St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 46, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 June 1896 — Page 6

e—- — @he Jndepenoent. B e e T e—— _ W. A. ENDLEY, ™ublishor. m.:‘*———-——_—— WALKERTON, - . . INDIANA. s| P e, St 0 e SHUT OUT 1,500 ME ; EN. ALLINOIS STEEL WORKS ARE CLOSED. Clash Over the Color Line the Cause —Senators Adopt the Butler Measure—Steps Toward a Complete Reorganization of the Militia, < T ‘ Big Mills Shut Down. There is a lockout at the works of the Tllinois Stee! Works at Chicago, and nearIy 1.500 men are thrown out of employment thereby. The onder closing the entire plant was issued by Superintendent Walkor Tuesday evening, and went into effect an hour later. Ry 7 o'clock the fires had been drewn from under every furaace and the avny of men had slowly filed out of the immense buildings and yards of the company., Every man carrvied with him a little bundle of clothes and a tin dinner pail. 1t will be months before either will be in service again. This march of the men into a period of enforeed idleness of unknown length was quiet and erderly. Few gathered around the gates to discuss the situation. The events of the last month had prepared the men for almost anything that could happen. Tbhe troubles inside the tight, high board fence marking the boundary line of the company's possessions have been so numerous and complicated the \\-urk\\wn.r\‘nlized affairs must soon come to an Issue, Thus, while the issue came suddenly, it was not altogether unexpected, The color line was the direct cause of the lockout, although officers of the company do not admit it. They charge it entirely to a question of labor. In a riot Monday night several men were seriously shot. Hawley Bill in the senate, Senator Hawley, from the Committee on Military Affairs, has reported his bill for the reorganization of the militin, The bill is a recodification of the laws relating to the militin, with such changes as are necessary to adapt them to existing conditions. The bill provides for two classes of militia, the organized and the unorganized, the former to be known as the national guard, and the latter as the reserve militia. It appropriates $§400,000 annually for the purchase of military stores and supplies to be issued to the militia of the various States. The bill also permits the use of United States forts by the militia, upon the application of the Governors of the States, as a campground and authorizes the use of the guns ‘belonging to any fort for purposes of drill by any militia company. Standing of National League. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: %, o W L] Baltimore ..24 13 Brooklyn ....18 18| Cleveland ...21 12 Washington. 17 19 | * Uinecinnati ..24 14 Chicago .....18 21| dosten ;... .21 15 New Y0rk...16 21 Philadeiphia 22 16 St. L0ui5.....11 26 Pittsburg ...18. 16 Louisville ... 9 28 } Western League Standing, ‘ Following is the standing of the clubs 3 in the Western League: W. L. W. L] Detroit .....23 10 Minneapolis.. 19 16 || Indianapolis. 18 12 Milwaukee ..19 18 1 St FPaul. ... /18 13 Columbus ...T1 25 Kansas City.lß 15 Grand Rapids 8 25 ‘ Pies by His Own Hand. ; Andrew N. Henderson, a Chicago com- |, mission merchant and old member of the | . Board of Trade, committed suicide in | Humboldt Park Tuesday afternoon. | While a park policeman stood within a |, few feet he shot himself in the left tem- | ple, dyiug almost instantly. A disastrous deal on Friday, which he knew he would be called upon to settle for Tuesday, was | the immediate cause of the act, though | he has been despondent over losses for a year or more. His fellow brokeérssey Mr. ‘ Henderson has not dealt heavily since his failure during the panic of 1893. ' Senate Passes the Bond Bill. I At T o'clock Tuesday night the long struggzle in the Senate over the bill to prohibit the issue of bonds came to an end and the bill was passed by a vote of 32 to 25. The bill as passed covers only four lines, as follows: *‘Be it enacted that the issuance of interest-Learing bonds of the United States for any purpose whatever without further authority of Congress is hereby prohibited.” { Passed Over the Veto. The House of Representatives has passed the river and harbor bill over the President’s veto by the vote of 220 to GO. The report of the Committee was in the main a business-like defense of the bill. NEWS NUGGETS, The United States mint at Carson City, Nev., will resume refinery operations about July 1. W & Sharp, wholesale dry goods merchas™ at Macon, Ga., have failed, with liabilities of $250,000. In the case of Ford vs. Iden, where | gnit was brought to recover money col lected for campaign purposes, Ford being | a State employe and Iden State Senator, § Judge Gill, of Milwaukee, sustained the i demurrer of the defendant’s attorney, | throwing the case out of court. ‘ At Brown's Park Ttah a l]v.\';n'l‘:lt\.‘. battle In which two men were killed and l two others mortally wounded wos fought. It is said that Matt Warner and an old man named Norman had discovered rich | mineral near the State line and were developing their find on the quiet. ITour unknown men, learning of the fact., followed them. A fight took place in which \ Warner, who is a dead shot, killed and wounded all four of the others. No arrests have been made as yet, ‘ . The exports of the United States from | Bradford, England, during May amount- | ed to $T31.545, a decrease of $1,730,230 as compared with May, 1895. Miss Bianche Rockwell Cowles, of Utica, N. Y., and Mr. Frank Hitchcock, treasurer of the Andrews & Hiteheock Iron Company at Youngstown, 0., were married Tuesday afternoon at Utica. The St. Joseph, Mo., stock yards will be sold to satisfy a mortgage of $200,000. This was decided on in court Tuesday afternocon, and what promised to be a long-drawn-out case was soon stopped. The property is bonded for §500;000.

R R R R RR, EASTERN. " i Messrs. Mersick and R. A. Brown, appraisers of the affairs of Peck Bros. & Co., wholesale plumbers at New Haven, Conn., with branch stores in New York, Chicago and Boston, who went into the hands of receivers last Flebruary, reported to Judge Prentice the total appraisal | to be $876,502.05. The liabilities are about §600,000. City police were called upon at Pittsburg to eject unruly delegates at the“[':r.o- --| hibition party’s national convention Wednesday. The trouble arose over the motion of a silver delegate to substitute a broad-gauger for the single-issuc man who had been chosen by the national committee for temporary chairman., He was howled down and the anti-silver crowd scored the first victory. At Philadelphia Herman Kreck, a member of the firm of Kreck, Coterman & Co., dinmond importers of Cincinnati, was found guilty in the United States Court of attempting to smuggle diimonds. It was shown that Kreck had given the captain of the steamer Rhynland a package containing $7,000 worth of diamonds, addressed to I, von Reith, of 21 West Pourth street, Cineinnat?, The national prohibition convention at Pittsburg resulted in a split. By a vote of 427 to 387 the narrow gauge members of the party won their fight to confine the platform to the single issue of hostility to the liquor traflie. The silver men made good their threat to bolt if they were defeated, and met in separate convention. The regular convention nominated Joshua I Levering, the millionaire coffee merchant of Baltimore, as its choice as President. Hale Johngon, of lilinois, was nominated as his running mate. An oxtensive raid is being made on New York druggists who are violating the United States patent laws by selling substitutes for phenacetine for the regular article. The heavy duty on the drug and the eare with which smuggling from Canada has been prevented proved too great a temptation, and 1,000 druggists, sev-enty-five of whom are located in .\'.o\\' York, succumbed to it. Cases are being brought against them in the United States courts. Dr. Cyrus Edson has brought two suits of $20,000 eacn against ten concerns at New York for manufacturing and selling a sham aseptolin as a cure for consumption. Dr. IHdson says instead of curing the disease it only tends to cause more suffering. WESTERN. T. D. Davis, an insane patient in the Lincoln, Neb., asylum, killed Charles J. Johnson by striking bhim over the head with a soap box. At Chadron, Neb.,, W. 8. Barker was arrested for perjury. He had a damage case in the Distriet Court against the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska, sayving his house was set on fire by an engine spark and destroyed. The new (‘olumbus Avenue (longregational Church at Sandusky, 0., was dedicated Sunday by the Rev. Charles S, Mills, and at the evening service an American flag was presented to the church, which will be raised on the spire during the hours of worship. This, it is said, will be the only chureh in the United States over which the Stars and Stripes will wave. At the request of the Rev. J. O. Gary, pastor of the Methodist Church at Virginia, Minn., Gov. Clough sent a sheriff's posse to that town and broke up a prize fight. Mr. Gary received a notice signed “The White Caps, by the Secretary,” ordering him to make himself scarce at once or suffer the consequences., Mr. Gary has made an appeal to the authorities for protection. A sensation was ereated at Middletown, Q., in the synod of the Western District of the Evangelical Lautheran Chureh, Friday, by the announcement that two ministers, delegates to the synod, had been fined for being drunk and disorderly. They were immediately expelled by the synod. They are the Rev. Andrew Popp, Stanton, Ind., and the Rev. O, T. Koblitz, Hopevillte, Mercer County, Ohio. Mayor Walbridge, of St. Louis, has applied to Gov. Stone for militia, and has ordered an increase of 150 to the police force. He has also applied to the assembly for a special fund to pay the above. He says: “Whether it will be necessary to tssue an outside appeal for aid remains to be seen, but I think St. Louis will be able to take care e¢f all its unfortunate citizens. 1 have been all over the devastated district with Commissioner Starkloff and Sanitary Officer Franecis, and think It!m damage in this ecity will approximate fifteen to twenty millions of dollars.” In the United States Court at Hannibal, Mo., the grand jury has returned an i:x-! dietment against Crockett Ragsdale, formerly bookkeeper in the IMirst National Bank, for embezzlement. His plea was ' not guilty, and a continuance was asked lfw.". The total amount of Ragsdale's shortage is not known, but it is supposed to be about £15,000. The defendant is a voung man, and prior to the discovery of the embezzlement was highly esteemed, An indictment was also returned against Clarence Gray, of Macon City, who committed the same offense in the National Bank of that city. Gray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Four hundred and sixty-three dead and 718 injured is the awful story of Wednesday’s crvelone. Time will swell the list, ‘ Though the rrow ful work of the enumn 'I erators was but begun, this table shows their grewsome totals at midnight Thurs En]::)' night: ‘ Killed. Injured ISt . 0 200 JOO | Bast St lonis. 5. 50 1100 300 { Audrain County, M 0...... 10 25 | New Waden 1. ........ 13 21 | Pitkeere 3 .. ... ..., 4 Many | Bovd ML ... 0.0 0 2 .\! 11'1'\'in_£:tu::. B i o e D | Hovieton HL ..o 00, B Many Mascoutah 1l .......... 1 Many l Jofferson Gty 1. .. .. .0 B Many \l’:\ll‘&'}\4«l. RS R 3 Warsaw, did. .. 2 .’.l Centerville. Town ... ... @ S Peongvivania ... ........ 8 40 ( Wotal = . .. OWS TIS] Col. R. P. McGlincy and his family, | embracing six persons, were murdered at | Campbell, near San Jose, Cal,, Tuesday night by his son-in-law, James Dunham. Among the victims of the fiend was Dun- ‘ ham’s wife, a daughter of Col. McGliney. Wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, broth-er-in-law and two domestics paid the bloody debt of the fiend’s rage. Not a being in the path of the butcher escaped the carnage except the murderer’'s own child, a babe one month old. The infant was either overlooked by the inhuman monster or he became satiated and disap-

= ———————— peared without seeking to send t to join ;‘it; ‘mtother- ‘g% 't ut forth to capture lA€ §E&= \ gvretch. " Local gossips Ha : j was considerable family trouble | : household, but the nature Qt & uid be learned. . Bast St. Louis has issued a touching “appeal for aid and the committee which prepared the manifesto estimated that 200 persons were killed and fw ber of injured will foot up in the thousands. It is known that a number of per- | sons are still buried in the debris on the southwestern end of the island and in the ) | ruins of the Hallesey Hotel, the Martell House, the Relay Retreat, and the Duz- | ant House. Street car traffic, telephobe service, and electric lighting facilities g"*m entirely suspended. Men stand mute and aghast at the havoe that was wrought, All business is virtually suspended. Every one agrees that months will fail to reveal the extent of the tornado’s devastation in the Illinois town. Ifrom the surrounding country thousands of men, women, and children flocked into the et% to visit the scenes of ruin and death, A the London papers have editorials on the terrible disaster at St. Louis and all express their sympathy with the Nfl&mu of that city. 'The Chronicle urges England to send some prompt and effective expression of sympathy. “It i 8 quite cortain,” says the English journal, “that if it had happened in England the sufferers wounld not wait long for sympathetic words or if necessary actions from America.” o WASHINGTON. e rsenons s 7 Representative Joy, of St. Louls, drew a resolution which Speaker Reed permit. ted him to call up in the House Thursday morning, and which Mr. Joy will endeavor to have introduced in the Senate, It follows: *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized to lond the Mayors of the cities of St. Louis and East St. Louis, under such regulations and restrictions as he may deem proper, a sutlicient number of tents to temporarily ghelter such citizens of said cities as may have lost their homes by the tornado.” The House adopted the resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to afford temporary relief to St. Louis sufferers. The St. Louis horror was the theme of a touching and eloguent prayer by Rev. Dr, Milburn, the blind chaplain of the Senate, at the opening of the session. 0, God,"” he praved, “we stand aghast at the awful tokens of thy power and majesty. The carth is shaken and trembles and the“ foundations of the hills are shaken.” Divine merey was invoked for the strieken city of St. Louis, succor for the maimod and afllicted, strength and aid to those ministering relief, and protection from another visitation of divine wrath. Al most the sole topie of conversatiop among the members of the House was the St Lonis tornado. Members stood about in groups and discussed the horrible details. The St. Louis members, Messrs, C'Obb., Bartholdt and Joy, and Mr. Murphy, of Illinos, who lives in Kast St. Louis, were almost frantic with anxiety. The President Friday sent to the House ’ a message, vetoing the river and harbor bill. He said: There are 417 items of appropriation, and every part of the country is represented. It directly appropriates or provides for the immediate expenditure of nearly $14,000,000 in addition to other appropriations amounting to more than $3,000,000. A more startling feature is its nuthorization of! contraets for river and harbor work amounting to more than 562,000,00, Though these payments are in most cases so distributed that they are to be met | by future appropriations, more than &3, 000,000 is included in direet appropriations. Os the remainder nearly $20,0060, - 000 will fall due during the fiseal year ending June 30, 1808, If this bill becomes a law, the obligations which will be imposed on the Government, mgt'thor‘ with the appropriations made for immediate expenditnre on account of rivers and harbors, will amount to about s£Bo,000,004}, Nor is this all. The bill directs numerous survers and examinations, contracts, and which portend largely which contemplate new work and further increased expenditures and obligations. There is no ground to hope that, in the face of persistent and growing demands, the aggregate of appropriations for the smaller schemes, not covered by econtracts, will be reduced, or even remain | stationary. For the fiscal year ending !Jmu- 30, 1808, such appropriations, together with the instaliments on contracts which will fall dune in that year, can hardly be less than $30,000,0000, and it may reasonably be apprehended that the ' prevalent tendency toward increased ex- ! penditures of this sort, and the conceal- | ment which postponed payments afford ' for extravagance, will increase the burdens chargeable to this account in sueceeding years. “GROYER CLEYVELAXND.” FOREIGN. The American bark John Baisley, Capt. Saepherd, from Singapore April 20 for Hong-IKong, is ashore on Montanha Island. The natives have commenced to plunder the vessel. The Kaiser has expressed great satisfaction over the eloquent discourse of Premier Rudini in support of the triple alliance., Baron Marschall has complimented Gen. Lanza, the Italian ambassa- | dor, on the subject, - The Northern Puacific liner Vietoria L bronght nes to Tacomn, Wash., of the plague on the island of Formosa and at Anping. 'The deaths at Anping number from ten to fifteen a day. The disease is rapidly spreading Paderewski has been compelled to eanivwl his engagements in England because i of nervous prostration, Ile attributes his 1 illness to hard work and the impressibile i women worshipers who annoyed him duri ing his American tour. An official dispatch to Rome from Ca nea, Island of Crete, says fresh disturl ances occurred there Tuesday, 'T'he peo ple were panic-stricken and communica lliwn was interrupted with adjacent vil lages. IFamilies of Mussulmans and ‘ Christians are believed to have been kill ed. i The resolution passed by the socialist l evangelical congress at Berlin warmly ap ¢ proving the course of Dr. Stoecker may be regarded as a pronunciamento agninst ‘ the emperor’s dispateh of censure agninst the foriner court chaplain. The passaze of the resolution has caused the greatoest sensation. One of the most terrible disasters that ever overtook the common people of Russia happened Saturday in Moscow, when over 1,000 persons were Killed or received injuries from which they afterward died in a panic on Khodijnskoje plain, precipitated during festivities in honor of the

2,900, Most of these persons were in- | (ERER) . present, ‘:;R#e& the portion of the plain on which the stampede took place (IS pleated of the SR glckenFe e ¢ extreme. The crowd was | awaiting the signal to dine at tables laid : x(fi the distribution of presQ the royal house when the dis- | aster occurred. The immediate cause of |it was the pitching into the midst of the | dense throng assembled gifts, for which | a wild seramble was made. "The Czar | has given orders that the sum of 1,000 | fig;xanfiléa be given to each bereaved fux'nily ~and that the victims be buried at his exi;,mnse. . S IN GENERAL,' ] — P It is reported at Windsor, Ont., that the tug Lorman of Detroit, owned by Alexander Ruelle, has gone down off Pelee Islands and all hands lost. The report cannot be verified. The Lorman was in command of Capt. James O’Neill of Windsor. The crew was from Detroit. The Victoria (B. C.) tram car disaster increases-in horror as the details become | known. lifty-seven bodies have been identified, besides a number whose identity is not known, and it is supposed there are other bodies still in the water. While many Victorians were on the fatal car, the magority were visitors, and the work of identification is con<cquently diflicult, The number of earringes lost and the pasgengers carried down in the wreek cannot be learned. It is clalined by many that fully 200 people went down with the span, and that more than half of them perished, R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weckly Review of Trade says: “Continued exports of gold, amounting to $3,000,000, are recognized a8 natural results of the borrowing and importing early in the year, but caused no serious apprehiension. There is a general conviction that destructive schemes will not succeed, although at present political uncertaintics cause part of the business that might be done to he postponed until the future is more clear. Markets for products are weak, rather than stagnant, The business done is small, but largely governed by the belief iu large crops and insufificient demand.” A joint political meeting at Wolfville, Kings County, N. 8., Wednesday night was held in a building which has been used as a skating rink during the winter. Among the decorations were several American flags that have been on the walls since a skating carnival, several months ago. A crowd of men raised a howl over the display of the Stars and Stripes, tore them from the walls, and stamped them under foot. The Conseryatives claim that the flags were put up by the Liberals principally for the meoeoting, but the Liberals say they have been there for months. The mecting throughout was a very noisy and turbulent one, and broke up in disorder, War has again been declared against the Chicago-St. Paul railroads by the) Lakeé Michigan Car Ferry Company. About two weeks ago the Jatter agreed to restore Chicago-Bt, Paul rates to the basis of G 0 cents per 100 pounds first class, the game as charged by the railroad lines, | Wednesday, however, the company notifled Commissioner Midgley, of the West‘orn Freight Association, that it wonld ;fii“u(‘ a tariff on the basis of J 0 couts per 100 pounds first class, Chicago to St Paul. This is the same rate as chacg#od by the Lake Superior steamboat lines, ‘ | which have always enjoved the prnil-y.:s-‘ of a 10-cent differential below the all-rail | mite. The latter insist on charging a dis- | ferential of 5 cents below the rate of the | ear ferry line, and will, no doubt, at once meet the action of the car ferry line by issuing a tariff on the basis of 45 cents per 100 pounds first class, Chicago to St. Paul, and as the Lake Michigan car ferry's policy pow is to make the same rates as the boat lines, rates will scon reach rock bottomn. The Chicago Great Western is determined to meet any rate the Faithorn car ferry may make, and this will ('n!‘.i;'t‘! all the other ChicagoSt. Paul lines to do likewise. To aggravate the situation, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, which runs a transfer { boat line across the lake, announces it will make the same rates via Mackinaw as are made by Faithorn's Lake Michig.n car ferry line, and it is understood tre Kewaunee route, which also runs a ear ferry across Luke Michigan, will insist upon making the same rates. The Ca nadian Pacific is blamed for the trouble brought upon the Chicago-St. Paul line by the Lake Michigan Car erry Company. The latter depeunds for an outlet to St. Paul and Minneapolis upon the Soo line, which is controlled by the Cana dian Pacifie, and without its co-operation conld not issue any through tariffs between Chicago and St. Paul. MARKET REPORTS. | Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 8§3.50 to $4.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, §2.50 to s-},:v(); wheat, No. 2 red, D7c to DBSe: corn, No. 2, 28¢ to 28c¢; oats, No. 2, 17¢ to 18c: rye, No. 2, 82¢ to 34¢; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 10c; eggs, fresh, Oc¢ to 1le; potatoes, per bushel, 12¢ to 20¢; browm corn, 2¢ to 4¢ per Ib for com mon growth to fine brush, Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, £3.00 to $3.50; ghp.-l», common to prime, 2,00 to S‘”')wheat, No. 2. Ode to 060 c: corn, Neo 1 #hite, 20¢ to dlc¢; oats, No. 2 white, 21c¢ so 23c¢. Nt Louis—Cattle, $£3.00 to $4.50; hogs, £3.00 to $3.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 59¢ to tile: corn, No. 2 yellow, 26¢ to 27c; oats, .\.H. - \\'ll!v, iie to IB¢ rye, NO. ‘:. :;'{!‘ to 30¢ Cinecinnati - Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, 2200 to $£3.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; ;\'hv:lt, No 2 Ghe to Uie: corn, N0.»2 mixed, 27c to 20¢; oats, No. 2 mived, 21c ta 226 ryve, No. 2, 85¢ to 87c. etroit {lnttle, 82.00 to K 4.050: hogs, }.g'.'»;.flfl {o .\::::.T:i; xlu-w[v. =OO to $3.70; wheat, No. 2 red, G4ce to GHe; corn, No. 2 yellow, 2%7¢ 1o 20¢: oats, No. 2 white, 21c¢ | o 2%0; ryo, 34c¢ to d6c. oledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, G4dc to Gbe; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c¢ to 28¢: oats, No. 1 9 white, 18¢ to 19¢; rye, No. 2, 30¢ to 32¢; clover sced, $4.45 to $4.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 57c to DSe, corn, No. 3. 27¢ to 28c¢: oats, No. o white, 19¢ to 20¢; barley. No. 2. 81¢ to | 38e¢: rye, NO. l, 33¢ to :.:H‘; [utl‘l{, INEeSs, $6.70 to $7.25. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs. L 8300 to $3.75: sheep, $3.25 to $4.25; ;\'hl'il'. No. 1 hard, G64c to 65¢; corn, No. 5 wellow, 82¢ to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 940 to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, £3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; | swheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72¢; corn, No. 2, 380 to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22¢ to 24c; | butter, creamery, 12¢ to 16¢; cggs, West- ' ern, iic to 13c. ;

QUAY HAS GIVEN UP.| eete e S —, CONCEDES THE NOMINATION OF M'KINLEY. : ) Thinks the First Ballot Will Settle It—Lafayette, Pa., Students Suspended for Hazing—Anniversary of Johnstown’s Awful Day. Looks Like McKinley. Washipgton dispatch: The voluntary statement put out by Senator Quay conceding the election of McKinley on the first ballot has produced something of a sensation in political circles. His trip to Canton was a tacit admission to the same effect, but a public “autherized” tabulation from him giving the Ohio candidate 470 votes ong the first ballot “certain,” with many known MecKinley delegates not included in the figures, is regarded as peculiarly binding. The Senator’s statement, taken in connection with the fact that he announces that his own name and the names of the other favorife sons would be put in nomination and given complimentary votes is accepted as evidence that he is prepared to turn the golid Pennsylvania delegation over to McKinley at the proper moment, adding sixty-four to 479 previously conceded. fal fcenecs at Mascow,. Monday was a day of funerals in Moscow, 1,277 victims of the disaster on Hodynsky Plain being buried. The bodies of those who were identified were interred in private graves, but at the expense of the municipality. The great number of the unidentified dead were buried in cleven great trenches, each fifty vards long. The trenches were deep, and the mutilated bodies were placed close together to find room for all. The surviving friends and relatives are for the most part of the ignorant and simple minded peasant class, and their grief and terror at the sudden calamity are expressed in demonstrative fashion. Only about half the bodies recovered have been identified, and the majority of these are men, though there are many children and several old people, some SO years old. Most of the private graves of the vietims have been marked with wooden crosses. The clothes of the vietims were heaped in a huge pile in one corner of the cemetery, and in this the people rummaged all day long seeking the slightest trace that would afford a clew to the fate of those missing. It is estimated now that a total of 3.600 persons were killed and 1,200 persons injured, the majority of them fatally, by the disastrous erush., In the afternoon the Czar and Czarina visited the Marie hospital, where they spoke to and cousoled the patients injured in Saturday’s crush. i Sophomores Punished, | At Easton, Pa., four students have been suspended from Lafayette College for hazing, and others are to go. The men were all east for prominent parts in the sophomore play to be given at commencement, and the performance is to be abandoned. The college authorities are very strict about hazing, and the fact that they have been defied caused much surprise. One freshman was badly frightened by discharges of fireworks., It is said another was initiated into a new fraternity, and that he was branded with cigars as part of the ceremony. Another story is that freshman was put through a track athletic training and then rubbed down with sand. It is said some higher class men are involved. Join in the National Bolt, Most of the Ohio candidates, headed by Alva Crabtree, of Springfield, nominee for Secretary of State, have withdrawn from the Prohibition State ticket as a result of the split at Pittsburg. A State convention of the new national party will be called at once and a full ticket nominated. It is claimed the broad-gaugers ountnumber the narrow-gaugers three to one. Similar action will be taken throughout Ohio in regard to county tickets. EBREVITIES, Fire partially destroyed D. Latz & Sons' brewery, Allegheny. Loss, 850,000 fully insured. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The brewery will be rebuilt at once. The village of Krienholz, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, has been partially destroyed by landslips and subsiding of the ground, eaunsed by springs of water. The inhabitants have been compelled to desert the place, and great damage has been done to the railroad and farms in the vicinity. Reports of many people being taken ill Sunday precipitated a panie in the Indiananolis, Ind., police department, and patrolmen were started out on a rush, notifying residents not to use water furnished by the water works company. Dhysicians say the symptoms resembled aeid poisoning. This is believed to be another result of the turning into the river at Noblesville of a small lake of sulphuric acid and refuse from the sirawboard works, which killed all the fish. The physicians say this is the beginning of an epidemic which may lead to terrible results. The people of Johnstown, Pa., observed a second memorial day Sunday, in honor of the «!«'}tkl'ffi! ones who lost their lives in the great tflood which occurred seven vears ago. Over 3,800 souls perished that day. Thousands of people, accompanied by bands. visited the cemeteries. The scene at the plot of the unknown dead in Grand View cemetery, where over GOU lie buried, was singularly pathetie. Aeccording to the annual custom. services were held and the graves were decked with flowers., In the churches appropriate sermoens were preached, and the anniversary of that fatal day was generally observed. lenry M. Stanley, who has been dangerously ill at Madrid, has recovered sufficiently to start on his returan to London. The sentence of lerr von KKotze. who killed Baron Schroeder in a duel growing out of the Berlin court scandal, has been commuted to one week's imprisonment. | The strike of the northern Colorado mines at La Fayette, C 010.,, ordered a | week ago by the Western Foderation of | Miners, is ended. The men returned to ' work without having gained a settlement of their grievances. Grain Shovelers’ Union, Ne. 51, of Buffalo, N. Y., went on strike for an advance in wages from SI.BO per thousand bushels to $2.50. They also declare for no Sunday work and for the privilege of employing their own time keeper and want ! to be paid at the elevators and not at sa- l lowns, as heretofore.

'WORK OF CONGRESS. . e e s s e THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. " e e A Comprekensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington—Matters that Concern the People, Lawmakers at Labor. The Senate Wednesday defeated the proposition to increase the beer tax 70 cents per barrel by the vote of 34 to 27. The House spent almost the entire day discussing the Senate amendment to the general deficiency bill appropriating sl,027,000 for the payment of about TOO 1 I'rench §poliation claims, $548,000 for 325 war claims, found to be due under the Bowman aet; $174,000 for the payment of what is known as the Chautauqua claim for the construction of an ironclad steam battery in 18G4, and about SIO.OOO for Indian supplies furnished in 1873 and 1874. The vote was close, but the friends of the claims carried the day—lll to 97. All interest in the House proceedings was overshadowed by the St. Louis horror. A resolution was passed directing the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the Mayors of the stricken cities a suflicient number of tents to provide for the temporary necessities of the homeless and to render such aid as might be in his power. Mr. Barthold, of St. Louis, who gaw Secretary Lamont, said there were pight or ten boats used in the Mississippi river improvement which might be able to render assistance, and these will be ordered to the scene of the disaster if necessary. When the House resolution was received in the Senate authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents and render aid to the Mayors of St. Louis and East St. Loouis Mr. Pahmer, of Illinois, asked immediate consideration. Mr. Vest, of Missouri, interposed the suggestien that while it might seem ungracious for him to interpose objection, yet, in view of late reports showing the usual exaggeration attending the first hours of calamity he did not consider this action necessary. The people of St. Louis, he said, could take care of themselves, and, although the resolution could do no harm, vet he deprecated the tendency to rush impulsively to Federal scurces for relief. Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, said he fully sympathized with this view, although the resolution, being here, it should be acted on, and made joint instead of concurrent. Mr. Cullom, of Illinois, said he felt from the latest reports that there was no eeccasion for the passage of the relief resoluticn, and that the respective States would be able to take care of their pecple on both sides of the river. Yes, as the House had acted, Mr. Cullom urged that the Senate should give its assent. He added that he was still in doubt and worried over the situation on the Illinois side. The resolution was amended to be joint instead of concurrent, thus requiring presentation to the P’resident, and was then adopted. T™he House later agreed to the Senate amendment, which makes the resolution joint instead of concurreat. The Joy resolution for the relief of the St. Louis sufferers reached the President at 5 o'clock and was signed by him ten minutes later. . In the Senate Friday the bills repealing the law relating to rebates on alcohol used in the arts, and amending the law concerning the distilling of brandy from fruits were passed. The latter authorizes the exemption of distillers of brandy made from fruits from the provisions re- | lating to the manufacture of spirits, except as to the tax thereon. The House | spent 2lmost the entire day debating the | Johnston-Stokes contested election case | from the Seventh South Carolina district. The Republicans were badly divided. | Those who favored seating the contest- | ant, Johnston, who ran on a Populist-Re-publican ticket, finding themselves slightIy in the minority when the voting began, inaugurated a filibuster which lasted until the conference report on the naval appropriation bill came to the rescue, and the House recessed before fina! action was taken. Johnston's partisans were outvoted—lo 3 to 95, and 103 to 99—the first vote being on the minority resolution declaring Johnston entitied to a seat, the second on the majority resolution declaring him not entitled to it. An effort will be made ta reconsider. Mr. Cullom of Illinois spoke at considerable length in the Senate Monday against the pending bill to prohibit the issue of bonds. The President returned to Congress three private pension bills, with his veto in each case. In the case of two-of the bills, granting pensicns to Mrs. Amanda Woeodcock and Jonathan Scott. both originating in the House, he points out that, owing to careless descriptions in the bills, the pcnsions ceuld not l!u‘ paid under their terms. In the other, a1 Nenate bill granting a pension to Helen M. Jacob, the President foreibly sets out his objections to allowing pensions to soldiers’ widows who remarry. The President says: “There is no duty or obligation lue from the Government to a soldier's widow except it be worked out through e deceased soldier. She is pensioned nly because he served his country and because through his death she as his wife has lost his support. In other words, she becomes a beneficiary of the Government because she is a soldier's widow. When she marries again and thus displaces the memory of her soldier husband and surrenders all that belongs to soldier widowhood she certainly ought not, on the death: of her second husband., be allowed to claim that she is again the soldier’s | widow."” Tall Man Wants a Job. The ‘“tallest man alive,” Col. A, A Towell, once of Texas, but for many { years of Barnum’s circus and the ‘ world, is looking for a job as floorwalker in a store in St .Louis, Mo. He is 34 !_\'o:n's old and stands 7 feet 714 inches lin his stockings. He says the show | business was tiring and didn’t pay, all things considered. Geological specimens brought home recently from the Antarctie region by a { Norwegian explorer have been an- | alyzed and fouad to contain microlene granite, with garnets and tourmaline and mica schists. As these have rarely been seen in an ocean island, the conciusion is that a continent exists around the South DPole. il e The young Khedive of Egypt is said ,to be an excellent amateur musician. { It seems that he has ventured upon l composition.