St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 March 1897 — Page 6

®ije Jnfrepentant. W. A . EMJL.KY, "üblUher. WALKERTOH, - - - INDIANA MAKE HIM DISGORGE. PENSIONER MUST REIMBURSE UNCLE SAM. Government the Victim of on Alleged Fraud Flood Refugees at Memphis, Tenn.—Eastern Mills Resume WorkTelegraph Company Wins Its Suit. Government Can Recover. The judgment of the United States Circuit Court, in awarding a verdict allowing the government to recover $9,847 from Francis M. Rhodes of Hannibal, Mo„ which, it is claimed, he received by fraudulent representation, was affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. The government alleged that it had Iwn induced to pay Rhodes this sum as a pension upon his representation that he contracted catarrhal ophthalmia, a disease of the eyes, while engaged as a soldier, while, in fact, he was so afflicted before he entered the service. Rhodes was a private in Company K, Forty-sec-ond Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry. Victory for the Company. The decision of the District Court of Utah was upheld by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, in the ease of AA'. S. McCormick vs. the Western Union Telegraph Company. Ihe plaintiffs a banker and advanced a loan of $7,500 to George L. Fink on a telegram from D. E. Soule. The message should have read $2,500. Fink soon after became insolvent and Soule refused to pay more than $2,500 on the draft. The telegraph company was sued for the balance of the sum advanced. The Court of Appeals held the telegraph company could not be liable to a stranger to the company and one to whom the telegram was never delivered, and to whom it owed no duty, merely because he has seen the message and acted upon it to his injury. Refugees at Memphis. Nearly two thousand homeless and halfstarved persons, rescued from the overflowed districts of Eastern Arkansas, are being cared for in Memphis, Tenn. The citizens' relief commission is practically backed by unlimited capital, merchants, bankers and corporations having subscribed great sums of money to prosecute the work of rescuing the inhabitants of the territory forty miles north and an equal distance south of Memphis. The first loss of life has been reported, a whole family of five negroes having been drowned at Marion. Sensational reports of wholesale drowning at Nodena. Ark., are denied by steamer hands fresh from the scene. Activity in Manufacturing. Charles 11. More & Co.. Montpelier. Vt.. have opened their granite manufacturing works after a shutdown since September. This is the largest granite manufacturing plant in Vermont, and when running full force employs 300 men. Operations are to be resumed in the American sugar refinery in Brooklyn, which has been shut down for about a year. Over two hundred men have been put on the night shift and 300 more will be given work. The Have meyer refineries increased their force of workmen by employing 2(M men. NEWS NUGGETS. Charles Boyd, aged 18, stealing a ride on a passenger train, fell under the wheels at Carrollton, Ohio, and was cut to pieces. The London. Ont., City Council decided to impose a license fee of SUK) on cigarette venders, in the hope of lessening the cigarette habit among the youths of the city. All the admirals, except the French and Italian commanders, have been ordered to immediately blockade the principal Greek ports, especially the Piraeus (the port of Athens), Syra and Volo. An ultimatum was forthwith addressed to Greece by the admirals of the foreign fleets. W. S. & F. Cordingly, manufacturers of wool and merino goods at Newton Lower Falls, Mass., have begun this week to run their factory night and day to keep up with a large number of orders which have been received. The factory has been running on short time for two years and up to the present has been in operation only three or four days a week. The President Tuesday sent to the Senate the names of John Hay of the District of Columbia for ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain and General Horace Porter of New York for United States ambassador to France. Henry White of Rhode Island was nominated for secretary of the embassy of the United States to Great Britain. The cloth weavers employed in John and James Dobson's big mill, at Philadelphia, who struck about ten days ago. because of a 10 per cent, reduction, returned to work Tuesday, a satisfactory agreement having been reached with Mr. Dobson. The feeders who went ,out tit the same time, because ot a reduction of si a week, are still out. I hey were offered a return of one-half of the reduction, hut refused to accept it. Tip, a monster elephant which has been shown throughout the country for many years past, was put to death by strangulation at Bridgeport. Conn. While the brute's feet were chained to stakes firmly driven into the ground, men with block and tackle drew a rope taut about his neck till he was dead. The operation was completed in thirteen minutes. Tip bad developed vicious tendencies. and his death was determined upon in order that he might have no opportunity to kill his keepers or people visiting the show. He was given poison, but without marked effect. Cheyenne. Wyo.. dispatch: The cold weather of the last few days has been very disastrous to range stock. Reports give news of many losses. Sheep are thin and weak. The snow is deep and crusted. Gattie and horses are suffering, with small losses. On the Upper Platte ranges wolves are becoming very troublesome, in some cases killing full-grown steers. The immense wholesale dry goods house of Ely, AValker A Co., at St. Louis, the largest in the city, was destroyed by fire ■Monday night. The loss will reach over $900,000 on Ely. Walker & Co.’s stock and $200,000 on the building.

EASTERN. Charles D. Monroe of Springfield, Mass., formerly of Southbridge, and Frederick AV. Eaton of Southbridge and Boston, have made a voluntary assignment. Mr. Monroe’s liabilities amount to about SIOO,000 and Mr. Eaton’n to about $50,000. Galen It. Hitt, a noted criminal lawyer and an ex-member of the State Legislature, was found unconscious on the floor of his room at his residence at Round Lake, N. V., Thursday morning and died without having regained consciousness. The cause was apoplexy. A meeting at New York, called to indorse the general arbitration treaty, broke up in a row when an attempt was made to amend the resolutions in a spirit opposite to the intent of the callers of the gathering. Only the vigorous action of the police prevented a free tight. New York police arrested AVilliam Carroll AVoodward. alias Musgrove, alias Hawley, and a woman who gave her name as Jennie Sankey. They are wanted in Philadelphia on a charge of robbing a jeweler there of $3,000 worth of jewelry. They were arraigned and remanded and the Philadelphia police notified. All of the factories of the Peck, Stowe & Wilcox Company at Southington, Conn., manufacturing edge tools and general hardware, have shut down indefinitely. This throws out of employment a large number of hands, who for the last six months have been working on a short schedule. The Aetna Nut Company’s nut works and rolling mills are also at a standstill, and the works of the Southington Cutlery Company are running on short time. It is reported from Harrisburg. Pa., that a combination has been formed between Carnegie and the Pennsylvania Steel Company, whereby the former is to furnish the latter with all soft steel billets at $1 per ton less than it costs to make them at Steelton and that the Sparrows Point plant is to roil all Carnegie's rails for water shipment. This will destroy the open hearth business at Steelton. It is also reported that an order for 80,000 tons of rails for Boston received at Steelton will be rolled at the Sparrows Point plant. The fact that an order has been issued for resumption at Sparrows Point seems to confirm this report. Arthur Mayhew was electrocuted in the Sing Sing penitentiary Friday morning. Mayhew waylaid and killed Stephen Powell, superintendent of the Hempstead, L. 1., gas works, the night of March 1, 189(1, and robbed the body of S2OO. John Wayne, who kept watch while Mayhew committed the crime, is serving a fifteenyear sentence at Sing Sing. At La Plata. Md.. George Matthews, the murderer of James J. Irwin, was hanged. Matthews was convicted by a scrap of newspaper wadding from his gun, imbedded in the dead man’s brain, the paper from which it was torn being discovered in the murderer’s cabin. John E. Sullivan was hanged at Dorcester, N. B. His crime was the murder of Mrs. Eliza Dutcher and her son. 8 years old. at Meadow Brook, Sept. 11. 189(5. Sullivan entered Mrs. Dutcher's tavern for the purpose of robbery.

WESTERN. The Jenney electric motor works nt Indianapolis was destroyed by fire Friday morning. The loss is SBO,(MM* to sßa.(*(M*. The total insurance amounts to about $35,009. The I.a Grange County, Ind., court house safe at La Grange w as blown open at 2 o’clock Thursday morning and S4OO taken. Part of the plunder was 2,000 pennies just received from the mint. Fire started in the engine-room of the mill-feed store of George T. Menefee A Son. at Sedalia. Mo., and the entire plant was destroyed. The loss on buildings and contents will exceed SS,(KM*; no insurance. Dr. Olauf Dahl, professor of Germanic languages. University of Chicago, died suddenly of intestinal obstruction at the Chicago hospital. Dr. Dahl was a native of Norway. He was 35 years old and unmarried. He was a graduate of Yale. Information has been received at Fort Duchesne. Utah, that Captain Day Ims arrested about a dozen intruders on the Indian reservation and will bring them to the fort. No resistance was off ered. The agency officials destroyed all the monuments and locations. The Bullion-Beck mine at Salt Lake City has declared a monthly dividend of $59.1 MH) and the Mercur Mining Company has declared its regular monthly dividend of S2S.(MM). These dividends will make the total amount paid by the Bullion-Beck $2,117,000 and the Mercur S6S(MM*O. An independent convention at Chicago, composed of men of all political beliefs, many of them heretofore prominent in political work, nominated AA’ashington Hesing, present postmaster, for (lie Mayoralty of the city. A full ticket was named, and it will go on the ballot under the caption. “Business Administration of Municipal Affairs.'’ Reports from all sections of Minnesota. South Dakota ami the upper portions of Michigan are to the effect that the blizzard which began Thursday blockaded all trains and stopped business of all kinds. Snow was from two to five feet on the level, and where the wind has had a chance to drift it the roads are simply impassable. The weather has now turned cold, and in South Dakota great loss of stock is feared.

Mrs. Clara Omo, a AA esteru “cowboy." who claimed to have killed five men during her career, is dead at her home in I'erry. <>. T.. aged s(> years. She was a Miss Martin and was born in New York City, moving to Eldorado. Kan., with her parents when a child Her most desi>erate encounter took place in Little Blaektail canyon, near Butte, Mont., in February, ]S!M*. when she killed Ed Smith. Smith found the woman alone and fought her with a hunting-knife. Mrs. Omo used a pistol. Guthrie. O. dispatch: in the vicinity of Stonewall, Chickasaw Nation, there has occurred a usost peculiar incident for these civilized times. Mrs. Mary Gilcreast, a daughter of ex-Judge Collins, died a few weeks ago. It was charged that her death was caused by witchcraft, Lucy Factor, a woman of the neighborhood, being named as the witch whose magic spells bad done the evil. Mr. Gilcreast, the husband of the dead woman, and a friend went to the home of Lucy Factor and shot her to death. All parties are Indians. Gilereast and his companion were arrested by the tribal authorities, but were soon released, not even being bound over for trial. Dr. Frankenfield, observer of the St. Louis, Mo., weather bureau, has received orders from AA’ashington officials to prosecute all persons engaged in the distribution of the fictitious "tornado warnings" that were posted throughout the city earl.v Ml the week, to call attention to a melo-

drama to appear at a theater. Dr. Frank- ? enfield called at the Four Courts and asked the City Attorney to issue sum- j mons against the offenders, charging J them with disturbing the peace. Fire destroyed the five-story brick building at Lake and Michigan avenue,| Chicago, occupied by the John A. Tolman^ Company, wholesale grocers, Friday* night, causing a total loss of over $400,-« 000. Spectators who thronged the narrow_ streets in the vicinity from 0:45 to 101 o’clock were treated to a fusil lade of;small explosions, due to the bursting of thousands of cans of preserved fruits./ The losses by fire are approximately & follows: John A. Tolman Compau/ wholesale grocers, $300,000; Chase Sanborn, coffees, Boston, Mass., sto B t damaged $50,000, principally by wattle McCormick estate, building, $50,000; .1 seph A. Kohn, building, $5,000. All fu insured. yPeople arriving at Perry, O. T., friky the Wichita Mountains report that exciUn ment is growing more intense every davJ The soldiers and Indian police, under t' § direction of Major Baldwin, the Indi 1 agent, are determined to drive the g< g seekers out of the Indian reservations^ Recent assays have given the people th “gold fever.’’ Numerous conflicts hav£ taken place between soldiers and miners* and several killings are reported. A hunE dred men were arrested and driven froi^ the reservation Saturday, but they immt diately returned to the mountains as soog as the soldiers had disappeared. SerioqS trouble is feared, as Major Baldwin is dm termined to eject all intruders, and th^ miners are equally determined to hunt foH the previous metal. Bertha and Annie Bertz, sisters, aged respectively 25 and 19 years, became s*i®j dcnly and violently insane Friday mojrW iug at the house of J. J. Wilson, t >1 4519 Oakenwald avenue, Chicago. Tva cause of their affliction is wrapped • mystery. The young women were pasN sionately fond of each other, spending a»" much time together as their different employments would admit. Annie, the younger sister, was seized first with a paroxysm of mania, and the marked influence of iier sister over her being known to Mrs. AA'ilson. in whose employment Annie was, Bertha was sent for at once. At the sight of her sister's trouble she became violently agitated, and both sisters were soon raving and uncontrollable. Finally it became necessary to send for the patrol wagon and have them removed to the detention hospital. A number of people were plunged to death early AVednesday morning in one of the worst railway accidentw that has ever occurred in the State of Indiana. The engine and two cars of the Nashville limited on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road plunged into the AA'hite river nt a point between Decker and Hazleton. The iron bridge over the stream had given way to the weight of the train. The engineer and fireman and the passengers in the smoking car and day coach lost their lives. The wrecked locomotive and the baggage and smoking cars were buried in ten feet of mud and water. As the large engine reached the structure it tottered and fell. The engine and two ears < the heavy train followed and were precipitated into the deep stream. 'Die six ears which made up the rest of the limited stopped ami were torn loose from the front of the train. Engineer Soars had applied the airbrake whim he felt, the bridge giving way beneath him. The California State Senate baa ^ordered that A. AA'. Lawreiiee, i”imigm» editor of the San Francisco Examiner, be imprisoned until he answers certain questions put to him by a Senate committee. The Examiner recently published a sensational story to the effect that members of the Legislature had been bribed to vote for a bill making possible the transfer of civil suits from one court to another when an affidavit is made that the judge who is to hear the case is prejudiced. Both the House and Senate appointed committees to im estigate the charges. Lawrence mid two of the Examiner reporters refused to divulge the source of their information, claiming tiiat the information has been given under a pledge of secrecy. A. L Murphy, one of the reporters, was not held, but Editor Lawreiiee and Reporter L. L. Lovings were arrested by the ser-geant-at arms of the Senate and turned over to the sheriff, who locked them in jail. Lawreiiee and Lovings wee taken before Superior Judge Hughes, to whom they had appealed, by their attorneys, for a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was granted, and the defendants were admitted to bail in SI,OOO each. ’Die Topeka Capital publishes an elaborate statement of the reduction in mortgage indebtedness in Kansas during the last seven years, showing a decrease of 45 per cent, or over $105,0(Mt.OOO, since Jan. 1, 1890. The comparison is drawn between the figures of the Federal census of 1890 and reports to the Capital from the registrars of deeds of thirty-eight counties, showing the recorded mortgage indebtedness Jan. 1, 1897. In 1890 these counties had a mortgage indebtedness of $63,158,631, and in 1897, on the same basis. $34,620,138, or a net reduction in the seven years of $28,538,193 over 40 per cent. If the same percentage holds good for the entire State, which the Capital’s figures show to be true, the total reduction in Kansas for the seven years amounts to $105,908,208. This reduction is very much greater if settlements by deed and foreclosure in the western third of the State are considered. Careful estimates of the same figures show that only $40.( >OO.OOO of Kansas' mortgage debt is held by persons outside the State. ()f this SIS.(MX*.(MIO is held by insurance companies doing business in Kansas, and, therefore, but $25.( H *O.OOO by individual foreign creditors, as compared with $S.i,1100.000 in 1890. In 1890 the total mortgage debt of the State on farms ami lots was reported by the census to be 27 per cent of the actual value of till taxed real estate. To-day it does not exceed 15 per cent. 'Die statement shows that Kansas has been diligently and successfully paying out, and is to-day probably freer of debt than any other AA'estern State. It could pay its present foreign obligations of $25,000,000 from the proceeds of a single crop. WASHINGTON, The Republican members of the Always and Means Committee have agreed on a sugar schedule for the new tariff bill which is a direct blow to the sugar trust. The basis of the new schedule is a customs rate of cents on sugar of 96 degrees polariscope test, whiel the dividing line between raw and re! I. To this will be added an eighth of a cent for reciprocity purposes, thus making the actual duty on sugar of the 96 degree standard 1.62^ cents per pound. Congressmen and office seekers are having a new experience at the AA’hite House. Mr. McKinley has let it be known pointedly, and in away that cannot be misI understood, that be is going to make Sen- | ators and Representatives responsible for

>wn States” II"' vl ‘ hin th ®*' Ip taen that they must . Cougrcßß IS .’ide among thXeh^ T he . r aud da ind whom they want ♦ j ßt 110 y wanl O Senator he s aid ^ To , K Jome involved in imv <-27- ntend to be It; p any State and if fact,onn * Quarrels ’ Pmong yourselves «q ‘ S’” cannot decide and reach an ,? ‘ candidat ‘ >B you ot expect me ♦ ‘ i ”7 you must of this “ Hm/' e Tb “ I MMons cannot a ? ? vbere State delegaWhhe patronage wn 7 reßar,j to offices > « elsewhere or h? ! . Ve,y Hkely to tS ^sequence , • ( ' n . cun , ,b ‘’ I > l ß hold on. I n ^XhiteHXruJ f^“ , 1 ’" rture froin ,b “ itp dni U ° ° the Inst twelve years 3r- many vears / "J' 1 110 bab >t of doing GOC I’onage with ”7 " nd discussing local eerefn^ In Be, ' io ’ ,8 dpsire for r ‘’«ults. s*“ I debate ii" 11 ^}’ *" eonrß e of the ^"£>jate said- "F « i<a, ' a Rm« ean»i in the '5 Esther ? '°, u d he very glad to see ®d ti A’ nmde between Nicaragua rß'^ 0 ' 1 StUtPS " hi( ' b wou ? ! Heri h 7Ql"" lp,ion of ,b ” < aaal ”‘ As 5 of State he is now in a position al ’OUt this matter actively, and is a- uderstood to have already taken it up. gy le 18 said to contemplate negotiations for uaU treaty with the five States composing the .greater Central American republic along lines of the celebrated FrelinghuvsenJWVala treaty, which in effect established ! ” , American protectorate over Nicaragua i id committed the Government to the eonjthimction of the waterway. This treaty Jl/M pending when Mr. Cleveland went iS-S* the AA'hite House twelve years ngo. BKp’out the first thing the latter did was to dKvithdraw (ho agreement between the two l^ ^unt^ ' ea > hi ß ground for so doing being fjEnat the treaty, if carried into effect, ® HeH’ b, ‘ a ptrpptmtl menace to the naV tH. i x ’ n< ‘ e a,, d would provoke endless ications with other countries. It is HH Mr^taid to be Secretary Shi•rman’s pur- | El. to resurrect the Frelinghuysen-Za-Bf treaty and frame a new agreement odying many of its salient features. W- FOREIGN. • ■Sylvester Scovel, the American newspWper correspondent, has been released f^tn a Spanish prison in Cuba. W t is officially announced nt Rome that tW * result of the conference of the powers M tdny is a definite agreement not to reto the Greek note, but to issue orders fV^the foreign admirals to establish an aedinte blockade of (’retail ports. This rS I the view of Russia nt the outset. ^idvices from Inmatave, Madagascar, viall’ort Louis, Mauritius, say: Rannva IcwkUL, the Queen of Madagascar, who Im ■'idy held her position nominally since JitHtdand was made a French colony, .F(JB2O. 1896, has been exiled to the Isl- “) l*W* Reunion, a French possession near ti l■!land of Mauritius. The queen suc- ’ U t bl> throne on the death of her nllnjßr, July 13. 18S3. In May. 1895, alutißtcli expedition was dispatched to M jHnßcar to enforce certain claims of Ft and Oct. 1. the capital being oceupj|jv the French, a treaty was signed Wj ■*y the queen recognized and accepted Kprotectornte of France. /'iWna dispatch: Tuesday the town ofh't'^cnl. one of the most strongly furtif aces in the province, was entered by | Cubans, who drove the Spanish go of toon into the two forts an .A half an hour vxehangtMl shots at li>4 I tanve. Finding that the Spanish gaV UF would not venture out upon an •lt*^,Wllie i—looted the place at " Their Kusure. Two hundred and fifty dwelbuga and seven stores were burned. The Insurgents carried off a quantity of amm|inition and provisions. The town of Quillan has been captured by a detachment commanded by either Castillo or Arango. 'Die garrison of 3(M* Spanish troops retreated on the appearance of the insurgents. The news of Spanish reverses in the Philippines, and the repulse of I’olavieja before ('nvite and his resignation in front of the enemy, added, if that were possible, to the gloom and depression that prevails in official circles in Havana. Now it is understood w hy Gen. AA’eyler receiv ed telegraphic instructions on the 9th inst. not to embark on the 10th. Primo de Rivera, who was to have succeeded him in the hopeless task of subduing Cuba, is designated for the supreme command in the Philippines. Six thousand troops that were to have sailed from Cadiz for Havana this week will be sent to Manila, and General AA’eyler has been asked to send as many troops as he can spare to Spain. These tl.iMMl recruits were raised by offers of bounty, ns in the present state of public opinion in Spain it was not deemed safe to exercise the draft. General AA’eyler has stated that lie can only spare 10.(MM* men, and these will shortly be embarked for the peninsula in the guise of invalids and men whose time has expired.

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, <53.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, .$3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2,23 cto 24c; oats. No. 2,16 c to 17c; rye. No. 2. 32c to 33c; butter, choice creamery, 17c t > 19c; < ugs, fresh, 10c io 11c; potatoes, per bushel. 2<»e to 30 - •oom corn. common growth to choice irreA h " rl ' $2 " *" * SO ’ fK-.Hinpolis <'attic, shipping. $3.00 to hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $1.00; Common to choice, $3.00 to S4.(M); ''" 'it. No. 2. 81c to 83c; corn. No. 2 " P e, 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 2^* Stj Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50: hogs. s;:.ut) to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; "hept. No. 2. 93c to 96e; corn. No. 2 yel lowj2Oe to 22c; oats. No. 2 white, Hie to 18c; rye. No. 2. 33c to 35c. Cincinnati- < 'tittle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2. 88c to 90c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; oats. No. 2 mixed. Hie to 17c; rye. No. 2. 35c to 37c. Dejtroit—Cattle. $2.50 to s<>.2.>; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.00 to $4.25: wheat. No. 2 red. 86c to 87e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 "bite, 19c to 21c; rye, 34c to 36c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. SBc to 90c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c: oats. No. 2 white. 17c to 19c: rye. No. 2,36 cto 38c; clover seed, ss.o<> to ss.l<>. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3. 19<- to 2Oe: oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2. 28c to 32c; rye. No. 1,33 cto 35c; pork. mess. SB.OO io $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, common to prime shipping, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, medium to best. $3.09 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime natives. $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to extra. $1.50 to $5.50. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.70; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81e; corn, No 2, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23e; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, Western, 10c to 12c.

TRAIN in the ditch WRECKEO BY RUNNING IFr< A DROVE OF HORSES, Two Men KillertqjSi- Injur<l -Butler AVill Go Back/ 0 Australii to Stam] Iri^l for IHr Life—Reed Re-clectctl Speaker.

Minßour' i’acifle Train AV recked. The Misuari Pacific passenger train, north bound which left Kansas City, Mo., at 9:15 o'ek*ek Sunday night, was wrecked at AA olf creek, Kan., one and one-half miles east of Hiawatha, at midnight by running into a bum-h of horses. The engineer mid fireman were killed, express messenger, baggageman and conductor badly injured and three passengers hurt one of them severely. The killed: Ed Nye' engineer, Kansas City, aged 40 years’ lea'es wife; Patrick Connor, fireman, 32, Kansas City, leaves wife and three children. The injured: John H. Meyers, conductor, Kansas City, slightly injured; Jack Appleton, Kansas City, slightly injured; H. A. Kemp, express messenger, badly scratched mid bruised; - Medows, traveling man, Atchison, Kan., * o legs broken; L. F. Bacon. Kansas t'ity. traveling passenger and ticket agent ot the Santa b’e, slightly injured. Two other passengers, names unknown, were badly bruised. The train consisted of engine, baggage and two chair cars and one sleeper, ami carried a light load. All except the sleeper were overturned. The engine turned over on Engineer Nye and Fireman Connor and crushed them to death. 'Die passengers managed to escape with comparative ease, but it was some time before aid from Hiawatha was received for the injured. Engineer Nye was one of the oldest engineers in the service, having been on the road for fourteen years.

Cangreea Reasaemblea. 1 he special session of Congress began Monday at AA’ashington. The organization of the House was effected by the reelection of Speaker Reed and the choice of the same old list of general officers, and the Senate got itself in working order w ithout any trouble whatever. 'l'he general belief is that the House committees will bo named very slowly, and only as the Speaker finds himself obliged to do so by the pressure for the enactment of legislation. As is usually the case at the opening of a ('ongress. the galleries of both House ami Senate were crowded to their utmost capacity, and hundreds and thousnnds w ho neglected to provide themselves with tickets or were unable to secure one of the coveted pasteboards were turned away by the doorkeepers, whose instructions were ironclad to admit only those who were entitled to seats. Butler Mill .Not Oppose Extrnditinn. frank Butler, alias Ashe, alias Newman, now at Sun Francisco, the tuctised murderer of Captain Lee AA eller. Arthur Preston and Charles Burgess, has decided to give up his fight against the efforts of Australian police to secure his extradition from this country. He gives as his reasons for this action that he has no hope that the 1 nited States Supreme Court will reverse District Judge Morrow, and he cannot stand the cost of carrying the matter to the court of hist resort. Butler says that ultimately he will have to go on trial for his life, and the sooner the thing is over the better it will be for him. He w ill go back and fact* his accusers and depend upon the loopholes of the Australian criminal laws for his escape from the gallows. Can Manufacture Diamonda. Chemists have recently made actual diamonds, comparable in every I'’Spect -save one, that of size with nature's most valued product. But the crystals so manufactured, w hile true diamonds, have been so microscopic in proportions as to be of no commercial value. Now, however. United States ('onsul Germain at Zurich reports to the State Department that E. Moyat claims to have discovered a process by which diamonds of larger dimensions may be produced. In principle his process is similar to one already used that is, to crystallize carbon out of iron and steel by means of high pressure and high temperature. BREVITIES, Cambridge University has conferred an honorary degree upon United States Am-

bassador Thomas F. Bayard. K. 11. AA’ade. general manager of the Southern California Railway Company, was found dead in iiis bath at the Hollenbeck Hotel. Los Angeles, ('al. It is (bought he died of apoplexy. Judge Goff lias appointed Z. T. A’inson receiver for U. B. Buskirk, men hant ami timberman of Logan, AC. A’a. Assets. sl2s,(iiHl: liabilities unknown. This is a result of the recent failure of the Sliger Lumber and Manufacturing Company. Secretary AA’. G. ITeutt of the Board of Stock Comniissioiiers said at Helena. Mont.: "'l'lie slock on the ranges has had a remarkably hard lime the whole winter. In rile extreme northern oci t of the State it has Hot been above zero Ini' weeks aiiil stock was in pour comfilion when this began. The slo< k that has wealherc.l the winter is in poor condition. I'nless relief comes at once ihe loss will be the heaviest in years.” A whirlwind visited Mingo Junction. 0.. shortly before 2 o’clock Sunday morning. The wind blew off the iron roof of the cast house of the Junction Iron and Steel Company, and the tall brick walls fell in. Frank Hobson and Larry Fahey were caught tinder the falling walls. Fahey was taken out dead. A wife and seven children survive him. Frank Hobson, aged 29 years, was so seriously crushed that he died three hours later. John AA'eikas, a Hungarian, was badly crushed and will die. 'Die Fourth Assembly of Oklahoma ad journed sine die Friday night after a stormy session. Thirty-nine new laws were made, radical railroad legislation was killed. : nd many conservative bills put through. The most freakish bill passed was one prohibiting a man from marrying bis met her-in l:i w. Over 200 bills w ere killed. Gov. Stevens, of Missouri, has ordered that Charles Dreshcr. convicted and sentenced to hang lor the murder of his sweetheart, be sent Io the Fulton insane asylum until such lime as lie shall become sane, iI ever. At Dover, capital of Stewart County. Tenn., the jail was destroyed by fire early Monday morning. Four prisoners, one white man and three negroes, were the only occupants of the building at the time. 'Die white man escaped, but the three negroes were so badly burned that there is no trace i/t their bodies.

kEED IS KE-ELECTED. AGAIN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Conuress Meets to Modify the Tariff— Opening Ceremonies Are Comparatively Tame—Many New Faces on the Floor of the Popular Branch. Extra Session Is Opened. Congress is again in session. The organization of the House w as effected Monday by the re-election of Speaker Reed and the choice of the same old list of general officers, and the Senate got itself in working order without any trouble whatever. The vote for Speaker in the House was as follows: Reed Bailey (Dem.) of Texas Ilf Bell (Pop.) of Colorado 21 Newlands (Silverite) of Nevada 1 The election of Mr. Reed to his old position was a formality that occupied less than half an hour, including the nomination and his speech of :i' know lodgment of the honor. There was nothing strikingly picturesque or suggestive in the remarks of (Jen. Grosvenor putting Mr. Reed in nomination or io the Spt akor's acceptance. 1 he latter merely said that he would endeavor to discharge the duties of bis office impartially ami well, that he could not hope to please all members in nil things at al! times, but that he would do the best he could and would endeavor to administer the duties in a sjiirit of absolute fairness. Galleries Crowded. As is usually the ease nt the opening of a ( ongress, the galleries of both House and Senate were crowded to their utmost capacity, a ul hundreds and thousands who neglected to provide themselves with tickets or were unable Io secure one of the coveted pastboards wore turned away by the doorkeepers, whose instructions

SPEAKER HEED. Were ironclad to admit only those who were entitled to seats. For an hour before ('lerk McDowell called the House to order the floor was crowded with visitors. The wives and daughters of the members and es[>ecially favored visitors were massed in the aisles and open spaces. The general public had small opportunity to view the proceedings. 'Die most striking feature of the scene on the lloor was the number of new faces. Ohl familiar figures, conspicuous in the shock of many a parliamentary battle, had disappeared, and in the new lists were new and untried knights. The change in the personnel was very great. By 11 o’clock the reserved galleries, with the exception of those for the diplomatic corps and the executive, were walled in. tier on , tier. The bright costumes of the ladies ' gave lighter color to the animated scene. As the hands of the clock pointed to .12, Major McDowell, the clerk of the House, rapped the House to order. Rev. Mr. (’onden, the blind chaplain, then delivered the invocation, appealing to the throne for God's blessing on the work of the new Congress and the new administration. The clerk of the House then read the President’s proclamation convening Congress, after which the roll was called. There was an abundance of flowers on the desks of Senators when, promptly at 12 o'clock. A'ice-President Hobart called the Senate to order. There was an exceptionally full attendance of Senators. The public galleries were packed and the reserved galleries were well filled. The chaplain's opening prayer invoked divine grace and blessing on the Senators and members about to take up the work of the extraordinary session ami on the President and A'ice-President. The roll-call disclosed the presence of sixty-eight Senators. Senator Hoar and Senator Cockrell were named a committee to wait on the President and inform him that Congress was in session and ready to receive any communicat ion from him. The Senate then, at 12:30, took a recess until 2 o'clock. The Hoi,-c did nothing Tuesday, awaiting flic action nf lb" AA'ais and Means ('oinmiftce on the tariff bill. In the Sen ate to-day J3S bills find eight joint reso litfions were hit roduccil. Tliey embraced ncfirl.v fieri phase of )>uldic business. Air. Allen's batch of bills numbered about seventy-live. They included bills directing the foreclosure of the government lien on the I nion Pacific road; to prevent professional lobbying: defining the powers of the judiciary: for service pensions, etc. Mr. Lodge's bills included (host' Io amend the immigration laws and for a Hawaiian cable. Bankruptcy bills were presented by Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, and Mr. Lindsay, of Kentucky. Mr. Morgan reintroduced the Nicaragua canal bill before the last Congress, and also a joint resolution to abrogate the CJayton-Biilwer treaty. A resolution by Mr. Frye, of Maine, calling for information as to the operation of civil-service rules to river and harbor work was agreed to after some criticism of civil-service operations. Mr. Frye said it was a step toward abolishing these rules so far as they related to common labor on engineering work of the government. The Senate adjourned until ’I hursday. as did the House. biro which started in the building of the Elkins Hardware and Furniture Company. in the town of Elkins, the home of Senator Elkins, burned almost the entire business portion of the place, Elkins has no fire department, and the flames were soon beyond control, having mostly frame buildings in their pathway. 'Die last of the missing fishermen carried out from Bay City, Mich., on the ice have returned home, and it is believed all have now safely lauded. Only a few hundred shanties and none of the nets Were saved.