Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 February 1896 — Page 3

GRAVE CHARGES MADE

SECRETARY OF AGBICtJLTUBE MORION ACCUSED OF MISUSING FUNDS.

Beaatov Vest Thinks That Nearly All of The Appropriation For Seeds Was Expended. In Nebraska*

MORION DiVITES IMPEACHMENT.

SA¥8 THE PRESIDENT WOULD VETO RESOLUTION OF CONDEMNATION.

Senator Bate Declares That Bare Plants and Flowers Were Not Supplied the White House.

IWaJahtagtOTV, Feb.

5ay.

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10.—Although

the

eeaalte faiiled ito accomplish much today, the session served 'to make defiflite the programme on a) numbfx of important eubjeots. Mf. Morrill, cfhalrman of the ftnaJnce Cscnprnlttefe, gave notice he would oafll up the tariff bill on next Wedwes-

Mr. Call secured unanimous consent tffinalt the Cuban question be made -the speoM order following the deficiency approprflatiom bHl. Dr. Davis, au'tihor of tHhie Dauviis resolu'tifiom otn the Motnroe doctrine, gave nOit!iC6 tttrait on next Motndaiy he would Gall up tfhe resolution. Thus, "fh'e threie most important pendtog queatlotna were given a definite (time

for (heajrlimig. Duirtog tlhie morniing hour Mr. CaaAero(n of Pennsyl'viaJnla offered a jo'ilrnt iysoIhition illative to 'the termtoaitiloin of t'he war itn Cuba. The resolution quotes rtihe pcresMemt'is reference 'to the Cubam wair 'h'iat last message •declares 'there are no meana of securing peace to Cuba except by giving It the right of self government and offers Spato- thte frlem'dly offices of the United Stoaities (to brinigr albout this result.

Mr. ThursWn of Nebraska briefly called •attenitibn to published reports that (he Was author of the b'lll recently introduced gitvi'nig pensions to ex-shaves. The se/niator expTaiined that 'tfhe measure waa "introduced "by request" and !he wa'3 entitled to no credit for I't.

Wiltih the routine 'business cleared away, Mr. Smilth of New Jersey addressed the' senate on the Mtoronoe doctrine.

Con£|?c|!era|tibin was resumed on the reeo'luttan directing the secretory of agriculture to caary out the law for the aiisitfcf button of seeds, and Mr. Vest of Mtasouiri renewed h'ia criticism of the eecre'tary. Th)e senator called attention lib a published in'fcervfi'ew wLth the secretary of agriculture, invitiin^ limpeaichiment and 'implyimg tlhlalt the president would veto t'hilis resolution ilf congress passed It.

In view of these staitememtts, Mr. Vest seM, tlhe president should 'have full information on the subject, and he proceeded to show from agricultural d!epairbment reports the secretary had himself, t'hiouglh opposing t'h'is seed law, "useid the'appropriation for ihi^own purposes," by makiimg excessive seed d:itstrtbutton in his own state of Nebraska. "It lis enough," declared the senator, •Ho make the star-eyed goddess of reCc»rm hang (hiet- iheiad aind Mush for shi3inie."

Mr. Vest offered a subsiJtulte resolution directing 'the secretary of agriculture to purchase and distribute seeds as in previous years, anid to .'procure them by open purchase or con tract. Mr. Biate of Tennessee said ft was not fair or^usit that the secretary olf agriculture should'be accused in this manner wiithou't Wis view of h'is su'bject 'being understood.' The senator said he had looked Into the charge of t'he senator from Missouri (Ve^t) that orchids, lillies of the valley and pail'ms were sent to the recaptions by the president and cabinet offjeers and had found Ittnait not a sprig of green or a rose 'had ever been sent by the secretary of agriculture -to the White House or to the home of any cabiinet officer.

Mr. Vest explained he had intended to show that 'the secretary in Starting out as a reformer h'ad failed ito reform t'his profligate expenditure .but it was not intended but to say that t'he secretary had dcrect control of 'the subject.

Mr. Bate wen-t on to declare h'is fidelity ito the agricultural ant erects but he apposed the appropriation of $120,000 for seeds this year because it would be too late to plant them and therefore, t'hey migflib.as well be thrown In the sea.

At 2:45 the senate- went into executive session. Aflter the executive -session Mr. Mills of Texas announced the death of Representative Crain and appropriate resolutions submitted by Mm were adopted. The vice president majmed ,Messirs. Mills, Gall'imger and Kj^le as a committee to represent the senaite at the obsequies.. At 3 o'cl'ck, as a further mark of resipedt ito the deceased, the senate adjourned.

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MAY YET DEFEAT IT.

It id Possible That Silver Substitute May be Knocked Out. Washington, Feb. 10.—When Senator Quay left the capitol after the adjournment of the senate today "he had almost decided 'to withdraw his nrotion to recommit the tariff bill, or at least not to press it. This was re-suit of the importunity of several Republican senators Who, after canvassing the situation among the Democratic senators, (had ascertained to their satisfaction that Wh'ile there w^ould 'be a solid vote on -the part of both Democrats and Populists against recamimfitital there would be no difficulty in gerttin»g a comparatively large vote on the Democratic side of the ohamtL-r agabT. :'he ifrea coinage sutbsfKvite for the bill.

This turn in the situatfon has led to an active canvass of the probable vote •on the sufbstitirte ajid on the original bill in case the substitute is voted down. Thts survey has neccessarlly been inoompteta, 'bu't t:he result is surh as to otvuSe the opponents of the substUute to ,believe it can be defeated. They count upon the entire anti-Oliver Repulblican vote on the Republican side besides the \i^tes of many cic the silver Republicans who will not agree to displace the tariff "bill with silver and also upon get't5ng a large majority Lf not aid 'th? anti-silver Definocrats against the eubsttStutte. Wifh the substitute defeated £he vote would recur on the tariff bill proper.

Pennsylvania Mining Troubles Not Over. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 10.—W. P. Dearxrfl, president of the NCTV York & Cleveland Gte Oo., In a circulair ie'-ter tcd'ay rej«dts the •J»nvik«at?cin of the Jovnt committee of coal operators and miners to mieeit w3ifh tihem Ita an endeavor to se4tie tlhe question of whether or not unttornxlty exists to the district. Mr.

Dearm'it reiterates Ms statement th'at the examination made by tihe joint oooimiittee was superficial and not entitled to consideration- The only hope now of avoiding a waige war Is the acceptance by tlhe commfcttee on Wednesday of Mr. Dearmit's ptro-pos^L'l'oai to submit the question to a select commission, whSteh wSLl examine the district on lines laid down by hlimself.

CLUBBED THEM TO DEATH.

Three Danville, 111., People Charged With a Foul Murder. Special to The Express. rxanvfille, 111., Feb. 10.—Joton Schrull,

Mattie Cavanaugh aind Sher husband, W'311'Lajm Cavanaugh, were all arrested

IPM3 evenSmg for the murder pf August

Kliaiege Satirrdlay night. It its believed

they clubbed Klaege to death to the

Oavtamiauglh House then, after robbing

Mm, Carried him out in t'he street, wittere 'he was found.

Mtirdered at a Woman's Instigation. Special to the Express. ranville, ni., Feb. 10.—.Mary Garner

and Rube Lacy, both colored, are on

triad in our Circuit Court for the murder of JOhn Kelly. The count rootm is *""\onged w3th people anx-iOus to see a

Wn on trial for h'er life. She is percool ajid collected and seems to oatir/but 'little for the result. In a fuss, Keny struck her. Sihe 'Immediately procured a revolver, gave it to Dacy and Induced him to kill Kelly Whille she stood by.

THE FARM STATISTICS

FIGUBES SHOWING AVERAGE. PRICES OF HOBSES AND CATTLE.

There is a Marked Decline as Compared With January, 1895, and Also Fewer Head.

Washington, Fe^b. 10.—Thie agricultural department returns for January, 1896, show the total (number of hiorses to be 15,124,057 mules, 2,278,940 mildh cows, 16,137,586 oxen and other cattle, 32,085,409 slheep, 38,298,783, and swine, 42,842,759.

Th average farm prices per head are estimated: For horses, $33.07 .mules, $45.29 imlilohi caws, $22.55 oxen and other caitltlie, $15.86 sh'eap, $1.70 swine, $4.35.

The aggregate values arer For horses, I500.140.1S6 imuleis, $103,204,457 milclh coiws, $363,955,547 oxen and other cattle, $508,928,416 sheep, $65,167,735 swine, $186,529,745 grand total, $1,727,926,084.

In inumb'er,. Ihorsias have decreased 4.8 per cent mules, 2.3 milch cows. 2.2 oxen aaid other cattle, 6.6 sihieep, 9.4, and ewitne, 3.0 per cent since January, 1895. The cotton states and Rocky Mountain states sihow an 'increase in horses and mules, othieirtwise the decrease is -general. Milch cows a.re imcire tnumeirous in 'tlhe nortiheastiann or city sujpply states, also in Minnesota, the Dakotas and westward, Ibu't fetwietr elsewhere. Decreases iin oth'er oatitle and sheep is generally distributed, exceipt in the mountain region. S'wime (have increased generally throughout the Easit, South and West, witJh a fall'iing off 'in the Central s'tlates.

In .reporit.ed 'price per head, horses, •mules amd swine are lower than in January, 1895, (while imilcih cows, other cattle amd sih'eeip are higher. In aggregate value hoirses 'have decreasied 13.3 per cent ,mu le® 7 per went siheep 2.3 per cent 'and swilne 15 'per oeint during 1895 iwihile miloh cdws.lhave iin creased 4 and other 'catitUe 5.4 per oen't. The grand total of all Jlive s'tock hais falleif loff $91,520,222, or 5 per cent from January", 1S95.

Percentage of declone 'Since January, 1895—20.4 per cer.lt, since January, 1893— 30.4.

The estimated wool product of 1895, Mheered, butchered and pulled is 309,748,000 pounds.

Lively Times Ahead in Kentucky. Louisville, Ky„ Feb. 10.—A special to the Postf irom Frankfort says: This W3ek is expected to develop ,a number of sensations 'in the senatorial contest and matnyo'f the po'lliticiiams t'hink that a serntw wM be elected before its close. It i'3 sc'jd here today that tbmiorrow the house will 'fake up and dispose of the two conit'es'ted elecCi'on cases, putting in boilfh Dunlap amd Wanner, Republicans. If t'hi'is 'is d'oine 'there will be lively times, that wPll furn'teh excitement for tlve people of the s*tate. The Democratic majority 5n the senate is ready to declare v.sean't the scab's of "half a dozen Republican ©snatcrs. If th'is is dome the state will be fortunate if disgraceful scenes of disorder and violence do not follow.

Mlnnosota's Tnornioup Crops Aid TT»r. •St. Paul, Mirm., Feb. 10.—Th'a.nks to the enormous crop and the general improvement In butOreass. the state of Minnesota will rece?ve thi,3 year about $100,000 more ih taxes on the gross emrniinigs of it.'he m,IIreads than she received last yeh.r. I^'ast year the aggregate taxes frotm this source amounted to $860,000. The repcrXs thus far receded 'tails year -imd-icate that the -sbaite will derive a* least ?950,000 from fhait source this year. The reports from n-cQtply all the coimpa.uVes aire now in.

Has Bern Ab^olntely-Xon-CnmmHtal. Special's to Cinc.innati pj pers from Springfield. O., seek to convey the Impression it,hat Mr. RuspjM B. Harrison while visiting there recently, intimated in an interview that Indiana would be for McICinley. Mr. Harrf.-fon sa.ld iaat nig'hlt that hefiiid absolutely refused to discuss the question of presidential preferences either as regards Indiana or any other state.

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WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.

Sherman Klnp. a vour- attorney of Wabash, In«.. formerly fftretary of the Dawes Indian commission, has been in Washington several days on legal business before the interior deuartment.

The "MidniKht Club" is lhe name of a new circle of congenial congressional spirits, who assemble hi the rotunda of the Ebbit House, about 9 o'clock everv nigrht. and discuss auestlor® of state and relate reminiscences until after midnifrht. Representatives Overstreet and Steele arc star members of the club.

Senator CuHom todav Introduced a bill giviner a pension of S24 per month to all ex-soldiers 75 years of aire, who served in bath the Mexican and civli wars.

Francis Cockerell Edwards fatally shot himself today in1 the Hiilman House. Despondency resulting from an unsuccessful trip to Alaska is saSd to have been the cause. He was a neuhe^r of the late Judge Waiter Edwards, of Missouri, and a son of Justice Edwards, a senate employe.

The secretary of the treasury -has accepted the offer of A. C. Dake for the sale to the government erf a site for the Denver coSnage mint buildlne. The property is located on Colfax avenue, SouUv Thirteenth and Sv&ns streets. The price is S60.000.

PfiOTEGE OP THE RICH

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MBS. LYDIA SPAUIjDING'8 LIFE FULL OF STRANGE FEATURES.

Career of Mingled Misfortune and Success Crowned With 8100,000 Suit Against Pullman.

The life story of iMns. Lydia Spaulidiog, the woman who has brought suit against the Pullman Palace-Car Co. and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-, way, ifor the recovery of $100,000 daina-, ages, is interesting and at once pathetic,,, romantic and fraught .with incidents of almost unenduraible hardship and suffering, says the Chicago News.

Struggling with poverty as the wife of an aged, unsuccessful tphyslcian, the mother of a handsome boy, united iby social ties with men and women who became kings and queen's In the itwun worlds of finance and fashion, the mistress of the most palatial private hotel and boarding house in San Francisco, suddenly bereft of hu'sband and son, the possessor of a hard eairned fortune, sustaining the loss of health, weak in cnlnd and ibody, ladened with accumulating years, torn from her railway apartment, rudely thrust into a dingy iprison cell, t6 ibe surrounded with the .most loathsome vagrants in the town of LeaJdviile, robbed, as she says, of $8,000 in jewels and money, persecuted, ipitied, pursued by relentless fate—these are some of t'he successive phases, miseries, ipleasures, endeavors, hopeless features of Mrs. Spauld'ing's history.

The woman who seeks to force two mighty corporations to pay her for the indignities thrust upon her in the Colorado town and for which, she alleges, they .were responsible, was born in Virginia. As a girl she possessed considerable ibeauty and .oeoaime the wife of Dr. ISpaulding, who was many years her senior. With him she went to Virginia. City, Nev., in the days before the great outburst olf wealth which, gushing frcm the earth, made 'San Francisco one of the most remarkable cities in the world. In Nevada she 'became acquainted with the Mackeys, Floods and Fairs, at a time the future millionaires were poor and toiling citizens of Virginia City.The Floods, Mackeys and Fairs prospered and wion .millions., while Mrs. Sipau.lding saw the prosipects of her nusband and herself grow gloomier. A son was born to them and not long afterward they removed to San Francisco. •In the city 'by the Golden Gate soon were settled the great bonanza kings, and whale they lived in homes of splendor M*rs. Spaulding was using her utmost endeavors to help her husband In his profession. He failed and sfhe, turning to iher former friends, found true •assistance. They aided her in leasing the Ralston mansion, whose owner had taken his own life, surrounded as 'he was by every luxury wealth could bring, in a manner so romantic aind yet so startling that ilt "became a part of the history of the (Pacific coast.' This mansion, sumptuously furnished, Mrs. SpauMin.g opened as a private boarding •house. Here lived Mr. and Mrs. Fair, IMr. aind Mrs. Flood, Mr. and Mr®. CMackey and many others of almost falbulous fortunes.

The Ralston Club, with its turrets and broad Hwindows looking out upon tlhe bay, was one of the imost elaiborate edifices in the city. With polished 'hard1wood1 floors, jstrewm with costly rugs, with rich tmosaics, wails resplendent with mirrors and hung Iwiitih oaintings chosen by a connoisseur, parlors divided 'by softly sliding doors, filled with quaint little nooks, the iplace was almost Tike a ihome in fairyland. Here Mrs. Spaulding prospered and hapipines9 seemed ihers until iher husband, suddenly taiken 'ill, fell lifeless at iher •feet. To add to hier sorrow and accentuate the (first ibitlter blow, her idolized boy died in ain equally sudden manner, and then she felt henself crushed and alone. 'Mfs. Fair, however, kind and affectionate, became more than ever -her •friend and built for iher a beautiful hotel of 100 rooms, the Bel'la Vista, and in this establishment 't'he unhappy 'Mrs. ISpaulding ibecame a rich woman. Then her health deserted iher, and, disposing of her city's interest©, she retired a few years ago to iher country home, not leaving it save to take an occasional tri'p to Europe, whither she was on iher way la^t June, when, arriving at Leadvilie, Colo., she was taken from her taiparfcment in a Pullman palace car and placed in the city prison, where, she claims, eihe was detained forty-eight hours without a charge being made aigainst her. When released, 'having •passed two days among thieves, va•gTamte and the riffraff of a Western mining town, she found she had (been robbed. She claims her detention and attendant indignities iwe.re caused by employes of the •Puilmain Oo.. who, she alleges, took her money and jewels...

The defendants deny that Mrs. •Spaailding's detention was caused "by fnem and claim that it was brought about -by (the civil authorities of Leadville. who took such steps to prevent the woman, who is said to have ibeen acting in a violent manner, ifro-m infitting injury upon herself, or possibly taking her own life.

TRAIN JUMPED THE TRACK.

Train on an Ohio Koafi Goes Uovrn an Em bnnkmcnt. Zanesville. O.. Feb. 10.—A passenger train on the Cincinnati & Muskingum V.alley Railway jumped the switch abouit ten miles west of this city about noon today. The engine and bapgage car and mail car were rolled down a fifteen foot emlankment, the engine being wedged in a Y-sha/ped space, between a switch and the main track. A broken flanpe on the "engine truck and an o-oen switch are bcth plven as the cause, bu.t no satisfactory conclusion has been reached. The official list is:

Killed: THOMAS FISHER. baggagemaster, Trinway.

Injured: Ca.ptain Bel'., mail agent. Morrow: bruised aboait the head.

William Atkinson, brakeuvan, Roseville one rib broken, chin cut. Joseph Porter, employe. Zanesville: injured in aidomen.

Isaac .Tone?, coal operator, Zanesville left leg broken about ankle. JJ Sorigley. engineer. Zanesville: cuts on head and face, lee's bruised not fatal.

Frank Tanner. Roseyi'lle: cheeks and chin cut. body bruised. David Lanhart, traveling salesman, Zanesville internal injuries.

J. Wilder. Lancaster: left knee bruised. Philip D. Miller. Newark 'left wrist sprained, cut on risht hand.

Thomas Davis, fireman. Zanesville leg bruised slig'htly. Wm. H. Paker. RoseviMe: back strained.

Wrn. I.inton, detective, Zanesville slight bruises.

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NOT HIS FIRST SCANDAL.

The Rev. C. O. Brown of San Francisco Once Had Trouble in Rochester. Detroit, Mich.. Feb. 10.—The dispatch from San Francisco to tihe effect that the Rev. C. O. Brown, the "principal figure in the alleged bLackmailine affair in that city, once, figured ina sca-^dai at Rocheate-r, JHch., -was confirmed this evening in an interview with ttie Rev. Joftm Armstrong, at thAa ctor. formerly castor at the Meth-

odiat Church at Rochester. Mr. Armstrong, tofrweVcr, would xrive no details of fhe Rochester ind&ctmeo't. but It Is allecpd by others that some letterawrititen by toe Rev. Blown to the wife of a .traveling man were intercepted that Brown, somebow, got possession of the letters and then accused the Rev. Armfttnon# of Uavhig written the letters. A trial by some Oongreguttonad ministers resulted Mn a finding that the Rev. Brown had 'had no improper Intimacy with the women in question. Mr. Armstrong denounces Mr. Brown in strong terms for his alleged part in the matter.

RAILROAD AFFAIRS. S-*

Traveling Engineer Lindley Moves Hit Office to Terre Haute. Yesterday or nine Traveling Elngdnejer Lipdley, of the Vandalia, removed his office from St. Louis to this city. He has taken a room on the second floor of the Union Station. His office adjoins that of Superintendent of Motive Power Arp. Mr. Lindley brought his clerk. Mr. Edward Harmon, with him.

A Change in Handling: of Trains. There was a notice Dosted on the bulletin board of the Vandalia yesterday, which is causing a grea/t deal of talk among employes as well as several minor ofticials. The paper states that unit 11 further notice the chief train dispatcher will have oharge of 'the passenger train movement, the distribution of passenger cars and passenger crews. Just what this circular realty means 4s what a great many people wculd like to know. One thing 4s sure, it lessens tJhe duties of Trainmaster Raidy There 'have been rumors to the effect that Trainmaster Burke, of vhe Michigan division, was soon to resign to take a passenger run and that there was

to be a couple of shifts as a result. The removal of Mr. LindJey's office to Teire Haute at this time is mentioned with the rumors ctf changes.

Railroad Notes.

A spur of track 350 feet long has beevi put down at Flora, on the Vandalia. J. C. Mtillspauffh. traveling passenger agent of the Vandalia. was in the city yesterday.

E. R^Coleman. of South Bend, an employe of tfhe Vandalia. passed through the city yesterday en route to El Paso, where he expects to arrive before the fights are pulled off.

DOCIA-GOES HOME.

Escapade of the Young Elopers Ends Without a Lawsuit. Dacia Collins, the 15-year-old girl, who ran aiway .from Iher home at Laifayette to join her youthful lover. J. G. Cop page, in this city, was placed on the train and Started for home by the police yesterday. The father could not come after (his wayward daughter, but telegraphed transportation with instructions to the police to put iher on 'the train and in oharge of the conductor. The erirl refused to go at first, but when informed that it was back home or jail she weakened and said she believed she'd go back-'to her t*ata. and wait until her youthful lover was out of the toils and dn position to marrv her. When the girl was gone there was no oharge on which the young sower of soap literature could be held, and he was released from jail.

Indiana-Illinois Fair Circntt. The execuitive comim!ttee of the IndianaIllinois Fair Circuiti-met in this city last Friday and made} out the 1896 circuit. There were present R. V. Sherrard, of Farmer City, J. N.'Beers, of Champaign, and W. H. DunCarfi of Terre Haute. It was made known 'that Frankfort, Sheridan and Lebanon had declined to enter the circuit and'"that Bloomington had as yet made no reply .to an invitation to be a member of the ^association. It was decided to leave t'hesfe towns out and make up

FRANK O. LOWDEN. FLORENCE

•the circuit as follows: August 3d to Ttifc. Balnbrldge August 10th to 14th. Terre Haute: Ausrusrt 17th to 21st, Farmer City- August 2oth to 2Sth, Champaign August 31st to SejTtemher 4tn, I/afn-yette September 7Ch to 11 til. Crawford.^ville: September 14th to 18th, Indianapolis Septerrtber 2Sth -d. Springfield: October 5tb to 10th, St Louis.

Cannot Fight on Mexican Soil. City of Mexico. Feb. 10.—There is nothing new in the attitude of the government bearing on pftae fight. Orders have been given to prevent Its taking place on Mexican soil."and Governor Ahumada, or Chihuahua. has given orders to the state ana federal troops not to Dermlt the fight and capture any persons taking part In one or attempting to carrv out the P^fTamme as announced at Juarez. The popular sentiment strongly sustains the government.

Fatal Fall in a I'rixe Fight.

Philadelphia, Feb. prl2e fight in Whls city Saturday °*®?lt. Frederick Schleohter. aged *0 /J*™of the principals, died today, llceman Henry Pluckfelder, aged 86• the' other principal, is in 1aH the murder. The fit^bit took second story of Schlechter a maUrese factory. ScWec5iter was knocked down and his head hit itfhe ftoor ma hard that Us skut'

UHL IS NOMINATED.

HE IS CHOSEN TO SUCCKED THE LATK AMBASSADOR RCNION.

Mr. Rockhill, Who Will Take Mr. Uhl's Place aa Assistant Secretary ol State la Experienced.' ikl-

Wa^hS-i^ton, Feb. 10.—The namiinatiJon of the Hon. E. F. Uhl to ibe ainlbas^ saden* Germany w'as confirmed iy t'fee sejdalte today in. lltitle more than an Uour after St had been received. The nominaii^fon Was not formally referred ito t'h^ oomimSObee on foreign relations to whikfli under ordinary clncum^tances It would have been sen't, tout rttue connn'Jt'tee was oaniv^a^sed on tlhe floor of 'Che senaite amd ao oppedifion ibeC ng yJeveloped ft was decided to donifirm ImmeidCately. Th'is action was taken In confortn'fty w3t3i the /wiish of thle dtalte department, as it te OonsTdered itnlpoTtanit thait .Mr. Uhl Shall reia'dh his deattaafion as early ta-s praca 1

Mr. Rbckfhrtll, w"ho will take Mr. Uhl's iplace as flrsit assistant secretary of sfSate i's remaricaibly .weflll fi'tited for the pos»t, In View of the furaot'fons ithat will isere-

MR. HARRISON AND HIS INTENDED. An observatit artist saw ex-President Benjamin Harrison and his fiance, Mr® Mary Lord Dimmick, out shopping in New York and the accompanying picture was the result. The ex-president is to be married after Lent.

talfter devolve upon th'e first asteM&nit teeioretla.ry, for i't is understood to toe the intention df Secretary Olney to restore t'he office Ifco what it was before Mr. Quincy 'assumed control and undertook the selection! of Unfted States consular offices, thlerefby (malting 'the ofH'ce .marie or left's a ptoUltHcal posltibn. "Herefater J\IT. RtotoWhYltl 'wWl "have nothing to do with the filling of any political plaices tbut Ji'3s fiumct/fons will be confined to the dlfscliiarge otf du't'ies .pertiaining entirely tb the consuOar service, retaining also Wis cftrectSoni Of dtiptom&'Me matrters relating- to Afei'atlic .c/ountiles.

All oithet dipicimait'ic matters wfill "be •dlivMed between 'the a-emiatalng as^istairat (secretaries, subject ito tihe supervisHo,n of Secretary Oln-ey 'himself. Mr. RocWh&l 'as well itnaJmeid 'to both -tihe diplomatic and consular branches of the servioe. He was appointed second secretory of aegaiBJan a)t Pekiing in 18S4 and wilthdn a year becalme first secretary there. In 1886 be wiais transferred !to Korea arid for' a year was charge d'affaires ad i'nite'im at Seoul, tlhe capital. The knowledge 'he gained of (the peculiar-Miles of Uhe Asiatic races and Sits methods during his service in these countries was otf great value to tihe state department during the troublesome times of'itlhe war between China ernd Japan, imvoilvtog, as it d'M, all -three oouiratrlles, for itihe struggle reajlly bega/n liv Korea.. While In China Mr. RockhMl made a pereonjal exploraltton of tfhe distant iinterliCT of Thibet. W.hen 'Mr. Rockhill retumieid to the United States 'he was made dh'Ief cklrk of the department of sltate and wihile in that place also acted as the irepresentative of t'he department on the govennmenit board of control at the World's Fair. In 1894 he was appointed third assistant secretary

HEIRESS AND LAWYER.

Miss Pullman, the eldest daughter of George M. Pullman, the millionaire palace car magnate, has been reported engaged to numerous princes and barons, but she is soon to wed Frank 0. Lowden, a hustling young Chicago lawyer, who is poor but brainv. Milts Pullman has been liberally educated and lias traveled much. She has considerable executive business abilitv and in her disposition is said to greatly resemble her father, who has endowed her with a handsome fortune.^ Lowaen is a native of Sunrise City. Minn., and is 34 years of age. He earned his education at Iowa State University by teaching school during vacation, and by hard work has become a successful corporation lawyer.

PULLMAN.

of state, ito succeed Mr. S-trobel, who hakl been atppototed Uriiued Spates min'tettir to Ecuador, and -"has occupied the offioe unt'M th'is itime.

Workm *h.t Th«*y Are StarTinc. Anderson. Ird., Feb. 16.—A11 the •workmen on Jtfhe eaat end at t'he Ch".tagio & Souftiheaistern railway s'tl«pped worked tocfay. They say tihey are sSairved out and tell pitiful atoittes. Thiey say they have Trad no pay for five months and mencCwunts refuse to buy their dabns and give them the necesstlti'.es of life even aft 50 per cent, discount.

Vain are the attacks otf beaten competitors on Dr. Pace's Baking Powder.

The Rev. Jrfhn A. Sanger, a Pennsylvania minister, who had been conducting a series of revivals, was taken in. His young wife continued conducting tihe meetings. She preached admirable sermons and, being both youn-g and pretty, people otf t'he 'town flocked t)o the phumta in gramtt mumbtrt,

WARTON ANty PRINCET FRED.

The Lsm»i'« Metrical Cut ud Shym•tes^ Bratal CandidneM.

Warton of oourse Is not a man to be despised, bat bis krareatesblp Is only an amoslng episode at the end of hla career. His real work was historical and critical, and had nothing io do with the annual turning oat of mecbanic&l odes. Bat there Is some entertainment about Laureate Warton. To begin with, Warton had been doing the jobs at the office long before he kctually. poe«essed It When George El's foolish) son, the Prlpoe of Wales, died in. 175),, Warton broke oat Into metrical cant abonti a nation's tears, the faot being that the -nation did not shed or affect to shed the in oat perfunctory tear on this particular occasion. There was a rhymeter who knew far better what the nation thought.

Here lies Prince Fred, Who was alive and is death' Had it been his father, I bad mnoh rather Had it been his brother. Sooner th^n any other Bad it been his sister. There's no one would hare missed her Bad it been the whole generation. Best of all for the nation But, slnoe it's only Fred, There's no more to be said. The writer of these lines never became poet lanreato.

Warton, however, did, and ho is ready to afford us another few minutes' diversion. "The Rolliad" is not mnoh remembered now, and it hardly has much olaim on remembrance. Bat more than 100 years ago, whon Whitehead died, it gained for itsolf a very fair share of popularity. Its authors prodnoed a series of mock odes, supposed to be written by possible candidates for the laureateship. They thus prefaced their work: "In order to administer strict and impartial justico to the numerous candidates for the vacant poet lauroateship, many of whom are of illustrious birth and high character, notice is hereby given that tho same form will be attended to in reoeiving tho names of the said candidates whioh is invariably observed in registering the oourt dancers. Each candidate is expected to deliver in a probationary birthday ode, with his name, and also personally to appear on a future day to recite the same before such literary judges as the lord chamberlain in his wisdom may appoint. "—Temple Bar.

DANGEROUS LIGHTS.

Oculists Protest Against the Cto of Electricity With Plain Globes. An English paper states that London ooulists are up in arms against the very serious dangor to the community caused by the eleotric light. Several ominent oye doctors are agreed on tho point that unless a stop is put. to the exposure of uncovered cloctrio lights in the streets, and in shops and offices, nearly all the population will booomo blind. Experts aro so greatly exeroised in the matter that they even suggest that parliament should take it up and prohibit the use of plain glass globes for electrio light unless they are properly shaded.

Commenting on this, a London electrical journal 6ays: "It is not customary to look at the sun, and not even tho most enthusiastic electrioian would suggest that naked arcs and incandescent fllamenos were objects to be gazed at without limit. But naked arc lights are not usually $ls*oed so as to corao within tho line of "Sight, &'<S when thoy Jo so accidentally, whatevst may rosult, the injury to tho eye is quite perceptible. Tho filament of a glow lamo, on the other hand, is more likely to meat tho eye, but a frosted bulb is an extremely 6implo and common way of entirely getting over that difficulty. The wholo trouble can easily be remedied by tho use of properly frosted or colored glass globes. In any case, howovcr, tho actual permanent injury to tho eye by tho glowing filament is no greater than due to an ordinary gas flame."

Women and Their Ixjvers.

It is easy enough to tell a man by his friends, but it is impossible to toll a woman by hor lovers. One reason for this is that a man usually shorffe himself to his fellows as he is, but it is imposslblo for his fellows to know how he shows himself to a woman, so long as he is in love with her. In that blissful condition the rude, offhand man of business becomes to his mistress a picture of clumsy courtosy. The ooward is oapable of feats of valor from which a French cuirassier would Bhrink the mean tradesmanly person will stop before the shops of jewelers, hesitate and at last enter tho rake will honestly regret tho hearts he believes that ho has broken, and, for the moment, steadfastly purpose to lead a now life. But if these men find favor in tho eyes of their resp otive women it is not for their pretty manners, nor their courage, nor their generosity, nor their pure Handedness. Tho women are not rcpoilod by their vioes that is all. Thoy are not attracted by their lately assumed virtues. V.'hy should they be? They are not courageous, nor generous, nor cspocially pure minded themselves, and, as for their protty manners, perhaps their maids or their ohildren could toll you something about thoso that would astonish you not a little.—London Realm.

Facts About Lead Pencils.

Herr Ernst Faber, a son of .Tohann Faber, dollvered before the Poly toohnio society of Berlin a locturo on the history of load pencils. How old tho lead poncil is nobody knows exactly, but graphite, out of which tho pencils aro fabricated, was not used for drawing in Albert Durcr's time, so that tho pencils most have como into voguo subsequent to his period. Tho Cumberland deposits wore discovered in the sixteenth century and carefully watched by soldiers lost tho precious material should bo stoicn. A century later tho first German pencil maker commenced businoss in Nuremberg. Ho thus founded what grew to be a most important industry. At present graphite is mainly dorlvcd from the mliios of Bohemia. But it can easily be made in the electrio furnace from ooke, and it is a by product in tho manufacture of certain classes of iron. It is not Improbable that ore long those districts which supply the world with iron will also supply it with pencils.—Pall Mafl Gazetto.

Is There Water In the Son? Professor Jansson, the astronomer, has recently made a visit to the observatory on the summit of Mont Blanc, to make Euro that tho new telescope which has been carried there is uninjured. He took tho opportunity to search in the spectrum of the sun for evidences of water in our great luminary. He found no such evidences. The very rare and dry air through which the observation was made, at the top of the mountain, gives this negative result mnoh value. But it cannot be said that there is no water in the son only that none has yet been discovered in its constitution.

AlKlUg Too Alnch.

"I admit," she said, "that women look like perfoot frights in bloomers, and I can't understand it. If you'd only tell me how to avoid it, I'd be only too glad to"— "Loosen your belt," interrupted her brother. "WhatI Why no one would know what a little bit of a waist I bad if I did that." "Can't help it. That'B the only way." "Well, I won't do it. I don't want to bo

a man bad »nough for ail that.''—Chicago Post.

Military authorities estimate that in times of public danger wo could put into the field a force of 2,500,COO or 8,000,000

PUNCH"HFJUBYT"*

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I *T—HA Jwoo Hi*Pl||«dthefifoSUsT*»] I lore tb* Pvtaee of Wai«a Wh*n Boy ead'AJso-BeflDra Hte Child***

Who,ha# »c* wBst«l a pleasant haU bgmi watohing.the antk»-tf- jPc&cb, 'even When wedaghfc'iiiliW* biMn Stt tfitsw Important Dirtiness? 1 once retnein her seeing the late ^rime minister Ungating on the edge of crowd In JEferUtawaiSi. street while the ia»-i mortal fimma was being endui

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pile glimpses of the moon." It wag aj night on WuSch fthero was an lmpartretf debate, in which the Grand Old Man livered a tolling speech, rjad who ksovrg but made his points the better for aha few minutes he allowed his mind to be re-* iaxed by watching the exploits of the grand, oM hero of the ouxbstone play that ha* run a greater number of nights than evca ••Hamlet" or any of Ifce other famoua plays tbat continue to bold our stagef

We are never tired of It no nee is ever tired of it. We have all watched It as chil-, idren, and when wo grow old, we like it well as ever. But whereas it was in former days on the village green that we witnessed it, or in tho convenient by street,wo may soe it now in tho dining room, or,l if it be summer tftne, on the lawn. Fer4 jmerly it was thought only fit for the "rude paeohanioals" of tbo village street or the* market place it is now the fashion for so-! oiety to indulge in it, and foi royalty evoa* to look upon it with pleasure, so good Is' it for every one to get a touoh every now", and again of rndo, unsophisticated nature., 'And Punch ana Judy is rude, and for th« imost part very unsophisticated. We are,: however, softening down even this specie men of "good old" aboriginal humor, and! now it more frequently closes with a "nigger" 6ong or something of that nature,! than, as formerly, with the death of the' father of evil.

As regards tho origin and history of Punch and Judy, there is as muoh dispute among authorities as touohlng the births place of Homer. But on one point there appears to bo little, if any, doubt, ana that is that the comedy camo to us from Italy, where it was popular in the middlo ages, as Punchinello (contracted With us to simple Punoh). Tho original characters wore: Punch, his wife Judy, the baby, Toby, the dog, Scaramouch, transmogrified later into the elewn, a courtier, a doctor, constablo, the hangman, etc. In short, the four chief characters wero always the samo the ethers change somowhat according to localities, national requirements, eto.

Mr. Punch is well known nearly all over Europe, as well as wherever tho English tongue is spoken. Toby always has the distinction of being performed by a living individual, if ouo may speak of a humble mepiber of the canine family as an Individual. It is popularly thought that a dog of breed only can bo trained to tako tho part of Toby. This is a mistake, as I was informed by Mr. Jesson, whoin wo may designate tho "Short." of tbo firm which "runs" the Royal Punch and Judy, hia son taking the part of Codlin. The part is always taken by a mongrel nothing else in the canine lino will stand tho training. Tho Toby of tho present Royal Punch and Judy is 11 years old, and ho has taken tho part sinco he was a few months old. His father was years old when ho was born, and he, too, had been In tho profession—on the stage, so to speak —sinco ho was a puppy.

Mr. Jesson "shook tho dolls" before the Princo of Wales and his brothers and sistors when they were little children, and ho remembers his royal highness laughing till tho tears ran down his faco whon Punoh rolled the baby about as though ho, were making a roily poly pudding of it, ia' ordor, as he said, "to soothe it to sleep." The others were amused, but none laughed liko the Princo of Wales.

Says Mr. Jesson, with pride, "I've played beforo tho princo's children, too, and they wero just as pleased as their father: Used to be." Ho adds, "I've played ab Windsor, at Marlborough House, at Buckingham palace, at Osborne, at Frogmore and at Sandringham."

It should perhaps be said here, lest too many of thoso in search of a profession should rush in, tbat to bo a Punch and Judy showman is not so easy as might at first eight appear. Apart from tho fact that there is a good doal of dialogue to commit to merapry, and that, in our days, novelties must Do introduced from timo to time, tho ono who aspires to poviwm with tho dolls must bo vory ready wicted, quick to got up fresh "patter," good at repartoe, and if not a Sims Reeves, at least distinctly "Sims Reevsy" at a song. Then ha must be something of a mechanical genius into the bargain.

Listeu to Mr. Jesson: "I mr.ko everything connected with the show myself. I make the frame aud tho hangings, paint tho scenery and tho drop scene in front,.dw 'tbo carving abovo tho stage, carvo the jheads of the dolls and cut out and sow their clothes. In fact, tboro is nothing about tho show I don't mako myself—and my son can do it all too. That gives us plenty of work to do at home, when w» aro not otherwise engaged. Tho dolls, you eee, get so much knocking about that they only last about six months."

In addition to all this hard work there is another consideration wliioh should bo taken into account by those wishing to enter the profession. It is tbo danger attached to tho oalling. Tho porformor with the dolls cannot do it without the squeaker— and he may swallow it. And every ono who has committed such au error has died after it.

The present palmy days for Punch, according to Mr. Jesson, dato from about S3 years ago. "Pooplothen began to write about the 6how," said be, "and that led to its becoming inoro popular and Iheu being taken up by tho rich, and," added be, "its popularity grows year by year.

Speaking.of tho music of tho show, every lover of Punch and Judy must hold ithat the introduction of the duloinior and the other like fantastio instrument?, in place of tho Pandean pipes and tho drum, Is of tho naturo of an impertinence, ana ought not to bo tolerated. But this a* well as other matters connected [Punch and Jtidy will, I understand, be seen to shortly as, following in the waks of the Browning, the Goethe, the Ancient 'Monuments and other similar eooietle#, 'there is to be a Punch and Judy or, at least, so it is whispered.—Strand ^Magazine.

Not So Terrible.

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four hours every night? That is bad. jl shall have to treat you for chronic insomnia. I Caller (whoso salary Is 111" week) 1—no, doctor I dun'.t think it's a? bad that. I simply oan't sleep.—Chicago iribtmo.

Users of Dr. Price's Blaklng Powder always trilcethe keynote success.

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Tho new fctw. firm of Walktr Miuer succeeds to the legal-busb.w® of R«J Walker only. In all oth*r tha •biwlness and firm rerna.n s.

real estate, house rri«!. =. loan business be:nff r-«l Koyso & Walker, ft* here.

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