St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 December 1896 — Page 6

&lje Jnfopcndent. W. -A. ENDLEY, publisher. C-f. .-. . -. . '. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA eE=======T-«SU BULLETS FOR THREE. DEPLORABLE DEED OF A CINCINNATI MAN. Shoots His Divorced Wife, His ftei>son, and Himself—Lynching Feared in Oklahoma — Missouri Man Murdered by RobbersCincinnati Traeely. James Preston, aged 40, shot his wife, Amanda, aged 37, and the latter’s son. William Bryant, aged 19, at the residence of Mrs. Preston, in Cincinnati, Tuesday morning. Preston is a farmer near New Richmond, Ohio. His wife left ■him some time ago and went to Cincinnati, taking quarters with her son and making a living dressmaking. Preston followed his wife and tried to effect a reconciliation. He called at the house and a quarrel followed, during which he began tiring. When the neighbors came in they found the three on the floor wounded and bleeding. Preston had evidently first shot his wife, then his stepson and then himself. The hospital physicians say that Preston and his wife will die. The stepson has a wound in his left ellww. It is evident that Preston was actuated by motives of jealousy, as he had in his possession a letter written to bis wife by another man. Suspected Murderer Hilden Away Thomas McLaughlin, the Guthrie, O. T., negro suspected of the murder of Freeman Morrow, has been removed from the Stillwater jail to guard against lynching. His present place of confinement is kept a secret. As a result of evidence developed at the coroner’s inquest, Howard Clements, a negro schoolteacher, who came near being lynched on the day following the murder, has again been taken into custody. Eva Morrow, the murdered man’s little girl, spoke Monday night for the first time since the tragedy. While the doctors were dressing the terrible wound in her head she murmured: “He hit papa with the ax and then hit me.” The physicians now hope that she may be able to identify the murderer. Others in the Ruin. Four more Chicago failures were recorded Tuesday as a result of the suspension of the National Bank of Illinois. The American. Brewing Company, the George A. Weiss Malting and Elevator Company and George A. AA eiss made assignments in the County Court. George A. Weiss is president of both corporations, and theij business is closely connected. Weiss is a son-in-law of George Schneider, president of the National Bank of Illinois, and in the schedule of accounts made by the clearing house is shown to owe the bank $500,000. Wealthy Missourian Slain. Alfred Wilson, aged 70, one of the bestknown residents of Andrew County, Mo., was murdered Monday night by robbers at his home, one mile northeast of Avenue City. Wilson was a bachelor and was rich. Some time ago he became so embittered against banks that he drew out all his deposits and was supposed to have concealed the money about his home. A bloody footprint on a newspaper in the room is the only clew the officers have. It is not known whether any valuables were secured by the robbers. Writs for Bankers. Warrants for the arrest of E. S. Dreyer and Robert Berger, members of the firm of E. S. Dreyer & Co., mortgage bankers, who closed their doors at Chicago Monday morning, were issued Tuesday afternoon on the sworn information of Frank Kennedy, who charged the bankers with receiving deposits when they knew the concern was insolvent. NEWS NUGGETS. The President has signed the aet providing for governmental participation in the Centennial Exposition at Nashville, Tenn., and making an appropriation for a government building and exhibit. A special dispatch from Paris says it is suggested that Great Britain, France and Italy, the three powers most interested, offer their services in the Cuban question in order to prevent a conflict between Spain and the United States and to terminate the revolt. The employes of the Hampton House, at Boston, detected a strong smell of gas in the corridor early Tuesday morning and found that it came from a room which had been assigned to a couple who registered as Donald Donovan and wife. Entrance was gained by the fire escape and they were found lying in bed, the women dead and the man unconscious. Gas was escaping from an open burner. The man’s case was pronounced critical. Judge Tuley, of Chicago, decided against the owners of grain elevators who have been dealing in grain, and against । whom a strong fight has been waged by the Board of Trade. An injunction was granted restraining the elevator men from dealing in grain, as prayed by Attorney General Moloney and the Board of Trade. So f.rr the elevator men have ‘" ~?TT’sT Wwi eJ - d "GJ—Lu ! -they will take the case before J^^next session of the State Supreme Court. t. There is a big field in Germanw^for. American rubbers, says United SjgtejL Consul ^^ighan at Chemnitz port to’ the State Department. At piW| eJt-Russia is supplying most of the rub-. yjhrife in Geripajiy. selliu^througffi agencies all over the empire, Imt^ieitbef the Russian nor the German 'made ’ajjiek* ftJg good as the Af^efican' prtaTTfpf^j^rg. clumpy and Jacking in durability, aljkfFiimg it o'ornmands the market just liow^y >f its lower price. - / Al Littleton, AV. Va., a wire suspension ’"■bri^^Sj^ a Gty-k broke, down deb . i^tu^tfg home ifom ■:m»iLain<®toout thirl . <^^JJUl^^/aldi>rf tm® Bnuerica is not a place foPa ^ntfeman to live, intends to Mispose of his vast holdings of Gothan^ jeal estate as fast pus possible. _

EASTERN. Ex-Congressman Roswell G. Horr died Friday night at Plainfield, N. J., after an illness of two weeks with bronchitis and Bright’s disease. Herrmann, the magician, died Thursday in his private car at Great Valley, near Salamanca, N. Y. He was on his way to Bradford. The remains were forwarded to New York. James Smith, colored, was hanged at Upper Marlboro, Md., Friday morning. Smith had been held at Baltimore to avoid lynching since his arrest. Prior to his departure from Baltimore he was immersed by a Baptist minister and died professing that faith, having refused the ministrations of a Catholic priest. Smith killed Margaret Drown July 29. The Casino Skating-Rink and Summer Theater, a magnificent pleasure resort in Schenley Park, Pittsburg, was destroyed by fire Thursday morning. The loss will approximatessOO,OOO, on which the insurance is $75,000. The fire was caused by the explosion of an ammonia cylinder in the ice skating plant. Almost immediately the entire building was a seething mass of flames, and in less than three hours the beautiful structure was in ashes. The noxious vapors which filled the interior prevented the firemen from entering the Casino. The Casino cost $300,000 and its equipment more than SIOO,OOO. The ice-skating plant which was the first thing reached by the flames, alone cost $30,000. In the rear of the second floor was stored the fine and costly scenery used in the summer theater, and this was also devoured. It cost $40,000. The international meeting of the Salvation army at Carnegie Hall, New York, was attended by many dignitaries of the army, including Commander and Mrs. Booth-Tucker, Chief Secretary Higgins. Commissioner Higgins and Brigadiers Richard Holz, William Halpin. William J. Cozens, George French and Lieutenant Colonel Perry, all of whom occupied seats on the platform. After the preliminary exercises there was a processional entry of foreign delegates, about thirty-five in number, dressed in the costumes of their respective countries. Some were natives, but more were American workers in these foreign fields. When the cheering acompanying their entrance had subsided Commander Booth-Tucker advanced to the front and proceeded to unfold a plan that would cost $20,000 to put in operation. The scheme is to buy forty acres of land in the vicinity of New York and divide it up with colonies of from three to five acres each. Then he would rescue men from the penal institutions and place them on these little farms. He favored the establishment of a j>otato patch like Governor Pingree's, a woodyard where the boys could saw wood and an interstate labor exchange. WESTERN. The Bachelors' Club of Bridgeport, Conn., has started an active crusade against Sunday night sparking, even going so far as to raid girls' homes and carry their best young men bodily from the house. The Hotel Ryan annex at St. Paul was destroyed by lire Saturday morning, the damage to the building and furnishing being $500,000. The Conheim Furniture Company, in whose store the blaze started, loses SIOO,OOO. The main hotel, which is the largest in the Northwest, was saved, but damaged. No lives were lost. Attorney General Dawes at Topeka. Kan., in his biennial report, says the Kansas prohibitory laws has not been enforced under his administration nor under that of any of his predecessors, notwithstanding their reports to the contrary. He asserts that the law cannot be rigidly enforced unless local public sentiment is in favor of its enforcement. Warden J. AV. French of the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth has made the discovery that a gang of five convicts, four of them sent in for counterfeiting, were at work making spurious $5 bills. The leader of the gang was J. C. McKibben, the prism photographer. Warden French secured written confessions from all implicated, and the convicts will be tried for counterfeiting. Early Thursday morning an explosion occurred at the Detroit. Mich., College of Medicine, and immediately following the explosion flames broke forth and in less than two hours the building was a mass of ruins. The loss on building will reach $75,000. partly insured. Besides the building itself, valuable instruments and costly furniture wore destroyed. Incendiarism is strongly suspected. The Ohio State Building and Loan Inspector, A. J. Dunean, made a most im portant ruling as to borrowing members. He holds that receivers of building ami loan associations must sue borrowing members for the amounts due and require immediate payment, and not continue the receivership for years by taking in the monthly dues. This will result in sending many of the borrowers into bankruptcy. The successful consummation of another Tacoma, AVash., enterprise is announced. Early in January there will be established in Tacoma the first wholesale clothing manufacturing in the Northwest. It will be managed by the Tacoma Woolen Mills. A now plant, costing $40,000, will be established, having a capacity of 150 suits daily ami employing 150 persons. Chicago business men are behind the project. The farmers in the great wheat-grow-ing section of Southern Illinois are worried at the unfavorable appearance of the growing wheat crop. During the past two weeks the plant has turned yellow and shriveled up flat on the ground. The pjant above the surface is undoubtedly dead, but there is a diversity of opinion ■Bgg|&the condition of the roots. In Ohio A*' * s ^°* n ” serious damage, southern and central tion t<> institute proceedings the sale of liquor within four the Northwestern University, 3Evan»n, 111., the distance measured in a direJjline, is denied by Attorney General.Nfilriofi^. That official declines to act^fmafeasons fully set forth in an opinion rendered Friday. In brief, he holds tha^ the limits of the prohibitory district established by measurement ifeloag the. most; direct traveled roads ami ' mße&ldfeik a 1 ’• % W S- . , * "• ■ 1 ’ ' •' W number of tmWHKß^^wnich the moonBhine was consigned to country dealers

bear the brands of a number of wellknown and reputable St. Louis manufacturers of eider and vinegar and the revenue agents hope to trace the customers of the St. Louis houses to whom cider has been shipped in the vicinity of where the swindle was discovered. Frank P. Adams, of Adamsville, Tenn, who Thursday morning almost died from the effects of morphine, alleged to have been administered by his divorced wife and her brother, Billy Houston, proprietor of a place called the Houston Hotel, has recovered sufficiently to talk. Adams, who went to Leavenworth at the solicitation of his divorced wife, accompanied by his daughter, Myrtle, had considerable money. The girl carried drafts aggegating $1,722, and he himself had S6OO in currency, which he carried in a belt. AA’hen he recovered from the shock of the morphine Ibis money was found to be missing. Adams sent for officers, saying an attempt had been made to give him laudanum. His daughter asked for protection, and Deputy Sheriff McDonald was detailed to remain by his bedside. The girl will cause arrests to be made, with a view of recovering the missing money. The divorced wife of Adams seems little concerned. If plans now being formulated by the railroad companies can be successfully carried out the arid eastern section of Colorado will be converted into fruitful farm land. As explained by W. AV. Lunger, land inspector of the Union Pacific Railway Company, the railroad officials propose to introduce varieties of ntrrieultnrf and horticulture Hint are adapted to Hie soil of Eastern t'olorado, as it now stands. To do this will require a great deal of investigation and experiment. An effort will be made at once, it is said, to get aid from Congress toward this end. If no aid can be obtained from this source the railway managers may act alone. Experts in agriculture, horticulture and the effects of climate, altitude anti drought will be sent into Siberia, I’ersia and other countries which possess the general eliinntie and physical characteristics of this region. There they will find out what staple crops are raised, ami specimens of these will be sent to Colorado. Charges of mismanagement and insolvency overhang the I'aciijc Loan am) Homestead Association, whose officers are prominent in Chicago, and which has hitherto been regarded ns one of the reliable institutions of its kind in the city. Applications for withdrawals have been refused by the association, and the delay has led four of the stockholders to apply to the Superior Court for a receiver. The petition charges that the funds of the nssoeiation have been squandered ami its affairs mismanaged. Hundreds of shareholders in the institution tire of the middle classes, whose stock represents their entire savings. The association was organized ami incorporated in .lune. 18S8, with a capital stock < r $25,tMK),000, divided into shares of SIOO each. The officers of the concern arc: Daniel H. Korherspcrger. County Treasurer. President; James H. Gilbert, ex Sheriff, Vice President; DeAVitt <’. Butts. Secretary; Howard H. Hitchcock, Treasurer. In the complainants’ bill, it is estimated that the liabilities of the association exceeds its assets by SIOO,OOO. SOUTHERN. At Sneedville. Ky., Marion Hatfield . was hanged for the murder of Jonyy Trail. Five thousand people if. .'““',.l. ent. Hatfield confessed. Editor John J. Thornton, of Ashland, Ala., who has been making a crusade against lawless gangs, was assassinated by a miscreant who tired at him through a window. Tiie county courthouse at Galveston, Texas, was partly destroyed by tire, but it is believed that till the records are safe. The loss outside of records will approximate SI<MUHK>, the insurance cannot be ascertained. Percy Middlebrook. Frank Roc, and Patrick Powers, all sons of prominent citizens of Florida, Orange County, N. J., took a ride in a sleigh Lin- other night. AA'hen Hoe ami Powers attempted to assist Middlebrook from the sleigh they fount! that he was dead and frozen stiff. A mob that beleagm red the Russellville. Ky., jail all Thursday night early Friday morning took Arch. Dink and Bill Proctor out of their ceils, hanged two of them and shot the other to death. Arch killed two men. Doc and Aaron Crofton, of Adairville, Nov. 24. 1595, and the brothers were accessories. All have had three trials. The mob went to the jail at 2 o'clm k Friday morning, ami after battering down the front door and forcing the jailer to give up the keys went to the cells for the Proctors, The oldest, AA'ill Proctor, cursed the mob and was shot dead in his cell. The other two were taken out and hanged. The mob numbered about one hundred, ami did the work quietly and with dispatch. Bill Proctor had been tried three times for murder. WASHINGTON. A petition to Congress to put an end to th<i revolution in Cuba was signed by all the Aidermen of New York City and a copy forwarded to Washington. There are several important rulings io> the administration of she pension laws made in recent decisions of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds. One of them is that a desertion from the regular army under an enlistment subsequent to a service and honorable discharge from the war of the rebellion is not a bar to pension under the act of June 27. AVashington dispatch: The hearings to be given by the Ways and Means Committee on the tariff question promise to attract an even greater number of business men to AA’ashington than usually gather during a revision of the tariff. The committee is already overwhelmed by applications from representatives of the various interests who are anxious to present arguments for increasing the rater,. The Democratic members of the committee intend to marshal witnesses in rebuttal to advocate the continuance of the AA’ilson bill. They desire to have their ' side of the case included in the printed record of the hearings. It will be prac- ’ tically impossible for the committee to hear ail the applicants who want to present arguments in the limited time asI signed to the subject. The committee expects that those who appear will have their arguments prepared in writing to ’ be placed on file anil printed. : The Senate Committee on Foreign R e . s lations. which is usually a very dignified • and deliberate body, turned a double ■ somersault Friday on the Cuban ques- . tibn, and against the protest of the See- ■ retary of State, who argued with them > for an hour and a half, unanimously rec-

ommended to the favorable consideration of the Senate a joint resolution as follows: “Resolved, That the independence of Cuba be. and the same is, acknowledged by the United States of America. Section 2. That the United States will use its friendly offices with the government of Spain to bring to a close the war between Spain and Cuba.” It was not believed in public circles that President Cleveland would sanction the declaration, or that the House would support it. Should it become official, it is believed war with Spain would surely follow. But the Spanish minister did not look upon the matter seriously, though the friends of Cuba were extravagantly delighted. FOREIGN. Small-pox is raging with exceptional severity in the principal seaport towns of Japan. At Kobe 200 cases and several deaths were reported. The Hamburg-American line steamship Thuringia is ashore east of Point Curacuco, Island of Cnracusco, about seventyfive miles from the A'enezuelan coast. M. Deuscher of Turgau has been elected president and M. Ruffy of Lausanne vice president of the Swiss Republic. Both president and vice president-elect are radicals. The federal councilors were re-elected. jt i s „meially announced at Bombay that there have been 1,511 cases of the plague in that city and I.OSM deaths up to Jute. The exodus from Bombay conHnues. It is stated that 200,00 ti persons have fled from the city. The Spanish Government has decided to send 15,(H>0 soldiers to re-enforce the troops now in the Philippine Islands. The cabinet council decided to purchase the English transport steamer, I'rinee of AA'ales, in order to expedite the transpor tation of troops to Manilla. A meeting to express sympathy for the Cuban revolutionists was held in Rio de Janeiro, attemhd by S.(HH» persons Senor Patrocinio spoke. There was great enthusiasm and a motion was adopted asking the government to grant recognition of the belligerency of the Cubans. The United States cruiser Boston has been so badly st rained by running ashore on the Corean coast that it is expected she will have to return home for repairs. News was received at A’ietoria, B. C., Thursday in a private letter to one of the officers of her majesty’s ship Imperius. flagship of A’ietoria station, that Nov. 5 the Boston was proceeding to Chemulpo, when sb.e struck heavily on a sandbank in “Flying Fish” channel, twelve miles from th<‘ city. SJie succeeded in getting off next morning with the rise of the tide, and it was at first supposed her injuries were slight, but afterward she was found to be leaking, owing to n badly strained plate amidships. Great Britain has been in the throes of a genuine and unprecedented sensation. An earthquake, the most violent ever experienced in that country, has shaken every shire from Durham to Surrey and from London to the AA'elsh coast. The subterra neons disturbance was first noticed about 5:30 o'clock Thursday mottling and lasted from four to thirty seetiuls. At tnfiny points two distinct -shocks were experienced. The most severe shocks wi re fell at Cheltenham. Ledbury anti Dean Forest. The earth shaking was accompanied by a loud, rushing sound. Buildings were violently ILlimH’- <urnituri> wns -histed. floors were thrown open ami pictures ami other ornaments were upset. The inhabitants were panic-stricken ami fled from their housi-s. The earthquake also visited Birmingham and various other |x>ints in Shropshire, and was violent in AA'orcester and the country surrounding that city. Houses rocked and furniture was over turned. The shocks were followed by a tremor of the earth and were accompanied by a rumbling sound. 'Die greatest alarm prevailed everywhere. Chimneys were overthrown and windows, etc., were smashed. At Hereford one w unan di<si of fright. IN GENERAL. 'Die contract of AA illiam J. Bryan with the Mcßee-Bryan lecture combination is said to have b en s -Id for s2s,»hm». A most destructive tire started in .1 >- septi Rosenfield A Co.’s dry goods store at Clarksville AA’eduesday night, destroying it and the building adjoining, owned by the French estate, the Daily Tinies Building and Sam Rosenfield's store. Buildings across the street were damaged by heat. Kisses: Rosenfield, on stock, $60,000, building sl6,o<io; French building. sii,ooo; Times, s3,<m>O, insured. The total loss will be about $75,000; insurance not ascertained. MARKET EEFORTS. Chicago- Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades. S3JX> to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 76c to i7c; corn, No. 2, 22e to 23e; oats, No. 2,16 c to 18c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39e; butter, choice creamery. 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh. ISc to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common green to tine brush, 2c to 5’ p- per pound. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, 5.>.00 to s•> sheep, good to choice. $2.00 to SJSO; wheat, No. 2. 87c to 89e; corn. No. 2 white, 20e to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 21e to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $.>.00; hogs, s3.<h) to $3.50; wheat, No. 2. 92e to 94e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 20c to —c. oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,36 c to 37c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,94 cto 96e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2,36 cto 38c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 89c to 91e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 19c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 20e to 21c; rye. 36c to 38c. Toledo—AA’heat, No. 2 red. 92c to 94c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c: rye. No. 2, 38e to 39c; clover seed. $0.30 to $.>.40. Milwaukee—AA'heat. No. 2 spring. 77e to 79c; corn, No. 3. 21c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley. No. 2,30 cto 35c; rye, No. 1,39 cto 41c; pork, mess, $6.50 to $7.00. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75. wheat. No. 2 red. 93c to 94c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 86c to 87c; corn, No. 2. 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 2^c to 23e: butter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs, West eru, 18c to 23c.

JIM STONE LYNCHED. MADDENED MOB SUCCEEDS AFTER THREE TRIALS. Knives and Bullets Do the Fatal Work —Victim Was A cense 1 of Assault, an t Died at Prayer While Protesting His Innocence. Lynching in Kentucky. Jim Stone, a negro, was taken from jail by a Mayfield, Ky., mob Sunday night and lynched. At 10:30 o’clock about 500 masked men assembled a few hundred yards from the courthouse and marched to the county jail, and after breaking the doors of the prison entered and secured the negro. He was carried to the courtyard and swung up to a limb at 2 o’clock. Several of the mob fired shots through his body. The jailer attempted to defend the negro, but the mob overawed him and he was forced to surrender him. The prisoner made a statement to the effect that another negro committed the crime, but the mob paid no attention to his words. The negro offered prayer while knives were being plunged into his body. A placard pinned .on rhe body contained the names of several other negroes residing in the city, who were notified to take fair warning. Stone was charged with assault Nov. 24. He was arrested by Sheriff Cook rhe day after the crime was committed. Stone denied his guilt, but the evidence was overwhelmingly against him. Three attempts had previously been made to lynch him. BREVITIES, The Milan Seeolo states that Sig. Crispi’s daughter, the Princess Lingua-Glossa, has eloped with one of her servants. The Krebs oil well, north of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, stopped flowing. It belongs to the Standard, and has netted the company almost $150,000. President Crespo asks to have the A’enezuelan arbitration treaty so modified as to give to A’enezuela the appointment of one of the arbitrators. The entire family of Aaron Goldsmith, consisting of five persons, was burned to death at New York last night. The explosion of a lamp set their home on fire. Obituary—At Beaver Dam. AVis., John G. AA'illiams; at Joliet, 111.. Max Braum, 60; at Canton, Ohio, Paul Field; at Monticello, 111., Dr. B. B. Jones; at Whitewater, AA’is., Rev. James Delaney, 9G. Four thousand unemployed men held a massmeeting tit Denver and passed resolutions demanding that the city authorities set them at work on public improvements for which appropriations have been imide. AA’est bound passenger train No. 20. on the Southern Pacific Railway, was held up by three masked men and three money packages stolen from the express-car at midnight Sunday night, near Comstock, 2nS miles west of San Antoni'?. As a result of the suspension of the Illinois National Bank at Chicago E. S. Dreyer A Co. and AA'asmansdorff, Heiuemann A Co., two private banks clearing through the Illinois National, were forcevi to make appliealW' in court for a receiver. • Brazil has declared to the Spanish Government that she will not recognize Cuban insurgents as la'lligereiits. Italy has informed the Spanish envoy at Rome, the Count de Beuomiir, that she will prohibit the embarkation of Italians for Cuba to aid the insurgents. The Defiance. Ohio, Electric Light and Street Railway Company, bonded in the sum of SIOOJMMt, went into the hands of a receiver. The company is heavily embarrassed. and is the last of the famous Andy Sauer enterprises, all of which ’liave proved disastrous. Train No. 35. on the Southern Railway, was stopped Thursday night in I'ayette County. Ala., by two masked men who flagged the train on a bridge. One of the express safes was broken into. The robbers got very little for their trouble. The exact amount is not stated. The Illinois Central Railroad freight del 4 contents at Jackson. Miss., were burned Sunday. The origin of i.te lire*is unknown, but it is supimsed to have been coused by a lamp explosion. The loss is estimated at from ssii,OH<t to Sso.iMHi. The books and records were saved. Train No. 71 on the Grand Trunk Rail way was derailed about two miles below Danville Junction, Me.. Monday and four •ars were partially wrecked. Seventeen passengers were hurt, but not seriously. I’he injured were taken to Boston. The cause of the accident was a broken rail. The traffic was delayed for several hours. In open convention at Cincinnati the American Federation of Labor put the seal of approval on its indorsement of President Gompors in executive session by giving him unanimous re-election. All the other officers were also selected in the same manner, with the exception of Secretary M. <’raitTi. to succeed whom, as was expected. Frank Morrison of Chicago was chosen without opposition. A mining company has been organize 1 at Marlow, 0. T.. with $500,000 capital. The gold fever has run high since reliable reports have reached Guthrie of rich finding at the head of Otter Creek on the north side of AVichita Mountains, and there is talk of an organized rush of several thousand mon to capture the rich gold discoveries. Marlow is the nearest railroad point to the mountains, being only about four hours’ drive to the nearest mines, fourteen miles northwest of Fort Sill. At Thermopolis. Fremont County, AVyo.. B. F. Hanson, deputy sheriff, owner of the town site and a wealthy man, gave a dance Sunday night to which Thomas Bird, a wealthy cattleman and rival magnate, came uninvited. Bird was promptly shot twice and killed by Hanson, who is now in custody. The shooting was the result of a trivial quarrel. El Ileraldo asserts that the minister of war at Madrid. General Azearraga, is preparing numerous pamphlets on the geography, toprography and miltary condition of the United States to distribute to the chief officers of the Spanish army. The F. AA'. Gaskell Company, the largest retail grocery and provision establishment in Alliance. Ohio, assigned. Julius A. Zang is assignee. Liabilities are $20.(MMI. with assets estimated at $30.<M.»0. The People's Theater, which is managed by Gaskell, is not included in the assignment.

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAVA MAKERS. A AVeek’s Proceedings in the Halle of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Ixnpar' tial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. The Senate Thursday passed the immigration bill known as the Lodge bill, with a new section providing that the exclusion shall not apply to persons arriving from Cuba during the continuance of the present disorders there. As passed, the bill amends the immigration laws so as to exclude from admission to the United States all persons over 16 years of age who cannot read and write the language of their native country or some other language, but an admissnble immigrant, over the age of IG, may bring in with him, or send for, his wife or parent or grandparent or minor child or granchild. notwithstanding the inability to read and write. The House passed the third of the regular appropriation bills, that for the support of the army, and entered upon the consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial bill. The army bill as passed makes no provision for the army and navy hospital at Hot Springs. Ark. The House also passed several bills relating to the District of Columbia and three resolutions for the use of flags of the war department, government roservatio;is. etc., on the occasion of Mj-. McKinley's inaugura t ion. Friday was private bill day in the House, but most of the session was devoted to the passage of the thirty-seven pension and relief bills favorably acted upon by the committee of the whole Friday. The bill to pay Flora A. Darling, the wife of a Confederate general. $5,683 for Tennessee and Louisiana bank notes taken from her in 1564 while under a flag of truce, which was attacked by Mr. Dalzell Friday, was laid on the tableOnly five bills were favorably acted upon. O.'.e of them, a bill to refer a claim of Thomas B. Ried, a Pennsylvania soldier during the war, to an unpaid balance of salary to the Court of Claims created some merriment owing to the fact that his name was identical with that of the Speaker of the House. The other bills were to pay the officers and crews of the United States gunboat Kineo and Chocura $12,474 prize money; to pay AA’illiam B. Isaacs & Co. $16,987. the finding of the Court of Claims; to pay George McAlpin, the sutler of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. $6,996 illegally collected from him; and to repay Mathias Pederson of Spring A’alley, AA’is., S3OO paid by him for a substitute during the war, Pederson not at that time being a citizen i?f the United States. The Senate did nothing of importance. A report presenting additional views on the Cuban question was presented to the Senate Monday by Senator Morgan of Alabama, in behalf of himself and Senator Mills. *lt indorses Senator Cameron's views and discusses the action of Mio Committee on Foreign Relations in 1859, on the bill to facilitate the acquisition of the island of Cuba. The report reviews the alleged misgovernment of Cuba and—• messages by former Presidents on the subject, and then refers to President Cleveland's attitude, whose message, it affirms, is in corroboration of all former testimony on the subject. Debate was sharp and rancorous. Mr. A’est offered a resolution to the effect that Congress, and not the President, is vested with jo oouopuoilopui aztuSoooj or jaxtod belligerency of any insurgent people. Debate was stopped by Mr. Hale, upon a point of order. Mr. Hill introduced a resolution looking toward recognition of the Cubans as belligerents, and pledging neutrality of this government. No final action was taken. Nothing of importance was done by the House. The attention of the Senate was unexpectedly diverted Tuesday from Cuba to the Pacific railroads. Soon after the session opened Mr. Pettigrew of South Dakota called up his resolution appropriating slo,<H)o.o<>o to take up the trust notes of the Pacific railroad. This opened the entire question and Mr. Morgan of Alabama followed with a bitter arraignment of the Pacific roads, charging them with fraud and crime on a gigantic scale. The speech lasted until shortly before 2 ■ o’clock, when the morning hour expired, thus sending over the Cuban question until after the holidays. Further than this the session was uneventful. The House passed the legislative, executivu and judicial appropriation bill and then adjourned for the holiday recess. This is the first time in the history of Congress that the legislative bill has passed before the holidays. The day was devoted to the annual debate of the civil service law ’ and, as usual, the attempt to strike out ’ the provision for the commission wasoverwhelmingly defeated. i _ Reflections of a Bachelor. Lots of men think they ought to get. their wives’ affection on credit. Men who aiv at heart most ronmntir always pretend to the last not to be. Pretty teeth are very often at lite foundation of a girl's reputation for jollity. There's such a thing as having toomuch regard for the feelings of the neighbors. The velvet on the peach may be pretty to look at. but it sets your teeth on edge to touch it. There are some women who never find occasion to bewail the passing of the days of clGvalry. AA'hen a man says that nobody cares whether he lives or dies, he isn't advertising himself very well. AA'hen a woman tells you some gossip about another woman, she always begins by saying: “Isn't it awful how she has got herself talked about!” AA'hen a woman gets an idea she must be economical she hunts around and finds an old skirt to rip up. A man isn't likely to enjoy hearing his wife talk with a woman who remembers him when he was a boy. There never was a woman who wasn't awfully conceited about the way she could love if she tried. A man hurts himself more in bis wife's estimation by being brutal to other people than he d^es by being brutal to her.