. Five hundred patients were quartered in the building, but they were removed to an nd joining building. No lives have lai n lost bo far as known. Assistant Cashier Frank 11. Sparks, of the Cincinnati Postoflice, took $5.83 from the cash drawer while alone in the lunch hour to make up a shortage of $283. He ' then struck himself on the head so ns to cause an abrasion, lay on the floor to Im* , found apparently unconscious by the jan ■ itor, and then asserted lie had been attacked and robbed by two men. Ills ■tory was so faulty as to arouse the j suspicion of the police, and when closely pressed Sparks admitted his guilt. Within the hist few days buyers of oranges have been active in Sun Bernardino, Cal., picking up choice lots nt an advantageous price. News of the disaster to the crop in Florida hns resulted in an advance from 50 cents a box. hereto fort* offered in the orchard, to $1 a box The growers are much encouraged and are now holding No. 1 seedlings and nave] at from sl.lO to $1.50 n box. .1. E.Pnce, orange grower at Sanford, I'ln., has ns signed for the benefit of his creditors. He is said to hare lost $30,000 by the freeze. While trying to arrest two burglars, who had just attempted to take a life. Patrolman Edward Dmldles, of Chit ago. was shot and instantly killed Thursday night. The men accused of the crime are Ed Lally and Joseph Carey, members of the notorious gang that infests Market Street and the tough North Side district । known as “Little Hell.” If the policemen who obey Inspector S' han k’s orders 1 carry out the mandate issued by him as son ns ho learned one of his men had been killed while in the performance of his duty tin* murderers will be “brought , in” on a stretcher. Fifty officers were । detailed on this man-hunt and they practically were told to kill on sight. The ninth convocation of the University of Chicago took place Wednesday night at the Auditorium. Those who looked for a donation from Mr. Rocke- ; feller as a result of the recent conference between the university’s founder and its chief executive were not disappointed. Mr. Rockefeller's contribution is $175,000, to be devoted to the general expense fund for the scholastic year beginning , July 1, 1805. This gift, with the income ' derived from other sources, provides the I university with $600,000 for the expenditures of the year beginning July 1. 1805. Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, of Chicago, ♦he donor of tin- Itaakell <>vientnl Mu scum ami founder of the $20,000 lectureship on comparative religions, announces

a third donation of $20,000 for the founding of a second lectureship on the relations of Christianity to other religions. The Chicago Post says: Corruption in j almost every form pervades tLt* police j justice system of Chicago. The justices । themselves may not be guilty of contain i inating their hands with base bribes, but the hangers on in these so-called courts are usually men without principle, bent only on getting hold of the money of the unfortunate victims of police justices -is they can seize by means fair or foul. Nearly every station in which police court is held has ns vicious criminals prominent in the proceedings as there are in the cells. The special bailor who robs the wretches who are arrested; the shyster lawyer; the man with a pull, who extorts money from the criminals under a . specious promise of being able to have I their punishment mitigated, and last and most dangerous is the man who really has a “pull,” who can secure the suspension of fines and who does so for a consid- ; eration paid to him by the prisoner. The figures taken from the records in the offices of the city attorney, city prosecutor, comptroller and the various police ■ courts show the amazing disproportion ; between the fines stayed and the fines ! collected in police courts in the months of October and November. 1894. Over $38,i 000 fines were imposed, and but $6,000 I collected. j Bart Scott, defaulting treasurer of Holt County, Nebraska, is reported to have

been hanged Monday night by vigilants. There are many rumors afloat in regard i to Scott’s disappearance, and some believe that Scott has been disposed of, that he lias been either hanged or his body weighted and dropped into the Niobrara River in the quicksands. Others believe that it is only a ruse for Scott’s escape and that he lias fled to parts unknown, while a few think that Scott's own friends have put him out of the way to keep him from telling on them. Barrett Scott, while serving his second term ns treasurer of Holt County, Nebraska, about eighteen months, disappeared from his home in O’Neill. Ho was traced to Mexico and u long tight ensued over bringing him back to the States. The Holt County Sheriff first came back without him, and after n long delay he was brought home. He was arraigned mid convicted of stealing $70,000. The county sued h’s bondsmen, but Aug. 20 the District Court decided that Scott and not his bondsmen was responsible. Scott was out on bail. Tin* case has attracted much attention all over the whole West. SOUTHERN. An Immense bed of lignite has been discovered in Holmes County, Mississippi. The First Baptist Church nt Chattanooga, Tenn., the handsomest in the [ South, was damaged by fire to the extentT of $40,000. Nelson Whitaker, tho millionaire jroir manufacturer of Wheeling. W. Vn„ Ti'aW announced his candidacy for the United i States Semite. Elin Norwood, tho young woman wb™ killed her 30-duy infant by placing pins p in its mouth mid forcing it to swallow them, will lie hanged at Durham, N. C., 1 eb. 8. The Alabama W. C. T. U. hns pnssed a r< solution condemning Congressman Breckinridge mid calling on Christian men and women to boycott him nud his lecture 1 w<> young negro boys have confessed to an attempt to wreck the Cotton Belt express Monday night nt Buena Vista, Ark. Their only object was curiosity to see n smash-up. At El Paso, Texas, more than SIO,OOO worth of diamonds and other jewelry was taken from the store of Hickox & Nixon Tuesday. Not a valuable stone or watch was left in th* house, but not a cheap watch was disturbed. Editor Moore, of the Blue Grass Blnde, was assaulied with n cane by John T. Shelby, Breckinridge's law partner, at Lexington. Shelby pulled out n bunch of Moore's whiskers. The cause of the trouble was an open letter from Moore to Madeline Pollard inviting her to go on a lecturing tour with him. On the heels of an attempt to rob tho Cottou Belt express Monday night near Buena Vista, Ark., an obstruction was placed on the truck near the same spot Tuesday night, but wns discovered. Two negro boys. 12 mid 16 years old. have confessed. They wanted to see a train wrecked. WASHINGTON. Tho public debt increased $31,320,775 during I h*eriuber. Congressman McEttrick declares that ' ho will press his bill fur the creation ol department of commerce. M Semi lor Alien of Nebraska. Populist^ s imide n two hour speech in tin* Senate 30^1 mamling nn investigation of tho Senn™ n stnurnnt bet nuse c,f nn item on tho bill* of fare wherein $4 is charred for beef* steak mid truffles. Davit) B. Hill crossed his legs comfortably beneatk tin* hospitable mahogany of Grover Clevelnml Thursdny night. \\ hat brought it all ab<nit it more or loss of a mj story, but the fnct remains nt the first state dinner of the season, given in honor of the Cabinet by the President of the I nited States, the must obscritsl of nil observers was the Senator from New York, whose attitude toward the President for the last two years has been a hi usehold word from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Driven by tho inexorable neccs'-ity of raising more money with which to meet the current expenses of the Government, allies of the powers that be are about to move for mi increase of $1 a barrel in the tax on fermented liquors. The revenues would be swollen $3(>.lX»0,000 or more by that means. Beer is now taxed $1 a barrel, and the income from the beer tax for the fiscal year ISIVJ-'IM was $28,615.000. The year preceding it amounted to S3I.B!M>,(M»O. The annual production of beer in the United States averages 33.000.000 barrels, of which 10 per cent., or 3,300.000 barrels, is manufactured in Illinois, Chicago being the great center of production in the State. There was I some talk before Congress convened of enlarging the tax on spirits, but this suggestion was frowned upon by the Treasury Department, ns the change coining right on top of the new law would involve the revenue bureau in inextricable confusion and complications, and it was abandoned us inexpedient. Not so with beer, however. That is a sim* pie proposition, the tax business beingeasily in control. POLITICAL. Senator William P. Frye wns rcnomlw uiiti il nt Augusta, Me. J In Georgia county elections the Popu-1

lists did not carry over fifteen counties out of 130. A caucus of Massachusetts House Demj ocrats has decided to nominate John E. * Russell, of Leicester, for the Senate. Judge Nathan (101 l declares that he is | not a candidate for United States Senator from West Virginia. This insures the election of Steve Elkns. The joint caucus of the Republican members of the Michigan Legislature upon the short term United States Senatorship took place in Representative Hall Thursday night. Julius Cesar Burrows, the Kalamazoo Congressman, was chosen on the second ballot, receiving 70 of the 131 votes. Olds being second with 32, and Patton third with 25. On the first ballot Burrows received 64, Olds 32 and Patton 23. FOREIGN. General Peixoto, ex President of Brazil. is dead, according to a rumor from Mountevideo. The British steamer Yozford sunk the French bark Marie Louise. Five of the bark's crew were drowned. Judicial inquiry into the conduct of directors of the French Southern Railway has revealed another financial scandal. Liu Kun Yi has been appointed commander of the Chinese forces, superseding Li Hung Chang and Prince Kuug. Letters sent to missionaries in Armenia

from the headquarters of the American board are opened and examined by Turkish officials. Fire started in a French laundry i n Edgeware road, Ixmdon, early Wednesd«y mormng and eight persons asleep in the building were burned to death. fonm>| MeX i Cnn has made a mMa demand on Guatei*J^cted bvV “ e i? 1 ® ® mouut of damages tSd h i y Guatemalans. The total indemnity asked is $1,868,544. lis^Tm'* tlla t the Governor of BitmiliUrv 1 asha ' " h ° commanded the tr Ct w hor ° nH 1,1 the S assann distorted m BO r U ” y have been ’.T ha * be en assassinated by an tmenian, who committed suicide. u*S’ i hL , i ei>Ortß " eteiv ‘‘ d at Vienna in trtets of -Sr T ^‘-‘oxinc in the <lis-in-e dLT e : nn<l Cz emowitz show a therta ’ n ""’al>t.v from diph11 I I ? sports advise that the n-m IN GENERAL (The bark Osseo was wrecked on IlolyIwad breakwater and the twenty-four l^rsons on board were drowned. iGreat suffering in Newfoundland lias been in a measure relieved by the adopitti’U of a bill by the Legislature guaranthe notes of the Vuion mid c„ ln . I .uv" O'* y pbitunry*. At Yonkers, N. Y., Joseph i&bb Hambleton, an old resident of Chi.^o, 67. At Chillicothe, Mo., Capt. 11. Lt* ^’Goy*—At Virginia, 111., Mezer Slow■Mi, 83.—At Bower, 111., Theodore Routh Judge E. Rockwood Hoar, Attorney peneral under President Grunt, is dying |f a disease of the mitral valve of the lenrt. Physicians who have been summoned in consultation say the end is likoly to come at any minute. Obituary: At Davenport. lowa, Janies Thompson, 68; at Philadelphia, Dr. James F. Rhoads, ex president of Bryn Mawr College, 67; nt Richmond Center. Wis., Rev. John Walworth. I>>; at Racine, Wis., W. John Adams; at New York, Mrs. Plioebe Ix>rd Day. 'Die Cincinnati Price Current summarizes the crop situation for the past week ns follows: “A large portion of the winter wheat area has been favored with snow, giving protection and lieneficial moisture. The general outlook is assuring. Thoofferings of wheat me generally light, with decreasing tendency. There have tieen fair offerings of corn, with probable early decrease. Wheat feeding hns lessened, but is maintaining previous estimates. The week's packing of hogs was 225.000, the same ns for the corre•pending week n year ngo.” S London dispateh says: It has now been •scertained thnt 322 fishermen belonging to Hull. Grimsby mid Yarmouth were lost in the recent gale. The gules caused immense damage on the Island of Heligoland. Pnrt of the town was wiohed nwny. The Berlin Minister of Publii Works hns gone to examine into the condition of affairs. Snowstorms prevail throughout Euro|H*. 'rhe heaviest fall hn? been in Silesia, where railway traffic if pnrtly suspended. In Italy ther-* are high walls of snow on each side of the street-?. ! Many deaths from freezing nre reporte*! Troubles continue to heap upon the whisky trust Answers from stockhold-I cm on the organization s- bemo are not I coming in to suit the directors and word | was received Fridny morning nt I'rorin I of the collapse of one of their nutsMe denis by whi- h they |>»-e over s'.SHi.<s»». President Greenhut mi l s on* f his ns soi intes invested s7s.•»><> in nn Irrigating canal mhi-mo nt Gila Bend. A. T.. some years ago. nud Lav- kept .n-<ud :g g d money after bud, until their total investment hns reached The pro|»erty was sold out by the sheriff mid nil the rights of the Peoria p<s>ple w ere forfeited. Eiriek Brothers, mminissi. n dealers of Buffalo, have issued their annual stock r*fsirt. covering the S»ntes of • >hio. Indiana. Illinois, mid M liig n. I’lo table given shows the visible supply of stm k in ii»mpnrison with Inst y<ar. The percentage on hogs is based on the supplies of last year at this time. On sheep and lambs the percentage is based on the stock on hnnd Dec. 31, INB. The figures : Cattle Ohio. 32 per cent, decrease; Indiana, 30 per cent, decrease; Illinois, 35 per cent, decrense; Michigan. 35 per cent, decrense. Hogs i thio. 10 per cent, decrease; Indiana, unchanged; Illinois. 20 per cent, decrease; Michigan, 5 per cent, decrease. Sheep and lambs (thio, .*>2 per cent, decrease; Indiana. 42 per cent, decrease; Illinois, 15 per cent, dei-rettse; Michigan, 40 per cent, decrease. There seems to be n decided shortage in cattle in Illinois, but two counties rep**rting more feeding this year than at this time last year. Hogs are reported generally unhealthy in Southern Ohio and in a good many parts of Illinois. Some sickness prevails in Indiana. but very little in Michigan. Wheat is being fed quite lib* rally; in sotne localities the peri outage runs as high ns 75. In Michigan particularly it is fed to a large extent, and the best results are reported. MARKET REPORTS. G Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75<i/t>; hogs, shipping grades, $3.50 4/ 1.75; sheep, fair to choice, s26z-l; k «lieat. No. 2 red. 53<.i54c; corn. No. 2. 4^ot-E»c; oats. No. 2, 2S'u29c; rye. No. .. 48@51c; butter, choice creamery, 231/^1) ] 24l^c; eggs, fresh. l'.Wi2lc; potatoes, car

lots, per bushel, 554770 c. Indianapolis — Cattle, shipping, S3B 5.50; hogs, choice light. $34/4.75; sheep, common to prime, $24/3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 524753 c; corn. No. 1 white, 4147) 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 334733 Cc. St. Louis Cattle. $34/6; hogs. $34/4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 514/52c; corn, No. 2, 414742 c; oats. No. 2, 304/31e; rye, No. 2, 4! Mi 51 c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.5085.50; hogs. $3.50475; sheep, $1,254/4; wheat. No. 2, 544/55c;. corn. No. 2 mixed, 12’ _o, 43’ g-; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32&33c; rye, No. 2, 544/,55c. Detroit— Cattle, $2,504/5.50; hogs, S4B 4.75; sheep, $2473.25; wheat, No. 1 white, 55@56c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 434/43^c; oats. No. 2 white, 33834 c; rye. No. 2. 514/52c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 544755 c: corn. No. 2 mixed, 424743 c; oats, No. 2 white. 324733 c; rye, No. 2. 517/53c. Buffalo—Cnttie. $2.50(775.50; hogs. sl4? 5. sheep, $24/3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, p7G.7,Sc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 464/47c; oats. No. 2 white. 354/36c. Milwaukee—" Wheat, No. 2 spring. 54(8 55c; corn. No. 3, 434/ l ie; oats. No. 2, white, 314732 c: barley. No. 2. 534/55c; rye, No. 1,494751 c; pork, mess, $11.5047 12. ^’ew York —Cattle, $3476; hogs, $3.0047 5.25; sheep, $2474; wheat, No. 2 red, 6247 63c; corn. No. 2,514752 c; oats, white Western, 38@42c; butter, creamery, 22@ 26c; eggs. Western, 244725 c.

IS ON A FIRMER BASIS encouraging feature of I business failures. Galling Disgrace of a French Officer -Fatal and Costly Blaze at TorontoDeath Comes in Terrible Form to Many-llorsethieves Lynched. Business Shows More Stability. K G- Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of J rude says: • for ISO 4 are fully reported, being lo,8S.» in the ( nited States and 1.556 in the Dominion of Canada. Liabilities in the United States were $172.SI < .)2,55(> nud in Canada $17,616,215. Neither the decrease of over half in this country, nor the increase of over 40 per cent, in Canada is surprising, but the statement shows that most of the decrease in the United States is in manufacturing liabilities, while the entire increase in Canada is in liabilities of trading concerns. A few States, including New York and I’ennsyivania, show more failures than in 1803, and in a tew Southern States the amount of liabilities is larger, but in central and western States, very much smaller. The fnihm s have been 12.5 in every thousand I i and In proportion to the volume of *oi"?nt

i business represented by all clearing house < xchnnges. $7.(53 for every SI,OOO. The j review places in a dear light the fact that prices of commodities are at the lowest level ever known. Three Horsethieves Are Hanged. 1 here was n wholesale hanging of horsethieves in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country the other day. The settlers down there have, ever since thu opening, been the victims of marauding bands of horse ami cattle thieves, and, I finding the authorities too slow in bringing offenders to justice, several vigilan o cominitiees wwv organized in different^ parts of the country to take the law into ■ their own hands. Horsethieves hav** been particularly bold of late, and tin* vigilantes u few days ago started on tin* ! trail of one band, followed it into the । I’nn-Hnndle ot Texas and then back into . tho Clieyenne country, overtaking it near t’antonment. Here a battle followed, resulting in the wounding of George Gaskill and Sitiusm Campbell, two of the vig- * ilnntes, and the capture of three of tho ! thieves. The latter were hanged witho.it ’ much delay, and their bodies wen* shot ■ to pieces and left hanging as a warning. : Ylauv Denths by Accident. Ry the explosion <.f a boiler in C. B. 1 B ilson's sawmill at Metz. Mo., four men j were badly hurt, two of them probably I fatally. An explosion at the Moyer Coke ; ■ plant nt Uniotitown, l’a., resulted in the injury of six men, font of w hom will die. Corning mill No. 2 of tlur Miami I’ow<b*r works, I'l ated five miles north of Nenia, < <>hio, exploded, completely demolishing' ' the building uud killing three men. Two : : miners were at work in the colliery at ■ Hazelton, Un., when the breast dosed in on them, crnsliing them almost beyoml reoignition. Both men were married and h ave large fiuuilws. Dreyfus Druuimcil Out. < '••nvii ted of <hs. V.sing important in-formafi-.n c •noThiti- the war department, I ( apt. W. Fred Dreyfus of the French .: w: s publicly d'gruded at Paris, Fcutencisl to deportation and imprisonment in a fortres ? for life. His epaulettes were torn off by a non commissioned : officer, his swonl broken and thrown at ; his f.-et. and. manacled, he was led nr-mnd the public square. He attemptisi many times to proclaim his innocence, but each time he essayed to speak the roll >J drums drew tied his utterance. Big Loss by Flames. The n st disastrous fire that has taken pin c in Toronto, tint., in many years broke out in the Globe Now-paper Build- ; ing early Sunday morning, am! before it . could Ik- g>>t under control the Globe . building and half a dozen buildings ad- | joining had been destroyed, causing a loss ; aggregating about Sl.oihi.imjv. In addition one fireman lost his life, and several ■ other firemen were injured, some of them i possibly fatally. Walker Dies Without an Estate. .1 mes M. Walker, of San Francisc >, formerly associated with Mackay, Fair, . Flo. d and ( I'Brien in mining ventures, is i dead and will be buried soon after his oil partner, ex Senator Fair. Unlike him, however, he leaves no estate to contest. YYnlker accumulated millions and went to Philadelphia in 1872. He lived luxuriously and entertained lavishly. His I millions wire soon lost in unfortunate ' speculations in railroad stocks. NEWS NUGGETS. Canada's public account shows an enormous increase in the Dominion public, i debt. W3l;;m Bowers, Marshal of Gallup, i N- M., has disappeared. Foul plav is alleged. The City National Bank of Birming- । ham. Ala., has decided to go into liquij ■ datiou. । : ■ A Clover I.eaf freight train crashen '

; into an electric car at Toledo, Ohio, and I fatally injured a passenger. < Ine of the new rules made by the Law- " rence Scientific School faculty nt Harvard requires the young men students to . take a course of hygienic cooking. The . ' Boston Cooking School will initiate them I into the mysteries (if kettle and dishpan, ; and there is no end of feminine gloating I over the prospective fun. Arrangements ! ' are being made to begin teaching the ' ' I Harvard men in the spring. George Jordan, a negro, at Savannah, | ; Ga., killed his 10-year-old son. shot his । । I wife and daughter, and then himself. An order has been issued extending the , ; civil service regulations to all superin- i tendents of stations in the postoffices of ’ ! the United States. The order takes effect ■ : I immediately. There are 126 of those ; I I offices. Robert Nichols and John Mullaney ■ i were killed in a snowslide at Silver Citv, i N. M. 'The Pennsylvania Railroad will pay | ( I $22 a. ton for steel rails. This is the low- : I est ever paid. Hawes McCreery, eon of the dead i United States Senator from Kentucky, , will be tried on a writ de lunatico in- j quirendo. Sacramento, Cal., announces that any ; burglar or robber will be lynched if • caught. Twenty-fiv# are in jail and may ' be takeu out (

jhAWAiriS UP AGAIN. SENATE RENEWS THE DISCUSSION. Military Academy Appropriation Bill Passed—House Sharply Stirred Up by Debate on Pending Currency Bill —Mr. Hendrix Opens the Fight. At the National Capital. The Hawaiian question was again brought before the public in the Senate r riday by the discussion of the resolution introduced by Mr, D.dge, o f Massachusetts, calling on the Secretary of the Navy for information as to why the I nited States battleships had been withdrawn from Hawaiian waters. The debate, which was interesting throughout, consumed the greater part of the morning hour and at its dose the resolution took its place on the calendar ami can now be taken up only by unanimous consent. Tho debate was listened to attentively by Senators and visitors in the galleries. Ihe general debate on the currency bill consumed the time of th--House. The feature of the day's debate xx as the stK'cdi made in opposition to the measure l»y Itepreseutntive llendrix. a X,*w Y..rU l.milo-v. Th.- witonttoTl XIiAC t confronted tin- treasury and the country.

he said, had not come suddenly upon us nor without ample warning. A finance minister of France had once remarked sarcastically that God was good to drunken people, little children and the people of the United States. Was the United States to go out of the business of furnishing currency for the country as a bank issue? Mr. Hendrix asked. If not. what was it going to do in order to avoid the financial bad lands? Were the p<*ople transgressing every law of finance, defying the world, and continue to do what every otln r nation had failed to do? To illustrate the result of the present system. Mr. Hendrix pointed to the large accessions of gold made by the Bank of France and tne Bank of England at our expense. The former yesterday held 2.! MM MH KMX HI g. Id francs, the la’ter £33,(hio.imhi in gold. The capital and the gold bullion of the world was resting in these great pools, waiting to see what this country would do; whether it would become a bankrupt unable to meet its obligations. Mr. Hendrix depicted graphically the present anomalous situation, the credit of the United States excellent. money idle, the banks foil, enterprise at the lowest ebb. men living from hand to mouth and the treasury fighting to keep its head above water. He described at some length the process by w hich the gobi was withdrawn by speculators for shipment abroad, and then proceeded to contrast this with the situation in France, where the Bank of France refused to pay except where actually necessary, more than 5 per cent, of gold on its demand obligations. These aggressions on our gold reserve must Ik* stopped, and if the pending bill would stop them, afford relief, take the Government out of the bunking business as it had been taken out of the silver business, he would vote for it. Mr. Hepburn, formerly solicitor of the treasury, briefly replied to Mr. Hendrix, whom he describes! as a selfheralded national banker who came with oracular utterances to tell the House what to do. Mr. Hepburn said his Svlflaudntion was impaired by the* recollection of his speech sixteen months ago, when the same conditions existed. Mr. Hendrix then found the panacea for all financial ills in the repeal of the Sherman silver law. Mr. Hepburn declared that Mr. Hendrix had pointed out unwittingly the remedy for tin* present evil when he told the House that the groat banking houses of Europe exercised their discretion about depleting their gold vaults. Why will not the Secretary of the Treasury exercise the same discretion? he asked, amid a round of applause. The exercise of this discretion did not impair the credit of European banks. Who dared to say that the credit of this country, with 63,(KM.MMM» of people behind it and an unlimited taxing power, would be impaired because it refused to kneel at the demands of the shylocks? In the House Saturday Congressman Cockran made a vigorous speech against the currency bill. He advocated the Baltimore plan. He was seconded by Mr. Lacey of lowa, Mr. Bland of Missouri, and Mr Pence of Colorado, whi!' Mr. Boat net of Louisiana and Mr. Catchings of Mississippi exhorted their party to unite in support of the measure. In the Senate Monday Mr. Ransom was elected President pro tern, and Mr. Mitchell replied to Mr. Turpie's criticisms 'of the Nicaragua Canal bill. Both House ' and Senate adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of Genral Post and appointed committees to scort the remains to Galesburg. 111. The House ordered investigation of charges that Judge Ri< ks pro<tiiuted his office to further a conspracy by which S. J. Ritchie was robbed of SG.OiXMW. The caucus of House Democrats indorsed the substitute for the Carlisle currency Lill by a vote of 81 to 59 after a spirited debate. The bill in- ! tended to take the distribution of seeds out of the hands of Congressmen has been prejiared by Secretary Morton. At an in- । formal meeting of tie Republican steer- । ing committtee it was ageed there should

be no tariff legislation at this session. Turks. No Turk will cuter a sitting-room with dirty shoes. The upper classes wear tight fitting shoes.with goloshes ' over them. The hitter, which receive all the dirt and dust, are left outside the door. The Turk never washes in dirty water. Water is poured over his hands, so that when polluted it runs away. Six Thousand Years Old. The earliest known statue is one that has been recovered from an Egyptian tomb. 11 is that of a sheik or head man of a village, is made of wood, with eyes of glass, and is evidently a portrait. Egyptologists say that it is at least 6,000 years old. PRICES. During the gold fever in California the price of board was from $5 to sls a day in San Francisco. A Countess of Anjou in the twelfth century gave 200 sheep for a copy of a favorite set of sermons. The sum of SSOO for a pair of boots was deemed reasonable during the last days of the confederacy. A suit of chain mail, such as was used about the time of William the Conqueror, often cost SI,OOO.