St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 May 1897 — Page 6

independent. W. A. ENDLEY, I*llll-. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA ARMY ON ONE FARM. TWENTY THOUSAND BERRY PICKERS APPLY FOR WORK. Missouri to Commerce Shipments at Once-Hawkeye Legislator Refuses His Salary-Romance in a Westerner’s Life.

Army of Strawberry Pickers. The strawberry picking season has opened at Sarcoxie, Mo., with an immense gathering of pickers. The Sarcoxie (Horticultural Association, controlling a farm of 1,400 acres in strawberries, advertised for 10,000 pickers. Their circulars were responded to by fully 20,000 people, who besieged the hotels and lodging houses of Sarcoxie. The overflow has been so great that thousands are forced to sleep upon the ground and prepare their tneals in hastily improvised dugouts or ‘ shanties, constructed of branches and leaves. The line of campers extends for fen miles up and down on each side of Spring river. The weather is favorable and the crop is being gathered very fast. The first shipments are going now in carload lots to St. Paul and other Northern points. Trainload shipments will commence in a few days. A Rancher’s Luck. T. W. Beakbane, a well-to-do fruit grower of Lower Lake, Cal., has just been identified as the son of a wealthy English family. He d^saf^eared from the knowledge of hit pa rents twenty-three years ago, and has long been given up for dead. He is now on his way to the land of his birth. Twenty-three years ago, as a result of trouble in his family. Beakbaneleft his home and came to the United States. He drifted west and is now one of the wealthiest of the Lake County ranchers. He is married, and with his wife and four children is on his way to Europe to attend the diamond jubilee and to see his people in their home on the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel. Unique Bid for Fame. Senator Rudolph Lehfeldt of the district composed of Crawford, Harrison and Monroe Counties, lowa, was prevented by unavoidable business demands upon Us time from attending the sessions of the Senate during the extra session. He attended several times when his vote was needed on important matters, but he was

present very little of his time. Monday he returned his warrant of §(578 to Auditor McCarthy, who in turn delivered it to Treasurer Herriott, and it was canceled at the Senator's request. He explained that he had been unable to attend the sessions and did not consider that he had earned the money, therefore he returned it to the State. South Germaay Exports. Frank Mason, United States consul at Frankfort, smbmiM some statistics to the StMe Department, from which it appears that from south Germany the exports to the United States during the first quarter of this year were §1,054,242 in excess of the exports during the corresponding period of 1896. and amounted to §9,495,521. The consul also shows that the maximum export from south Germany to the United States was reached in the March quarter of 1893 under the tariff act of 1890 and the minimum shipments in the same quarter of the next year, immediately preceding ithe tariff act of 1894. Standing of the Cluba. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore ... 18 3 Boston 10 10 Cincinnati ..15 7 Brooklyn .... 9 11 Pittsburg ...12 7 New York.... 7 10 Philadelphia 13 8 Chicago 7 14 Cleveland ...11 10 Washington.. 5 14 Louisville ... 9 9 St. Louis 4 17 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. K St. Paul 16 7 Minneapolis. 12 12 Columbus ... 12 7 Detroit 10 11 Indianapolis. 12 7 Kansas City. 7 17 Milwaukee .. 13 10 G’nd Rapids. 5 16 Sultan Brought to Terms. The report came Tuesday that the Czar of Russia had intervened to stay the progress of the Turkish army in Grecian territory. The Bulgarian army was being mobilized to operate against the Sultan. Abdul Hamid at once agreed to cease hostilities and begin negotiations for peace. It is believed that terms less onerous than the Sultan’s first demand can now be arranged. NEWS NUGGETS. The new extradition treaty with the United States has been signed at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. George Francis Train has reopened his claim to the city of Omaha, and he intends to press it to the last. If he wins he will be worth $20,000,000; if he loses

he will be no poorer than he is now. Romulo Vilades, a prominent member of the Legislature of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, was riding along the highway near Tanchanhuitz when he was fired upon from ambush ami killed. The assassin escaped, and there is no clew to his identity. A battle lasting six hours has taken place between the Uruguayan troops and the insurgents under Umas and Saravia. The Government forces were victorious, according to the official report. It is further stated that the revolution is t dying out. owing to the insurgents lacking ammunition and on account of numerous desertions from their ranks. Later it was officially announced that the insurgents had been completely routed and that the revolution is considered ended. Two happy farmers left Modesto, Cal., Wednesday for Kalamazoo, Mich., there to claim fortunes left by a deceased stepfather. Henry Breese, banker of Kalamazoo, died April 30, leaving Vital E. Bangs. ex-Assemblyman. and Romolo E. Bangs, two farmers near Modesto, each a fifth interest in a fortune amounting to $1,600,000. The tobacco manufacturers of the first Ohio and the sixth Kentucky districts have pin used resolutions protesting against the proposed increase of the rate of tax on manufactured tobacco from 6 cents to 8 seats per pound.

EASTERN. Lieut. Edward S. Farrow of New York, charged at Pittsburg with alleged violation of the insurance laws of the State, was found not guilty. The prosecutor, C. F. Harper, of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York, was ordered to pay the costs. The eighty-first annual report of the American Bible Society was presented to its managers at the annual meeting at New York. It showed that receipts for benevolent work, including gifts from auxiliaries, were $188,377 and disbursements were $265,068. The total gifts of the living were $58,880. Never before, with a single exception, have so many volumes of the Bible been sent from the Bible house in one year to foreign countries. The entire number is 101,354, and seven-eighths of them went to Mexico,

Central and South America. Officials hn 'e had a nice question of internal revenue law put to them on account of the burning of the ship Francis off the coast of New Jersey. On the ship were 200.000 gallons of California wine and 29,000 gallons of California brandy. Ou the brandy there is a tax of sl.lO a gallon. The brandy was being transferred from a bonded warehouse in San Francisco to one in the East, and Lachman & C-o. and others, who owned the brandy, gave bonds that they would deliver it to a bonded warehouse in the East. Having f/iilod to do. so, «r<< technically liable for $32,600. It is a question for the commissioner to determine, and, ns it is not known whether nny of the brandy was saved from the fire, Lachman & Co. will be compelled to file a complaint. Judge John Lowell, the distinguished Boston jurist, died at his home in Brookline, just after 4 o'clock Friday morning. He had been ill for some time and his death had been expected for several days. Judge Lowell was in the truest sense a jurist. Learned and versatile in all the departments of the law, in the department relating to bankruptcy principally, he was In his day considered the most distinguished judge in the United States. His decisions were regarded as the leading authority in the country, while his rank in the field of commercial law in its general application was scarcely less high. Judge Lowell was born in Boston Oct. 18, 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and practiced until 1865, when, upon the resignation of Judge Sprague, he was appointed judge of the Pistrict Court of the Massachusetts district by President Lincoln, this being the last judicial appointment made by the latter. Judge Lowell was appointed judge of the Circuit Court for the first circuit by President Hays in 1878 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Shepley. Os late years he had been engaged in the practice of law in his native city. He was married in 1853 to Lucy B. Emerson, daughter of George B. Emerson, LL. D.

WESTERN. Frank Stada, under arrest nt Chicago, charged with murder, hanged himself in a cell. He had made a rope out of torn strips of his clothing. Charles Goodyear, the well-known minstrel, is dead at Denver of heart disease, at the age of 41 years. He was born in Massachusetts. At one time he played with Haverly. Mrs. Langtry, the actress, has 'been ! granted a divorce by a California court on ’ the ground of dosertion. There was no contest and the case of the plaintiff was presented on dejxjsitions. The Mississippi Valley Cottonwood Association, in session nt St. Ixntls, Mo., has decided to advance the price of all grades of cottonwood lumber $2 per thousand feet. This action was taken on account of the destruction to cottonwool by tiie lower Mississippi floods. The average price of cottonwood lumber will hereafter be sl2 per thousand. The Denver fire and police board has accepted the resignation of Chief of Police Russell and appointed William R. O’Brien to the place. Mr. O'Brien is a native of Chicago, and graduated from the public schools of that city in 1877. He has held the position of weigher at the Denver mint for the last four years. He has had no experience in police work. W. B. Bradbury, a San Francisco millionaire, has been sentenced to twentyfour hours’ imprisonment In the county jail for violating the civic ordinance prohibiting expectorating on the floor of street cars. This is Bradbury’s second offense. He claims the privilege of spitting when and where he pleases as an inalienable American privilege and will make a test case. The strawboard manufacturers of the United States held a secret meeting at Cleveland, and according to report formed a trust to control the product of the country, though no definite information could be obtained from them. Representatives of firms iu Cincinnati, Covington and Binghamton, N. Y., were present. The manufacturers say there will be no immediate change in prices. Clarence Wolff, aged 19, shot and mortally wounded his brother George, whom he mistook for a burglar, at Dayton, Ohio. George had left the room for some cause and, returning cautiously so as not to arouse his brother, was in the doorway when Clarence awoke. Seeing the form of a man and supposing him to be a burglar, Clarence took from beneath his pillow a revolver and fired, inflicting a

fatal wound. The Union Iron and Steel Company, at Youngstown. Ohio, has posted notices to the effect that wages of all employes paid by the day and not governed by the Amal-' gamated scale will be reduced 10 per cent. The same company operates rolling mills at Girard, Warren and Pomeroy. It is reported that similar action will be taken by all mills in the Mahoning Valley, but mill owners deny that any agreement has been made to do so. The Humphrey bills were slaughtered in the Illinois House Wednesday. By the tremendous vote of 121 yeas to 29 nays the enacting clause to Senate bill 258, which extends street car franchises fifty years, was stricken out, killing the measure beyond all hope of resurrection. It was a victory that even the most sanguine leaders of the opposition had not dared expect. The corporation forces were utterly routed. Henderlong Bros. & O’Neill of Valparaiso, who were constructing the Govern- ( ment postoffice in South Bend, have been practically ruined by fire which destroy- ’ ed their plant at Valparaiso Sunday morning. With the plant was burned nearly all the woodwork for the building. : entailing a loss of $28,000. This so crip- ’ pled the firm that it has been obliged to t turn the contract over to the bondsmen. : who will complete the building. Frank Westerfield of Wilmette, 111., collector for the town of New Trier, is

i charged with being $4,200 short in his accounts, and the villages of Wilmette, Winnetka, North Evanston, Kenilworth, Glencoe and Lakeside are in a furor of excitement. The bondsmen of Westerfield are Dennis Kloepfer, George Scully, Bernard Brown. William Myers, Matthew Boree, Joseph Steffens, Anthony Engels and John Fisher. As his bond is for $150,000, it is believed the township is safe from loss, the bondsmen all being wealthy. The case of William H. Jewell, the deceased insurance man of Detroit, Who married Miss Florence McDonagh, a niece of Sir John Carling, on his deathbed. is causing much excitement at Windsor. Ontario, on account of the disparity of the ages of the contracting ixirties. Previous to their marriage, Jewell had transferred his insurance policies to Miss McDonagh's name and his will was madfe in her favor. It is probable the will wiH be disputed by Don C. Jewell, a son of William H. Jewell by his former wife. ■ The Supreme Court of Missouri is in a deadlock over the settlement of the parjnership estate of Murdock & Dickson, which involves more than $1,000,060. 1 hp case is before the court on a writ of prdb, hibition to restrain the circuit judges frc. I entertaining or making any orders in t* case. Charles K. Dickson, who ws« ,u* partnership with William Murdock, in 1871. His individual estate was inv^j toried at over $1,000,000. Dickson may a will, with the late James B. Eades a®" Barton Hates tors. Murdoyj? took out letters ol aUiumisnauonon partnership estate. Later, he made an assignment of the assets to John G. Prieaf. In 181*5 Attorney John M. Dickson, a sit., of Charles K. Dickson, went into tW? probate court and raised the point th® the law had no provision for an estate i> course of administration being assigned^ This point was carried to the higher court, but the Supreme Court of the Stat^ stands three to three in respect to it. Tm court has asked the adverse parties ti agree upon a special judge, whose decisioa shall be final. SOUTHERN. The supreme council of the A. P. A. has elected John W. Echols of Atlanta, Ga., president. Rain fell in torrents at Parkersburg, W. Vt., Tuesday night, causing great damage to railroads. Two bridges were washed away at Cairo. President W. P. Nicholls of the Bank of Commerce, New Orleans, convicted of embezzlement, has been sentenced to three years nt hard labor in the State penitentiary. He will appeal to the Su. preme Court. Rain for thirty-six hours has flooded Middlesboro, Ky. Thousands of acres of growing corn are under water. The lose to farmers will not be less than $20,000, and to Middlesboro $5,000. The waters are receding and the worst is over. State Senator Robert McMullin Friday forenoon made a desperate attem|>t ®n the life of Coi. J. N. Sniithee, vditor of the Arkansas Gazette, at Little Rock. Senator McMullin demanded an apology for editorial utterances made in regard to the Senator's action in defeating rhe railroad commission bill. When this wap not forthcoming, the Senator fired pol|t blank at the colonel, who sprang to fl* feet and struck McMullin’s arm, cat^MP the bullet t<> miss his body by a Ry inches. McMullin was taken to jail,, M was later released on bail. 'Hie .hooa» has caused a sensation, and further atb' more serious trouble is not uullkely. Sheriff Donner and his deputies at Knoxville. Tenn., arrested a woman an 1 seven men charged with burglary and concealing stolen g<x>ds and unearthed the greatest sensation that city has known for months. For a year past robberies have occurretl in and around the city, and thousands of dollars' worth of goods ami jewelry were never recovered. Alf Easley and his wife, colored, are the principals arrested. They own a three-story brick house wherein more than slO,<**> worth of jewelry and goods were recovered by the officers. They had twenty men on salary paid to steal for them. Fifty-five gold watches were found in one sack. WASHINGTON. President McKinley intends to visit the Tennessee exposition on Ohio day in June. The fifteenth State encampment of the Kentucky G. A. R. began at Lexington Friday with a parade. In the parade was the Confederate Veterans Association, the guests of the G. A. R. When the assembly was called to order in the Chautauqua Auditorium. Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge. ex-Confederate, made the address of welcome. Judge J. R. Morton, exConfederate, presented to the encampment a gavel made of wood grown on Chickamauga’s battlefield. His speech was responded to by Gen. Samuel F. Hill, a Federal veteran, who grasped Judge Morton by the hand, and amid wild applause said they were brothers, and that no more should the North and South berent by armed conflict. The childre*! sang ’’Dixie.” Capt. S. G. Sharp, ex I Confederate, was chief marshal of tbaH parade. ' 3 Fire started in the court house nt L<S I ington, Ky., Friday, ami in a few m I utes the upper story and dome were ail i.l flames. The building was completely’ burned in an hour. Hart's beautiful statue. “Woman Triumphant.' purchased bv Lexington women for $5,000, was desT^yed in an attempt to remove it. Many of the loose records were carried out, and others are in a steel vault in the basement. Tlie court house was built ten years ago, ami cost $120,000. The fire started in the jury room, which was vacant. The county school superintendent was conducting an examination of fifty school children in the court room, and they were all rescued. When the fire was under control it was found that the first floor and basement were partly saved from destruction by fire, but deluged with water. In addition to the total destruction of the Hart statue many valuable paintings in the court rooms were lost. These were portraits of Henry Clay. Richard Menefee, William T. Barry. Judge Robertson. Thomas F. Marshall ami other famous Kentuckians, painted by Healy, Sully and other noted artists. foreignT - A preliminary contract for a loan of was signed at Peking. China, Thursday, in behalf of a British syndicate. A terrible railway disaster befe’’ a Russian military train Thursday evening between Rockenhof ami Sliva, on the Valki Jurjev line. Sixteen cars were smashed. Two officers and nearly ]<K) soldiers were killed and sixty’ others were seriously’ injured. An official dispatch to Madrid from

Manila, capital of the Philippine Islands, announces that the Spanish troops have captured Ternate. Os the insurgents fifty-seven were killed. The Spaniards lost twenty-five killed and 226 were wounded. Emilo Clark, the United States consular agent at Piura, Peru, has published a statement in the newspapers to the effect that his office has been sacked and important documents, money and other valuables stolen. The prefect of police denies this and says that the only seizure was of the furniture. The steamer Australia, at San Francisco from Honolulu, brings news of an attempt, to scuttle the American ship Indiana. from Hilo for New York, having I,B(Mt tons of sugar in her hold. An augur hole had been bored through the bottom and three of the crew suspected of the job deserted after the discovery of the leak. The cargo was somewhat damaged, but the leak was discovered in time to save the ship. It is reported at Brussels that the Government has decided to throw out all bids submitted by Belgian and French contractors for the great extension of the harbor and docks of Ostend and to seek to obtain bids from American contractors. I, The limit of the appropriation for the un- • dertaking. which is divided between rhe Government and the town of Ostend, is $1,800,000, while all the bids submitted exceed $2,000,000. The failures of severaf big companies Eave been announced at Rio Janeiro, and business is paralyzed. The Government of Brasil has been forced by the crisis to increase her duties by one-tenth, and to levy a heavier tax on personal property and a tax on the postal and telegraph services. In addition $7,006,000 has been saved to the Government by judicious trimming of national expenses. The only recent good nm is that a rise in the price of coffee is expected. The Sultan of Turkey literally outdoes Shy lock in dealing with defeated Greece. He demands the annexation of Thessalyregardless of the treaty of Berlin. An indemnity of £10,006,000 is also required from the little Hellenic nation. The Turkish army will continue to advance if these conditions are not accepted. Ambassadors of the powers have met to consider the perplexing attitude of the porte. The powers are not willing to concede all that is asked, and the peace of the Balkans, if not of Europe, seems now seriously involved. IN GENERAL Arrangements are being perfected for Queen Victoria to start the electric works of the Hydraulic and Land Company »t Lachine Rapids, near Montreal, on or about jubilee day. This will be done by means of the Atlantic cable, the queen touching the button at Windsor Castle. The comparative April statement of the exports and im|x>rts of merchandise, gold nnd silver of the United States, issued by the bureau of statistics, shows as follows: Merchandise, domestic exerts. $76,176,997; increase, as compared with April, IS’Mi, $6.775.000. lm|x>rts, flot,305,131, of which nearly 50 per cent was free of duty. As compared with April, 181*6. there was an increase in dutiable import* of over s2O.<«M*.O**O, and of over $25,000.000 in non dutiable merchandise. The return* received by the immigration bureau during the Inst nine months show a marked falling »ff in the number of immigrant arrivals in this country. The number of arrivals during the nine mouths ended March 31. 1897. was 142.1*41, as compared with 209,630 for the same period in the fiscal year 1896. Th^ is a decrease <>f *16.689. During April the decrease nt New York alone was 11,549. nnd during the first eleven days in the present month the falling off at New York was 10,806. Commissioner General Stump estimates that the decrease for the entire country during the fiscal year ending June 30 next will not be less than 93,000, of which New York probably will show 70,060. No arrangements have yet been made for forwarding the 15,000 tons of corn stored in Brooklyn warehouses to the plague-stricken districts of India. Six weeks ago Congress authorized the Secretary of the Navy to charter a steamship of American registry to convey the contributions of food stuffs to India. There is no American vessel available that will hold 15.<M*i tons. The only vessel that will hold so large a cargo is the Hamburg American Line steamship Pennsylvania. The thing to be done, apparently, as the Secretary of the Navy is not empowered to engage more t-han one vessel, is to see if the British authorities will not provide a vessel to take the larger part of the corn, while an American vessel takes the remainder. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, s3.is* to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to wh> at. N<>. 2 r,,1. 74c to 76c; I c. ru. No. 2. 2oc to 26. . oa - No. 2,18 c I to 19c; rye. No. 2. 34c to otic; butter, ■Choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh,

^c to Vc; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to ^Oc; broom corn, common growth to choice »green hurl. $35 to S7O per ton. ’ Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,88 cto 90c; corn, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 96c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 22c to 23c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2. 33c to 35c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye. No. 2,35 cto 37c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 9Oc; corn. No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye. 36c to 37c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rte, No. 2,36 cto 3Sc; clover seed. $4.30 to $4.35. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 77c to 78c; corn, No. 3. 23c to 25c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; barley. No. 2. 30c to 33c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 38c; mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 88c to 90c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white. 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, West1 ern, 10c to He.

WORK OF CONGRESS. THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington — Matters that Concern the People. Laamakers at Labor. In the Senate Wednesday the sugar in yestigation of 1894 was recalled by the introduction of a resolution by Mr. Allen of Nebraska reciting the circumstances of the investigation, the refusal of Elverton R. Chapman to testify. Its conviction in the courts as a contumacious witness and the present efforts toward his pardon. The resolution proposes that Chapman be biought to the bar of the Senate to purge himself of contumacy as a prerequisite Io pardon. Mr. Allen sought to iecure I immediate action on the resolution, but it went ov-r on objections from Mr. CalUnger of .New Hampshire and Mr. Hoar

of Massachusetts. Mr. Morgan of Alabama made a statement relative to his iesolution on ( üba. He said the Committee on Foreign Relations had considered the question of referring the resolution to the committee and had not reached an agreement. The committee desired, however, that the resolution go over, with a view to having a atatement of facts laid Ix'fore the Senate: the resolution went over. A resolution by Mr. Butler of North Carolina requesting the President for information relative to the sale of the I nion Pncifi Railroad was presented ami went over. The Senate bills for a public building at Deadwood. S. D.. to cost $2iK>.(XMt and o ue at Indianapolis, Ind,, to cost $1.5<16,600 were passed. The immigration ami the kinetoscope bills were reached, but went over on objection. The House did nothing. The Indian appropriation bill was disposed of by the House Thursday, with the exception of the provision for opening the Utah gilsonite lands. The conference rejxirt. which establishes an Indian warehouse at Omaha, ratifies the lease of the Seneca oil lands nnd adds one judge to the Indian territory courts, was adopted by a vote of 54 to 47. After a long period of calm rhe Senate was agitated, first by a discussion of the Senate sugar investigation and then by a preliminary skirmish on the tariff bill. But nothing definite was accomplished. A lot of postoflice nominations were confirmed. Ilie Senate Monday passed a measure appropriating $56.6<i0 for the relief of American citizens in Cuba, in accordance with the suggestion contained in a message from President McKinley. Several members of the House insisted upon amending to inconxirate a recognition of ( üban Iwlligerem y, and the matter was hung up temporarily. The House resumed consideration of the Indian appropriation bill. The Senate was iwcupied Tuesday chiefly by the Cuban question. Mr. Mason spoke in favor of the Morgan resolution, nnd Missrs. Hoar and Hale oppos««<|. Th,, debate wax bitter. Among the bill# paxsed by 1 Io- Senate were tholte authorizing the construction of bridges a. ross the Missouri River between its mouth nnd the ir >uth of the Dakota or James River, and across the Illinois and Des Plaines Rivers between the mouth of the Illinois and Joliet. 111., and to prescribe the character, location and dimensions of the same; also for a bridge across the Red River of the North at Drayton, N. D. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. The House did nothing of importance. BOY'S PLUCK SAVES HIS LIFE. Fred Lawson, Five Years Old, Clings to the Ties of a Railroad Trestle. Fred Lawson. 5 years old. the son of a resident of Edgewater Park. Hl., was crossing the Northern Pacific railroad bridge at that point the other day when the sharp whistle of an express train caused him to stop short in alarm. Turning s // (1 A HOY > AAKIIOW ESCAPE.

his head, he beheld a swiftly moving train approaching, the ties beneath his feet quivering as the engine thundered on to the trestle work. Escape seemed impossible, and for a second the boy was stricken with the »error of impending death. Acting upon sudden impulse, however, he threw himself fiat upon the ends of the ties outside the rails and clung desperately to the projecting timber. The whole bridge vibrated as the train sped on its way, but the child clung to his ]H>sition until the last car had passed. Spectators of the incident were horrified at the boy’s peril, for the projecting gear of the car axles almost brushed his back as he lay tqon the ties. The danger passed, they came to his assistance and led him in triumph to his home. Told in a Few Lines. Spain has in the last two years sent 272.282 soldiers to Cuba. Gen. Pedro Diaz, has been appointed to succeed Rivera in command of Cuban forces. Major Henry McNamara, prominent in Fenian and Ulan-na-Gaei circles, killed himself at Kansas Gity rather than suffer the disgrace of being sued for S2O debt. A corps of the most skilled detectives of continental Europe are already in London to watch anarchist refugees from their respective countries during the jubilee celebration. Tim battleships Maine and Indiana and the cruiser Brooklyn will be sent to England to represent the I nited States at the queen’s jubilee. Rear Admiral .1. N. Miller will command.

DEFEAT OF HUMPHREY BILLS. Culmination of a Bitter Battle in the Illinois Legislature. The defeat of the “Humphrey bills” in the Illinois Legislature was the culmination of the bitterest and most sensational legislative fight in the history of the State. For months ever.v paper in Chicago, and almost all the leading papers of the State have been waging war on these measures, which aimed to vest the power of granting street railway franchises in Chicago to a State commission and to extend the franchises of the present companies fifty years. It was openly charged that the street railway companies of Chicago had raised a corruirticn fund of nearly sl,ROO.IMH* and were offering fabulous bribes to legislators. Mass meetings have been held in Chicago almost every night for the past month, denouncing the bills, at which Mayor Harrison. Alderman Harlan and prominent mi n in all ixirties have taken a leading part. Ureat excitement on the stock exchange greeted the announcement of the defeat of the measures. The initial quotation tor West Chicago was 102. and it sold as low as 94. showing a decline of 8 points

from the opening to the lowest quotation. The close was only point above the lowest quotation of the day. The West Chicago street railway has a < apital stock of $13,189,000. When the Hnmphrey bills passed the Senate the stuck sold as high as 107. When the bills were defeated in the House it sold 'Wtea*" points under this quotation. Tlie Chicago City Railway has a capital stock of $12,000,060. divided into 120.0G0 shares. From the last preceding quotations there was a decline of more than 10 points in City Railway in the bid prices to-day. Putting together only the three principal companies gives the following as the loss in values: North Chicago $1,320,000 West Chicago 1,318,900 City Railway 1,200.000 Total $3,838,900 Y. P. S. C. E. CONVENTION. Program for the Annual Gathering at San Francisco. The local committee having in charge the preliminaries for the sixteenth international Christian Endeavor convention, which will be held in San Francisco July 7 to 12, is leaving no stone unturned i,e insure its success. Applications for hotel accommodations are pouring in daily, and arrangements will soon be perfected. The program for the convention promises to be one of the best ever provided. Its chief features are as follows: The convention will open Wednesday night. July 7. with meetings m eight of the largest churches in the city and one meeting each in Oakland and Alameda. Thursday morning simultaneous welcome meetings will beheld in Mechanic's and Woodward's pavilions. In the afternoon twenty or more churches will be used for denominational rallies. Friday morning practical addresses and open parliaments upon the fundamental principles of Christian Endeavor will be provided. The afternoon will be given up to a “school of nietluxls" in the various churches. “Christian Endeavor Fellowship'’ will be the general subject for Friday evening. Saturday morning rhe State secretaries are to be hoard from in a symposium on the topic "How May We Make the Committee Work in Ixical Societies More Effective?" There will be an open-air demonstration on Vanness avenue, after which the delegates are to be given an outing by the local committee. Sunday there will be three meetings of great importance, one for men only, another for women only nnd one for ministers and church officers. Monday will be devoted to the evangelistic and missionary influences of Christian Endeavor. The junior rally, one of the most important features of the program, will be held in the afternoon, and the closing sessions of the convention will be held in the evening. TO KILL GRASSHOPPERS. Professor Bruner Will Go to Argon* tine for the Purpose. Prof. Lawrence Bruner of the University of Nebraska is soon to go to the Argentine Republic in South America for

the purpose of putting an end to the scourge of grasshoppers in that forward , country. i For the past nine years Argentine has been eaten up by the insects and the Argentine farmers appealed to the Government. A commission of leading business men in Buenos

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.Ayres was appointed to look into the matter. I: wa- decided that the first necess: ry step was to learn as mucfi as possible about the insects' mode <>f life and tints or the best means of wiping them out. 1; was agreed that to do this a grasshopper expert was a sine qua non and the American minister. Mr. Buchanan, was consulted. He referred the matter to Washington and the committee on agriculture unanimously decided that Prof. Bruner was the man. Prof. Bruner is an old student of the saltatory insect that ravages the territory west of the Mississippi and he will go to SCIHSTOCERCA PAKANESIS. the fields of Argentine ably equipped to fight it. A year will be spent in looking over the ground, and then the battle will begin. Ample funds wilt be at the disposfal of the commission under which Prof. Bruner will work, and if money and scientific “kill are of any avail the grasshopper will be banished from the pampa's of Argentine. A recent announcement made that the Nicaraguan Government had taken occasion to deny the statement that it had canceled the concession of the Nicaraguan Canal Company is not looked upon as especially important, as the concession expires by limitation during the present month. Richard Dawson, earl of Dartrey. is dead. lie is succeeded in the title and the estate by his eldest son. Lord Cremorne, aged 56. The family is one of the great ground landlords of the United Kingdom, awning 30,000 acres.