St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 January 1897 — Page 6

®lje JnfctpendenL ~W. M .'’ubliMlier. IC=^===============^=r.—_;==r=^< WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA DENIED B^SHE^^ HE WILL ACCEPT THE STATE PORTFOLIO. I Believes Hanna Will Be Appointed Senator by Gov. Bushnell—Philadelphia Has a Big Blaze and Chicago Elevator Burned—Boss $3,000,000. Hanna for the Senatorship. Washington dispatch: Senator Sherman has once for all set at rest the gossip predicated on his alleged intention of withdrawing his acceptance of the portfolio of Secretary of State. In an interview drawn ont by the wholesale publication of baseless sensational reports from all parts of Ohio representing that State to be riven with factional Republican quarrels, the Senator u%^ this langungo,_ wlyfch would seem T point UTT^.tled: “Aly acee^U^^jW^ir portfoJiq of Secretary of out any reservation or conditions. Gov. Bushnell has about six weeks yet before it will tie necessary to appoint my successor in the Senate. There seems to be a general desire hat Mr. Hanna should be selected for the seat, and. while I have no assurance on that point. I believe that Gov. Bushnell will appoint him.” Senator Sherman's belief that Mr. Hanna will come to the Senate as his successor is shared by nearly all the Republican leaders in Washington who are familiar with political conditions in the Buckeye State. Lose Their Positions. The St. Louis Republic says that as a result of an investigation made by Postoffice Inspector Joe Johnson two chief clerks employed on mail runs on the Chicago and Alton road will be summarily dismissed from the service by order of the Postoffice Department at Washington; four others on the same line will be reduced to the rank of helpers, and six helpers, two of whom are certified substitutes, will be promoted to the position of chief clerks to succeed those who will be reduced in rank. All are residents of St. Louis. They are found guilty of violating general order No. 264. which provides that no mail clerk shall be allowed in a mail car unless he is on duty, and clerks in charge of cars are specifically charged not to allow any clerk not on duty to ride or even to enter their cars. Tremendous Fires. The most disastrous conflagration that has visited Philadelphia in recent years broke but shortly before 7 o'clock Tuesday morning in the rear of the basement of the big grocery store of Hanscom Bros., 1317 Market street, and before the flames were got under control about thirty buildings and property amounting in value to $2.500,00 Qor more had been destroyed. W. H. Purcell Malting Company’s large grain elevator at 123 d street and the Belt Line tracks, Kensington, 111., was burned to — K/ground Tuesday and the loss is estimatbd -at $350,000. Vice-President and Treasurer Joseph Guckenheimer of the company said the insurance will almost cover the less. Sir Robert Stewart. Sir Robert Stewart lies in a hospital in Denver close to death, the result of a most peculiar accident. His neck is broken, and that he must die is almost a certainty. He was found Monday morning at 1328 Fifth street, where he fell, fracturing his skull at the base of the brain and breaking the vertebrae. He is a very prominent man, connected with a life assurance society of Edinburgh. For some time after his arrival in this country, three years ago, he was traveling companion for James A. Barbour, the New York banker. He has a wife and four children, who reside in Edinburgh. Mail Robbers Get $3,650 Booty. The news was given out at the Denver, Colo., postoffice Friday that a package containing $3,650 was missing from a sack of registered mail which arrived in Denver from San Francisco. It has been learned that when the mail was transferred at Cheyenne the package was missing. The robbery must have taken place somewhere on the Union Pacific between San Francisco and Cheyenne or at the San Francisco postoffice. Postoffice Inspector McMechan is investigating the matter. * NEWS NUGGETS. Influenza is epidemic at Panama. Dr. Smith, Venezuelan minister of public improvements, has resigned. Mrs. Margaret Hungerford, “The Duchess,” the novelist, is dead. High-grade gold ore has been found within the city limits of Deadwood, S. D. A. H, Griesbach, a solicitor for the publishing house of Appleton & Co. of New York, by whom he had been employed over twenty years, committed suicide at San Francisco by shooting himself in the head. Uis body was found by two boys on a high peak on the line of the San Mateo electric road. It was stretched out on a large rock at the highest point the man could reach. Ettare Fontanori, a Tyrolean, was arrested at Cincinnati for murdering Mary Forpiana, an Italian, and robbing her of SI,BOO, which represented the savings of forty years from the proceeds of fruit vending. It is now learned that Enrico de Bois, an Italian, laid the plans for the robbery and hired Fontanori for S3OO to break open the old woman's chest. De Bois was familiar with the premises. Fortanon did the job as directed, turned over the nioney to De Bois and the latter has escaped. Mrs. de Bois inquired at police headquarters for her husband. Fortanori confessed. Thd Lexow resolution for a joint committee to investigate trusts and report remedial legislation has passed the New York)Legislature. PrAf. Charles R. Van Hise, head of the geological department of the Wisconsin University, has declined the management', of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington at a salary of $5,000 a year. Thd Secretary of the Treasury has received a telegram from Ambrose Lyman, internal revenue collector for the district of Montana, tendering bis resignation. •The department knows no reason for Mr. Ryman's action.

EASTERN. | Mr. Alrichs has introduced a bill in the State Senate abolishing the whipping post and pillory in Delaware. The wholesale grocery establishment of Charles E. Moody & Co., a six-story granjte warehouse at Boston, was burned, causing a loss of nearly SIOO,OOO. At Albany, N. Y., Thomas C. Platt was elected United States Senator to succeed David B. Hill for the term beginning March 4 next. The balloting was without notable incident. Martin R. Parker, the defaulting assistant money order superintendent of the Buffalo postoffice, has given himself up to the authorities. The shortage is now stated to be about $2,000. The failure of Charles R. Rumsey, boot and shoe manufacturer of Lynn, Mass., is announced. The assets and liabilities are not known. The capital invested in the business is from $50,000 to $75,000. The industrial situation in Pascoag, R. 1., and vicinity, which has been depressed for months, is improving rapidly, and many of the woolen mills, which form the chief industry, are increasing their production. United States Commissioner Shields has decid^uthat Li Foon, a Chinese boy who ^yvnsarrested at the Grand Central depot a4 *^ew York last September, crossed the border at Malone, N. Y., withI-- r ul he~- proper certificate. He ordered the boy’s deportation to China. Li Foon, under the law, cannot be returned to Canada, but must be shipped from San Francisco to his native country. The transportation of the lad across the continent and the expenses of a couple of United States marshals from New York to San Francisco and back will cost the Government nearly SI,OOO. Li Sung, the alleged father of the boy, who is said to be a laundryman at Newark, is under arrest. The schooner Nahum Chapin, of Rockland. Me., was wrecked near Quogue, L. 1., Thursday morning and the crew of nine men perished. The names of the nine victims are: S. E. Arey, captain, Malden. Mass.; A. E. Davis, first mate, Malden, Mass.; L. A. Maddock, second mate, Cambridge, Mass.; John Neiber, Albert Dowe, R. O. Anderson, Victor Strachen, Oscar Oscar. Antonio Aucyanich. The residences of the seamen are not known. They were shipped in Boston last November. The vessel went ashore during what is reported to be the severest storm of the winter. Before the schooner broke up six men were seen clinging to the foremast rigging and three others on the jibboom, but owing to the heavy surf and the strong wind the life-saving crew was unable to launch the lifeboat to render assistance. The name of the schooner was learned from pieces of wreckage which were washed up on the beach. The cargo was valued at $3,400; the schooner at $15,000. Both vere partially insured. WESTERN. A petition was presented in the Detroit City Council to oust Gov. Pingree from the office of Mayor of the city, the claim being made that he cannot fill both positions at the same time. Telegrams have been sent by the citizens’ committee to the Governors of Oregon, Washington, Kansas. Nebraska and lowa, asking the people of those States to unite with California in sending a ship load of grain to the starving people of India. At St. Louis, Ralph Cress and Dr. Adella Walters have been found guilty of counterfeiting in the United States District Court. Walter Cress was acquitted. The jury disagreed in the case of W. 11. Jennett, who was also indicted. Dr. Walters fainted when the verdict was returned. The story published recently in a San Francisco paper to the effect that the Island of St. John in the South Sea was inhabited solely by women who were pining for husbands has borne fruit in the incorporation of the United Brotherhood of the South Sea Islands. The capital stock has been placed at $20,000, and already over thirty men have subscribed. It is almost certain that there will be a big miners’ strike in the Des Moines, la., district, involving about twenty thousand miners, as a result of the coal war which has compelled operators to reduce wages. The business is so badly demoralized by the price cutters that all effort to conduct it at living prices has been given up. The miners will meet in convention and deliver an ultimatum, which will demand finally the restoration of the scale. No more failures are likely to occur at Des Moines, lowa. The banks received more than a million dollars from outside sources Friday morning and are all standing together and will hold each other up. Each one has from SIOO,OOO to $300,000 piled on its counters. All have agreed to refuse to pay time deposits without sixtydays’ notice under the law. The savings banks are taking advantage of the State law allowing them to refuse to pay savings deposits except on sixty days’ notice. Heavy runs are not expected. By Monday morning the severe cold wave extended as far east as the Ohio Valley and southward to Texas, where the temperature fell from twenty to forty degrees in twenty-four hours. It was below freezing in Tennessee and central Texas; below zero in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, and 20 degrees below zero over the Dakotas and Minnesota. The indications were that the cold wave would extend eastward and southward over the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The temperature fell to near zero from Virginia northward, and freezing weather extended southward to the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts. In twenty-five years Chicago had experienced no such severe cold. Sunday morning the mercury was 17 below zero, and in Ihe whole day there was a variation of but 4 degrees. Monday' morning the temperature wtts 19 below zero. The suffering in the city was indescribably terrible. The Chicago Post says: On the princi- ! pie that it is an ill wind that blows no one • any good, dealers in small firearms are i congratulating themselves that the carnival of store and street hold-ups has given their business a more decided boom than it has experienced since the great . railroad strike. Despite the heavy penalties provided by law for carrying con- • cealed weapons, from 50 to 60 per cent of the male population who are out after nightfall provide themselves with means of protection, it is said. In most of the saloons, especially in the outlying districts. a revolver can be found reposing on a shelf under the bar or in the hip pocket ' of the bartender, and the same applies to drug stores and other places of business, such as restaurants, which are open • until a late hour or all night. In the business offices of one of the largest gas com-

r — panics in the city a large navy revolver rests in full view on the counter immediately beside the cash drawer, although the receiving clerk is protected from outside attacks by an abundance of wire netting. It is the consensus of opinion among dealers that more revolvers are used for purposes of protection in this city than ever before. Loaded canes, on the other hand, are a drug in the market. All the ticket sellers of the Metropolitan Elevated road have been equipped With revolvers. John Williams, day watchman in the big factory building of Greenlee Bros. & Co., 225 to 235 West 12th street, Chicago, found two pipes frozen Sunday morning in a small room at the rear of the first floor. Late in the afternoon he and his assistant, the day fireman, started to thaw out the pipes. They probably succeeded in doing so, but the fire that followed their efforts laid the entire block in ruins. The fire started shortly after 7 o'clock in the room the two men had left an hour or so before, and between the slippery streets and the frozen fire hydrants in the neighborhood the fire department was so delayed in getting water on the blaze that the flames spread through the five floors of the building, and by 10 o'clock had completely gutted the structure. A loss of between $300,000 and $400,000 was sustained by the Greenlee Bros. Company and the Northwestern Stove Repair! Works, two concerns owned by Robegt ] L. and Ralph S. Greenlee. David Bi? Carse, general manager of the Green!«( Bros. Company, thought that the aim® of insurance carried would cover the los^R The residence of Charles J. Barnes. 223^ Calumet avenue, Chicago, was totally de*’ stroyed by fire at 2 o'clock Monday moral ing. His private library, one of the fines* in the United States, and collection of’ bric-a-brac, on which a high value-is set, were destroyed, and with the damage to the building and furnishings will make the loss fully $200,000. SOUTHERN. Three masked men hdd up a Southern Railway express train near Berry, Ala., Thursday and robbed the express safe. The Bradshaw Block at Waxahachie. Texas, including the Beli telephone central office and a number of stores, saloons, restaurants and a newspaper office, has burned, causing a total loss of $65.000; insurance, $25,000. It is not known how the fire originated. The jail at Jeffersonville. Ga., was broken open at midnight Thursday night by a mob of masked men and two negroes. William White and Charles Forsythe, implicated in the murder of Mrs. Rowlands at Adams Park, were taken out and hanged to the limb of a tree and their bodies riddled with bullets. John Johnson ami Arch Joiner, who murdered the Cotton family near New Orleans, were taken from jail and lynched by a mob at Amiti City Wednesday morning. The crowd at first decided to burn Johnson at the stake, but finally concluded to hang him. Both negroes were therefore hanged and shots fired into their bodies. The same mob also lynched Gus Williams, who was accused of murdering his wife. All three of the men executed by the mob were colored. FOREIGN. The barkentine City of Papete, fiom Baway. brings the first news to San F jlneisco of the wreck of the NorwegianJMtk Jabez in the south Pacific. The I’aSj.e brought the first officer ami eleven crew of the wrecked vessel, whlcl^R as eaught in a typhoon and sprung aSVk. While trying to make the port of Taßti. the Jabez went aground on a bar ami Was abandoned. The captain, Selvezen. remained at Tahiti. The Jabez sailed for Rotterdam last August with a cargo of hard woods. The official report of the labor department of the British Government Board of Trade shows that during the eleven months ended Dec. 31. 3,768 wage workers were killed and 52,000 injured while following their employments. Strangely enough, the casualties among workers in factories and workshops were heavier than among miners or railroad employes, 30,000 factory hands having been injured during the year, against 13,000 railroad men and 6,(K)0 miners. Eighteen thousand seamen on British vessels were drowned during the same period. Special stress is laid upon the fact that not less than 980 men employed in the painting trade died of lockjaw or other complaints due to lead poisoning. Consul General Lee telegraphed the State Department at Washington that Henry Delgado, correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, who has been a prisoner, died in the hospital there Tuesday night. Advices from Havana say: Dr. Burgess informs the correspondent of the Associated Press that Henry Delgado, correspondent of the Mail and Express of New York and an American citizen, whose residence was at Hudson. N. Y., died Tuesday night. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee had interested himself to the utmost in the case of the unfortunate. Delgado was captured by the Spaniards while he was lying ill in an insurgent hospital in Ihe Province of Pinar del Rio in December last. From that place he was brought to San Ambrosio hospital in Havana, which is set apart for political prisoners. Ranchuelo, in Santa Clara Province, Cuba, garrisoned by 500 Spaniards^ surprised a few days ago by a C«P n force under Major Gerio, with 300 One fort was captured before the gaF*" son had time to rally and the other■ rendered. The Cubans began sackin^P 1 ® town, but the Spaniards soon re< freed re-enforcements and drove off all t* insurgents except about fifty, who Barricaded themselves in the stone church. The Spaniards, finding they could not take the church by storm, managed to mine one end and blew it up, killing twen-ty-five Cubans. The insurgents returned with an increased force and routed the Spanish. More than seventy-five Spaniards are said to have been killed and thirty-eight taken prisoners. Major Gerio was wounded in the head. Several Spanish officers were killed. The Cubans captured I<M.» stands of arms and some provisions. Three of their prisoners, who were Cuban born, were hanged. There was a great surprise at the Old Bailey court, London, Wednesday morning when the crown prosecutor withdrew the charge of conspiring to commit a dynamite explosion brought against Edward J. Ivory, alias Bell, of New York, who was arrested September last, about the same time that P. J. Tynan was taken into custody at Bologne-Sur-Mer, France, and John F. Kearney and Thomas Haines, alias J. Wallace, were captured by the police at Antwerp, Belgium, on the same charge. The collapse of the prosecution was a complete surprise to all.

! Ivory, in conversation with a representative of the Associated I’ress after his discharge from custody, said he had arrived at no decision as to his future plans ; when he returns to the United States. [ He added: “I am pleased at the result, but 1 it is only what I expected.” As a matter ■ of fact, however. Ivory expected to be con. victed, and he so told John F. Mclntyre, formerly assistant district attorney of New York, who acted as advisory counsel during the trial. The newspapers express disgust at the collapse of the prosecution and blame the police for it. The Spanish gunboat Cometa has been, captured and burned by the insurgents, according to advices from Havana. The Cometa was one of the most powerful of the smaller Spanish vessels in Cuban waters, used to prevent the landing of filibustering expeditions. For some time the boat has been accustomed to anchor at night off Sierra Morena. The insurgents opened on the vessel with a twelvepound Hotchkiss gun. The vessel was struck several times and badly damaged by shells from the Hotchkiss gun, and while the crew was in confusion boats loaded with insurgents left the shore and the Cometa was boarded. A desperate hand-to-hand fight took place on the deck of the gunboat. The Cubans used the machete with deadly effect, and finally, • after the Spanish commander and half his I men had been killed, the survivors surp rendered. The insurgents looted the ves- | sel, securing a great quantity of nmmuF nition, many cutlasses and pistols, ami a pfew rifles. Two quick-firing cannon which rthe gunboat carried were also removed. I The insurgents then fired the boat, which ’ was soon burned to the water's edge. । When the fate of the Cometa became known in Havana the Spanish authorities spread the story that the gunboat had most likely been lost at sea. In answer to what he conceives to be a popular demand on the part of the people for information as to the productive powers of Cuba, United States Consul Hyatt, at Santiago, has supplied the State Department with an interesting report devoted entirely to a complete description of the enormous natural resources of the queen of the Antilles. Ho says that Cuba should rank among the foremost communities of the world, and he believes she will soon attain this distinction, whenever a stable government and cheerful obedience to the powers that be present to the : home seeker and investor conditions that ' will make home pleasant and capital secure. The iron mines, overshadowing in importance all other industries in the eastern section of the island, constitute the only industry that has made any pretense to standing up against the shock of the present insurrection. Two companies (American), with a capital of over $5.000,000, employ from eight hundred to fourteen hundred men. shipping their rich ores to the United States. American capita! opened a manganese mine at Ponupo and built a railroad to it. but after shipping one cargo the mines were stopped by the insurgents. The coffee plantations were getting nicely started when the present rebellion broke out. and there will, says the consul, probably be but a few. if any, coffee plantations remaining when the struggle ends. IN GENERAL Col. Robert G. Ingersoll has given up the practice of law and will hereafter devote his entire time to the lecture platform. Fire at Pctcrboro, Ont., destroyed the newly equipped flour mill and elevator of the Consolidated Milling Company and a large four-story vacant frame building. The loss will amount to between S6O,(MH) and $70,000, with an insurance of about $55,(»00. It. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "There is more business, though not at better prices. It is interesting that almost all prices which change at ail are lower, and yet business is unquestionably larger. There is larger production, but as yet not as much increase in consumption, and there is larger buy ■ ing of materials, but at present only be- ■ cause better prices are expected in the future. A few conspicuous failures have had no material influence. The market for securities is slightly stronger, and yet there is very little doing. The number of hands employed, all industries considered. is slightly larger than a week ago. without adverse change in the rate of wages. All apprehension of foreign disturbances of money markets has passed away, but there is still great caution in making loans. It is a mistake to reckon these as symptoms of depression. ()n the contrary, in spite of the lower range of prices in important industries, the conditions all indicate larger production and a consumption increasing, not as yet largely, but steadily.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75: hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $3.75: sheep, fair to choice, $2.06 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2,21 cto 23c; oats. No. 2, 15e to 16c; rye. No. 2,35 cto 37c; butter, choice creamcry, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh. 13c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common green to fine brush. 2%c to s , jc. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75: sheep, good to choice, $2.00 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2,87 cto 89c; corn. No. 2 white. 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,89 cto 91c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 19c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 17c; rye. No. 2,33 cto 35c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2,92 cto 93c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 18e to 2Jc; 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, 90c to 92c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, 37c to 39c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 91c to 93c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 38c; clover seed, $5.20 to $5.25. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2^ spring, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 3,20 cto 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 25e to 35c; rye. No. 1,38 cto 39c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 92c to 94c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2 red. 88c to 89c; corn, No. 2, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, West- , ern, 12c to 16c.

OUR CATTLE THE BEST • - COMMAND THE HIGHEST PRICES IN ENGLAND. South American and Canadian Stock Inferior — President-elect McKinley Wants the New Tariff-Span-sh Troops Are Routed by Insurgents, Want American Cattle. The chief of the bureau of animal industry of ihe Agricultural Department is in receipt of a circular from a commission agent of London giving the totai number of cattle and sheep received at Deptford. England, during the year 1896, and also the average prices realized therefor. The total number of cattle received from the three sections represented were as follows, with average price in pennies per pound: CATTLE. Countries. • Total. Av. price. United States 146,985 5.13 South America. ...... 42.792 4.26 Canada 26,873 4.74 Totals 216,650 SHE EB. Countries. Total. Av. price. I niti'd States 19.597 5.21 South America 234,<>28 5 :.g_ Canada Totals 289,880 Continuously throughout the year Unit- ; ed States cattle have commanded the highest prices. The difference between (lie cattie of the United States ami South America, too, has been uniformly great in favor of our own animals. The Canadian cattle attained a parity of price with cattle from the United States six times • luring the year. On one occasion, Aug. 13. they held the first place. During the greater part of the year the lower prices received for cattle from the United States exceeded the prices for cattle from either Canada or South America. Indeed, as compared with South American cattle. ; the lowest prices received for cattle from : the 1 nited States were considerably high- | er than the highest prices for South Amer- ! j ican. In the case of sheep, the first place j < is held by South America, while animals j from the I nit<<! States and Canada run about even, with a slight difference in ; favor of the former. Defeat for Spaniards. Key West. Fla., dispatch: Another defeat for the Spanish is reported from I’ehtnos, in the southern part of Havana i rovince. The place has IJMX> inhabitants. is weil fortified and has a Spanish garrison of 600 men, with one field piece. Lieut. Col. Hernandez, in command of 509 insurgent cavalrymeu. made a dash at the town Monday afternoon while the troops were at the church celebrate g some local j holiday. Before they could form the in- ; argents had possession of the blockhouse, i The cannon was trained at the church. : and before the Spanish were hardly aware • of what was the trouble solid shot came ‘ hurling through the walls. Out they rushed only to fall before a deadly volley from a strong force posted behiml some neighboring houses. > 'ol. Muncio. the Spanish officer, rallied his men. but as they formed for a charge he fell with a dozen balls through him. The second in command took bis place, but he. too, fell in n few seconds. The Spanish then retired, it being a rout, though a portion Stubbornly protected their rear, making stands until forced to retire by Hernandez’s tierce charges. The insurgents burnid the fort at I’eianos. They secured LU*’ stands of arms, one cannon. SI.OOO in gold and SSJNIO in pajs-r money, besides ammunition and many valuable papers belonging to the Spanish commissary department. Havana officials knew of the defeat Tuesday night, but have kept the news suppressed, and the palace oflicials say that the place has been “evacuated.” Wants a New Tariff. Congressman John C. Sturtevant, of ■ ('rawford County, who will succeed Jo- j seph C. Sibley in the next Congress, is in Philadelphia. He said that he had called on President-elect McKinley at his home in Canton and that the latter said: ”1 will • all a sjteeial session of ,'ongress on March 15. and unless I change my mind you may be in Washington by that time. I desire to have my protective system inaugurated immediately upon my inauguration. and I want a measure passed that will immediately stimulate business ami give idle men work." Congressman Sturtevant sai l further that no Pennsylvanian would be in the McKinley cabinet. Uncle Sani to Git Ilis Money. Tl* Attorney General has ent-red into an agreement with the reorganization committee of the Ui ion and Kansas Pacific railroads by which the Government is to join the committee in foreclosure proceedings. The committee guarantees to the Government that at the foreclosure sale it shall receive a bid of at least the i original amount of the bond, less payj ments made by the company to the GovI eminent, with interest at the rate of 3’5 j per cent per annum. The agreement has 1 been signed, and active steps will be , taken in a few days. The Government will receive 546.<n>0.1:1 Ml. BREVITIES, The President Lis approved the followj ing acts: To provide for the erection of a Government building at the Tennessee centepnial exposition without advertising for proposals; construing the law in reference to the award of life-saving medals so that these medals may be awarded to persons not members of life-saving crews, and for exertions elsewhere than adjai cent to a life-saving station. The Government of India has ordered 1 the stoppage Feb. 2 of ail pilgrim traffic 1 from Bombay and Karachi on account of I the plague. There are now over I.75t).(MX> I persons employed on the relief works, and about 170.600 are r . eiving gratuitous relief. The principal increase in the number of persons relieved is in Bengal and in the northwest. Fourteen hundred persons wore killeil by the recent earthquake on the Island of Kishm. in the Persian giulf. ('aptain Henry King has been ap.’Hiinted to succeed the late Joseph B. .McCullagh as editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. United States St nat< r Jam sZ. G« . is dangerously il. with heart failure ar Washington. The second General Assembly of evangelical workers in Mexico at the City of Mexico was largely attended. The United States was repro nted by B. F. Jacobs, «f Chicago.

WORK OF CONGRESS. THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington — Matters that Concern the People, Lawmakers at Labor. The session of the Senate Friday developed three distinct sensations. Among these was the presentation by Mr. Sherman of a letter from Minister Rodriguez, the representative of the Greater Republic of Central America (including Nicaragua). in effect protesting against the execution of the Nicaraguan canal project by the United States under the eo » cssion granted in 1887 to the Nicaraguan Canal Company. As the bill for this purpose was about to be voted on I y the Senate. the appearance of the letter created consternation among its friends. Mr. Morgan, its chief supporter, at once <!<■- clared that the letter was inspired by Great Britain, who sought to drive tlie Lnited States from the isthmus by using the Central Americas as a catspaw. He asserted that Minister Rbdreguez had come here to execute such a plan, and d^^^^vas an open threat u^iinst Amer- । profound impres.Cion'on the Senators. Scn- ; ator \ ilas declared that it struck a death blow to the canal project proposed by tdepending bill. Earlier in the day the Senate unexpectedly found itself discussing the new Anglo-American treaty. The expressions were free and full from Messrs. Sherman. Gray, Cullom, Lodge. Hoax and others. The statements of these Senators were uniformly favorable to the high principle of the treaty. The Senate confined itself strictly to business Saturday, passing a large number of bills, including those for a statue j of President Lincoln at Gettysburg. Pa.; ; appropriating $360,000 to pay one of the 1 old claims of the late John Roach for the i use of his shipyards and reclassifying the I railway postal service. A resolution by • Mr. Morgan was agreed to requesting the i President for all correspondence on the Nicaraguan Canal since 1887: also a resol lution by Mr. Allen asking the attorney I general for information as to the reported Pacitic Railroad settlement between the executive, authorities and the Reorganization Committee of the road. The bill to reclasrify the railway postal clerks and prescribe their salaries fixes the following classes and salaries: First class, not exceeding $800; second class, $900: third class. $1,000; fourth class,, $1,100; fifth class, $1,200; sixth class. sl,300; seventh class, $1,400; eight class, ; $1,500; ninth class, $1,600; tenth class. I SI,BOO. A bill was passed authorizing a railroad bridge across the Illinois River ! at a point within five miles above Graf- ; ton. 111. The House bill to prohibit the ' sale of intoxicating drinks to Indians was ' passed. The bill extends the present law making it an offense to sell Indians any article which may have an intoxicating effect. In the Senate Monday Mr. Turpie. of Indiana, characterized Capt. Gen. Weyler as the “Herod of Havana, the murderer of women and children,” and as an "indescribably diminutive reptile.” Thesebitter words were incident to Mr. TuF — pie's speech of two hours on the Cameron Cuban resolutions. Mr. Turpie frequently turned aside from his argument to pay j a glowing tribute to the insurgent government and its leaders. After 3 o'clock the day was devoted to eulogies on the late ex-Speaker Charles F. Crisp. Early in the day memorials were presented from the presidential electors of Delaware asking for a congressional investigation of alleged fraud and political irregularities in that State. After consuming most of the day in disposing of District of Coltimj bia business the House took up the Indian I appropriation bill and made fair progress ; with it before the hour for adjournment was reached. The bill carries $7,525,791. $366,294 more than the current law and $246,265 more than the estimates. Twenty of the seventy pages of the bill were disposed of. A bill was passed calling on the War Department for an estimate of the cost of a water route from Galveston to Houston, Tex. Mr. Johnston (Rep.) of Indiana took advantage of the latitude allowed in debate to read a speech in favor of an early reform of the banking and currency laws. Mr. Curtis (Rep.) of Kansas offered an amendment to the Indian bill to permit merchants to go into the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas to collect their accounts. It was explained that this year for the first time merchants had been excluded from this reservation. The amendment was adopted. In the Senate Tuesday Cuba, the proposed international monetary conference and the Nicaragua canal each came in for a share of attention. The Wolcott bill for an international monetary conference was considered for the first time. No final action on the bill was taken. The House amendments to the Senate bill for : a survey of a water route from the mouth ! of tb.e jetties at Galveston. Tex., to Hous- > ton. were agreed to and the bill finally | passed. Tlie House overrode another of ' President Cleveland's pension vetoes by j a vote of 137 to 52. The bill pensioned Jonathan Scott of the Sixth lowa cavalry, now living at Oswego. Kan., at the rate of $72 a month. Mr. Cleveland vetoed it on the ground that the disability for which the beneficiary was to lie pensioned was not contracted in the service. The rest of the day was devoted to a continuation of the debate on the Indian appropriation bill. About twenty-five pages of the bill were covered. A bill to satisfy a peculiar claim was passed on motion of Mr. Tinner (Dem.) of Georgia. It was the claim of John F. Mcßae, a deputy United States marshal, for keeping thirtysix African slaves. landed by the ship Wanderer at Savannah. Ga., in 1559. until they could be shipped back to their homes, in accordance with the provisions of the laws for the suppression of the« slave traffic. The amount was $462. Telegraphic Brevities, Three different sections of Texas experienced their first snowstorm for three years. Secretary ami Mrs. Carlisle gave a dir,ner in Washington to President and Mrs. Cleveland. The New York Board of Health has placed pulmonary tuberculosis on the list of infectious diseases. The mother, brother and sister of Arthur Palmer of New York, all of whom he shot, are dead. Palmer cannot be found.