St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 April 1896 — Page 6

®ljc Jn&cpendcnt. W. A. EXDLEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - • INDIANA. LOSS IS ONE MILLION. BIG SILK IMPORTING HOUSE IS BURNED. One of the Fiercest Fires Known in New York—Misanthropic Chicagoan Kills His Children and Himself—Sad Tradedy at Elgin. Rig Gotham Blaze. One of the fiercest tires in New York within a year started in the five-story building occupied by A. Auffmordt <& Co., one of the largest importers of silks, plushes, dress goods and kid gloves in this country. The first floor was occupied by Franz Merz, dealer in and importer of dress goods. The second floor was used by Hugo Bondy, importer of kid gloves, who carried a stock valued at nearly ss€>o,ooo. The third and fourth floors were occupied by Dexter. Lambert & Co., manufacturers of silk goods. Franz Merz also occupied the fifth floor. During the course of the fire two firemen were partially overcome by smoke and one of them was burned about the face and was also cut by falling glass. The firemen said the fire, although not the biggest, was one of the fiercest they ever had to fight. There were times when it seemed ns if the entire block was bound to go. '1 he fire burned three hours, it having ample food in the expensive stocks of the different floors. Loss reaches $1,0( >O,OOO. Her Aim Was Deadly. Miss Mary Linnett, of 43 North ('ampbell avenue. Chicago, shot and instantly killed-Miss Elizabeth Trowbridge, a prominent young woman of Elgin, 111., and then killed herself, shortly after 8 o'clock Monday evening. The double tragedy took place on the principal residence street of the city. Miss Linnett some two years ago conceived a singular liking for a young woman in Chicago, a neighbor, and attempted to take her life because she would not live with her. She was sent to the insane hospital at Elgin less than a year ago and was discharged from the institution as cured in December last. Miss Trowbridge was an attendant at the hospital and had charge of Miss Linnett, who became passionately attached to her. Iler great regret in leaving Elgin was that she must leave her friend behind. She returned to Chicago, where she remained at her home. Her friends believed her entirely curial of her im'nt^i tables. But the strange passion for.Miss Trowbridge induced Mi^s Linnett to return to Elgin, where she endeavored to persuade the latter to accompany her to Chicago. Failing, the tragedy followed. "" Kills Three and Himself. Into the hearts of his three little children, the smallest only a baby, John Lehman, of 233 West 23d street. Chicago, sent successive bullets Tuesday. Thon, after a futile attempt to hang himself. Lehman fired a bullet into his own heart. Not poor, not dependent—in fact, prosperous for one in his station in life— Lehman was moody and pessimistic. He feared to grow old and become a pauper; life was only a wearisome grind, he thought, and the little ones would probably grow up to the same hardships and toil, possibly to want—life wasn't worth living, anyway; it was better they should all go. That was about what John Lehman had long thought, though he was chary in expressing too volubly his gloomy ideas. Probably, judging from Lehman's ideas of things in general, he thought he was doing the babies and himself a kindness. Will Not Expel Missionaries, The thorough ventilation which the action of the Sultan toward the missionaries in Asia Minor has received has had decidedly beneficial effect. The I nited. States charge d'affaires. John W. Riddle, has received a written assurance from the Turkish Government that Rev. George' I*. Knapp, the American missionary re cently expelled from Bitlis. will be delivered to the I nited States consul at Alexandria. It is further stated that the Sultan's irade providing for the expulsion of other missionaries from Asia Minor has been repealed, ami. for the present at least, the missionaries need not anticipate any further trouble. It is understood that in both of these cases the Sultan has acted upon the advice of the Russian ambassador. No Greater New York, Greater New York's death knell tolled long and dismally in the New York State Senate at Albany Monday night, while the clerk read a long communication from Mayor Strong of New York city, in which he summarily vetoed the bill ant! expressed numerous reasons why the measure would not be to the advantage of the community whose interests he guards. AN ith It was read the veto of Mayor AA urster of Brooklyn, together with the approving message of Mayor Gleason of Long Island City. NEWS NUGGETS. An imperial irade lias been issued commanding all Turkish students now abroad to return to Turkey. The object of this order is to prevent these students from joining the young Turkonovement. Advices received at Buluwayo, Matabeleland, from Gwelo say that a terrible explosion of dynamite occurred at the Eagle Beef store, near that place, and That 200 Matabeles were killed. The question ofjhe admission of women as delegates to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church has been practically settled in their favor. The vote to date is 6,937 in favor of the amendment and 2.187 against it. This gives the required majority, with 375 votes to spare. J. Milton Turner. ex-Minister to Liberia, lawyer and politician of national fame, although a colored man, does not, apparently, possess a thick skull. He is now lying at the St. Louis city hospital ■with a broken sconce, the result of a scrimmage with his step-daughter, who broke a pitcher over his head. Joseph Zelamei was put to death by electricity in the State prison at Clinton. N. Y. Zelamei murdered his sweetheart, Theresa Kamora. by cutting her throat with a razor at Johnstown, on Aug. 30, 1895, on account of jealousy.

fL&STBRN. William T. Adams (Oliver Optic) has just returned to Boston from a trip around the world. A New York delegate to the Republican national conv-ention proposes to go to St. Louis on a bicycle. Rt Rev. Bishop Ryan of the Catholic dioeese of Buffalo, died Friday at the episcopal residence in Buffalo. The New York Methodist conference voted down the proposition to admit women as lay delegates to the general conference. John Pugsley was found dead in a Now York tenement. He had lived in abject poverty, but left more than $L.»00,000 in real estate in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Florida. Hall & Garrison. Philadelphia, manufacturers of picture frames and moldings, made an assignment to Senator John C. Grady for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are estimated at $250,000, while the assets are supposed to be as much. Frank McKinley, employed by the Singer Manufacturing Company, at Elizabeth, N. J., was killed by a Pennsylvania Rail way train. , McKinley had been married less than an hour before the accident occurred. His bride and be were on their way from church. The Raines law did not give New York a dry Sunday. It only reduced the number of places where liquor could be obtained to the city's 500 hotels, and added the price of a sandwich to the cost of a drink. The whole question of Sunday prohibition depended on whether the proprietor had ten bedrooms somewhere about his place of business or not. In most of these rooms the necessary furniture had simply been thrown in, and if any man applied for lodging in these subterfuge hotels he would be turned away. But of the city's 7,000 barroom saloons not one was open. The screens were thrown back and the bars plainly expos ed to view from the streets. No police inen stood guard at side doors. In Brooklyn all that the thirsty desired to drink was obtained in the same manner. There were more evidences of drunkenness on the streets there than in New York, however. A number of arrests of saloonkeepers were made, but as the law is coming to be better understool its infraction^ are decreasing. It is evident, however, that the open sesame to cold bottles in New York is the inoffensive sandwich. WESTERN. The State of Ohio on and after July 1 will inflict capital punishment by elec tricity, the bill passing Thursday. Gov. John E. Jones, of Nevada, died at San Francisco Friday evening. Gov. Jones bad been ill for several months. John Hays, a clerk in the general store of P. T. Hays, his brother, at Pucnle, Cab, was shot ami kiljed by two masked tvLWrC George Hall, formerly an instructor of the Chicago Y. M. C. A., was held up am} probably fatally stablied by two thugs at Denver. Schlatter, the healer, after fasting fort? days on a ranch near Soroceo, N. M., was discovered by a crowd anxious to be heal ed and immediately disappeared, traveling westward on his white horse. A. J. Blethen has retired from the man ngvim nt of the Minneapolis Penny l’r< because the compositors refused to work with him. The employes will form a cooperative company ami run the paper themselves. The Ohio Senate has passed the Smith anti-lynching bill and it is now a law. It makes the county which permits lynching to take place within its borders liable for damages to the estate of the victim. The bill was drawn by Judge Albion AA'. Tourgee.

At Duluth, Minn., William Verill and Joseph Soular were sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Samuel de Mars nt Bewabik on Jnn. 13 last. Verill is IS years of age and Soular 17. The murder was a most brutal one, and was deliberately planned. Zella Nicolaus is hunting George Gould with blood in her eye. She forced her way into the Missouri Pacific offices at St. Louis Wednesday, declaring that he had lied about her and must make a retraction. She said: “I wish I could lay hands on him. He would not look nearly so pretty as be thinks he does.’ George Bauer, aged 25, a collector employed by Percy & Vallet. St. Louis, real estate agents, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He had a wife with whom he lived happily, and no cause is known for committing the deed. So far as known, Bauer’s accounts are correct, but an investigation will be made. At Excelsior Springs. Mo., there is considerable excitement over the report that the assay ores found in a gulch adjoining the city on the east show them to be very rich in gold, with considerable silver. Mr. Fargo, a boot ami shoe man of Chicago, owns the forty acres directly west of the Endicott farm, where the ore was found. Otto Wagner, of Calhoun, Neb., has been digging a well. At 160 feet he struck a bowlder. He drilled several feet into the rock, but found no bottom. It was noticed that the composition of the rock was peculiar. Some one told Wagner that it looked like gold quartz. Wagner took it to an assayer, who certified the ore to run sl6 to the ton. At Cleveland. Justice Hart has decided that Bishop William B. Campbell, of the African Evangelical Mission Church, is not guilty of embezzlement, upon which charge he was arrested some time ago at the instance of a number of elders am} deacons of the chin-ch. It was alleged that the bishop had collected SSOO for the establishment of a training school and had failed to account for the same. The British ship Blairmore, at anchor in Mission Bay, in the southern part of San Francisco, capsized Thursday morning, turning completely over. Five men who are known to have been on board are missing and are supposed to have been drowned. The ship was in ballast. Tugs are now working to right the vessel and she will be saved without much damage. The Baltimore arrived from Newcastle, Australia. Feb. 2. Prohibitionists of Illinois have placed in nomination the following ticket. Governor Hale Johnson Lieutenant Governor C. A. Windle Secretary of State ~ . .Alonzo E. Wilson Auditor A. J. Bassett Treasurer E. K. Hays Attorney General Robert H. Patton University Trustees —Miss Lucy P. Gaston, Mrs. Carrie L. Grout, Mrs. Ella M. Orr. United States Senator . .. .Dan It. Sheen While trying to take a man to prison la October, 1890, Solon Boydston, coroner

of Wayne County. 0., was killed at Orrville. The prisoner resisted and both men fell on the track of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railway, where they were struck by an engine. The prisoner, a tramp, lost a leg, while Boydston was killed. That the man eat to pieces was Boydston was not discovered until after the remains had lain iu Boydston’s own undertaking rooms for two hours. His wife. Kate Boydston, now of Chicago, sued the company for SIO,OOO damages for causing the death of her husband. The first jury awarded her $1,500 and the second $2,160. Both verdicts were set aside. The third trial ended Friday morning, when the jury came in with a verdict allowing Mrs. Boydston $5,000. John Smith, a Slav, wlio formerly worked for Alvin Stone, has confessed that he murdered Stone and his wife and Ira Stillson, the hired man. m ar Tallmadge. Ohio, two weeks ago. Smith was discharged from Stone’s employ because of his behavior toward Flora Stone, the youngest daughter. Partly in a spirit of revenge and because he intended to murder all other members of the family and then assault the girl, he went to the house and committed the triple crime. He succeeded in killing the old people and the hired man, and attacked the two older daughters, one of whom escaped and gave the alarm, running a half-mile in her night clothes. Fearing discovery. Smith escaped as soon as he learned of the girl's flight. Flora Stone thought she recognized his voice, and on this suspicion he was arrested Wednesday, and later mad^ n confession. "SB A bold attempt was made on ,he T/ e of AVilliam B. O. Sands, president offfhe Samis & Maxwell Lumber Company, of Pentwater, Midi., Thursday night. Mr. Samis had been at the office of the company engaged in work and left for his home shortly after 9 o'clock. AV hen within a few yards of his home n "man jumped from behind a corner of a street and commenced firing nt him with a gun. Mr. Sands ran across the street to ifts home, the would-be assassin following and keeping up a fire. Five shots were fired in all. three finding resting places in Mr. Sands' right arm and one in the leg. Suspicion pointed to H. B Mlnchnll, a local insurance agent and attorney, and it was decided to place him under arrest. The officer^ fjund bis residence locked and broke ]p £he ^odr. A horrible sight was presented. Nirs. ^ljnchali was lying UDOy the floor of the sitting room with a lm}let hole in her temple. Near her . was the dead body of her daughter Ruby, about 16 years of age. In a corner of the same room Iny Mincball with on empty revolver clutched In his hand. He, too, was dead. In nn adjoining bedroom were found the bodies of George, aged 4. and his infant brother. They were in bed together and death had evidently come upon them while they slept. The motive for MincbnHs crimes is still a mystery. Minchall came three years ago from Chicago. SOUTHERN. Thursday morning on the depot platform at Millican. Texas, n man named John Brooks shot and killed his daughter, Mollie Brooks, ami also shot her •lover, A <’. Worrells. just as they were about to board the train for Bryan, where they were going to be married. After the shooting Brooks went to the rock quarry near Miilicnn and sat down on a box of dynamite, which lie exploded and blew himself to atoms. Nothing but Lis kgs mid feet was found. WASHINGTON.

Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is seriously ill w ith liver trouble at Washington. By a vote of 119 to 117 the House passed the lull to adopt the metric system of weights ami measures in ail departments of the government after July 1. 1*1(6. and to make it the only legal system after Jan. 1, 1901. The House Committee on Appropriations Friday reported the bill for fortifications and other works of defense, for their armament, and for heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year which begins next July, ihe bill recommends specific appropriations amounting to $5,S42Jkk), and in addition authority is given to the Secretary of War to make contracts for the further expenditure of $5,542,000 by the engineer and ordnance departments, making a total authorized expenditure of <511.384.0CH1. An important official dispatch bearing on Cuban affairs has been sent to Madrid from the State Department. It was signed by Secretary Olney and addressed to Minister Taylor. In it was laid down the attitude of the administration in the Cuban question. The dispatch is a long one. Its four principal points are: 1. The President proposes that Spain accept mediation on the part of the United States looking to a settlement of existing differences between the Spanish Government and the Cubans. 2. It refers to the correspondence between the State Department and the Madrid authorities in 187(1, in which Spain promised to inaugurate governmental reforms in Cuba, which promise, it is said, has not been ' ulfilled. 3. It says the present rebellion i*i Cuba is more serious and widespread than any which have arisen in recent years, and that*the insurgents control practically of Cuba except Havana and tit? nehr neighborhood. 4. It assures Spain of the kindliest motives on the part of the Cnitod States in seeking to bring about a pacific condition of affairs in Cuba, and urges that the good offices of this country be accepted in the spirit proffered. FOREIGN, Kerishima, the Japanese volcano, is in eruption. Affairs look so serious in Spain that American tourists are leaving the country. King Menelek, of Abyssinia, is reported to be negotiating for an alliance with the dervishes. The garrisons which were beleagued by the Achinese insurgents on the island of Java have been relieved. Forty Dutch soldiers were killed or wounded. There was a grand banquet at Athens Thursday night in honor of the King of Servia. The ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and the presidents of the Olympian games committees were present. Last year, according to figures contained in a report to the State Department by United States Commercial Agent Moore, at Weimar, the consumption of tobacco in Germany was 159,392,580 pounds, or a little over three pounds per capita. Col. John A. Cockerill, ^widely known as an editor and newspaper writer, died suddenly at Cairo, Egypt, Friday from apopLe?^', while he was in the barber shop

of Shepherd's Hotel. Col. Cockerill was in the service of James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, for whom he had been in Egypt for three weeks. He left New York in January,’lß9s, to become the Herald’s special correspondent in Japan. News comes that Chinese soldiers stationed at Miang Yin mutinied because the Viceroy sent martinets to them as commanding officers. Not liking the rigid rule of the new general they seized the guns in all the forts and'were about to kill all the officers in command when the powder magazine exploded, blowing up the entire regiment. No one near the scene lives to tell whether the explosion was accidental or designed. Flying shells killed all persons within 300 yards of the buildings. There was a sensation in Berlin court and military circles Friday morning when it was announced that another duel growing out of the great court anonymous-let-ter scandals had taken place in the woods near Potsdam, and that Baron von Schrader, master of the ceremonies of the Prussian court, had been shot and seriously "wounded by Count von Kotze. The latter was formerly court diamlierlain, and was acquitted on the charge of being the author of the anonymous communications alluded to. Baron von Schrader was taken to a hospital, where-his wound was pronounced to be of a most serious nature. Count von Kotze’s arrest has been ordered, ami his friends say he will surrender to the authorities whenever and wherever called upon to do so. This is the third duel of the series of about a dozen for which challenges were sent out hist April by Count von Kotze, and he repeated Friday his announcement of his determination to keep on fighting his enemies, one by one. until he has settled accounts with all on his list. Those who know Count von Kotze feel confident that he will keep his word. IN GENERAL Fifteen thousand immigrants are about to leave for New Yorkfrom Naples. Troops B and K of the Seventh Cavalry have been ordered transferred from Fort Sheridan to the department of Colorado. Henrietta Crossmnl. leading lady for the Frohmans, has begun suit for divorce at Youngstown. Ohio, alleging nonsuppvrt and drunkenness. It is stated that glanders are rife in the quarantine for imported horses at Liver pool, and it is reported, that out of 100 Canadian horses in one depot forty are suffering from the disease. United States Senator Elkins is the father of a bill to place a discriminating duty of 10 per cent on all goods imported into this country in vessels not sailing under the United States flag. Measles is running its course in the President’s family, ami Friday morning Ruth, the first born, contracted the dis ease. Little Esther is progressing rapidly toward recovery, and so far Baby Marion has not shown signs of the ailment.

R. G. Dun 1 *; 7 "''cklv Review of Trade -njs; “The volume of business hns not on the whole increased, nor have prices appreciably advanced since April 1, when the range for all commodities was the lowest ever known in this country. Breadstu/Is and iron products have risen slightly, but some othir articles have declined. and the root of the matter is that demand for consumption is still below expeslntlons. The number of hands employed hns been slightly lessened by strike* in some establishments and by stoppage or r- dm-tinn in force in others, but the change during the last week has not been relatively important. The weather has not favored active distribution of spring goods, and uncertainty us to continued employment affects the purchases by hands in a large number of establishments.” George Gould. who was at Dallas, Tex., to attend the annual meeting of the Texas and Pacific, in an interview on the subject of railroads, said: “What we need is some legislation looking to the relief of ttie railroads. Two-thirds of the railroads of the country are either in the hands of receivers or have recently been reorganized and are trying it again. I attribute this bankruptcy of the railroads of the. country almost entirely to the operation of the interstate commerce law. That law has paralyzed the railroads, and they will never prosper again until it is repealed, nor will you see any more roads building while that law is in effect. The laws are too oppressive on invested capital. The repeal of the interstate commerce law. for instance, would help the country amazingly by permitting existing roads to prosper and by encouraging the •building of other roads. This would throw life into the railroads and other collateral industries at once." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00: sheep, fair to choice. $2.59 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn. No. 2. 29c to 30c; oats. No. 2. 19c to 2<*c; rye. No. 2. 36c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 10c to lie; potatoes, per bushel. 15c to 25c: broom corn. S2O to $45 per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2. 70c to 72c; corn, No. 1 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,36 c to 38c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.50 to $4.5*); hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2. 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2. 41c to 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye. 37c to 39c. Toledo —Wheat. No. 2 red. 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2 white. 21c to 22c: rye. No. 2,39 cto 40c; clover seed. $1.50j0 $4.60. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring. 65c to 66c; corn. No. 3,29 cto 31c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; barley. No. 2. 30c to 33c; rye. No. 1. oße to 40c: pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50: wheat. No. 2 red. 78c to 80c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 76c to 77c; corn. No. 2. 39c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white. 2ac to 26c) butter, creamery, 17c to 19*1 <*ggs, Western, 12c to 13c.

NEW CONSUL IN CUBA GEN, FITZHUGH LEE OFVIRGINIA IS APPOINTED.

Chosen by President Cleveland to Succeed Ramon O. Williams—Germany and Italy Renew Their Alliance—“ Safer Monroe Doctrine.’’ Grover Steals a March. The President has stolen a march on Spain in the appointment of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of A'irginia, as Consul General at Havana, vice Ramon O. AVilliams, resigned. He has long wanted to send a special commissioner to Cuba to ascertain exact facts with regard to the scope and significance of the revolution, but from the outset he encountered the angry opposition of the Madrid Government, which resented the suggestion as insufferable impertinence and gratuitous intermeddling in a strictly family affair. He could not move Spain from this view, but he never for a moment abandoned the idea. It occurred to him that he could accomplish his purpose by appointing a Consul General at Havana, who could serve in the double capacity of diplomatic representative of this Government and commissioner—the bitter, of course, under private instructions. After a careful canvass of names he selected Gen. Lee as best fitted to perform the delicate duty. Dr. M. C. Petcra on Aliena. Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peters, at the Bloomingdale lieform Church at New York, spoke on "The Safer Monroe Doctrine.” He said in part: "AA'e have many things that Congress should turn its attention to besides foreign affairs. One week ago 25,000 immigrants entered New York City, while thousands of American citizens were pleading for work. Foreigners not only monopolize our breweries and our boyds buj elsojmir lan£^d^ur [ymber. Fully 2<.o<su* , O acres of American lands are owned by English. Holland. Scotch and Gorman syndicates. Here is a violation of the spirit of the Monroe doctrine. Let us insist by law that American lands shall be owned only by American citizens.” Judgment for Spreading Texas Fever. Charles Haber, of Topeka, Kan., and 112 other eai'lemen in Lyon, Chase and other counties in that section, who banded together to prosecute the Missouri, Kansas ami Texas Railroad Company, Hosier Bros, am] Brogan & Sons for shipping Texas cattle into the grazing countr.v ami spreading disease among their stock, won their ease in the Supreme Court. The case was tried in the District Court of Lyon County, where the cattlemen obtained a verdict for ssu.OiH) damages. including interest. The defendants appeal* ] to the Supreme Court, and that Court sustained the derision of the lower court. Kaiser and Humbert Allied. A dispatch to the Paris Matin from Venice says that Emperor AVilliam and King Hnaib'-rt. ■: their conference Saturday, •]' Ci I•.J to prolong die Dreibu^d until’ r.*>2, the present agreement including an offensive as well as a defensive clause. The correspondent of the Matin also say- that the African situation was di-cii'srj. It was resolved to proceed

with the peace negmiations. and. in event of their failure, a fresh expedition, commanded by the Duke of Aosta, brother of King Humbert. is to be dispatched against the Aby--'.mans in September. Li Hung Chang Will Visit America. Li Hung Chang, the distinguished Chinese statesman, who is to represent the Emperor of China at the ceremonies attending the coronation of the Czar at Moscow, has arrived at Colombo, Ceylon. Il was received with high honors. Li Hun„ ( hang is quoted as saying, in an interview, that aficr leaving Moscow he will proceel to Berlin, Essen. Paris and London, and thence to America, returning to Peking in November. (I" ~ ' BREVITIES, George Taylor, who escaped from jail at Carrollton. Mo., nineteen days before the day set for his execution for the brutal murder of the Meeks family, is still at large, with little chance of being uecapt tired. Charles A. Warner, of Syracuse, was appointed receiver for James Wallace & Sons, brewers, of New York. His bond is fixed at $250,000. The assets of the brewery are worth $550.(w»0. while the liabilities. exclusive of the real estate and mortgages. are sl2«».«hh». Six hundred penniless Italian immigrants, who arrived at New York Sunday, are bei’jg held on the ground that they are likely to become public charges. The immigration authorities are appalled at the great influx of Italian paupers. Mere than LjJiOO have already arrived, aud advices have been received that 15,000 more are about to sail from Naples. Another mystery has developed in the accounts of Maxey Cobb, late treasurer lot Lancaster County. Neb. At the time of his death the shortage was placed at $36,000. An additional SIO,OOO has been dfscovered. According to the books of the American National Bank the balance to the credit of the county is $8,712. The books of the treasurer showed he should have had in the bank $18,712. Fritz Erasmy, 6 years old. was burned to death in a fire at San Francisco which destroyed three bouses in the Richmond district. Mrs. Catharine Blume, the child's grandmother, leaped from a sec-ond-story window and was seriously injured. John Erasmy entered the burning house to save his son and narrowly escaped death himself. A Toledo undertaker is said to have discovered the old Egyptian method of preserving the bodies of the dead. Robert Bonney, a nephew of Judge Bonney, of Quincy, was murdered, it is supposed, by robbers in San Salvador. The State Department has been asked to investigate. Lander, Wyo., had a peculiar storm Sunday. First red and then yellow clay fell, followed a little later by almost black mud. People who were out in rhe Storm looked as though they had been churned in a tubful of mud. Further advices received at Massowah show that the dervishes’ retreat after the recent fighting was in the nature of a complete rout. Col. Stevani burned the intrenchment works of Tm ruf and Gulusit The retreating dervishes inflicted considerable loss uii the Shoar ß

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW. MAKERS.

A Week’s Proceedings in the Halls of Congress— Important Measures Discussed and Acted Upon-An Impartial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. The Senate lid but little Tuesday, exvn 1 VnJ* 38 ” the P o6lo ®' ^ appropriation mil. ITie eonferenee report on the agriwas a ß ree4 to. It carries 83 302, <92. The House spent the day debating a bill to fix the standard of w eights and measures by the adaption of iX2 metnC p - vstem and after July 1, It 38, and a proposition that 'he Government share with the District of Columbia tue expense of creating and maintaining a Public library in the city of Washington. Ine latter was defeated, 113 to 127 and rh^ fate of the metric system bill still the balancT Quite a breezy discussion arose in the • enate AA ednesday over the national reserve question. Senator Teller made a spirited attack on the present system as detrimental to the interests of the West. 1 lie discussion arose on his request to send a bill requiring banks to keep their reserves in their own vaults to the Finance Committee. Much of the day was given to the Indian appropriation bill, which was not completed. Unanimous consent was secured for taking up the resolution for a Senate inquire into m»nt bond issues Tuesday. The bi-i to adopt the metric system of weights a id meas•ures was sent back by the House to the < ommittee on Coinage. Weights and . [ensures for further consideration. <>n the first voje it^had a majority of 2. but the opposition was aggressive, and after a series of votes it was recommitted by a vote of I.JO to 59. The remainder of the day was devoted to debate on the bill to exempt sailing vessels engaged in the coastwise trade from comp•_:[>ary pilotage laws. The tariff-silver bill and a lively tariff discussion occupied the Senao Thursday. In the House the bill to abolish compulsory pilotage on sailing v» -.- 4s engaged in the coastwise trade was defeated—nays, 117; yeas, 57. The H ■ se n<>nconcurred in the Senate amendments tothe postoffice appropriation bill and agreed to a conference. Messrs. Load । Rep.) of California. Smith Rep.i of Illinois, and Kyle (Dem.) of Mississippi were appointed conferees. After two days’ debate th> House Saturday by a vote of lw t P'- passed the Grosvenor “filled-eheese” bill. Practically the only amendment adopted was one reducing the tax on retail betlers from S4O to sl2. The bill requires the manufacturers of filled cheese to pay a tax of s44*o annually, the wholesale i ilers $250 and the retail dealers sl2. and for failure to pay sneh tax impose-l ipon manufacturers a fine of from t<- ui n wholesale dealers from $2-5* tv SI,OOO ai.d upon retail dealers from S4O to SSOO. It also requires the branding >f “filled cheese” and its sale only from original packages. ■ The "George” bill to es .a ii sh a uniform system of bankruptcy was r p -ned to the Senate Monday from the iieia.-y Com-

mittee. The most important amendment made by the committee w.s hat providing that where any debtor who, being a banker, broker, merchant, trader or manufacturer owing ss*» makes • n assignment or conveyance >f his property, or gives any lien or incumbrance ttereon, contrived or devised with the actual intent on his part to defraud his creditors, such act-shall be deemed bankruptcy. The measure provides for vohmr-iry bankruptcy. At the same time Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, submitted the w-w- ,f the minority of the committee in the -hape of the measure agreed on by th > H , ><e Committee on Judiciary with - eue modifications. The latter provides f-r voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy. The proposition to secure the passage •: a bill providing for an additional United States district judge in the norther:; '.’strict of Illinois comes too late to accomplish anything during the present - — n. A pronounced sentiment exists in the House against creating any new juig^hips. Bridge of Pink Marble. A thing of beauty and a joy forever will be the colossal bridge of pink marble over rhe Tennessee River at Knoxville. It will cost Sl.Ooo and will be built entirely of the famous pink marble which abounds in Knox County. It will be 1,600 feet long, and the span of the main arch will be 240 feet, which is said to be twenty tee: longer than the longest span in the world. The height of the center ar h above the water will be 105 feet. The roadway, will be fifty feet in width. The piers of the bridge will all go to th ■ - did ro- k. The parapet walls will be instructed of sawed marble slabs, with heavy blocks of pilasters every fifteen feet, projecting above the wall proper, thus giving a semi-castella: I ft’-• :. Be Saved Garibaldi’s Life. Lorenzo Faginoli. who saved Garibaldi's life in 1849 by hiding him in the swamps near Ravenna, after he had been obliged to leave his y ung wife in the retreat from Rom*’. has just died at Ravenna. Gar: TT and be, from their hiding-place, saw the Austrian soldiers march by w?h Ugo Ba .-si and the other patriots they had captured, who were soon after tried by court-martial and shot. Information Wanted. • I would like to know." said the cornfed philosopher, “if when woman succeeds in metamorphosing herself into a gentleman will she drop her feminine privilege of betting on :i st.re thing?"— Indianapolis Journal. A Familiar Make Up. Mrs. Dix—l wonder what present my husband will bring me to-night? Mrs. flicks—What makes you expect one? Is it your birthday? Mrs. Dix—No-o; we quarreled this miming.—Tid-Bits. John Hai£ as the West Knows Him, “John Hare?" said a West-, rn man to the Listener. “Oh. yes. I know him; out West we call him Jack Rabbit!"— Euston Transcript