St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 April 1897 — Page 2

Cljc Jndtpcn&cnL W. -V. HA'DLEY, Publ ishcr. WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. BIG IRON MINE DEAL. CAMBRIA COMPANY GETS MAHONING PROPERTY.

Transaction Involved About $400,OOO—Two Men Killed by Explosions in a Chicago Tunnel—Spain Contemplates a New Tax Levy. Bought a Mesaba Mine. Duluth, Minn., dispatch: A half interest in the great Mahoning iron mine on the 'western Mesaba has been bought by the Cambria Iron Company of Pennsylvania. ’'Fhe price is not known, but is not far from $400,000. The mine will easily produce from 500,000 to 600,000 tons of ore yearly. The sale leaves but one of the great steel making firms of Pennsylvania and Ohio without a Mesaba mine. Car- \ negie had an option on the Mahoning, but was induced by the Rockefeller interest io give it up and enter into the fifty-year ^^arrangement which permits him to utilize V ountain Iron product. It was this flatter arrangement which caused the smash of the Lake Superior bessemer pool. The diversity of companies now intert sted in the Mesaba is counted on to maintain operation on that range even when mines on other ranges are idle. Affairs in Cuba. The Spanish Government is contemplating imposing new taxes in order to provide for the Cuban war expenses, it is rumored that Gen. Sanguilly will succeed Gen. Rivera, now prisoner in the hands of the Spanish, as commander of the insurgent forces in the Province of Pinar del Rio. A Key West, Fla.. dispatch says: The tug Monarch has been captured by the revenue cutter Winona, and was brought to port Tuesday morning in charge of one of her officers. Members of the crew refuse to make any statement on the subject. The Monarch was captured at Bahia Honda. Nothing was found aboard her. She is simply being held on suspicion. It is reported that a filibustering expedition was to have left Monday night to join the Monarch at Bahia Honda and that coal was to be sent to her from Key West. Incendiaries at Altoona. An attempt was made Monday night and early Tuesday morning to destroy Altoona. Pa., four incendiary fires being kindled in different parts of the city between the hours of 12 and 1:3(1 o'clock. Prompt work by the fire department alone saved the town from destruction. The entire loss, however, was not more than $60,000. The fires were evidently incendiary, as they started in widely separated sections of the town and in each case among buildings of a dangerously inflammable character. Death in a Tunnel Blast. Two men were killed and two injured Tuesday morning by an explosion in the new northwest land tunnel at Chicago. The dead are: Owen O'Malley and Peter Gallagher. Os the other miners who were working in the shaft at the time of the explosion none were seriously hurt, though the explosion gave several of them slight abrasions. NEWS NUGGETS. Joseph I*. Smith of Ohio has been appointed secretary of the bureau of American republics, to succeed Clinton Furbish, resigned. The United States Treasury Department has decided that all retailers who keep bottles of cocktails on their shelves for sale must pay a rectifier's license. The first Quaker church ever established in Denver was opened Sunday. The services were conducted by Rev. 'William S. Wooton, who organized the society and is its pastor. At Baltimore. Dr. Joseph J. Ruiz, convicted of filibustering, was sentenced in the Tnited Stales Court to jail for eighteen months and fined SSOO. Bail was refused pending an appeal. R. K. Gordon, aged 25 years, belonging to the Tenth Regiment. United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Reno, was arrested at Kremlin, west of Perry. (). T.. on a charge of counterfeiting. Gordon is a member of a well-known family of Utica, N. Y. Gen. Frank M. Palmer's nomination as public printer was sent to the Senate Tuesday afternoon. The appointment of J. Frank Aldrich as minister to Belgium is said to be on the tapis and be due for early announcement. Mr. Aldrich says he has heard nothing to indicate an early determination as to the Belgium mission. At Helena. Mont., Secretary of the Senate John Bloor was indicted by the grand jury for falsifying the public records. His alleged offense is the losing of a bill the night the last legislative session expired. "• Bail has been fixed at $l<UN>O. Martin Buckley, an ex-State representative, was also indicted upon the charge of accepting bribery, which he himself acknowledged at the last session. Both are under arrest.

A tornado al Chandler, forty miles east of Guthrie. O. T., at dusk Tuesday night, destroyed three-fourths of the town of 1,500 people, and the report is that 200 are badly hurt and forty-live persons killed. The ruins quickly took fire, and many of the injured people were burned to death. Six persons in one building were pinned down by wreckage and met a slow death by tire. Only one physician in Chandler escaped injury, and he did what he could to relieve the distress of the wounded ami dying. It is reported that only two buildings were left stand-ing—-the Mitchell Hotel and the Grand Island grocery store. Gov. Sadler of Nevada denies the report that he had promised Dan Stuart to call an extra session of the Legislature to consider a lottery scheme. He said the expense would be unnecessary, and if the promoters wished to establish a lottery in Nevada they could wait for two years, when the Legislature will meet in regular session. Father Anthony Bogacki. hero of the Polish riot in the warring church at Bay City. Mich., who was accused of shooting one of the rioters, has resigned. Bishop Richter did not. request him to take the •eti on-

EASTERN. Mrs. Maria Elizabeth Cleveland of New York, who died at Nice, France, left her property to Marvin F. Scarfe of Pittsburg, who at the risk of his own life saved Mrs. Cleveland from accidental drowning. At his death the principal to go to his children. A 24-foot flywheel at Carnegie's Edgar Thomson steel works, Braddock. Pa., burst, killing David Hugo, a workman, and seriously injuring George Snyder. The damage to the plant was very heavy and the entire works have been closed down for repairs. William T. Adams, the well-known writer, who. under the pen name of Oliver Optic, has entertained boy readers for more than a generation, died at his home in Boston, Saturday. He was 75 years of age. He had been ill for some time with heart trouble.

At Reading, Pa., the large plant of the • Acme bicycle works was destroyed by tire ■ early Wednesday morning. All the valua- . ble machinery was destroyed, making the ■ total loss about $75,6(10, covered by in- - surance. The building contained material > for fully five thousand b^ycles. • The jury in the case of Dr. Joseph J. i Luis in the Tnited States Court at Baltimore. Md., has found him guilty of ent tering into conspiracy to violate the neut trality laws of the Tnited States in havr ing taken part in fitting out the expedition ? which sailed on July 9, 1895, on the James s Woodall and landed in Cuba fifteen days • later. The Massachusetts House of Represent- । atives has adopted a resolution providing 1 for State represen tat ion at the Tennessee 1 centennial by the Governor, six members of his staff and three special commissioners. The expense is limited to $560. Tile original plan was for a delegation nearly three times as large and an expenditure of nearly $5,00H. Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, the wellknown writer of Southern war poetry, died at Baltimore, Md., Sunday, at the residence of her son, Dr. George S. Preston. Mrs. Preston was the daughter of the Rev. Dr. George Junken, founder of Lafayette College, anil was born in Pennsylvania. In 1857 she married Prof. J. T. S. Preston of the Virginia Military Institute, who afterwards served on Gen. Stonewall Jackson's staff with rank of Colonel. Her sister, Eleanor, was Gen. Jackson's first wife. Among her best known works are “Beechenbrook." “Old Songs and New ." “Colonial Ballads," and “Aunt Dorothy.” Mrs. Preston was known throughout the South as the “Mimosa of Southern literature.” Her remains were taken to Lexington, \ a., for interment. Superintendent Havens of the life-sav-ing station at Mount Pleasant telegraphed the station at New York that the steamer reported ashore eight miles south of Barn-gat Inlet was the Clyde liner Saginaw, from Haytien ports for New York. She Ims a cargo of coffee, logwood and cotton, and has a crew' ot th y-five men. The vessel lies easy and is in good condition. The crew remained still on board. She is commanded by Captain Johnson. A dispatch from the marine observer at Fire Island said that a threemasted schooner went ashore at Jones' Inlet on the bar. The life-saving crews from Point Lookout, Short Bench and Zach’s Inlet did not succeed in rendering any assistance to the stranded schooner on account of the waves beating on the ’ beach, but the crew were safe. Captain Mulligan of life-saving station No. 4, at Monmouth Beach, reported that the schooner Emily E. Johnson, from Baltimore for Cambridge. Mass., with a cargo of oyster shells, went astiore near Seabright during the fog. She pounded heavily on the beach and it seems probable she will become a total wreck. All the crew have been saved. Frederic R. Coudert of New York City, one of the receivers of the Union Pacific, is in Omaha, attending the meeting of the receivers. In speaking of the Supreme Court's decision on railroad associations, he said: "There can be no doubt but that the effect of this decision of the Supreme Court declaring the Trans-Missouri Freight Association illegal will be very far-reaching. It may very likely be. as the dispatches from Chicago announce, that all freight and passenger associations will be dissolved because of the decision. It looks as though tie Union Pacific and all other railroads that are in the bands of receivers would be most keenly affected by the decision. The receivers of a railroad are really a part of the court and no part of the court can take a position adverse to that of the Supreme Court. The whole matter is of such very great importance that I should not” are to give any opinion until I had first read the full text of the decision.” The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Tuesday withdrew from all traffic associations, its action being even more radical than the Santa Fe system, which withdrew only from the freight organizations. WESTERN. George Harris of Dubuque, lowa, has sued a camp of Modern Woodmen for $20,000 for injuries received while being initiated. He alleges that he was blindfolded and thrown about until he fell on ' the floor. Rudolph Spreckels has won a victory in the California Supreme Court over his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glaus Spreckels,

confirming his ownership to propertyworth $1,000,000, which had been conveyed to him by his father. Hop and Wali, Chinamen, were found murdered in their laundry at Clayton, N. M. The murders were committed with a club, an ax and a knife. Bobbery was the motive. Several arrests have been made. The sheriff says he has evidence that a conspiracy had been formed for the murder and robbery of a number of wealthy people. John Newman, alias Butler, alias Lee Weller, having exhausted every other means of averting his requisition to Australia, confessed at San Francisco to having murdered a sergeant of the Second Cavalry, whose name he cannot remember, while stationed at Walla Walla. Wash., in 188 G. The authorities have made inquiries which leave no doubt as to the falsity of Butler's confession. Sixteen apprentice boys have deserted from the United States gunboat Adams at San. Diego, Cal., in two days. The officers say that different tactics in training the boys must be pursued or wholesale desertion in every port will result. Tuesday evening an officer went, ashore in a launch with a crew of eleven apprentices. When he returned to the launch all the boys were missing, and he had to hire a boatman to take him to the ship. At a large meeting of hotelkeepers, railroad men and merchants and manufacturers, held at the Mayor's office in Cin-

cinnati, a beginning was made of organizing the "Cincinnati Conventions League ” Mayor John A. Caldwell was elected president and other officers will be appointed by him. The purpose of the league is to encourage and promote the holding (> f ~o n yentions in Cincinnati. A liberal guaranty fund was subscribed to back the move ment. The fruit canners, salmon packers and other exporters of tinned food products representing some of the largest industries on the Pacific coast, are alarmed at the provision of the Dingley tariff bin abolishing the drawback on exported cans and boxes made from dutiable tin phttes. 1 he San Francisco Fruit Exchange has sent communications to the California delegation in Congress protesting against this provision. The salmon packers and manufacturers of other tinned products have taken similar action. 1 wo chattel mortgages given by the Mekeel Stamp ami Publishing Company of St. Louis to creditors have been filed for record. The first is for $13,2.82 to W. B. Bechtold for the Bechtold Printing and Publishing Company and others for whom he acts as trustee. These are made preferred creditors. The second mortgage is for $27,656. W. B. Bechtold and W. A. Frank are named as trustees for creditors. who number eighty-two. Both i<?rtgages cover the Mekeel company’s k of stamps and other property. Geoj® U M ekeel, vice-president of the cou^J’ IV ' said: “The assets of the companv«|' ,e ' sent over $206,000. Ko^-bts but those mentioned in the mortgas^S 'I lie doors of the DeKalb County rank at Maysville. Mo., failed to open \<ednesday morning. A notice is posteMon the door saying that the bank is itj the hands of the Secretary of State. State Bank Examiner Gordon Jones is in charge. The action was taken by the board of directors after thoroughly canvassing the condition with the bank examiner. It was thought that the depositors and creditors would be best protected by this action, as the bank holds some slow paper and a large amount of real estate. Its business for the last year has been unsatisfactory, both to its managers and the State authorities. Its actual condition cannot be learned, but the directors feel confident that every depositor will be paid in full. John E. Searles, secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Company, is in Denver. Although he refuses to talk in regard to the object of his visit to Colorado, the Denver Republican says: “It is understood that, in association with David 11. Moftat. the Denver banker and mine owner, the sugar trust is about to inaugurate a gigantic project for manufacturing beet sugar in Colorado. If carried to a successful issue, it will involve an outlay of from S2JH*>,OOO to $5,000,000, When approached on the subject recently Mr. Moffat is quoted as having said that he stood ready to invest $1,000,000 in the industry, provided proper conditions for carrying it on could be secured. As a preliminary to planting beets and building refineries, it is authoritatively stated, the projectors of the scheme have secured control of the La Junta ami Lamar Canal and the large tracts of land that underlie it.” The heaviest windstorm of the winter raged at Tacoma. Wash., Thursday, blowing a gale of forty-two miles an hour. Many chimneys were blown down nod signs ami billboards scattered promiseponsly about. A large portion of the <#rnice of a three-story Pacific a veuue bud|£* ing was blown down, bringing with * tangle of live electric light ami telegraph wires. The draw span of the Eleveulh stieet bridge was blown open, temporarily stopping a funeral procession. In the surrounding country trees were blown down by the score, and it will be surprising if some fatalities are not reported in re mote localities where settlers’ cabins are surrounded by tall trees. The gale was felt by all sound steamers, which were more or less delayed. Where the wind got a good sweep she white caps rolled very high. Tile British ship Rheuddinn Castle broke away from her buoy and drifted across the bay, where anchorage was easily secured. FOREIGN. The London Truth r.unouncra that the Duke of Leeds will succeed the Earl of Aberdeen as Governor General of Canada in 1898. Twenty seven shipwrecked seamen, the crew of the British iron ship Androsa, have reached Boston. They were rescued from their sinking vessel after battling with a gale for eight days. The Swiss Bundesrath has made a proposal to purchase all the principal railways of Switzerland, in accordance with a provision of the original concessions. The price set is 904.384,769 francs. It is proposed to raise the funds for this purpose by a loan, redeemable in sixty years. It is asserted at Constantinople on what is regarded rs reliable authority that in consequence of the refusal of Lord Salisbury to join in a blockade of Greek ports, Germany has given notice to the powers of her intention to withdraw from the cq^cert. It is understood that Turkey sent her squadron through the Dardanelles otu the advice of Germany. A. V. Lomeli, the Mexican consul in San Diego, Cal., who has just returned from the City of Mexico, says that his Government has ceded a large tract of. land in the State of Chiapas. South M.-s.-, ie<>. to a Japanese syndicate, represented by Sho Nemoto, who was in San Diego a few months ago with S. Y. Asano, in connection with the trans-Pacific steamship project. At that time it was stated Asano would visit New York and London to pu-r---cbase steamships and carry out his plans in this connection and that Nemoto would go to the City of Mexico for the purpose of securing a tract of land for a Japanese colony. It now appears that Nemoto has carried out his part of the program and that before long the Japanese will be building houses and breaking soil in their new colony. The port of this proposed, colony is Santa Cruz, the terminus of the, Tehuantepec Railroad. St. Petersburg dispatch: In the most important quarters much annoyance is feltat the signs of the vacillating policy { shown by the powers at a moment when' the greatest firmness is necessary. The' feeling is that the other powers are trying to place Russia in the undesirable position of shedding Christian blood. The Otgoloski publishes a very strong article on the subject, and thinks England is going to establish herself in Crete, and being there, say: “ ‘J’y suis, J’y reste,’ and as Crete is not what the Dardanelles is to Russia, the latter would not go to war about it. Crete can only be pacified by shedding Christian blood, but orthodox Russia cannot do so. England has done so before and can do it now.” In diplomatic circles the position is looked upon as very embroiled, and the only solution

win be that if the Greeks insist on fighting they should be allowed to go on and be beaten. ■ Constantinople dispatch: The change m the policy of Great Britain foreshadowed m press dispatches has assumed definite shape. The recent massacre of Armenians at Tokat, the danger of further outbreaks in Anatolia and the action of the porte in semi-ofiicially pointing out to the Turkish press ami provincial officials that the blockade of the Island of Crete by the fleets ol the powers and the support given to the Turkish forces by the foreign fleets was a triumph for the policy of tho sultan, have had their effect in showing that the Christians in Armenia are in danger of extermination. Consequently it is semi-oflieially stated that the British admiral in Cretan waters has been notified not to send any warships oi Great Britain to take part in the proposed blockade of the ports of Greece. At the same time, however, in order, apparently, to avoid an open rupture with the powers. Great Britain will acquiesce in the blockade of the Greek ports. A dispatch from Canea, Crete, says that the insurgent commander-in-chief at Ak rotiri Wednesday morning referred the proposal of the powers to grant autonomy to Crete to the various leaders of the insurgent forces who had assembled from different parts of the island. The Cretan leaders unanimously declared that ouly two issues were possible—the annexation of Crete to Greece or fighting until death ends the struggle for the union. Advices from Arta say that as a result of the protest of Greece Turkey hits stopped the construction of fortifications at Prevesa. at the northern entrance of the Gulf of Arta, which was contrary to the stipulations of the treaty of Berlin. Startling reports are in circulation at Athensregardthe numerical strength of the Turkish troops on the frontier. For instance, one report has it that the Turks have concentrated 100,600 troops on the frontiers of Epirus alone. The report, however, is m>t believed in military circles. A special irade was issued by the sultan at Constantinople calling out for active service forty-four battalions of tho reserves of the second army corps anfi also summoning to the colors the whole of the contingent of 1897. The ambassadors of the powers have held a meeting at Constantinople to consider a dispatch from the foreign admirals in Cretan waters stating that it is daily becoming more evident that a continuance of Turkish authority in Crete is impossible and recommending that a European governor general be appointed ami that the Turkish troops be withdrawn. Fighting between the Christians and the Turks at Canea continued until midnight Thursday. During the evening the insurgents burned the Mussulman dwellings and property of Perivolia and Friday morning they burned and abandoned the fort nt Koratidi. The members of the diplomatic corps at St. Petersburg now greatly apprehend serious complications in Macedonia, which will jeopardize the pence of Europe. Although recognizing that the chief danger lies in that direction, the proposal of Great Britain to establish a neutral zone on the Greek frontier is regarded ns ineflu avious and impracticable. It is urged that it would be preferable to aei-elvrate the pmitiention of Crete by immediatelv bloeknding the coast of Greece am! thus nip in the bud the development of « miplieiitions in Macedonia. Ar. infantry regiment, 678 men strong, sailed from \ ienun for tin- Islam! of Crete, being the Austrian contingent for the occupation of the principal ports of thnt island by foi.es of the foreign pow 1 ers. IN GENERA^ Obituary: At Peoria. 111., Peter E. Spurck. 66. At Virginia. Hl.. John Menckel, 61. At Detroit. Mich.. Dr. Theodore Burr. 81. At Richmond, Ind., Rev. Oliphant M. Todd. 75. Mrs. Emma Moss Booth-Tucker, wife of Frederick Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army, has formally declared her intention to become a citizen of the I nited States. Her husband has already taken out his first papers. Obituary: At Florence, Italy, Mrs. Maria P. Storey, widow of the late Wilbur F. Storey of t hicago. 68.—At Neenah. Wis„ Henry Hewitt, Sr.. 82.—At Riverside. Cal.. Mrs. G. W. G. Ferris. At Ferrel. N. J., “Aunt” Hanna Chord. IPS. At Fort Washington, I. T., Yellow Wolf, 108. There was an increase of $14,711 in the gross earnings of the Big Four road for the mouth of b'chruary and the net earnings for the month increased $7,159. Eastern Illinois earnings for the third week in March show a decrease of ss.7lM>. From July 1. 1896. up to this time earnings of this road have decreased $152,450. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75: hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice. $2.60 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2,23 cto 25c; oats. No. 2,16 c to 18c; rye, No. 2. 32c to 34c; butter, choice creamery. 17c to 19c: eggs, fresh, , 9c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel. 2Oc to • 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, S2O to SBO per ton. -^lndianapolis —Cattle. ship[>ing. $3.00 to K 1.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.2.>; Sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.2.»: • Hvheat, No. 2. 84c to 86c; corn. No. 2 jWhite, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c Ito 22c. ' St. Louis —Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. '03.00 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; I wheat. No. 2,94 cto 96c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 21c to 22c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2. 33c to 35c. | Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, ,$3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; I wheat, No. 2. 90c to 92c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2,36 cto 38c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; she&p, $2.00 to $4.50; :Awheat, No. 2 red, 88c to 90c; corn. No. 2 : 'fllow, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c 1 o 22c; rye, 35c to 37c. ’ Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 91c to 92c; pen. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; oats. No. J’l' white, 17c to 18c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 38c; ^cJover seed, $5.10 to $5.20. V Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 3,21 cto 23c; oats. No. white, 19c to 21c; barley. No. 2,28 cto 32c; rye, No. 1,34 cto 35c; pork, mess, $8.50 so $9.00. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 89c to 91c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50: hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, S3.(KJ to $5.25; W’heat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, Western, 9c to 11c. '

BRAVE SOLDIER DEAD. GEORGE Q. WHITE GOES TO HIS LAST HOME. Call Comes to the Veteran at St. Paul -Maceo’s Successor Captured by Spanish 1 roops—Set tiers Anxious to Get Into the Wichita Country. Veteran Mustered Out. ••eorge Q. M hite, who was a member of the first battery of artillery raised in Illinois, who enlisted in Chicago as early as July Hi, 1861, died Monday at his home in St. Paul. Major White will be well remembered by the men and women who wore active in Chicago affairs at the beginning of the war. He was a narlve of Massachusetts, ami had lived in Chicago some years when the war broke out. lie was one of the very first of the young men in the city to enroll his name among the defenders of the I’nion. As a private soldier he was mustered into Battery B, r irst Illinois Light Infantry. July 16. 1861. Nov. 16 of the same year he lost .“.is good right arm in the battle of Belmont. and in the January following he was discharged. But George Q. XVhite with one arm—and that a left arm was too pood a soldier to lose, and i i May. 1862, he was commissioned a captain in the army and assigned to the quartermaster’s department. In July he was assigned to service in the Forty-fourth Infantry am) served until 1869, when he was relieved of duty, and was carried as “unassigned” until Dec. 15, 1870, when he was retired trom the arm.v with the rank of brevet major. He returned to Chicago for a time vnd then took up his residence in St. Paul, where he at once assumed a leading position in public affairs. Settlers Want Wichita Country. Recent information from Washington is ।hat the Wichita country, owned and occupied by the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians, will be opened by May 1. The gold and silver excitement in the ’.Vichitn Mountains has drawn hundreds to the border of this new country. The allotting to the Indian families is progressing rapidly. Miners are still prospecting in the mountains, and not a day passes without a conflict between prospectors and soldiers. With the exception of one range of mountains these reservacions are the finest farming country in the Indian Territory. The Indians object to being allotted until they are paid fol Ju- lauds, but the allotting will be forced to completion. BREVITIES, A London syndicate has purchased the Jackson County, (.thio, coal field lor $4,PtK i.ooo. “The Elms,” the magnificent residence of Col. A. ('. Tyler on Pequot avenue, '•iew London. Conn., with all its elaborate furnishings, valuable paintings, bric-a-brac, musical instruments, and silver, c as totally destroyed by fire early Sun;jay morning, causing a loss of over $300.i>OO; insurance. S7S.tM!O. Thirty thousand •.oilars' worth of jewelry was also destroyed. The death of Lyman Epbs occurred at <orth Elba. N. Y.. Wednesday. Ephs oiis among the negroes brought from tho eouth by old John Brown before the war. He was a music teacher of rare natural ability. One of the interesting and eharueteristie features of the burial service •>f John Brown at the grave at North Elba. Dee. 1859, was the singing of Mi. Ephs' family. A. Maeehi, the foreign commissioner general of the Tennessee Centennial and industrial Exposition, has returned to New York from Europe. Mr. Maeehi has iievn abroad since last August, collecting exhibits for the exposition, and says his trip has been very successful. Every country in Europe will send exhibits. So fur as his work is concerned, Mr. Ma< ehi says the ■xhibition will be successful. Aums Riggs, who murdered young Boyd and his father near Mount Gilead. Ky„ 'ast wts-k. has been captured by the < thio authorities. Riggs was arrested at the home of a relative in Felicity. Ohio, and was taken completely by surprise. He was heavily armed, bur offered no resistance. He will be taken tq Maysville for trial. Public sentiment is strong against Riggs. It will be two months before a grand jury meets. It is reported from Havana that a body of Spanish troops met and defeated an insurgent force under Major General Rivera. capturing him and his chief of staff. Col. Bacallao, and his adjutant, Lieut. Terry. Gen. Rivera and Lieut. Terry were both wounded. Gen. Rivera succeeded Antonio Maceo iu command of the insurgent forces in Pinar del Rio and he | is considered next in military importance | to Genl Maximo Gomez. The following dispatch was received at I Washington from Consul General Lee. | dated Havana. Sunday: “C. E. Crosby of ! New A’ork, the representative of the Chi- : ago Record, is reported killed while watching with field glasses a combat between the Spanish ami insurgent forces near Arroya Blanco, close to the boundary of Puerto Principe and Santa Clara. He came to the island Jan. 36 and is said to have graduated at St. Cyr, France. After imprisonment for three months without trial, for alleged disorderly conduct, at Callao. Peru. Ramsay, an American sailor of the crew of the Cambrian Monarch, has been condemned to a year in jail. This is contrary to article 15 of the treaty *. ith the United States, and Minister McKenzie has demanded the immediate release of Ramsay. An English sailor arrested at Callao at the same time was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. One hundred and twenty-five Kansas banks which have responded to the call of Commissioner Briedenthal show an av?rage reserve of 46 per cent. This is S per cent higher than the showing made by any previous report. The requirement of law is 25 per cent. Only three of the 125 have reserves low -r than is required by the statute. A Kansas City man claims to have cornered the onion crop. Sixteen survivors of the steamship \ ille ,ie St. Nazaire disaster have arrived at Greenock on the steamship Yanariva, which picked them up at sea. News comes from Cuba that the report of the death of President Cisneros of the Cuban republic is untrue. The world’s wheat crop for 1896 was 2 428.393,000 bushels, of which the I nited States raised 428,684,000 bushels. In the same vear the yield of corn iu the United States was 1,936,206,000 bushels.

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Halls ot Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business, The National Solons. The House AVeduesday was again engaged in tariff debate, the discussion lasting into the night. The opposition made by the colleges of New England ami by many scientific men against the duties placed on books and scientific apparatus by the Dingley bill induced the framers of the measnre te amend it and restore so many of these articles to the free list as are imported for the use of educational institutions. The Senate’s open session lasted only half an hour, and no business was done beyond the introduction of bills. Among these was one by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, to repeal the civil service laws, and to do away with educational tests as a preliminary to entering the public service. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, presented a bill prohibiting vitascope and kindred exhibitions of prize fights in the District of Columbia and the territories and forbidding the shipment of pictures for these exhibits by mail or through any interstate means. The Senate confirmed the appointment of Binger Hermann, of Oregon, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office; E. G. Timms, of Wisconsin. to be Auditor of the State and other departments, and George E. Thumniel, of Nebraska, to be Marshal of the United States district of Nebraska. 1 he four-days’ debate upon the tariff bill in the House closed Thursday night, making the bill open for amendment under the five-minute rule until the time set for a vote. The Senate held a half-hour session early in the day. and then, after two hours in executive session on the arbitration treaty, resumed the open session in order to go on with the bankruptcy bill. Amended credentials were pre-sent-cd in behalf of John AV. Henderson, appointed by the Governor of Florida to the seat vacated by Mr. Call. It brought out a statement from Mr. Hoar, acting chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, that action on the pending election cases was delayed by the uncertainty as to committee organization in the Senate. Ihe revised credentials were referred to the Elections Committee. Ihe tariff bill was thrown open for amendment under the five-minute rule iit tile House Friday, but seven wearv hours of work only served to dispose of nine of the 162 pages of the bill. Three slight committee hmendments were adopted. one of which was to increase the dutv on white lead from 2^ J to 3 cents a pqund, the rate in the act of 1890. The present duty is Dm cents. In the Senate Mr. Galli nger (Rep.) of Nebraska presented several forms issued by the civil service commission to substantiate his recent statement that certain applicants for office were required to hop on one foot for twelve feet. The Senator read the "hopping” provision and several other quest <ms as to the weight and height of the typesetters, which he characterized as absurd. Referring to the size and weight requirement Mr. Gallinger said "Phil Sheridan could not have served the government if the civil service commission bad got at him.” The matter was ret -rred to the Civil Service Committee. Adjourned to Monday. In the House Saturday, only five more of the 162 pages of the bill were disposed of, making fourteen pages in two of thefive days allowed for consideration under the five-minute rule. Only five amendments were adopted, all of minor importance. and each an amendment of the ways and means committee. Fully two hours were spent in the discussion of whether the foreigner or consumer paid the tax. If more progress is not made night sessions may be held. Senator Warren of Wyoming, in conference with the Republican members of the Senate committee on finance on schedules affecting: A) estern interests, made some suggestions concerning third-class wools, looking more, however, to a change in adjustment than a change of rates. The House Monday, without a quorum, continued debate of the tariff bill, but made little progress. The Senate resolution appropriating $256,060 for immediate use on the Mississippi, amended sons to carry $146,660 for clerk hire for members to July 1. $20,006 for miscellaneous expenses of tho House and sl.000,000 customs deficiencies, was adopted. and at 5:25 the House adjourned. In the Senate a bill was reported favorably to prevent kinetoscope exhibitions of prize fights. Mr. Caffery of Louisiana secured favorable consideration of a joint resolution on making immediately avaiilable $250,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi River from the head of the I passes to the mouth of the Ohio River. I The appropriation is to be deducted from I the $2,500,000 given to the Mississippi ; River by the last river and harbor appropriation bill. ’Lhe bill was passed confirming the compromise made between the officers of the government and the authorities of Arkansas relating to mutual claims. Ar 12:50 p. m. the Senate went into executive session on the arbitration treaty. Tuesday was the last day for debate of the tariff bill in the House, and no other business was done. A number of amendments were adopted, but not one-third of the whole bill had been considered when debate closed. In the Senate Senator Allen, of Nebraska, made a long speech on the constitutionality of tariff taxes beyond those requisite for revenue. The House amendments to the Senate joint resolution appropriating $250,600 for the saving of life and property along Rm Mississippi River were agreed to. /Among the petitions was one from the Board of Sheep Commissioners of Montana urging the most ample protection on wool, in accordance witli the platform promises, and asserting that the policy of protection would not long prevail without this adequate protection to the wool growing interest. Notes of Current Events. The Massachusetis House defeated by a vote of 99 to 61 the resolution for a monument in State House yard to Gen. Benjamin I’. Butler. After a bitter debate and many stormy scenes, the Manitoba Legislature ratified the settlement of the Roman Catholic parochial school question. The claim of Edward J. Ivory, the alleged dynamite conspirator, for $20,001 damages against the English Government for false imprisonment, has been forwarded to Secretary of Stale Sherman