St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 May 1896 — Page 2

®l)£ Juiiepenbcnt. W. A. ENDLEY, Publlbliei. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. A FRIVOLOUS MAIDEN. GETS HERSELF AND MAMMA INTO A PECK OF TROUBLE. Threw Kisses at a Man to Pester Hie Wife— Chicago’s Old Postoflice Not Worth a Cent a Pound —Affairs in Armenia. Arrested for Throwing Kisses. Mrs. Mary Ashkraft, a Wichita, Kan., widow, and Etta, her daughter, were arrested on a warrant sworn out by T. A. Eaweett. a tailor, charged with throwing kisses at him and calling aim pet names, thus disturbing his peace. Th? ease was tried in police court. Th'- widow Slid she did not throw a kiss at Mr. Fawcett, but did waft one over toward his wife, and if it went wrong and hit Mr. Fawcett she thought it did not hurt him much, as there was no malice in it. Miss Ashkraft, who is petite and pretty and just turned IS, pleaded guilty to throwing kisses at Fawcett. She h tied Fawcett’s

ISM’S <ll r il »» CI’U. » ’.(W it » . v 1 . • • • ' • ' v . . • ■ wife, and so threw kisses to make her jealous. It developed that the two families, who are next-door neighbors, have been at daggers’ points over trivial differences. The judge discharged the widow, tim'd her daughter $5 and gave Mr. Fawcett a severe rebuke for bringing such a case into his court. Miss Ashkraft begged the judge to remit the tine, promising never, to throw kisses again, and the judge relented to the extent of suspending the tine during good behavior. To Haze Chicago's Ruin. There was no competition for removing the old public building at Chicago, proposals for which were invited by the supervising architect of the treasury several weeks ago, Tuesday being set for opening the bids. Only one firm, the Chicago House-Wrecking Company, submitted propositions at <515,519 for the building and contents and $7,380 for the elevators and heating apparatus. Chafer & Becker, of Cleveland, Ohio, wanted the elevators and heating apparatus, but their bid for them was $4,932. A certified check for $2,000 accompanied each proposal. and it was guaranteed by the bidders that the building would be demolished and the material removed within five months from the date of the award of the contract. Standing of National League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..17 9 Chicago 15 12 Cleveland ... 15 8 Washington. 13 13 Boston I(‘> 9 Brooklyn ....10 15 Pittsburg ...14 9 St. Louis.... 9 17 Baltimore .. .15 11 New York. ... S 17 Philadelphia 14 11 Louisville .. .. 5 21 Western League Standing. Following is tae standing of the clubs of the Western League: W. L. W. L. Detroit 15 5 Milwaukee ..14 12 St. Paul 14 8 Indianapolis. 9 10 Kansas City.l2 8 Columbus ... 7 IS Minneapolis. 13 11 Grand Rapids 0 IS NEWS NUGGETS. By a vote of G to 41 the Senate refused to take up a resolution to investigate the alleged election frauds in Alabama in the Kolb-Oates election contest. Cen. Wbyler's proclamation forbidding the exportation of tobacco from Cuba after ten days has caused consternation among the large manufacturers in America. Count von Kotze, who recently fought a due’, at Berlin with Baron von Schrader, resulting in the latter's death., has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a fortress. It is reported that Queen "Wilhelmina of Holland will be betrothed in June to I'rince Bernhard Henry, grandson of Grand Duke Charles Alexander of SaxeWeitnar -Eis e 11 ac h. Obituary: At Detroit, Captain B. Wilds. 65. —At Atlanta, Ga., Jere A. Blount, formerly city treasurer of Janesville, Wis.. 70.—At Saginaw, Mich.., Hiram L. Miller, 93. The five days' tight to select two bishops 1 y the Methodist conference is over, and Chaplain C. C. McCabe and the Rev. Dr. Earl Cranston of the Colorado conference are the lucky candidates. Over fifteen hundred Armenians have been arrested in Constantinople during Ihe last fortnight, owing to apprehensions of fresh manifestations by the Armenian population. Fifty-two Armenians and sixteen Turks were also exiled to Asia Minor and seventy-three Turkish students at the military college of Kuleli were arrested for some unknown cause. Adispafeb from Via di vostock to the St. Petersburg Novo Vremya says that quiet lias been restored to Seoul, Corea, and that the king will return to his palace from the Russian legation, where he has been since the deposition and massacre of the late ministry. The Russian marines are returning to their vessels. The dispatch also says that a Russian company has received a gold mining concession for fifteen years. The John D. i'ark & Sons Company, of Cincinnati, has secured from Justice Truax, of the New York Supreme Court, a temporary injunction restraining the National Wholesale Druggists’ Association from interfering with the plaintiffs in their business by distributing circulars warning people against trading with them. The defendant association is a voluntary body. The officers and 168 of the largest wholesale druggists, members of the association, are made defendants, however. At Torreon. Mexico, the large flouring mil's and grain elevators of the Allianza Manu factoring Company were destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $150,900. The mills had recently been equipped with new machinery and were the largest in northern Mexico. The amount of insurance is small. There was a large stock of grain consumed. At St. Louis, $1,600 was raised in one day among the business men for the relief of those who suffered from the cyclone in Texas. This amount was immediately forwarded to Texas by telegraph and will be followed by more later.

EASTERN. The American line steamer St. PnM, which arrived at New York Friday night, broke her own record from Southampton to New York, and almost equaled the one made by the steamer New York of the same line on Sept. 14, 1894. The time of the St. Paul’s trip was 6 days 9 hours and 5 minutes, for 3,112 miles, an average of 20.34 knots an hour. For chasing around the room and kissing Edith Crowthers, his pretty yoyng typewriter, William Bitties, who keeps a fashionable livery stable in Philadelphia, was sentenced by Judge Biddle to six pionths’ imprisonment. In his own behalf Bitties testified that he never did anything more than pat the girl on the shoulder and tell her that she was “good looking.” Judge Biddle severely lectured Bitties, and as a warning to others of like tendency sent him to prison. William Tucker, a theatrical man, who went to New York from Chicago with his family a short time ago, died suddenly Tuesday night while witnessing the performance in the Union Square Theater. The cause of his death is supposed to have been heart failure. He was 40 years of age and had been traveling actor and stage manager for a number of years. He recently traveled with Robert Gaylord’s “In a Big City” company, and had acted as stage manager for the “Fortune Teller” company. The Raynor sisters, who live at Warwick. N. Y.. and who are survivors of n family noted for miserliness, were visited

. by robbers on .Monday night. The thieves bound the women to chairs, emptied a box of money on a table before their eyes, counted it out. and walked off with it. The amount of the loss is variously estimated from SI,OOO to many times that sum. The Raynors are known to have been the possessors of SIO,OOO in Government bonds, but it is not known whether they are gone. No clew to the identity of the burglars has been found. The New York police made public the facts of a robbery committed some time Monday night in the soda water and confectionery store of Eugene C. Ackers, in Sixth avenue. The booty amounted to $22,000, most of it being diamond jewelry. Although Ackers is not a dealer in jewelry, he has invested a lot of money in diamonds. The police have arrested John IL Riedell on suspicion. Riedell had been cared for by Ackers and was looked upon almost as an adopted son un til his fast manner of living rendered him unendurable to his benefactor. WESTERN. Denver experienced the discomforts <3 a snowstorm Friday. The weather was not cold, and in the city the snow melted nearly as fast ns it fell, but on tin- plains It was several inches deep ami was a boon to the farmers At Hopkins, Mo.. Charles Ulmer on Wednesday shot and instantly killed Les lie Sutter and fatally wounded his broth-er-in-law, Bailey Davis, whose death is momentarily exiMwted. The trouble, it is said, was the result of jealousy on the part of Ulmer, whose wife was attempting to secure a divorce. The decision made by a council of Wi chita, Kan., physicians that a dog that . bit several people was affeete I with rabies ! has caused widespread consternation. Dogs are being sho: by the wholesale, and several of the victims will immed: ately go to Chicago to take the Pasteur treatment. None of the people bitten by the dog have developed symptoms of hydrophobia, however. A devastating tornado pas- -d through Seneca, Kan.. Sunday evening. Everything in its path was completely wrecked Couriers from the country report great damage to property and probable loss <>f life. In Seneca four were killed and a number injured. There were many mirac ulous escajH'S from instant death. Other towns were reported to have suffered greatly, but communication was iuli r rupted and details were meager. Blue Island, a Chicago suburb, was swept by fire Sunday morning. From 2 o'clock until 5 o'clock the business heart of the town was at the mercy of flames. The heroic use of gunpowder and the timely arrival of aid from West Pullman and Chicago prevented the dcstruetmn of Western avenue property and practically tlie best part of the town lying on the plateau above Stony creek. Thirty-five buildings were destroyed, representing property of the total value of $125,000. carrying an insurance of about 5o per cent of the value. There was no loss of life. 'Die experiments that have been going on at the Missouri State University ek'?trical laboratory at Columbia, testing the effect of the Roentgen rays upon diphtheria bacilli, all confirm the theory that the germs may be destroyed by the rays. The lust experiment w.i* made with live guinea pigs, probably the first experiment of the kind upon a living animal ever made in this country. Two guinea pigs were inoculated with a culture of diphtheria. One of the pigs was exposed to the Rqentgen rays for four hours. After seventy-two hours this pig shows no signs of diphtheria and is just as lively as ever before, whereas the pig which was not exposed to the rays died within twentyeight hours after the injection and the post-mortem showed his (Path was due to the injection of diphtheria. One of the boldest bank robberies that ever occurred in that locality was perpetrated Thursday’ at Buffalo, 111., a village twelve miles east of Springfield. Two masked men entered the Bank of Buffalo, owned by A. A. Pickcrell & Co., bound <*arl Kloppenberg. the assistant cashier, and robbed the safe of between SIO,OOO and SII,OOO in cash. The robbers were entirely original in their methods. Instead of coming into town after the old traditional style on horseback and with revolver laden belts, they rode into the village on bicycles. Their appearance attracted no attention and they managed to get away with their booty without exciting the town. After they had disposed of Kloppenberg the wheelmen leisurely gathered up all the money they could find. It amounted to between SIO,OOO and sll,000, but one of the robbers said: “It is a poor haul.” The mon then went outside, mounted their wheels anil rode leisurely out of the village, as if nothing had happened. Mr. Kloppenberg. the cashier, is a man of unquestioned integrity, and enjoyed to the utmost the confidence of Mr. Pickcrell and the merchants of the town. Only one man was hanged in the Cook County jail at Chicago Friday. Alfred C. Fields, murderer of Mrs. Ellen Randolph, was hanged at noon, and thirteen minutes later the suspended body of the young negro was pronounced a corpse by a jury of thirty-six doctors. Dissolution was the result of strangulation and shock, the fall haring failed to dislocate the

cerebral* vertebrae. Joseph Wlndrath convicted of the murder of Carey Birch’ , gets a stay until June 5, pending an ex ! , amination into his sanity. Nic Marzen , also convicted of murder, will get a trial. The crime of Alfred C. Fields was apparently without motive. On the morning of Feb. 20 Fields murdered Mrs Ellen Randolph in her home at 2458 Dearborn street. He beat the woman's brains out with a flatiron ami a lemon squeezer. Mrs. Randolph was a colored woman 27 years old, and the wife of Beverly Randolph, a Pullman palaeo ear porter. She kept a lodging house, raid Fields had lived there for nearly four years It was a quarrel over the money he owed for room rent that led to the tragedv After beating the woman to death Fh lds laid" her upon a bed and set fire t 0 the bedding. He then stole $25 the woman had in a purse and left the house. Thursday's meeting of the Methodist general conference at Cleveland was marked by the largest attendance of the session, both of delegates and spectators. The report of the committee on missions to increase the contingent fund from $25 - 000 to $50,000 was adopted. The committee also recommended a Hing-Hua mission in China. It was adopted. The report of the committee on education, which excuses students from taking the conference examinations in those branches in which they have passed safrfactory examinations in some Methodist I school, was adopted unanimously. The committee on church extension made a report against the extension of work in foreign lands. Great interest was manifested in the committee on episcopacy. Dr. Bnckley, the chairman, made the report upon three distinct subjects. In the opinion of the committee Bishops Bowman and Foster are'too old to stand the strain of their duties, and the report recommends their retirement at the end of this conference as non-effective. All the other bishops were returned ns (Effective, with the exception of Bishop Taylor, and his name was not mentioned. A generous appropriation was urged for them, and the respect felt for them was fully set forth. As soon as the report was read Bishop 1 aster, in the midst of a most impressive silence, said he knew the question was one of great delicacy and he lagged to he permitted to retire. Cries of "No, m>,” came from al! parts of the hall, and Bishop Foster extended his arms, saying: "Please, plonse." It was a most pathetic scene. BLlmp Foster -poke for a few moments, and the conference, by a rising vote, granted his request. Bishop Bowman said he wonld make the same request, as he ha I just learned for the first time in his life that he was not effective. A call was made f lir a few remarks from him, but he declined to say anything, and the two white-haired fathers left the hall. Bishop Foster's speech was touching in the extreme, and he left everything in the hand* of th^ conference. SOUTHERN. The quintuplets born in Mayfield. Ky„ April 19 to Mrs. Oscar Lyons are all dead. The doctors think death was the result of worry caused by the enormous visiting crowds. During a terrific electrical storm a large frame Imuse on the farm of T. J. Cramer, mar Ocean View, Ya., was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, ami two of its occupants perish ed in tile flames, Dumble. Amiistcd & Cronan. Houston, Tex., wholesale ami retail hardware merchants, have filed a chattel mortgage for the benefit of creditors. The preferences aggregate n~o.«hk>. considerable being due to northern and eastern creditors. A crowd of armed men assembled at a watering tank near Nolan, W. Ya., on the Norfolk ami Western r .bi. to rub tint north bound expn-s t iin. The train crew were notified by wire and passed the tank at a high rate of -peed. The robbers attempted to stop tlie train with a red light. At 12:95 Thursday, the jury in the Bryan murder ease at Newport, Ky„ returned to the court room with a verdict. Anlid a deathlike stillness the foreman I handed the verdict to the clerk, who read as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Seott Jackson, g ilty of murder in the first Degree and fix his pemiltv at death." A terrible wind storm strm k the town of Sherman. T> xus. Friday afterma n. Over sixty were killed outright, and nearly a hundred hurt. Other towns in the northeast part of the State report great loss of life and property. In the country districts vast damage was done to live stork and buildings. Relief measures were promptly taken. Jack Trice, a negro, fought fifteen white men Tues lay afternoon, killing James Hughes and Edward Sanchez, fatally wounding Henry Daniels, and dangerously wounding Albert Buffum. The battle occurred at the negro's home, near Palmetto, Fla., and he fought to prevent his 11-year-oid son being "regulated” by the whites. Trice's son and the son of Town Marshal Hughes, of Palmetto, had a tight, the white boy being badly beaten. Marshal Hughes was greatly enraged, ami he awl fourteen other white men went to Trice's house to “regulate” the negro’s little boy. The whites demanded that the boy be sent oyiTriee refused, awl the whites began si s " ing. Trice returned the tire, his first but- i let killing Marshal Hughes. Edward S;:n< lio-z tried tn bum the hollSC, blit WHS shot through the brain by t rice. Then the whites tried to batter in the door with a log, which resulted in Henry Daniels getting a bullet in the stomach that will kill him. The “regulators” then ran, a final bullet from Trice's rifle striking Albert Buffum in the back. The whites secured re-in forcemeats and returned to Trice's home, vowing to burn father and son at the stake, but their intended victims had fled; only Trice's old mother was in the house. The old woman was driven out and the house burned. Posses with bloodhounds are chasing Trice, and the boy, and they will be lynched if caught. foreign” A caisson of the new extension of St. Andrew's fishdock at Hull. England, broke suddenly Friday, and the rush of water swept all the vessels in the docks from their moorings and jammed them into a hopeless mass of wreckage. JThe damage is estimated to amount to $500,009. No lives were lost. The sentences of Col. Francis Rhodes, Lionel Phillips. John Hays Hammond and George Farrar, the four members of the Johannesburg reform committee condemned to death, and whose sentences were afterward commuted, have been fixed at imprisonment for five years. The sentences of the fifty-nine other members of the reform committee, which were fixed by the court at two years' imprison-

ment and a fine of £2,000, followed by three years’ banishment, have been commnted to one year’s imprisonment. Puerto Principe, Cuba, dispatch: The large number of desertions from the Spanish ranks is alarming the authorities. The entire garrison in Gibanicu has been relieved by order of the governor, who accidentally discovered a conspiracy to go over to the rebels in a body. The capfain and lieutenants were placed under arrest, while a corporal and a private were publicly shot. A sergeant belonging to the same company had previously deserted to the rebels. The principal cause of discontent among the Spanish troops is ill treatment and lack of pay. The London Tinies publishes a letter from a correspondent in Havana, in the course of which he says: "it is quite useless to hide the real situation. The whole island is in revolt and the Spanish troops are merely acting on the defensive. It is impossible that they can prevent the landing of supplies ami war materials for the rebels. Even the position of Maceo’s forces, confined in Pinar del Rio, is not of a desperate nature, as the Spaniards make believe. Only a few isolated rebels have t« en advantage of Captain General \\ eyter s offer of amnesty. Spain has lost the power to protect life and property in Cuba. Widespread inquiries fail to justify the charges of cruelty against Captain General Weyier, but the rebels’ <leI struction of property cannot be justified. The wanton burning of some £1,009,000 worth of property belonging to inoffensive people is not war.” The letter proceeds to dilate upon the economic ruin wrought by the breakdown of the sugar crop, which has rendered thousands destitute, while the tobacco trade is in a still worse condition. IN GENERAL At Hamilton, Ont., at the session of the Anglican Synod of Niagara Canon Dumoulin, of 1 oronto. received an almost unanimous election as bishop of the Niagara diocese as successor to Bishop Hamilton. It is believed Canon Domoulin will accept. Obituary: At Paris, Germain Lcq, the distinguished French physician.—At Milwaukee, Mrs. Maria M. Neustadt, (2. At Pittsburg, John 11. McKelvey.—At Kalamazoo, Mich., Robert Campbell, 77. —At Rockford. I!!., W. W. Johnson.—At Huron, S. D.. Prof. George \ an dor Stein, formerly of Danville, 111.. 49. At Freeport. 111.. Mrs. Mary E. Wiles. G7.—At Bartonville, 111., Joseph Collier. 79. Toronto, tint., cattle exporters are making a vigorous tight against the attempt now being made to ship American cattle to European ports byway of Montreal. It is claimed that this would seriously injure the Canatiian export trade in France, where Canadian live cattle are now permitted to Is' landed. The Canadian Cattle Feeders’ Association decided to semi a deputation to Ottawa to lay Iwfore the Government an emphatic protest against the admission of American eatthi to Canadian ports. The exports of domestic merchandise during April, as state<l by the bureau of statistics, was stK*.3l3.<’i2.3, as compared with $»»3,955.941 during April. I'qUi. For the ten months ending April 3t>, 181 MI. there was a gain over the same perioil in 1895 of $59,973,900. The imports of m<Tehnndise during April was $58.70.5.299. as against 505.749.95 S .luring April, 1595. (if the total imports a little les- than 50 l«>r cent was free of duty. For the ten months there was a gain in imports over the same mouths List year of about $92.(XiO.OOO. During April the exports of gold amounted to $3.7^2.299. as compare I with IXN^MIO for April. 1595. R. G. Dun A c ..\ W.ekly Review of Trade says: “It is n .n too late for business to change materially until the pros poets of coming crops are assured and definite shape h is lieen given to the presidential contest by the coin ■ nt. iis. Vntil the future is more clear there is a prudent disinclination to produce much beyond orders or to order beyond immediate ami certain m. Is. If this waiting spirit prevails two months longer it will crowd into the last half of the year an enormous business if the outlook then is good. For the present there is b -s business on the whole than a year ago, though in some branches more, and th • delay following months of depression is to tunny trying and causes numerous failures. The most fortunate of the chief industries at present is the boot and shoe manufacture, which is not only shipping to customers within G p r cent of the largest number of eases ever forwarded in the first half of May, but ia getting many new orders, and there are many urgent requests to anticipate orders for June ami July delivery, indicating that distribution to cunsumers has much outrun expectations." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; >hcep. fair t > choice, $2.50 to S4JX); wheat. No. 2 r- I. tile to G2c; corn. No. 2,2 Se to 29c; ouis. No. 2. 17 • to 19c; rye. No. 2, 3Gc to 37c; butter, choice creamery, 13c to 15e; eggs, fresh, 8c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel. 12c to 20c; broom corn. $25 to SSO per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; •vheat. No. 2,65 cto 66c; corn. No. 1 white, 30c to 32e; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.90 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 68c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,35 c to 37c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 67c to 69c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2. 39c to 40c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheaf, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye. 36c to 38c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 rod. 67c to 69c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats. No. ~ white, 19c to 21c: rye. No. 2,37 cto 38c; clover seed. $4.55 to $4.(>5. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 60c to 63c; corn, No. 3,28 cto 39c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; barley. No. 2,33 cto 35c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 39c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3-00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34e; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York -Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; A”- 2 red, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2, one to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 24e to 25c; butter, creamery, 12c to 17c; eggs, Western, «Jc to He.

REED TO WITHDRAW CLOSES HIS HEADQUARTERS AT WASHINGTON. Capitol City Advices State Positively that He Will Abandon Effort for This Tear -McKinley’s Strength greatly Augmented. C,Oses His Headquarters. ,U> T atcb: Speaker Reed is definitely out of the presidential race. He has discharged his press agents, Aldrich and Manley, and shut up his literary bureau, locked the door and thrown away tae key. “Joe" Manley has gone back to - la ‘ n e to attend to some private business that had to Ik‘ looked after before the meeting of the national committee in St. Louis, and Aldrich has thrown up Siis hands. His political machine for the defeat of McKinley ran down and stopped without any warning whatever. As for the speaker himself, he is saying nothing for publication, but those who are closest in his confidence no longer keep up the pretense that be is in the field or that he expects to lie put in nomination at St. Louis. Mr. Itccd does not believe in carry ing a bluff to the limit of absurdity, and has quit. He may not publicly and formally retire from the race, but he has just as certainly and positively renounced his candidacy as though he had written and signed a letter of withdrawal. A large majority of the New England delegates favor McKinley, and with Reed out of the way the McKinley column will be swelled not less than fifty votes not hitherto included in tabulations. Canadians Told to Vote. In al! the Roman Catholic churches in Quebec province a mandate signed by the archbishops an-1 bishops was read Sunday night dealing with the duties of the faithful in the approaching general election. The mandate concludes as follows: “Therefore, all Catholics should only and solely engage themselves to vote in parliament in favor of the legislation giving to the t'atholies of Manitoba the school laws which were recognized as duo to them by the privy council of England. This grave duty imposes itself on all good Catholics, and yon would not be justifiable, t ether before your spiritual guides m>r before Cod Himself, in setting aside this obligation." France Executes a Coup. The Gm man foreign ollice regards with astonishment England's and Italy's inactivity concerning the opening <>f the new French war port at Bisorta. on the coast of Tunis. The harbor already is stocked with two ironclads and plemv of wir material. I: forbids the Italian de-krns on Tunis and menaces Engl i 11. It is capable of interrupting the counectiou between Malta am the Suez Canal. Lost in Luke Michigan. The iron steamer Onoko collided with the schooner Mary D. Ayer ten miles off Grosse Point, near Chicago. Sunday morning. Twelve hours later the sailing vessel ^unk ’. hile being towed by the Supcrior liner City of Duluth. Five of the crew were drowned. Two were saved. Those lost were: Cnpt. Williams. Mate M ' i. Henry Shira, seaman, and a cook and dvckbaial. mime< unknown. Kansns Town Wip.-d Out. Reserve. Kam. w is almost wiped out of existence by Sunday's cyclone. Hardly a house remains standing, ami wreckage is strewn everywhere. I’he white populace is homeless ami great confusion prevails. Four were killed outright, ami twonty-one injured. XVa-diington Firemen Die. A ■ ilagration which resulted in the loss of s2'>(i.ih>(* ami in w hich two firemen were killed and three seriously injured by falling walls occurred in Washington about 8 o'clock Monday night. Four others are missing. Death- Dealing Win<le. Four persons were killed outright and a number injured by a cyclone which swept over Falls City, Neb., Sunday night. BREVITIES.

The latest reitort from Johannesburg says the four leaders of the reform committee Col. Francis Rhodes, Jolin Hays Hammond, Lionel Phillips and Ceoige Farrar will be fined Sl?.each and will be sentem ed to ten years' banishment. (L n. Mar hi lias arrived at Bulawayo, and has assumed command of the forces. It is believed thafdanger is past and that Bulawayo is safe. The people are resuming their ordinary vocations. A party under Captains Grey and Wroy attacked and routed a body of Matabelc near Theba Indans, killing nearly eighty. Col. von K-"el. aide-de-camp to Emperor William of Germany, said there is no truth in the siatement attributed to I.ord Lons iale. bis Majesty s representative on board Meteor, just launched, that the new emter may challenge for America’s cup if it proves to be a faster craft than Valkyrie 111. Col. von Kissel added that Meteor will only sail in European waters. Information from southwestern Kan sas. where the wheat prospect has been so greatly damaged in tiie last two weeks, is that one cause of the damage was electricity. The theory is that the high winds carried pebbles and other particles of san 1 charged with electricity into the fields, and that the destructive force was so great that it burned the life o it of the wheat. A Larned correspondent says many thousand acres have been ruined in this way. The President nominated Kenneth M. Jackson, of Alaska, for commissioner in the district of Alaska, to reside at Wrangell. A cave-in occurred at the opal mines near Queretaro. Mexico. Wednesday, and ten men were buried under earth and stones. Four of the miners were killed and several others injured. A profound sensation has been caused among medical men of Germany and France through the fatal effects attending the administration of the famous antidiphtheretic serum in the case of a child of an eminent Berlin physician. The Rev. Mr. Rhodes, living twelve miles east of Timpson. Tex., while plowing his field, unearthed 30.001) Mexican dollars. The money was buried in leather satchels, and they were almost rotten. I Mr. Rhodes bought the place two years I ago. For several years unknown persons have been digging in ’.he vicinity at night.

NATIONAL SOLONS." review of their work at WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate 6na j House— Bills Passed or Introduced in Either Branch-Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. Because of opposition by Mr. Moodv of Massachusetts and Mr. Dalzell of Pennsjlvania, both Republicans, the House M ednesday reconsidered its action in unseating Mr. Downing, Democrat, of Illinois, and decided that before Mr. Rinaker’s claims could be considered there must be a recount of the vote. The river ami harbor appropriation bill was passed by the Senate after an unusually stormy experience, lasting many days. As finally passed the bill makes direct appropriations ot $12,200,000 and authorizes continuing contracts of $64,000,000, an aggregate of about $76,000,000. The bill w as passed with amendments authorizing (he construction of a bridge over the Mis- ■ sissippi river to the city of St. Louis from some suitable point between the north lineof St. Clair County, Illinois, and the southwest line of said county. Bills were t also passed to authorize a life-saving sta 5 tion at Port Huron, Mich., and to es--1 tablish a railroad bridge across the Illi- ■ nois river near Grafton, 111. The Senate was occupied Thursday with discussion of the Dupont contest ease and immigration matters. The House devoted the whole day to private pension bills. They were disposed of at the rate of about one every five minutes, fifty-eight in all being favorably acted upon before adjournment. Among them were bills granting pensions to the widow of Gen. O. M. Poe, SSO; the widow of Gen. Jameson, SSO; the widow of Gen. John Newton. $75; the widow of United States Senator George E. Spencer of Alabama, SSO, and ex-Congressman Smalls of South Carolina. S3O. By a vote of 31 to 30 the Senate Friday determined that Henry A. Dupont was not entitled to a seat in the Seuato from the State of Delaware. This closed a long and animated controversy which had become one of the most notable contests of its kind in the history of the Senate. The unseating of Mr. Dupont makes no difference in the complexion of the Senate. The contest over Mr. Dupont's seat grew out of the question whether Lieut. Gov. Watson had a right to vote as a Senator when he was acting ns Lieutenant Governor. There was a tie vote in L'elaware and Watson broke it by voting for Dupont. The Senate having decided that the vote was void, it will be ! ruled that no election was held. There is consequently a senatorial vacancy in Delaware. The balance of the day was [iassed in tariff discussion. The House occupied itself in passing the private pension bills which were favorably acted upon during the two special days given to their consideration. Thirty-four were held up because they were not engrossed, but l<a> were passed, leaving about sixty yet undisposed of. Mr. Howard (Pop.) of Alabama caused a mild sensation by aris- ■ ing to a question of personal privilege to denounce some published reports made about a few months ago that he had been drunk on the (luor ot she Uuu£.<^ Ho denied the story as a base falsehood from beginning to end. He explained that at the time of the alleged occurrence he was desperately ill and had been ill ever since, and only Wednesday had been able to return to the House to denounce his traImers. The Hoge-Otey election case from the Sixth Virginia district was nitnimously decided in favor of Mr. (‘toy i Dem.), the sitting member. The ' House adjourned until Monday. 1 The Cuban question was revived in the Senate Saturday, when Mr. Morgan of 1 Alabama, who reported the original resolutions. spoke in favor of further ami more decisive action toward the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents. The [ Senator declared it to be the duty of Con- । gross to adopt joint resolutions on bellig- • <-reney. which, unlike the previous con* current resolutions, would require the approval of the President, and thus fixing the responsibility. At the close of Mr, Morgan's speech the Senate a dented with-

auhu.tu > t ’.u inv ►'v.i.ur <i lupivu out division the resolutions introduced by him directing the committee on foreign relations to inquire into and report on the treaty relations between the United States and Spain relating to the Americans now under condemnation at Havana^ also requesting the President to submit the recent diplomatic correspondence with Spain on this subject. The resolutions have no reference to the recognition of" belligerency. In the Senate Monday the entire day after 1 p. m. was given to the bill regulating gas rates in the District of Columbia. The following bills were passed: Authorizing the purchase by the United States and the making free of toil roads passing over the Yosemite national park; regulating the pay of non-commissioned officers of artillery, cavalry and infantry of the army. Quite a number of minorbills and conference reports were adopted by the House, and bills were passed as follows; To allow the bottling of distilled spirits in bond; to expedite the delivery of imported goods ii> parcels and packages not exceeding SSOO in value; to provide for the registration of trade marks on bottles, barrels, corks and other receptacles used in interstate and foreign commerce; for the general distribution of condemned cannon by the Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy; to compel the attendance of witnesses before the local land officers. The conference report on the bill to improve the merchant marine engineer service was adopted. Money in Guuniaking. Herr Krupp, the gunmaker, is therichest of the Prussians, being taxed on an income of $1,700,100. Baron Rothschild comes next with a taxable income of «1.400.000. Only seven persons in Prussia report incomes for the last year bove $470,000. Streets of Old Paris. The Paris exposition plans are full of ingenuity. One interesting corner will represent old Paris, with reproductions of vanished streets and quarters celebrated in literature that have vanished before the march of progress. Style in Telephoning. In answering a telephone call it is much better to say “yes,” with a rising inflection, than “hello.” In fact, “hello” is now tabooed in select circles.