St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 April 1896 — Page 2

Jn^epenbent. W. A. EK-DUEY, I’ubllshor, WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. DEATH TO AMERICANS passport no shield from SPANISH HATRED. Narrow Escape of Dr. Delgado — Important Executions in San Domingo — Morgan Scores Huntington in the Senate—lssues Warnings. Spain’s Murderous Policy. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette's special correspondence from Mrs. Woodward contains an interview with Dr. Jose Manual Delgado, the American citizen who was shot and hacked and left for dead by Spanish troops when they raided the plantation of Dolores in Mainoa. Delgado said he was an American, neutral in this contest, attending to his farm. Maceo had tired Dolores" plantation and retired before the Spanish troops. A Spanish captain came to Delgado's house with twenty men. telling the doctor and his seven field hands to follow. Delgado showed his passport as an American; so did his men. The captain said he had nothing to do with the matter; he was obeying orders, but it was his opinion that the worst thing they could do would be to show that they were Americans. Arriving at Gen. Mclguizo's headquarters. Delgado said they were neutrals ami then showed their passports. Melguizo became furious. He struck Delgado with his machete, exclaiming: “I will shoot you, just as I would the consul general if he were here.” There were eight of them taken out and tied together with a rope and placed against a stone wall. The orfler was to cut the prisoners down with machetes. In attempting this the rope broke and the soldiers were ordered to tire. At the first volley Delgado fell forward, feigning death. The second volley sent a bullet into his thigh. All the others except one were killed. The doctor was left for dead and lost consciousness. When he recovered he found himself in his dwelling. There his old father took care of him. Shortly afterward' Spanish soldiers came searching for the two that had escaped. Delgado's father hid him iji a canefield, exposed to the inclement weather. Meantime the old father communicated with Consul General Williams and obtained a safe conduct to Havana, where Delgado now lies under protection of the United States. Hot Shot for Huntingtom The views of Senator Morgan on the Pacific Railway refunding bill were submitted to the Senate Tuesday. The Senator began by sharply criticising the joint meetings of the sub-committees of the two houses for the formulation of the bill. He characterizes this concerted action as a breach of duty and privilege. Such action is, he says, calculated to bring the pressure of outside influence of the most serious character to bear directly upon the action of the Senate and to its free judgment upon the measure before it. The added burden of the adjudication by a committee of the House is calculated to “smother out” the minority. Taking up the bill, the Senator says the proceeding proposed is one of bargain and sale in disposing of the property and rights of the Government, and is novel because hitherto Congress has not exgaged in that line of business. Senator Morgan says an examination of Mr. Huntington’s testimony before the Senate committee on Pacific roads “will disclose a most extraordinary condition of affairs relating to the Central and Southern Pacific railroads and other roads connected with them,” and continues: “Without attempting, in this paper, to array the evidence of fraud and speculation which Huntington’s testimony vainly attempts to conceal, attention is drawn to the fact that his evasions of the truth, as it is thoroughly established, are his main reliance for misleading Congress in his effort to capture the Central Pacific Railway, after it has made him and' his three or four associates enormously rich, on tin* plea that his pride impels him to save this road from bankruptcy, to which his fraudulent dealing seems to have driven it.” Executed by Hereaux’s Orders. News of important executions in San Domingo has just reached the United States. The minister of war, Gen. Ramon Castillo, and Jose Estay, Governor of the Province of Macoris, were executed at Macoris by order of Ulisses Hcreaux, president of San Domingo. The governor of San Domingo, Gen. Picardo. boardeu the steamer Presidente with 150 soldiers, went to Macoris and hail the officials shot. About seven thousand Cubans have fled from their native island to San Domingo during the last six months. National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cleveland ...3 1 Chicago 2 3 Philadelphia .3 1 Cincinnati . .2 3 Pittsburg .. .3 1 Boston 2 3 Washington .3 1 Baltimore . .2 3 St. Louis .. .3 2 New York.... 1 3 Brooklyn ...22 Louisville'.. .1 4 NEWS NUGGETS. Lloyd Osborne, >son of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, was married in Honolulu to Miss Katherine Durham, of Stanford University. St. Petersburg police have a report from Ust Yausk denying the story that Explorer Nansen had reached the north pole and was returning. Edward E. Sweeney, a Chicago newspaper man. mysteriously disappeared at Pomona, Cal., five days ago, and it is feared he has been fully dealt with. Authentic information received at Constantinople shows that the Turkish prison at Marash is crowded with Armenians, who are subjected to horrible tortures. A renewal of the massacres is feared. The Redifs and Bashibazouks quartered at Zeitoun are devastating the lands of the Armenians. The police have recommenced arresting Armenians. Prince Hohenlohe, imperial chancellor of Germany, is dangerously ill with influenza. At Charleston, W. Va., a* skiff which contained nine men upset and three were drowned.

EASTERN. The first victim of the heat for the season is reported from Philadelphia, where George Sebela was overcome Wednesday and died in a hospital. Five hundred Italian immigrants, held at Ellis Island, New York harbor, for de- । portation, made a break for freedom, and l were only restrained by the revolvers in the hands of their guards. At the Maine Republican convention for the nomination of delegates to the national convention at St. Louis the enthusiasm was centered about the name of Thomas B. Reed, the unanimous choice of’’ the convention as candidate for President of the United States. Two firemen were crushed' to death and several others seriously injured as the re-' suit of a fire which destroyed the old depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Thirty-second and Market streets, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon, and entailed a loss of about $200,000. The aseptolin cure for consumption has been tried on three convicts in the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania with remarkable success. The convicts had pulmonary tuberculosis, and were considered incurable. A month's treatment shows an uninterrupted reconi of rapid and marvelous improvement until the patients are to external appearances well men. There was more liquor sold in New York Sunday than on any previous Sunda} in many years. There was more drunkenness seen upon the streets, more depravity and more dens of vice wide open than the city knew almost in the worst days of protwted vii-ionsiiess. Three hundred saloons, which had been transferred into so-called hotels during the last week, were wide open all day and night. The proprietors gloated in the evasion of the law and greeted every one with joyous expression. Scenes of drunkenness almost universal on the East Side could have been witnesed in isolated spots all over the city where the subterfuge protection of a hotel license permitted beer to flow freely over the little saving sandwich that is called a meal. The kitchens of the hotel saloons had no stoves, no chefs, no larders. Thin board partitions had been set up to make cubby holes called rooms and beds were thrown in, but no one slept in them. This is a fair sample of all of New York's hotel licensed saloons. In Brooklyn there was also the usual amount of drunkenness. Hotel saloons are not numerous in that city and saloon screens were drawn away’ from the windows, showing empty interiors. But the thirsty knew where and how to obtain their beer. WESTERN. According to report, Senator Tillman blushed at Denver when an aged female suffragist threw her arms around his neck and gave him a hearty kiss in the presence of BJK.KI people. Charles Morris, the confessed murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Douthetts, at Xenia. Ohio, committed suicide by cutting his throat when told to get ready to go to Columbus to be hanged. At 2 o'clock Thursday at Chicago, the mercury registered 82 degrees above. It was the hottest of the year so far, and came within two degrees of being the warmest April day recorded in Chicago. J. I). Buxton, cashier at the Minneapolis postottice. is said to be short in his accounts about $2,500. Ho is a nephew of President Buxton of the City Bank. He refuses to say where the money went to. Major George A. Armes. U. S. A., re tired, who achieved notoriety last May on account of his arrest for trouble with Lieut. Gen. Schofield, is being sued by his wife for divorce on the ground of ill temper and cruelty. At San Francisco. ex-District Attorney James D. Page has been found guilty of embezzling $3,000 from an insane patient, of whom he had been appointed guardian. Page fled to New York, where he was arrested last January. At Niehart, Mont., seven men were instantly killed, six seriously wounded and several others badly bruised and cut by an explosion^early Saturday morning of the magazkA in the Broadwater mine used for th®mng powder. When the case of William Wood, charged as an accomplice in the attempt to procure an operation on Pearl Bryan, was called at Cincinnati, the prosecuting attorney said the State had no evidence to warrant a trial, and Judge Gregg dismissed the case. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of All Souls' Church, Chicago, lias announced that bicyclists will be welcome at the services conducted by him next Sunday, and that their wheels will be taken care of free of charge. Knickerbockers and bloomers will not be barred. At 2:15 o'clock Friday morning a converter at the lower sugar works at Peoria. Hl., exploded, filling an immense building with steam. At least two men were killed outright, and it is feared that many more have met the same fate. Several were badly injured. The known dead: Barnes. John Hoey. Those known to be most seriously injured are: John Dooley, Mat. Connolly. John Wilson. The converter was on the fourth story of the building, in which about one hundred men were at work. There was the wildest excitement. and many thrilling escapes occurred. The explosion was plainly heard in all parts of the city. Julius Mannow, of Chicago, furnished a climax Thursday for the succession of sensations that has marked the progress of the trial of himself and Joseph Windrath for the murder of Carey Birch. Pale as death, his entire frame quivering with suppressed rage directed against the police authorities who have, metaphorically, drawn the noose about his neck. Mannow faced Judge Horton and entered an unconditional plea of guilty. With a look of absolute despair and a manner that betokened his abject misery, the young man confessed that he had deprived Cash Receiver Birch of his life. The scene at the moment was one that few in a crowded court room could view without some sort of display of feeling. The stern, inexorable judge leaned over the bench and eyed the man who had placed his life at the court’s mercy. "Do you understand that under the plea tne court can impose the death penalty?" asked Judge Horton. "I do,” came the half-choked utterance of the self-convicted man. “I am guilty.” Edwin Pardridge, prominent for years as a heavy bear trader on 'Change at Chicago, died Friday of Bright’s disease. Dissolution was not unexpected and the dying man was surrounded by members of his household. For several weeks he had been suffering from tins malady. General complications set in and terminated fatally. Deceased was about 62 years old and was reputed to possess a considerable fortune. It has been many times said of Edwin Pardridge that had he been the

only member of the Board of Trade to remain upon the bear side, he would have . steadfastly refused to join the bulls and > would have gone down in the last ditch before he would admit the possibility of a rise in prices. Pardridge thirty years । ago was one of the leading dry goods merchants in the city. He was one of the । first prominent merchants in that, line to | see the coming greatness of State street as a thoroughfare, and settled his business at a point now about opposite Marshall r ield & Co.’s store. With an explosion that shook the coun- , try for miles around one of the buildings oi the Chicago Fireworks Company nt Grosse Point blew up about 8 o’clock Wednesday morning, killing two persons, fatally wounding two and terribly injuring six others. The employes, most of whom were girls under age, had scarcely been at work an hour when the'accident occurred. What caused the explosion is not and probably never will be known. The girls were working briskly and merrily chatting with one another, when sud- ; denly a terrible roar was heard, and the walls of tlie budding, which is one of twelve similar om-s, fell outward, while the roof came careening down, crushing I the poor victims to the floor. A minute ; later another explosion followed, which mercifully raised the roof from the dying • and fainting, and with feeble limbs and agonizing cries the wounded crawled out. some of them, forgetful of their own awful plight, dragging the more helpless ones with them. The work for the season at the establishment began but a few weeks ago, ami only two of the twelve buildings were in use. Advices received at the headquarters of the Grand Army of the Repo Mie iu I” dinnapolis iudlente that there is general satisfaction among the comrades throughout the country at the decision of the joint local and executive committees to limit the length of the route of the parade to I take place in connection with the national encampment at St. Pau! next September | to one and eight-tenths miles. At previous encampments, notably those at Boston and Pittsburg, there was considerable complaint among the veterans over the amount of ground they were required to cover on parade day, and thousands of them were compelled to drop out of line before the dispersing point was reached. This year, however, even the most feeble will be tilde to go over the course from start to finish. Moreover, the reviewing stand will be located about three quarters of a mile from the starting point, so that in the event of extreme heat, rain or unfavorable conditions the parade can disband without going over the entire distance. The route adopted is paved with asphalt from one end to the other, ami this will enable the veterans to march with military tread. WASHINGTON. The Treasury Department is struggling with the problem of whether imported holy water is subject to a tariff tax. The triennial international counting of all mails going from one country to another- in the postal union from May 1 to May 28. Senator Allen proposes to make all vet crans of the Mexican war and the rebellion eligible to appointment ns brevet colonels in the regular army. Senator Cullom's attack on the Bureau of Engraving ami Printing, amt the proposition to have the postage stamps made by contract once more, seem to have touched a popular chord. letters have been received by many of the Senators from widely separated sections of the country declaring the “stickum” on the back of the postage Staub’s was of the 1 most villainous taste, ami that the stamps would often decline to adhere to the letters until they were treated from private mucilage pots. Iu Senator Cullom's mail was a letter from the oflice force of the J. W. Barry company of Chicago, in which the suggestion is made that in the next supply of stamps prepared for the Government, the "stickum," as almost nil the letters call it. should be sweetly .flavored with sassafras or strawberry or violet or wintergreen, or some other congenial flavor, so the pretty typewriter girls to whose lot this duty generally falls should no longer rebel against putting on stamps, but welcome the job as a positive treat. FOREIGN, The French customs receipts for the first three months of 1896 show increases over 1895 of imports to the amount of 145,000,000 francs and exports 49,000,000 francs. Gold bonds of the Provisional Republic of Cuba to the amount of $2,000,000 are to be placed on the American market. They are to draw 6 per cent interest, and are made payable ten years after the Spaniards evacuate the island. The British budget, which was presented to the House of Commons Thursday, gives the surplus for 1895-6 as £4.210,000. The estimate of expenditures for the current year is £100.047.000 and the calculated revenue, £101,755,000. A Rome dispatch says: The papal nuncio at Madrid has been instructed to propose the mediation of the pope iu order to bring about a settlement of the troubles in Cuba or to urge upon Spain the acceptance of President Cleveland's reported offer of mediation. London dispatch: Gen. Booth has cabled to the Salvation army headquarters at New York instructing the officials in charge there to publish the letters in their possession in regard to the charges made by Ballington Booth against the general and his administration. The London Globe, discussing the effect of the election policy of the Spanish premier, Senor Canovas del Castillo, says that either Cuba must be allowed to follow’ the example of the South American republics or the motherland must grant a generous measure of autonomy. Herr Brand, the architect of the late King Ludwig of Bavaria, has died, leaving many millions. King Ludwig, the mad king of Bavaria, had building as well as Wagner on the brain. He spent large sums in raising castles, palaces and villas, and when he died left an enormous debt that has not yet been paid off, the result of his indulgence to this weakness. The London Exchange Telegraph Company says it is rumored that Buluwayo has been captured by the Matabeles. The news is not confirmed from other sources. A dispatch from Aidershot says the Middlesex Regiment has been ordered to start immediately for South Africa. Considerable anxiety is felt regarding the South African situation, and the Government is openly blamed for its inaction. The Hamburg Boersenhalle has a dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela, saying that a settlement of the railway claims made by Germany on behalf of German subjects has been signed by the repre-

————— gentatives of the Disconto Gesselshaft, North German Bank and the Government of Venezuela, the latter agreeing to pay 36,000,000 bolivars in settlement of past liabilities, future claims and the guaranteed interest due. A telegram to the British war oflice in Cairo states that Col. Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Suakim. The khedive went to the railway station to witness the departure for the front of 150 men of horse artillery, with six guns, and his cousin, Prince Aziz, in charge of seventy cavalry remounts. The Egyptian troops displayed unusual enthusiasm. The sirdar’s brother, Major Kitchener, has been ten days waiting for an appointment. It is said that this delay is owing to the sirdar's unpopularity in high quarters. Lieut. Farquhar, of the Royal Artillery, is thought to be dying from injuries received from a fall at polo. After five years the claims of Patrick Shields and Andrew McKinstry against the Chilian Government for injuries received from assaults of a Chilian mob at Santiago have finally been thrown out of all the courts and commissions. Shields and McKinstry were sailors on the Keewanah, that entered Santiago harbor a week after the Baltimore sailors were so roughly handled by the mobs in that city in 1891. They preferred claims against the Government of Chili, Shields for SIOO,OOO .-.nd McKinstry for $20,000. President Harrison made these two claims a very important part of one of his messages to Congress in 1892. In this he said that though the men were foreign subjects, they were sailing under the protection of the American flag and should receive the same protection ns American citizens. F. Allyn Orr, of Oakland, Cal., I attorney for Shields and McKinstry, brought the matter before the British Parliament, and it was finally referred to a British claim commission. As a result of the investigation of this commission Mr. Orr has received a letter informing him that the Chilian Government has refused to pay the claims. IN GENERAL The presbytery of the St. Lawrence has voted to dissolve the pastoral relation existing between Rev. William N. Cleveland, brother of President (’leveland, ami the church at Chaumont. N. Y. Too much politics is said to be the cause of the t rouble. An ice jam in the Rideau river. Ontario, has backed up its waters to such an extent that for miles around farm lands are deeply submerged and it is feared much live stock will be lost. The Prescott and Ottawa branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway is for some three or four miles covered with water. To protect the trains going through gangs of men are at work keeping the railway track free from drift wood. R. G. Dun A Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The sudden change from sleighing to millsummer heat, with faitskies in most cities, has tested the prevalent idea that good weather only was needed to bring general improvement of business. Everywhere there has been more retail buying, and in some branches better demand at wholesale amt at the work-- has resulted, but not as yet iu most lines. There is no abatement of the almost universal disposition to deal with unusual conservatism, and not to anticipate future wants, and this has been especially conspicuous where combinations have been formed or prices advanced. The comparative Infrequency of serious failures, with money less disturbed since gold exports began than might hate i been expected, helps t > give encourage I ment, but does not kindle speculative fires. Such improvement as appears is mainly of a healthy sort.” Charles ('. Bovey and John Crosby, of Minueap lis. representing the National Millers' Association, say flour inspectors of London are greatly exercised over what they hold to b- a d—rimination against American fl >ur. Flour from America enters London dock- and is subjected to a landing charge of IS cents per ton. French flour and American wheat escape this charge. Parliament enacted that no charge w hatsoever shall be made on goods landing at these docks, but the steamship companies, it is state !, issued to American millers a bill of lading containing a clause subjecting flour to the IS cents charge per ton. Iu this way the miller contracts himself out of the laws of Parliament ami must pay tiie tax. Furthermore, the dock companies, it is stated, propose now to increase the taxing of landing materially. Messrs. Bovey and Crosby have represented to a sub-commit-tee of the House Ways and Means Committee that the American flour product is subjected to charges in contravention of English law, and which they have urged may be abated through retaliatory legislation here. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2,29 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 38c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 16c; eggs, fresh, 9c to He; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c; broom corn, S2O to $45 per tou for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattie, 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. 2,69 cto 71c; corn. No. 1 white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 39c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $-1.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 45c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 37c to 39c. Toledo —’Wheat, No. 2 red. 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,38 cto 40c; clover seed, $4.75 to $4.85. Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 spring, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 3,29 cto 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 22c: barley. No. 2,30 cto 33c; rye. No. 1,38 cto 40c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 75c to 77c: corn, No. 2 yellow. 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.00: hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, Western, lie to 12c,

MISS MANY MILLIONS. TREMENDOUS SHORTAGE IN ACCOUNTS OF B. & O. Road Must Stay in Receiver’s Hands for a Time—Death Rode the Wind in Ohio—Omaha Judge Denounces Gold Coin Contracts—Cuban Affairs. Rich Picking for Rascals. The reorganization committee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has struck a snag. The sum of $30,000,000 is missing and nobody is yet able to tell where it has gone. The committee cannot proceed further in the direction of getting that railway system out of the hands of the receivers and the courts until the mystery of the disappearance of this enormous amount of money is cleared up. This statement is based upon the authority of one of the most prominent business men of Baltimore. He had the information, he states, from one of the members of the organization committee, who went to him for advice in the premises. The committee, he alleges, discovered that from 1888 to the date of the election of Cowan as president of the company fully $30,000,600 of the Baltimore and Ohio securities were disposed of without reports of the transaction or transactions being made to the treasurer of the company. Gold Coin Contracts Illegal. The question of the legality of what are known as “gold coin contracts” was raised for the first tune in Omaha, Neb. It came up in the case of Chase against Wren, an action to collect payment of a $2,(»00 mortgage note on which a default in interest had occurred. The attorney for the defense raised the point in the District Court as to the effect of inserting in a note or contract the words “to pay in gold coin." or the words “to pay in gold coin or its equivalent,” and argued that in either form the note would bo illegal, being in violation of the legal tender law 1 and contrary to public policy. It was fur--1 ther argued by the defense tjjat if not violating and invalidating the note en- । tirely, the section requiring payment in 1 gold was void. During the argument the court said it would not enforce that part of the note contracting to pay in gold; that if it came to a question of holding the note was payable in gold coin or the contract was Illegal and void, the court would hold that it was illegal and void. In Power of Maceo. Gen. Weyler, Spanish commandant in Cuba, announces that Gen. Maceo and his forces are completely hemmed in and cannot escape. At least 50,000 troops are operating against him along the trocha and in the wild country beyond. Gen. Weyler seems to realize the importance of preventing the rebel insurgents from crossing the troeha, and is concentrating all the soldiers he can spare in the giant cordon, closing in on what he believes is a desperate and hungry army. On the contrary, Gen. Maceo sent word to notify him t Maceo) when the barrier was complete, and on that day he woub' cross it. The people evidently believe him, for a general exodus is taking place. If Gen. Maceo succeeds in crossing the eighteenmile barrier in spite of the 50,000 Spanish regulars pressing him on all sides, Gen. Weyler must confess, as Gen. Campos did, that the campaign is a failure, and that Spain cannot end this war by her own unaided forces. Death in the Storm, A cyclone which proved fatal to two persons and which did damage amounting to many thousands of dollars passed across Sandusky County, 0., Monday ■ afternoon. The damage in the oil district alot ■ will be very great. The damage in tlii- b'eality of Fremont will be fully SIOO,- ‘ immi t<> f arm st k and property. Fostoria and vicinity also suffered heavily. BREVITIES, 1 . John Stetson, the well-known theatrical > manager, died at Boston. I The greater part of the business portion of Woodruff. S. ('., was destroyed ’by fire * Sunday morning. Eight business build- ‘ ings were burned; loss partly covered by ’ insurance. The fishing schooner J. W. Campbell, I of Gloucester, was lost in a squall off । Long Island I’riday night, and nine of the sixteen men composing her crew were drowned. t A dispatch from Boston to the New ! York World says: “Ex-Gov. William E. I Russell, through Judge John W. Corco- ■ ran, chairman of the State Democratic Committee, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.” Postmistress Mrs. Luna Lucas and her 1 assistant, Mrs. Minnie Huffman, who [ were in charge of the postoffice at Oregon, Ark., have been arrested on the ; charge of rilling the registered and ordinary mails. Their arrest disclosed a ’ novel method of robbing wholesale and re- ’ tail merchants of St. Louis and other cities, as well as pocketing the cash sent through the mails by private parties. Both , the prisoners have confessed, and a portion of the stolen property and money has | been recovered. The town of Qu’Appelle, near Winnipeg, is excited over a remarkable incident. An infidel at Qu’Appelle was dying, and two well-known men of that > place were watching at his bedside. Suddenly those in the adjoining room heard • a piercing cry. and rushing into the sick room found the two watchers insensible , jand the infidel dead. The men have ; never since been able to speak of what I they saw. and cannot refer to the matter. : One of them is not expected to live. It ■is believed they saw the Evil One. • The steamer Marsden collided with the I British barK Firth of Solway. Captain I Kendrick. Sunday, near Kish lighthouse, ; causing the latter to sink. Thirteen men and the captain's wife and child were : drowned. The Firth of Solway was built at Glasgow in 1885. She was of 1.199 > register, was 228.4 feet long, beam about 36 feet and was 21 feet deep. Henry A. Anderson, the Chicago crank , who was arrested at the White House while trying to see the President, as he said, to save the country, committed suicide in the police station, where he was held on a charge of insanity. Janies E. Alsop committed suicide in jail at Seattle. Wash. He was charged with the murder of Lena Olson, at Du- : lutb. Minn., in 1894. He was a warm friend of Harry Hayward, the famous Minneapolis murderer, and in his valise was found a handkerchief marked with Hayward's name.

WORK OF congress; THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE' AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro-l ceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington —Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The house Tuesday passed without amendment the fortification appropriation bill carrying appropriations and authorizations involving an expenditure of sll,384,613. The appropriations for fortifications since the Endicott commission in 1886 reported its plan for the defense of twenty-seven seaports, at an approximate cost of $100,000,000, have averaged something over $2,000,000 annually. It was made apparent after a lively colloquy in the Senate that there was no disposition among the silver and Populist Senators to allow the resolution for a Senate inquiry into recent bond issues to lapse. Mr. Squire (Rep., Wash.) made an elaborate presentation of the pressing need of coast defenses, pointing out the defenseless condition of our great sea-coast harbors. In the House Wednesday Mr. Hull, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, called up the resolution for the reappointment of William B. Franklin, of Connecticut, Thomas J. Henderson of Illinois, George L. Beale of Maine and Geo. W. Steele of Indiana as members of the Board of Managers of the national soldiers’ homes. Mr. Blue made a sensational speech against Gen. Franklin, charging him and Col. Smith (for whom he said Gen. Franklin was responsible) with cruel and brutal treatment of the inmates of the home at Leavenworth, Kan. He moved to substitute the name of Gen. O. O. Howard for that of Gen. Franklin. Mr. Blue said his purpose was to free the Leavenworth home from the drunken and brutal man now at its head. Mr. Blue read a telegram from E. J. Anderson and others urging him to tight Gen. Franklin’s reappointment and telling him that 60,000 soldiers in Kansas were behind him. He claimed that Gov. Smith maintained the biggest saloon in Kansas under the shadow of the flag the soldiers fought to save. Last year, he said, the profits of Ihe beer hall alone wore $13,000. Mr. Blue also read an affidavit charging that a contract existing whereby the Keeley cure was given to inmates for $6, while outsiders were charged S2O. "Has not the • board made an investigation of Gov. Smith's administration?” asked Mr. Hull. "Any investigation made by the Board of Managers,” replied Mr Blue, “is a roaring farce.” With the understanding that a vote should be had Thursday, the House adjourned. The Senate ratified the Bering sea arbitration treaty. The treaty provides for a commission to arbitrate the claims made by citizens of England against the United States for seizures of vessels engaged in the capture of fur seals prior to the Paris award. Mr. Blue’s fight against the reappointment of Gen. William B. Franklin as a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Yolunteers, which was the feature of the proceedings in the House Wednesday, terminated unsuccessfully Thursday, when his amendment to substitute the name of Gen. O. O. Howard for that of Gen. Franklin was rejected, 149 to 61. Several minor bills were passed. The speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Cobb (Dem.), of Alabama, on the Ways and Means Committee in place of Mr. Tarsney, who was unseated; Mr. Aldrich (Rep.), of Illinois, on Banking and Currency, and Mr. Van Horn (Rep.), of Missouri, on Labor. Debate of the resolution for an investigation of recent bond issues consumed the time of the Senate. The Senate continued debate of th? bond bill Friday, and incidentally Mr. Allen called Mr. Gear a liar. He was compelled to subside, anil hj s wor ds were "taken down.” The net result of five hours’ work on the private calendar in the House was the passage of fom nen . sion bills, one to pension the widow Rear Admiral Foote at SSO a month; the rejection of a bill to retire a hospital steward as a second lieutenant of cavalry and the passage of a war claim less than S6OO. The latter was the first war claim brought before the House for consideration and naturally provoked a general debate on the policy of paying war claims. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs acted' favorably Saturday upon the list of managers for the soldiers’ homes, as agreed to by the House. The House paid tribute to the memory of the late Representative Cogswell of Massachusetts. Gen. Cogswell was one of the most popular members of the House. His career as a soldier and statesman and the nobility of his character were eloquently and warmly portrayed. Before the eulogies began Mr. Cannon reported the gen- ■ eral deficiency, the last appropriation bill. Mr. Talbert (Dem.) of South Carolina objected to a pension bill presented by Mr. Cannon (Rep.) of Illinois. Mr. Cannon made a personal appeal to Mr. Talbert. He said it was the first time in twenty years that he had asked for unanimous consent. He reviewed the pathetic history of the soldier who was a constituent of his, shot to pieces and almost totally blind. Mr. Talbert withdrew his objection. Several bills to donate condemned cannon to G. A. R. posts were passed. The Senate Monday discussed sectarian schools in debating the Indian appropriation bill, but no action was taken. The House was entertained by a hot tariff discussion. Several items in the general deficiency bill were finally settled. Insulted the Kaiser. A girl of Metz, 14 years old. has recently been condemned to eight days’ imprisonment for having insulted the German Emperor. The insult consisted in writing a private letter to one of her little friends in which there was something disrespectful to his Majesty. It is said that such sentences are common in Alsace-Lorraine. Herr Liebknecht, the veteran socialist of the Reichstag, will have to serve four months' imprisonment also for insulting the Emperor after the Reichstag adjourns. Man's Proud Equal. Much significance is naturally attached to the confession of a woman across the bay that she has purchased a brick of glittering brass. The incident shows the proud upward march of the sex to that plane on which man is supposed to stand, superior and enviable.—San Francisco Examiner.