St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 March 1896 — Page 2

€l)c independent. W. A. ILMIIuEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - • - INDIANA. WISDOM OFTHE SWISS ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY.

Plan Is Offered for Consideration in America—Germany May Want Her “Oleo” Tinted—Disastrous Blunder of Spaniards—Millions for the Navy, Model Swiss Village. It may be for little Switzerland, the oldest of the family of republics, to earn the honor of solving for America the problem of how to prevent the concentration of population in great cities, an evil believed by economists to be fatal to welfare. The President of the Swiss National Exposition to be held this year has addressed United States Consul Ridgley, at Geneva, on the subject, and the latter has forwarded his communication to the Department of State. President Turrettini’s suggestion is that Americans may learn how rural life can be made at once tit-

tractive and profitable by studying the model Swiss village which will form an important section of the exposition, illustrating. as it will, the happy village life of the Swiss, with the numerous home industries which are so profitable in full operation. If this can be studied in connection with the agricultural section, in which Swiss methods of dealing with produce will be exemplified and the best •breeds of cattle exhibited, much valuable information may be obtained which may | prove to be of substantial value to persons who are seeking to solve the problem of overeoneentration of population. Fired Upon Their Friends. The troops commanded by Gen. Godoy and Col. Holguin, at the Santa Rosa plantation, near Esperanza, Province of Santa Clara, Cuba, mistook each other for insurgent forces, owing, it is said, to the thickness of the sugar cane. Each detachment opened fire upon the other and for ten minutes shots were exchanged, resulting in the killing of seventeen soldiers, among them being Lieut. Col. Fuenmayer. of the Navas Battalion. In addition, five officers and eighty-four soldiers were wounded. Two of the latter have since died, six others are mortally wounded and thirty-two are seriously injured. Lieut. Col. Fuenmayor died while leading his troops on and shouting “Long live Spain!” Owing to the fact that the meeting between the two columns took place at midday, the explanation furnished by the Spanish commanders is considered unsatisfactory and a court-martial will follow. New Battleships and Torpedo-Boats. The naval appropriation bill for the fiscal year which begins .Inly 1 next was completed by the House Committee on Naval Affairs. The total amount carried by the bill is $31,611,034, of which $12,779.133 is for the increase of the navy. The appropriation is an increase over the amount of the last bill, which was about $29,330,000. 1 Aider the increase of the navy the chief items are the four new battleships and fifteen torpedo boats, the former “to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance upon a displacement of about 11,000 tons, and to have the highest practicable speed for vessels of their class.” Speed premiums are to be offered, all parts of the vessels are to be of domestic manufacture, and the contracts are to be let within ninety days after the passage of tlie aet. One firm, under the act, may bid for all of the vessels. New York tor Morton. New York State Republicans held their State convention Tuesday, and the feature of the gathering was the speech of Senator Parsons, of Rochester, presenting Levi P. Morton as a presidential candidate, and the subsequent election of delegates pledged to him. Following were the nominations: Delegates-at-Large, Thomas C. Platt. Warner Miller, Chauncey M. Depew. Edward Lauterbach; alternates, Hamilton Fish. C. H. Babcock, Frank S. Witherbee, Daniel McMillan. The financial plank of the platform declares: “Until there is a prospect of international agreement as to silver coinage, and while gold remains the standard of the United States and of the civilized world, the Republican party of New York declares itself in favor of the firm and honorable maintenance of that standard.” Don’t Like Bogus Butter. The German reichstag is now considering a bill, framed at the instance of the agrarians, to restrict the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The purpose of the bill is to prevent the imposition of oleomargarine upon purchasers as genuine butter, and one provision seems particularly well calculated to at least protect the actual consumer, for it is supposed to require the manufacturers to stain the oleomargarine red or blue. United States 1 Consul Ewing, in reporting upon the subject to the State Department, says there 1

is great opposition to the measure. NEWS NUGGETS. Ex-Mayor G. M. Witten, of Catlettsburg, Ky., has been missing since March -1 1

14. Half the business portion of Colon. Colombia. Ims been destroyed by tire. damage is estimated at ssoo^B c s Ex-Consul WalleT^’2 y cjp 'J J ■o. R S-B 1* 4 2» * ® ^^r^Jas refused to accept the French ■ Tie by 132 W to red"™ reyre

Fcnrauoi* ■ four feet at Debegun. It 11 tweb . e h() ihe eatur. N‘ • th(> Missouri in Nebraska entire val,e - , g covere d with fifteen ’ and bouth ■ ' . . rapidly melt*»"h» » E are sud and a flood in the Missoni i is ' M>< b y river“ part of lhe Mutinous < is report ed from DunThirteenth Hi ■ ■ eavalrymen are said dalk. Irelam . pieces twenty-eight have h«t J>» „ al „ f the llus .

EASTERN. Returns from New York’s Republican primaries indicate that Gov. Morton will have an almost solid delegation in the St. Louis convention. The Solar Iron Works of William Clark's Sons & Co., at Pittsburg, have been closed by the sheriff on executions aggregating $953,000. I rained animals used in circus performances will hereafter be admitted into the United States free of duty, having been classed as "tools of trade” by the Circuit Court at New’ York.

The Central Vermont Railroad has been put into the hands of receivers, President Edward C. Smith ami Charles M. Hayes, general manager of the Grand Trunk, Papers were filed in Boston, New York State and Brattleboro on Saturday. The Methodist Episcopal conference in session at Philadelphia, Pa., voted 117 to 89 to admit women as lay delegates to the general conference. The proposition to increase the ratio of representation in the general conference was defeated, 25 to 176. A powder mill, which gives employment to seventy-five men at Rifton. Ulster County, New York, blew up. The mangled bodies of five men were found in the ruins. The mill is situated about two miles from Rosendale, which is the nearest railroad station. The same mill blew up about eighteen months ago and at that time four men were killed.

’ There were scenes of disorder bordering i on riot at the Republican district conventions held in New York city Wednesday evening. The Platt and anti-PJatt forces locked horns and fought fiercely for the mastery. The outcome was the election of Platt and Morton national delegates from the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and fourteenth congressional districts. In the twelfth, thirteenth and fifteenth two sets of delegates were chosen. In the । seventh district no convention was held. Frederick Nicholas Crouch, the aged composer and writer of “Kathleen Mavourneen ’ and other Irish songs, is dying at Baltimore in poverty. He is 89 years old. He lies on a little scantily covered iron bedstead in a tenement house. His mind wanders and he talks constantly of the old country and the time of the coronation of King William IV., when he directed the Royal Band. The old composer s last song was “Groen and Gohl,” written in honor of the anniversary of Robert Emmet’s birth and sung in New York on .March 4. An explosion occurred at the LaflinRand powder mill at Rifton, N. Y., Wednesday. The force of the explosion, which was closely followed by a second explosion, was plainly felt at Kingston. Five men were blown to pieces, and it was with difficulty that the identification of the missing could be arrived at. About fifty men were employed at the mill and many of them were hurt. The entire surrounding village was shaken on its foundation; ah the windows for miles around were broken and the buildings close to the powder mills tottered as though they, too would fall. In all 30,000 pounds of powder were destroyed and the loss to the company is placed at $30,000. Os the men killed all were married except one. WESTERN. C. Schuer, representing a Chicago furniture house, is under arrest at Stillwater, Minn., charged with stealing SIOO. John G. Woolley, of Illinois, declines to allow’ his name to be presented to the prohibition national convention as a candidate for President. Father M. Robinson, who came to Cincinnati six weeks ago from Southern Indiana, fell or jumped into the Ohio River at Cincinnati and was drowned. Edmund Alling, aged S 9, and his wife, Charlotte, aged 85, died within a few hours of each other at Warren, Ohio. They bad been married sixty-three years. Private Allen of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment, shot and fatally wounded Private Daniel M. Call of the same company in the post quarters at Fort Sheridan. 111. While, being disarmed Allen was then accidentally shot with his own revolver, and he will also probably die. Lamoreaux and O’Dell, two of the alleged murderers of Jim Washakie, the young Shoshone, who were followed from the Shoshone reservation by Deputy United States Marshal J. M. Waite, were captured in Malta. They w ill be arraigned before United States Commissioner Cockrell in Great Falls, Mont., and then taken back to Wyoming. Ira Terrell, ex-member of the Oklahoma Legislature, who murdered his opponent at Guthrie three years ago and escaped from jail last fall while under sentence to hang, has been arrested at Scott, Kan., while en route east with a woman believed to be his wife. The man says his name is Wells, and claims to live at Rich Hill. Mo., but has been positively identified. John C. Rice, general manager of the Blue Jay Mining Company, has caused the arrest of John 11. Royer and A. Wilson King, two brokers who figured in the Blue Jay deal at Denver, charging them with embezzlement. The complaint alleges that Royer and King were, March 16, 1596, acting as general agents of the Blue Jay Company, and as such had in their possession $5,700. the property of the Blue Jay Company, which they embezzled.

Herbert C. Buck, of Fort Wayne, an employe of the United States Express Company ami president of the Plymouth Congregational Church Christian Endeavor Society, was caught early Thursday morning in the act of burglarvjr)_*'c —•

man Book and New^ z ' bad tanped +' I Leh7. _ store. He ~ A JBffSTcash registers when he covered with a gun by Detects e Coling. Buck's parents almost nVwaTtXve married this spring. rn r efficors were shot and a train rob1 , 1 n o Diniel McCole was killed in ber "ttemnt to hold up the south-bound O hi taken place in California, and ” probablv would have succeeded if it had a P t h.u'l‘l for the perfidy of one of the robbC mi,o .d eers were informed that an

Xipt "3d be made to hold up the “T imbed ” The man who gave the inf^mation gave the details of the plot am said that at first he intended to take p.u I in the robbery. Fifty members of the Salvation army Chicago proclaimed bundai at In ce ss Rink their desertion of the old ora f the afternoon meeting, in Xd of marching to the platform and : taking -ats behind comm : - S ■ I "reWH«» end seated tbemsdres

with the general audience. The lassies still wore their blue uniforms and bonnets, but the seceding men append m plain clothes. It is conceded byZtb sides there will be two organizations in Chicago unless something causes Commander Bailington Booth to falter Those who wore the white ribbon Sunday say a large number of officer.-, nn d privates will throw off all reserve and flock to his standard. The white ribbon people say they are sixty-five strong in Corps ^-1 alone. This corps numbers over 150 The adherents of Gen, Booth declare there are not more than thirty revolters in Corps No. 1, and say the new’ organization will be short-lived. SOUTHERN. A. K. Ward, the famous $300,000 swindler, who has been confined in the Memphis, Tenn., jail awaiting trial under sixty indictments, is at the point of death. A hurricane passed over Hart’s Creek valley, fifty miles south of Huntington, W. Va., Thursday night. Buildings were blown down and immense damage was reported. It was the heaviest windstorm ever known in that section. At Parkersburg, W. Va., William Sprouse, fireman on the steamer King, was horribly burned, but by his l^ism prevented an explosion and sav thc lives of the passengers. He blew IE °n e valve and had turned the other w*^ e first one blew out steam nnd

Sprouse held to the second, however, with the scalding water and steam pouring over him until he had turned it off. Me fell exhausted, nearly blinded and terriblv burned. The people of Hindman. Ky., are verv much exercised over the report that a large mass of stone and cinder-looking substance has fallen on the side of Pine Mountain, about twenty-six miles distant. Persons living in the vicinity say they were startled by a whirring sound anil then a crash. Large stones and chunks of black substance came rolling down the side of the mountain, scattering in every direction for hundreds of yards along the valley. The house of Mrs. Hester Yates, on the mountain side, was demolished and the logs scattered in every direction. Mrs. Yates and family, consisting of several small children, are buried beneath the debris. The hard substance was over half-buried in the mountain side, but struck a solid rock and burst into hundreds of pieces. People for miles around hme turned out and are now searching for the bodies of Mrs. Yates and her children. WASHINGTON. The House Friday, after three days of debate, adopted a resolution censuring Thomas F. Bayard. ex-Secretary of State and now ambassador to the court of St. Jami'S, for utterances delivered in an address to the Boston (.England) Grammar School and in an address before the Edinburgh (Scotland) Philosophical Institution last fall. The vote stood 180 to 71 in favor of the first resolution and 191 to 59 in favor of the second. Baskets of flowers, together with congratulatory notes and telegrams, began to arrive at the \\ hite House soon after the breakfast hour Wednesday morning, and continued at intervals until after dinner. It was noticed, also, that the members of the cabinet and oilier friends of the President were early cullers^, H t the apparent mystery surrounding evidences of festivities was dissip^tciOy the announcement that it was the v of the chief executive of the natiotT*k*.,i. dent Cleveland is 59 years of agL The Secretary of Agriculture, in accordance with the mandate of Congress, has prepared a circular letter to be sent immediately to all known reputable growers of and dealers in seeds throughout the United States asking them to furnish at reasonable prices to the department 10,000.000 packets of garden, field and flower seeds, beginning with asparagus and ending with wheat. This number of packets will give to each member aud delegate in the House of Representatives and to each United States Senator 15,000 packets for distribution among his constituents, after deducting one-third of the whole amount, in accordance with law. for distribution by the Secretary of Agriculture. All the seeds must be delivered on or before thirty days from the 17th of March. POLITICAL. Wisconsin Republicans, in State convention Wednesday at Milwaukee, chose the following national delegates: Dele-gates-at-large, Philetus Sawyer, William D. Hoard, Eugene S. Elliott. James S. Stout; alternates, H. B. Smith. W. S. Heine, James R. Lyon, Judge Plummer. The convention declared specifically for sound money in national finance and against free coinage of silver, and said that William McKinley is the presidential choice of the whole State. This action was taken in the biggest convention ever held in the State. These principles were presented to a convention of 681 delegates, and were adopted by a unanimous vote. 'Then delegates and crowded galleries joined in cheering the completed work. FOREIGN, The Marquis of Salisbury at London, on behalf of the subscribers, presented to

Mr. Middleton a check for Xl as^ L I est iinoiiin I of ’ .U^^econservative

TX;. feV er is again spreading 11 , i Rio Janeiro at an alarming throughout cases were rer at e. One imm courg e reappeared Mto Jiser I^l-*. i» on the Hal . The Tbe sM mslnp pg,. Francisco news miles sooheast of byteriau mission lo . b Shanghai ^ as H-W was bers Feb. i. • seriously At in the shot in the ting ' • ire q s3otrom the head. rrlw ..p f ” n 'i departed unmested. mission >a L • mias, on e north The town of Cabana , m Xes by the insuints It

reduced w < • ■ church' a town had 1,500 “'I* 1 ' 1 ;;;;, houses. Ie rebels — count ry dmt i " London d e from r A Xs that the khalifa hamclaimCanosays against tpt and ed jehad m . dervishes able of „ « bull under hfnnnrs. 'S' - W- X S I iSutbe dereisbes now mubtedt Dob-

s gola. The under secretary of state for e foreign attains, George N. Curzon, an--1 swenng a question in the House of ComU mons 1- riday afternoon, said that the de--1 cision of the Government to send British- ' troo Pa to Dongola was consider- ? a ly influenced by a communication from i »n;i reat « e t 0 the P^poots of a dervish 1 attack on Cassala and the effect it might s nave upon Egyptian interests. The Cuban insurgents have dealt Spain , a crushing blow. Trustworthy informa non has been received at New York from Havana that the battle fought a few days । ago in 1 mar del Rio, which the dispatches sent out with the sanction of the press censor described as a Spanish victory, was in leality a lamentable defeat for the forces of Gen. Weyler. This news reached Havana Thursday and- was sent to i New York in a brief cipher cablegram. . The source of the information leaves no • doubt of its reliability. The Spanish officials will not permit the report of insurgent success to be sent out of Havana It is expected that the details of the battle will be smuggled over to Tampa and there put on the wires. The late press dispatches from Havana say that officials now admit that the battle was a fiercely contested one and that it was attended with serious consequences to the Spanish. It is the firm opinion in New York among persons informed of events in Cuba that the Spanish cause is lost. It is also believed, despite denials, that this last defeat will so add to the dissatisfaction against Gen. Weyler that either his resignation or recall will soon follow.

IN GENERAL Thomas A. Edison has discovered that by using X rays in connection with plates coated with tungstate of calcium he can see through the human hand at a distance of fifteen feet. A big coal pool, covering all the shipments from Pennsylvania and Ohio by way of the lakes, has been formed. The companies represent in the pool an annual output of over 15,060,000 tons, of which 4,000,000 goes in shipment by the lakes. Spanish detectives engaged in keeping watch on the movements of the Cubans in this country wore very much exercised over the report that the steamer Hawkins did not sink the morning of Jan. 28, but that she made her way to the island, landed her cargo and is now laid up at one of the Florida keys. A terrible explosion occurred at the gold mines at Roseland, Man., in the remote Northwest country. As a result four men are dead and two others so seriously hurt that they will probably die. Two boxes of gunpowder were being thawed out in hot water. The only man who knows how it became ignited lies at the point of death in the hospital. He came running out of the tunnel crying: “The powder is on tire!” but before he could reach a place of safety the explosion occurred. Eight men were working in the mute and only two escaped death or serious injury. Ihe name of“ God's American Volunteers," Ballington Booth's new religious movement, has been changed to "The \ olunteers.” The change was made because some friends of the move objected to the name of the Deity appearing in the title of the organization. The name “The Volunteers” might be changed again at some future time. The uniform to be worn by the women of the new organization will be cadet blue instead of brown, as intended. This change was made at the request of a majority of the members. Adjutant Turnbull, who has been the leader of the Salvation army's band at headquarters, it is reported, will in a day s join Ballington Booth's forces, '■ ’ >uu & Co.'s Weekly Review of Irade say "Movement toward better things is stm , h( . exception. There is better business iu <hoes an q small industries and there has . , PU a squeezing of short sellers in cotton. n , u the genera i tendency of industries ana x-j ces j 8 no t encouraging, and those who v, Pe moS f hopeful a month ago are still waiting uot so hopefully, for the expected recove. v Causes of continued depression are not wanting. Bad weather has cut off much business, especially in country districts. Some failures of consequence have caused especial caution. The root of the business is that in many departments men bought more and produced more when prices were mounting and everything was rushing to buy last year than they have yet been able to sell. That the buying was of a nature to anticipate actual consumption many months they were fully warned, but they had more hope than observation and went on piling up goods. Some are engaged to-day in the same hopeful anticipation of a demand which has not yet appeared.” MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 61c; corn. No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 36c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel, 15c tre ‘2sc; broom corn, S2O to $45 perJ^ffT common to choice. ^"■Wolis-C^^ W to $4.,>0, hogs, chuj^^^ hb ^3.00 to $4.25; sheep, eonu||^; f , $2.00 to $3.75; wheat,,—6Bc to 69c; corn. No. 1

-gphite, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c 24c. St- Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, SO.Otkto $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 69c to 70c; corgi, No. 2 yellow. 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 19e to 20c; rye, No. 2,38 c to 39c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50: hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 40c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn. No .2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 37e to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, No. .2 red, 68c to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30e; oats, No. 2 white, 22e to 24e; rye, No. 2,39 cto 41c; clover seed. $4.40 to $4.50. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 60c to 62c: corn, No. 3,27 cto 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 32c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 38c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50;’ wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c te 27c; butter, creamery", 15c to 23c; eggs, Westera, 10c to 12c.

ADVANCE UP THE NILE BRITISH OCCUPY AKASHEH AND BUILD A FORT. Excitea Interest at Constantinople— Consolidated Steel and Wire Plant at Joliet Gutted by Fire—Raines Bill a Law—Nebraska’s Corn Safe. Great Britain Active. News from the front received at Cairo confirms the report that British-Egyptian advance guards under Major Collinson occupied Akasheh Friday without opposition. A fort is now being built at that place. The Egyptian debt commission met in order to again discuss the question of the withdrawal of funds from the reserve. with which to defray the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile; but, owing to the illness of the German commissioner, the meeting was adjourned. An extraordinary council of ministers, which lasted all day long, was held at Constantinople Saturday. The subject under discussion was the BritishEgyptian expedition. Bad Blaze at Joliet. The plant of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, Joliet, 111,, was gutted by fire Monday morning, involving a loss of $160,000 and throwing between 350 and 400 men out of employment. The fire originated in a hotbox of the barb-wire fence department, in which there are 250 fence machines. The men were working at the tinle and used the hose provided by the company, but it was not long enough. When the tire department arrived the flames had gained such headway

that the firemen could not get into the building because of the smoke, and turned their attention to saving adjoining buildings. One of the warehouses, where con- . siderable stock was stored, was saved, ‘ the other one was badly damaged. The company's office and'books were savad. John Lambert, the manager, censures his ' men for not using their own fire equip- ’ ment to suppress the fire in its incipiency. I The works were running night and day. and the Republican recently stated that • so far this year the stock was paying 36 ’ per cent, and that last year it paid' a dividend of 27U per cent. This is the Lambert A Bishop phrnt which burned some yearjt ago and was rebuilt. They have three other mills—at Lockport. III'., Beaver Falls, P a „ and Cleveland, O. Mr. Lambert cannot say whether the company will rebuild or not. End of All Railway Pools. The Supreme Court at Washington announced Monday its decision in the celebrated Brown interstate commerce ease from Pittsburg. By a vote of five to tour the court sustained the constitutionality of the act of Feb. 11, 1893, positively requiring witnesses to testify, no matter it their testimony incriminated themaelves. When the opinions were read several distinguished railroad solicitors were present. By this decision the )>ower of the Government to control commerce is sustained, and the interstate commerce aet, for the first time in its existence, becomes a danger to railway men who violate the provisions. The decision is a great victory for the Government. It has a direct effeut on every shipper in the I nited States, and in its scope is almost as important as the income tax decision. The Supreme Court has probably never made a decision of more importance to the railways of the country. Pennsylvania Mine Horror. An explosion of gas occurred at the Berwind-White shaft in the eastern limits as Dubuis, Pa., Monday. Thirteen miners were killed. Eighteen men went to work in the mine, fourteen going into the north heading and four into the south heading. Those in the south heading heard an explosion and barely managed to escape with assistance. There was another explosion at Adrian mines, located eight miles southwest of Dubois, caused by fire ^-np. Two men were killed. BREVITIES. Mrs. Mary Ann Mosely, the oldest woman in Boone County,' Mo., died in Columbia, at the age of 111 years. Edison has perfected h,g tungstate of calcium screen in connection with X rays, so that he can look through the flesh and inspect every portion o* the interior organism of mau. Revenue officers in Southwestern Virginia captured four ba^pejg G s moonshine whisky in the housy o f Isaac Adams, member of the HousU o f Delegates from Patrick County. / Ihomas HughesyQ. f author of "Tom Brown s School t/tays,” "Tom Brown at Oxford, etc., founder of the British settlement of^i> U gt, v> Tenn., is dead at London, age of 73 years . < hica^^ al)l i Nebraska are mutually jubilai^f over the repeated bounteous and •^UiTilowni'all of snow which has covered >*^ie great corn State from end to end with a protective blanket, putting on effective end to the Threatened calamity of a general crop failure in that extensive section. Gov. Morton of New York signed the Raines high-license bill. Gov. Morion filed with his signature to the bill a lengthy memorandum in which he reviews the excise situation at the present time and the manner in which it will be benefited by the new law. He upholds the constitutionality of the bill and makes no suggestion as to supplemental legislation. as was expected. In closing he says: "It Kas been suggested that the bill, in some of its features, especially in some of its administrative details, should be amended. Experience will probably suggest other amendments.” A cold wave spread over the vicinity of Kansas City Sunday night, a mixture of snow, rain and sleet, added to rapidly falling temperature, prevailing. At some points where the rain changed to sleet, more or less dami'Age to fruit was occasioned. At Liberty, Mo., considerable damage to mines by tlioding is reported. illiam Allen, of Leavenworth, aged 79, a Kansas pioneer, was at the funeral of Charles Parker and participa-ted in the religious services. He delivered a feeling prayer and just as he said "Amen” he gasped and fell over dead. Rev. J. D. Thornton, livfng near Sharon, Texas, v^ho refused to obey a white cap order to preach no more in that section, was whipped by a mob. By a vote of IC7 to 7 the Wilmington. Del., conference voted against the admission of women as lay delegates to the general conference.

3 SENATE AND HOUSE. ) WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week's Proceedings in the Halls of * Congress— Important Measures Diss cussed und Acted Upon—An Impar* tial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. ‘ The House devoted Tuesday to the bill 1 to amend the administrative tariff act of 1 1890, and passed it without substantial - amendment. The purpose of the bill is t to strengthen the aet of 1890, some weak 1 spo-ts having been developed during the 1 six years it has been in operation. The bill was drawn after extensive hear--5 au d the advice and assistance of the > Treasury Department, the Board of Gen- . eral Appraisers, importers and others with . practical experience on the subject. One f of the most important changes makes in--5 creased duties and penalties for undervaluation commence at the point of under- . valuation, and not at 10 per cent, above - the undervaluation as provided by the present law. The House Committee on Immigration decided to favorably report 1 tM> important restrictive measures intro- ’■ hy -Mr. McCall (Mass.) aud Mr. f . A. Stone (Pa.) 'rhe Stone bill estab- [ hshes as a requisite for admission to the e L nited States that the immigrant shall be 5 provided with a certificate from the Unij ted States Consul or other authorized repr resentative of the United States at the । place nearest his last residence that he , is eligible to admission to the United ‘ States under the existing laws. The McCall bill, as amended by the committee, excludes all males between the ages of 16 and 60 who are not able to read and write English or some other language. The House Wednesday began consideration of the resolution of censure of Ambassador Bayard for his Edinburgh speech. The remarks of Mr. Cousins, of lowa, in support of the resolution were the feature of the proceedings. The Senate had in hand the public opening of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation, but nothing of importance was done. Cuba had the entire attention of the Senate Thursday, speeches being made by Senators Gray, Chilton and Cafferty, the debate being enlivened by many spirited incidents. Mr. Gray's plea for Cuba brought on a running cross-fire of comment and inquiry from Mr. Hale. The Delaware Senator caused much amusement by referring to Mr. Hale as “the Senator from Spain.” Mr. Davis (Rep.), of Nlinneapolis, chairman of the Committee on Territories, reported favorably the bill to admit New Mexico to Statehood. In the House Mr. Grosvenor (Rep.), of Ohio, in reply to the remarks made by Mr. McCreary about Gen. Schenck, while minister to Great Britain, in connection with the Emma mines, and his authorship of a volume entitled "Rules of Draw Poker,” referred to Gen. Schenck's distinguished services in times of war and peace. He could not understand the purpose of the attack. Mr. McCreary said that he had made no attack on Gen. Schenck. Mr. Grosvenor wanted to know then what the purpose was. If it was not intended to assail the memory of a dead man like a ghoul then the utterances of Mr. McCreary were idle words. In regard to the Emma mines the best proof of Gen. Schenck's good intentions was that he himself invested large sums of money ill those stocks and continued t<> pay the assessments to the day of his death. As to the book on draw poker he had written out a few rules of the great American game by request of a friend and had been, of course, very much chagrined when public reference to it had been made. He abused no confidence when he said that Gen. Schenck told a friend he knew just enough about poker to always lose his money. As a poker player, however, he desired to say that he died without leaving an unpaid poker debt. In conclusion, Mr. Grosvenor rehearsed Gen. Schenck's career and paid a glowing tribute to his services in the army, in Congress and in the diplomatic service. In the Senate Friday the following bills were passed: Fixing Ogden and Salt Lake City as the places for holding terms of the United States courts in Utah: granting a pension of SSO to the widow of the late Brigadier General Clendenin; authorizing the payment of highest grade of his rank to Rear Admiral Russell, retired; for the disposal of lands in the Fort Klamath Bay reservation. Oregon: fixing the rank and pay of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy; for a survey of the mouth of the Yukon river. Alaska. The Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House Mr. Boatner, of Louisiana, was unseated by a vote of 131 to 59 and the seat declared vacant. According to the face of the returns, Mr. Boatner had 15,520 votes and Mr, Benoit 5,994. The minority contended that the purged returns would still elect Mr. Boatner by over 5.000. A vote of censure against Ambassador Bayard was carried. An unexpect cd climax to the Cuban debate was reached in the Senate Monday when, on motion of Mr. Sherman, chairman of the (’ommittee on Foreign Relations, the Cuban resolutions were recommitted to the conference committee. The vote to recommit was unanimous ami without the formality of a roll call, representing a getieral consensus opinion that the committee should s > change the resolutions as to overcame tie- opposition that has developed, Messrs. Sherman, Morgan and Lodge were appointed to represent rhe Senate in a further conference. Simultaneously with this action Mr. Mills presented Unban resolutions which propose to go farther than has yet been suggested. They direct the President to request Spain to grant local self-govern-ment to Cuba, and in case Spain refuses the President is authorized to use the military and naval forces in taking possession of Cuba and holding it until selfgovernment is established by the Cuban people. The House Committee on Elections of President and Vice-President rejxirtcd favorably the bill introduced by Mr. Corliss, of Michigan, providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the people. Some amendments of minor importance were adopted. Brooklyn Behind the Times. Brooklyn is becoming very much mortified because he has no free public library, and ti lively movt'ment is on foot to secure one. A member of the New York Librttry Association added to the mortification of the Brooklyn people by leminding the board at a recent meeting that out of 352 towns in Massachusetts there tire only twenty-four which hate no public libraries, and only eight, from their geographical position, which are without facilities for reaching these Institutions in some place near.