St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 January 1897 — Page 6

£l)c 3ni»cpcn^cnt. ■ - L— -T LVi W. A. Y, ;*ubHslior. ■c========^^ ^-.^3=. WALKERTON, - • . INDIANA PRIESTS ABE IN PERIL EIGHTEEN IN THE HANDS OF PHILIPPINE REBELS. iWgr. Martinelli Discusses the Situation with Considerable Freedom— Chicago Packers Would Control Salmon Trade. Bad News from the Philippines. The papal delegate at Washington, Archbishop Martinelli, has received discouraging news from his vicar general, Roderiquez, in Rome, regarding the rebellion in the Philippine Islands. In an interview Mgr. Martinelli discussed the situation in both the Philippine Islands and ~~rxz : . in Cuba with considerable freedom. “Our very strong here,” said the arch«tffiaye several bishops and AHMWUI* wW I

O&jtarftrteen Dominicah priests were also either carried away’or slain by the rebels, and those who were taken off were afterward killed; so we suppose the same fate has befallen the members of our order. The rebellion in the Philippines is likely to prove a most horrible affair, as the natives are only semi-civilized. Spain, too, is handicapped to some extent by the fact that she maintains on the island only a scattered army of about four thousand men. Spain will have a difficult task to subdue the half-barbarous people of the Philippines.” Trust in Salmon. C. E. Norris, a prominent Chicago broker, is forming a gigantic combine of salmon packers. Norris has been in Astoria, Ore., dealing with the canning men for two years and is said to have a great deal of influence. The continuation of the combine as it existed last year follows as a matter of course. Norris' new scheme is to enlarge it and practically form a trust of all the canneries of the river. The idea suggested by Norris is that the canneries be allowed to retain their present brands and names until such time as the success of the association is assured. If success should follow, a general brand will be established. During seasons when the packs are large there is generally a rush to force salmon on the market and the price is lowered as a consequence. This will be done away with if the trust is successful. By far the greater number of packers are in favor of the scheme. NEWS NUGGETS. Olga Nethersole, the actress, is seri ously ill at Columbus, Ohio. Great Britain’s new cruiser Terrible / has a speed of 22(4 knots an hour. Frank Dougherty, a miner, was shot and killed by Policeman F. C. Guyton at Leadville, Colo. Henry Lawson, editor of the colonist and the oldest journalist in Canada, died at Victoria, B. C. “.Tack the barn burner” is terrorizing Buffalo, N. Y. Nine barns were destroyed in forty-eight hours. John R. Tanner was formally inaugurated Governor of Illinois at Springfield, Monday at noon. Lady ’Henry Somerset has suffered a severe contusion of the forehead in a carriage accident at Westminster. The Franco-Brazilian Bank at Rio Janeiro has opened a government credit of £1,000,000, with interest to be at the rate of 5 per cent, annually. Rich Jordan and Riley Walker, colored, sentenced for life for murder, were taken by a mob of lynchers, but, it is said, made their escape near Montgomery, Ala. The disabled steamer Durham City, from St. John’s, sighted Sunday night in distress, was on her way to London. She is now twelve miles south,of Canso with a broken shaft. Thomas G. Conkling, superintendent of the Pinkerton Detective Agency at Kansas City, Mo., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Prior to 1895 he had been connected with the Chicago office for ten years. William Divine and his brother-in-law, W-t Lewis, will both be arrested on the if murdering Ida Divine, wife of ^Divine, near Shakertown, Ky., I Lj.;-, of the ..listing of a father and ^Jister and seven children has Jived at Santa Ana, Cal., from Toma in a wagon. The head of the ^--xaiily is George E. McKenzie, a stout, robust Texan of about 45 years. Mrs. IMdKenzie said the party sold out their ranches in Oklahoma and turned their (faces toward the sunny southland the 2d of last August. The national monetary conference was begun in Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Tuesday afternoon. The convention was called to order at 2 o’clock. Mr. Hanna, chairman of the executive committee, suggested ex-Gov. E. O. Stannard of Missouri for temporary chairman, and he was chosen. A noticeable feature of the register was the absence of Western delegates. The South showed a fair proportion of delegates, while the East and Central West furnished the largest delegations. Koch. Dreyfus & Co., wholesale dealers in watches and diamonds at New Yolk, are in financial difficulties. The liabilities are over $200,000. The house is an obi one. having been started in ,New Orleans in 1849 by Nathan Koch, the senior partner. They moved to New York in 1889. Poor business, hard collections and heavy losses are the cause. Thirteen desperate criminals broke jail at Huntington, W. Va., Sunday night. They also robbed the wholesole hardware house of a dozen revolvers and several guns and ammunition. A posse is Jin pursuit and much trouble is expected.

EASTERN. According to a Philadelphia report Anna Held is to marry her manager, F. Ziegfeld. The total valuation of real and personal property in New York City, according to the assessment rolls just completed by the tax department, is approximated at $2,166,485,000. J. 11. Johnston &. Co., New York, dealers in diamonds, jewelry and silverware, assigned to John R. Keim and Arthur 11. Masten. The liabilities are reported to be $219,C00 and assets about $201,000. The Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Company, after a close down of four months, has opened its Casper, Wyo., refinery and started the fires again. Shipments of oii will be resumed and renewed drilling is probable in the near future. Jesse Pomeroy, the notorious murderer, serving a life sentence at Charlestown, Mass., prison, once more almost escaped from jail Wednesday by removing stone and bricks in his cell. His work must have occupied weeks, and his escape would have been possible in a few’ hours. The Second National Bank of Erie, Pa., conceded to be one of the strongest financial institutions of the State, withstood a run on it Tuesday. All day, from 9a. m. to 3 p. m., a steady stream of depositors called upon the paying teller, but every demand was met. How the run la n pjVStefy. —— on the ■Seneca streets.

aoYdsPli Fid'retail clothiers, was baddamaged by fire Sunday afternoon. ^lie loss is $150,000, caused principally by, water and smoke. The firm, carried an insurance of $175,000. The contest at Harrisburg, Pa., fur the succession to the seat in the United States Senate occupied by J. Donald Cameron, was finally settled in the joint party caucus of the Republican members of the Legislature, who chose State Senator Bois Penrose, of Philadelphia. At Sacramento, Cal., George C. Perkins was declared the nominee by the joint Republican caucus. It is settled that Charles W. Fairbanks will be the next United States Senator from Indiana. WESTERN. The Bank of Canton, Minn., and the Citizens’ Bank of Lanesboro, both owned and operated by Field. Kelsey A Co., suspended business Wednesday. After a three years’ struggle $150,009, the sum contingent upon the $50,000 subscription of Dr, D. K. Pearsons, of Chi- . cago, to Colorado College, has been secured. Joseph Boulanger, a half-breed Osag ■ Indian, proposes to bring suit to recover forty-three acres of land in the heart of Kansas City, now worth between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000, which, he claims, was left by his grandfather. Gen. Joseph Stockton, of Chicago, filed a bill for divorce in the Circuit Court against his wife, Annie B. Stockton, whom he married over twenty years ago. Mrs. Stockton, however, has not lived with her husband since 1893. Lulu Jones, aged 24, a servant etap'oy ed at the home of ex-Assistant Postmaster General E. G. Rathbone at Hamilton, Ohio, was burned to death Thursday morning, and Mrs. Rathbone, in attempting to save the girl's life, was painfully burned about the arms and face. The girl’s dress caught fire from a range. Walter Boyd hailed a St. Paul. Minn., street car and the ear Hew by. permitting Boyd to remain standing where he was. Boyd sued the street railway company before Justice Blackwell, who tim'd the company $5. The rporation refuses to pay because it would be a bad precedent and will take the matter to the higher courts.

Grant Bramble, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., who invented and patented a wonderful rotary engine, has transferred the right to manufacture and sell the engines to Henry Francis Allen, representing the Allen syndicate of England, for $3.1(X),000. This sale is for the United States only, England, Germany, Eranee and Europe having been previously sold for over $4,000,000. Charles Powell, a territory outlaw, wh) was with Bill Doolin in many of-his raids, has been captured at Eldorado Springs, Mont., after a tight with officers. Powell was at his mother's home. He was heavily armed and although surrounded in the house, tired live times at the officers, wh > returned the lire, lie finally surrendered and will be taken back to Oklahoma. None of the bullets took effect. The California mining world has been set by the ears by the developments in the Kennedy mine in Grass Valley within tin last few days. At a perpendicular depth of over twenty-one hundred feet a body of rich ore, fully thirty feet in width, has been discovered. In magnitude the ore body will compare favorably with any yet found, and the great depth at which it lies explodes a long-cherished ami hereto-foru-Lelleyed infallible tradition of the Pacitie coast. 11 ^^u^m^heor^^Hiiel^lgeTnis aimostcrystallized into a formula, that gold ore disappears after a certain depth has been attained. The developments in the Kennedy not only topples over this old-time belief, but may lead to a revolution in mining, for the deeper progress is made in the Kennedy the wider grows the ore body. Imprisoned in the Woodlawn police station at Chicago are five young men who comprise a gang of the most daring bank swindlers and forgers that has operated in this country in twenty years. Over a score of Chicago business mon have been made victims of the swindlers and the banks of Chicago, as well as of St. Imuis, Burlington. lowa, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and a number of other towns, have lost by their operations over SIOO,OOO within the past year. The prisoners are: Arthur L. Foreman, alias Howard E. Stone: Elmer Russell; Eddie L. Root, alias O’Rourke; Charles McCuen, William Bert. The police are now searching for Paul Moran, who lives with his parents in 33d street, and who is suspected of being a member of the gang. Confession has been made. State Bank Commissioner John W. Breidenthal predicts the number of Kansas banking institutions will decrease materially within the next two years, if not be cut in two. He says there are too many banks in Kansas now for the amount of business transacted, and he is advising consolidation in every place •where it is feasible. “It is simply a question of time whether many of these Institutions shall go into voluntary liquidation or be forced to suspend,’’ said the Commissioner, “and in order to prevent the latter I have advised a general consolidation all over the State, especially in

I the smaller towns.” The oversupply of banks came into existence during booms, I and, while capital has since diminished, ; there has been no perceptible decrease in . the number of institutions. The depute I commissioners who have just returned • from a tour of the State, examining all >1 banks, report that in nearly every town I or city the bankers are figuring with each other on a plan of consolidation in accordance with the advice of the Commissioner. New and startling complications are forthcoming's the result of the National Bank of Illinois failure at Chicago. Col. M . V. Jacobs, who conceived the Calumet Electric Railway and was forced out of control in 1893, is unable to push claims against the officers of the National Bank of Illinois because all papers and books relating to his connection with the Calumet Electric Railway have been stolen. According to,Cqk Jacobs, the crime was committed by one of his confidential clerks, against whom a charge is now pending in the Unifed States Court. Claim is made that the theft of the papers in his possession was the sequel of a conspiracy which promises sensational developments. In addition to the significance attached to the stolen papers in relation to the failure of the National Bank of Illinois, the publication of a duplicate foreign exchange credit from the defunct bank to Col. Jacobs places an entirely new face upon the suit which is now’ pending in regard fb the sale of the Englewood and Chicago Electric Street Railway Company. . The printing of two sac-

to the conviction of the culprit who is charged with the theft. SOUTHERN. Another disastrous fire has occurred at ■•Vern Cruz, Mexico, destroying factories and business blocks to the value of $200,000. Simon Coorier, the negro outlaw who Thursday murdered three members of the Wilson family and a colored servant, was lynched near Sumter, S. C., Friday. The steamboat Bello of the Coast was destroyed by tire at Carrollton, La. She belonged to Capt. John F. Aiken, was valued at $40,000 and insured for $30,000. Fire broke out Wednesday at Athens, Ala., on the north side of the square at midnight. Irwin A Pepper's double store, dry gods: Roy Smith, grocery; Hendricks Bros., grocery, and Westmoreland, drugs, tire destroyed. A cyclone Saturday night did great d,-image along the Cotton Bell Road. At Motz, Ark., the gin house and grist mill of George Mills were completely destroyed and Mr. Mills was fatally injured. Many others were more or less injured. Frank Harris, who shot and killed Herman Medley Christmas Day at Eagle Station. was discharged by Judge Donaldson of Carrollton, Ky. Harris made a statement, which was strongly corroborated by circumstances detailed by other witnesses. The Judge held that it was a ease in which the unwritten law applied, and the defendant was dismissed. FOREIGN. At Bombay the mill operatives ami their families are quitting the city en masse, thus adding a quarter of a million unemployed to the country districts. It is now estimated that 325,999 persons have tied from the city as a result of the spread of the plague, scattering contagion in the villages up the country. The Bolivian press, almost without an exception, demands that the Government hasten military preparations, in view of the fact that Peru is making formidable efforts in the way of arming. The Bolivian papers say the Government must not be caught napping and that .a strong military policy must be adopted at once. The London County Council has made a good bargain for the taxpayers in the matter of the renewal for a period of twenty years of the franchises of the London and North Metropolitan street car systems, or “tramways,” as they are known in England. The companies undertake to pay the Council a lump rental of $225,000 yearly; and in addition .to pay 10 per cent, on the increase in the gross trailic receipts for each year. El Pais, a newspaper at Havana, Cuba, gives detailed accounts of the new system ■followed by the C’*ban junta in trying to send arms and ammunition to Cuban rebels on vessels which have legally cleared from the United States. It alleges that it is the intention of the junta to cause trouble between Spain and the United States. It adds that any vessel havings arms could be seized by a Spanish man-of-war as a pirate, and that the United States would acknowledge the right of the Spanish Government to do soJ Constantinople dispatch: Owing to the refusal of the Turkish authorities to admit the dragomans of the embassies to be present at the trial of Mazhar Bey the French and Italian ambassadors have recalled their dragomans and have strongly protested to the Porte, demanding a change of venue in the trial of Mazhar Bey, who is accused of complicity in the murder of Father Salvatore, an Italian priest, — who - was kitted in tireJenidjekale, at Marash. in 1895. by Turkish troops commanded by the Bey. The ambassadors insist that thejatter shall be tried by a competent and impartial tribunal here, instead of at Marash. Lady Selina Scott, mother-in-law of Earl Russell, who pleaded guilty at London in the Central Criminal Court of criminally libeling his lordship in connection with John Cockerton, an engineer, and William Aylott. a valet, was sentenced Friday morning to eight months’ imprisonment without hard labor. Coekerton and Aylott, who also pleaded guilty, received similar sentences. Lady Scott, accompanied by her daughter. Countess Russell, entered the courtroom at an early hour. They were both stylishly dressed in black, and, pending the opening of court, walked up and down the corridor, th^ daughter having an.arm around her mother’s waist. Both ladies were painfully nervous and Lady Scott was heard to remark: “1 do not dread going to prison, but I feel the injustice of the way 1 have been treated.” In anticipation of questions to be asked upon the opening cf Parliament, the^commissioners of prisons have issued from London a report stating that the introduction of doll-dressing as an employment for female short-term convicts in Holloway jail and other prisons has proved eminently satisfactory. Until recently su»li of the women as could not be placed in the culinary, laundry and other domestic departments of the prisons were expected to put in ten hours a day picking oakum. This task, however, was found unfitted for tender fingers; in several eases blood-poisoning supervened, and prisoners who had been sentenced for

short terms for drunkenness and similar I offenses were physical wrecks when re- ' leased. Hence the substitution of doll- | dressing. The rough doll figures are im- ' ported from Germany, where they are made in prisons, and a Manchester firm which exports dolls to all parts of the world has made a contract with the prison authorities for all the dolls that can be turned out during the next five years. Madrid dispatch: A friend of the Duke of Tetuan has just revealed the contents of a bold and extraordinary letter addreased to the Spanish Government Wednesday by United States Minister Taylor. It is said that the Queen Regent was greatly moved when Taylor's blunt message was conveyed to her, and that the Government now considers the diplomatic issue with the United States as fully defined. After announcing that Secretary Olney had cabled approval of his condemnation of sham Puerto Rico reforms as worthless ami of promises of greater reforms in Cuba as too vague, Minister Taylor wrote in plain terms his individual idea of what Secretary Olney meant when he urged prompt action upon Spain. He said in his letter to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs that unless Spain offered clear and reasonable terms as the basis of peace in Cuba before President Cleveland went out of office thj question of local self-government in this island would soon disappear from American politics, and the only question to tremain would be tjie immediate and unconditional t h e j n d e .

IN GENERAL ■’^enator Calvin S. Brice, at the head of ariose syndicate of United States officeholders and capitalists, has nearly concluded arrangements for the establishment of a monopoly of the railroad, telephone and telegraph systems in China. I Seven Ursuline nuns were victims of fire in the convent of Our Lady of Lake St. Johns, near Roberval, Quebec. This convent was controlled by the Ursulines of Quebec, a cloistered order, and one of the oldest religious orders in Canada. The loss is $75,000, insurance $12,000. Senator-elect Money, in an interview given Sunday to the Associated Press, says: “I have just returned after a two wseks’ absence on a visit to Cuba. I went there to personally inform myself, for my own guidance as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as to the condition of things in the island. Accounts have been so conflicting and the reports from Havana so diverse that I concluded to make some personal discovery in the matter for myself. At the very outset I will say that everything I saw and beard tauglit mo that Spain is unable to cope with this insurrection. She will never put it down; Spain will never end this wa’r with victory to herself. This is also the opinion of Consul General Fitzhugh Lee. ami he has heretofore expressed it to Secretary Olney. He has told the Se< retary of State that the insurrectionists, whether soon or later, were bon ml to succeed.” R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The year 1897 begins with one clear advantage. The last year has swept out of the way a great number of unsound concerns which in any time of activity would have been dangerous to business. Os the 15.286 commercial ami banking failures in 1896, with liabilities of $276,815,749, a large share represented crippling losses in previous years, on the violence of speculative storms in 1895 or the first half of 1896, while thousands more resulted from the fury of the political tornado last fall. Banking failures amounting to $50,718,915 during the year averaged $156,156 each, ami were 145 per cent larger than in 1895. Commercial failures amounted to $226,096,834, a little over $1,000,000 having been added by the last day of the year, but the average of liabilities, $14,992, was smaller than in some years of groat prosperity. The failures of brokerage and ‘other' commercial concerns averaged $58,418 each, increasing 183 per cent over 1895, while manufacturing failures averaged $28.80S each, and increased 34 per cent, and trading failures increased IS per cent and averaged only $9,606 each. Over four-fifths of the increase in manufacturing and trading failures was in lumber manufacturing. While banking failures have not ceased at the West, apprehension about them has almost wholly subsided and no serious influence upon general trade is now expected. Many sound concerns were doubtless caught by the epidemic, but practically all the important failures are traced to disregard of law and of banking sense at periods small distant. It is felt at the West that all business will be the sounder after its purging.”

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3)50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades $3.09 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2,00 to|s4.oo; wheat. No. 2 red. 77c to 79e; coijn. No. 2,22 cto 23c; oats, No. 2,15 c to 17c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39e; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, Wlto 17c; potatoes; per bushel, 20c to iv fine bresh- 2%c to 5%c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping,-$3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; shsw< good to choice. $2.00 to $3.50; wh®L No. 2. 87c to 89c; corn. No. 2 uf.He, 20c to 22e; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. Ht. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, s3^) to $3.50: wheat. No. 2,90 cto 92c; cofh. No. 2 yeliow, 20c to 21c; oats, Nd 2 white, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2,34 c to 36c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00: hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,35 cto 37c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2 yellow, ^2c to 23c; oats,- No. 2 wllite, 19c to 21c; rye, 37c to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 94c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $5.25 to $5.35. Milwaukeev-Wheat. No. 2 spring, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 3,19 cto 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2,25 cto 35c;-rye, No. 1,38 cto 49c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 94c; corti, No. 2 yellow. 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white. 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs. Western, 15c to 19c.

VERY SMOOTH SCHEME ILLINOIS MAN TRIED TO BUNCC HIS FATHER. Reported His Own Death, and the Ohl Gentleman Wanted to See tha Remains—Great Enterprise Being Orcanized by Eastern Mill Workers. Tried to Rob His Father. Horace Hall, a white-haired man over <‘•9 years old, and William Rusk, about twenty-five years his junior, are in jail at Santa Rosa, CaL, charged with a peculiar offense. Rusk's father is a wealthy citizen of Atwater, 111. The young men left home about ten years ago. The scheme was for young Rusk to die. figuratively speaking, and then under the name of Brown :o become administrator of his own estate. Then Hall was to write to Rusk’s parents, telling them that Rusk was dead and that he had borrowed $4,000 from Hall, which Brown, the administrator, refused to pay until he heard from Rusk’s father. The letter was couched in sympathetic terms, but made it very plain that it was Rusk’s duty to send th? money to Brown so he could pay the debt of his alleged dead son. Had it rot been for the J’ 1 ? ’ farmer’s desire to see son the game would

t imes about the bodc- t<> ■ iv,, „ Hall and getting no satisfaction he became suspicious, and went to see his son's remains prcperly interred. Hall and Rusk bitterly upbraid each other for the failure of their plan. Giant Co-operative Schema. A Pittsburg dispatch sayst A gigantic project is to be carried out by a joint Stock company of Western Pennsylvania mill workers. It is the building of a great iron and steel plant at I’ort Angeles on Puget Sound, northwest of Seattle, Wash. The plant will cover thirty acres, and the cast will be about $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. Work will begin in the spring. Already half the stock has been subscribed by about 1,200 stockholders in Braddock, Duquesne, Homestead, McKeesport, Turtle Creek, Wilmerding, Pittsburg and Allegheny. The stock rates at SIOO per share. Many <>f the Carnegie mill workers and Westinghouse employes are interested in the project. The plan was formulated some months ago by George M. Nimon, a pat-tern-maker. at the Edgar Thomson steel works for the last twelve years, and son of G. M. Nin.on, Sr., master carpenter and pattern-maker at those works. The Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Port Angeles offered tin immense bonus, which was accepted. It includes eighty acres of land for the manufacturing site and 2<mi acres for a town site, with right of way for tracks to the I*' rt Angeles wharves, where is water deep enough for heavy draught ships, with 7|tMi feet wharfage, and water power and right of way to develop the same.

Important Legislation in Argentine. The chamber of deputies of the I’rovim <- of Tuci.man. Argentine, has passed a bill taxing the sugar monopoly at the rate of $25,<MMt annually. The budget committee of the national senate ha-; made further reductions in the estimates of expenses for the new year tts promulgated by the chamber of deputies. These reductions amount to $1,509,900. The senate also reduced the tax on sugar for the next crop only 1 cent. The tax on sugar export premiums is reduced 2 cents. The senate has approved the measure providing for the issue of $10,000,000 in mortgage bonds for the relief of the distressed agricultural districts. This relief would give each farmer in the provinces where the crops have been de stroyed about SIO,OOO. BREVITIES, Thomas G. Conkling, superintendent of the Pinkerton agency at Kansas City, commit ted suicide. The Pacific funding bill was defeated in the house Monday by a vote of: Yeas, 102; nays, IGB. This kills the measure outright. The so-called Countess Emma Ugolini, her husband ami two other Italians, convieb'd Dec. 18 of stealing valuable lace from the Wist End store of Peter Robinson. were sentenced at London to from nine to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labor. Charles Nash, who is serving a year's sentence in the South Dakota penitentiary, is reported to have fallen heir to an estate valued at $149,009 through the death of a relative in England. Nash was convicted of running a “blind pig” nt Alcester. His term will expire in April. The Times of India says that owing to the exodus on account of the plague the jiopiihition of Bombay has been reduced Obp-half. The weekly mortality is 200 per «L22Qjtmj^iiip^^^ops are closed announced that 1,250,000 pe¥st> receiving relief, and it is added that the number will probably reach 2,000,000 during the coming week.

Supt. Thomas G. Conklin, of Pinkerton's National Detective Association in Kansas City, Mo., blew his brains out Sunday afternoon. The ball struck him in the right temple and came out at the top of the head. No cause can be found for the act. as his domestic relations were said to be of the most pleasant character. He was about 3-> years old. A wife and three children, the eldest a buy. survive him. Mr. Conklin lias been in»charge of the office for about live years, coming from Chicago. He was formerly of Philadelphia. Mrs. F. M. Hall, widow of the founder of Howe Hall Militaiy Academy of the Episcopalian diocese of Indiana, who resides at Lima, Ind.. Monday informed Fort Wayne friends that she is preparing to spend the next four years in Imndon with her cousin. C. M. Osborne, of Boston, who will be President McKinley's consul general in London. The Allan Line steamer Buenos Ayres, Philadelphia for Glasgow, which grounded on Dau Bake’s Shoals Saturday night, floated Monday morning and passed to sea. She was not damaged by being aground. The Russian Academy has elected as honorary members Dr. Simon Newcomb of Washington and Lord Kelvin. Fred Bauman, hailing from Chicago, and under arrest at Louisville. Ky.. for forger”, claims to have been concerned in the murder of F. P. Arbuckle, of Denver, at New York, Nov. 10.

NATIONAL SOLONS. REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House—Bills Passed or Introduced in Either Branch—Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. In the Senate Wednesday Cuba was the subject of a speech by Mr. Call. The House bill was passed to provide for the appointment by brevet of active or retired officers of the United States army. The bill providing free homesteads for bona fide settlers on public lands acquired from the Indians was taken up and debated at length. The joint resolution requesting the British Government to pardon Mrs. Florence Maybrick was indefinitely postponed. The’ Loud bill , to amend the law relating to class mail matter was passed bjApA^House after two days of debi\\ most important provision of th A \<x nies the serial publication^ . the mails at 1

four speakers—Mr. Powers < I the chairman of the Pamf ..pnnm * Committee, who opened wir thiiaustive two-hour argument in support of the bill; Mr. Hubbard of Missorui, the minority member of the committee, who has charge of the opposition, and Messrs. Grow of Pennsylvania and Bell of Texas, who spoke respectively for and against the measure. The Senate had a long and busy session, passing a number of bills on the calendar, including several amendments to the law of navigation and also the bill authorizing the President to reappoint to the navy Commander Quackenbush, whose case has occasioned much controversy. The Senate adjourned until Monday. By a vote of IGB to 102, the House Monday rejected the funding measure proposed by the Pacific Railroad magnates. All substitutes were similarly disposed of, and the only thing left for the Government is to now institute foreclosure proceedings. The Pacific Railroad lobby was overwhelmed at the large majority against the bill. Comparatively unknown members of the House appeared to have studied the question carefully and they poured hot shot into the Pacific Railroad and its management. President Cleveland has already announced in default of legisla-tion-by Congress he would proceed at once to foreclose the second mortgage which the Government now holds and either buy in the first mortgage or take the chances on the Government securing enough for its lien to make itself whole. It is the general belief that if the President carries out his threat Mr. Huntington’s friends will immediately make a new and much more favorable proposition to the Government. which can be accepted through the medium of a new bill to.be passed by Congress. Secretary Olney, in behalf of the I nited States, and Sir Julian Pauncefote, on the part of Great Britain, affixed their signatures to a new treaty, by which, for a term of five years, the two Englishspeaking nations agree to abide in peace and without a resort to arms, all possiblequestions of controversy being referred to a court of arbitration, with the single exception that neither nation surrenders its honor or dignity to the judgment of arbitration. Later in the day President Cleveland sent the treaty and a message earnestly approving it to the Senate, and that body immediately ratified it. The House witnessed a sensational: episode Tuesday. Mr. Johnson (Cal.) r who recently made a bitter attack on Editor Hearst of San Francisco and New York, was himself made the target of denunciatory charges by Mr. McGuire (Cal.). The wordy duel grew out of the publication in the Congressional Record, as a part of Mr. Maguire’s remarks on Mr. Johnson’s speech in which Mr. Maguire defended Mr. Hearst, and without the mention of Mr. Johnson’s name, detailed some matters in Johnson's early life when he resided in Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Johnson got the floor on a question of privilege. He was at times dramatic. He denounced Mr. Maguire’s attack on him as wanton and cowardly and told the story of his indictment thirty-four years, ago in New York for forgery and how he had gone out to California to rear a. new home and make a new name. Then with a bitter invective he paid his respects to Mr. Maguire and Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin, who characterized his at-i tack on Mr. Hearst as cowardly. In reply Mr. Maguire said: “He whines at this attack on hintself. He thinks only of himself. He does not think of t' grief and anguish n-nn ,e^ir Y" _ -:r not a menTO^^, > diea charges are false, ana iT~w» wl ^^^dic fnn author of those charges to whineoecWll^i I reply.” Futile effort was made to have the remarks of both stricken from the Record. The Senate passed the day in lively political debate, upon the free homestead and fourth-class postmasterships. Notes of Current Events. It is said that Adelina Patti is anxiou£ to secure the decoration of the Legion of Honor. The third and last of the torpedo boats being built for the United States at the Columbian Iron Works was successfully launched. H( r total cost will be $97,500. She is IGO feet long and sixteen feet broad. The Brighton elevator at New Brighton, a suburb ot Alinneapolis, oiimsl by tin City Elevator Company, burned with its contents, loo.iHMi bushels of oats and wh- at. The total loss of the elevator and, contents was $160,099, fully insured. Frederick A. Gregory, private secretary of Proprietor John Ho.ld, of the Tifft, House, at Buffalo, and < hies clerk of that establishment, has disappeared, leaving behind numerous bad cheeks and taking with him, it is alleged, several thousand dollars of his employer’s money. Dr. Ballot read before the Academy of Medicine at Paris a remarkable paper describing a decade's experiments m straightening the spines of hunchbacks by pressure. The novelty consists of the means adopted to keep the spine straight for ten mouths, by which time a cure i». effected.