St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 February 1895 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON. . - - INDIANA. UNSPEAKABLE TUBE. HIS DEEDS TOO REVOLTING FOR NARRATION. Whisky Trust Surreptitiously Placed in Receivers’ Hands —British View of Situations in France and America In Death They Were Not Parted. Too Atrocious to Publish. The Westminster, Eng., Gazette claims to have authority for the statement that the Earl of Kimberly. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, will not issue the consular reports received from Ar nenia. because they confirm the previously received stories of massacre and outrage. Lord Kimberly has written a letter to the Armenian association in which he states that none of the fifty-eight Armenians who were condemned by the tribunal at Erzinghain in Novomb w last, and tvhose sentences were recently eoiihriiml 115 Hi^ conrt of cassation, were condemned to death. Snap Judgment Taken. M ith notice to a favored few only tiie appointment of Joseph B. Greenhut, of Peoria, and E. F. Lawrence, of Chicago, as receivers of the Distilling and Cattlefeeding Company, was secured in the United States Court on Monday evening. This order of court was made in a chancery suit nominally commenced by dissatisfied stockho’ lers. Persons who are ; familiar with the methods of the present । trust management see in this suit but another move in the game these ollicials have been playing. It is curious to note that out of the total of 350.000 shares of the company only 1,700 are represented by the complainants in the suit. Since the formation of the stockholders' committee in New York President Greenhut and his aids have seen that their term of control would not last beyond the annual meeting in April. Then would come investigation of methods and management, with what result is best known to those familiar with the inside workings of the trust. To get into court under the shelter of a friendly receivership was of course desirable. This has now been accomplished in the most adroit manner, but whether it will stick or not is quite another affair. Nations Hurt by Factions. The Loudon Globe, in an article summing up the situation in France and America, says the grave troubles of the two greatest republics in the world are an object lesson to England. Both republics, the Globe says, are suffering from the splitting up of their political parties into factions. BREVITIES. John H. Sullivan, 16 years old. shot and killed. William Flynn, a miner, aged 23, on the street' hi Lv.'.d\ittrr" Colo. Flynn was accused of enticing his sister from home. W. UI. Greenleaf, route agent for the Pacific Express Company, says the total amount of money secured by the men who robbed a Cotton Belt train near McNeill, Ark., was less than $25. Obituary: At New York, Frank Vansant. the cartoonist. 24. —At Atlanta. Ga.. Judge John Erskine. 82.—At Jacksonville, 111., Lewis Liter. 90.—At Dixon. 111.. Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon. 73. Mrs. Goedeke, formerly Miss Georgia Cleis, known as “Indiana’s Queen of Song.” has just been released from prison at Bernais, France, having been acquitted of burning her husband’s factory. Gov. Altgeld issued a requisition upon the Governor of Kansas for the extraditin of Katie Dugan and Jesse Hamner, wanted at Lincoln, Logan County, for conspiracy and under arrest at Bourbon County. Kansas. The Rev. B. F. Bolton, of Findlay. Ohio, for many years minister of the Church of God denomination, was arrest ed on an indictment for forgery, charged ! with signing the names of his wife and rich mother-in-law. A gasoline explosion in the American Hotel kitchen started a tire which destroyed the business portion of Elmore. Ohio. Two girls employed in the hotel jumped from a second-story window and were fatally injured. The Citizens’ Committee at San Francisco will incorporate the San Joaquin Valley Railway Company with a capital of $6,000,009. An individual subscription of $500,000 was received, it is supposed from Claus Speckels. Mechanics’ Institute, at Montreal, con- 1 taming] the valuable public library, was damaged by tire to the extent of $50,000. Thousands of volumes, priceless on account of their antiquity and historical interest, wore cbnstTtned in the ITunes. Sunday night Patrick Donnelly of Tull do, Ohio, died at the age of 104 years. Monday night his wife died at the age of I 102. They were undoubtedly the oldest i couple in the United States and had been ’ married eighty-one years. I’he funeral ’ of both was held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The Business Men’s Committee at Omaha, which secured the State Fair for the city, backed by the City Council and Police Commissioners, have decided that “Omaha must and shall run wide open.” This means open gambling houses, poolrooms and similar places under police surveillance. The will of the late ex-Senator James G. Fair has been stolen from the office of the County Clerk of San Francisco, a lot of worthless paper being substituted. No trace of the missing testament has been discovered. The affair has caused a great sensation, over $20,000,000 being at stake. Galveston, Tex., suffered from a storm of great velocity. In the harbor several small vessels were swamped and two persons drowned. A plan is being agitated among Maine legislators to purchase the old homestead of James G. Blaine in Augusta, to be used as a Blaine memorial building and executive residence. The Pope's encyclical got through the custom house on the payment of $1.25, as printed matter. It was appraised nt $5. Bob Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, at Syracuse, pleaded not guilty of manslaughter und was released on $19,999 bail.

EASTERN. Three persons were burned to death in - ; a tire at Brooklyn. The victims were: ■ Antonio Graff, Frank McSorley and Tony „ , Schultz. . I Albert G. Davis, wanted in Chicago for I the embezzlement of $3,099 in 1892 from the Hibbard-Spencer-Bartlett Company, , was arrested in Boston, Mass. The lower house of the Indiana Legislature adopted a resolution favoring the 1 annexation of Hawaii and defeated the ‘ bill to place Hags on all the schoolhouses of the State. Judge Gaynor granted an order on the ! Brooklyn Heights Trolley Company, of Brooklyn, to show cause why a writ of mandamns should not issue against it *o compel it to operate its lines. The combined wealth of Mrs. William and John Jacob Astor has been placed at the disposal of Mrs. .1. ( Jeman Drayton to contest the suit for divorce brought by her husband several months ago. A strange affliction befell Anna Grafton nt Crab Tree, l’a. She was about to light a lamp, and when she struck a match her eyesight left her, and now she is stone blind. Physicians who have been called cannot account for the cause. The Rev. J. L. Brant, of Toledo. Ohio, has assumed the role of a Parkhurst in attacking the police force from his pulpit. The Chief started out to chastise the wiuister, but was dissuaded by his friends. An investigation is promised. At Middleburg. I’a., two members of a sleighing party were instantly killed and five others badly injured by being struck by a train on the Pennsylvania Road. The party were returning from a ride to Sunbury, and the noise made by the sleigh bells prevented their hearing the train. The shore of the lake near Center Harbor, N. 11.. was visited by a cyclone which caused a great amount of damage 1 to the timber, farm building-, and summer I cottages. The path of the gale was nearly i 200 feet wide. Many farm buildings wore unroofed and several barns were 1 demolished and the stock in them was ; killed. At the beginning of the war (diver ; Lower, of De Kalb, St. Lawrence County, ; . N. Y., enlisted at Potsdam in the Ninety ; 1 second Regiment and went to the front. I leaving a wife and live children. At Ihe ; close of the war he went to Washington , Territory. His wife, not hearing from him ami supposing him to be dead, at the • expiration of ten yeirs was married to Charles Santiu-, a Union veteran, with whom she has since lived and had five children. 1- richly night Lower arrived at his old home. He did not visit his wife, • but left for De Kalb, thinking to find his children there. Some of his children, however, tire dead. Those living arc sup posed to be in ( Hiio. WESTERN, May wheat got below 55 cents in Chicago mi Tuesday, the lowest point <m the crop and the lowest price for the future ever reached. Clarence Schrader and Gus Cash, of Marshall. Mo., each aged fourteen years, while attempting to cross Heath's Cre< k, were drowned. The School Board of St. Joseph, Mo., has voted unanimously to expel any pupil nsiu,” cigarettes, whether on or oil the school grounds, Mrs. Bessie Webb Loughbridge, w ife of Professor R. 11. Ixmghbridge. of the Uni versify of California, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid at Berkeley, Cal. 111-health was the cause. The national convention of manufactur ers at Cincinnati elected these .dheers: President, Thomas Dolan, of Philadelphia; Secretary. S. 11. Wilson, of Cincinnati: Treasurer, Robert Laidlow, ot Cincinnati. and Vite Presidents from nearly all the States. Peter Kuhn, a Defiance (Ohi<j lumber dealer, assigned to B. F. Enos, turning over to his creditors all of the propel ty he had been a lifetime in accumulating, amounting to more than $199,999. Ihe heaviest creditors of Mr. Kuhn are the Middletown Pump Company : :d the First National Bank. The Hazel mini l slope. the deepest in tl. 1 Lehigh region, is on fire. The steam pipes have been broken off half way down the mine and the pumps van not be w -rk ed to fight the flames. The fire hrs Himb- । ed to the slope mouth, and the tower of • the breaker is Imrniig. The colliery is the property of the Lehigh \ alley ( oa! Company. In spite of the fact that Bill 1 00 k and most of the other bandits of the Southwest have been gathered in by the authorities, the I’mifie and Wells-Fargo ' Express Companies have not re-um si tb.e carrying of money packages into the Indian Territory. They say Cherokee Bill and Jim French and a few other choice spirits are still at large, and they can easily get together a sufficient following to hchl up all the trains that will be run through the Territory for some time. Chicago enjoyed the distinction Sunday and Sunday night of being the coldest place in the United States. At 5:39 a. m., the mercury recorded nine degrees below zero. At 9a. m., it was eight below. ..and from then until (! in the evening it grew gradually warmer, until only one 1 degree below was shown. Then the tern perature began again to fall, and not mi ; til Monday morning did it get warmer I than 6 degrees below zero. Monday the ! I cold was intense, not once mounting j 1 above zero. Reports from all over the ; country are that a thick covering of snow j protects wheat. So far it is believed fruit j trees are unhurt. Wreckage, identified as belonging to the missing Graham 6c Morton propeller ChiI corn, was discovered in the ice off South 1 Haven, Mich., Wednesday, proving with- | out a question that the famous passenger I boat, once the pride of Lake Michigan, | Las gone to the bottom. This settles the 1 j awful doubt that has been hanging over j , the fate of the vessel since she was first । reported lost Monday afternoon. By the I sinking of the Chicora twenty-six lives I were undoubtedly lost. It would have ; been impossible for them to have kept a I small boat afloat in the gale, and had they’ ■ j succeeded in doing this the exposure to | I icy air and water would have killed them i in less than twenty-four hours. The Chi- । corn carried, including Captain Stines, a crew of twenty-five, and there is said to i have been one passenger, Mr. Pearl, of the drug firm of Howard 6c Pearl. St. Joseph. J Chicago went to sleep Friday night—- ' many hours earlier than usual—under a j blanket of snow which refused to remain ! stationary, except in spots, for more than ' twenty minutes at a time. A shrieking , forty-mile an hour gale blew “the beaui tifui” from sky to earth, half way back again, and in more directions than the average compass has points. And when i the snow did settle down it settled for

keeps—settled into drifts as solid aa tr packed by strong-armed laborers. Trans- [ pertation companies waged the same old battle for supremacy. Down-town they managed to keep things moving, but in the suburbs it was another story. All . schedules and time tables were lost as effectually as the rights of way, and ears only jogged along at irregular intervals by grace of the snow-plows and through the efforts of from four to six horses. Electric lines suffered principally through the coating of the trolley wires with ice. Hardly a passenger train reached its depot on time and the delay ranged from one to live hours. Outgoing trains got away, but all ran slowly. Communication with i the West was badly broken, but enough . was learned Saturday morning to tell I that the West had experienced the worst blizzard known for years. When the Chicora went out of St. Joseph on its last trip there Was a dog aboard. Sunday the dog was taken into Renton Harbor alive. Tuesday night the dog was heard whining at the door of Solon Cutler, who conducts the road- | lions at Pottowatamie Park. It is a । snuff-colored skye terrier. It was cov- । cred with ice. Cutler took compassion on the little animal and thawed the ice off it and rubbed it with vaseline, thinking its hide had been frozen by the ice. Mr. Cutler connected the visit of the strange dog which had evidently just come out of the cold water with the loss of the Chicora,, and took it to the Ht.v. The dog was immediately recognized by 1116 stevedores who woTk’^Ui thsGraham docks and by the crew of the Petoskey ns the animal that was aboard the Chicora when it left. The dog has been a tramp passenger on the Graham & Morton Transportation Company’s boat for several months. It has been dividing its time between the Chicora and the Petoskey this winter. Since the dog became a passenger on these boats it has never missed a trip, taking the first boat i to leave. The return of the animal indi- ; cates lite Chicora was within st half-mile I of tlie east shore Tuesday evening, the | ' second night out. The dog. it is believed, j । could not swim more than one-quarter I ! mile. The place whore the dog came | i ashore, Pottowatamie Park, is eight ' i miles north of Renton Harbor, a lakeside j ' summer resort. Many are inclined to ; ; think the vessel must have sunk not fur from that point. SOUTHERN. — The international foil: lore ■—- "« II I ,TT til Memphis. AU the papers were read I by women. Another murder is charged to the New : th leans mafia. The victim wits Tony Chisesi, lately from Chicago. James Ib-ach and Richard Forman were • arrested at Mount Sterling. Ky.. charged uilh aiding in the lynching of Thomas Blair. Two masked men held up a train on the ’ Cotton Belt Line near Mi Neil, Ark., in the regulation style. They aie icported to have got $25,(N*9 from the express ear, I The Norton iron works at Ashland, Ky., announced a 2t> per cent, cut in wages of all I- linagemen. It will be aecepted w it hold opposition and Work will be resumed nt mice. A sensation ha- b. m created at Huntitigton. W. \a.. by the announcement that pri;..ners sent to jail there to serve ' ! out sentences |..r ‘'I.KH iistiiiiin.” ar.- :,ix en excellent acc.unmodatioiis in the wa\ of jobs out -ide the prison and the Government is obliged to pay the jailer for keeping them. A I‘nited States official is investigating the matter. A hold robbery of the railway and express otlice at Sugarhtnd, Texas, has roused the town. A band of masked men rode to the ollii e and demamhd ot Agent Adams the safe’s < ont'‘nts. After a si - tore 1 eating Adams opened the safe and the robbers took >l,s'iii j n cash. A number of citizens um’ertook to intercept the robbers. A • I'UFp battle took place, but the highwaymen es aped to the Brazos swamps. A posse st irted in pursuit, ami returned with four men under arrest— Crane. Thompson. Denton and Flowers. The po~se is still scouring the country fur ot hers. WASHIHGTOI-I. The Secretary of the Treasury has nu- . thorizid the sale of gold bars for export ! cn payment of a premium of of 1 per c< nt. to. comt tb.e cost of manufacture and trnnsportatimi, and Friday morning 3>,0(10 was taken on these terms. There was also withdrawn $3,800,000 in coin and $SOO.(K!O additional was < ugag- ' ed for <\port Saturday, making the total > SsjUfa. 1-i i'l. I'liis leaves the gold reserve b'sjr_>.t, 12s and the amount of gold coin on hand, above tb.e amount of outstanding gold certificates, $10,912,280. The treasury oltieia’s, how.wer. ib- not regard the amount of c. in on hand received on deposit for gold certificates as sacred to tl eir redemption. Imt will continue to pay , out gold coin in demand for legal tend- i (to. It is deemed amply sufficient that there is enough gold in either coin or bars i to meet the demand on gold certificates. W hile the situation is regarded as a very trying one. there is no thought of anything so serious as to involve the credit of the government. An order received at ^'a!lejo. Cal., from ' the Department at ’Wnsfi’irt’Tru! thi' naval officers and men. and all others to whom the news has been made known, in pleasurable excitement, and their activity is as great as if a declaration of | ! war had come to their knowledge. The j order is for the immediate preparation of j 1 the cruisers Ranger and Alert for a sea I I voyage. The same order extends to the ; ! cruiser Boston. The work of coaling and ; provisioning the w arships is being pushed | as rapidly as possible, and the equipments j put into perfect condition and with the utmost care. It is thought that the des- ’ filiation of the vessels is Honolulu. The reason for the belief is the report that ; Great Britain is determined to make an imposing show' of naval strength in Hawaiian waters consequent upon the arrest of certain British subjects caught red handed in the recent revolt against the republic of Hawaii. The United | States, it is thought, does not. under the I circumstances, care to have the warship Philadelphia, already on the way, the only representative of the American navy : present when England’s licet of gunboats drops anchor in the harbor of Honolulu. POLITICAL. Resubmission was carried in the South Dakota Senate by a vote of 26 to 19. It had previously passed the house. Both houses of the Illinois Legislature balloted for Senator, the Republicans voting for Cullom and the Democrats for MacVeagh. Cullom won. Senator Dolph failed of re-election in the joint session of the Oregon Legisla-

. -U — ti re, losing f onr votes from the ballots Ini separate sessions of the two houses. Lu< ien Baker was elected Senator from Kll !\ S1 e; E. Perkins was re-elected u'^’^ua, and in Wyoming Francis E. \\ arreu and Clarence D, Clark were selected. । Knute Nelson, three times a member of the natmjial House of Representatives ami twice chosen Governor of Minnesota, was Wednesday elected United States w'r T, l }' 1 ’ tl,e terrn ^ginning March 4, L^.io. impute stood: Nelson, 1(12; Washn G * Don iH'Hy, L”>; Comstock, 9; MRcbell, 4; McCleary, 2; Lind, 1. A resolution out of the ordinary was introduced j n t] le l OWOI . h ouse o f (| le Nebraska legislature. It recited that Reptesentatite Robertson, of Holt County, was chanted with being a member of the ! vigduncd organization at O'Neill, four members of which are under arrest for the lynching of Barrett Scott, and asked for the hppointmeht of a committee of five to investigate. The resolution was adopted. I his is the outcome of a meeting held at () Neill, when fifty constituents of Jlr. Robertson adopted resolutions denouncing his attitude l in the Barrett Scott ease, and demanding that he tender his Resignation. J FOREIGN. itput of iron ore for the German i Empire during the year 1594 was 5.559,322 tor ? iiKTense ot tons owr the out bted 1893. bnr r IVirel. loaded "Ith gi ’ipowdenshoUmd shell, exploded ' at Gralesend. England. No trace of her crew h< ? been found. A ro^dist plot to blow up the> government biddings, with President Dole, the council find troops, with dynamite has been discovered at Honolulu. A ro?£]jst plot to blow up the government Infildings, with President Dok>, the cimnciljand troops, with dynamite has been di*>overed at Honolulu. Edwij-d Solomon, the well-known composer of operas, and at one time the hus- ; band of Lillian Russell, the comic ojiera ! singer,fiied in London of typhoid fever. I he Berlin Volksldatt has been confisrated Jor publishing an article entitled “(hie to Again." which was regirded as a parody on Emperor William's "Song to A egir? Lorcjßandolph Churchill died at London i. kittle after midnight Wednesday. I’he family desires to denv the report “Wstni doctors had been summoned to attend Lady Randolph ChurchiU. Gualemahi dispatch: Senor de Leon, the special envoy sent to Mexico to ne- : gotintf an adjustment of the dilficulties over the boundary line between the two countries, telegraphs that Mexico is making actice preparations for war. Upon receipt <>f this news the Guiitenuilnu Government wired to Senor de Lc m authorizing him to make concessions if no ti.rthej delay < an be obtained. A (fispatch from Übe-Foo says that sailors from all the foreign warships have ■ ' Hvn Htnded to protect the consulates of the i^Terent countries they represent. Advpjjjs to the Pall Mall Gazette report I that ■panic existed there among the in- , Imhitiaifs es die Foo on account of the ; proximity of the Japanese soldiers to that city, fml (he Chinese troops were said to be ui*n the |H>int of mutiny. Thl Faris eorn -pendent of the London loMls notes the extreme danger of tin nt : Id Incren-e of radical power in the Fii Hi Parliament. During seven mo Js tl radicals have gained a hundr^ votes, and now need only eightylira •) command a majority in the Senate and wenty (hree to command a majority in ie Chamber of Deputies. Such a mai rity would mean a collection of revoInti mry measur< s. such a< the abolition of t e Senate and the Presidency, an inqui; orial income tax, and a contiscnting sip; ntion of church and state which wot I be fatal to tiny countrv. especially win taken in connection with a licen- ‘ tiou press and the so-called demoeratize<wwhich means insubordinate, army. I I IN GENERAL II igh Craig, manager of the New Zealam Insurance Company, says he has otTe » from would-be bidder- who will lay a e; hie between Honolulu and Monterey, <’nl. 1 if an American concession can be ! seen red. Tl .e war against the Standard (Hl Compai( is on in earnest. The company whi -h was projected at the Butler, Pa., met ling of independent oil producers has taki 11 decided shape and will be formed ami inder charts r within a mouth, a cording o the stall incut of Davi'! B. Kirk, of Pittsburg, who was one of the vice presidents of the meeting, lie says; "The company will embrace’ all ind pendent pro<|ueers and refiners in tin United States. VVe will have a capibd of *1.900,(MiOto start with, and can get .<5,i»90,9(»0 w b.cn it is needed. The company will be called the Pure Oil Company of Pennsylvania. and we will erect a plant in < v. ry < ity in the I'nited States where the Standari has one. We will handle only pure 0114 MARKET REPORTS. CJiicngo—Cattle, common to prime, j $3 hogs, shipping grades, S3.OU . ^0; sheep, fair io choice. c’J.oif'o t 20 ^!|jJt.' .su. _ red.—s^^ -1 ■; corn. No. 2. 1 dltr®-13 :l / .’C: oats. No. 2. 28@29c; rye. No. 2. w!7iis2c; butler, choice creamery. 23fa 24<| eggs, fresh. 18'd20e; potatoes, car | loti per bushel. (jo'o7oc. Indianapolis — Cattle, shipping. $3Tf s.C|>; hogs, choice light, $3kj4.50; sheep I co&mon to prime, $2(q3.50; wheat. No 2 A«d. 53(iz53 1 /’jc; corn. No. 1 white, 40$; -l^. . No. 2 w hile. 32 1 ._/</33'‘ y. ’ St. Louis—Cattle, $36t5.75: hogs. $.'U/ 4,»H wheat, No. 2 red. 59. , q50^c; corn. Na. 2,495141 c; oats, No. 2, 29'i/39c; rye, Nj. 2. 52$ (53c. ffincinnftti—Cattle, $3.50fp5.50; hogs. $;?(50QJ.75; sheep, $1.59^1.4: wheal, N . 2. 53fi54c; corn, .No. 2 mixed. 425543e: orfls, No. 2 mixed, 31$t32c; rye. No. 2, u-Wrum^c. jTetroit—Cattle. $2.59555.50; hogs, s4st 4.10; sheep, $2(03.25; wheat, No. 1 white. sii?zs4c; corn. No. 2 yidlow, 42Q42%c: ojls, No. 2 white, 33dj34c; rye, No. 2. sfszs2c. iToledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 52<0.>3<-: cbrn, No. 2 mixed, 41$/42c; oats. No. 2 white, 32@33c; rye. No. 2, 52(q53c. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.507/5.50; hogs. $371 IliO: sheep, $2(04.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 57q57^c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 4(‘>s7 Kd/jc; <iats. No. 2 white. 357/3;> l /sc. ' Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 51$z 52c: corn. No. 2. -KlU^z I4’4>c; oats. No 2 '.'.bite, 325z32 , 5c; barley, No. 2, ;i3sz.u»c: rve. No. 1, 51(z52c; pork, mess, 10.25@ 10.75. New York—Cattle. $3(05.50; hogs. $3.50 @4.75; sheep, s2@4; wheat, No. 2 red, 59@69c; corn, No. 2, 50@51c; oats, white Western, 37@41e: butter, creamery, 16© 24c; eggs, fresh, 21@23e.

FARMER^ NOT FORGER ROUGH EXPERIENCE OF A NEBRASKA MAN. Cleveland Tells of Imminent Danger to the Treasury—First Fatal Wreck on the Vandalia-Little Rock Loses a Big Plant. Victim of a Blunder. A farmer living near Falls City, Neb., has arrested several days ago while at work and taken to St. Joseph, Mo., on j the supposition that he was the forger. ( 1 iilmer, who escaped from jail with Pat I t lowe, the train robber. Brown, eonli- . dent of his innocence, agreed to go to I St. Joseph without a requisition providing | his railroad fare was paid back to Falls : * ity. lie was thrown into jail and was | 1 eleased Monday, but was denied money ,to retiirn to his home. lie undertook to beat his way on a passenger train, was thrown olt, badly injured, clubbed by a policeman, and arrested and sent to the workhouse as a vagrant. Mayor Shepard pardoned Brown and gave him a ticket home. <(ne Dead, Forty-Three Hurt. in” first pas-;-nger wrcik since the .construction of the Vandalia in LSSI in I which there was a loss of life occurred at 2:.»o Monday afternoon at Coates;v 11 lc,'i wenty-eigl’t miles west of IndianI apolis, Ind. The rails spread under the 1 private car of President W. R. McKeon, and this car. with the diner, parlor, women’s coach, and smoker, ndled down a steep embankment. Mrs. M. L. Pow<>rs, Carthage. Mo., died before she (ould bo taken out. John W. Norton, the widely known theatrical manager of St. Louis. Chicago and Pittsburg, was mortally injured. and these were seriously hurt: Dr. 11. J. Colbert. Indianapolis, head mashed and internal injuries: Gertrude Parrish, I year-old girl, face and head cut. probably fatal: M. L. Powers, Carthage. Mo., internal injuries; Mr-;. Zelda Seguin Wallace, Indianapolis, ex-grand opera singer, back badly crushed, imt may recover; Mrs. Ewing Whiting, Boston, hurt in the chest; Conductor Wise. SI. Louis, arm broken and internal injuries. Thirty-six others were less seriously hurt. Treasury Must Have Gold. President Cleveland submitted to Congress Monday a special message on the limineial situation. Ue insisted upon the maintenance of national honor in matters financial: admitted the practical fail tire of the two recent bond issues; suggested that the Secretary of the Treasury l»e granted powers sufficient for emergencies, and advocated permitting national b nks to issue notes up to the f’dl value of bonds deposited to secure circulation, except in case of 2 per cent, cr other Government obligations below par. An important bill from the Finam'e ( ’ommittee accompanied the message. Oilcloth Makers to Form it Trust. There have been rumors for some months of a combine among the manufacturers of oilcloth in Akron. Ohio. Dr. . M. (’ole. President of the Western Linoleum Company of that city, confirmed thi' reports and said the combination would be consummated within three u• • ks. Ihe en pit aI st nek of the new compr.ny will be $3,001.1 Mio. and it will include practically all the maimfacturers m the , county. Heavy Loss by Fire in Arkansas. The Crescent oil mill, situated two and a half mih s from Little Rock. Ark., on the opposite side- of the river, was destroyed l»y tir< Friday night. The lire originated in the refinery and before assistance j could be had the entire building was in Haim s. It is estimated that fully SO9 tons of seed was burned. The building and contents w । re valued al $175,001, partially insured. The property was owned by Austin Bond, of Memphis. Hoki and Dry Goods Store Burn. । The three-story brick building occupied on the ground floor by Hogan Bros.’ I dry goeCs establisliimmf, with a hotel i above, was destroyed by fire at St. Louis. I Tileri’ were from thirty to forty guests in the hotel nt the time. All escaped safely. । The damage, inchiding the loss sustained I / the guests, will rea< h 550,000. Only part of this was insured. NEWS NUGGETS. William Roberts, a white man. was hanged in Franklin County Jail. Virginia, at Rocky Mount for the murder of Jerry ; Barbour, a prominent farmer, two years St. Joseph. Mo., and vicinity is Hooded 1 with counterfeit money of recent make. The spurious coin is mainly in half dollars i and quarters, although many dollars have been detected, A large mass-meeting of Waeo, Texas, citizt ns decided to relmild the Texas Uoti ton Palace, recently destroyed by fire. | The new structure will be of steel and j brick and as far as possible lire-proof. 1 The cost will bo $100,990. and the buildI ing is to be finished by September next. President Fattre has summoned M. Ribot to form a cabinet, and the latter has accepted the task. The wife of M. Ribot was formerly Miss Minnie Burch, of Chicago. Since the fall of M. Ribot’s ministry under President Carnot he has occupied rather an obscure place in polities. At the death of Banker W. P. Gallup, of Inditmapolis. Ind., one year ago, it developed he had over $200,000 in bonds which had not been returned to the Assessor for thirteen years. The County Auditor has put on the tax duplicate the sum of $2,926,110 total taxation charge able to W. P. Gallup, and not heretofore taxed during thirteen years. The total taxes due is $61,233. A. A. Bonner, son of Robert Ronner, who was taken ill with a cold at Rochester, chartered a special car to carry himself and physician back to New York. The billet department of the Illinois Steel Company at Joliet has been closed, the men refusing to aeept the wages offered by the company. One thousand men are idle. Joseph Choynski, the pugilist, was mar ried at Cincinnati to Miss Louise Miller, the young actress. Marie Burroughs, the actress, was rob - bed of her jewelry, valued at many hundred dollars, at Philadelphia. M. Ribot has succeeded in forming a new French Ministry, as follows: War. Ribot; Justice and Marine, Travieux; Foreign. Hanotaux; Interior. Leggues; Public Instruction and Worship, Poincare; Public Works, Dupuy-Dutemps; Commerce, Andre Ledon; Agriculture, Gadeau, Colonies, Chautemps

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. M idely differing plans to meet the currency complication were offered in the Senate Wednesday by Messrs. Jones, of Arkansas,^ and Smith, of New Jersey. Senator 1 urpie made a vig irons speech against the Nicaragua Camd bill, which he said had been conceived in fraud. A lull to incorporate the Natmnal Central Railway Corn]-,any, which proposes to construct a railway from the Hudson River to New York, was offered in the House. Inefficiency of the Behring Sea regulations to prevent pelac <• sealing was shown by a statement to the House by Secretary Carlisle. In the Senate Thursday debate upon the Nicaragua Canal bill closed. Mr. Allen presented a resolution favoring annexation of Hawaii. The bill for the transfer of a portion of the exhibit of the Department of State at the World's CoImnbian Exposition to the Columbian Museum of Chiun go was passed. 'The exhibit transferred covers the La Rabida Convent and the eollectioi relating to it. Another new Senator, Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, was sworn in. The House practically agreed upon the Sundry Civil bill. The sundry chi] bill passed Friday in the shortest time, so far as known, on record. It was under consideration but three days. As passed, the bill carries $39,120,721. Two propositions bv Mr. Sayers and Mr. Coombs, the former's to clothe the Secretary of the Treasury with power to issue United States bonds of such denominations as Le should see fit instead of as now to re-issue them of the same denomination, and the latter's to retire .".nd cancel the gold certificates and make them non-roceivable for customs dues after July 1 next, furnished the principal theme of diseussi >ll. Mr. Sayres* proposition was defeated, while that of Mr. Coombs was carried. An appropriation of $40,090 for a lightship to be stationed off the Straits of Fuea. Washington, was adopted. A bill pledging the faith of tlie United S ates for ;he construction of the Nicaragua Canal passed the Senate. Letters in which Germany disavows retaliation in excluding, American meat products were read in the House Saturday, during debate on the bill to repeal the discriminating duty on bounty-paid sugars. A resolutior. indorsing the administration's Hawaii in policy was adopted in the Senate by a vote of 24 to 22. The Senate committee on public buildings and grounds failed to muster a <piorum and the Chicago postoffice bid was not (onsidered. The Senate Monday passed the Uto bill ami adopted resoliricns calling for information on various subjects. Debate on the bill to repeal the differential duty on sugar from boi nty-paying countries was continued in the House. A currency Lili in accordance with the views expressed in the President’s message was introduced in the House by Mr. Springer. President Clevchiiid sent a messago to Congress urging prompt action to rrstore confidence in cur financial soundness. Commissioner Mil er has prepared a notice, copies of winicli will he posted in every city and town, calling attciition to the provisions of the income tax law. A compromi -e cv: r mey p an was offei c I in the Semite Tuesday by Nir. Manderson, <d Nebraska, a Republican. Senator Chandler offered several amendments to (he railroad poolii g bill and secured adoption of a resolution calling for information regarding the trunk lines. The bankruptcy bill was । ebated, a substitute on the lines of the old Torrey bill being offered. The Semite Committee <m Finance discussed tlie various currency hills before il. A free silver measure offered by Cliairman Vo( rhees was defeated on a tie vote. A canvass of the Senate ('ommittee on Public Buildings showed a majority favorable to the Chicago postoffice bill. 'I he Lll t<> rept al the differential duly on sugar from bouuty-p.’iying countries was psss- d by the house - 239 to 31. The House ('ommittee i n Elections decided the Steward-Uhilds contest ir favor of the latter, who is the sitting member. The House committee amended the administra’i m currency bill by striking out the section requiring import duties to be paid in gold, reducing the tax on circulation and shortening the term of be nd s. HE’S A SOCIALIST LEADER. Herr Paul Singer Threatened with Expulsion from the licichstag. Herr Paul Smger. the socialist leader, who is threateiH’d with expulsion for the prominent part he took in tlie recent scene

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intheGcnnan Reichstag, was formerly :i succ< ssful man of business. He is very shrewd, very charitable, very obstimitc. and has repr<seated one oi the Ibrliu electorial districts as a socialist since 18S4. Until bis temporary expulsion from Berlin in ISSIi, he was a partner in a large manufacturing firm, but of late

years has devoted himself to political and municipal affairs. Herr Singer is a Hebrew. He is very wealthy and his purse is held freely at the disposal of his party. This and That. The celebrated Sphinx, the figure of the crouching monstrosity neat the Great Pyramid, i.s 172 feet and f> inches long and 52 feet high. Automatic machines have been devised for use on a moving train which mechanically record the condition of every foot of the track. Th • hygienic congress at Budapest brought out the fact that there are four times as many men who stammer as there are women who are so afflicted. Professor Bailey, of Missouri, is said to have obtained more than types of pumpkins by crossing the flowers of out' kind with the pollen of another. The nine sons of Kirk Hackham. of Sturgeon, Mo., have forme.l a baseball club. They challenge any family nine m the country. Their ages range from 22 to 8 years.