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Stye Independent. W. A. EIfDLBY, l*uGlislicr. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. PETTIGREWS DENIAL HE KNEW NOTHING OF TAYLOR’S SHORTAGE. Lecturer Slattery Provokes a Riot in Savannc^i —Aid for Destitute Nebraska Farmers- Death of a Chemist from Cyanide Poisoning—Lynn Has Grip. Pettigrew Makes Denial. The attention of Senator Pettigrew, ov South Dakota, being called to reports that he had some knowledge of the defalcation of Treasurer Taylor of his State, he said that all the information he possessed was that known by other South Dakota men. The day before Christinas Charles McCoy had told him that Taylor was short SIOO,OOO, and that it was to be made up, $50,000 to be paid by Taylor's relatives and $50,000 by his bondsmen. “Under these circumstances,” added Air. Pettigrew, “I did not think it wise to make the matter public. There is no truth in the report that I ever borrowed a dollar from Taylor. I never had any financial transactions with him.” Hint in Snvnnnah. Tuesday wiih the most exeitiiiK nig-ht in the history of Savannah, Ga. For five hours the city trembled on the verge of religious riots because of the lecture ot ex-Priest Slattery on Catholicism. The entire white military’ force of the city except the artillery was on duty. There were ten infantry companies and the Georgia Hussars, the latter being dismounted. A mob estimated at from 3,(MX) to 5.000. the greater being Catholies, challenged their forbearance to the extreme. But for the coolness of Mayor Meyers and the officers commanding the troops blood might have been the result. Bayonet charges were made several times to clear the streets, but the mob which had gathered about Masonic Temple, one of the prominent buildings of the city and situated in the heart of Savannah, retired only’ after the most stubborn resistance. Slattery and many of the audience were escorted to the hotel under strong guard. Fire Losses of a Day. Schulz’s wagon works at Dalton. 0., were burned Wednesday. Loss. SB,OOO. Aid sent from Massillon and Wooster prevented the tire from spreading. A business block at Great Falls, Mont., owned by L. G. Phelps, was damaged $15,000 by fi.*e. Two men were arrested ou suspicion of incendiarism. At Dowell, Mass., crossed electric wires set fire to the four-story brick building owned and occupied by W. 11. I. Hayes as a cigar manufactory. Loss on stock. $50,000. Fire in the basement of the building at St. Louis, Mo., occupied by Friedman Bros. & Schaefer, boot and shoe manufacturers, caused a loss of between $50,000 and $75,000. Seed Wheat for Nebraska. At Tekamah, Neb., a meeting was cal! till Savc il^ hall for the purpose of con"CKT a proposition purporting to come the Chicago Board of Trade relative B^B^^urnishing the destitute farmers of the county with seed grain. So far as learned the proposed terms are that the farmers are to give their notes for the grain as it is needed, the validity and payment of flic same being conditioned upon the production of a crop the coming season. The sentiment of the meeting favored the idea. It is understood the Chicago Board of Trade will duplicate this proposition in d number of counties. BREVITIES, James AlcSiphle fatally shot Joseph Reville at Richmond, Ind., in a quarrel.

Charles Nichols, of San Antonio, Tex., in attempting to get on the front platform of a trolley car fell under and was instantly killed, lie was a stoneeutie. and member of G. A. R. and I nited Veterans’ Lodge. An epidemic of grip prevails in Lynn, Mass., to an alarming extent, there being at present at least 500 cases; physicians reported upwards of '2OO cases in three days. There have been many fatalities, especially among aged people. Cadets Thomas Mahoney and Thomas Hart, of Michigan, and Arthur Wessels, of lowa, are imprisoned at Annapolis, Md., on the naval academy ship Santee. The young men are charged with annoying an officer by placing a chemical jar in front of his room. Ralf F. Denison, a prominent assayer and mining man, died at Leadville, Colo., from accidental poisoning. While taking lunch in his office he filled a beaker with water, thinking it was clean. It contain ed four or live drops of cyanide of potas ‘ >•< sid«r Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith has granted permission to Chief Noshirt 1 eo. and Young Chief of the CmatilH reservation to go to Washington to ask that money due for reservation lands sold to white settlers be paid to them in cash Two hundred thousand dollars in the

hands of the Interior Department remains to the Indians credit, $25,000 havin'* been already distributed. Walter G. Hamner, for twenty years the trusted teller of the Lynchburg, Va. hirst National Bank, was arrested’Sundaj charged with embezzling $23 000 o f the bank’s funds. The bank officers are engaged in making an investigation ami wdl make public an official statement Hamner is bonded for *515,000. a ml the bunk which is one of the soundest in the South, will lose only SB,OOO. C. Farnum & Son, leather dealers of haV ° "ith neaty liabilities, failure of a State bank led to the suspension. An immense gorge of ice let go in Guv^^A e . riVer nt nuuti »Ston. W. Va., ami ^>,ooo logs and an immense quantity of railroad ties were swept into the Ohio river. Genral rains fell in Nebraska Monday night, breaking the drouth of a year’s duration in some instances. The Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of Dr. Buchanan, of New York the wife murderer, and he must die.

EASTERN. The grand jury at Brooklyn has indicted Motorman Orlando Worthington for manslaughter in the second degree. Wor thington’s car ran over and killed a school boy. Airs. W. S. Rainsford has been named a trustee of the public schools for the Sixteenth Ward of New York. She is the second woman to hold that position in New York. Patrick McCaffery, a day laborer at Hornellsville, N. Y., has entered a claim tor the $500,000 estate left by John McCaffery, who died in Chicago last June without heirs. Fremont I’. Peck, first lieutenant of the ordnance corps, was almost instantly killed on the proving grounds at Sandy Hook, N. J., by the bursting of a breech of a Hotchkiss gun. A gang of counterfeiters near New York has turned out within the last twelve weeks $1,000,000 in American dollars, halves, quarters and dimes, made of pure silver and full weight. Their profit, after allowing for cost of manufacture, was $500,000, While the body of Mrs. Bowden, 75 years old, of Bridge Hampton, L. 1., was being prepared for burial by the undertakers, the physicians made a last attempt with a heart restorative and in less than an hour the woman was walking about the room. John Geiger, a pioneer resident of Norfolk, Neb., has received notice from New York city that his brother, who recently died there, left his entire estate, valued nt $1,500,000, to him. Mr. Geiger will pro to New York Imnlcdintoly to take possesslon of his I nhcrl t anee. The Balbach Smelting and Itcfining Company of Newark, N. J., the largest concern of the kind in the country, has been robbed of at least SIO,OOO worth of gold and silver ore and bullion during the past year. A former employe and two supposed accomplices have been arrested. Three men. of whom no description can be obtained, used dynamite to blow off the doors of the Thomaston, Conn., Savings Bank vault at 1 o’clock Friday morning. securing all the cash in the vault. Citizens who were aroused by the explosion were driven back at the muzzle of revolvers in the hands of the men. The bank refuses to give any statement of tluloss, except that it was small, but it is known that S2OO in gold was taken, besides other cash. The men are supposed to have driven towards Waterbury, but no trace of them has been found. The town has offered a reward of S2OO. At New York, August Belmont & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co., managers of Ilie

bond syndicate, closed the list for tie new ’ 1 4 per cent, bonds at 10:20 o'clock Wednes- 1 < day, the amount having been subscribed 1 for many times over. A private dispatch from London says the new American । loan is quoted at 4 per cent, premium in London. This is reckoned ou the syndi- , cate's price of HR I /*. N. M. Rothschild A j Son say at London that the new American loan has proved a colossi! success. Though the opening of subscriptions only began Wednesday morning, the amount of the loan allotted to Europe had been covered very many times ever by noon, both with them and with Messrs J. B. Alorgan & Co. It is impossible as y* t to give the exact amount of the bids, as applications are still coming in from London, and the country is yet to be heard from. The Pall Mall Gazette says th it the success of the loan is a tribute to the i power of Messrs. Rothschild and a mark of confidence in the great wealth and financial ability of the United Slates. WESTERN. The California Assembly lias passed a ; bill imposing a fine of SSO for wearing i ‘ hats or bonnets in theaters or places of i public amusement. Dennis Dunn, a Bull Hill man, who ; ’ was engaged in the Cripple Creek war. f has been found guilty of assault with in- I 1 tent to kill Captain Defenbaugh, of the : Colorado National Guard, last July. In returning from a dance at Waite i Park early Friday morning a St. Cloud. '

Minn., omnibus containing twenty-five ■ men and women was overturned one mile from the city and a stove ignited the curtains and straw. The Union Flour Mills of Stockton, Cal., purchased last year by the Sperry combine for $294,000, have closed down. Os thc thirteen mills owned by this syndicate in various parts of the State only three are now in operation. The trial of Crawford Goldsby, alias “Cherokee Bill,” for the murder of Ernest Mellon, at Lenapah, I. T., has begun at Fort Smith, Ark. “Cherokee Bill” has also been indicted for killing his brother-in-law, Mose Brown. “Link” Overfield and Charles Abram, the train robbers charged with assault with intent to kill Dad Prescott, engineer of a Santa Fe train, near Gorin, Alo., last September, were acquitted, although they had confessed to the shooting. The Denver Times suggests holding a mining and industrial exposition at Denver in 1896, when Colorado will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of her admission to statehood, and the country will have been a republic at that time just y r " r ' "’L”" ■■■ . .TiTrr ui. , t , -■» of No. 192 Washington street" cidcal^rwas nipped in the bud by the police Friday night, and the two principals, George Brownley and Paddy Sinon. together with wo spectators, were carted down to the Harrison street station. The raid was a surprise to every man present, and when the police made their appearance the sports were so dumfouuded they did not make an effort to escape. Mrs. G- M Fowler, of Millport, twelve miles south of Alliance, has just secured the appointment as overland mail carrier be ween that village and Gavers Post Jffice, a distance of eight miles. When

this route was advertised for sale recent- ■ Jy Mrs. howler put in a bid with a large number of competitors, and her proposltion being the lowest she was awarded the contract. She will be obliged to make the round trip daily, Sundays excepted. Driven half crazy by the loss of SBBO which had been stolen from her, Mrs. Annie Miller, of Chicago, rushed fran- ; tically about a witness cell at the Harri- I son street station, striking her head ' against the stone walls and tearing at her ) hair and clothing. It was all because I Mrs. .Miller and her husband do not believe in banks. Miller and his wife have been married twenty years. They had succeeded in saving a good sum of money, which until recently was deposited in a bank. A few’ weeks ago they became worried as to the safety of their money and determined to take it out of the bank and keep it where they could per ! tonally watch it Mrs. Miller went shop- j

ping, and in a restaurant was robbe^— her cash, which she carried tied up a handkerchief. Four years ago Mrs. ler was robbed of $(>00 which she *d concealed in her dress. This sum I ph;' ld also been taken from a bank becausehg^&^e woman and her husband feared the tutiou was not safe. ''WfR AVhile performing the “human ,ar ßC^ act Sunday night at Engel's PavilionP )r WBn North Clark street, Chicago, WillxßS m Haderle, aged 17, was shot and iataesS^J’ injured by “Prof.” Alfred Riecklsdiy^, “champion rifle shot of the world.” derle was Rieckhoff’s assistant. Str . I’- I ped across his breast was a steel pl**®ie twelve inches square, in the centerfctiebf which was a bell. Rieekhoff, at a tanee of twenty paces, was supposei^^to fire at. the target twenty times in ra. jpi'i succession, hitting the bell each time. went well to the twentieth shot, 'vLW Ol ' Haderle threw up bis hands and feW®l°

the floor, crying: “My God, I am shT^l" In an instant the crowded house hi confusion. Women screamed and jumped on the tallies and attempted!® to reach the stage. The curtain was haw^y lowered and tire police summoned.Jk A young physician made his way to ^Khe stage and a moment’s examination enough to show that Haderle was fatO^Y hurt, the ball having entered his stoma®’’ 1 ; He was removed to the Alexian Brothy Hospital. Rieekhoff was arrested j®'* taken to the Larrabee street station^! SOUTHERN. j At Columbia, S. C., the^ main bun^B^J of the Alien University, a with li law ilopn FFiWen t. hffrned vvithaK^ partly insured. TIIO fire was nceidenWp'U Mrs. NV. T. Leachman, of Louisville, Ky.. is trying to establish her claimßo an eighty-six-acre tract of land on Br<^H. way, New York. There are over twei G other claimants, among them being Ch gs Justice Fuller. The claim to the esta e , which is worth from $500,000,000 to ? 000.000.000, is based on a grant fr King George I. Three lives were lost and $75,000 wo th of property destroyed in a fire at I ot Springs, Ark. The dead: Airs. Samm L Nirs. McLeod, unknown lady. The I

originated in a bakery on Ouachita a -e. nue, over which were furnished root jg. Here Mrs. Sammon, who kept the root jg, was burned. There is very little ins ij. ance, the loss being practically total. b William Dobbins, a penurious old in irket gardener of Birmingham, Ala., w |s the victim of the gold brick sharper Ipi day to the extent of $6,000. He vBLs so afraid some one else would get holdpif the “snap” that he introduced the shafaiers as his relatives. He still believes fie bricks genuine and says he is going to Ijie New Orleans mint to have them made iwto coin. g A Henry County, Georgia, farmer nagned ('. B. Cook was held up by a wonAn in the outskirts of Atlanta Thursday night ami robbed of sls. She walked lip to him in a dark place, and before he real- I ized her purpose she threw her argis around him. held him with one hand as in a vise, and rifled his pockets with the free hand. Net fa Heard has been arrested on suspicion of being the footpad. WASHINGTON. In the House the joint resolution extending from March 1 to April 15, JB9->-the time within which income-tax reta may be made was agreed to. The naval appropriation bill, im luij ; 0 . i the provision for the transfer of theaiu- i lunibus caravels to the Columbian scum, has passed the House. lias ; The House Committee on Pensions lan agreed to report favorably the Hennie bill, which gives to all survivors of Indian wars prior to 1832 and from iMp to 1856 a pension of $S a month for thi? days' service or longer. Frederick Douglass, the noted freV‘ man, orator and diplomat, died a few mJ 1 utes before 7 o'clock Wednesday nigntjp his residence in Anacostia, a suburb* s Washington. D. C., of heart failure. l a ' ! death was entirely unexpected, as he IfS been enjoying the best of health. DurJ n the afternoon he attended the convent^ of ihe Women's Council and chatted w ,,n Susan B. Anthony and others with whfl- v he has been on intimate terms for m^ f years. NVhen he returned home he # e down and chatted with his wife about fj e women at the convention. Suddenly I 1 * gasped and fell back unconscious. NVir° in twenty minutes after the attack ts- v faint motion of the heart ceased entire* and the great ex-slave statesman u dead. JsI’. Bogdanoff, first secretary of the R/-’ sian Legation at NVashington, D. by killed himself Wednesday morning or shooting. He had been sick for two?“ three weeks, and his suicide is suppotP” to be attributable to the suffering had endured. Air. Bogdanoff left behi^him two letters explanatory of his aP' One was addressed simply, “To be opr e ed,” and the other “For relatives.” lP e latter was not opened. Air. Bokine, t n ' second secretary of the Russian Lei a tion, opened the former. It I long gilded card on which vjir Russian: “For a long timx' / B I | Wirbody is all Li । riel. suicla^K * reserved in NVashingtoT^^^W comparatively l iule was know?>Wu Inm He served in the RussiaZd^’ natic service m Servia for eight ye< D Ki"'*™ 1 " 1 "” ‘L Some pretty plain Anglo-Saxon 1/he gnage was used by a committee of !is " House of Representatives Friday in imposing of an application made by a c of zen of Michigan for an appropriation r€,s SBO.OOO to iciinburse him for eight ae ot of land near Portage Lake Harbor 3m Refuge. 'I here were letters filed fi vi * ]>roniim nt attorneys and others of the P e ' cinity protesting against such a claim of

mg allowed, and Gen. Casey, chief m * engineers, put another spoke in the ela rni i ant's wheel by declaring the alleged fa ! nd to be nothing more than a pile of st ^ e ' at its best. The Claims Committee in « eland: \\ <■ have no hesitation in say I this claim is the most unblushing attei ver to det rami the Government that has e® is j come under our notice. This statemen Y 11 * made with a knowledge gained by ve of experience with this class ofWainw^ Letters on the subject stated the I J be in question was absolutely worthless, —the sides being fully half a mile from 'sJed canal. "It is simply an attempt to bl-| the Government out of so much mon^uan wrote a correspondent of Congressn s 'the -Moon, “and furthermore nearly all '°ble land that could have been made'availa^At has floated out into Lake Michigan = ITI

. FOREIGN. SWSS.S;: An English chemist has discovered „ new solvent for -old seo 'ered a sists in 'i.ui;, *” ‘' 1 0 solvent cone i S a of potassium . nit a portion of bromide of svnn«<™. Two thousand Chinese soldiers ire of T m tO ha - e bOen killed tlle explosion Os a magazine in the forts of Takao mos P M rt °" thc s °mhwe S t coast of iV been 'in/uS °‘^ reP ° rtw! to

exmedhi Pm^'.’eports that the French TX U i'' 'r ft ’ Ma ^lles somcm Y ? ' UlKler the eouimand of ComX f °“ tel1 ’ for se, viee in ”'e intenot of Africa, was surprised and a sanmnnary confl !e t ensued. Three hundred P, ' ,Sil,,g hs,lf of ,h e force of the xpedition, are said to have been killed, iv line the remainder have been driven from the line of march, and their retreat lias been cut off. The minister of colonies has received an urgent appeal from the commander of the expedition for reiniorcements. Lord Rosebery's administration has passed successfully through a storm which its opponents hoped would overwhelm it, and which many of its friends believed would require the most skillful statesmanship to weather. Despite the predictions of the conservative papers and the more or less badly disguised fears of the liberal organs, the Government came out of the contest with flying colors and a majority that surprised even those who would at no time admit that there was a chance of defeat. The question that precipitated the dangerous situation was a motion made by Sir Henry James to adjourn in order to call attention to the import duties on cotton recently decided upon by the Government of India. The cotton interest is strongly represented in the House, and when the notice of the motion was given it was conjectured by not only many conservative papers but by some of the stanch liberal organs that the Government, which was bound to oppose the desired change, would be overthrown by the Lancashire party in combination with conservatives and liberals interested in the cotton trade. The I’arnellites, too, were expected to east their votes against the Government. But the result, did not bear out the hopes or fears of the political parties, for, by a majority of 195, the Rosebery ministry triumphantly repelled the attacks of its assailants. IN GENERAL Standard Oil barge No. 58, which parted from the steamer Maverick, off Barnegat. during the blizzard of Feb. 8, has arrived at Bermuda. Mrs. James Brown Potter is said to be anxious to secure a divorce, but insists on retaining the name under which she has achieved her position on tin- stage. A little Maltese cat is beating its way around the world without the expemliture of n cent. A ta»r attached to a cord around its neck tells the story thus-: ••('.•line on hoard at Minneapolis on my trip around the world. Please take tini best of care of your passenger. Nia Bos- | toll, theme to New York steamer. KitI ty.” From Minneapolis the kitten went ' over the "Soo'' line to Montreal, via the Concord and Montreal and Boston and Maine to Boston. Friday night it left Boston for New York in care of the baggage men, who will see that it gets to New York via the Fall River line. NVhen it arrives in New York it will be transferred to some ocean steamer. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "The surprising success of the new loan and the great confidence it has given to investors on both sides of the water and to the business men here encourage many to hope that it may be the beginning of a real recovery. In twentytwo minutes at New York subscriptions are supposed to have been at least five times the amount of bonds offered, and in two hours at London they were twenty times the amount there offered. Considering the power which control of these bonds gives to regulate foreign exchanges and to prevent exports of gold, the transaction has indeed greatly changed the financial situation in spite of the fact that government revenues are still deficient and that domestic trade shows scarcely any gain as yet. The industries are not enlarging production, nor have prices of farm products improved. But a very important source of apprehension and hindrance has, for the time at least, been removed.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75^6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 sheep, fair to choice, [email protected]; wht’tr^*- * n ‘ d ’ 50@olc: corn. No. 2. 42@43c; oafs. No; 2,281129 c; rye, No. 2, 53@54c; butter, choice creamery, 23@ 24c; eggs, fresh, 25@2Uc; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 65^115c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, s3^ hogs, choice light, [email protected]; sheep, common to prime, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 52@53c; corn, No. 1 white, 4111 41%c; oats, No. 2 whte, 33@34c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3(^5.75; hogs, s3@ 4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 501i51c: corn. No. 2, 40@41c; oats, No. 2, 291t30c; corn, No. 2, 561t58c. Cincinnati—Cattle. [email protected]; bogs. $3114.75; sheep. [email protected]; wheat. No. 2, 541154^1-; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42@43c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 311i32c; rye, No. 2, 57@59c. Detroit—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, S4Q -1.50; sheep, s2l/4.50; wheat. No. 1 white, 531^1/54corn, No. 2 yellow, 42@43c; oats, No. 2 white, 331i34c; rye, No. 2, 541/56c. Toledo—NVheat, No. 2 red, 54@54y 2 c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42@43c; oats. No. 2 white. 33@33i/ 2 c; rye, No. 2. 531155 c. Buffalo—Cattle. $2,501/6.00; hogs, s3@ 4.50; sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 551<55 , /2e: ecm, No. 2 yellow, 46@46%c; oats, No. 2 white. 351/36c. Alilwaukee —AVheat, No. 2 spring, 53@ 54c; corn, No. 2, 421/43c; oats. No. 2 white, 31@32c: barley, No. 2, 531/55c; rye, No. 1, 531/54c; pork, mess, $9,751/ 10.25. New York—Cattle. $3116.00; hogs, $3.50 @4.75; sheep, [email protected]; wheat. No. 2 red. sS@s9c; corn, No. 2, 48@49c; oats, white Western, 38@42c; butter, creamery, 15@ 24c; eggs, Western, 26@27c.

QUAKER CITY IDIOTS. mawkish women coddle a CRUEL MURDERER. Quick Work of a Boston Dru maieP _ Hartly Discovery at ChicagoKunning Kieht with Burylars Council Bluffs. Shower Flowers on an Assassin. m!n w IK - W ~rivat‘ ‘ 'garters in the GerP A n ?T ,n . at Phil ad«?h>hia. Pa. James Sunday sim-enie" 1 ! 11 ' 1 ' n '' Pas Bed llis first {here H ° f th ° hospital that nf his flowers a bv U t‘r " aV Y ' V ° ,nen hhn rs by the armload, together with XS'tn a,l<l C ° logne ' Th " ma wkish are ■ ■ k- r<m ar k able. F rk . nt i s mon viJ « f ° r " S private attendance and mom j is flowing m to Gentry.

1 P fll .H°" ib,e CHme CtHcago. -k,,- y de ^ ,,re d b s’ ‘toga- soaked in • 1 . an< : badly burned, thc murdered ( body ot broil Holzheuter was found at t ” f . stern avenue ami Ninety-fifth street, k t m ago. ut !) o'clock Monday morning. ’ w^r s Hkul ’‘ad ’>< <■» split, his wrists U<rt tied together with cords, and a deliberate attempt bad been made to burn the body by pouring kerosene upon it, 1 stacking brushwood about it and setting Pi, ‘‘- To ,na ke recognition more dinicult, kerosene had been poured over the upturned face and into the mouth of the murdered man. Fred Holzheuter was in the saloon and commission business at No. 3801 Honore street. He was last seen in “Nick" Alertzen’s saloon, No. 3517 South Halsted street, Jan. 30. That day he showed a roll of bills, and told some of his friends he had an engagement with Alertzen to go to Manhattan Park in the morning and buy some cows. Bullets for Bandits. Throe men supposed to be the burglars who looted the First National Bank of Griswold, lowa. Sunday night, fought a desperate running battle with deputy sheriffs on the streets of Council Bluffs Monday. It began at the court house i yard, where the desperadoes, who had ; been passive captives, opened fire and I made a break for freedom. In the coni flict that followed one of the robbers and 1 one of the deputy sheriffs were probably 1 fatally wounded: another of the gang I was captured unharmed, and a third, sup- ; posed to be dangerously wounded, succeeded in getting away. The battle raged in many parts of the city, renewed at intervals as the robbers made a stand for an interchange of shots, and then resumed their flight. A stray bullet in one of the fusillades nearly killed a motornian on a passing ear, and many other lives were in peril. Wins a Wife in Twenty Minutes. The romantic side of a wedding a few days ago came to light at Providence, R. 1. Thursday afternoon Georgi* MeLellan I M'hitney. a commercial traveler for a BosI ton shoe horse, engaged a room at a boarding house, ami during the day was introibiceil to Miss Grace Seavening Grant, daughter of William 11. Grant, of Indianapolis. Ind. Twenty minutes after I the int rod mt ion he was engaged to her ami they were married by the Rev. I >r. , I. V. Vosc, <,f the Congregational Church, i the same afternoon. The young w< man ■is 24 years old and good looking. Whitney is 28 years old. Alloy Metal for Torpedo Boats. Senator Bla -kburn, from the Commit- : tie on Naval Affairs, reported an amendi ment to the naval appropriation bill au- : tborizing the Secretary of the Navy to . use other metal than steel or an alloy in ] the construction of the proposed new tor- ; pedo boats. The amendment is made at the suggestion of tile Secretary, who desires that the department may be free to avail itself of any improvements in naval construction so far as relates to the material best adapted for use in the build- : ing of torpedo boats. He thinks that an < alloy lighter than steel may be used. NEWS NUGGETS. Ward McAllister left personal property rained at SIO,WO. He had 110 real estate. Charles E. Norton jumped out of a hospital window in Baltimore and killed himself. He shot himself last December i with suicidal intent. He is thought to be i a New A’orker. William AValsh, 60, who lives in a hovel ; at St. Joseph, Alo., and who is known to keep a great deal of money, was overpowered by .'x masked men, and under threats of death ordered to reveal the hiding plaee of his wealth. He stubbornly refused. The robbers finally kindled a fire and his feet were thrust into the flames, but he remained obdurate. The robbers beat him into insensibility, but were obliged to leave without securing his money. Gov. Morton, of New Yotk. thought Friday a most excellent day to sign the flag bill and make it a Taw. He said it contained nothing but patriotic sentimei ts and was truly American. It provides: “It shall uot be lawful to display the flag or emblem of any foreign country upon any State, county or municipal building; provided, however, that whenever any foreigner shall become the guest of the United States, the State, or any city, upon public proclamation by the Governor or the Mayor of any such city, the flag of thc country of which such public guest shall be a citizen may be displayed upon such public buildings.” During high mass at the Catholic Church in Gcala, Fla., the dead leaves, ferns and other decorations around the altar became ignited from the candles. At a meeting of the United Labor I.eague of Philadelphia a resolution condemning the police authorities for suppressing the speech of Anarchist Alowbray was adopted. The annual address at the A'anderbilt University commencement in June will In* delivered by Chauncey M. Depew and the sermon will be preached by Dr. A. Carmen, general superintendent of the Methodist Church of Canada. Stanley Smith aged 16. of Paris. Ky.. was. accidentally shut and killed while hunting. Joseph D. Hall, of North Beach. Md., was frozen to death while attempting to drive across Sinepuxcnt Bay on the ice. I His horse was later found fast in the ice 1 dead.

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIObAL LAWmakers. A " eek’e Proceedings in the Halls of ongress-Im portant Measures Discussed and Acted Unon—r epon-An IniparUal Resume of the Business. The National Solons. rhe's 'c"* r ° a,ed Wed ’ c.a i, ln rhe Senate, the j O nes bill beate An'ch appro J' riati ‘>» bill I,' ti'e's._^ Would The navm Te StO th .” ‘'“'""‘bian Museum by tIZ IuX rOI ? ati °” bi " ' Vas passed the tin vi ’ ' r Attempts to strike out failed f ° r tblee ne ' v bat,,e

Dili 110-ise Thursday refused to concur in the Senate appropriation for construction of a cable to Hawaii Consideration of the general deficiency bill was begun, and eulogies on the late Senator Stockbridge were delivered. Congressman Durborow secured adoption of an , amendment to the general deti iem y bin ,h “ Olumbian Museum the , State Department exhibit at tin fair. An acrunomous discussion of the sectarian , school question occurred in tie Senata- ° f th ° Appropriations for the maintenance of Indian schools was reduced Friday bv the Senate 20 per cent. The bill is’ still under discussion. Senator Mills has given notice of an amendment to the sundry civil bill to prohibit the further sale of Government bonds. Senator Blackburn has introduced a bill providing for the payment of the full sugar bounty for the crop of 1593. The House considered the proposition to appropriate money to pay marshals for services during the Chicago railroad strike. An attempt to take up the railroad pooling bill was defeated in the Senate Saturday and the measure is dead for this session. An amendment was offered to the sumiry civil bill in the Senate authorizing the President to appoint commissioners to attend an international monetary conference, should one be called. In the House the genera! deficiency bill was further considered, and eulogies were delivered on the kite Senator Vance. A resolution was introduced iu the House looking to reversal of its approval of the President’s course during the strike. Chairman Reilly reported the bill agreed on by the House committee for settlement of the debt of the Pacific roads. The deficiency appropriation bill was passed by the House Monday. An amendment to pay Great Britain $425.(«Hf in settlement of the Bering Sea award was defeated. A number of amendments to the tariff law designed to remove ambiguity have been suggested by Seercta/y Carlisle. President Cleveland is annoyed because Congress has not authorized him to seek away out of the Samoan entanglement. Ambassador Eustis has been inI strutted to make a vigorous protest against the exclusion by France of American cattle. Amcnduicnts providing for jiayment of tin* sugar liounties prematurely cut off by the tariff law were added to the sundry civil bill in the Senate Tuesday. All the correspondence relative to Samoa since the ratification of the Berlin tretity was sent to the Senate. McGann's railroad arbitration bill was passed by the House without division. Eulogies were delivered on the late General Post. Air. Fithian made a speech eulogizing G*overnor Altgeld and condemning President Cleveland for sending troops to Chicago. A minority House committee submitted a repoiu giving their reasons for opposing the Pacific Railroad bill. House and Senate eonferees again report their inability to agree on the Hawaiian cable amendment to the sundry civil bill. “ The 'Leven-Fifteen.” The following incident is said o have happened on a Southern railroad, and is reported in Harper's Magazine. The conductor must have been a humorist. A traveler had come to the station to board the 11:15 train, and much to his surprise, promptly at 11:15 the train started. "Well,” lie said to the conductor, as that worthy passed through the car, “they libel you up North when they say your trains never start on time.” “I guess not.” said the conductor. “They tell the whole truth. We never got a train off on time yet.” "Why. thir train got off on time. It’s the 11:15, isn't it?” "Yes, it's the 11:15, my friend, but it's last Tuesday's 11:15. We're three days late. To-day’s 11.15 won't get off much befob Alonday, I reckon.” Does the Boj s Good. One interesting result of the military instruction at seventy-five or eighty colleges iu this country has been the noticeable improvement in the carriage of lads that enter college without previous military training. It is noticeable. too. that the youth at those agricultural colleges that have but recently had enough students to entitle the institutions to have an army officer detailed as mHitaiw instructor show vastly better discipline under such instruction than when the department of miliary tactics was in charge of civilians. LaUies Make a Hit. New < irleans lias a first-class orchestra composed entirely of women, and their services are in great demand for entertainments and parties. This and That. The Spanish sculptor, Alvarez, drifted naturally from stone cutting and polishing into executing works of art. Curtains were employed for bedsteads iu the eleventh century; they were afterward transferred to windows. Dishes of gold and silver used in table service in 900 B. C. were found at Troy by Dr. Schliemann. One of these was about the size now employed.