St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 March 1897 — Page 6

jimpeiwtnL W. V, ^’ubllsher. WALKERTON, - - • INDIANA TO AID THE CUBANS EXPEDITION HEADED BY MAJOR CASTROVERDI. Two T tics, a Schooner, and a Barge Lying; OIF the Coast at Barnegat Thotiffht to Comprise a Cuban Fleet —Movements Kept Quiet. Four Suspicious Craft Observed. The New York World Tuesday morning says: “Passing coasters observed four suspicious craft, two tugs, a schooner and a barge, lying off Barnegat, till the storm, with its white fuzz of snow, became so thick as to shut off the vision. A steamer with a single funnel, a black hull and two masts rigged as derricks, emerged from the bloom of the morning, signaled the tugs, which answered understandingly, and presently came about, and tied up alongside the little fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel, which in turn was made fust to one of the tugs, and had no sails spread. The whole proceeding looks like •the start of a carefully planned filibustering expedition for Cuba. It was learned that Major Castroverdi, a young and dashing Cuban patriot, who was formerly with the late Gen. Maceo, disappeared a week age. He went south to lead an expedition from some point on the coast, his friends in the Cuban junta say. His outfit was to comprise hospital stores, rifles, ammunition and a few picked men. The point from which he was to sail is kept secret. No one about the junta would say he knew of the arrangements for the expedition. A tug called the Volunteer left the old Logwood house at Greenpoint. In tow of the tug was the barge Relief, upon whose deck crouched in the shadows more than a score of Cubans, mostly young men, and many of them, judging from appearances, of the adventurous and daring class that are always pressing the officials in the junta for a chance to strike r blow for Cuba libre. Thus the flotilla lay tjll the mysterious steamer came out of the horizon to the southward. In addition to her many cases, the schooner is said to have had nine or ten men, who also climbed aboard the steamer. From appearances. Major. Castroverdi's $50,000 expedition, headed for the mouth of the San Juan riwr, is already on its way."

To Extend Its Work. The bureau of statistics of the State Department expects to largely extend its field of usefulness this year owing to the liberal spirit which Congress has manifested toward its wants. The requests for larger printing appropriati ms have been granted without hesitation, upon representations by Secretary Olney who has the welfare of the bureau at heart, that the business men of the country were particularly interested in the publications. The work in hand this year will, it is expected, yield results far more valuable than ever before realized. The great feature of the reports will be those coming in answer to the general instruction to consuls of last July to submit statements of the exact trade conditions in different countries, and the compilation of which is now in the hands of the printer and soon to be issued, will be full of valuable trade information.

No Danger of a Wool Corner. In regard to the reported Boston wool corner, leading London wool brokers ridicule the idea that there is any possibility of cornering wool. They say it would require the purchase of two clips to do so, meaning the cornering of at least 8,000,000 bales and the expenditure of $500,000,000. As the situation is understood in London, the Bostonians bought at the last sale 45,000 bales of the higher grease wools, and they will probably purchase as much more at the next sale with the view of making $1,000,000 out of their deal under the new tariff, in which, however, the London brokers believe they will be disappointed. For the next wool sale there are already 300,000 bales offered, and the number will probably reach 330,000 bales. Row in the SenateSenator Tillman, of South Carolina, almost provoked a personal conflict with Senator Hawley of Connecticut, who resented his (Tillman’s) charges that the armor-plate manufacturers have paid agents in the Senate to rob the Government. Senator Hawley had spoken against an amendment to reduce the price of armor plate to S3OO a ton. Mr. Tillman then made his charges, and also claimed that armor plate could be made for S2OO a ton. Some high words were bandied, and Senator Hawley was induced by his friends to go to the cloak room. The amendment to reduce the price to S3OO a ton was finally passed.

NEWS NUGGETS. Fire broke out in the works of the American Plate Glass Company at Alexandria, Ind. The loss is estimated at $40,000; fully insured. President Cleveland has vetoed the immigration bill. The message setting forth his objections to the measure was delivered to the House Tuesday afternoon. Cable dispatches received at Madrid from Manila say that over 2,000 insurgents were killed in the recent battles fought with the Government troops nt SHang and Las Marimas. The Standard Oil Company suffered eonliderable loss by the bursting of its pipe line near Norwalk, O. The oil ran into the Huron river for over a mile and was set on tire. The people of Milan were much excited for fear the burning oil would set fire to their town. It is estimated that nearly 2,000 barrels of oil were consumed. The company will also suffer by the. destruction of other property along the track of the burning fluid. Over two million portals of naphtha has been destroyed by fire at Tagieff Russian Transcaucasia, in the naphth: springs district. Ex-Gov. William J. St me was appoint ed receiver of the Mullanphy Saving Bank at St. Louis. which was c losed b; the State bank examiner. He immediate ly took possession. Lyman J. Gage, the new Secretary o the Treasury, is a friend of the civil set vice. In air interview ho declared h would carry out the merit system to th letter in the Treasury Department durin his term of office.

EASTERN. W. A. Gamo, a business man well known in Chicago and the East, has been granted a divorce from his wife, Grace Gamo of New York City, and the custody of their two children. The Ringkind House at Oswego, N. Y„ and six adjoining buildings were destroyed by fire. There wore thirty guests in the hotel at the time, who were rescued by the police and firemen. The loss will amount to $75,000. The strike of the river coal miners, which was delayed on account of the high water flooding the rivers, was inaugurated at Pittsburg. The number of men out is not known, but the miners expect the strike to be general along the Monongahela valley, in which event 7,000 men will be involved. The men are striking for 2% cents per bushel in the first three pools and 2 cents in the fourth pool. While workmen were digging a trench on the property of Henry C. Dreer, near the Delaware river front, in Riverton, N. J., they unearthed five human skeletons. A physician said that one gave evidence of comparatively recent burial. The latter was apparently the bones of a white man of mature years. The skull was fractured and seemed to have been crushed in by a blow. No definite theory can be advanced as to how the skeletons came there. The spot where they were found is back of the Faunces’ fish cabin, which is used by shad fishermen in the spring.

The great flood has done its worst in the vicinity of Pittsburg, Pa. A cold wave broke the back of the flood and reports from all points between Pittsburg and the head waters indicate that all danger has passed. The rivers in that vicinity reached a higher stage than nt any time since 1884. Hardly a point in the Monongahela valley, from Fairmont to Pittsburg, escaped damage. Mills built supposedly out of harm’s way were submerged. Works along the river were shut down and workmen forced to flee from the rising tide. The damage can only be approximated, but it is not less than SI,S(M»,(H>O in the Monongahela valley. From the headwaters of the Youghiogheny also came a torrent that brought with it destruction to valuable property. Railroads were unable to move trains. Private houses built in the low lauds in the suburbs have been flooded. The poorer classes who lived in small houses and shanties along the river's ~'ih are homeless, while the truck gardeners having hotbeds in the bottom lands, with early vegetables almost ready for the market, have been ruined. In McKeesport the damage will exceed $500,000.

WESTERN. The arrest at Seattle, Wash., of Mack McAlpin, William Laurie and Charles Hussey, the latter a 10-year-old boy, has led to the discovery by the police that they have run into a nest of counterfeiters and wholesale thieves. Moses P. Handy, Jr., son of Major Moses P. Handy, died at Chicago, after a sickness of only a day. Tuesday he had to leave his studies in the Northwestern University Medical School, and it was found he bad embolism at the base of the brain. Canton. 0.. dispatch: Col. John J. McCook is practically out of the list of cabinet possibilities. The Secretaryship of the Interior has been formally tendered to him and he has just formally declined it, for the reason that he considers it the least important place in the cabinet, and he wants the Attorney Generalship. At 2:30 Wednesday morning flames were discovered breaking forth from the roof of the Merchants’ Exchange build ing at St. Louis. The fire started in the elevator shaft, presumably from defective light wires, and spread to the offices on the top floor. The damage was confined principally to the eastern, or office, portion of the building and was mostly caused by water, with which the roof was flooded. The offices on the fifth floor wt re damaged considerably, and those on the floors below suffered somewhat from water. The narrow streets and the mass of overhead wires hampered the work of the firemen, and had not the building been almost tire proof the fire would undoubtedly have destroyed it. The loss is $b0,000; fully covered by insurance. What seems to be a new chapter in the history of Richard Ashe, the Australian murderer, came to light at San Franei-eo when it was declared on good authority that the man of many countries and many aliases is a deserter from the United States army. So tar as the police hate made public the information in their possession, and so far as the murderer himself has admitted, the man’s record runs no further back than Sept. 1. ISIH. when he shipped on the Star of Russia at Newcastle, N. S. W.. and started for San Francisco. If this story as to his enlistment in the United States army’ and his

desertion be true, light is thrown on another three years of his life. It is declared that Ashe enlisted at Ogdensburg, N. Y.. about 1888 and was assigned to Company (’. Fourth Infantry, and soon afterward deserted. In a street car accident Thursday’ at Chicago three persons were killed and four more or less severely hurt. An examination of what remained of the ear after the collision showed by the controller that the full current was on when the car dashed on to the railway tracks. But as the motorman is among those killed it will probably not be learned whether or not he lost control of his car. The list of the dead is: George O'Malley, motorman; Fokker Prins, milkman; Roscoe W. Young, collector for the Clinton & Rhodes Company. The injured are: Robert Hines, motorman; Henry .Madison, conductor; Mary E. Moschelle, reporter: .John Young, fireman on the passenger locomotive. Conductor Madison, who is at Mer cy Hospital, is not in condition to be questioned about the accident, but it is not expected he can explain why the motorman failed to heed the flagman’s signals and stop his car. Willoughby, Hill & Co., the Chicago clothiers, were closed Saturday’ by the Sheriff on two judgment notes held by the Fort Dearborn National Bank and aggregating $81,611. The minority stockholders. represented by Attorney’ Newman. charge that the filing of the notes was in contempt of a suppressed restraining order entered by -Judge Showalter of the Federal Court, hint at fraud in the notes themselves, and say they will have them examined by microscopic experts to determine their authenticity. Soon after the Sheriff's levy Alfred Benjamin & Co., creditors of the concern for $3,405, tiled a bill in the Circuit Court for a receiver, and .Judge Hanecy appointed E. B. McKee, who qualified with bonds of $75,000. The litigation in which the clothing house is involved is primarily’ the outcome of troubles among the stockholders, the Hill interests in Chicago being arrayed on one

side and members of the Stein-Bloch company. clothing manufacturers of Rochester, N. Y., who are the minority stockholders in the Chicago concern, on the other. The legislative committee appointed to investigate the Leadville, Colo., strike submitted a report which was a great sur- । prise to the mine owners, but the conclusions are eminently satisfactory to the miners. The committee recommends that a board of arbitration be appointed, two to be chosen by the mine owners and two by the miners, the fifth to be chosen by the four. 'Whatever decision this board <»f arbitration shall arrive at must be binding on both sides, and an agreement to that effect must be signed beforehand. The committee submits an agreement in full, which provides that the scale of wages in force immediately before the strike shall be conceded by the mine owners and shall remain in force until the board of arbitration shall arrive at a decision; also that the mine owners shall recognize labor unions, and that members of unions and non union men shall work side by side. Further, it is provided that no strike or lockout shall be declared by a labor organization or by- an organization of employers unless by secret ballot. The proposed agreement makes a further proviso that no strike or lockout shall be declared on foreign labor imported without both sides submitting their grievances to the arbitration committee, and that mine owners shall not discriminate against a man because he is a member of a labor union. All differences regarding the future scale of wages must bo submitted to the arbitration board. WASHINGTON. » The Ranking Committee of the Mt#?''" House of Representatives has decidMb* o report a bill for the incorporation of |-le International American Bank. The capital stock is placed at SS,IH)O,(MM), and among the incorposators an* Cornelius N. Bliss. Andrew Carnegie. Charles R. Flint. I'. D. Armour, M. M. Estee and James S. Clarkson. While the State Department has not backed up Consul General Lee unreservedly, the administration has taken a firm stand on one question, and that is the length of time an American citizen can be held ineumunicado in a Spanish prison. Upon this question Secretary Olney has authorized Gen. Lee to demand the release of each and every American who may be arrested and kept incomunieado for more than seventy two hours. Only a few weeks ago Gen. Weyler informed Gen. Lee. both verbally and in writing, that the Spanish Government had. ami proposed to exercise, the right of keeping Americans in prison and inromuniendo seventy two davs if it should be so decided.

The Alaskan boundary treaty signed by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian I’nuneefote Jan. 30, 181)7, provides for the appointment of one commissioner by the United States and one by Great Britain, with whom shall be associated such surveyors and other assistants ns each Government shall elect. The commissioners shall, as early as possible, proceed to ’race ami mark so much of the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude ns is necessary to be defined for the purpose of determining the exact limits of the territory ceded to the United States by die treaty between the United States an I Russia of March 30. Isti7. In case of disagreement between the commissioners as to the correct geographical < . ordinates of one ami the same i«>int determined by either of the two governments separately, a position midway betwom the two I ■< atiollS shall be adopted, provided tll’> erepancy between them shall not • \cec<^ I,<h h » feet. In ease of a greater distepancy a new joint determination shall b« made by the commissioners. Each gov eminent shall bear the expenses incident to the employment of its own nppointad^ and of the operations conducted by them, but the cost of material used in permanently marking the meridian and of its transportation shall be 1 orne jointly and equally by the two governments.

FOREIGN. Salvador Cisneros, president of the Cuban republic, is reported dead. Ambassador and Mrs I homa Bayard will go to Italy immediately after Mr. Bayard receives the degree from Cambridge. President Crespo has sent to the Venezuelan congress a message favoring the boundary line treaty negotiated with Great Britain by the Jnifcd States. Six persons ware killed and several injured by an explosion oi nitro-glycerine at Nobel's dynamite works. Ayrshire, Scotland. The explosion was heard titteen miles from the works, ami die concussion extinguished the gas lamps at Kilwinning, three miles away. The massing of Turkish troops and munitions of war on the frontier is proceeding with feverish haste. All the soldiers on furlough have been recalled, and eleven batteries of artillery, a regiment of cavalry and two battlions of infantry have gone from Salonica, Monastir and elsewhere to Elassona. Two additional battalions of infantry have reached Katerina. The reliefs from Smyrna. Brusa, Trebizonde and elsewhere in Anatolia are on their way to the frontier, where a total of six divisions will be formed with beadquarters at Elassona. A dispatch from Placetas, Province of Santa Clara. Cuba, via Jacksonville, Fla., says: The Spanish captain general's personal campaign against Maximo Gomez in Santa Clara Province is a failure. Weyler has been outgeneraled, outmaneuvered, outmarched and outfought by the “scattering groups of insurgents." of which he, in his official dispatches to the War Department at Madrid, has spoken with contempt. Within ten days his generals have been defeated in this one province five times. Gomez, whom he claimed to have penned up between his Spanish columns and the central trocha, has crossed his line of march, defeated his troops, outflanked him, reached his rear, and is now apparently in a position to raid Matanzas and Havana Provinces almost at will. Disappointed, defeated and discouraged, Weyler reached Sancti Spiritus, proceeding thence to Yunas de Zazas to await a warship sent to take him back to Havana. 11 is pompous military parade has come to a truly sad end. Advices from Athens say: King George and his Government reiterate that it is impossible for Greece to retreat from its decision in regard to Crete, which is supported by the whole nation. The following is from Constantinople: “Ismail Bey, governor ad interim of the palace, lias officially informed the ambassadors that, taking the gravity of the events into consideration, the Turkish Government no longer considered itself bound by’ its promises with, regard to the sending of re-eu-

forcements to Crete.” The St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya claims that the Greek policy is good for England. If Greece goes in it will be impossible to forbid the Turks defending their territory. The Mirovye ol Gloski says the trouble is purely local ami does not threaten the peace of Europe. The Glasmost says the Greeks counted on disaccord and found it. Greece must capitulate or Europe must. A special received at Paris from Larissa, (.reece, says that 20,000 Greek troops are concentrated there; it is believed at Larissa that general hostilities will immediately begin on the frontier in the event of Greece not being allowed to annex the Island of Crete. A special dispatch to the New York Sun from Havana says: “The torture known as componte in Cuba, and by means of which the American citizen, Dr. Ricardo Ruiz, was assassinated, is the most barbarous of all the cruel punishments invented by the Spaniards. A prisoner is beaten, sometimes with a cane and sometimes with a large cylindrical piece of iron, until he faints from pain or loss of blood. His wounds are then cared for, and when he is better the awful treatment is repeated. The design is to kill him by degrees, and when the climax of cruelty is reached, then a powerful and decisive blow on the head puts an end to the poor victim’s sufferings. If Consul General Lee lives in Cuba much longer he will come to understand perfectly what was meant by thecomponte when some prisoners in the jail at Guanabacoa told him that by this method Dr. Ruiz had been done to death by the orders of Major Fondnviela.” The Spanish authorities doubt the legality of Dr. Ruiz’s American citizenship. Nevertheless they have ordered an immediate official inquiry with a view of punishing severely all persons concerned in the affair if it is proved that they failed in their duties. Some time must elapse before the matter can be sifted.

IN GENERA._ The overdue Allan Line steamship Assyrian has arrived at Halifax. E. <*. Benedict announces that President Cleveland will be his guest on a yachting trip to the West Indies. The Court of Appeals at Montreal has maintained the right of trades unionists to strike if the firm they worked for refused to discharge non-union men. Obituary: At Lancaster, Pa., Miss ('. W. Cassady, D>l. At Kaukauna. Wis.. James Madison Boyd. Hl. At Mount Sterling. 111., Dr. J. R, Rickey, SG. At Jefferson. lowa. Mrs. Susan Russell. 81. At Quine;,’, 111., Mrs. W. R Lockwood, 30. R. G. Dun A Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says; “Genuine improvement in business does not come with a rush, like the breaking of a great dam. The grow th for some weeks past has been more el- - because in nearly till lines it has been gradual and moderate. The rupture of the steel rail ami other combinations in the iron bnsiness has brought out a vast quantity of trade which has been held back and hn« set many thousand men at work, while the slow but steady gain in other great industries has given employment t<» many thousands more, but the full effects will not appear until increased purchases by all these swell the distribution of goods. Meanwhile, it is substantial ground for confidence that months which were regarded by many in the money market with serious apprehensions have passed without disturbance and with sternly gains in the position of the country ami of the treasury." The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has placed an order with the t’nrnroomi*»»y for <JS.(MX) tons of »tr« 4 rails. Xi the lowest rate since the break in F. ea this involves an expenditure of conFWrably over ?L‘MX».'««‘ At the rate ■t iw quoted In the open market s2<f per ton the purchase would amount to $C Hpecial importnnci attaches to

giia sale from th- Put that t ( aiiadtan Wacifie road bn* nlway* sustained such close ii la cnship to the D-mmioii Government as to be almost considered it government road. Indeed, there have been times in the brief hist- ry of the road when that Government has exercised propri. tary control of the property. Owing to the relationships which they sustained toward it, two Governments have been wrecked by it that of Sir John A. Mac donald in Is?! am! that of Alex. Mackenzie in 1579.l 5 79. It is believed that this is the first purchase of American rails or. at least, the first of any importance that Jias been made in the American market by the Canadian Pacific company. The road was built in the first place w ith English rails, the Dominion Government |wrmitting their entry free of duty to secure their purchase in Great Britain. It was the large purchases of English steel rails made by the .Mackenzie Government that constituted the chief element in its overthrow. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5 50; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2,22 cto 23c: oats, No. 2,15 c to 16c; rye, No. 2. 32c to 33c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common short to choice dwarf, $35 to SBO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, good to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,82 cto 84c; corn. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis- Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.001t0 $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $1.50; wheaO<o. 2,88 cto 89c; earn. No. 2 yel lowj Sfßto 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 18c; rli'NOi 2,31 cto 33c. CtncWafti —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 16*'54.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheatjNo. 2,88 cto 90c; corn. No. 2 mixed,T22c to 24c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 18c to IJh prye, No. 2,35 cto 37c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 86c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, 34c to 36c. Toledo—-Wheat. No. 2 red. 86c to 88c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 37c; clover seed, $4.70 to $4.80. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring. 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3,18 cto 20c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; barley, No. 2,28 cto 33e; rye, No. 1,34 cto 35c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo-—Cattle, common to prime shipping, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, medium to best, $3.00 tb $4.25; sheep, common to prime natives, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to extra. $4.50 to $5.25. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn. No. 2, 2Sc to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, Western, 1G» ** 18c.

RESUMING FULL TIME WHEELS OF INDUSTRY HUMMING IN THE EAST. Many Big; Mills Increase Hours and Working Force-Famous St. Bernard Demolished by an Avalanche-Illi-nois Town Suffers Severe Fire Loss, Ripple of Prosperity. The L. Candes Company, New Haven, Conn., manufacturers of rubber footwear, Monday resumed operations in their plant after an idleness of about two months. Lhe Silver Spring bleachery, Providence, R. L. began running on full time Monday. I'or the last eight months the plans has been running eight hours a day. About 550 hands are employed. The Greene & Daniels yarn mills at Central Falls began on a sixty hours a week schedule, after being on a forty-hour schedule since last summer. The company employs over 1,000 persons. The mills of the Farwell Worsted Company, employing 500 hands, resumed operations after a long period of curtailment. The Kent Woolen Company of Centerville and a number of smaller plants are making preparations to start their machinery. The repair shops of the Consolidated road at Valley Falls, R. 1., Started up on full time of sixty hours a week. The shops, which are among the most important of the Consolidated system, were run on short time last winter, but in the spring went on full time, and ran so until August. Since then they have been running forty hours a week. About 500 hands are employed.

Monastery in n Snow Slide. Paris dispatch: An avalanche of great volume and almost irresistible power swept down upon the buildings < f the famous Monastery of St. Bernard Sunday night ami great apprehension was caused at Aosta for the safety of the hospice and the fifteen Augustinian monks who live there. Relief parties were dispatched to the place that has sheltered thousands of travelers during centuries, and the hardy Alpine resellers were overjoyed to find that there had been no loss of life. A portion of the avalanche demolished the left w ing of the monastery and buried the hospice deep in snow and debris from the mountain side. Immediately the avalanche had passed the monks began to dig a tunnel and soon made their exit. It is said that the avalanche also buried the morgue, a small house near the monastery. U' -d as a receptacle for bodies found in the snow by the monks and their St. Bernard dogs. The monastery was founded in !H>2 A. D. by St. Bernard de Menthan. During nine months each year, known ns the snow season, the monks are constantly alert to rescue unfortunate travelers. St. Bernard dogs, descendants of an old line but not of the original ancient breed, share the dangers of the next to the highest winter habitation in the Alps, In the middle ag« s this monastery was very wealthy. Os late years the travelers who annually take lodging there contribute little more than what would be a moderate hotel bill for IJXH) guests. Scarcely any monk can continue in the dreary abode and live for more than hfte.-n years. He returns to the milder climate of Martigny nr some other pla< e, broken in health. Altogether the hospice is a place associated intimately with the geographical studies of millions of selcliirs. Its destruction by snow would be followctl by contributions from the •■ntire civilized world for a rebuilding fund. Dtinois Town Flrc*^wei>t. The first tire that ha-occurred at Uasey, 1!!.. ii. te y< ars -’...rted at 2:15 o’clock Monday morning in the two-story brick building occupied by the following firms: Fuqua A S ns' Bank, 11. A B. Lee Compi v. I' 1.. Shiukle. D. U. Sturdevan*. R V I.e. M. <• Uochenmir. M. Sanford A S- Hancock A ('lark and others. I’r ; ■ : 'valm d at S2'*M M • w as destroyed. Ti,e Uii-ev Bank building is wrecked. The vault, however, is intact. The postofli. o is badly damaged, but no mail was destroyed. The block in which the fire started was almost completely destroyed. 11 was the handsomest in the town. After the lire had raged for an hour a fire engine ow ned by the Peoria. Decatur ami Evansville Railway was thought of. The railroad people placed it at the Mayor's disposal, and such efficient work was done that the flames w ere got under control at 4 o’clock.

BREVITIES, On” hundred and seventy miners per ished by a mine tire at Zacatecas. Mex. The Tinted States Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of private land claims in the Santa Fe land grant ease, thus annulling the grant. Early Friday morning the large brick oil mill opposite the I nion depot at Piqua. I >hio, was burned. It belonged to the National Linseed Oil Company of Chicago, but had not been in operation for several years. It had been used for storage by the Orr Linseed Oil Company and the Piqua Malt Company. The falling walls demolished an adjoining residence, after the family' had vacated it. Total loss. $50,000; insurance of the Piqua Malt Company, $23,0 M>. Secretary Herbert announced that lie would open a law office at Washington at an early day and r< >ime the profession w Inch he abandoned many years ago to serve hist State and later his country. The Secretary has been in public life twenty years, sixteen years as a member of the House of Representatives and four years in the cabinet, and enjoys a large public acquaintance. His practice will be before congressional committees, the departments and the local courts. Michael J. O'Brien, of Chicago, pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering his wife Nov. 19, 1895. Constantinople dispatch: The ambassa dors have completed the communication to be addressed to the Turkish Government in regard to the Island of Crete and will now telegraph it to their respective governments. The .Japanese Government has decided to adopt the gold standard at a ratio of 32 1-3 to 1- The smallest gold piece w ill be of the value of 5 yen. The silver yen will gradually be withdrawn. The new project goes into operation in October. Iverson Bowen, the oldest citizen of Hart County. Ky.. died three miles south of Hammondsville, at the age of 107 vears His age is not questioned, as he was born in 1790, and it is on record at Campbellsville that he voted for James Monroe for President in 1816. He had been an invalid for thirty years

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Halls of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed uud Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. Representative Sulzer, of New York I hursday introduced a bill in the House declaring war between Spain and her colonies and the United States. A resolution calling on the President for all information concerning the treatment of American prisoners in Cuba was adopted. I he Semite was storm-swept by such passionate debate, such extraordinary demonstrations in the crowded galleries and such frantic personal exchanges between . the conspicuous figures of the Senate as । to make the day one of the most memorable in the annals of the upper branch of Congress. Cuba was the theme and it seemed to call forth all the pent-up emotions of months. It brought about the complete displacement of appropriation bills, threatening their failure, and the advancement of the Cuban question to the very front of Senate business.

Cuba w as again a topic in the Senate Friday, from 1 to 4:30 o'clock; but the debate upon the Sanguily and Aggnirre resolutions was comparatively spiritless, and resulted in no definite action. The first half hour of the evening session was given to private pension bills, the pension calendar being cleared. Among the bills passed was that pensioning Gen. Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky at SSO a month. At 8 o’clock the consideration of the Indian bill was resumed, the amendment relating to the five civilized tribes being discussed at great length. The amendment as finally agreed to gives the United States exclusive jurisdiction over all civil and criminal eases, abolishing the native courts. Two additional judges are provided for the territory. The bill was then passed. The House passed the Senate inti’rnational monetary conference bill by a vote of 27!) to 3. It was supported alike by Republicans, silver Republicans, gold Democrats and silver Democrats. Bills were also passed to provide for the arbitration of differences between the carriers of interstate commerce and their employes (known as the Erdman bill), and the Senate bill to prevent the importation of impure tea.

There was a majority of three to one against ticket scalping when a vote was taken in the House Saturday on the bill reported from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, moved that the House nonconcur in th<' Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill and agree to a conference. The motion was carried and the bill was sent to conference. In the Senate Mr. Daniel presented certified copies of tin l naturalization papers of Julio Sanguilly, and had them printed, with extracts from the law showing their regularity, Mr. Chandler made a statement as to the Loud bill, saying the committee had concluded that it was impossible to have any legislation on the subject at the present session, ami that a commission should be created io investigate secondclass mail matter. The usual Sunday quiet of the capitol building was disturbed by a session of the Senate, made necessary to pass the appropriation bills. The att<- dame of Senators was even greater that that through the week. Ry a parliamentary fiction the session was a part t; . I. gislative day beginning Saturday, a i ..~> having been taken at 2:3(1 o'clock in the morning until 3p. m. The sundry civil appropriation bill received its finishing touches, and was passed. The Senate, by unanimous vote, has added an amendment to the bill, counteracting the President's recent order withdrawing 21JXM»,00<l acres of land from the public domain r.nd establishing it as forest reWlien the naval appropriation bill first came up in the Senate Monday afternoon Mr. Cl.andh r stated that he would move later to increase the appropriation for torpedo boats or decrease the number provided. All the other items were agreed to without comment except (hat relating to cost of armor, establishment of Government armor plant, etc., which occasioned extended debate. lhe <'handler amendment reducing the price of armor plate to $3(10 a ton was adopted without a division. Another, to reduce the total of contracts authorized to $2.407,500, to correspond with the reduction per ton. was adopted. Ti e amendment authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish a Government armor plate factory at a cost of SI.S(Mi,(HKi if he failed to make contracts was lost. The naval bill was passed at midnight, and although Mr. Chandler tried to call up the international monetary conference bill the Senate adjourned. In the House the bill to prohibit (he transmission of detailed accounts of prize fights by mail or telegraph led to a very lively skirmish, in which prize lighting was denounced on all sides. But the bill met with most strenuous opposition on the ground that it would tend to establish a censorship of tlie press, and was finally sidetracked. A bill was passed to provide for the transmission to Washington of presidential election returns by mail. The bill abolishes the sys’em of messengers now employed. In the Senate Tuesday the fortification bill was passed, as was also the deficiency appropriation bill, after amendment to keep the $1,310,427 claim of the Southern Pacific Company in the treasury until final adjustment of the Government lein upon that corporation. The House amendments to the international monetary conference hill were agreed to. and the bill sent to the President. The President sent to the Hoi sc a veto message upon tho immigration bill, his principal objection being to the edm ational clause: the I’resideiit holds that the worse class of immigrants is not found among the illiterate. The day in the House was one of routine work. _ _ Unitol States Minister Matt W. Ransom was selected some time ago as icleree in the Guatemala-Mexi< o bouudain dispute. Owing to the illness of his wife and the improbability of his staying much longer in Mexico, be has resigned the position and the two Governments will select his successor at an early date. He was to have rc< eh < d a fee of S3S,(MM> in gedd for his labor. Mrs. August Hanson and four children are dead at Lake Preston. S. D., from gas from a straw burning heating stove, while Hanson himself is dying.