St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 March 1897 — Page 6

®lje Jn^£pen^ent. C- -= ... - W, A. ENDKEY, ?’ubll ß lier. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA PEADTOTH WIFE MURDERER’S SENTENCE IS LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Doom Passed Upon Michael J. O’Brien | of Chicago — Turks Continue to Butcher Helpless Armenians and Sack Their Villages—Fatal Tornado. O’Brien Goes Up for Life. Wife murderer Michael J. O BiSen of Chicago will spend the rest of his natural life in the penitentiary. Judge Ball passed sentence upon O’Brien Tuesday. As the words fixing the term of his sentence were pronounced O'Brien gripped the back of a chair he stood beside. His face was pale and his eyelids red and swollen. He gazed at the floor and an expression of suppressed emotion swept over his face. _Hn reeoyered his composure quickly. On to his cell he lighted a cigar _ __tigly said to a guard: ‘‘Well, it is -— —aTToverand I’m glad of it. I did not expect a life sentence, though.” In passing sentence Judge Ball carefully reviewed all the facts connected with the murder and the trial. He concluded that O'Brien's sprees had not seriously affected his mind. ‘‘His business ability was excellent,” said the court, “so that in spite of his many excesses he was successful. When he recovered from a spree lie seemed to have a recollection of what, he had done while intoxicated, formic apologized to some of those he injured or insulted and always promised to reform.” Deviltry of Turks. Constantinople dispatch: Authentic details of the outbreak last Sunday at Toka, in the Sivas district of Asia Minor, when the Turks attacked the Armenians while the latter were in church, show that WO Christians were massacred. The Armenian quarter and bazaar were given over to pillage for eighty hours. The ropre•■cGtations of the ambassadors es the for«lgn powers regarding the condition of Anatolia have made little impress on the sultan, who, relying upon the support of Russia, is convinced that he has nothing to fear from the so-called concert of the powers. Meanwhile the war preparations of Greece are continuing night and day, and there are no indications of a backdown in that quarter. Money does not appear to be lacking for the equipment of the Greeks. If war is declared the Greek army from Larissa will probably try to enter Macedonia with the Crown Prince Constantine and a second Greek army will attempt to enter Epirus from the vicinity of Arta. It is still possible that war may be averted by timely concessions to Greece, such as the withdrawal of ail Turkish forces from Crete and the selection of Prince George of Greecq as Governor of Crete, with the understanding that when quiet is restored it shall be de--wled by a plebiscite whether or not the isiamt is to be annexed to Greece. Fled with a Fortune. Discoveries just made add $16,000 to the embezzlement of Cyrus E. Breder, defaulting cashier of the First National Bank of Bethlehem, Pa., who disappeared a few weeks ago leaving a shortage estimated at $13,090. lle also stole $1,00(1 from a building association. Broder’s bondsmen died and his bond was not renewed, so the bank had to make good the shortage of $30,000. Breder is said to be in Denver, and it is likely that steps will be taken to have him brought back on charges of forgery. An examination of the books shows that he began his stealings six months after he became cashier of the bank. A sensation has been caused by the receipt of a letter from Breder, in which he threatens to expose certain unnamed citizens of Bethlehem who assisted him in his peculations. Death in the Storm. A cyclone Monday cut a path of death through Arlington, Ga. It left eight children dead in the ruins of Arlington Academy. Many others and one of the many teachers will die. Thirty-five children and the teachers went down in the wreck, and not one escaped injury. The horror came upon the town at 8:30 in the morning and without a warning. There was a sudden roar, which passed away as quickly as it came, and the harvest of death had been reaped. NEWS NUGGETS. Salvador Cisneros, president of the Cuban republic, is reported to have died at Camaguey, and to have been succeeded by Vice-President Bartolome Masso. A telegram was received at Santa Fe, N. M., Tuesday morning from Washington saying that President Me Kinley had respited for ton days, file four members of the Button gang who-wero to have boon hanged for the murder of ex Sheriff Frank Chavez, May 29, 1892. The engine and four cars of a northbound local on the Chicago and Texas Railway went down with the bridge across the Big Muddy river at Aldridge station, south of Grand Tower, 111. Engineer Joe Forester and Fireman James Anderson were drowned. The Big Muddy is raging and the bridge failed to withstand the pressure. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Ten per cent, the National Bank of Illinois, Chicago, 111.; 10 per cent, the First National Bank of Sedalia, Mo.; 20 per cent, the First National Bank of Hot Springs, S. D.; 10 per cent, the El Paso National Bank of El Paso. Texas: 5 per cent, the Columbia National Bank of Chicago, Ill.; 45 per cent in favor of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Clearfield, Pa. Obituary: At Leitersburg, Md.. James Freeman Leiter, brother of L. Z. Leiter.— At Las Palmas. John Biddulph Martin, 56. —At Louisville, Ky., Col. John Churchill. 78. —At Elizabeth, N. J., Walter Scrvmser. —At Paris, M. Salis. founder of Le Chat Noir. At Milwaukee. C. I). Nash, 78.—At Milwaukee, Captain James W. Martin, 40. John Sloane, head of the great carpet house of W. & J. Sloane of New York, is critically ill with pneumonia at Joky] Island, off Brunswick, Ga. Ttvo New York physicians and two trained nurses have arrived to assist in attending him

EASTERN. Mrs. Henry E. Abbey, according to a New York dispatch, is shortly to be married to a prominent nad wealthy social lion of London. Mrs. Katherine Tingley, the theosophical leader, was seriously injured on a Pennsylvania train Thursday night, while on her way to Fort Wayne, Ind. For some reason the air-brake was applied without warning and the train stopped suddenly. Mrs. Tingley was thrown against a car seat and stunned. She soon recovered consciousness, however, and is reported to be resting easily. A disastrous tire occurred in the village of Mianus’ Landing, Conn. The fire broke out in a two-story frame building in which the postoffice is located. Within half an hour this building was in ruins, and the hotel of Stephen Newman, which for over one hundred years has been famous as a roadhouse, was burned. Next three buildings were destroyed. An appeal was sent to Stamford for aid. Damage estimated at $150,000 was done. Frederick Franks shot and killed his son William, aged 9 years; shot and badly wounded his daughter Amelia, aged 5 years, and then turned the revolver on himself, sending a bullet into his breast near the heart, at his home in Philadelphia Wednesday morning. Franks and his daughter were taken to a hospital, where the father died a few hours Inter and little hope is given for the recovery of the child. It is believed the man was suddenly seized with a fit of insanity. Tiie United States Government has failed to break the railroad pool. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals of the New York district affirmed the refusal of Circuit Judge 'Wheeler in June. 1896, to grant an injunction to restrain the Joint Traffic Association from operating. The decision is a victory for the railroads and was won only after a long and earnestly contested tight. The Government alleged the railroad pool was in restraint of traffic and violated the interstate commerce act and the anti-trust law. Dr. E. 11. Wilson, bacteriologist of the Brooklyn Board of Health, reported on experiments he has recently made on the effects of the bacilli of the bubonic plague, which the authorities are fearful may be introduced into this country. Dr. Wilson says in part: “Germs sterilized at 150 degrees Centigrade for one hour and then kept at thermal heat on paper, glass, and blankets, have survived up to date—forty-two days proving great virulence and showing the germs could easily be brought alive to this country in ships." Dr. Wilson's conclusions are: The thermal death point of this organism is one or two degrees higher than that of the majority of patrogenic bacteria sporulating variety. Differing widely from cholera, sunlight ami desiccation cannot be relied upon to limit the viability of this bacillus under commercial circumstances. It has been found that sin exposure for two hours to a 1 per cent, solution of carbolic acid suffices to destroy the life of the bacilli. WESTERN. Cash wheat smashed sill records for the last six years nt St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday morning by reaching the dollar mark. The wheat sold nt the record«us Av. - rm m mtm ~f very choice quality. There has been a steady demand for choice No. 2 wheat P,> some time. At the San Francisco session of the United States Railway Mail service con vention Atlanta. Ga., was unanimously selected as the place for the convention one year from September next. The election t>f officers for the ensuing term resulted in J. M. Butler of Lincoln, Neb., being made president of the association, and C. E. LaGrave, secretary. Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, will no more appear before the public in his dual capacity, the Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion having decided that when he accepted and entered upon the duties of the office of Governor lie vacated the office of Mayor of the city of Detroit. He is not given the opportunity of choosing between the two offices, although he prefers to be Mayor. Litigation over the Bassiek mines has reopened, suit having been tiled at Denver by three stockholders. Alexander Barclay. Philip Allen and William U. Hendrie, against James I. Tuples, Dennis Ryan. Edmund C. Bassiek, Clapp Spooner and Charles G. Francklyn, officers and directors of the Bassiek Mining Company. The pleadings allege a conspiracy on the part of the defendants to steal the mine by securing judgments against it and buying in the property. James J. Corbett, of California, champion pugilist of the world, was knocked out by Robert Fitzsimmons, of Australia, at Carson City, Nev., Wednesday, in the fourteenth round of the fiercest battle seen in the prize ring within half a century. Corbett bad shown himself the cleverer fighter and general, and Fitzsimmons bad been terribly punished, though at the end he seemed the stronger. A terrific punch in the head and a drive directly over the heart were the blows which laid Corbett low. from Ma mln u ami Dmkluaou, N. !>., say it is generally believed by cat tiemen that 75 per cent of range animals have already succumbed to the winter, the chinook of Tuesday coming too late to save them. It is impossible to travel over (he range and no exact figures can be had. Bad Lands ranges, which'" have been overcrowded the last few years, will have few cattle this season. It is stated that Pierre Wibaux, Ihe big cattleman of Wibaux, Mont., and Dakota, puts his losses at $1,000,000. Last fall he put 250,000 young Utah cattle on the ranges and all are dead. B. L. Short, a prominent candidate for the Mayoralty of Kansas City, Kan., has been defeated in the primaries because of a love affair. He had been attentive to Miss Sadie Parsons, a sejiool teacher, for over twelve years and had been engaged to marry her, but jilted her. The women began talking it as soon as Short’s candidacy was mentioned, and did not let up until the polls closed. He was beaten by 35 votes. The whole feminine population was aroused. Many women went about in hacks anil buggies and hauled other women to the polls and urged them not to vote for Short. A tray containing about $3,500 worth of diamond rings was stolen at Spokane, Wash., from the jewelry store of I. Dornberg, situated on a popular thoroughfare, and at a time when the sidewalks were lined with pedestrians. A well-dressed man entered the store and asked to Ire shown some diamond rings. Max Goldstein, a clerk, who was in charge of the store at the time, brought out a tray from the safe. As lie placed it on the showcase he was blinded by a handful of pow-

der thrown into his face. The robbo® grabbed the tray of rings and hurried ou® and, despite Goldstein’s cries, escape® with his booty. B William Fees, a farmer living five mile® west of Wamego, Kan., blew out hi® brains Wednesday night after attemptin® to exterminate a whole family. Ihree oM his victims will probably die and a fourth! is terribly wounded. Fees’ wife recent!® left him and returned to the home of hei | parents, Air. and Airs. S. H. Johnson. As , ter she had positively refused to return to him Fees went to the house and shot down his wife and her mother and hh sister-in-law, Aliss Johnson, and his wife’s ; father. None of the three women xmj recover, and it is doubtful whether MfA Johnson will live. Fees then returned tof his own home and killed himself. Walter Mash, aged 19, and his sister? Aliss Ollie Mash, one year younger, wer^ alone in their home at Georgetown, Ohio? when he took a 32-caliber revolver frorf his pocket and began examining it. Om chamber of the weapon was loaded, an* while endeavoring to keep track of th| loaded chamber he was snapping the hani mer on the empty portion of the cyliud®» Suddenly there was a flash and a repons followed by an agonizing scream fr^B the young lady, who threw her hands®B| her throat and fell to the floor. The ba® struck her in the neck, severed thtyiigl®. pipe, and lodged in her lungs. not live. Voting Alash bPCWflle violent® insane and ho fled to the woods. It 1 feared he will die froin himself. N 4 Postmaster Hesing of Chicago has rej^ signed. His resignation was forwarded' to Washington Monday, to take imuiediate effect. Candidate Hesing has devoted his every energy to the fight for the Mayor’s chair and the postoffice will presumably be in the hands of Col. Hubbard, his lute first assistant. The vacancy maybe filled by the appointment of a Republican at any hour. From this time on tin the close of the polls election day Air. Hesing will exert every influence and exhaust every power at his command in his race for the position of chief executive of Chicago. Frederick F. Stoll, general superintendent of the city delivery department of the postutlice, M ednesday tendered liis resignation, to take effect immediately. He has already taken active control of Mr. Hesing's campaign, and has started on a career which lie hopes will result in success for his chief. Air. Stoll was formerly a business partner of Congressman William Lorimer. He is a Democrat. Advices from Caruthersville, on the Mississippi river bank in (he extreme south eastern part of Missouri, are to the effect that a levee fifty miles below that place is reported to have broken and that seventeen lives have been lost. The river continues to rise nt Caruthersville and the pressure on the levee is great. All weak spots are being strengthened, but the work is handicapped by rain, as the earth used in repairs is turned into mud. Many families on the river bank in the country have abandoned their houses and taken refuge in Caruthersville. A large amount of stock has been lust on the Tenn- ssee side of the river, almost the entire but turn for miles being inundated. Ihe levee mar Cottonwood, about eight miles from Ca- ( rut hersx ille, is expe, ted to break almost any hour and overflow that part of the country. From many points in the valleys of the * thio, Missouri, Tennessee atii smaller streams in the great basin conv iiportH ( ,t vast damage cither already | done or ortnln t ■ ensue. WASHING! ON. Secretary of the Interior Illi - lias in vited Land Commissioner l.amore ix lode fem! his decision in the < 'lm ago Ink.- from The President, after consideration of the subject by the full cabinet, at noon Friday accepted the resignation of Washington Hesing ns postmaster a- ('hiiiigo. Later the President sent to the Senati the nomination of Charles U. Gordon t< till the vacancy. Secretary Sherman has called for the resignation of Clinton Furbish as director of the bureau of American republics, and the place is to be tilled by the appointment of Joseph Smith of (thio, formerly Staff librarian. A majority of the directors o^ the bureau object to the change, and action has been postponed. President McKinley has sent to the Senate the following nominations: State— Pou ell Clayton of Arkansas, to be envoy extraordinary mid minister plenipotentiary of the Inited States to Mexico; William M. Osborne of Massachusetts, consul general of the Inited States at London; John K. Gowdy of Indiana, consul general of the I nited States at Paris; John 11. Brigham of Ohio, to be assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Perry S. Heath of Indiana, to be first assistant PoMmaster General. War Captain Charles Shuler, ordnance department, to be major; Henry L. Marimlin (assistant ir. United States coast and geodetic survey), to boa member of the Mississippi river commission. Ins' terior Sylvester Peterson of Minneapolis, to be register of the laud office at Crooks-, ton, Minn. FOREIGN. | Word comes from Dublin Ireland, that Arelno Fisher, au nTiT-time Chicago Knnßh. of Trade operator, is at the point of death; in the Irish capital. t ■Wreckage marked ‘‘Utrecht” lias beenn washed ashore near Brest. France, ami it,; is feared that the Dutch steamer of that name has foundered. The Turkish minister hits declared va-1 cant the office of consul of the Ottoman? Empire at Boston, Mass., held by Joseph lasigi, who was placed under arrest somei weeks ago on charges of embezzlement of trust funds in his custody. Ignacio Francisco de la Cruz Garcia, said to !><• the oldest man in the United States, died at Los Angeles, aged 117. He was a native of Sinaloa, Mexico. His age lias been questioned, but he had documents which substantiated his claim. Captain S. A. Day, just returned to San Francisco from several months’ stay in Japan, says the crown prince of Japan is dead and that the event was being openly discussed in diplomatic circles, although the news is a State secret and is kept from the public. A special from Galatz, Roumania, says it is announced there in Greek circles that a plot is being batched among the Greeks at Constantinople, where there are 30.000 well-armed Greeks living, to revolt against the Government. It is added that there are few Turkish troops now at Constantinople except the sultan’s bodyguard, and that it would be impossible to hurriedly recall troops from the Greek frontier in the event of a revolt at Constantinople. A dispatch from Canea, Island of Crete, says; The Austrian gunboat Zebnico has fired upon and t sunk, near Candia, a

psSWS the Zebnico whil» < n l’l ,ears ,h «t ’ E'i T ?'*• W ‘irlv wL. m • lnsur £ents. It is feared that in An* US 8 becoln(,s generally known tL A . then i S n Wlll Sprvc ,o B re «tly irritate the populace and may have influence in precipitating the crisis which the powers Cen™?’r V ° ry " ay P oßß ^^ to avert, hn ? I<reueh Italian staff officers have been sent to Col. Vassas to notify him of the blockade of the island. n T ?I E , d, ° do Pnlis sn - vs >t understands tliat Italy is on the eve of ceding to Great Britain the Island of I’antellaria. sixty miles southwest of Sicily and about half nay between the coast of Africa and the ‘ > c| ha»i c °ast. in exchange for the Is’and T’n 0 ? * le A! 'abian coast, in the rait of Bab El Alandeb and at the enPorim ? f . the . Ked Soa- The Island ot I (rim, belonging to Great Britain, is it f.^H rock nbou t five miles long, on wnieh turtle she Is are taken, whereas the Island of 1 antellaria has an area of iifty-< igbt square miles, a population of about seven thousand, produces fine fruits and has a JjjH^^mient port, Oppidolo, at its northern H^^L^^ituated about thirty miies from ^^^■■niost in the middle of the main ^^^KB^rare of the Mediterranean, I'an®ji°w nn Italian convict depot, could be converted into another of the strongly fortified British stations. Under the circumstances the Echo de Paris cx.presses the hope that the powers will infierfere and refuse to permit tlio transfer Sf the islands referred to. Advices from Honolulu sny that serious trouble is anticipated there over the refusal of the customs authorities to permit, the landing of 537 Japanese laborers brought there recently by the Kobe ImmiRfation Company. The agents of the Japanese company have been placed under arrest, charged with a violation of the immigration laws, and Captain Mishakima, commander of the steamer, has been refused clearance papers unless he agrees to take back to Japan the rejected immigrants, who have been detained at <]tmrnntine station since their arrival in port. I he rejected Japanese threaten open revolt. and they have the sympathy of tne entire Japanese population of the island. Ihe matter has been curried into the courts, and if the Japs fail to find relief there they will probably appeal to their consul. In ease the consul does not interfere trouble is sure to follow. The eustorns authorities are sure that they have unearthed n gigantic attempt to import Japanese into the comitry in violation of the immigration laws, ami they propose to make it so warm for the schemers that they w ill not dare to attempt it again. The feeling runs equally strong against the Anglo Saxons of Honolulu. IN GENERA^ The New Mexi. o assembly has voted to appropriate $1,130 for each of the Omaha into I elllicssee expositions. <»lnt>u^ At Freeport. IU.. Mrs. Dorenn tsHtise Stearns, 72. At Bluffton, Ind., Judge 11. It. Wilson, 77. At Joliet. Hi., \< hemiali 11. ('utter. 92. At St. Ju ■ ph, Midi., Dr. Hiram W. Kay. At Galena, HI., Timothy 1 lallett. (•bitmiry: At Kenosha, Wis.. Captain \\ allm o Bullen. At Manitowoc, Wis.. Lyman Emerson, hl. At Jefferson. lowa, William N. Brown. At Bloomink-tou. 111., ('amline Bardrblge, I!' At Lyons. lowa, Henry Khmlt. K’. \t EPswortb. i 111.. Joseph' J. naings, "" At Beaver D un. W:- , \\ um r Hathauay. 65. The st> aii < r ( ille de St. Nnzaire, beb'lmiiig t<> tin Fr< ii< h Line to the West Lillies, sailed from New York March 6, hr I’ort Au Prince, Maya Guez, etc., ixith thirty se,en persons on board, and has not since been reported. She was a bark rigged serew steamer of 2.610 tons register. The New York World Thursday morning has a story tliat the s.-hooner Hilda came into port Wednesday bearing with her a story horrible even in the annals of the Atlantic (L ean. She carried in her <abin four passengers whom she had picked up in a boat Monday, ten miles off shore. When (‘apt. Berri, the first to recover, was able to gasp out some Words, he said: “There were thirtyseven souls on that boat when we aban"doned the St. Nazaire. <»f all those men and women, we four are the only ones left alive. The others starved or were frozen where they sat. They died in al! ways. They sunk, droppod off om by one, except where they were mad, ami then some jumped into the sea and ended in that way. The captain was the first to go. The men were quiet enough mostly, until they saw the women die; then they seemed all at once to get raving, stark mad. All are here nov - . One. my comrade, Dr. Maire Stan s, our engineer, and Tagardo, first mate.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2,24 cto 25c; oats, No. 2, Bic to 17c; rye. No. 2,33 cto 34c; butter, choice creamery. ISe to 19c; eggs, fresh, 9c _U> IL '''><■ to jv exoruum corn, common growth to choice ^i ven hurl, 2c to 6e per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to ®5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.2.>; Bsheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; f wheat, No. 2. 80c to 82e; corn. No. 2 i white, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2. 96e to 9Sc; corn. No. 2 yellow. 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c: rye. No. 2. 33c to 35c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2..50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, “Oc to 92c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 3ic to .‘Wc. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; legs. $3.60 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.2->: wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 92c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21e; rye. 35c to 37e. Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red. 93c to 95< ; corn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 2.>c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 38c; clover seed, $5.25 to $.>.35. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 76^ to 78c; corn, No. 3, 20e to 22c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 36c; rye, No. 1,33 cto 35c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo—Cuttle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 90c to 92c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. New York-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 83o; corn, No. 2. 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, Westera, 10c to lie.

RUSSIA ON THE ALERT takes active steps to keep out the plague. Prohibits Pilgrimage of Russian Mimhhlmans to Infected Places-Jealousy a Bar to Promotion of Americans in Cuban Ariny-Senatc to Go Slow. Pven’fed Bubonic Plague. Ihe Russian Government, according to ’ ‘“lnd States Consul General Karel at «t. 1 etersburg. is acting with vigor to present the spread of the dreaded bubonic plague into Russia. A sanitary commission has been created, with a fund of 100,rubles to draw upon, and it has added new measures of precaution to the existing regulations. It has prohibited for this year the pilgrimage of Russian Mussulmans to Mecca or to other suspected places, and forbidden Russian Christians visiting the holy places of the East. Measures have also been taken to send medical help to threatened localities. It was reported that several Indians who had come to Afghanistan had died at Kandahar last December. In consequence the Russian ami Pershin < lovernments hnv<> establisheil military eorilom* on the Afuluin frontier and cut off intercourse, though there have been no additional eases reported. The Deliberate Senate. Washington dispatch: It has become vividly apparent that the Senate is contemplating a long discussion over the tariff bill and that there is very little hope of the measure becoming a law until July, and possibly not before Auguste^ Senator Allison, who is chairman of the Appropriations Committee and also an important member of the Finance Committee, says he does not set how the Senate can give the bill the necessary consideration its importance demands before the Ist of July. Senator Cullom names no date, but expresses the same general ideas. Senator Morrill, chairman of the I’inance Committee, is ; nxious to give the country the benefit of prompt action, but is of the opinion that the Senate will not feel called upon to act hastily in the matter and that it will go very carefully over the bill, which will be turned over to it by the House early in April. Amer’can Soldiers in Cuba. I.us Villas, < üba, dispatch: Among the Americans in the Cuban army there is only one who lias had previous experience in military affairs. This is Captain William Smith, formerly in the Tinted States cavalry. He i< at present second in command of Gom -z's personal escort and is considered the bravest soldier in this body of picked men. Captain Smith s probably the only officer in Gomez's command who thoroughly understands the handling of cavalry and other military ma ters. Yet lie is kept down to his present rank while others, who are his inferiors in every respeet. have been promoted to the rank of bricadiet ♦ and colonels. As in the case of other Americans, jealousy is the obstacle to his promotion. BREVITIES, Biily Bid li. the veteran mir strel, was striekeii with paralysis while at tending all Elks meeting ut New York. A boat of the lost steamship St. Naziere wns picked up by the steamer < Teo]c. uliiih arrived at New York from New Orleans. Six dead bodies were in the boat; no one alive was in it. The removal of the Wheeling and Lake Erie simps from Norwalk to Massillon, Ohio, has been decided on by the receivers. The decision creates considerable bitterness in Norwalk, owing to the fact that the city contributed 832,W0 to the erection of the buildings. The (’ontinentul Match Company, of l'assaie, N. J., in which Edwin Gould is hirce'v interested, has given a mortgage of SL<mx»,<hhi to the Mercantile Trust Company of New York. The mortgage covers all the real and personal property of the Continental company in New York ami New Jersey. It was given to secure an issue of 5 per cent, bonds payable in thirty years. The I’lesident has sent the following nomimitio: s to the Semite: Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas, to be fourth assistant postmaster general; Binger Hermann of (iregon. to be commissioner of the general land office; James D. Elliott of South Dakota, to be attorney of the United States for the district of South Dakota; Ernest G. Tlmme of 'Wisconsin, to be auditor for the State and other departments (fifth auditor); Commodore Joseph N. Miller, to be a rear admiral. Miss Frances Willard is in communication with the lending women engaged in philanthropy and reform asking'if there cannot be a combination of influence whereby uomen throughout the country will agree to give their patronage only to the newspapers that avoid furnishing ex tended accounts of prize tights. She also i i hf id.’ide by the woiiinuhofid <>f thn ^nnnfrv ihv (hut the arbitration treaty and the “Nevada bruising ring” present in combination the most incongruous spectacle. Des Moines. lowa, entertained several hundred delegates and twice as many visitors to the State convention of the Knights of the Maccabees. Supreme (’ommander D. P. Markey of Port Huron, Mich., delivered the address of welcome. The supreme tent of the order meets at Port Huron in July. The order has a membership throughout the country of nearly 250,0)0, an increase of m arly 50,000 during Ute last year. In the last fifteen years the payments for its benefit fund have aggregated $10,000,000, and it Ims a substantial balance in the treasury. Representative Sanderson, of Lynn, introduced a petition in the Massachusetts House which proposes legislatioi to prevent any exhibition in the State of Massachusetts of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons mill at Carson City through the agency of the kinetoscope. The petition has already been signed 1 y the majority of the leaders of the two branches. Swift A Co. have begun work at their packing house in St. Joseph. Mo . giving employment to at least 100 men. The force will be gradually increased to 250. It is possible that in a short time day and night shifts will be worked. The worst fin- Lawrence, Mass., lias known sim e the burning of the Washington mills .-ix years ago completely dis- 1 mantled the Gleason building, one of the 1 best business blocks in Lawrence, early Monday morning, and r< suited in the injury of eight persons and the loss of property valued at fully SIOO,OW.

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 session of the Senate Thursday wns uief A smile went around the clmmson Cit? N ' S,< Y art ’ a rpsi(len t of < '^'- t '\ C ” N, ' v - "here the pugilistic contest occurred, offered a Lill f OI . the relief of one Corbett. It proved to be a private pension bill. One of the measures introduced by Mr. Gallinger pronoL' n lbe Constitution prohibtm„ legislation in behalf of anv rdi<--ous denomination. Mr. Turpin.’ o f Ine eetkn Bn f « no * ° f a ” Peech 0,1 lbe introduced S ‘ ,,,atorß , by Pol»n ]a v 'ote ami introduced a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution f”T th impose. The first report of the s^s n D- m by Mr ’ Gear - of lown. Horn the Committee on Pacific Kaiiromis and was favorable to the bill for nr adjustnont of tb« Paem<_- Kailroad dol.t s oy a ccininiKSKH] consisting: o£ tl»<. He<-re-tary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Interior and Attorney General, A resolution by .Mr. Lodge, of -Massnehnsetts, was agreed to instructing the Committee on Foreign Relations to inquire whether the islands of St. Croix. St. Johns and St. Ihomns of the West Indian group could be purchased by the United States, and. if not, the probability of their sale to other powers. At 1 o’clock the arbitration treaty was reported and debate began. Speaker Reed has definifely decided that for the present at least he will not appoint any of the regular committees of the House beyond the three already announced. In this way all miscellaneous legislation will be blocked and the entire attention of the House focused on the tariff bill. Ihe bills, which are being introduced by the hundreds, will have to wait until the committees to which they would go under the natural course of tilings are appointed. Immediately after the reading of the journal in the House Fridav Mr. Dingley reported the tariff bill. Mr. Bailey secured unanimous consent to extend for two dajs tbc time in which the minority i oporf may Le filed. The sundry civil bill, carrying 853.147.551. and the general deficiency bill, carrying $8,166,214. were passed. The Senate open session lasted fifty minutes and was given almost entirely to the introduction of bills. Most of the day was spent in executive session, the international arbitration treaty being under discussion. The Senate confirmed the nominations of John Hay of the District of t’olumbia tn be ambassador of the 1 nited States to Great Britain; Horace Porter cf New York, to be ambassador of the United States to France; Henry White of Rhode Island, to be secretary cf the embassy of the I’nited States to Great Britain: Perry S. Heath of Indiana, to be first assistant postmaster general: C. U. Gordon, to be postmaster at Chicago. The Senate adjourned till Monday. The Hoti«c Saturday pushed through the two remaining "left over” appropriation bills aceonling to Friday’s schedule, the auricultural bill carrying $3,182,902 ami the Indian carrying $7,670,220. After the appropriation bills were passed a resolution for extra mileage and stationery for ibis session of Congress was adopted. ’llie debate on this resolution was rather lively, and a question as to whether Mr. Holman, “the watchdog of the treasury,” who opposed it. had taken Hie extra mileage voted by the Fifty-third Congress was used to greatly embarrass the economist. He finally declined to answer it on the ground that it was “impertinent.” Debate upon the tariff bill was commenced in the House Monday. Mr. Bailey of Texas presented a minority report on the bill. The Anglo-American arbitration treaty was advanced toward final ratification in the Senate. AU the amendments recommended by the Committee on Foreign Relations were agreed to. These amendments provide for ratification by the Senate of all agreements between this Government ami Great Britain: eliminating the Fnited States Supreme Court as members of arbitration tribunal; and abolishing the provision for an umpire, thus dispensing with the services of King Oscar of Norway and Sweden. On Tuesday, the speech of Mr. Dolliver, of lowa, was the feature of the tariff debate. which occupied both day and night sessions. The time of the Senate was divided between an unexpected discussion of civil service, election of Senators by popular vote, and the passage nf bills to establish a survey of certain lauds in Nebraska and the bill to amend the act repealing the timber culture laws. Tclegrraphic Brevities Herman Lehner, a noted authority and wrHcr mi < died at Berlin, aged 54. Bayard 11. Ames won the final oratorical contest at the University of Michigan with his oration, “Casteiar.” Charles Simons won second honor. Two burglars visited the home of Captain Ben Alfmd at Shawnee Springs Mich., and attempted to terrorize his wife She sent her little girl for help and one ot the thieves was captured. An -Australian baseball team is exjx i '- cd to arrive at San Francisco in a few days. It will make a lour of the Fnited Slates and if the judgment of any who claim to know is corre< I, it will give American players a hard battle for the first place in the baseball world. Him]wig Newmark, a young woman gymnast, who was des. ending from a window of the St. Cloud Hotel. New York City, by means of a patent fire escape, which she was testing, lost control of the apparatus, and is suffering now from bruises and internal injuries. The inventor of tho tire escape. George L. Kingsbury of Enfield. Conn., and bis general agent, John S. Kilby, were arrested. The London Lam et says that rumors of the ill-health of tiie <’zar from cerebral symptoms are unfounded, adding that his majesty goes out daily, and runs five furlongs, watching to se-e if he can do the distance in his average time. Latimer R. Jones, the American speculator and horse dealer, who was arrested in England on an extradition warrant, charging him with forgeries to the amount of SIIO,OOO said to have been committed in New York in 1887. sailed for New Yorkon board the American line steamer New York in charge of a detective from New York.