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£ljc Independent. XV* A. i: Y, I’utolisher. WALKERTON. - • INDIANA. MENACE TO BRITAIN. SOUTH AFRICAN INTERESTS IN GREAT DANGER. Lack of Troops and Suitable Arms— Boers and Natives Are Well Armed — Our Interests in Madagascar Threatened by Action of the Trench England's Dilemma. It is difficult to obtain accurate information regarding the progress of the rebellion of rhe natives of Matabelelaud. The Cape Town authorities, naturally, are withholding all the information possible. It is not denied, however, that the situation becomes darker every day. Advices received from Buluwayo show that the work of placing rant town in a state of defense has been completed so far as the means at hand permit. But there is a lack of arms and .unmunition there with which to supply the many settlers who have gathered from outlying districts since the uprising co.auienced. Tnese men. in many cases, lutve rifles, but they are of ail kinds and makes, and the stock of ammunition procurable for them is small. Consequently it has been found desirable to replace these weapons as far as possible with the Martini Henry rilles served out to the police. the stock of am munition for the latter being fairly adequate. But the number of Marlini-llen rys available is small, and it is now an open secret that marly every good rifle procurable had been gathered up ami smuggled into the Transvaal previous to the Jameson raid. Had matters at Johannesburg turned out as the manipulators of the expedition and uprising content plated, tilings would have assumed a different aspect. But certain persons there mid elsewhere are now in the position of hunters caught in their own traps, with the additional mortification of the knowledge that the Boers have by the seizures made in the mines, ■etc., of many thou sands of rifles, bayonets, revolvers and Maxim guns, completely turned the tables on the British. The Boers are aware of the predicament in which the British find themselves. May Be Fore?;! to Interfere. While it cannot be learned that the United States has yet joined with Great Britain in representations to France r< specting the setting aside by the latter of the treaties of commerce mid amity that have existed between them and the Hora Government of Madaga* ar. it is believed the matter is rapidly assuming a phase that will call for some action by our Government. Like Great Britain, the United States has a treaty with the Hova Government that guarantees to our citizens privileges equal to those ;• •corded any other nation. This means for one thing that no greater duties shall be imposed on g । ids imp orted hit > Malagas ar from the United States than for any other country. It is tiie purpose of the French Government to remove this equality and reserve special privilege’s for French merchants, and France has notified our State Department that by virtue of th s assumption of control over the foreign reiations of Madagascar these treaties shall fall. Our trade with Madagascar is quit* large. Warships for Active Service. Orders have been received at Toulon to prepare a number of warships for active service, stores and ammunition are being overhauled and sent on board the vessels to be prepared for commission and all naval officers on furlough have been telegraphed to rejoin their ships immediately. These measures are believed to be of a precautionary nature. The French Medib-. ranean squadron, ‘however, is to be strengthened, and the second-class cruiser Cecilie. 5.7GG tons, eight five-ton guns and ten three-ton guns, having a speed of nineteen knots. Ims sailed on a special mission to the African coast. NEWS NUGGETS. Mme. Duret Berthe). leading contralto of Louisville, one of the best-known vocalists of the South, has been stricken blind and the probabilities are that her affliction will be permanent. The Cutter Silk Manufacturing Company of West Bethlehem. l*a.. made an assignment to ex-I’ostmaster John Field, of Philadelphia. The failure is a heavy one, as the company is capitalized at $500,009 ami has in addition a bonded indebtedness of SIOO,OOO. The sealing steamer New Foundlaml has arrived at St. John's. K. F., with a catch equal to 30.090 seals. She reports that the Labrador has taken 16,006, rtte Walrus 12.000. the Leopard 8.060 and the Kite 10,000 seals. This is the worst opening for the fishery in many years. The New Foundland was only two-thirds full, but had to make port because she was leaking badly. - Tn consequence of the energetic representations of the BritKi ambassador. Sir Philip Currie, ami 'he I nhe<l States | charge d’affaires. John AV. It.ddle. the I porte has furnished written n**uram ■ s that the missionaries in Anatolia will not i be molested in the work of distributing re lief. <>n condition that an Ottoman official is permitted to ass.st in tile distribution of the funds, etc. obituary: At New \ m-k. Roderick B. Seymour. 53. At (Teveland. O . Miss 1 J»nnv Duty. 43. At St. Louis. William I). Griswold. 81.- At Rockford. 111.. Mrs. John W. Henderson and Charles S. Marsh. 66.— At Prairie dn Sac. Wis., Rev P. Massueger.—At Two Rivers, Wis.. City Clerk NVilliam Hurst, G 5. At Montague, Miili.. George E. Dowling, 5G.— Ar Mason City. lowa. Robert Hall. At Greensboro, Ala., ex-Gov. Thomas Seay, GO. A Mrs. Goodwin, of New York city, last $40,000 at Monaco. Ed Moore, a 12-year-old Danville, Ind.. Bay, jumped a freight train and in getting off his foot slipped and he fell under the train. Both arms, one leg and his head were ent off. His mother was watching him at the time, and she was crazed by the shock. Over eight inches of snow fell throughout the greater part of Colorado Monday night. The storm continued Tuesday with increasing severity, accompanied by a high wind, but fortunately it was not Very cold.

eastern. The Smith. Wilson & Sears Paper Comnauv, of Holyoke, Mass., has called a meeting of its creditors. The liabilities are $200,000. , Fire destroyed Germania Hall. « brick ■ block at Ansonia. Conn. Ihe jam Henrv Erben. fell from an upper landing head foremost mid was fatally injured. Marcus Pollasky, of the law firm of Doolittle. Tollman A I ollasky, of C hi , ..-pm has brought suit in the I mted 1 States Circuit Court for the southern district of New York against < olhs 1 . Huntington for $374,066 for breach of contract in connection with the eonstiuction of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. The State convention for the election of delegates to the Republican national convention at St. Louis was held at Boston Friday. Delegates-at-large are 11. C. Lodge, AV. T. M. Crane, Eben S. Draper, Curtis Guild Jr. Alternates L. C. Southard, R. 11. Boutwell. R. 1 . Hawkins, S. E. Courtney. They were instructed for T. B. Reed, of Maine. Hiram H. Morrison, who was arrested at Boston Monday night, after his wife had been found dead in her home, witlt finger marks upon her throat and other bruises about her face and head, lias confessed that lio choked the woman to death while in a tit of jealous rage nt her action in having a crowd of neighbors in the house drinking.. lio alleges that he also was drunk at the time. Mrs. Josephine Snyder died at Port Jarvis, N. Y.. of poisoning, ns alleged. Her husband. Jacob Snyder, died Tues day night. Al the autopsy evidence of poison was found in his stomach. Mrs. Snyder's ante-mortem statement has been taken, but Coroner Harding declines to reveal its contents. The daughter of the Snyders. Mrs. Martha Whittaker, is under guard. Arthur J. Goodwin, who has a record as a defaulter and a bigamist, has been arrested in New York upon the spc<hie charge of defaulting March 1. 1895, with $1.25(1, which he had collected for the Cmitiumual Oil Company. of Cripple Creek, w hose agent he was in September, 1893. He was arrested in St. Lons, where he was put under $1,206 bonds. He forfeited his bail. however, and went to England, returning only a few days ago. He admits having taken the money from the Continental Oil Company, and says when he skipped his bail in St. Lottis h<> ilid so with the intention of going to England, where his grandfather hail died, leaving him some money. He intended to return and pay back the money he had taken. His share of the < state, he said, was $15,000. WESTERN. Associate Justice A. W. Newman, ot the Wisconsin Supreme Court. lias been stricken w ith aphas;j, or paraly sis of the vocal organs, and his condition is pre, tti Ous. Negroes are holding a Freiuhmaii in confinement near < ’ dumbm. < >. T.. and de dare they will not release him mr.: France accedes to the demand- of <x Consul Waller. The latest contest in the fam • is Dav > will ease has jus beeu ti’.oj a> B 1; - . Mont., by Mrs. Hulda Qmen Dav,-, of Tehachapi, <’al,, who claims io be the widow of the th millionaire. J. F. Seibel ling A Co., proprietors o: the Empire Mower and Reaper Works ot Akron. Ohio, hate made an assignment The liabilities will amount to $250,000, while the assets are estimated at some thing over $300,000, Fred Gorrell, a molder of West Columbus. 0., aged 21. Sunday Afternoon shot his wife, who is but 17, ami then stood before n mirror and cut his throat with a razor. Gorrell died almost instantly, bitt his wife will recover. Jealousy was the cause of the affair. While Mrs. John F. Seigel. wife ■ f a prominent business-man at Bogart. Ohio, was driving along Hancock street, in San dusky, accompanied by her son. aged 111 years, a train on the Lake Shore ami Michigan Southern Railroad sirmk the vehicle in which they were riding, ami both were lulled. Secreted behind a sofa Policeman Ed Dodd, of the Chicago Central Detail Police Station, witnessed Frank Swift, an ex-convict, loot a safe in the home of Catherine Johann, at No. 440 South Clin ton street Friday night. Then, when the burglar had prepared to leave with his plunder, the policeman leaped forward and overpowered him. Policeman Cleary, who had remained outside, arrested one of Swift's two confederates, who was identified at the station as Michael Murphy, said by the police to be a Wt 11known burglar. The third man escaped, but it is believed by the police his apprehension will soon follow. At an early hour Sunday morning a double murder—it may prove to be a triple murder was committed on a farm seven miles east of Akron. O. Alvin N. Stone, aged GS. ami his wife, Serena, aged G 3. are the victims, and Ira Stillson, the hired man. is fatally injured. Two daughters, Emma, aged 29. and Hattie, agetl 23. are seriously injured, while a third daughter. Flora, is the only one of the entire household who escaped the assassin's murderous blows. The crime was committed about 1 o'clock by an unknown man wearing a mask. The crime is a mystery. There is no pos-ilje motive for the tiinr- | tiers so far as can be h articil. Gertainly I tii" murderer was no; bent on robbery, I for in a Imri' in dr iwer in Mr. Stone’s room win- two gold watches and some money and nothing had been taken apparently. Mich:g;rti and < h" ago I l iversities met for the tir-- titm in debate at Ann Arbor Friday night. Michigan secures the hrs; forensic victory and Chicago gets her fourth consecutive defeat. i'he question was: "Is the Principle < f a Graduated Tax One Thar Should Ite Adopted by the States; Michigan took the affirmative side and Chicago the negative. Michigan s speakers in their order were Chas. .1, \ ert, senior law. ot Morristown, N. Y.; Edmund Block, senior law. of Chattauoo ga, Tenn.; and Paul G. Albright, freshman law, of Philadelphia. Chicago* team consisted of James P. Whyte of Chicago Wesley C. Mitchell of Rushville, 111., and L. Brent. Vaughan of Ohio. The judges were President Ballantine of Oberlin College. Supt. Compton of the Toledo schools, and Judge McLellan of Auburn, 1 Ind. They gave each man a percentage both in argument and delivery, and on the ranking system Michigan had thirtyfive and Chicago twenty-seven. Gov. Altgeld, in his capacity as trustee of the University of Illinois, has been indicted by the grand jury of Champaign County. The Governor's colleagues on the board of trustees, including Dr. Julia Holmes Smith and Lucy J. Flower, of

Chicago, have also been indicted. The charge is that they have failed to comply . with the law recently passed by the Ltgis- ! lature requiring the trustees of all public ( schools in the State to provide for the flying over the school buildings the flag of the United States. Testimony was produced before the grand jury to the ■ effect that of nil the flagstaffs on the buildings comprising the university group only one staff has been found jo be adorned by the Stars and Stripes. The prevalent opinion of the people of Champaign County is that a humiliating blunder has been made. That such a blunder should have been made by the kind of men who constituted the grand jury is causing all the more surprise. At most, it is generally felt that the breach of the law—if failure to fly a Hag on every one of a group of school buildings instead of on or before the main building alone could be milled a violation of the statute—is so purely a technical and unintentional one that it was splitting hairs for the grand jury seriously to consider the charge at all. Empress, alias Gypsy, one of the largest and most vicious elephants in captivity, added a third murder to her record Wednesday afternoon by killing her keeper, Frank Scott, while taking her daily exercise at Chicago. Having sated her rage upon the helpless form of her victim, the huge beast forthwith inaugurated a reign of terror in the vicinity of Jackson bouleV H.I ami Robey street, rn.it continued all the afternoon and called for the presence ol scores ot policemen from the Lake street ami Warren avenue stations. Darkness was setting in before the big brute's temper calmed down, mid she was once more safely confined in her quarters with a chain around her leg. Greater excitement could not have been produced among (he residents of the neighborhood had the killing been one th.it would come within the recognition of the law as a crime. From every window that com m tmled a view of the alley in w hich the euiagcd elephant parmled, the faces of seared spectators could lw seen. Small boys, whose curiosity was stronger than their fears, watched the ponderous animal charge back ami forth from the roofs of back sheds and the tops of fences. \\ omen listened behind closed doors to the shrill trumpeting* of the great beast, and more tltnn one otlicer dcliberate<l on th<‘ effi. ieucy of his revolver when be caught sight of the towering form. Empress was a star attraction with the W. 11. Harris Nickel Plate show. Several opinions of ini|Hirtance were handed down by the Illinois Supreme t'ourt lit" Saiurdai night. Chief ninoug them is the deci* >m sustninlng the ver- I die: rendered in Judge Brentano's court, -mitom in Frank It and Uliarle* J. Mi>adow . r >!;, of Chi*,mo, to otic year I citeh in the penitentiary. The verdict w;t* rendered Dm . 11, 1594, since w hi< h time the Meadowt-rofts have been out on bail pemliiig the final decision of the Suprcnie Cour;. The decision >« cspr ially imp il'tiint. .1* it establishes the eoimtitlltmmilit) of the banking law under which they were iiiiviiinl, thus being (he first ■ ise under that law in this Sttate. The ■ iso was ,1 long and bitterly fought one. The Meadow < rof:* were moivictcd of rreiiiu- ,|r|h.s,;s when they knew th«y were qisohent. They were ilcfemlcd by i e\ I nigo Colliu-. Edwin Walker and A. j I J E idj. wiim A S Trmlc < m.hieted I I'ac ptail: m Judge C-ilims sail) the ■ IS. Was :ake;i so tao Bi:preme C"iir: an ■ onsiHutional grounds. Unless the opinion <1 ■ s.alssc.l ths* ,*vrontbmx <mterod Kv the defense during tile trial, the\ would h.iie grounds for another ap|M*al. in tlmir appeal to (lie Supreme Court their argument was they were conducting a legitimate business, such as a dry goods or any other business, and claimed the bank ing law was niieonstitutionnl because it placed certain restrictions on one branch of business and not on al). WASHINGTON. The State Department at Washington has retaived ,i cablegram fr»*m 1 uited States Minister Smythe nt Port Au Prince. Hayti, confirming the Paris report of the death of President Hqqsdyte, of Hayti. The minister's eablcgrnm gave no details, simply reading: "President dead." Tiie Semite i ’.immi' a e .>n Fable Buildings ami Grounds v>ted to recommend the passage of the bill appropriating $2.ihhijmhi for a new public building at IndianajHilis. Ind,, the bills for government building* at Oakland, Cal., and Waterbury. Conn., and also (he bill for the purchase of a site for a building at Salem, (tregon. Congressman Hopkins, of Illinois, called on Secretary ot State Olney and made verbal < harge* again*: Consul General Williams, who represcnis the I'nited States at Havana, Cuba. He accuses the consul general of incompetence for the position he occupies rind declares his neglect to investigate ami report upon the case of Waller Dygert. a citizen of Illinois and a resident of the distriit which Mr. Hopkins repri'sents in Congress, who is under arrest in Cuba, shows he is in sympathy with Spanish officials. The Treasury Department has instructed the New York su« treasury to raise the premium on gold bars from 1-1 G to 3-1 G of 1 per cent. The Department's purpose in the issuance of this order is to do what can be done legitimately to prevent future exports of gold. The order has a triple purpose. First, it will 1 fend to raise the price at which gold can i lx- exported profitably, the price of exchange now being dangerously near the export point; second, it is regarded as good policy to get rid of coin instead of bars, because the former frequently have lost weight through abrasion, ami third, it is intended to meet the recent action ot the Bank of England in raising the price ■ f gold bars to 77 shillings 10 pence, and thus practically lowering the rate of exchange at which gold can be shipped from the United States to Great Britain to about issi j or 4SS :l |. Treasury officials admit the issuance of the order, but Will not talk further concerning it. FOREIGN. A severe gale swept over the channel, causing considerable damage to shipping, ami it is feared that a large steamer which was in distress off the Goodwin । sands has foundered. ; A terrible explosion of fire damp has taken place in a mine at Brunnerton. New , Zealand. Five persons were killed out- , right and sixty more are entombed, with . no hope of being rescued. i The Egyptian debt commission have paid the first installment from the reserve fund, amounting to $1 .OOOJXH), of the j money required for the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile. 1 Promoter Ming, of Springfield, 111., is 1 on trial at Paris, France. M ing arrived 1 in France early in 1895, hoping to raise f money on bonds of the Rock Island, Pe-

and St. Louis Railway. After sellUI K several blocks of stock he was ar’Tsted on a c-harge of fraud. He will be “Quitted. As a result of the extraordinary cabinet eotincfl ut Constantinople, which lasted throughout Saturday, the. Turkish Govecnnieut has issued an appeal, addressed t° Prance and Russia, asking them to Intervene with the object of regulating “hairs in Egypt. Germany, it is added, "as also requested by the porte to exercise her good offices in this sense. Instriictions were also dispatched to the * urkish ambassador at London to make iTpresentutions to the Marquis of Salisbury, but their tenor is not known. It is generally understood that nothing short of. the armed interference of those two nations will prevent Great Britain from Pushing the Soudan campaign. The commission of the Egyptian debt met at Cairo Thursday and decided to advance the £500.000 nocessarv to meet the expenses of the British Egi ptian expedition against Dongola. Os the sum needed £200,000 is available immediately. The English, German, Italian and Au's trian members of the eommis lion voted to advance the money required. The •tussian and French members voted against the proposition. Directly the action of the majority of the commissiomTs became known the representative* of the Pari* <ndic«te of Egyptian bondholders took steps to institute proceeding* before the Egyptian mixed tribunal against the debt commissioners and the ministers responsible for the reserve fund. It has leaked oat in Madrid diplomatic circles that the Spanish foreign otliee lias bemi informed by its ambassadors in the principal European court* that Spain is not likely Io receive more than pure!) platonic sympathy even from the French Government in a conflict with the I Uited States. The Spanish representatives in all the European court.* have discovered that it is absolutely absurd to hope that any Eunqtean Government would act in concert to support Spain even by friendly nn-diatioii or moral influence. They have also diacovereti that b >th the foreign g iv ernmepts and the whole European public wonder why Spain doe* not immediately give Cuba nnd-Porto Rico colonial ae' nomy and self-government, such a* England gave to Canada, in order to di*arm the secessionist* in Cuba ami to conciliate American sympathizer*. Dispatches received at UapeT«»u u from i Boluwayo, Matabeleland. indicate that the Uprising in that part of the colony is very serious. Telegrams from the front first merely outlined a revolt of a few natives in the Inseza and Filabusi districts, the massacre of some white settler*, in j eluding Commissary B ntley. and the dispatch of a small force ot volunteer* to the scene of the disturb.nice. An extensive uprising of the natives, it i* understood, ha* taken place and the revolt may spread to other parts of South Africa. The settlers in M.ifabeleland are tl-e king uit > the towns, which are being placed in a condition fur defense. Vu‘unt« er« are being enrolled every where and pre - . Uni:* are lieing collected. Rc-enf >reemen! sos mounbsl iwUce have already been sent t < j Bulutrayo, Inseza and Gamlto and the Ua|M‘ rille* have received order* to pre j pare for active service. Supplie* of am munition for the Maxim gun* are being hurried to Buluonyo ami all the horse* of the disturbed territory have been -■■ i sW'.V Uol N.tp er, wno .* in charge of ijKsuverument force*. The natbes ar-; raiding farms and killing ahite *e! tires jo the Mafapt hill* district, .md in mor has it (hat over fifty plc b.n. t>< ■ ; slain *1 IN GENERAL Obituary: At Chihuahua, Mexico, Ja*. G. Flint, of Milwaukee. At Evansville. Mis., Daniel Johnson, 75. At Getty* burg. Pa., <'ol. (’. H. Buehler. 71. At Terre Haute, Ind , Thomas Jai k* m, SB The warerooms and general store of Charles Bnrrill A (’o., M’eymouth, N S . with their contents, have been destroyed by fire, causing a Uss of between .S3OJM*t ami SGO,(MM). Insurance, $10,900, Adjoining property was damaged R. G. Dun A Co.’* M eekly Review of Trade says: "No important change ha* occurred in the general condition of business during the week, am! if trade in some respi'eis looks worse, in other respects it looks better. S.une failure* of magifltude have occurred, which can* ed much apprehension ami unwillingness to lend among bankers, and there have been somewhat less favorable features in the dry goods market, but in iron ami steel conditions are slightly improved, and in boots ami shoes considerably more hope is felt. The labor e >ntroversies. mainly in the clothing trade, still cause much interruption of that business. Foreign trade is a little more satisfactory.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to s4.<m»; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. tile to G2c; corn. No. 2. 28c to 29.", oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2. 37c to 38c; butter, choice creamery. 20e to 22c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; potatoes, per busb.el, 15c to 25e; broom corn. S2O to sls per ton for common to choice. Inflhioiipolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4 Wi h°K s ' choice light, s3J»<> to $4.25; common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. GBc to G9c; corn. No. 1 white. 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. N<>. 2 red. 71c to <2c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 2Gc to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye. No. 2,37 c to 39e. ^Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. .XiJMj to 54.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31e; oats. No. 2 mixed. 21c to 23e; rye. No. 2. 4b- to 43e. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to ■ le; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 37,• to 39e. 1 oledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. iOc to ilc; corn. No. 2 yellow. 29c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 21e to 23c; rye. No. 2. 37c to 39c: clover seed. $4.35 to $4. 15. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. G2c to G3c; corn. No. 3. 28c to 29c; oats. No. 2 white. 20c to 21c; barley. No. 2, 3<»c to 32c; rye, \ O . i ( 37,- to 39c; pork, mess, SS.So to $9.00. Buffalo— Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.5(j; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; 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 $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wffieat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs, M'estern, 10c to 12c.'

CUBAN CRISIS NEAR. INSURGENTSOVERRUNNING THE PROVINCE OF HAVANA. Ripping Up Railroads and Destroying Property—Long and Short Haul Clause la Good in Law—New Scheme of I.ondon Capitalists. Weylcr Has His Handa Full. Key M’est, Fla., dispatch; (Sent from Havana to avoid pi ess censorship.) Twenty-five thousand insurgents, under Gen. Maceo, are swarming over the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio, destroying property, ripping up railways and tearing down telegraph lines. Fortyfive thousand Spanish soldiers are in the same territory and more are coming. Gen. Maceo is in immediate command of the center column of rebels, with about 9,(MH> men. Gen. Masso is in the southern part of Havana Province with about G,OOO m<‘n, and Gen. Laeret is hovering about the outskirts of Havana with about 6,O<M) cavalry. The other 4,000 men are divided ■ into small bands of pillagers. The insurgents nrv well eipiipped and have plenty of ammunition and are capable of giving tlie soldiers u warm reception. The activity noticeable about the palace of Gen. M’eylor seems to bear out the idea that a crisis is near at hand. Interatute Commerce Law Valid. An opinion was rendered by the Supreme Uourt Monday in the case known as the long ami short haul case, involving the validity of the provision of the interstate commerce net prohibiting a higher charge for a short than for a long haul, appealed from 'die de< ision of the Circuit Uourt of appeal* for the fifth circuit. The appeal was taken by the railroads. Its title was the interstate commerce commission v*. the Cincinnati. New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company, the M'estern and Atlantic Railway Company and tiie Georgia Railway Company. The decision of the court below wa* affirmed in the main, the opinion holding that in eases of shipments from one State to another on through bills of lading railway companies could not exempt parties and give them special rates. Ju*: ce Shiras delivered the opinion of the court. Justice Shira* also handed down the opinion of the court in the ease of the Texas Pacific Railway v*. the interstate commerce eom-mis-ion, appealed from the circuit court of appeals for the second circuit, and known a* the import-rate ease. The opinion of the Su[>reme Court reversed the opinion of the Circuit Court, whic h held th.। 1: was illegal to charge less on the imported goods than on domestic article*. I'he effect of the opinion ;* t > continue the aileacd discrimination in the interest of foreign shippers. Eiidisli Colonists in California. E. M’ilding eml J. F. Gilmore, representing a Luolon syndicate, are in San Fran>isco to eEse negotiations for the pul liase of the ( hino ranch, in southern California. The ram h e msis:* of 40,000 acre* and the price is said to be $2.000_000. The property will be divided and *dd to English farmers. (>ne hundred families are expected this year. The land is now used for the culture of sugar beets .and fruit. M I«u.1 »i ci t the <>j»< r.i. During the balcony " one in the opera ‘•Romeo ami Juliet" at the Chicago Auditorium Monday night, Robert Richard Rothman, a lunatic, climbed upon the stage, and tor a few minutes terrorized (he singer* ami audience. He was tinally secured by stage hands and locked up in a police cell. 11" declares he is the Messiah. BREVITIES, Mrs. Sue M. Simpson, of Peoria, has announced herself as a candidate for State I'niversity trustee. At Redfield, S. D.. Attorney General Crawford disposed at public sale of State Treasurer Taylor's bondsmen's property under execution. Only realty was sold, aggregating $57.66G. All property was bld in for the State at the amounts appraisesi some time ago. This, with the cash paid and property previously hvotered. makes the total credit upon the shortage S27(U>OO. Judge Elliot, of Minneapolis, Minn., filed an important decision in the suit of A. It Rodger* against the insolvent Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company. He finds that the stockholders who are not non-residents are liable for claims amounting to $2.543.000. ,A I'nited States Court jury found Dr. Leroy Berrier guilty of sending ob* -cue literature through the mails. Dr. Berrier's defense was that it was a scientific work, for the instruction of the people. (In order of the Portsmouth. 0., officials Dr. C. Lake, veterinary surgeon, examined the body of a fire department horse, which died of a mysterious disease. He found that the horse departed this life from chewing too much tobacco. 'l'he animal consumed three or four large cakes of (he weed daily. Its liver was sliriinken to the size of a baseball. Other horses in the department eat tobacco, and an order was promptly issued forbidding any one to give it. to them. J. Milton Turner, of St. Louis, of counsel for the freedmen of the Cherokee nation, says ail arrangements are now completed preparatory to making the long delayed Government payment to the freedmen. The work of revising the roll will require about thirty days, when the payment. amounting to about S2.>o to each person, will be made. This will cause great relief io the hundreds of creditors who have been sustaining the freedmen. A Montana antiquarian claims to have discovered that the cathode or X rays were known to the Chinese many centuries ago. Bishop Potter, of New York, has been invited by the authorities of Cambridge I'niversity. in England, to be select preacher to the university during the month of May. 1597. Half rhe business portion of M r eston, M'. A a., was burned. Loss. SISO.tK)O. The Governor of Missouri granted a star of execution to Thomas Punshon. who was sentenced to be hanged in St. Joseph, until May 6. Rev. J. J. Klopp, of Naperville, has accepted a call to the Bethany Congregational Church of Chicago. Four persons were killed and two injured by a tenement house fire at New York city. The dead are Archibald Grogan, Thomas Malloy, Mary McMahon and Margaret T. Ryan.

WORK OF CONGRESS. THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of tiie Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington — Mutters that: Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The question of reforming the fee system of the I'nited States District Attorneys and Marshals occasioned much debate in the Senate M'ednesday. Mr. Hoar opposed the change from fees to salaries by means of an appropriation bill, as it was a large subject, needing separate treatment. Mr. Allen (P.-pJ of Nebraska attacked the high salaries. He declared that the offices of District Attorney were, given frequently in payment of political debts, and instead of requiring a high degree of legal talent the places sometimes went to "shysters" who could not earn a living out of office. Mr. George (Dem.) of Mississippi attacked the entile policy of giving high salaries umi showed that the Governors and Attorney Genernl» of States received less i.y half than • the bill proposed allowing Federal District Attorneys. Mr. Allen also criticised the provision allowing the Attorney General to designate the number of Deputy Marshals. He spoke against the "horde of ofltceholders.” Under Buchanan the Government spent $50,000,060 annually and now it is $5O0.(M»6,O(»O. In that time the population had doubled, but the expenses had increased tenfold. Officers were thrusting their hand* into the treasury and by hook and crook, mainly by crook, seeking to increase their salaries. The purpose of this provision was to add to the otliees controlled by an executive officer. Mr. Iloar responded warmly that the Senate could not waste its time investigating the details of the number of Deputy Marshals in each of the seventyseven districts in the I'nited States. If it did it wouid become a laughing stock. If the Government could not trust the Attorney General with this duty then the American Government had better shut up shop ami apply to some Populist club to < arry on its affair*. After an extended debate the salaries for District Attorneys and Marshals were agreed to as reported, with a few minor changes. The legislative appropriation was not completed w hen at 5:30 the Senate wont into executive session and soon after adjourned. The House discussed naval appropriation. The Senate spent most of Thursday on the legislative appropriation bill, but did not complete owing t<> Mr. Sherman's motion to strike out the proposition for the change from fees to salaries for United States district attorneys ami marshals. A joint resolution was adopted allowing ex President Harrison to accept decorations from Brazil and Spain. The joint resolution w.i* passed providing for the appointment of a commission under the direction of the Secretary of War for the preliminary survey, with plan*, specifications and approximate estimates of cost thereof, for the construction of a ship canal of approved width and depth, from the lower shore of Lake Michigan to the Wabash river, ami for the further investigation of the practieability of the construction of such waterway. The naval iippropriati.in bill was passed by the I Gms.' without substantial amendment. The bill carries $3L611.034 and authorizes the construction of four battle ships and fifteen torpedo boats, the total cost of which will be in the neighborhood of S3S.(HX 1.060. The Senate indulged in an acrimonious political debate Friday. The controversy arose over Mr. Hill's motion to strike from the legislative appropriation bill the proposed change of the date of assembling the New Mexico Legislature from December to May. Mr. Hill bitterly denounced the change as a political trick. Mr. Elkins protested. The debate took a wide range. Senators Gorman. Faulkner. Cockrell and other Democrats attacking the provision as political, while Senators Elkins. Carter. Cullom ami other Republican Senators defended it. Mr. Cullom sough। to table Mr. Hill's motion, but a motion to this effect failed by a vote of 21 to 29. w'nerenpon Mr. Cullom yielded to the Hill motion and the New Mexico provision wa* struck out. Tiie Senate passed the legislative appropriation bill, carrying s2l .oOO.OIjO. Aside from providing tiie usual appropriations, the bill is important in effecting a reform of the system of compensation for United States District Attorneys and Marsha's, salaries being substituted for fees. Tiie appropriation committee attempted to take up the sundry civil appropriation bill in the House, but the members who were interested in bills on the private calendar defeated them by a vote of 142 to 77. The Senate Monday passed the bill appropriating $2,000,906 for a public building at Indianapolis. Much time was spent in discussing rhe settlement between Government and tiie State of Arkansas. The House took up the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill and disposed of fifteen of the 100 pages before adjournment. Few amendments were add< d to the bill. The Senate resolution authorizing F. Green to exercise the duties ami powers heretofore conferred upon the late Gen. Casey in relation to the construction of the library of Congress was adopted. The Senate resolution authorizing ex-I’resident Harrison to accept certain medals presented to him by the Governments of Brazil and Spain was also adopted. New Sleeping Car. .A new pattern of a sleeping coach has boon brought out in England that is supposed to meet some peculiarly English wants. The car is fifty-two feet long ami nine feet wide, with sin-ele-berilied ami double-berthed compartments alternating, a corridor running the full length. Each passenger has room to undress comfortably and finds hooks in abundance upon which to hang his clothes, ami by bolting his door can be assured of privacy. English Factory Workers. The Home Secretary is being pressed by the I’elfast shirt and collar manufacturers to exempt them from the operation of the clause in the new factory act which prohibits women am 4 girls from taking home work after they have finished their day's work in the factory. London newspapers are opposing the movement. The silk industry of China employs, it is estimated, from 4,000,600 to 6,000,• WU people.