St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 February 1896 — Page 6

132- * o c ’V?g n g3 1/7 NV. A. E3WLEY, JPuDllslior. ■WALKERTON, - • - INDIANA, DIXIE BOYS TO COME. SOUTHERN SOLDIERS WILL GO INTO CAMP AT CHICAGO. Attend the Chicago-Southern States । Cotton Exposition in August—Big : Liner St. Paul A flout—Railroads Will Assist in Civilizing China. Big Military Spectacle. Chicago is to be invaded by the soldier hoys of Dixie land, nearly 5,999 strong, next August. I'nless plans miscarry, each of thirteen Southern States will send a train load of its crack military organizations to take part in the opening of the Chicago-Southern States Exposition. The present plans for military features of the celebration will rival in grandeur all other attempts in this line, with the possible exception of the dedicatory ceremony of the World's Fair. Military authorities of Illinois have been at work for some weeks making the preliminary arrangements. Gov. Altgeld and Gen. Wheeler of the I. N. G. have approved the plan and the Governors and military men of the Southern States are enthusiastic over it. Mayor Swift has invited the Governors of thirteen Southern States to send five delegates each to a convention Feb. 19 to pass upon the plans already laid and to arrange further details. It is proposed to make the military features the most noted element of the celebration, and. from private advices already received there seems to be no question of its success. Several States have agreed to send their quota of troops. China Orders Railroad Building. The Chinese Government has at length turned its attention to the construction of railroads, and, according to United States Minister Denby, has appointed Chii-Ahen. a provincial judge, to superintend the building of a railroad from Tien-Tsin to Lu Kou bridge, eight miles west of Pekin, which is as near the sacred precincts of royalty as Chinese etiquette will permit the road to approach at present. The cost of the seventy miles of road is estimated at $2,009,999 and is to be finished In one year. The decree ordering the work also requires Chinese merchants to form stock companies to build other railroads, for the Government is determined to exclude foreign capital and foreign control for the roads. Shoots Two and Kills Himself. Joe Friedmann, 24 years old. fatally shot his former sweetheart, Julia Oelker, wounded his rival and killed himself at St. Paul Monday evening about 11 o’clock. The girl had recently thrown Friedmann over for a young man named Hoffman. The shooting was done in a fit of jealousy, Friedmann having followed the young couple as they left the theater and shot them down with hardly a warning. Steamship St. Paul Finally Released. The steamer St. Paul, of the International Navigation Company's line, which went ashore on the sandbar off Long Branch, was pulled off the bar at 9:20 Tuesday morning. The four tugs succeeded, with the aid of the kedge anchors, in getting the St. Paul from the bar. Fifty minutes later the vessel passed the Atlantic highlands, bound for New York under her own steam. BREVITIES. A Brooklyn man has secured a patent on bloomers, and hereafter the new woman will have to pay a royalty. Former Police Commissioner Stephen B. French committed suicide at New York by shooting himself through the hea rt. Mrs. A. B. Cody, of Chicago, mysteriously disappearedwlrile shopping at Taco- _ mn w wuere> abouts has been Tonnd. United States Minister Terrell has demanded an indemnity of SIOO,OOO from Turkey for the burning and pillaging of the American mission at Marash. Thomas Ryan, of Fort Wayne, Ind., a wholesale dealer in tropical fruit and commission merchant, assigned, with liabilities estimated at $4,0*10 and assests about S7OO. Dr. Dexter V. Dean, of St. Louis, is confined in the insane asylum at his own request, his diagnosis that he was suffering from paresis proving upon examination to be correct. The Finance Committee of the Senate has agreed to report for the tariff bill a substitute providing for the free coinage of silver. The substitute was suggested by Senator Vest and was agreed to by a majority of one. An immense mass meeting at New York, presided over by Chauncey M. Depew, adopted resolutions protesting against the recall of Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth from the command of the American Salvation Army and asking that the order be reconsidered. A hungry and destitute prospector, while chasing a deer in the hope of securing a square meal, discovered a fabulously rich ledge in the Georgetown. Mont., district. He is said to have sl,- ■ 999,900 worth of gold in sight and his i prospect hole is down but ten feet. Joseph 11. Dunlop, publisher of the Chi- ‘ cago Dispatch, was convicted Tuesday of i sending an obscene publication through ■ the United States mails by a jury in ' Judge Grosscup's court. This verdict. I arrived at by a jury after four hours of i deliberation covering every technical । phase of the law and the evidence, elicited ; no demonstration in court. Motion was I made for a new trial. Five counts coin- j prised the indictment. Penalty is one I month to ten years’, imprisonment, and $25 to $1,900 fine upon each count. David Coulter, of Valley Falls, Kan., was found guilty in the second degree for the murder of Edward Illston near Tcpeka a few months ago. Both were boys. ! Coulter, who is 19 years old. shot Illston. I dragged his body into a field, stole 111- j ston's wagon and drove to Valley Falls, twenty-five miles distant. Coulter claimed the killing was accidental. The ship Louis Walsh at Townsend, Wash., from Callao, brought two of the crew, Steward Chase ami Cook Mitchell, from the ship Parthia. which was burned at sea several weeks ago, 390 miles southwest of Juan Fernandez Island.

Carleton Baldwin, a young farmer, living near Union City, Pa,, met with his death in a peculiar manner. Baldwin had a high and uncontrollable temper, and while hitching up his horses had trouble with one of them. He rushed into the house for his gun and shot one of the. horses and then, it is supposed, accidentally discharged the weapon while beating the dying animal over the head with the butt of the gun. The butt of the gun was bent and badly broken. Property with an estimated value of $2,000,000 was burned early Sunday morning at Philadelphia. The big sevenstory building of Charles 11. Haseltine, Nos. 1410 and 141 S Chestnut street, and the adjoining five-story structure of the Baptist Publication Society and the American Baptist Historical Society. No. 1420, were destroyed. The buildings damaged by fire and water and falling walls were the four-story dry goods house of Homer. Le Boutillier A Co.. Nos. 1412 and 1414, the dwelling house at 1422, owned by the Wistar estate, ami the Hotel Lafayette, at Broad and Sansom streets. Five persons were killed and nearly a score injured, some of them fatally, by the explosion of the large thirty-nine-inch cylinder boiler at the works of the Hollidaysburg, Pa., Iron and Nail Company Thursday’ morning. Only two employes escaped uninjured. The boiler was blown through the roof of the works, 300 feet in midair, and came sailing down like a spent rocket, crushing through the roof in another department of the works. The entire root was precipitated to the floor below by the force of the explosion and the works were practically wrecked. The explosion was sufficient to rock the earth with the force of an earthquake ami broke hundreds of windows a quarter of a mile from the mill. No explanation is offered as to the cause of the explosion. Some of the employes say they were short of steam before the accident occurred. Cashier George Barnard, of the Fort Stanwix National Bank, Rome, N. Y., has killed himself, and the bank is closed, pending ^examination of its affairs, ordered by the Board of Directors. Mr. Barnard has been missing from his home since Wednesday. On that day the teller of the bank. Patrie, went into the private office of the cashier ami said to him: “Mr. Barnard, 1 see the bank examiner. Mr. Van Vranken, is at the Farmers' Na tional Bank, and I suppose ho will be here in a day or so.” Mr. Barnard immediately left his desk, walked out of the bank, am! up to the fourth story of the building. He went into a storeroom, it now appears, and tying a rope to the door knob, fastened the other end around his neck, and the indications are that he then pressed his knees against the door and died by strangulation. Before committing the act he locked the door. WESTERN. John Ilavlin and his wife have given the lease of Havlin's Theater. St. Louis, to their daughter Katherine for a wedding present. Three Boston hotels refused to entertain Bishop Arnett, of Wilberforce, Ohio, senior bishop of the African Methodist church. The pap jacket of a blast furnace was blown out at the Arkansas Valley smelter at Leadville, Colo. Three workmen were injured. A report from Muskogee says that ex Congressman Springer has grown tired of his ditties as .Judge of the Indian Territory Court and that he is an applicant for the position of general solicitor for tiie Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Herman L. Mueller, charged with embezzling SI4JMM) from the Schlitz Brewing Company while acting as its Iniokkeeper in Kansas City, has been acquit ted after a three day’s trial. He was arrested last June ami the Grand Jury later found nine true bills against him. At Colville. Wash., Judge Arthur miitenced Adolph Niese and his wife to twenty years in the penitentiary for beating their 19-year-old son to death. Shortly after the prisoners were placed in their cells both cut their throats with a razor. Niese is dead and his wife is in a critical ■^•^1111011. The ice crop at St. Joseph. Mo., is considered a failure. Friday contracts were made by St. Joseph firms for ice to be harvested at points in Wyoming and on the northern lakes reached by the Burlington Railway. Not a pound of ice was put up during the early winter freeze, and ! it is considered there will be no mon At the coroner's inquest on the bodies of ' Engineer ('lark Trimble and Foreman George Waters, who were killed by the recent explosion of a locomotive boiler near South Charleston. Ohio, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, it was conclusively shown that the explosion was caused by their own neglect in letting the water in the boiler get too low. The Governor of Kansas, called a meet- j ing of the State Board of Railroad Com- | missioners ami urged the importance of | some action looking to the restoration of grain rates recently advanced and greatly affecting all shipments to Galveston and ihe South. The Governor urged that the Kansas board act in concert with the railroad boards of I'exas ami Nebraska. Clarence Murphy, alias C. F. Clarke, was arrested at San Francisco. He is wanted at Salem, Mass, for the alleged embezzlement of $60,000 two years ago from the Salem Savings Bank. He was taken to the detectives' room in the city hall to be questioned, and while there succeeded in making his escape. He was pursued by policemen, tired at and finally rei captured. Merchants on State street, Chicago, say : they have grown tired of giving their enI tire profits to their landlords, ami a move- . ment is now on foot for a general exodus । from that thoroughfare. Wabash avenue I will profit most by the move, if it should ; be made, and Dearborn and Clark streets, j Michigan avenue, and east and west I streets will also come in for a share of ■ the retail trade should it leave State j street. More than 200 feet of frontage ' in State street which was occupied Friday by retail stores was vacant Saturday. There are at least a dozen important, retail stores, the leases of which expire on May 1 or before, which may be moved from State street. There are some others which will move from one part of the street to anothT’r. leaving vacant property which has rented for large sums in the past. Bents have been as high as $1,009 per front foot per annum. By a unanimous decision of the Indiana Supreme Court that body has set aside the apportionment act of 1895, reaffirmed the decision of the same court setting aside the apportionment of 1891. and has brought into operation the apportionment of 1885, which it declares to be the only legal act since that date. The decision is

irom a body eomposeuvi I b and Democrats. The Democratic Leg* Is lature of 1891, following the constitutiU. V al requirements to enact an apportionment law every sixth year, passed an act which was attacked by the Republicans and set aside by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. the latter body holding it was unfair in its provisions because it gave greater representation to some portions of the State than to others. The Democratic Legislature of 1893 passed another act ami the Republican Legislature ot 189.> repealed it ami substituted an entirely new law. This in turn was attacked by the Democrats on the ground that it violated the provisions of the constitution in being enacted at a time before the sixth year since the apportionment of 1893 was passed. This contention was sustained by the Supreme Court, but it failed to concede the Democratic position that the law of 1893 was operative, holding that the same objections which obtained against the apportionment of 1895 existed to render void the apportionment of two years before; that the Legislature of 1891* was competent under the Constitution to enact an apportionment law. but the Court having set that act aside as unconstitutional, recourse must be had to the law of 1885 to find a valid enactment. WASHINGTON. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has agreed to report a resolution on the Cuban question. it does not go quite so far as to recommend recognition, but is more emphatic than the extension of sympathy. The name of Edwin F. Uh), of Michigan, the Assistant Secretary of State, has been mentioned prominently in the Washington gossip in regard to the appoint ment to the Ambassadorship at Berlin. His intimate knowledge of all matters under diplomatic consideration with Germany would make his appointment eminently desirable. A measure of the greatest interest t<4 pensioners was put through the House oLi Rei resentatives Thursday when body adopted the report made by7° -T Committee on Invalid Pensions. Ir^''^ recommended by the committee that 111 IH l * cases of pension claims the unexplained absence for seven years of the soldier would be all that was necessary to prove that he was dead. It was said this was in conformity with common law, and would answer all practical purposes and materially assist a great many applicants for pensions. I nder the rule now in force at the Pension Bureau, although a soldier may not have been heard from since the war closed, this cannot be considered a proof of his death, and hundreds of cases are held up in the Pension Office awaiting sm h proofs. The statement of the Government receipts and expenditures for January show the aggregate receipts to have been approximately $29.237.*179, and the expenditures $32,696,530. leaving the deficit for the month about $3,459,160, and for the seven months of the present fiscal year about $ 1 5.553.5G7. The receipts from customs during the mouth of January’ will amount to about XIG.GStt.79G; from internal revenue, $11,041,401. ami from mis celhineous sources about $1,815,472. This is a decrease of about SIJMMIJMMI in the receipts from customs as compared with January. 1595 and an increase of almui S2jHHt.OOO in the receipts from internal revenue. As compared with hist month, there is an increase of over $4.O00,o(IO in the receipts from customs and a decrease of nearly $1,750,000 in the receipts from customs and a decrease of nearly $1,750,ihhi in the receipts from internal revenue. The pension pay incuts last month amount to about S9.9sii.ihmi. :1 decrease from December of about sl,3S*:jMMt. The contest over the silver bond bill is at an end in the Semite, that body having passed the free silver coinage substitute to the House bill Saturday by the do s ive vote of 42 to 35. a majority ol seven for free silver. The bill was a substitute for the House bond bill and provides I'iat from the date of the act the mints of the United States shall be open to the coinage of silver and the dollar shall be the present weight ami fineness, ami also provides for the certificates. It further provides for the coinage of the seign’o*^ iorage now in the treasury and’ authorizes immediate issue of certificates u|h>h the same in advance of it j being coined. One section of the bill pm- i vides that no bank note of less than SlO ; shall here.i I ler be issued, and those mii standing of less amount shall be taken up and canceled as rapidly as possible. SecI lion four provides that the greenbacks ! and treasury nob's shall be redeemed in standard silver dollars or in gold coin at the option of the treasury, and the greenbacks, when so redeemed, shall be immediately reissued. FOREIGN. Mr. Gladstone has written another let i ter on the Armenian question, in which. ' after referring to the "murderous wickedI ness of the Sultan, his absolute victory I over the powers and their unparalleled disgrace and defeat." he says: "1 cannot wholly abandon the hope that out’ of this darkness light will arise, but the matter rests with the Almighty, to whom surely all should address fervent prayers in behalf of His suffering creatures.” The : nnuai report of the British Government Board of Trade on emigration for the year 1895, compiled by Sir Robert Giffen, shows that during the year 185.366 men ami women left the United Kingdom to seek homes and a livelihood in other portions ot the globe. Os these, 112.653 were English. 15.277 Scotch and 34. ISO Irish. Os the English emigrants (51.237 went to the United States am] 14,179 to British North America. Os the Scotch. 13.231 were added to the population of the United States and 1,393 to that of Canada, while 52,178 Irish emigrants turned their faces toward "rhe land of the free and the home of the brave.” and 1.119 sons and daughters of Erin's Isle turned toward Canada. The banquet of the Nonconformist Unionist Association at the Hotel Metropole, in London, Friday night, was the occasion for an address by the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the course of his remarks lie said, with reference to Venezuela: ”1 have been held up as the denouncer of the Monroe doctrine. As a matter of fa<4. although the Monroe doctrine is no part of international law. my dispatch to Mr. Olney, the Secretary of State <>f the I’nited States, supported it as a rule of policy in the strongest and most distinct terms. But what 1 stated in that dispatch I reiterate now, that, as a rule now of policy, we are the entire advocates of the Monroe doctrine, we mean the Monroe doctrine as President Monroe understood it. (Cheers.) In that sense you will not find any more convinced supporters than we are.” Lord Salisbury then turned abruptly to the Armenian

unilcr a misf'N’"^S®ey supposed that England f i’i honor to succor the which means to go to war '|rrtn the sultan in order to force him to Tsvern the Armenians well. The speaker |Eminded his hearers that the reforms ■hicli the sultan hail recently accepted, although very good reforms, could not be Wpected to produce good government in t® o months. IN GENERAL. ■A terrible fate is believed to have beSllen five gold prospectors who left HerinosiDo, AJexico, several weeks ago foi the interior of Tiburon Island, which is inhabited by the Seris tribe of Indians. There were six members of the exploring party originally, but one of the men returned and reports that he and his companions came upon a village of In dians; that they were all taken captive and preparations were begun to butcher them, when he succeeded in making his - -rseape. He believes all the other members of tin* party were killed and their flesh eaten by the Indians. He says thf Indians all wear valuable gold ornament? and that there were many evidences of the existence of rich mines on the island R. G. Dun & Co.'s Wer’kJy Review of Trade says: “Though business is still waiting, there are some signs of definitt improvement. It is now believed that th* first payment for bonds will cause no fur ther pressure, and the money markets ar< easier as respects loans on collateral, though the difficulty of making eomiuer cial loans still checks operations, but largi maturities at the end of January were met more satisfactorily than was expected, and merchants and bankers report that tiie signs promise a good spring trade. Ao iii<-rease appears as yet in the demand for the principal products, except iron and steel, and uncertainty as to congressional action still affects both industries । and commerce, but the increase in inquiry and the reports of dealers are deemed .assurance of large trade coming whcnevei Bth- niKsTtainty is over.” As a result <>f the developments that Intensive smuggling in phenacetin is go «i<>g on at Philadelphia and other ports, under circumstances that battle the <-us toms officers, private instructions hav* been issued from the Treasury Department for a more than usually rigorous search of passengers and crews arriving from German ports, as well as of tin vessels themselves. Information received from abroad furnishes conclusive proof that the smuggling operations in this drug —which is very expensive and upon which the duties are high have been proyeeding on a gigantic scale, and that for the pur pose of evading duty the manufacturers have of late been wrapping the drug it) tinfoil paper in sm h away that it can b< carried in the lining of coats or overcoats or otherwise concealed, so that detection is made extremely difficult. As much as fifty pounds can be concealed about a man's person without his appearam-e indi eating to the customs inspector that any thing is wrong. The dignity of the American lieu has b.sm upheld. It was war between thr cold storage combine of Chicago specula tors ami Ihe Egghiyers' Union, and tin •barnyard fowl is victor. The cold storag* people, as a result of :m attempt to corner the egg market, are or will be not less tlmu SISO,(t(M) out of po< k''t. Some deal ers say the loss in Chicago by tin' droj in egg prices will reach s2(HU>**>. Scon one for the hen. “('old storage” eggs art down to .5 to 7 cents a dozen and are prac tically unsalable at that price, ('ar load lots were being frantically offered Wed nesday night to all points on the map at the above ridiculous prices, but the best bids received in return were $1.25 a cast of thirty dozen. Meanwhile fresh eggs started out at 11 to 14(0 cents, but otters to sell at RP/j cents were fairly rollitu in when business closed. The news had gone out into the country that the cohi storage combine was seeking to ■ outro the Chicago market ami apparently every hen in the entire country made it a per sonal matter to crush the dangerous rival From every barnyard went up the slogan. ^'Holiest eggs at honest prices.” Th* fight was on, the weather was favorable, and the battle was soon won. In Chicag< tl*^*hul'lers of cold storage eggs have or UUAiUU cases of i.^ which i st litem 14 to 15 cents a dozen, including ■ ()n- cost of carrying them from last spring i At this season of the year the stock ; should be practically exhausted, as South ern eggs begin to supply consumers. The fine weather has not only started the Southern eggs moving, but has brought out large offerings from Missouri. Kan sas, lowa. Nebraska. Arkansas. Okia homa and Texas. Though the “icehouse' 1 eggs are sold by grocers ail over the city as fresh, they are not to be < omp:ircd will: the fresh arrivals, and cannot compete with them. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice. $2.5c to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. (12c to G4<-. Corn. No. 2. 27c to 28c; oats. No. 2. IS* to 19c; rye, No. 2. 4th- to 41c; butter, choice creamery. 19e to 20*-; eggs, fresh. 12c to 13c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn. 2c to 4c per pound fol poor to choice. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. s3.<>o tc $4.75; hogs, ch-me light. $3.00 to $4.50 sheep, common to prime. $2.09 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2. (kic to 68c; corn. No. 1 white. 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white. 22< to 24e. Sr. Louis -Cattle. $3.09 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50: wheat. No. 2 red. 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 2(>c to 2ie; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 38c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.50 to $4.75; hogs. S3.(H» to $4.50; sheep. $2.59 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2,72 c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2. 42c to 44c. Detroit -('attic, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 72c to 73c; corn. No. - yellow. 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22< to 23c: rye. 40c to 42e. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 72c to 73c: corn. No. 2 yellow. 27c to 29e; oats. No. 2 white. 20<- to 21c; rye. No. 2,40 cto 42c: clover ?<■< <!. $4.35 to $4.45. ^Milwaukee Wheat, No. - spring, 02* corn, N<>. 3. 36c to 27c; oats. No. » white, 20c to 21e; barley,' No. 2. 32e t< Oc; rye. No. 2. 41c to 42c; pork, mess, * SIO.OO to $10.50. Buffalo-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25: hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75: wheat. No. 2 red. 75c to 77c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white. 24c to 25c. New York- Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep. $2.00 to $3.75; w'heut. No. 2 red. 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 36c to 37e; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 13e to 21*-; eggs, Western. 14c to 16c.

A TOWN IN MASSACHUSETTS MOURNS ITS LOSS. Oldest CliTireli in the District Succumbs to Flames-General Harrison Announces that He Is Not a Candidate—No Warships for Turkey. Church at Dorchester Burned. The historic First Unitarian Church, on “Meeting-House Hill.” Dorchester, Mass., a familiar landmark and the oldest church in the district, was destroyed oy fire Monday. The loss is estimated at $30,000. but this amount is covered by insurance. The most valuable appurtenances of the church, which were kept in the vestry at the rear, were sa\*d. A new organ, presented by Deacon Henry Humphrey in 1892. which was directly above the place win-re the fire started, and the clock and chime of bells in the tower are a total loss. Four firemen were buried by a falling wall, but they were rescued by their comrades. Harrison Says No. Gen. Benjamin Harrison is no longer a candidate for. the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Captain John K. Gowdy, chairman of the Indiana Republi can State Central Committee, called on Gen. Harrison at Indianapolis Monday evening by invitation, and the ex-Presi-dent handed him a letter in which he announced that he was not a candidate for the presidency, and expressed a wish that his name be not presented at th*- St. Louis convention. Uncle Sam Not to Force Turkey. A dispa tell to the St. James Gazette. London, from Washington says the correspondent of that paper has the highest authority for announcing that the entente between Russia and Turkey is known at the State Department ami that it has had a most important effect in mollifying the plan the administration had prepared to compel Turkey to pay an indemnity for the damage done to American property in Armenia. Columbia, Texas. Inundated. The Brazos River is rising at Columbia. Texas. It rose fifteen feet in twenty six hours, and its current is equal to that of a mountain stream. Seven vessels belonging to the Columbia Transportation Company were swept away. The river is now out of its banks and is sweeping over the surrounding country. Near Navasota the Brazos ami Navasota Rivers have united and are twelve miles wide. Miles of Santa Fe Kailroad track are submerged. NEWS NUGGETS. Spain is reported to be mobilizing 18.25(1 troops to re-enforce the army in Cuba. -John and Eleanor Moulder celebrated their sixty-ninth wedding anniversary at Kokomo. Ind. Colonel W. P. Thompson, president of the National Lead Company, died of pneumonia at New York. Arthur Due<:row, the St. Louis millionaire. who shot his wife ami child two yi-ars ago. has been convicted of murder in the first degre*'. Great Britain is said to be considering the question of claiming 3jMH>.(MHi acres of land opposite Prime of Wales Islam! on tin- Pacific coast, now held by the I’nited States. I he Federal ''cnsus of Mexico shows a population of 12.542.057. The City of Mexico lias 339,935; ’ hiadalajara. 53.570; Puebla, 91.917: San Lui? Potosi. G9.(>7(i; Pachm-a. 52.159; Monterey. 56,835; Merida. 56.702; Zacaiecas. }0.026; Durango, 42.1 si;. Oscar G. Murray has resigned as vicepresident of \he Big Four to become operating president and general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio, in connection with J. K. Cowen as president ami Edward R. Bacon as chairman of the executive committee. Jmige Emm. of the St. Paul. Minn.. District Court, issued an order permitting the receivers of the Walter A. Woods Harvester Company to make 19.(XUi machines this year. The assets of the company exceed $1,990,090 besides the plant and real estate, and all debts will be paid. An agent of the Chinese Government : is at Portland. Oregon, to place an order for 5(».(XX),(JOO feet of lumber. Most of i it is intended for the construction and repair of government buildings. The ngent says indications are good for a healthy revival of lumber trade throughout China and Japan this ami next year. Joseph Cook, of Boston, who recently returned from Australia ami Japan, is ar the sanitarium. Clifton Springs. N. Y.. suffering from an acute form of nervous prostration. He is nearly blind owing to a weakness of the optic nerve. He will lie taken to his cottage at Lake George early in the spring, where it is hoped he will recover. Developments which cam*' to light show that I*ee Sellers, who was lynched ten years ago at Knoxville. Tenn., for the supposed murder and robbery of $l,lOO from Edward Mainess, was an innocent man. Lizzie Hickman on her deathbed confessed that Ike AY right, a notorious character, was the real murderer. He is now being pursued by officers. A terrific tornado, accompanied by flood, occurred Thursday in North Queensland. Australia, attended with great destruction of life and property. Many vessels are missing as the result of the storm. The rainfall during the tornado amounted to twenty-six inches, and it is estimated that the damage to property will amount to £500,000 l$2.500.000). A large number of persons were drowned. The Stilson-Collins Jewelry Company, of Atlanta. Ga., went into the hands of a received at the suit of the Gorham Manufacturing Company of New York. Mortgages aggregating sls.(mm> were placed on the stock previous to the :i|>pointment of A. P. Stewart as receiver. The liabilities are about SSO.OIH>: assets between $50.<MM» and Sl » 1.000. Lillie Ilenth'rson. who says she was once employed as a st.-noj-raplKT 1..V a j firm in Dearborn street. Chicago, at- j tempted suicide at New York by jumping into the river. She wore $1,999 worth of jewelry. It is thought she is demented. The depositors and creditors of the defunct Irish-American Bank met at Alinneapolis and decided to petition the court to remove the assignee. F. R. Hubbacek. and appoint a receiver. It was charged that the assignee' had been the attorney tor the bank for years and would be tempted to cover up fraud, if any existed.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House—Bills Passed or Introduced iu Either Brunch—Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. An animated debate over the question of taking a vote on the pending silverbond bill closed the session of the Senate lirte Thursday afternoon. Mr. Stewart declared that it made no difference when a vote was taken, or whether any w^s taken. It was all “dress parade” and “buncombe.” He added the significant statement that the pending silver amendment would be germane as an amendment to the tariff bill, and that w*hen the latter measure came before the Senate he would offer a silver amendment to test the Senators on their choice between tariff and silver. The Senate went into executive session and then took a recess without any exact understanding as to the time of taking the vote. The attendance in the House was slim. The report of the Elections Commit ice in favor of the sitting member. D. B. Culberson. from the fourth Texas district, and against T. H. Davis, was nd opted without division. On motion of Mr. Doolittle (Rep., Hash.) a resolution was adopted requesting the President to transmit to Congress the report of the Board of Engineers on the Nicaraguan canal. The bill to amend the dependent pensions act of 1890 so that in considering widows' claims seven years of unexplained absence should be deemc I sufficient proof of the death of the soldier, was passed. The speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Wellington ißep.. Mo.) on the Committee on Labor, and Mr. Belknap (Rep., 111.) on Railways and t.'anals. The Senate Friday spent mo<* of the time sparring over the free eoinage measure. Tiie House confined itself to routine ausiness. Most of the session was d -voted to the District of Columbia appropriation hill. The regular attempt was made to have all the expenses of the District government paid by the District, but the motion made by Mr. De Armond ‘Dem.. Mo.) to effect this was ruled out on a point of order. The District bill carries $5,417,960, $353,423 less than the sum appropriated for the current fiscal year. The Senate Saturday closed debate on the silver bond hill and passed th*' measure by a vote of 42 to 35. The House <lid nothing of importance. The House spent the entire day Monday discussing a series of amenilments to strike from the District of Columbia appropriation bill eight appropriations aggregating $34,000 for the maintenance of destitute women and children iu various private and sectarian charitable institutions in the District. President Cleveland sent to Congress a request for an appropriation for some of the Italian victims of the Walsenburg riots in Colorado. The Senate did nothing of importance. How He Scheduled. A Detroit jobb r last week got an order from a small interior town, and replied that, as the customer was unknown to him, a check would be necessary before he sent the goods. The check came and the goods were shipped. The jobber also stut a blank form for a rating, so that in case >f future orders he would have sometbrug to go by. as the customer's commercial rating could not be learned through the regular channels of information. The blank has been returned, filled out as follows: Q. What amount of stock do you carry? A. All we can get trusted for. Q. What is due on your books and accounts? All we want these times. Q. What value have you in real estate? A. Less than three years ago on some property. Q. What do you owe on book accounts? A. All bills that are due. Q. What do you owe on notes? A. All notes that are not outlawed. Q. AYhat other debts are you owing? A. Gratitude to the Lord. Q. Is any of above owing to relatives? A. One-seventh goes to the Lord. Q. Is there a chattel mortgage against your stock? A. Not that we know of. Q. Fo» what amount are you insured? A. All we can afford to pay 3 per cent, tor. Name references. A. St. Peter. Shot by H:s Dog. Louis Lezotte was shot by his own dog while squirrel hunting in the woods near Rehobeth, Mass. He had a dou-ble-barreled gun with him. and sighting a squirre’. high up in an oak, Lezotte let go one barrel, badly wounding the squirrel. Standing the gun against the tree Lezotte began to climb to secure his quarry. The dog, which from the time of the discharge of the gun had been running excitedly around the tree, began io jump againet the trunk as if trying to follow his master. His paw struck ihe trigger of the Unloaded band, sending a charge of shot up past Lczotte's sid and lodging in the muscles of the right arm near the shoulder. Lezotte fell, but managed to make bls way to a doctor in Rehobeth, who sent for an ambulance to take the wounded man to the Rhode Island Hojpital. Out of His Line. The Boston Transcript reports that two gentlemen fell into a talk about ' books. ••What do you think of the ‘Origin of ! Species?’ " asked one man. "I have never read it," was the other's reply. "In fact,” he added. "I am not interested in finam.al subjects." Tn 1890 the I’nited States producid $:m.545.000 of gold. Os this total a little over two-tifths eamc from ('alij fornia. which is still the principal goldproducing State. At Algona, Kossuth County. lowa, there is a “roaring" well, forty-live feet deep, which has boiling hot water at the bottom of it. The teeth of fish, like teeth of most animals, are not fastened to the b me, but are held in sockets.