St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 February 1895 — Page 6

independent. M. A. EKBLiEY, I’lilM Ishcr. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SHE SPIED A BARGAIN! AND FELL OVER EVERYBODY TO GET AT IT. Chicago Herald and Post Now Owned by Jas. W. Scott—May Also Get the Tinies— Silver Men Repulsed in the Senate.

Quick Way of Getting to a Bargain. Three women took a tumble down a stairway at the Boston Store in Chicago Tuesday, landing in a heap at the bottom chagrined and mortified, but not injured. A large woman with her arms full of bundles was at the head of the stairs leading from the second story. She caught sight of some bargain sign on the floor below and tried to crowd her way through the throng. In her effort she tripped on the front edge of her dress skirt and started on a headlong plunge down the stairs. Most of the people got out of her way in time, but about half way down the steps she caught two women almost as large as she and rolled straight on to them. The force of the contact upset the two women and they accompanied the first one in her original method of getting to a bargain counter, all three going down the stairs in a heap which to tin l spectators seemed to be made up mainly of wildly waving arms, hats, and draperies. At the end of the stairs the women were picked up by the store employes and sorted out. Scott Buys Chicago Papers,^ _J4I ncs w 2 s. ■..<t ■ trol go frHWn nfi 11 the livening I’ost. John IL Walsh, president of the Chicago National Bank, who, since 1883, has held a two-thirds interest in the Herald and who has held a like interest in the Evening I’ost ever since it was founded, has transferred his entire holdings to Mr. Scott. The deal was made on the basis of approximately $2,000,000 for the two newspapers and the property of all sorts belonging to them, Mr. Walsh receiving in the neighborhood of $1,330,000 for his interests. At the same time comes the news of a probable consolidation of the Chicago Times and the Herald. Mr. Scott and the owners of the Times, it is understood, have agreed upon terms, and in all likelihood the plan of consolidation will be perfected very soon. To Sue Owners of the Elbe. An action for damages against the North German Lloyd Steamship Company will be brought by Siegmund Frank, the brother of Jacob Frank, the Buffalo ticket broker who was lost in the wreck of the steamship Elbe. The damages specified will be $50,600. The first steps in the proceedings were taken Monday in an application to the surrogate at Buffalo for limited letters of administration. Siegmund Frank gave bonds and qualified as administrator. Affidavits have been obtained from two of the survivors, Carl Hoffman and John Vevera. No Vote 011 Silver. The silver fight in the Senate is finished and no vote will be had on the Jones bill. The one day—Tuesday—devoted to that bill showed conclusively that no amount of pressure would bring about a vote, and if the silver bill was kept before the Senate that it would result in defeating the appropriation bills and force an extra session. BREVITIES. 'William Scott celebrated his 100th birthday at Delphos, O. Martin Meyers, the stage robber, was sentenced for life at Oroville, Cai. A. E. Hunt, chief of the Seattle, Wash., fire department, has disappeared. Phil Dawson killed his father at Birmingham, Ala., when the latter reprimanded his daughter. The tug Sea King towed the derelict schooner Ocean Spray into San Francisco, Cal. The schooner was capsized. The schooners Ida C. Schoolcraft and William C. Wickam, bound for Richmond, Va., are believed to have foundered. IL L. Hawkins, of Van Buren. Ark., was .-hot and killed by a negrx named Turner for putting him out of a railway depot. The Montana Supreme Court has decided that Harriet Sheffield and Erwin Davis, niece and brother of Andrew J. Davis, the Butte millionaire, may contest the will on the ground that it was a forgery and was revoked by other wilis. A man giving the name of Hartwell P. Heath, but believed to be Frank 11. Truesdell, an ex-newspaper man of Elmira, N. Y., and San Francisco, has been arrested at Emporia, Kan., charged with trying to swindle banks by means of forged drafts. Thomas Cook, a merchant of El Moro, Colo., was forced to open his safe by a masked man who got the drop on him, but as the burglar was leaving the store Mr. Cook shot at him with a Winchester. The bullet struck the robber on the shoulder and fell to the floor flattened out, showing that the outlaw had some sort of bulletproof covering for the upper part of his body. He escaped. President Mcßride of the American Federation of Labor is again home at Massillon, 0., preparatory to taking a long leave of absence. He will go to Hot Springs or some similar resort. He has been advised that he must do this or die within three months. Mcßride absorbed nicotine into his system last year by smoking while he had a bad cold sore. Holms been taking treatment ever since, but. has not succeeded in throwing off the poison. Plans have been accepted for a Phelps memorial gateway at Yale to cost SIOO,000. Bank Cashier Daniels shot at a robber in Azusa, Cal. Constable Stevens thought it was the robber shooting and returned fire, hitting Daniels in the shoulder. The robber, Ellsworth Myers, was caught. Jacob S. Moriis, one of the most widely known railroad men in the United States, died at Toledo, 0., from grip. Representative W. L. Wilson denies the story that he has been tendered the presidency of the Texas State University.

"-J s *”" l *”—”——aamiwn—■ 1 i—nan—maan EASTERN. An explosion of natural gas at Meadville, Pa., Wednesday wrecked the store and dwelling of George H. Cutler, killed George 11. Cutler and his son, and injured Mrs. Cutler and Kate Strack, a domestic. The houses were completely demolished and the ruins, taking fire, were destroyed. The explosion was caused by a leak in the main, the escaping gas igniting from the office stove. Captain Baudelon and the officers of La Gascogne were entertained at dinner at the Hotel Martin, New York, by A. A. Riche, who is one of the happiest men in New York. As the ten naval guests from La Gascogne entered the dining room in full uniform they were greeted by shouts of “V ive Baudelon.” Ladies waved their handkerchiefs and men grasped the hands of the officers. Then all standing, drank

to the health of the stanch ship and her brave commander. Reports from remote portions of the State continue to emphasize the fact that the late storm was almost unprecedented in Maryland. James Brunner, a colored man of Pisgah neighborhood, Charles County, was found standing in a fence corner on the public roadside, frozen stiff. Two dead men were found on the railroad tracks between Oxford and Easton. They were identified as hands on a dredge boat frozen up at Oxford. Robert M. Dawson, of Wittman, reports that there is a flock of at least fifty wild geese frozen to death near the mouth of Eastern Bay. The freight train known as the Troy pick-up, bound north, parted about a mile north of Rhinecliff, N. Y. The divided parts came together and five cars were telescoped. The wreck blocked the down track, MUkk4*efore a danger signal could be displayed the south-bound fast mail ran into the wreck, the engine and three express ears of the fast train jumping the track. The locomotive went into the rive^ taking with it Engineer James D. lionohue and Fireman Green. They were ^extricated by the crew of the train. En- j gineer Donohue is badly scalded about the chest, has severe spinal injuries and is suffering so much from shock that he cannot recover. Green will recover. Engines Nos. 6 and 8 on the Castle Shannon Railroad collided in the tunnel near Monongahela, Pa., causing one of the worst wrecks that has occurred on the road in a number of years. Five men | were hurt and an engine and twenty-five cars demolished. The injured were: Conductor John Walker, Engineers Henry Hitters and Frederick Risgar, Fireman Emmett Hamilton and an unknown man. The first three were seriously injured, but it is thought all will recover. The locomotives met in the center of the tunnel. In the crash that followed the men were buried in the debris and their escape from death was little short of miraculous. Traffic was delayed for several hours by the accident. Lynn, Mass., was visited by a bad fire Wednesday night, and besides the loss of property, there was a sad loss of life. While the fire was at its height, a dozen firemen were crushed beneath the walls of one of the buildings as a result of an explosion of powder. Half the firemen ' were on ladders directing streams of wat J er into the burning building. They es- J caped, but with bad wovnds. The bodies j of three of their comrades were dug from | beneath the debris, and it is believed that ' one or two more have not been recovered. A man named Buttriek was with the firemen at the time the wall collapsed, and he has not been seen since then. Two or three other firemen are missing, ami throe bodies may still be beneath the big pile of debris. Several of the men who were dug out alive were so badly injured that it is feared they will die. The fire, which caused a loss of SIOO,OOO, consumed two big business houses on Monroe street. It । started in the hardware store of Repre- i sentative William 11. Hutchinson and had i gained considerable headway when dis- J covered. Thomas F. Gilroy, formerly Mayor of New York; Thomas F. McAvoy, William W. McLaughlin, Alexander S. Williams, Police Inspectors, and two police captains, whose names are kept secret, have been indicted by the special Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The special Grand Jury has been in session since the beginning of January. Its main object was to investigate charges of municipal corruption. Witnesses have gone in and have left, but their testimony Ims been guarded carefully from the public । ear. It was said three weeks ago that ; the jury was prepared to find fifty-two in- - dictments. Municipal and police officials implicated in the revelations before the : Lexow Investigation Committee have been anxiously awaiting for some time the j first big batch of indictments to be hand- ! ed down by the special Grand Jury. The result of the special Grand Jury’s work was certain to be interesting to the public, but the size of the sensation to be ere- ' ated was not known to anybody except ; the Prosecuting Attorney until Friday j afternoon, when the news leaked out that I the foregoing had been indicted and that | the papers were then being prepared for submission to the court. WESTERN. Joseph Robinson, agent of the Nez Perces Indians in Idaho, is dead. At New York Michael Capezzuto was sentenced to life imprisonment in Sing Sing for the murder of his wife. By a vote of 35 to 26 the resubmission | of the prohibitory amendment was defeat- | ed in the North Dakota House of Repre- I sentatives. The next proposition will be ! for SI,OOO license for cities, leaving prohibition in the other parts of the State. The Russian Thistle Interstate conference at St. Paul adopted a series of proposals for laws in the interested States. Their purport is that the weed should be declared a public nuisance and a special law relating to Russian thistles alone should be passed. Prominent ministers of all denominations and leaders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in South Dakota are waging a vigorous fight against the proposed divorce bill. They have issued an appeal to the people of the State for a petition against it. At East Tawas, Mich., there was a dispute recently as to the renting of a pew, and the Rev. Mr. Brueck, the pastor, . chopped up the pew with an ax while one of the disputants was occupying it. He । has now been sued for $10,060 damages by the aggrieved church member. , The Rev. Andrew 11. Randahi, pastor of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Churches at Ehijo and Highland Grove. Minn., has brought suit for $150,000 dam- ’ ages against the publishers of the Augustana, a church magazine, in which he says * he was widely published as a liar and a ’ swindler. " The Kansas City Commercial Club

completed the collection of a charity fund recently started by it, and immediately distributed the $2,(510 received to Kansas - and Nebraska, sending $1,610 to Governor Morrill of Kansas and the balance to Governor Holcomb of Nebraska. For city charity $2,000 was distributed by Mayor Davis. Three men entered the store nt Alma, Ariz., where old man Doll and his son were murdered a few weeks ago and attempted to hold up John Roach, who is in charge of the place, but Roach was too quick for them. Before they could use their guns he fired six shots, which brought one of the would-be robbers to the ground, perhaps fatally wounding him, and the others fled. A bomb was thrown into the office of the Buckeye Glass Works at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, doing considerable damage. Manager Humphrey was supposed to be sleeping in the oflice at the time. This is the second attempt on his life, as he was shot at about ten days ago. A strike was inaugurated in this factory some months ago, and early in January operations were resumed with non-union men. Since then there have been frequent outbreaks, “Yankee Doodle” and “Dixie” tyere played as a joint melody Thursday ihigM at the Chicago Auditorium while 300/me*’ who had once recognized the airs a^l^ battle marches of contending armies touching glasses in good fellowship*^! cheering themselves hoarse in the euthiff siasm of friendship. It was at a reunion' of "the Boys of the Blue and the Grayjb and it formed the most inspiring fea^^M of a banquet given under the uus’*' - * Columbia I’ost, No. 706, G. A. K. Much excitement exists at Norman, GJ T., over the report that $200,000 was bull ied near the town some time ago by a part ty of Mexicans who were routed by Indi! ans in a fight. When the Mexicans saw they were overpowered by the Indians they hid their money and fled. Several Mexicans have been seen in the viciuitM for some time, and one of the number let the secret out to a Norman man, who has organized a company to make a thort oulgh search. The company is headed by D L. Larsh, of the Norman State Bank. 1 The United States grand jury in session at Deadwood has found indictments for murder against Captain Straighthead and seven members of the Indian police force of the Cheyenne Indian agency for the murder of William Fielder, interpreter at the agency. The agent, Major Lillibridge, had sent the police out to arrest Fielder, and with instructions to bring him in without fail. The police followed their instructions to the letter. Fielder refused to come alive, so they filled him full of holes and brought him in dead Fielder had been charged with wife-beat-ing. James Roach, an ex-employe of the Probate Court at Chicago made a vicious attack on Deputy Sheriff Hermann Seharingburg in the office vault adjoining the court room Friday afternoon. He tried to escape at once and got as far as the elevators before he was overtaken. With ('lmries Cullen, 11 friend. Roach made a desperate fight against the officers, but was finally overpowered and taken before Judge Kohlsaat. After receiving a sentence of thirty days in the county jail 1 for contempt of court Roach kicked an- I other man in the stomach. He was land- | ed in jail without further casualties. Considerable stock has already perished on the ranges of Colorado in consequence of the cold, and it is feared the loss will J be heavy unless a change takes place soon. Many settlors in Eastern Cidorado arc suffering from cold and hunger. JufS^k burg reports extreme weather has beeli recorded for twenty-six days, the then- j mometer ranging from 10 to 30 degrees j below zero during lite recent blizzard. ' Millions of snowbirds and rabbits have j been frozen to death. Denver is about the center of the region affected by the cold wave, which seemed to be backed up against the Rocky Mountains all the way j from Cheyenne, Wyo., to El Paso, Tex. With the Federal and State courts on his trail Attorney Joseph A. Nealey, a Chicago attorney furnisher of straw - bail <m short notice j s j n a bad box. ! Judge Grosscup sent him to jail for per- . jury for swearing he owned a six-story j flat building at No. 5762 South Leavitt street, a spot occupied by railroad tracks, ; and he will have to give bond before he ! obtains his liberty. Judge Chetlain, who I held him to the Criminal Court for conspiracy, is confident he can send him to the penitentiary for from two to fourteen years, there being three distinct charges ! on which he can be convicted. When | Nealey swore to the ownership of the I mythical South Leavitt street building he enabled matrimonial swindler Cavelie to escape. Inspector Stuart was convinced he was committing perjury, and twentyfour hours' investigation showed there wasn't a building within blocks of the place where the attorney’s structure ! stood. Forty thousand dollars is the reward offered for the apprehension of Dr. George Fraker, of Kansas City, Mo. The offer is made by the insurance companies which issued the policies on Dr. Fraker’s life. When the confession and judgment was taken in the Federal Court in the case brought to collect the S4O,(MID insurance, it was agreed in the stipulation filed that the main sum should not be paid vfntil the expiration of six months. There wlere no reasons given by the insurancewsolicitors for this clause and none wa lr< - quired, but it was undersfyuiLiluvt it g ns I simply one of business, and that it w:p in ; good faith. Now, however, it is leafcied the companies have joined in issuiJg a circular to its agents offering S4O,OCOf reward for Fraker’s recovery within the six months’ stay before the payment is due. The number of agents employed by the companies amounts to a small army and includes every city, village and hamlet in the land. In addition the offer has been made to every reputable detective agency in the country. SOUTHERN. Thomas Ault, a St. Louis timber man, ended his life by poison at Memphis, Tenn. James Hodges, ex-Mayor of Baltimore and prominent in public affairs during the : know-nothing days, is dead. Randall Adams was sentenced at Louisville, Ky.. to the penitentiary for life for killing Marshal Russell 'Wiseman March 25, ISB9. Max Meyer tried to asphyxiate himself, shot himself, and leaped from a fourth-story window at Austin, Texas. He is dead. The continued cold weather has caused a stagnation in the Alabama iron business. Several furnaces have closed down at Birmingham. Peter May, a negro farm laborer, shot and killed W. B. Lyle, the overseer of th*

1 ft . - In 6 Sollth Christian farm of W. S. ' ■ j ueatham at Hopkinsville, Ky. r »The tank steamer Elsie Marie, from > ■ i a f mbur K * or Baltimore, which went r ■^ bo y e . on JJttle Yaehiongo Shoals, off the , ■ Irginia Shoals, was pulled off with little Ka mage. J1 WASHINGTON. ’ Lady Os ,hl; Lake> 0,10 of 0 10 oldest rSt,,t n A CrS , On the 1, 0 1,,1 »ac, burned to the * EX$3& at hPr " harf hl "’^-^on. , Jhe interstate commerce commission ■ J m u ßU T?> de '? thC ,O "« 1111(1 811011 lla »l 7“*’ ‘’V. 10 interßtate commerce law so ’ rat!^ t" !lb ° ™ ,lroads ‘0 carry nt cheaper 1 ntS * n th ° Not’r^ka region of crop fadures. 1 The third attempt of the Administration at this session to secure legislation looking to the relief of the treasury failed jii the House Thursday. First, the Carlisle bill for the reform of the currency .System went down; next, the bill for the Issue of $500,000,000 of gold bonds and ■Ue retirement of the legal temU rs, rec^amended in the President's special mes■lge, was defeated a week ago by a majority of 27, and Thursday the House, by a majority even larger (47), refused to 1 order to a third reading tiie resolution by which it was proposed to authorize the Issue of $6.>,000,000 3 per cent, gold ( bonds to substitute for the 4 per cent. 30- ' year coin bonds sold by Secretary Carlisle j under the contract with the RothschildIMcrgan syndicate. J FOREIGN United States Minister Isaac T. Gray died of pneumonia at the City of Mexico Thursday evening. He had been unconscious sixteen hours. He was carried from the train to the American Hospital, and Dr. Bray placed in charge of the patient. The physician saw at once there was no hope, and informed Mrs. Gray that her husband would not live twentyfour hours. He had just returned from Washington. Intelligence was received at Yokohama \\ ednesday morning of the surrender of the Chinese forts and warships at AVei-Hai-Wei. The surrender is complete and the Japanese are in full possession of Wei-Hai-Wei. It is officially announced | that Captain Nuros, of the Japanese squadron operating at Wei-llai-Wei, re- I ports that on Tuesday one of the enemy’s gunboats approached the Japanese fleet flying a white flag. She brought a message from Admiral Ting, of the Chinese navy, offering to surrender Wei-Hai-Wei and his vessels providing that the lives of the soldiers, crews and foreigners were secured. Captain Niiros' report added that a formal surrender was yet to be ar- ! ranged. The commander of the second j Japanese army, in an official report of the ! operations of that body before Wei-Hai- : Wei, says that its iosst s from Jan. 2(1 to Feb. 1 were eighty three killed, including five officers, and 219 wounded, including General Otera and three other officers. During the same period 700 of the enemy were killed. IN GENERAL A bill has been reported to Congress I granting the abandoned Mount Yernon j barracks military reservation, comprising i about sixteen hundred acres of sterile ; hind, to the State of Washington. Mm h anxiety is felt at Philadelphia I I over the safety of the British steamship i Kingdom, Capt. Jones, which sailed from ; 1 Hamburg Dec. IS. The Inst report ot her was Dec. 21. when she was signaled from I 1 the lighthouse station at the Butt of Lewis, one of the Orkney Isles. At i Lloyds a premium of 60 guineas was ; asked for her insurance. She has a crew I ot forty. Traveling men all over the country were ! jubilant over the action of tin* President ! in signing the bill amemling that part of < i the interstate commerce act which refers to mileage tickets. For several years the Travelers’ Protective Association, the i largest organization of traveling men in ; the world, has been agitating the mileage 1 ticket question, and it has just carried its j j point. Under the old system all a man j could get was a IJMIO-mile ticket, good | over just the road that issued it. Un- > ! der the new law he will be able to buy a | S.IMM) mile ticket, good over any road or : number of roads he wants to use it on. i IL G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "Another week's exports of ! gold and withdrawals from the treasury have been almost entirely stopped by the contract for purchases of gold from Messrs. Belmont and Morgan. For the moment business only waits to know whether sales of American securities ami withdrawals of gold from the treasury have been lastingly stopped by the remarkable increase of confidence. The two obstacles which block the path just now are exceeding cheapness of farm products and restricted operations in the industries. There has been no gain in prices of farm products on the whole.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. [email protected]; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 @4.50; sheep, fair to choice, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 50@51c: corn, No. 2, 42@43c; oats, No. 2, 27@28c; rye, No. 2. 52@54c; butter, choice creamery, 23@ ; 24c; eggs, fresh, 23@24c; potatoes, car | lots, per busl»el, 7O@BOc. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, s3@ j 5.50; hogs, choice light, [email protected]; sheep, common to prime, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 52@53c; corn, No.l white, 41@ 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 32@32%c. St. Louis—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s3@ 4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 51@52c; corn, No. 2, 40@41c; oats, No. 2, 30@31c; corn, No. 2, 54@56c. Cincinnati —Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, [email protected]; sheep, [email protected]; wheat. No. 2, 55@56c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44@44%c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 32@32%c; rye, No. 2, 58@59c. Detroit—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s4@ 4.50; sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 1 white, 54@55c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42@42%c; oats, No. 2 white, 33>4@34i4c; rye, No. 2, 54@ 56c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 53@54c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42@43c; oats. No. 2 white, 33%@34%c; rye, No. 2, 53@55c. Buffalo—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s3@ 5.00; sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 57%@58^c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 47@47%c; oats, No. 2 white, 35%@36%c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 53@ 53%c; corn, No. 2, 43@43%c; oats, No. 2 white, 31@31 1 / 2c; barley, No. 2, 53@5Gc; rye. No. 1, 52@54c; pork, mess, $9.75@ 10.25. New York —Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, $3.50 @5.00; sheep, s3@s; wheat, No. 2 red, 59 @59%c; corn. No. 2, 48@49c; oats, white Western, 37@41e; butter, creamery, 15@ 26c; eggs, Western, 28@29c.

OPTION HAS EXPIItEb/ 1 I t! ’ SYNDICATE MUST NOW BE GIVEN 3 j THE NEW BONDS. j St .ver Has Many Supporters in the Senate—Serious Family Row Caused by a . Pestiferous Pug Pup-Fear Danger ■ j from Floods. Ji Must Deliver Bonds. ' The option under which it would have , been possible for Congress to substitute a 3 per cent, “gold” bond for the 4 per j cent, “coin” bond which the Secretary , ot the Treasury has agreed to sell the Bel- । mont-Morgan syndicate expired at noon Monday, and now Secretary Carlisle must 1 deliver the bonds to the purchasers as 1 last as they are called for and as gold is deposited to meet them. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been engaged ; for several days in printing new bonds from the old plates that were used when . Senator Sherman was at the head of the J ^’ ( ’ as »n r during the Hayes administration. There will be nothing to distinguish , the new bonds from the old 4 per cents. except the dates and the signatures of the officials. Between $8,000,000 and $9,000,- ■ (MM) of gold has already been deposited in . anticipation of the tirst payment, and ’ " 1 •' steamer sailing from Europe in this direction for some weeks hence will bring dr ' Vhich the Evndicate will diaw the Bi|)lk of Eu . aii(l and er sourccH. Silver Men Pukli the lusue. The strength o; the free silver men in , the Senate was shown Monday by a vote of 30 to 27 to take up the Jones bill for J the unlimited coinage of silver, the Government to retain the seigniorage as profit. ; With only a dozen working days in which j to dispose of the great appropriation bills, the silver men, conscious of their strength but careless of conseq iences, decided to take up their favorite scheme and keep it on the boards, either forcing a vote or compelling the calling of an extra session to pass the appropriation bills. Anxiously Watching the Ice. The warm weather of the past few days has had its effect upon the ice in the rivI ers at Pittsburg. The ice in the Monongahela was fourteen inches thick and in the Youghiogheny it reached a thickness of twenty-three- inches. If the warm weather continues it will cause the ice to rot gradually and preclude the danger of a flood, but if rain sets in there is grave fear of a breaking up in the rivers, which I would result in great loss to the boats ■ which am frozen in along the shores. Moonshiners Make a Hard Fight, Deputy United States Marshal G. W. , Drake, with two assistants, captured seven desperate moonshiners on Onton ('reek, in Knott County, Ky., after a hard battle. Among them was Isaac Sloan, one of the five men who murdered United States Marshal Erastus Wierman at the came place six years ago. Twelve Fatally Burned. Twelve men are said to have been fatally burned by an explosion of gas at the West Bear Ridge colliery near Ashland, । I’a. Five men have been taken out. None J of t hem u ill recover. NEWS NUGGETS. It is announced that Congressman W. 1 1.. Wilson has been tendered the position of president of the University of Texas. The presence of cholera in Argentina has been formally recognized by the Argentine < lovernment. Archduke Albert died Monday at Arco, South Tyrol, of congestion of the lungs. He was in his “Sth year. Fire consumed the large breaker of William Connell A Co. at Connellton, i’a. The loss is $100,(KM). Six hundred , men and boys are thrown out of employi ment. Disobedience of orders resulted in a I collision between a Santa Fe passenger train and a live stock express car near j Guthrie, O. T. Charles Upleby, of Topeka, was killed and a score of other passengers injured. At New Albany, Ind., because his wife allowed her pug dog to kiss her and would not permit him the same privilege, Peter Bowman struck her. Two sons attacked him with clubs ami fractured his skull. The boys were arrested and placed in jail to awai. the result of his injuries, which are serious. The full Senate Committee on Appropriations Monday decided to report an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the sum of $l(H).(l(>0.000 of certificates of indebtedness of the denomination of S2O, to run for two years and draw 3 per cent, interest, ami to be good only for the purpose of supplying the treasury deficiency. The officers of the Bank of Lexington at Richmond, Va.. decided to make an assignment to secure its creditors. lis liabilities are $71,000. C. M. Figgat, the cashier, left town suddenly, and a letter from him announced he spent money in private speculations. The accounts are confused, and the amount of his shortage is not known. Figgat belongs to an old । and honored family. A deputation representing the farmers ; in the departments of Pas de Calais and Nord, France, visited M. Gadaud, Minister of Agriculture, Monday, and pointed I out to him the grave danger of infection । to French cattle arising from the importa- • tion of American cattle suffering from j contagious diseases. M. Gadaud informed | the delegation that the matter to which I they referred had been submitted to a j committee of experts on cattle diseases. Charles Anderson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, : aged 12 years, was so worried over failI ing to pass the examinations at school ; tha t he took poison and died. A locomotive went into the river at Rhinecliffe, N. Y., taking with it Engii neer J. D. Donohue and Fireman Reed. I The former was killed ai*d the latter fatally injured. John Brabits and his son James were killed by the fall of a tree near Montgomery. Minn. Will Swearingen and Walter Gardner i were killed by machim ry in McElme's mill ne«”' Gloster, Miss. I Chicago capitalists are reported to have ■ purchased a large body of valuable coal i lands near Wellston, Ohio, for $10,000,000. Rich furnishings imported from France for John Jacob Astor’s new house have been seized by New York customs officials, who claim that they were undervalued.

WORK OF CONGRESS. THE WEEK’S O(9,NGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington —Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. A bill providing for the issuance of $65,000,000 in gold bonds was presented to the Senate Wednesday by Mr. Vilas. A resolution authorizing Seeretarv Carlisle to sell gold bonds was favorably reported to the House from the Wavs and Means Committee. A copy of the bond contract was also submitted. The House Thursday defeated the propositnm of the President to issue gold bonds ereby $16,000,000 in interest could f a ' e ^ een saved. The measure providing for the construction of a new Federal Pr f c? g .^, I Cluca Ko has been signed bv oue!t d « nt Clevcland - In response to a request Secretary Carlisle has sent to the i enate his figures on the treasury gold eserve and expenditures. Labor Commissmner M right has submitted a report mitbmng pl.- uls for providing homes for e working people on easy terms. 3 be Senate passed the postoffice appromenu "1 ' * ",’' 1!ly ’ SeuatG hostile amendbtn was in’k,.? ' fcnt u 1 ’ Tlle n fe’ r ‘cultural introriuce.t n .in’ t.,’ ' Chandler has t can ports . no manufact sired. Strong < pposition to the bill appropriating money to build more war ships was developed on the floor of the House. The House Committee on ; ( ommerce submitted a report favoring a I deep waterway to connect the ocean and great lakes. 'I he Navy Department is j advised that the war ships Charleston : and Yorktown are rescuing American missionaries at Che Foo. In the Senate Saturday Mr. Wolcott charged the President with misstating the financial situation. Senators Cullom and Palmer appeared before the sub-commit-tee of the Senate Appropriation Committee and urged an amendment to the sundry civil bill providing an appropriation for the beginning of the work on the proposed new Chicago post office building. They have received a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury recommending an appropriation of $400,000 for beginning work on the new building, and of $200,000 for temporary quarters for the post office while the new building is in course of construction. The House voted to increase the navy with three battle ships and twelve torpedo boats. The Administration's bond contract was sharply criticised Mopday in the Senate. Senator Gray vigorously defended the President. By a vote of 30 to 27 the Senate decided to take up the Jones free silver bill. The agricultural appropriation bill was passed by the Senate, an attempt to eliminate the irrigation clause being defeated. A provision for the issuance of $100,000,000 in debt certificates was inserted in the sundry civil bill by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The House passed the bill to make the pensions >f all veterans of the Mexican war sl2 per month. A bill for an international commission to investigate the condition of the seals was favorably reported to the House. House conferees refuse to agree to the Senate's Hawaiian - cable amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Mr. Vi as defended the bond contract in a four-hour speech in the Senate Tuesday. Sillverites were unable to force a vote on the Jones bill, but will pass a resolution declaring in favor of free coinage. In reply to a Senate resolution Secretary Carlisle says no necessity exists for providing for a deficit in the revenues. Despite he entreaties of the Illinois members of the House, the Senate Judiciary Committee refuses to report the bill creating ai additional district judge. Consideration of the naval appropriation bill was continued in the House. A number of measures were passed. A favorable report has been ordered by the House committee on the bill to pension survivors of the Indian wars. Representatives of the Pacific roads held a conference with I the House committee regarding a settlement of the debt to the Government. The Curse of Scotland. Among the reasons why the nine of ' diamonds has been called the curse of Scotland, I think that the following has not been given: “Diamonds, nine of, called the curse J of Scotland, from a Scotch member of ' Parliament, part of whose family arms I is the nine of diamonds, voting for the introduction of the malt tax into Scotland.”—“Chronology; or, the Historian's Companion,” fourth edition, by Thomas Tegg, London, 1526, p. 308 (Addenda). Could the arms of Daniel Campbell of Shawtield. member of Glasgow, contain the nine lozenges? Uis house was destroyed by a mob in 1727, because lie was suspected of “ having given government information " the habits and Scotland necessary for tli^ of the malt tax, as well as of having posed a system of evasion of duties in the Scots tobacco trade. —See “History of Scotland,” by John Hill Burton. In the index to the “History,” Campbell of Shawfleld’s Christian name is given as David. There is a George Campbell mentioned as having caused the nine of diamonds to be called the curse of Scotland because he stole nine diamonds out of the royal crown in the reign of Mary Stuart, in consequence of which all Scotland was taxed.—Notes and Queries. Odds and Ends. The original of the face on the silver dollar is Miss Anna Willess Williams, formerly a teacher in the Philadelphia schools. Matanzas Inlet, Florida, was named by Menendez to commemorate his victory over Ribout. The word means “massacre.” India rubber used for erasing pencil marks was known in England as early as 1770. A cube of it half an inch square cost 3 siblings.