St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 January 1895 — Page 6

walkertoT independent. WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. TIED UP THE ROADS. BIG STREET CAR STRIKE ON IN BROOKLYN. Innocent Boy Pardoned to Festifs Against the Kcal Criminal—A Fishy Project — Sallwasser Chose a Bad Time to Laugh—Engineer Killed. Six Thousand Men Out. Nearly 6,000 men, including motormen, conductors, electricians and others employed on the various trolley railroads in Brooklyn, N. V., quit work between 4 it nd 5 o’clock Monday morning. The only road not tied up was the Brooklyn and Coney Island Mr. Lewis, president of the ffinP’d Tnr™h >n. Ther^w also" 1 ' .o awy .jv pOue-A Aw# in »ime of these numerous cases of interference occurred. There was some delay in transportation of the mails, but the mail cars were guarded by policemen. The companies expected that the men would go out, and determined to anticipate them. They asked the electricians, about 1,000 in number, if they would take out the cars. Every one of them refused to do so. They were then told that there was no work for them. One foreman was asked if he was willing to take out a ear. He refused to do it. The people had to use the elevated roads. The trains were made up with extra care to accommodate the rush. The public was greatly Inconvenienced. He Serves for Another's Crime. Governor Stone, of Missouri, pardoned from the penitentiary J. S. Paten, who was sent up from Christian County about eight years ago to serve a life sentence for murder. He was just over 16 years, the penitentiary limit, when sentenced. Recently he told the Governor the name of the real murderer, which he had known all the time, but which he had kept secret for eight years. His pardon was made so that he could testify against the guilty man. To Secure All Fishery Products. A representative from Chicago of the United States Wholesale Grocers' Association has been in Gloucester, Mass., negotiating to absorb all the fishery products landed there under the head of one gigantic syndicate. It is said he secured options on several water front properties. BREVITIES, A great meteor is reported to have fallen near Juarez, lower California. Refined Colorado silver bullion is being shipped direct from the smelters at Denver to China. The Spanish council has agreed to a modus vivendi with the United States on the tariff question. The third annual bonspiel of the Northwestern Curling Association began Monday at Milwaukee. Chancellor von Hohenlohe, accompanjiVßSr. I L“d -LAMLAs/ 1W Hi"Two trains collided in a snowstorm at Milligan, Ind., an engineer being killed, but the passengers escaping. Eight persons were injured in a panic caused by a falling floor at a church funeral at New Haven, Conn. The schooner Justine foundered in Deception Bay, off the coast of Washington. Her crew of fifteen were drowned. Ingalls is gaining support among Kansas legislators, and other Senatorial candidates fear a stampede to him. Owing to his attitude toward silver Senator Dolph may be defeated for reelection in the Oregon Legislature. Fire destroyed the Gunning Block and a number of other buildings at Boonesville, Ohio, the loss being $125,000. A terrific gale, accompanied by a heavy snowfall, swept over Great Britain. Traffic was delayed and several vessels wrecked. M ade Hampton and John Hovey,, ne- I groes. of Cairo, 111., quarreled about a nickel, and the former killed the latter ; with a club. In a skating match at Minneapolis John ; S. Johnson defeated Peder Oestlund. the : Norwegian champion, and made a new i record for a mile. Mrs. Mabel Barnaby Conrad, daughter of Mrs. Barnaby, whom Dr. Graves was accused of poisoning, has been granted a i divorce at Helena, Mont. James Appelman, on trial for compile- ' ity in the wrecking of a Southern Fa- j cific train near Sacramento, Cal.. July 11. j during the Debs strike, was acquiteed I after a long trial. At Mexico, Mo., the stock firm of Elliott & McNama made an assignment to H. C. Turner. Liabilities are estimated to be about $20,000 ami assets about §IO,OOO. The cause of the failure is speculation. A report comes from New York that Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt will not apply for a divorce, but that she and her husband have agreed to live apart, she to have the care of the children, $3,000,000 in cash and an income of $500,000 for life. Napoleon Lcpuint. or Haverhill. Mn«s . was fatally injured cluriiiK an attack on non onion »hoeni«i by J. Henry Meyer. ' a non-union man who was defending him- I self. It is feared the city may be given ! over to mob rule. Meyer was arrested. ! While William Sallwasser. of Chicago I was laughing heartily at a woman who slipped and fell at Huron and Clark streets a cable ear struck the buggy in which he sat and sent him sprawling to the ground. One of the wheels of the buggy was taken off by the grip car, but j Sallwasser escaped with only a few ' scratches. A mass meeting at San Francisco de- i nounced C. P. Huntington as a self-eon- ’ fessed briber and demanded his prosecution. The names of the three soldiers who were drowned at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., were N. I. Tuttle and Will Creitner. of Company C, and Jacob Denholf, of the post band. Both the United States and Italy will demand satisfaction of Morocco for the boarding of the bark Seutola by pirates. Mrs. Hattie Winterfield, of New York, has been sued for divorce by her husband. Eig'-teer co-respondents are named.

EASTERN. Pittsburg miners’ convention adjourned without ordering a general strike. Ono block of the town of Turtle Creek, Pa., was wiped out by fire. Loss, $50,000, Appraiser McClure, of New’ York, reports the value of the Gould estate for purposes of taxation at $80,934,580.70. Neil Hepburn, ex-postmaster of Long Island City, $7,000 short in his accounts, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Hetty Green regaled the clerks at police headquarters in New York with stories of her career and her opinions on political and other questions. A sufficient number of fleshles bones and mangled trunks have been removed from the ruins of the Delavan House fire at Albany to make eight unidentified bodies. Ralph W. Bond, aged 27 years, of Philadelphia, was sent to the Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane, suffering from an attack of insanity brought about, it is stated, by excessive cigarette ingOver fifty boats were swept from their moorings in the Monongahela River around Pittsburg by the flood. Several barges, each loaded with SIO,OOO worth of coal, sank. Bottom lands around Etna and Sharpsburg are entirely submerged. While an engine of the Kings County Elevated Railroad was switching at Snediker and Liberty avenues, getting ready to start back with four cars to the Brook lyn bridge, it ran off the end of the trackarid fell to the ground. It dragged one empty passenger car with it. The only men on the part of the train that fell, the engineer and firemen, were fatally injured. The rendition of Judge Hoar, of Concord, Mass., was reported Tuesday morning as being worse, and members of his ■ family are now expecting his death at ■ almost any hour, as lie appears to be ; steadily failing. The venerable gentle- i man maintains his good spirits through all his sufferings, and at times gets into j a jocular mood, in w' ich his old time wit J shows itself with a sparkle as bright as ever. He realizes that death is near at hand, and at the same time has no fear whatever of its coming. It was only the other day that he was able to write to one of his sons something like this: “I am ’ engaged at the present time in the occupation of dying. Whatever else may be said, there is one matter of satisfaction , in the work, and that is. that 1 have ample time lor it.” WESTERN. W. W. Kent was elected president of the Western Base-Ball Association at Des Moines to succeed David Rowe. I’. G. McLoughlin, an old and highly i respected member of the Chicago Board ; of Trade, dropped dead on the street. A pen-made counterfeit of the SIOO treasury note turned up at a Toledo. < thio, j bank. It was a dangerous imitation. A bill has been introduced in the Nebraska Semite for an act to permit di vorce from a person insane or idiotic. Miners of the Massillon district rescinded their action in rejecting the arbitrators' award ami will resume work. Petroleum has been struck in an exhausted gas well nt Summitville, Ind., causing much excitement in that region. At a convention of miners in Massillon district it was resolved to remain out operators agree tn pay $1.75 a Archbishop Katzer, of Milwaukee, has secured an injunction against the city to prevent collection of taxes on his residence. Frank Smith, wanted in Chicago for robbing Berthauera's jewelry store of s4<*o worth of goods, escaped from the St. Louis Workhouse. Tin l third Oklahoma Territory legislature convened Tuesday. J. H. Pitzer, of El Reno, is President of the upper house and C. M. Barites, of Guthrie, is Speak er of the lower house. While Joseph Phelan and Mary B. Towner were being married in Indianapolis a constable and a ladies’ tailor appeared. The latter claimed S2O was still due on the wedding trousseau. The bride's brother in-law, Edward H. Noble, of Texas, paid the bill. A guard of deputy sheriffs has been placed over the county building at LI Reno, Kan., by the Commissioners of Canadian County, owing to a rumor that | an attempt will be made to destroy the building and its records by tire in consequence of charges made against the retiring otlicials. In the Idaho Legislature a bill was introduced repealing the Mormon test oath. Two years ago that part of the oath was repealed which made it retroactive in form. Previously no one could vote who belonged to any organization that had ever taught polygamy. It is now proposed to w ipe out all reference to the sub- * ject. J. L. Brown, who was recently elected ' County Attorney at Perry, Okla., was" a । I few days ago disbarred from practice. Tuesday he was sworn in by the Probate : Judge, who had also been disbarred. I Brown went about his duties as County I Attorney, and was recognized by the ■ County Commissioners, but when he went j before the Grand Jury that body would : not recognize him. Mining circles are in a flutter of excitement over the announcement of a rich strike made in the Lackawanna mine, situated on Green Mountain, a few miles south of Deadwood. A twelvefoot vein has boon uncovered, the one j from which, after many assays, gives ! returns averaging from $1,500 to $3,700 i per ton. The vein is well defined. The | mine is owned by James Collins and I Curley O'Leary, two poor miners, whom । a chance “spot" in one moment has placed ■ in affluence. Eugene A . Debs and live other direc- s tors of the American Railwry Union were j taken to the county jail in Chicago Tuesday afternoon. George W. Howard, former vice president of the union, ami । M. J. Elliott did not put in tin appearance j and a bench warrant was issued for Howi ard's arrest. Elliott sent a dispatch to । Debs from Mahanoy City, Pa., saying ; that his child had just died of membra I neons croup at that place and that he । would come to Chicago at the earliest posBible moment. Thursday night the temperature in I Chicago was 34 degrees above zero. Frii ay evening it was Idegrees below, so I that the d&p there in twenty-four hours j was 3b^ degrees. The cold wave swept । all through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois, Michij gan, Indiana and Ohio, moving swiftly I east and south. Much suffering was I caused. People were unprepared. In 1 addition to the low temperature, the wind

in the prairie country reached hurrid f speed, and in Nebraska the very soil y e self, in the absence of snow, was bl< ft" in drifts. In the lumber districts tya benefit accrues from the cold, as it Ist sures ice ami continued snow for log! Bioperations. BS Startling disclosures of corruptioi I the collection of West Town Chi, Bn taxes are promised as a sequel to th< fco rest of throe men claiming conned ®rwith the Collector’s office of that divi of the citv. The men are Solomon Ij&n Henry Weil and Charles Newman, St. charges of conspiracy and bribery ajpd lodged against them through their el Bie to get money from William H. Duetts under promises of having his tax ®nt reduced. Detectives of the Moon<»vy Boland agency, who made the arl B * are after a fourth member of the • David Trout, who is •Raid to be o^ the conspirators. The Civic I’ e '* e L t j on is behind the detectives and Pr< iseß further developments in the of taxes in other/livisions of the cj’ Over 30,069 people in Ohio are tfj t j ie verge of starvation and there is Mfoerntive need for immediate relief. j u . vestigation of their condition. cony>nced at the instance of Gov. McKinlegh>r° , “" ises to reveal a harrowing sta(Wt «'• fairs. One case has already Vp ported which shows the deplor^j^F”"' tion of these unfortunate |M4jS- vh miner who had worked but tt^^J ■ three months went to the groij he had always traded ami as'kvOt < * 1 a sack <>f Hour on credit. The grocelj. having carried the unemployed to sUifh an t xtent that he was nearly baukrtrl, refused to let him have it, but tlyfgman frenzied with the refusal, seized-thwack and ran home with it, and when iq oft:cer went to the house to arrest h,jn h e found the wife and children eati^ the raw flour, not having tasted bred for two days. He turned away and not make the arrest. This is only one 10,- < MH * cases where people are actually tint ving in Athens, Perry and Hocking sunties, while three times that numbv are in desperate straits. Those who attended St. James' Church at Rockford Sunday found what npieared to be plush cords stretched across fie entrance to a number of pews. A IWJe investigation soon disclosed the fad that the cords barred entrance to onlj such pews as had not been paid for. The seats for which pew rent had be<i settled for w ere not molested. Curiots |x?rI sons who took hold of the nppttently plush cords discovered the plush Biased ' strong iron chains which eflectuiiW prevented admission to the pews, father ! laherly explained from the pul^ that many pew-renters were in arrow and that ushers would let down tl* bars stretched across the various pewA n the payment of 10 rents. A numbe™f the parishioners of St. James' t'hiiK> are not in sympathy with this methoAif en--1 forcement of pew rent. They are feari ful li st it result in the pastor's luHi hing to practically empty pews. They regard the plush covered iron chains in tb< light of sugiu coated pills which the poorer parishioners and transient attet lants will refuse to swallow. Probably the most startling future that has ever occurred in South lH 1 ;.- 1 or the Northwest was revealed Widnes day morning when William Walter Tny lor, the outgoing State Treasurer mid President of the First National Bank ami Northwestern Mortgage Trust Company, of Redfield failed to appear to make his settlement at Pierro with his successor, 1 rensurer eleot I’luUilMi. ol Deadwood. The news ami’the closing of his Redfield bank came like a thnndcr-elap from n Hear sky. because both Taylor and the financial institutions with which he was eonneeteil were regarded ns firm and re liable beyond question. The news from Pierre demonstrates that no money is held there to the credit of the State Treasurer, and none is held in the Red field bank. It is estimated that about S3s<»,(xMt is missing with Taylor. Aside from financial loss the action of Taylor is felt terribly by all who have known and done business with him and the financial enterprises with which he has beet connected in years past. He and his enterprises have handled many thousands of Eastern capital, and his bank has always been regarded as one of the firm, safe institutions in the State. SOUTHERN. Ivy Bobo, colored, was hanged at Fr ar's Point. Miss , for the murder of his wife. I he mail rider between Linwood and Brandon, in Rankin. Miss., was robbed and murdered. I’. Turney has given notice that he would conti --t the election of 11. Clay Evans as governor of Tennessee. Charles J. 1 ranter, a prominent resident of Covington. Ky._ dropped dead at the residence of an uncle in Chicago. Detective John Norris of Ohio is in jail in Richmond. X a..on a charge of trying to bribe the District Attorney in a gold brick case. Tb.e Huntsville (Ala.) I'emale College was destroyed by fire. All of the girls were rescued and most of their belongings saved. James Gillespie was struck on the back by a i' : nio thrown from the upper story and . i.misly injured. E. L, Colburn, prominent in church and business circles of Pine Bluff, Ark., was publicly cowhided by May Huggardl the 16-year-old daughter of Mrs. May sluggard, a widow. Carroll Godfrey bad a shotgun at Colburn’s head while th«4J rl cowhided him. WASHINGTON. £ The United States Patent Office to date with its work, for the first in fifteen years. W Labor Commissioner XX’right has ten a letter to Congressman McGamf® x ' plaining the arbitration bill. • In an address before the Indian Board of Agriculture XX'. XX'elles charged exSecretary of the Treasury Foster with misstatements in his reports. Ina message submitting Hawaiian correspondence to Congress the President urges iho granting vs permission to lease one of the islands to Great Britain for a cable station. Congressman Caruth says an organiza- ' tion, of which Lyman J. Gage is Treas- । urcr, js making contracts with business men by which it hopes to reap a vast profit in case of adoption of 1-cent postage. POLITICAL. Lee Mantle, of Butte, was nominated for Senator from Montana by the Republican legislative caucus. 1 Senator Pettigrew was unanimously renominated by the Republican legislative caucus at Pierre, S. D. ' ' j Governor Upham was inaugurated at

Madison, Wis., many prominent Republicans witnessing the- ceremony. The contest between Washburn and dev S ? n for le Mln,,csot ^ Senatorship is developing a groat deal of bitter feeling. Justus C. Adams was nominated for ; Speaker of the lower house of the Indiana Legislature by the Republican can-; Democrats representing every Congressional district in Indiana met at Indianapolis and organized an Andrew Jackson league. , George F. Hoar was renominated for Senator by the Massachusetts Republican caucus. The Democrats named John E. Russell. FOREIGN. Russian petroleum is said to bo supplanting the American product in the Straits settlement. The Sultan of Turkey is furious at exPremier Gladstone for his speech on the Armenian outrages. Franklin Johnson, son of a Booneville (N. Y.) banker, died at Monte Carlo un- | der auspicious circumstances. A snowstorm, accompanied by n strong wind, swept over all Europe, causing great dutnuge and loss of life. Sir Henry Ponsonby, the private seen- I tnry of Queen X'ictoria, was stricken with paralysis. His condition is critical. Fifteen Armenians charged with political crimes escaped from jail at Shabinkarahissar. Troops pursued them and killed five. Avalanches have overwhelmed n number of small hamlets in the mountain districts of France. At Razerques three persons were killed. Ex-Premier Gladstone gave expression to a wish for a reunion of the Irish party in replying to an address from the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of New York. A XiAohnma disjntch stites that the division of the Japanese army commanded by Maj. Gen. Nogi commenced an attack on Kai Ping. The lighting continued four hours, at the end of which time the town was in the hands of the Japanese. | I’he Chinese fled toward Hai Shnksni, with the Japanese in close pursuit. । Large numbers were killed on each side, J but the total loss is unknown. The meeting Tuesday evening of the । meat and cattle section of the London, j Eng., Chamber of Commerce in Memor- _ ini Hall has served to bring out a storm : ot jealous abuse in regard to American meat and American business methods. I’he Daily Telegraph's statement. "The ' American beef kings, after half ruining ' British husbnndty, now coolly propose ; to take an additional million from Brit- • | ish traders ami consumers," is repeated ।on nil sides. Chairman Cooper says: “If i it was merely a question of no abatement , there is no doubt that the retailers could have accepted the situation. But it is I Hewed by many ns marking the begin- ■ ning <>f a series of other encroachments jon trade. The Americans go so fnr as । to say not only shall the salesman be deI privet! of the pound mid n quarter allow- | mice in every quarter of meat hitherto ■ allowed in order to compensate for the ’ snstninisl by shrinkage in transit mid in Cutting up, but he must not make such an allowance to his customers. This is only the first step towards obtaining con- j trol of the market, mid when it suits i their fancy to corner trade.” The Ameri<nn »hip|>ers maintain they should tint make the concessions "» Bie English Imteher^-^—„ iu*nt is carried in refrigvmtor^^^jnong it is thoroughly shrunken when sold and ready for sale. j The custom of granting the amount off I each quarter arises from the fact tho ■ English meats are brought to market of- i ton while still warm, mid so the allow- 1 nm-e does tmt make up for the shrinkage. IN GENERAL — M R. Bortrce. of Chicago, was elected president of the National Game Protee- , live Association. The American Bis- nit Manufacturing Company has cut the prjees of crackers ' from 15 to 20 per cent. Eugene X'. Debs says the Railway Un- । ion prisoners will spend their time in jail in rending and studying Fire destroyed a bloek of wholesale ; buildings nt Termito, the d.-iuage being S6IIO,(HMI. < Ine life was lost. The Southern Chipfer of the Amerienn Institute of Architects will memorialize I ’ongtess to pass the MeKnig bill. Available supplies of wheat in the United States ami Canada decreased IMWi.tMil bushels during the week. At the meeting of the Lake Carriers’ Association mi agreement was adopted to purchase no coal from Buffalo shippers. ' General Sir John Summerfield Haw- I j kins, who helped survey the northern j 1 boundary of the United States, is dead, j A mob of hundreds of destitute men j nt St. John's, N. F., looted a store of all i the provisions they could find. There is I great suffering in the city, attendant upon the recent bank failures. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. { $3.75@6; hogs, shipping grades. $3.50 (j/4.75; sheep, fair to clmieo. $2.00@4.(H>: wheat. No. 2 red, 54(<z55e; corn. No. 2, 4,Vu46c: oats, No. 2, 2SM-9e; rye. No. j 2. s<Yqsl< ; butter, e!mi< e creamery. 24<?j i Uou; fr<‘sh. IS'Zl2Oc; potatoes, car ' lots, per bushel, 6<Kq73e. Indianapolis — Cattle, shipping, s3^l I 5.50; hogs, choice light, $3^4.75; sheet), j common to prime, $2(^13.50; wheat, No. 1 2 red. 52(^52^c; corn. No. 1 white, 40(q 41c: oats. No. 2 white, 32^^331^0. St. Louis —Cattle. $3<V/6; hogs, [email protected]; wheat. No. 2 red, 53@53V^c; corn. No. 2. 43tU43%c; oats, No. 2, 30^j31c; rye, No. 2, 51@52c. Cincinnati —Cattle. [email protected]; hogs $3.50@5; sheep, $1.25^14; wheat. No. 2, 55@56c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42^/430; j oats. No. 2 mixed, 32@33c; rye, No. 2. 54&55C. Detroit— Cnttle, [email protected]; hogs, ?4Q 1.75; sheep, $25f3.25: wheat. No. 1 white, 56@57c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 43$j43V(!c; , oats. No. 2 white, 33<ii34c; rye. No. 2. i iA(q~>2e. Toledo XXTieat, No. 2 rod. 55<( 1 t56c; i corn. No. 2 mixed, 436/43V£»<‘: oats, No. 2 ; white, 32^v33c; rye, No. 2. 51^j53c. Buffalo —Cuttle, [email protected]; hogs. s4(<l | 5; sheep, $2^3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. , 59(<z59(4c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 47@47A^e: | oats. No. 2 w hite. 35@36c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring. 55(</ 56c; corn, No. 3, 44@45c; oats, No. 2 j white, 31@32c; barley, No. 2, 53@56e; < rye, No. 1, 50(1/51 c; pork, mess, sll.s(g</ . 11.75. New York Cattle, s3@6; hogs, $3.50@ . 5.00; sheep, s2@4; w heat, No. 2 red, 63<1£ ; 64c; conn, No. 2, 52<H53e; oats, white XX'estern, 38<7/42c; butter, creamery, ISiji 26c; eggs, XYestern, 21^22c.

IN A SHROUD OF SNOW PITIABLE FATE OF AN AGED CHICAGO WOMAN. Oh' 0 Townu Get a Shaking Up-Bold Train Robbery-Trio of Chicago Detectivea in Luck-Bungling Burglar Kilin a Man Through Nervousness. mi K °und Frozen to Death. Pe.-'h lif ‘‘ k 'sa body of Mrs. Anne I.e ehekovtske, aged 60 years, of No. 312 Belmont avenue, Chicago, was found on Nunday at o p. m. lying a t the foot of I Anna street It had ] u i n there all dayami probably all of Saturday night, for | when it was discovered it was covered ' with several ir -hes of snow, 'rhe bodv was taken home by the po i ice to sur . rmimhngs even more cheerless than those i e n *ght before, which furnished at | least a shroud —pure white snow. Ade- • OW wh o C an speak no language but I ohsh, her husband. Michael Berchekofske. sat m the fireless, cheerless house | awaiting her return. There was only the poorest attempt at heating the room. I Iheie uas a little tire in the cold room ’ fn '‘’ to wpl’-nish it m. toll in the house and no lIH-unn i., p V »M xti »-WW- ! necessaries to a funeral according to any :of the customs of civilized people. Not even the means to dress the body in a cleanly garb or in anything else than the soiled and tattered gown in which the body lay. They Get the Reward for Seeley. A circle of Chicago detectives surroundI cd Detectives O'Donnell and AllmindinI g< r at the City Hall while the latter open--10l envelopes bearing New York postj marks. Each envelope contained a check | for $1,666, a share of the reward offered by the Shoe and Leather Bank of New York for the arrest of Seeley, its absconding bookkeeper, w ho has been sentenced to imprisonment. McFarland, who informed the officers of the identity of Sei-ley, received a chock for a like amount. AX hen McFarland appeared at detective headquarter late one night and said he could solve a big mystery his breath was tainted with the fumes of liquor, and the wily “fly cops" winked at each other and •aid: “This is a pipe-dream; it is a good thing, push it along.” So McFarland was passed along the line from one sage detectivo to another, until there was nobody left but ti'Dcnnell and Allmindinger. I'hcy couldn’t "saw him off" on anybody « Iso. ami unwillingly they trudged over to the North Side and Seeley was caught. Three Bears Scare Ohio People. Three bears escaped from an Italian •how num nt Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Several shots have been fired at the animals. While some children wire on their way to school at Blue Ridge one of the bears appeared, ami with terrific growls started toward them. Some of the children fainted, ami the others found shelter in the nearest dwelling. Tho bear walked up to the prostrate children, sniffed them, and sauntered across a field to the woods. Philip Steinway was attacked by another bear near Lowery woods, but beat it off with a fence rail. The militia will go out and surround Lowery's woods. Shot Down by a Masked Robber. Two iiiUHkcd robbers entered the dem e of James JnmiHisp. residing near Dublin, Ohio, and, coveting Mr. Jamison and his hind man with their revolvers. demanded the former’s money. Jnmison reached into his pocket for his money, mid as he drew it out the revolver held by the robber covering him was discharged, the bullet entering his brain. The robbers beat a hasty retreat without stopping to pick up the money. Jnmison died an hour later. The robber is believed to have discharged his weapon from sheer nervousness. Prices Still Unsatisfactory. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade > ays: Neither th" beginning of the new year ’ nor th)- failure of the currency bill has i brought any materi.il change to business ,ns yet. The idea that business would suddenly take a new start after the holidays ha<l rather less foundation even than usual, but the hope of strong revival a little later is still cherished by many. Thore has not been much time for : change in the industries, but differences observed since the year began are not in I the direction of higher prices or larger demand. There me more indications than of late that stocks of different kinds of goods have b< en accumulating in consequence of past increase in production. Police Raid a Hotel. Eleven men and a complete outfit of gambling tools were taken out of McCoy's European Hotel. Chicago, by detectives. The gambling apparatus, which was of unusually fine quality, was taken I to the Central Police Station, and there ■ under orders of Inspector Shea broken to ! pieces with sledge-hammers. The men were locked up and booked as inmates ! and keepers of a gambling-house. The raid is important as marking what Inspector Shea says is the beginning of a ; crusade against gambling in hotels. NEWS NUGGETS. ' California's legislature finally declared j that Budd had hi t n elected governor. An explosion of 560 quarts of nitroi glycerine, at Gibsonburg, Ohio, created the wildest alarm in Findlay, Fremont, Lima, Fostoria, and surrounding towns. No lives were lost. Two masked men entered the express ear of a Burlington train at Chillicothe. lowa. Saturday evening, mid after tying ‘ the hands of the occupants, robbed the safe of about SB,OOO. Senator Lexow introduced a resolution at Albany providing for a continuation ! of his New X'ork investigation. J. Greenbarge and M. Berkson. proprietors of the Model clothing store at I Fort Scott. Kan., have been arrested | charged with obtaining goods worth ! SII.OOO with intent to defraud their cred- ' itors. Sixteen thousand election clerks were ; found inefficient at New York and will : receive no pay. Delia J. Haynes. 50 years old, coni- ; milted suicide at Minneapolis by strangling herself with the braid of a rug. I The cotton-growers’ convention passed a resolution requesting the Senators and I inoiiib<‘rs in Congress to vote for the Hatch bill. Senator limner introduced a bill in the ' Illinois Legislature making the destruc- ; tion of buildings by anarchists a capital offense.

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives — Important Measures Discussed and Acted Upon-Gist of the Business. The National Solons. I" the Senate Monday Mr. Ransom was AGt 1 ? 0 !! 1 le i Sld f nt pro tem ’ an<l Mr. Mitchell rephed to Mr. Turpie's criticisms or the Nicaragua Canal bill. Both House | and Senate adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of Genral Post and appomted committees to scort the remans ” lesburg. 111. The House ordered inestigation of charges that Judge Ricks inost.tuted his office to further a con S - J - ’‘'“’De was robbed of $6,000,006. The caucus of House Democrats indorsed the substitute for t °-A a ^ lsle currency bill by a vote of 81 ।to oJ after a spirited debate. The bill intended to take the distribution of seeds , out ot the hands of Congressmen has been prepared by Secretary Morton. At an in- \ , , lv i...aLi." ''■. “'"■'im Representative Sibley made an attack j on the President in a speech in the House I Tuesday in opposition to the currency , bill. Discussion of Mr. Lodge’s Hawaiian ; resolution was continued in the Senate, ; Messrs. Palmer and Gray opposing its adoption. The House Committee on i Rules agreed to report a resolution pro- । tiding for a vote on the currency bill. ‘•General” Jacob S. Coxey explained his । non-interest bearing bond plan to the i House Ways and Means Committee. The j Senate Committee on Appropriations or- > dered favorable reports on the army and ‘ urgent deficiency bills. By refusing to adopt a rule to limit the debate the House XX’ednesday practically i rejected the Carlisle currency bill. In the Senate Mr. Quay advocated amending the income tax law to provide for publication of names and salaries of corporation employes. In a message submitting Hawaiian correspondence to Congress the President urges the granting of permission to lease one of the islands to Great Britain for a cable station. The diplomatic aad consular and the postoffice appropriation bills were passed by the House. The latter carries $89,442,952. The income tax came up for considerable discussion in the Senate on Thursday in rhe course of the debate on the urgent deficiency bill, which contains a provision for carrying the law into operation. Mr. Hill offered an amendment designed to afford an opportunity to contest the constitutionality of the act. Mr. Qmiy also gave notice of several amendments, one for the income tax, and the others to insert the McKinley tariff act in the woolen schedule. The proceedings in the House were exceedingly dull. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed, as was also a bill to define the crimes of murder in the first and second degrees, and manslaughter and criminal assault, mutiny and desertion, and providing punishment therefor, and to abolish the death penalties on other crimes. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for the causes of delay in opening to settlement till- binds received from the Ki Indians Tho donate Tnlt law providing for bonds for regisTry^PcWl vessels was passed; also Semite bill providing an American register for the steamer Empress. A bill to provide for appendices to the American measurement of vessels was passed. The feature of the night session of the House Friday w as the debate which grew out of the attempt of Mr. Springer (Dem., 111.) to pass a bill granting SIOO a month to Major General John A. McClernand. Mr. Jones (Dem., Va.) insisted upon making the point of no quorum, and the bill was withdrawn, after much feeling had been shown. Practically the whole session of the Senate was occupied in the discussion of Mr. Hill’s amendment to the urgent deficiency bill, designed to afford an opportunity to test the constitutionality of the income tax law. Monday was a field day in the Senate. Mr. Gorman of Maryland scored the opponents of the income tax. and Messrs. Allison and Hill retorted in bitter terms. A few minor bills were introduced, but nothing of real importance was done. In the house the bill to provide for the enlargement of the judicial system of Indian Territory was passed. Telegraphic Clicks. Seven masked men blew open the safe in the Belmont brewery, Marlins Ferry, Ohio, and secured S2OO. August Trumpler, aged 71. and his wife, 69, were suffocated by coal gas in their home at Baltimore, Md. John F. Stevens has been appointed ' chief engineer for the entire system of ’ the Great Northern Railroad. ' Jesse Morrison, night bridge watch- ‘ man at Leavenworth. Kan., while crazed from liquor, tried to kill two men. Brewers of Cincinnati. Covington and Newport have entered a protest against j the proposal to raise the tax on beer. J A XX iliiamson. one of the most inlluential men in Xl est Virginia, committed suicide owing to financial troubles. Mrs. Sarah Aldred shot I. T. Leahy at Cleveland. Ok., in a quarrel over the disj position of a crib of corn on the woman's farm. Near Hennessey, Ok., Frank Harrold shot and instantly killed John Bruce in the presence of Zora Jones, Harrold s diI vorced wife. “Buddy” XX'ooden ami George Mappe, murderers of Marion Ross, were execut- ■ ed in the Hamilton County jail, ChattaI nooga, Tenn. George McDit, a colored convict in the Frankfort, Ky„ penitentiary, was sentenced to death for the murder of Charles Thomas, a fellow’ convict. XVilliam Dearborn Bell, of Chicago, is one of fifteen graduates of Johns Hopkins and other colleges who received a scholarship from Hopkins worth S2OO a year. Plans are being prepared for the reconstruction of Presidio barracks at San Francisco and the general improvement of the reservation at an estimated cost of $1,060,000. Thomas E. Burlingame, ex-president of I the defunct Bank of Commerce of Spring- ’ field Mo., w’as not taken back to Missouri from P-Vry, Ok., his lawyers swearing out a writ of habeas corpus. Adam XVithcrs. a leading colored church 1 member of Danville, Ky., was arrested ; on indictments in the United States Court charging him with forgery in connection with securing pension money.