St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 February 1897 — Page 6

^lje Jnicpcn^cnl. W. A. JCPT-DJUBJV, ^ubllslier. T.'— l ' 11 * WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA FOOL AND HIS MONEY SOON PARTED, AS TOLD IN THE OLD ADAGE, D?nvtr Man Wagers on Another Man’s Game-Gift of Valuable Books to the University of Texas—Coinical Experience of a Chicago Justice* Thinks He Was Swindled. Jack Davis, J. W. Flynn, Charles Reynolds, Charles Stewart, J. C. Hanies and Frank Pierson have been arrested in Denver and at Colorado Springs on charges of conspiracy and grand larceny. The complainant is George E. Hannan, a wellknown bicycle dealer of Denver. He bet SIO,OOO with Pierson that Bertie banks could defeat Paul Richie in a five-mile bicycle race. Hames was stakeholder and Davis, Flynn and Reynolds assisted in arranging the match. Just before the hour for the race Banks was arrested on ■■ । n... trumped-up charge. Richie rode over the course alone and Hanies turned over $20,000 stakes to Pierson. Texas University in Luck. The most valuable donation ever made to the University of Texas, and possibly the most unique ever made any institution, was made Tuesday. It was the gift of 25,000 books, valued at SIOO,OOO. The donor is Swante Palm, who has spent fifty years in the collection of this library and has secured many of the rarest treasures of New York, London and Edinburgh. The collection includes not only general literature, history, biography, travels, science and philosophy, but also a remarkable collect»n of art books, illustrating ancient, medieval and modern art, customs and manners. Swante Palm has lived in Texas fifty-three years. For the last thirty-one years he has been the Swedish vice consul in Austin. In 1888 King Oscar of Sweden conferred upon him the nobility of knighthood in the Wasa order. Domestic the Best Burglar Alarm. Twice within a month burglars have attempted to break into the house of Justice Hennessey at Chicago, but in each instanca his servant girl was awakened and the thieves were frightened away. Recently the magistrate discharged the servant girl and bought a burglar alarm. The contrivance did not work, and Sunday morning, when he awoke, thd justice discovered his trousers on the rear porch, with their pockets turned inside out. while the proceeds of his court docket the day before were missing. NEWS NUGGETS. George Frank, proprietor of a candy factory at Chicago, was killed almost instantly. He was caught in the flywheel of the engine. The grand jury at Duluth, Minn., has jqst made a sensational report of rottenness in public affairs, and thirty-eight indictments are turned in. Pale and trembling. Gari Carlson stood before Judge Neely at Chicago to be sentenced on his plea of guilty of the murder of Mrs. Laura Belle Thornton. “I have nothing to say.” said the prisoner in a whisper in answer to a question by his honor. Judge Neely sentenced the man to twenty years in the penitentiary. Obituary: At Moscow. Russia Dr. M illiam Steinitz, the chess player. GL—At Carp Village. Ont* John Brown., the oldest orangeman in Canada. 98. —At St. Louis. Dr. S. Gratz Moses. 84.—At Trinidad, Colo.. William A. Bell of St. Ixniis. —At Kokomo. Ind.. Miss Catherine \\ ood Cassady. 97. —At Crown Point. Ind.. John P. Merrill—At Cairo. 111.. Henry C. Laflin. Mattie A. Stewart, a half-breed Osage Indian, has tiled a suit for divorce in the United States Court at Guthrie. O. T.. against James Stewart, an actor. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant is now on the stage in Chicago and has three living wives. She further alleges that he married her while with a wildcat theatrical company ami cheated het out of $4.600. The plaintiff wants a divorce and S2OO alimony. The mail train-on the Cresson branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad crashed into a box car near Ebensburg, Pa., Monday morning and was badly wrecked. Five persons were seriously hurt and a number of others sustained slight injuries. Those seriously hurt were: W. P. Shiver, fireman. may die: John Foreman, mail agent. Huntington Pa.: Michael Myers. Lilly. Pa.: S. C. Child, Harrisburg: Thomas Barnes, Phillipsburg, Pa. All except Shiver will recover. A large delegation of business men from Denver and other prominent cities of Colorado, including delegates from boards of trade and other commercial bodies, left Tuesday for a three weeks' trip through Kansas. Missouri. Tennessee. Arkansas. Texas and Louisiana. The purpose of the trip is to attract attention to the resources of Colorado. Its interests, railway facilities, etc., with the view of establishing closer commercial relations between it and the States of the Southwest. The rumor that John G. A. Leishtnann, of Pittsburg. Pa., who recently resigned from the presidency of the Carnegie Steel Company, limited. is a candidate for appointment as minister to represent the United States at Switzerland lias been I confirmed by 11. C. Frick. The officials oi | the Carnegie Steel Company are aiding Mr. Leishtnann all they can, and a large amount of influence is being brought to Lear to secure him the appointment. Mr. Leishtnann. Mr. Frick says, desires to reside abroad for a few years and to be pleasantly employed. Blondin, the rope walker, is dead at London. For seventy years this man disported himself on a narrow rope as if it were a pavement or a floor. lie began to perform when he was 3 yours old, and startled the world when he crossed Niagara Falls, as well as on several other occasions. John Lewis Roche, a son of James Jeffrey Roche, editor of the Boston Pilot shot himself in the right lung while st::::d ing in the doorway of the Castle Squm< Hotel. Bis wound is dangerous. A lovi affair is thought to have been the cause.

EASTERN. The Massachusetts House of Representatives has voted against woman suffrage. The American Ax and Tool Works at East Douglass, Mass., which has been running on short time, has resumed opera- ■ tions in full and sufficient orders have been received to keep it running for several weeks. The sugar trust is threatened with another rival. Claus Doscher, who was one of the owners of the Brooklyn refinery ■ which sold out to the trust, it is reported, will build a refinery with a capacity of 2,500 barrels a day at Brooklyn. John 1. Baker, “the sage of Essex.” an abolitionist and one of the founders of the Republican party, died at Beverly, Mass., Wednesday night, aged 85. He suffered a broken hip in a fall three months ago and paralysis resulted and caused his death. He had held his age well up to within a few months, and was a remarkably active man. Fire which broke out in the Everett school building in Boston Friday caused a panic among the pupils. Police ambulances were quickly at the scene, and within a few moments thirteen injured victims were on their way to the city hospital. The fire was only a slight one and was extinguished without any considerable damage having been done. Thomas Willis, colored, was hanged at Newcastle, Del., Friday, for the murder of his infant child May 4. The body of the child was not found until May 23. having been dug up by dogs from a shallow grave on a farm. Detectives suspected and finally secured a confession from Willis, who said lie killed the infant because it had become a burden to him. WESTERN. Judge Thomas, a prominent lawyer of Falls City. Neb., was run over and killed while alighting from a train. An anti-high hat bill has passed the Colorado House of Representatives. It provides a penalty of $5 for the first offense of wearing a high hat at a theater and as high as SSO in aggravated cases. The anxiously awaited advent of an heir at the residence of ex-President Harrison at Indianapolis, Ind., took place at 5:30 o'clock Sunday morning, when Mrs. Harrison presented her distinguished husband with a daughter, a plump little cherub, weighing eight and three-quarters pounds. Joseph Worley, a farmer living near Eldredge, Mo., was murdered. His assailant, who lay in ambush, fired a charge of buckshot into Worley's side. In order to make sure of his work the assassin deliberately drove a large wire nail into his victim's brain. There is no reliable clew to the perpetrator. The family of Jacob Ciclez of Cleveland, Ohio, was almost completely wiped out of existence Friday by fire. Eight persons were burned and five will prob ably die. Ciclez rose about 5 o'clock to light the fire and mistook the gasoline lamp for the kerosene lamp. The result was a terrific explosion when he applie I the match. Cleveland dispatch: It is definitely set tied that M. A. Hanna will not go into Major McKinley's cabinet. Mr. Hanna announced Thursday morning that he had determined to remain in Ohio. He will contest in the Legislature next winter for the full term in tl.e United Stales Senate. In fact, Hanna’s supporters have already organized his campaign. The hope that Gov. Bushnell may appoint I! mi mi to fill the unexpired term of Senator Sherman has practically been abandon*’*!. The badly mutilated lunik's of Mr. and Mrs. Spicer, their daughter. Mrs William Rouse, with her 1 year-old twin boys, and the aged Mrs. Waldron, the mother oi the postmaster of Winona, N. D.. were dis covered seat ton si about the ranch. Ibe appearances about the ranch and condi tion of the bodies led to the suspi cion that the murder was commit ted by ‘ Indians. Then the bodies were terribly j mutilated with axes and clubs, w hich fact is taken to at least partially corroborate the suspicion of the Indian murderers The Standing Rock Indian reservation is not faraway, and when the Indians iron; there get away from sight and manage to get hold of some whisky there is sure to be trouble. Wednesday afternoon George W. Ad ams. w ho in 1874 engine* i < d one of the greatest “corners'' in oats known in the history of the Chicago Board of Trade, which would have made him one of the richest men in Chicago had he won. borrowed a revolver and shot himself in the head, after writing. "I die hungry.” on a billhead that lay before him. In 1874. following a failure of crops, when cats were scare*', Mr. Adams, with several of his friends, assiduously bought all the offerings in the open market, and before delivery day came it was found that he had bought more than could bo turned over to him without sending up the price. That was the result, ami for a short time Mr. Adams and his triends held on with oats going up, up, up every day. ami with it the fortunes of the men who held the corner. The eyes of the country turned toward Chicago to witness the crash that was bound to come to one side or the other —and it came. Mr. Adams and his friends held on too long, and all they possessed went with the decline. One day in his life made him known to the world. His power was felt to the end of the earth for one brief hour. But ho lost, and the following day, his fortune sratlircil to the winds. I he retired from necnstomed haunts ami was soon forgotten by his former asso ciates. Two thousand tanners and curriers, embracing all the employes in the big Chi cago leather and hide establishments, were confronted by barred doors when they appeared for Work Wednesday morning. All companies united in declaring a reduction of from 10 to 2W per cent in the wages of their employes and likewise raising th hours from eight to ten as an I accepted day’s labor. The move was pre cipitated by the strike at W. N. Eisend rath & Co.’s. Following are the principal establishments from which employes were locked out: Grey, ('lark & Engle, 500 employes; Walker-Oakley Company, -100 employes; Lambeau Leather Company, two establishments, GOO employes; W. N. Eis endrath 6c Co.. 500 employes. Luescher A Co. also promised the Leather Manufacturers’ Association that it would join in the lockout. Other companies which are expected to ally themselves to the movement on the ground ot self-protection include Gutman A Co., Eagle Tanning Works, Kock, Mosser & Co. and J. M. Weil. The lockout was premeditated, but if original plans had been adhered to tin* climax would not have been reached until next spring. Ever since the eight-hour schedule was enforced by the labor unions the big tanners of Chicago have been laboring, they claim, against discrimination io other cities. In Milwaukee, for exam-

i pie, all tanneries work their men ten I hours a day ami at lower wages than Chi- - *ago tanners receive. This has worked a serious injury on the Chicago tanners, t it is asserted, and weakened their com- , petitive strength materially. All companies enrolled on the membership book , of the Leather Manufacturers’ Association were parties to this agreement. The fact that the contemplated move leaked out is the explanation for the tight at present. WASHINGTON, Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, one of the most distinguished cavalry commanders of the late war, died at his apartments in the Greacon House in Washington about 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. A Washington dispatch says that President McKinley's cabinet will be organized as follows: Secretary of State, John Sherman of Ohio; Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman J. Gage of Illinois; Secretary of War, Russell A. Alger of Michigan; Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long of Massachusetts; Attorney General, Joseph McKenna of California; Secretary of the interior, J. J. McCook of New York; Postmaster General, James A. Gary of Maryland; Secretary of Agriculture, Janies Wilson of lowa. Eighteen hundred women from the national congress of mothers called on Mrs. Cleveland Wednesday. She will remember their visit all the rest of her life. The White House, every year the scene of crushes, has never witnessed such a crush before. The beautiful opal glass of the screen in the corridor was broken, dresses torn, bonnets demolished, and Mrs. Cleveland herself jostled about. This havoc was wrought because the women all tried to shake hands at once. Only thirty minutes was allowed for the reception. The women, realizing that there would be a crush, rushed pell mell for the executive mansion. The ladies pushed and crowded until the whole scene was one of the utmost confusion. At 12 o'clock, before half of them had shaken Mrs. Cleveland’s hand, she was obliged to excuse herself and withdraw to another part of the house, where she had an appointment with other visitors. Then the women on the edge of the crowd, gradually realizing that they had been crowded out, left the mansion. and not one failed to adjust her hat and draw a long breath as she stepped out into the open air. 1 OREIGK. Th*- gold received at the royal mint at Melbourne, Australia. during 1896 amounted to 1.186.541 ounces, against 1,092,819 ounces in 1896. Gen. Laehambre is advancing on Silang, Cornell and Marina, in the Philippines. It is believed that if the Spanish can infliet a decisive chastisement upon tlie labels in Cavite the entire revolution will collapse. The real leaders nre cither in i the fortress at Manila or have been shot by th*' authorities. Advices from (’mien, Island of Crete, say: The garrison of Fort Voukolies. comprising 30<> soldiers and l(<o (’retail Mus snlmmis, after being dislodged by the Greek artillery retire*! to Allikinnn, where their force was again beleaguered. The Government has armed a niimlH'r of Mussulman volunteers, who have started to the rt'seue of their con-tigionists. The Spanish minister of the colonics, re plying to n (‘ntaloiiinn deputy, said that no iK-gotintlon^ nr*- pro, ceding with H view to establishing a eoinu.i'rcial treaty between th,* United States anil Spain, but onl,' to frame a leginu- npplic*! to ('uba wherein tile Unite*] States would be placed on tin l most-favon-d nation basis, similar to the ,x»ms-ssion won to !»<• accorded to Japan. Tlie council of Turkish ministers, as a result of its all day session tit the \ ildiz Kiosk at Constantinople, has de, ide.l to leave the pacification of Urcte to the pow - ers. This is regarded ns a w ise de, Lion : in the face of a most complicate*! situn- ' tion in ( 'rete, w here the flags of Russia ' 1 rance. Great Britain. Italy and Au- r i are flying alongside the Turkish standard, while Greece is seemingly 'Lfyitig tinpo we“s. I '1 he boundary dispute belwecu Chili | ami Argentina relating to the hue ot de | in a rcu tie n over the Andes has reached an I importaiu point. For the first time sime the discussion of the qu. stiou began, it I looks ns if both side- Wele willing to ' y ield and !,ave the decision wholly i j the ■ arluter < hosen. the arbiter is (jueen \ iei toria. It is hoped that where minis । sioners and sub commissioners have failed ' to agree she will find a basis of amicable settlement. Gen. Carh s of the Cuban junta in New York failed to appear at Baltimore and ji'.ead to an indictment in the I nited States ( ircuit Court there, charging him I with tilting out a filibustering expedition jto Cuba. Ills bond for S2,si>ti, given be- | fore a I nited States commissioner in : New York, was declared forfeited, ami he j is now liable to arr*st where'er found. : His colleague. Dr. Joseph J. Luis, was j arraigned, pleaded not guilty and was rei leased on $2.50(t bail for trial at the next I term of the court. The attempt now being made by the I Spanish authorities to enforce the circulation of the silver notes at their face value is the most interesting feature of tlie situation in Havana. Cuba, and it indicates the financial straits to which the Government and the treasury are put. These notes, promising to pay their face value in silver coin, wore issued last fall to the extent of 83 I.<XHI.OOt 1. replacing the ikilvh, \shi< h had tu !»<■ withdrawn owing to the inability of tlie (Government to place them in circulation. These paper promises to pay steadily depreciated until they could only tie negotiated at a discount of 3G pel- cent. Stated briefly. Ihe order declares the silver notes or billets do Bancon Espanol of the island of Cuba, to be legal tender and a full equivalent for silver coin in all transactions. The Secretary of State for the ('oloiiies, Joseph Chamberlain, announced in tlie House of Commons at London that an official telegram had been received from the British agent nt ITetorin. capital of the Transvaal, convoying a bill of indemnity presented by the Trims'mil ns a resull of the .Imncson rnid. The bill, he added, is livided into two heads. The first asks for the payment of £<’>77,038 3s .’’d ns a material charge, and under the second head the Transvaal asks for £ 1 J'bOJHK) for “moral and intellectual damage.” Mr. Chamberlain further adds thaf tli<‘demands do not include the legitimate jirivnte claims which tnay be advanced. The telegram from flic British agent also says that the indemnity is to be paid by the British Govermm nt, or caused to be paid by it. apparently suggesting ' that the (lovornim nt compel the British Chartered South Africa Company to |iay it, or, in default, that the Government must foot the bill. A London Daily News special from a place in Hungary called Uodmegae Vas-

sarhely tells of the arrest of sir. men and two women accused of wholesale slaughter of relatives for the sake of securing •'(bout 100 florins apiece life insurance niohey. The murderers formed a societytor getting rid of relatives. One mail Poisoned his father, mother, wife, wife’s father, and others not related to him, <<nd so gained several thousand florins. Oue woman murdered her mother, sister, and a neighbor. All the other murderers are charged with one crime apiece. A midwife planned the society, and, like several of her accomplices, is fairly’ well-to-do and intelligent. Seventeen ‘bodies have been exhumed. The midwife conlesses that she has been at the trade for many years, and always called in doctors when using poison to prevent suspicion. n every case now being investigated poison was administered and then a doctor "as sent for, and in no ease did any doctor suspect foul play. _ f anon dispatch: A fusillade having con'tnued since morning, despite the warnings of th*' foreign admirals, the united squadrons bombarded the insurgent camp outside of Canea. At 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon 11. M. S. Dryad, H. M. S. Harrier and 11. M. S. Revenge, together w>;h one Italian, one German and one Rujsinn ship, opened fire on the ('retail position where the Greek flag was hoistec^some days ago, and ruined the house iy®' the Cretans. The ting was soon lilßered mid the order “cease tire” soundafter ten minutes. Thereupon tlie gp was rehoisted. The rocks around crowded with Cretans. The Turks, ^Wouraged by the fleet, opened a lively fusillade while tlie Cretans were removing tlie wounded. Tlie Cretans had not replied during the whole performance. It was a somewhat melancholy and degrading spectacle. The foreign admirals have warned Co). Vassos, the commander of tlie Greek forces on the Island of Crete, of their intention to attack his troops with four men of war anchored off his camp, Aghioi Theodoroi, should he attempt to advance to the interior of the island. IN GENERA^. Obituary: At Beverly, Mass., John I. Baker, “the sage of Essex,” 85.—At Washington, Rear Admiral Edmund R. Calhoun, 75.—At New York, William I'. Campbell, 72.—At Whitehall. 111., Henry Tunison, 69. At Elkhart. Ind., George Burrus, 80. —At Milwaukee, Edgar C. Jennings, 78.—At Rockford, 111., Orange R. Gorham, GL R. G. Dun 6i Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “A large increase in the iron mid steel business on account of sabs covering eight to twelve months’ production of the largest works, a better demand for woolen goods and slightly better for cottons, a gain which may prove lasting in boots mid shoes, slightly better prices for wheat, cotton, wool and iron, and a money market "*-ll adapted to encourage purchases against future improve ment in business, have rendered the last week more hopeful than any other since early in November." Th*’ Iron Trade Review say s: “ The steel rail war was brief mid tierce, mid th*’ execution was quite nil that could be de sired. It is snfe to say that nearly $20,(MKi,o(M» worth of rail busim ss is on the books of tile members of the late pool, nearly nil of it taken in live days. If we ciyßtt 375,mu tons of I’ittsburg sides, in !,>t> tons of foreign onlcrs njt^rf'^htioo ton* »f rails optioned to home nud to fid# add 25<t.900 tons taken Juinots and 290.n0n to 250.00<i tons ■^■hy ISnstern mills, we shall ha'e a i.»W_of 1.075,<»M1 tons.” (wVdatn Harkins ul tie s> h<-.c. r I ua, just nrri'ed at Sun Francisco from I’nmi ma, may find himself in a some" lint serious pr* dicmiient. His vessel has no pa pern of any d*‘t>-riptioii to present to the custom bouse. Register, crew list mid other document# are all missing, and the I'mi, in 11 sense, is outlawed by maritime usages. It appears that the lua loaded cedar logs at Panama. Part cash was paid for tlie cargo, mid the balance, al- • hetigh eiibk'd for to Sun Francisco, had not arrived "hen tlie I na was loaded an-! ready to tail. The enptuiu of tl.e jwri at I‘mmma told Captain Harkins that if the ' , money due was not paid immediately the > vessel would be seized and he placed in ■ i jail. United States Consul General Vis- j ‘ tnittin was seen by tlie < upturn, mid. as | no clearance from the Columbian customs , I was in evidence, informed tin- I na's skipj per thut he could nor deliver up the 'es. | i sei's papers, and advised him to pay the I | money due and settle matters. According; ! । to Harkins, Consul General Vifquaiu ad- ’ 1 vised him to “clear out.” This counsel i lie obeyed. Consul General A'ifquain has I forwarded the I na’s register and other | documents to Washington, together with his report of the case, so that any decis- । ion in the matter will rest with the Fidera! authorities. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades. s3.lit) to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, s2.no to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 7'l ■; corn. No. 2. 22c to 2'c; oats. No. 2,15 c to 16c; rye, No. 2, 33e to 34c; nutter, choice creamery. 19e to 21c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common short to choio dwarf, $35 to SNO per ton. Indimiapolis Cattle, sbippimr. $3.00 to S-*> OoihpMH. choice light. to -S-t '-': ' J ulioiuc, to $4.00; R > -• to s ' ,c; corl1 ’ No - 2 " 10 ^'l oat3 > Xo - 2 20c will J, (2.^^ St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2. 88e to 90c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 19c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, IGe to 17c; rye. No. 2. 30c to 32c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to Sa.OO; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2-50 to $150: wheat, No. 2. 89c to 91e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 18c to 20c; rye. No. 2, 35e to 37c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs $3.00 to $3.75: sheep, $2.00 to $4.25. wheat, No. 2 red. 87c to SSc; corn, No 2 yellow, 21c to 23c; outs. No. 2 " hili’, 19. to 21c; rye. 35c to 3Ge. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 87e to SS. . corn, No. 2 mixed. 22e to 23c; oats. No 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye. No. 2,31 cto 3G> . clover seed, $4.G5 to $4.70. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, i-'c to 76c; corn, No. 3,18 cto 19c; oats, No 2 white, 17c to 19e: bmley. No. 2,2 Sc to 31 e; rye, No. 1,34 cto 35c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, common to prime ship ping, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, medium to best, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime natives, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, fair to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.(10 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c;, butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, M estern, 15g to 20c.

rest for a warrior CAPTAIN W. H. MERRILL DIES IN NEW YORK. Wa-H n Friend of Lincoln and Served on His Personal Staff-Woman Superintendent Draws the Line at Smoking-Fatal Train Wreck. Capt. W. H. Merrill. Captain William Howard Merrill, U. S. A., retired, died of cirrhosis of the liver after an illness of a month at his home in New York. He was born in Utica, N. Y., Marell 21. 1833, and was e mated at West roint. At the outbreak of the war lie offered his services to President Uncoln and enlisted in the Twenty-seventh New \<>rk Infantry. For his services at Lull Run he was made captain of volunteers. At the battle of Antietam he was captured and sent to Libby prison, from " liich place, after four months’ confinement, he escaped. While in the prison he "rote n book reciting the terrors of life led by the unfortunates confined there. I pon reaching the I nion lines again he rejoined his command and served throughout lho war. He was mustered out of Mrm ire <)ut. 23, iKiiG, but immediately rert'ived his appoint meat n« brevet raptain of the regular army, which was bestowed for his courage at the battle of Bull Rim. Sept. 10, 1868, he was made a full captain and sent to Governor’s Island. He retired from active service Dec. 31, 1870. Captain Merrill was a friend of President Lincoln and for several months was attached to his staff in tlie capacity of tud-di’-camp. Train in the Bitch. The Chesapeake and Ohio west-bound passenger train encountered a washout opposite Portsmouth, Ohio, Monday morning. and the engine, baggage and express car, mail car and one coach were derailed. A. G. Stout, supervisor of th*’ Chesapeake and Ohio, was killed. The engineer, fireman, mail < lerks and express messenger were all injured, but not seriously. The casualties are; A. G. Stout, roadmaster, riding on engine, skull fractured, died in | half an hour; Engineer J. E. Fairhead of ; Cim-innati, cut on head, bruised leg and ; elbow; Fireman H. Myers of Covington, I hip and leg bruised: Richard Maddock of Portsmouth, leg bruised; William Wolf, Portsmouth, leg crushed; R. J. Fite, express messenger, bruised about chest ; M. A. Faulkner, baggage master, nose broken, face lirnised. serious; F. A. Bradley, right shoulder and face bruised: L. C. Turner. Boonville, Ya., leg sprained; John Arvin Porter, (’ovington, cut in face; J. L. (tale, mail clerk, cut in knee and head. Hortiaac to X\ iiHhington'M Memory. Washington's birthday was generally observed. Pupils of our public school ; — those who "ill bear the burden and responsibility of citizenship before the passing of many years listened to words of " isdom and counsel from men of ripened experience, and hearts full of youth, hope and ambition swelled with nobler patrioti<’ impulses. For the day the examplo of a man who lias come to embody all that is desirable in American citizenship was placed before the youth of our laud ami thi’* are ask< d t<> emulate him ami, en- > enraged by his achievements and sterling worth, to strive for an equal tneasurq of i rm- g-reatm ss. Because he made possible "Th<- ;>arlia■ mnt of man, tlie federation of the world." Business generally was suspended, ami numerous gatherings of civic societies, when’ were delivered mhlres-a-s telling of the Imnor, manliness ami patriotism of our first President, testified to the spirit of reverence which now marks tlie day. The .Meatiest Husband Yet. Mis Alice E. ('ralifree, of Portsmouth, t 'hio, was granted a divorce on the ground of neglect. 11 r husband is entitled tq pre eminence among the meanest men of the community if her sworn testimony is ! tine. She says that in four years all the , nmiiey he gave her was but $10; that she I spent $5 of this to buy her sister a parasol | to replace one lie had lost, and that lie i b.>rro"-d buck the other $5 to get his i trunk out of imwii. Tlie only money he i ver spent fi r her, in any way, form or I manner, was 5 cents, paid for a sack of j peanuts he shared witli her. Sho clothed ' herself ami paid her own board. Both are ' ' inng and come of prominent families. — Objects to Smoking. Mrs, Louise I’ift Yokum, Dolores Couni fy, Colo., superintendent of schools, has refused a teacher's certificate to Prof. Victor (’. McGirr, principal of the Rico I'tiblie school, because lie smokes. Mrs. Yokum takes the ground that a person who smokes is disqualified to teach in the public schools because teachers in that State are required by law to instruct the children against tlie use of tobacco. An appeal will probably be taken to the State Board of Education by I’rof. McGirr, who is graduate of the Toronto I niversity and is very popular in Rico. BREVITIES. It is stated. that the powers have aceepteil the proposal to grant autonomy to Crete. Even if this is true, it will nat- j urally at once be followed by the dis- j patch of an ultimatum to Greece. This probably accounts for the Paris bourse rumors regarding an ultimatum. Benjamin R. Bacon, a Kansas City insurance agent, who a few years ago was one of the wealthiest and most prominent business men in Kansas City, committed suicide in a room at the Midland Hotel Monday morning, firing a bullet into his i brain. Despondency folio" ing business reverses is supposed to be the cause of | suicide. The Secretary of Stale notified Minor : ('arlson ol San Diego, Cal., that pm inis sion was granted to hind sailors ami ma I rim . from (lie British "ar ship Cmuus .it that t*ert to take part in the celelun li,m el Washington’s birthda.'. in <<m jum tieii "ith the forces ol the I nited i States " ar ships in the harbor, and to pur- ! twipnfe in the parade carrying their arms. The children of John Gain, a farmer living near I’erry, O. T., set. tire Io the grass in their dooryard. The clothing of Norn, aged 4, and of a boy aged 2 caught fire and both were burned to death. Most Reverend Thomas L. Grace, formerly bishop of St. Raul and latterly titular archbishop of Siunia, died at St. Paul Monday morning at the age of 83. He be came a victim of bronchitis about six weeks ago, and sank gradually and painlessly till, attended by the Geigy of the city, he passed away. *

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. The Senate adjourned at (5:30 Thursday night, after spending six hours in executive session devoted to the consideration of the nomination of C. F. Amidon to be district judge of North Dakota, and of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. Mr. Vilas has secured the passage by the Senate of the Senate bill “to extend the use of the mail service.” It provides for using a patent postal card and envelope with coupons attached. The Postmaster General is authorized to suspend the system if it proves unsatisfactory on a test. Tlie House, by a vote of 197 to 91, reversed the finding of a majority of the elections committee and decided the contested election esse of N. T. Hopkins vs. .1. ^1; Kendall from the tenth Kentucky district in favor of the liepublican contestnut. Eleven Republicans and three Populists voted with the Democrats against unseating Kendall. The Senate adjourned at 8:15 o’clock Friday night, after having spent almost eight hours in continuous executive session on the arbitration treaty. No result was accomplished beyond voting down the motion made by Senator Nelson to postpone further consideration of the treaty. A very spirited debate on the general subject of the payment of claims found to be due against the United States was indulged in by the House during the consideration of the general deficiency appropriation bill. Mr. Richardson (TennJ had called attention to the apparent inconsistency of an item to pay the costs of defending suits, and the fact that the bill contained no item to pay the judgments. Mr. Mahon (Pa.), chairman of the War Claims Committee, made the statement that the House had been frightened by a [ “bogie man,” and the just claims against j tlie Government, instead of aggregating | hundreds of millions, as was frequently I stated, could be discharged with $10,000,000. The consideration of the bill was not completed. The bill carries $8,441,027. Both houses worked hard Saturday, getting measures in shape for final action. Appropriation bills and conference re- ! ports were before the House for action. । There is evident an intention to pare api propriations down to tlie last notch, and consternation reigns among members who have pet measures, affecting their particular districts, which they hoped to put through. Senator Sherman announced his purpose not to again bring up the arbi- : (ration treaty for debate so long as the I appropriation bills are pressing for con- • sideratioii, but if there should be a lull j in this work he may renew his efforts to I secure ratification. The Senate joint resj olution for an international monetary conference looking to the adoption of international bimetallism was unanimously re- ; ported to the House. ; 4 The Senate spent its first hours Monday in listening tv Washington’s farewell address, re ad by Mr. Daniel (Va.), and then ' r< suiiK <1 consideration of the Indian appropriation bill for a time. The Loud l-i ent p istal bill came in for some sharp critieisn from Mr. Butler, Mr. Stewart, and others. Tlie House passed the gen- ; oral deficiency appropriation bill and be--1 ' gan tlie consideration of the last of the I money bills, that providing for the naval establishment. A long debate occurred I o'er the propriety of the appropriation of $1,310,090 for the Southern Pacific Railroad under the judgment of tlie Court of Claims, but tlie House by a vote of 102 j to 138, refused to strike it out. The members who favored tlie appropriation for j tlie repayment to members of the last j Congress oi salary withheld from them I on account of absence carried the tight [ into the House, but were beaten, 92 to | 122. Sixteen of the forty-eight pages of the naval bill were completed. Tlie House sent the naval bill, the last of the appropriation bills, to ihe Senate Tuesdcy. It was passed practically without amendment. The feature of the day was a political debate which occurred late j in the afternoon on the subject of civil । service reform. It developed during the ■ consideration of a bill, which was finally i passed, to permit the Governors of the territories to appoint certain officers of : the territories in case if vacancies without the consent of the legislative councils, " liich is now required by law. The ! Senate made slow progress on the appropriation bills, disposing of only one item । of the Indian bill, it being that directing ; the opening of the Uncompahgre Indian reser' ation in Utah. It involved a conflict wit!) tlie executive branch, which has stead Jy resisp’d opening these lauds, on the ground that they contained valuable mineral deposits. Mr. Vilas endeavored to have a royalty reserved to the Governnt, but was defeated in this and rh<’ clause was agreed to after an all-day debate. During the day a resolution by ■ .Mr. Mills, of Texas, was adopted, asking j the President for information as to th*' I death of Dr. Ruiz at Guanabacoa, Cuba. Notes of Current Events. Mrs. Booth-Tucker, wife of Commandci’ Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army, became so ill in Brooklyn that she had to give up her work there, and was taken to her home in New York. It is rumored that Dr. John B. Il.imil- ■ ton. "lio "as for many years prominently identitied with the I tided States Marine i Corps, is to be made the superintendent of the insane as*linu at Elgin. \ resolution was introduced in the Missouri House railing upon the Speaker to I appoint a special commit tee ot' live to go to Ne'ada mid "dtiess the Corbett I'itz simmoiis hi.ht so as tn learn whether it . "mild be 'veil for Missouri to follow Ne | viola’s example in legalizing pugilistic encounters. ('apt. J. M. Brinker, who has been in New York for some time booming the proposed Pan Ameiican exposition too be held in 1900. has announced that the ex' position would be held in the neighborhood of Niagara Falls, and that its success was assured. The railway carriage murder of Miss Camp in a London suburban train continues to be the chief topic of interest there. The young woman, wlmse body was found crowded 'jiidLUTT seat in a second-class compartment, was buried, and there was a great public demonstra tion.