Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 February 1896 — Page 2

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.IMMI-I!IA. .S. f- M I '11 I. Publishers ar.d Prop a ors fly::outh. - rrj'::i.. MEKCIIAYi'S TO MOVE.

WOES OF THE DIG CHICAGO RETAILERS. Cicely Landlords Ir i ve Them Out of DiisIiies-Si!viT ISoiul Kill i'.ivorcd by the Sfii;itt- - liii: Philadelphia lilazc-uicido of a IJauk Cashier. Futtii ly Kent. Men-bants on Sijiu stred. t'liicago, say they have grown tired of giving their entire profits ! their landlords, and a movement is now ti t'iM.i for a general exodus froiu that throu'lifare. Wabash avenue will jiruli; most by tie move, if it should be made, :inl 1 -a rborn ami Clark streets, Michigan avenue, ami east and west stnt't!. will also ion.' in 1"t a share of the retail trade should it leave State street. M..re il-an 2ii feet of fn.ntace in State street which was occupied Friday by retail stores was vaeant Saturday. There are at least a do .en important retail stores, the leases of which expire on May 1 or before, which may be moved from State .irn !. Then are some others w!ii-li will j:iov- from .:; part of the ptr- t to :ii!o' leaving vacant property which !..js n-üt.il 1'i-r larg- sums in the past. Hi nts Ii;im- been as high as 1,0'0 pt-r front foot per annum. Senate Pusses Silver Hill. The contest vT t!:e silver boinl bill is at an eml in ihe Senate, that bo.ly having passe! the Ire- silver coinage substitute to the Hoiie b'.M Saturday ly the decisive vote of 42 to :;.". a majority of seven for free silver. Tin bill ;is a substitute f..r the l!oue bond bill ami provides tliat fro:n tlio date of the a et the mints of the United Stales shall be op-n to the coinage of silver and the dollar shall be the present weight and fineness, and als. provides for the certificates. It further provides for the coinage of the soignioriorage now in the treasury and authorizes immediate issue of certiliMics uHu the same in advam-e of it being eoined. Oil' seel inn of the bill proTides that ho bank note of less than $10 shall hereafter be i.ssued. a ml those outStanding of less amount shall be taken up und canceled as rapidly as possible. Siction four provides that the greenbacks and treasury notes shall be redeemed i;i standard silver dollars or in gold eoin ftt the option of the treasury, and the jrreei'baeks, when so redeemed, shall be im media tel v reissued. Suicide Causes a Hank to Close. Ca.-hier Ceorge Barnard, of the Fort Stanwix National Hank. Koine, N. Y. lias killed himself, and ihe bank is closed, pending an examination of its affairs, ordered by the Hoard of Directors. Mr. Hainan! has been missing front his home nee Wednesday. n that day the tidier sf the bank. I'atrie, went into the private otliee of tie- cashier and said to him: "Mr. Harnard. I see the bank examiner, Mr. Van Y ranken, is at the runners' National H;::ik. and I suppose he will lv. here iü a day or s,." Mr. Harnard immediately left his desk, walked out of the Link. Süd up to the fourth story of the building, lie w ent in; a st.ui room, it now appears. And tving a io;e i the door knob, fasten ed th. oth end around his nock, ami indications are that he then pressed his knees against the i!...r and died by fc;ra;e'!;aii n. Hef-ov -oininit t i:ig the act L' loekeij the door. Iun K: Co.' Review. R. C Dun S, C... Weekly Review of Trade says: "Though business is still waiting, there are some signs of detinife improvement. It is now believed that the first payment for bonds will cause no further pressure, and the money markets are easier as respeeis loans on collateral, though the ditlieulty of making comnier--ia! loans still checks operations, but large maturities at the end of January were met iiior' satisfactorily than was expi-ded. and merchants and bankers report that the signs promise a pood spring trade. .No increase appears as yet in the demand for th" principal products, except iron and steel, and uncertainty as to congressional action still affects both industries and commerce, but the increase in inquiry and the reports of dealers are deemed assurance of large trade coming whenever the uncertainty is over." Laid 'Wurtte by Kire. Property with an estimated value of $2.KK,0U was burned early Sunday morning at Philadelphia. The big sevenstory building of Charles II. Ilaseltine, Nos. lilt; and Ills Chestnut, street, and the adjoining live-st.,ry structure of the 3:i prist Publication Society and the American Haptist Historical Society. No. 14ÜO. were destroyed. The buildings damaged by tire and water and falling walls Were the four-story dry goods house of Homer, l.e l:.,n!ilivr Co.. Nos. UlL anl Hit. ti:" dwelling house at ir"J, owmd by the Wistar estate, and the Hotel Lafayette, at Hroad and Sansoui Streets. BREVITIES, Clarniee Murphy, alias C. l Clark, was arrested at San Francisco. He is wanted at Sab in. .Mass., for the alleged eriibez.Ieiiien t of iti.oNi two years ago from the Salem Savings Hank. He was taken to the detectives room in the city hall to be questioned, and while there succeeded in making his escape. He was purhued by policemen, fired at and finally recaptured. The old American miser who died in Paris recently, it now appears, was named Peters. Mr. Peters deprived himself even of the iH'cessar ios of life and only spent a frane and a half eentsi daily on his meals. He is supposed to have been interested in a large concern in America ami to ha v received from it checks for his portion of the proiits. The Covernor of Kansas, called a meeting of the State Hoard of Railroad Commissioners and urged tin imjiortaucc of Borne action looking to the restoration of grain rates recently advanced and greatly .meeting all shipments to Calveston and the South. The I lovcricr urged that the Kansas !nard act iu concert with the railroad boards of Texas and Nebraska. The New York Stock I'xchange governors have notified Pd ward I,. Norton, of the exchange, that he must dissolve his business relations with L. C. Hriggs t;nd Asa P. Potter, two of his partners in tle l;n of Allen Co.

EASTERN. It. II. Pingree & Co., lumber dealers at Lewiston, Me., lost S'JuO.UOO by lire. According to a New York rumor. Yvette Guilbert is to marry Teddy Marks, her manager. Wvrd was received at Wilkeabarre, Pa., from PittsfieM .Junction that a terrific explosion ui curted iu the Twin shaft Wednesday. Pour miners are reported killed and a number injured. Prominent residents of Hopewell, N. J., have organized the James W. Marshall National Monument Association of New Jersey, to erect a monument to the memory of .lames V. Marshall, wlu tirt discovered gold in California on .Inn. ''!, IMS. Marshall was brn near (Jlenmore, in Mercer County, w here it is proposed to erect the monument. An appeal for subscriptions will be made to California pioneers throughout the country. Carleton Haldwin. a yuurg farmer, living near Union City, Pa., met with his death in a peculiar manner. Haldwin had a high and uncontrollable temper, and while hitching up his horses had trouble with one of thcro. He rushed into the house for his gu i a:nl shot one of the horses and then it is supposed, accidentally discharged the weapon while beating the dying animal over the head with the butt of the gun. The butt of the gun was In nt and badly broken. The National Woman's Suifrage Association has elected these ollicets: Honorary president, I'ii.abeth Cady Stanton; president. Susan H. Anthony. Kochester. N. Y.: vice-president at large, Hev. Anna II. Shaw. Philadelphia. Pa.: corresponding secretary. liai hel Poster Avery, Philadelphia. Pa.: ti rding secretary. Alice Stone niackwel!. Hoston. Mass.; treasurer. Harriet Taylor Upton. Warren. Ohio; chairman committee on organization. Carrie Chapman, Catt. New York city. Five persons were killed and nearly a score injured, some of them fatally, by the explosion of the large t hirty-nine-inch cylinder boiler at the works of the Il-dli-daysburg. Pa., iron and Nail Company Thursday morning. Only two employes escaped uninjured. The boiler was blown through the roof of the works. .",iH feet in midair, and came sailing d.nvn like a spent rocket, crushing through the roof in another department of the works. The entire roof was precipitated to the tloor below by the force of the explosion and the works were practically wrecked. The explosion was sullicient to rock tlu -earth with the force of an earthquake and broke hundreds of windows a quarter of a mile from the mill. No explanation is offered as to the cause of the explosion. Some of the employes say they were short of steam before the accident occurred.

WESTERN. James Cillespie was run over by a Panhandle train at KIwood, Ind., and instantly killed. Ex.-President Ceorge P. Magoun, of Iowa College, is very ill at his home in Grinnell, Iowa, and is not expected to live. Hi? was the first president of Iowa College and served for twenty years. He is a member of the American board, an I is well known in religious and college circles Fast and West. Gov. Uich pardoned Hartholoiaew Sands, one of the oldest convicts in the prison at Jackson. Mich. lie was convicted in the Circuit Court from Oakland County of criminal assault and sentenced Sept. INS, to life imprisonment, lie lias always maintained he was innocent of the charge. At Colville, Wash.. Judge Arthur sentenced Adolph Niese and his wife to twenty years iu the penitentiary for. beating their ! year-old son to death. Shortly after the prisoners were placed in their cells both cut their throats with a razor. Niese is dead ami his wife is in a critical condition. At the coroner's inquest on the bodies of Engineer (.'lark Trimble and Foreman George Waters, who were killed by the recent explosion of a locomotive boiler near South Charleston. Ohio, on the Pennsylvania Kailroad. it was conclusively shown that the explosion was -a used by their own neglect in letting the water in the boiler get too low. St. Paul's chances for entertaining the veterans of the Grand Army of the liepublic Jiext September received a setback Tuesday by the action of the Western Passenger Association, and as a result of the arbitrary stand taken by that railroad octopus, the national encampment of 1S1HI may have to Im abandoned entirely. The association insists upon a seven-day limit to all tickets. In the trial at Wichita, Kau., of F. M. Williamson, charged with murdering Henry II. Leonard to secure the hitter's life insurance, Michael Jordan, an old soldier, swore that Williamson approached him last October, a month before the crime was committed, and suggested that he knew where could easily be made. Williamson told him that he knew of a woman who held n $Ö,(XM) insurance policy on the life of Leonard, and that she would give $."m of the insurance to a man that would kill him. Williamson told Jordan all the details of the scheme, and Jordan repeated them in court. The theory of the Slate has always been that Williamson consented to a divorce from his wife that she might marry Leonard, tinder agreement that they would afterward kill Leonard to get the insurance on his life. Two impecunious young men, said to be from New England and giving the names of Mason M. Totten and C. T. Holliday, have been arrested at Kansas City by postollice inspectors from Denver and St. Louis. The prisoners are accused of having used the United States mails in swindling several mining stock brokers of Denver. Their plan, operating from Kansas City, was to send urgent requests by mail for certain mining stocks, inclosing checks on Kansas City banks covering the market value of the shares asked for. Neither of the men had u cent In bank. In this manner they secured 20.(XX) shares of stock from two Denver brokers iu exchange for worthless ehecks for $3.k. The stocks have all been recovered. The swindlers were preparing to visit Chicago, where they hoHil to sell their shares on the mining exchange. There has been a good deal of newspaper talk lately about fusion between the Democrats and Populists in Kansas this year, with George W. Glick as the candidate for Governor. While such a combination is possible, it is not probable, says a .Topeka dispatch. Many of the Democratic leaders are opposed to any kind of a coalition with the Populists, claiming that it would result disastrously to their organization, as did the arrangement of The Populist leaders also are opposed to fusion. Those who are outspoken for fusion are Democrats and Populists who prefer anything to Republicanism. This faction is greatly in the minority, but it is growing. However, it 1 the opinion of conservative Democrat

and Populists that there will not ba aay fusion ou State o'Jieer this vear, and that there will be three straight tickets iu the Held as in ISO 4.

SOUTHERN. Iicp'iblican members of th? Kentucky Legislature have a new scheme to break the d 'adio- k and elect a United States Senator. Four Democrat!-.: members, it is said, have b-'eu f und t be ineligible because !ny 1, old ether ..daces, au i it is proposed to unseat them. At Swanse, Hi citu i' ::'y. A'a., Frank .limes, supera.'cuden! -,i tic Swanse Coal Company inim-s. sii. r ami fatally woi::: Je.i his wife, a be;;i::ii";il e!:::g woman, "J years of age. Jones was insanely jealous of his wile. lb' es.-ap'-d, armed, ami detied anyone ? . arrest h.-.u. Jones lias heretofore stood high. William Tr.u'.t, a Maysville, Ky., barber, has been fast-tig for tifty-otie days, excepr that he drank buttermilk, refusing a!! other food. He '.ns no appetite for anything else. About four years ago l.e :;.-d n food ic:t butte;-;::'.'.:; for thirty days. He it. is fallen off from 17 to l lt p .unds. lie plies h'.s trade without interruption. The new gnubo-.it H -leua. name.', after Montana's capital, was launched Thursday at Newport News, Va. The h-ui red cusf,.:u .; breaking a bottle of w im across the bows ami e!ir:se:t:ug tie vessel was performed by Miss Agn Ib-Ui Stech, daughter of Mayor S'eee, ;,f Helena. Mont., who head-- 1 a delegation of lea ling residents of that Sat". Til Helena, which is of 1 . 1 1 totis burthen, will be assigned t serie.- i:j the Chinese waters. She is desig:i d especially for river serv.ce. and is ."') fct ! ng, with a maximum beam of forty feet, but the mean draft is only nine fee;, while, the $peed is expected to !) at leas: t!i:;uv.n knots. A novel feature of the Helen i is that she has a large military mas, with tops similar to those on th big battleships. Another peculiar e.ju:p:i'e:i t is that, provision is made for carrying an unusually large force of tuen, and the ship's boats are much larger than orlinary. The new gunboat will be artn : with eight four in.-h breech-loa ling rapid-firing guns, divided between the ::pp r and gun decks. Iu addition to these there are four sixpounders and one two-pounder rapid-tire and twj Catlings. WASHINGTON. The name of Edwin F. Uh!, of Michigan, the Assistant Secretary of State, has been mentioned prominently in the Washington gossip in regard to the appointment to the Ambassadorship at Herlin. His intimate knowledge of all matters under diplomatic consideration with Germany would make his appointment eminently desirable. Judges Field, Harlan, Hrewer and Hrowu, of the Supreme Court, rendered their decision in the Northern Paeiiic receivership ease, holding all the courts along the line of the road to be ancillary to Judge JenkitM court at Milwaukee. This decision gives the Milwaukee eourt jurisdiction over the entire system in the matter of receiverships. Louis Graneilta, an artist, was found dead iu bed at Washington. He had turned on the gas before retiring and was asphyxiated. Despondency was the probable cause for the act. Grancitta had up to Saturday worked on the new congressional library building as a decorator, and was said to be an expert in his profession. He had been employed iu Chicago and California. He had traveled the world over and had exercised his talent in the principal cities. The suicide was ab-rut forty years of age and a Swiss by birth. Hev. Dr. Miibr.ru. the blind chaplain of the House, prayed eloquently for bleeding Armenia Monday. "Hear the cry of our agony," lie prayed, "in behalf of the people of Armenia, despoiled, tortured, their homes in ashes, their men and women and children slain at the edge of the sword, their women dishonored. Arouse and unite the powers of Christendom, the queen, the czar, the kaiser, kings and princes, their ministers ami people, that the sultan shall be forced tu sheathe his bloody sword ami stay the frenzied rage of hh fanatical soldiery and subjects." FOREIGN. A terrible explosion has taken place in a colliery at Tylorstowu, near Cardiff. Wales. The shafts were shattered and the whole town was shaken by the tremendous concussion, causing a scene of wild excitement. Fifty-four miners were below the surface when the explosion took place. Twelve bodies were recovered from the colliery and twelve men are still missing, ltescuo parties were hurried to the scene, but their work was very dangerous, ow :.ng to the fact that the pit is ou tire. Uncle Sam has brought the sultan to time, and there is now little likelihood that any of the American cruisers will have war practice in the Levant, with Mohammedan towns as targets. During the Armenian debate Monday iu the House, Mr. Ilitt of Illinois, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Turkish Government had admitted the justice of claims for indemnity in the Kharput and Marsh outrages, and would pay the sums demanded by Secretary OIney. These sums amounted to aliout $l20O,mt). The annual report of the Hritish Covernment Hoard of Trade on emigration for the year 1S05, compiled by Sir Kobert GifTen, shows that during the year 1S",M;i men and women left the United Kingdom to seek homes and a livelihood in other portions of the globe. Of these, IPJ.Im.'S were English, 1S.''77 Scotch and r4,4S Irish. Of the English emigrants ;i,lTr went to the United States and 14,1TG to Hritish North America. Of the Scotch. L'J,l!:il were added to the population of the United States and l,ö".' to that of Canada, while Ö2.17S Irish emigrants turned their faces toward "the land of the free and the home of the brave." and 1,1 ID sons and daughters of Erin's Isle turned toward Canada. Late advices from China tell of the uttering by Chinese forgers, on the Island of Java, of S.'I.IXXUM) of Java bank notes. Iu order to get notes accepted forged notary acceptances were placed on them. Already f00,tHM) of forged and discounted notes have been discovered, and many prominent Chinese merchant have been placed under arrest, including Captain China, one of the wealthiest Chinamen in Java. It is believed by the police that the forgeries were completed iu Siugamore. Kwee-Che-Si a native of CI ina, now a resident of Sourabaya, and a band of native etcher have been arrested. Soe ha confessed to having committed the forgeries, and Implicates many others, ullof .vhom insist they are innocent. Nearly all the leading Chinese merchants of

Java have been victimized. Soe In no'.cG for his cunning. Most of the notes made under his instruction were for l,UO0 each. Ou searching Soe's house not only were fvuuJ the forced seals of the notary, but also a number of forged bank notes of jW each which had recently been made. Soe confessed and offered to give the names of all the other culprits. One of the principals of the gang was Kong Kee, iu whose house were found engraved plates and other ton's used for the forgeries. Finished bank notes for 0'U ami some in course of being completed were aiso found. IU GENERAL The steamer J. VY. Hawkins, bound from New York to Cuba 0:1 a filibustering expedition, was abandoned at sea off Long Island Sunday night in a tcrritie gale, and of the 17ü men on board only J Hi at-.- accounted lor. Ten are known to have be.-n drowned, and it is believed tifty-three others met a like fate. A double murder was committed at lloonah. Alaska, on account of the failure f leh-Ka-lsh. a medicine man of the lloonah tribe, p tlire a young Indian. The medicine man blamed a young Indian, who immediately shot the doctor. Then the doctor's cousin shot the slayer of tho doctor. A few blankets squared the deal. A terrible fate is believed to have befallen tivc gold prospectors who left Ilermosülo. Mexico, several weeks ago for the interior of Tibitrou Island, which ii inhabited by the Seris tribe of Indians. There were six members of the exploring party originally, but one of the men returned and reports that he and hi companions came upon a village of Indians; that they were all taken captivn and preparations were begun to butcher them, w hen he succeeded in making his escape, lie believes all the other mem. hers of the party were killed and their Slesh eaten by the Indians. He says tlm Indians all wear valuable gold ornament and that there were many evidences of the existence of rich mines on the island. As a result of the developments that extensive smuggling i:i phenacetin is go. iug on at Philadelphia and other potts, under circumstances that ballle the cus. torn others, private instructions havg been issued from the Treasury Department for a more than usually rigoroiu search of passengers and crews arriving from German ports, as well as of thi vessels themselves. Information receive from abroad furnishes conclusive prool that the smuggling operations in this druj which is very expensive and upon which Jhi duties are high--have been proceeding on a gigantic scale, and that for the purpose of evading duty the manufacturer have of late been wrapping the drug it) tinfoil paper iu such a way that it can bt carried in the lining of coats or overcoats, or otherwise concealed, so that detection is made extremely difficult. As much ai fifty pounds can be concealed about a. man's person without his appearance indicating to the customs inspector that anything is wrong. The dignity of the American lcn ha been upheld. It was war between thi cold storage combine of Chicago specula tors ami the Egglayers' Union, ami tlui barnyard fowl is victor. The cold storage people, as a result of an attempt to corner the egg market, are or will bo not less than SlöD.tHXl out of pocket. Some dealers say the loss in Chicago by the drop in egg prices will reach $Ji 0J m Ml. Score one for the hen. "Cold storage" eggs are down to Ö t 7 cents a dozen and are practically unsalable at that price. Car load lots were being frantically offered Wednesday night to all points on the map at the above ridiculous prices, but the best bid received in return wen Sl.'JÖ a case of thirty dozen. Meanwhile fresh eggs started out at 1 1 to 1 cents, but offers to sell at I"'-, vnts were fairly rolling in when business closed. The news had gon- out into the country that the cold storage combine was seeking to control the Chicago markvt and apparently every hen in the entire country made it a personal matter to crush the dangerous rival. From every barnyard went up the slogan. "Honest eggs at honest prices." The tight was ou. the weather was favorable, and the battle was soon won. In Chicago the holders of cold storage eggs have on hand tH,tOO cases of eggs which cost them 14 to l." cents a dozen, including the cost of carrying them from lust spring. At this season of the year the stock should be practically exhausted, as Southern eggs begin to supply consumers. The tine weather has not only started the Southern eggs moving, but has brought out large offerings from Missouri, Kansas. Iowa. Nebraska. Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Though the "icehouse" eggs are sold by grocers all over the city as fresh, they are not to bo compared with the fresh arrivals, and cannot compete with them. MARKET F1EPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $o.."0 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades. $::.) to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $'J.."0 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. tile to tl-'c; corn. No. 2, 27c to 2Sc; oats. No. 2. lSe to ll)e; rye. No. 2. .".De to 40c; butter, choice creamery. IDc to 2c; eggs, fresh, löc to lle; lotatoes. per bushel, lSe to 2.V; broom corn, 2e to 4c per pound for poor to choice. Indianapolis -Cattle, shipping. $o.0 to $1.7.; hogs, choice light. $.".00 to i?:,...".0; sheep, common to prime. .2.m to $:i.OO: wheat. No. 2, .V to 7c; corn. No. 1 white. 2tJe to 27c; oat. No. 2 white. 22e to 2.ie. St. Louis-Catlle. $.".00 to $.".0t); hogs. $.".i0 to $!..; wheat. No. 2 red. t7e to lISc; corn. No. 2 yellow, 2.V to 20c; oats, No. 2 white, ISc to IDc; rye. No. 2, ööc to :7e. Cincinnati-Cattle, $.:...0 to $l..0; hogs, $:..00 to $4...0; sheep. $2.."i0 to $."..70; wheat. No. 2, 71c to 7:5c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 2Dc to 00c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2. 42e to -14c. Detroit Cattle, $2...U to $4.70; hogs, $::.oo to $i.:0; sheep. $2.00 to $::.ro; wheat. No. 2 red. 7lc to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 2Se to 2Dc; oats, No. 2 white, IT-V to 2:ie; rye. 41c to 42c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 nil. 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yeifow, 27c to 2Se; oats, No. 2 white. 20e to 22c; rye. No. 2, 40c to 42c; clover seed, $4.o5 to $4.4.". Milwaukee Wheat. No. 1! spring, le to C2c; com. No. 2, 2ile to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 19 1: to 21c; barley. No. 2. JKe. to Hoc; rye. No. 1, 40c to 41c; pork, mess, $10.00 to $10.50. Buffalo Cattle, $2.00 to $..20; hogs. $o00 to $4.73; sheep, $2..0 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 74e to 7e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 02c; oats. No. 2 white. 2h- to kMe. New York Cattle, SH.OO to $...20; hogs, $11.00 to $.".00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.23; wheat. No. 2 red, 7Uc to 77c; orn, No. 2, 3;.' to 37c; outs. No. 2 w hite, 21c to 26V; buttrr, creamery, lSe to 22c; egg, Wester u, ltL to 17c.

TAKES A NEW STAND.

SALISBURY NOW FAVORS MONROE DOCTRINE. First ami I'ticqiiivociil Statement ly the l'rciuict Indiana's New Apportionment la Invalid New Hilling of Great Importance to Pensioners, Salisbury's Surprisi 11 jg Speech. The hampn-t of the Nonconformist. I'nionist Association :t the Hotel Metropole. in London, i'riday night, was the occasion for an address by the Manpiis of Salisbury, Crime Minis;, r and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the course of hi- remarks he said, with reference to Venezuela: "I have been held up as the denouncer of the Monroe doctrine. As a matter of fact, although the Monroe doctrine is no part of international law, my dispatch to Mr. Ohn-y. the Secretary of State of the Cniied Stales, supported it as a rule of policy in the strongest and most distinct terms. Ilm what I stated in that dispatch 1 reiterate now, that, as a rule now of policy, we are the entire advocates of the Monroe doctrine, we mean the Monroe doctrine as President Monroe understood it. K'heers.i In that sense you will not tind any more convinced supporters than we are." Lord Salisbury then turned abruptly to the Armenian question, and lie reproached the religious communities with laboring under a mistake when they supposed that Knglnnd had bound herself in honor to succor the Armenians, which means to go to war with the sultan in order to force him to govern the Armenians well. The speaker reminded his hearers that the reforms which the saltan had recently accepted, although very good reforms, could not be expected to produce good government iu two months. Hack to the Old Law. P.y a unanimous decision of the Indiana Supreme Court that body has set aside the apportionment act of 1 N reaffirmed the decision of the same court setting aside the apportionment of is'.M, and has brought into operation the apjKrtionnient of 1SSÖ, which it declares to be the only legal act since that date. The decision is far-reaching in its effects and emanates from a body composed of both Ilepublicans and Democrats. The Democratic Legislature of 1S01. following the constitutional reiuirements to enact an apportionment law every sixth year, passed an act which was attacked by the Itepuhli.-ans and set aside by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, the latter body holding it was unfair iu its provisions because it gave greater representation to some portions of the State than to others. The Democratic Legislature of ISO."; passed another act and the Republican Legislature of lSH.r repealed it and substituted an entirely new law. This in turn was attacked by the Democrats mi the ground that it violated the provisions of the constitution in being enacted at a time before the sixth year since the apportionment of IMC! was passed. This contention was sustained by the Supreme Court, but it failed to concede the Democratic Hisition that the law of IM." was operative, holding that the same objections which obtained against the apportionment of 1S'.. existed to render void the npportienmont of two years before; that the Legislature of 1S01 was competent under the Constitution to enact an app utionuient law. but the Court having set that ad aside as unconstitutional, recourse must be had to the law of lss. to find a valid enactment. National Finances. The statement of the Covernment receipts and expenditures for. In unary show the aggregate receipts to have been approximately Sl'l'.'JoT.'lT'. and the expenditures :,.2.C.!M,.s:,o. leaving the deficit for the month about .fo. 1. "'.. Ii l. and for the seven months of the present liseal year about 1S.n.i.5.S;7. The receipts from customs during the month of January will amount to about .S10.:'.M.7l5: from internal revenue, $ll.o41.4ol. and from miscellaneous sources about $l,N10vl72. This is a decrease of about $l.ii(H.(MN in the receipts from customs as compared with January. 1M. and an increase of about $2.nU,(MM in tiie receipts from internal revenue. As compared with last month; there is an increase of over $4.(Hi0,0O0 iu the receipts from customs and a decrease of nearly .S1.7öo.mk in th rceipts from customs and a decrease of nearly $1.7."0.tHKl in the receipts from internal revenue. The pension payments last month amount to about $!.!SO.imm. a decrease from December of about Sl.öSO.diM. Time Limit for Death Proof. A measure of the greatest interest to pensioners was put through the House of Iteprcsentatives Thursday when that body adopted the report made by the Committee on Invalid Pensions. It was recommended by the committee that in all cases of pension claims the unexplained absence for seven years of the soldier would be all that was necessary to prove that he was dead. It was said this was in conformity with common law, and would answer all practical purposes and materially assist a great many applicants for pensions. I'nder the rule now iu force at the Pension P.ureau. although a soldier may not have be.-n heard from since the war closed, this cannot be considered a pro.d" of" bis death, and hundreds of cases are held up iu the Pension tMlice awaiting such proofs. NEWS NUGGETS. Herman L. Mueller, charged with embezzling SH.Ho from the Schlitz brewing Company while acting as its !ookkeeper in Kansas City, has been acquitted after a three day's trial. He was arrested last June and the ( I rand Jury later found nine true bills against him. The pap jacket of a blast furnace was blown out at the Arkansas Valley smelter at Iicadvillc, Colo. Three workmen were injured. The Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York tiled a bill in the United States Court at Chicago Thursday to foreclose a mortgage for $7.77.",tHK on the Lake Street Llevatcd I load. President Cleveland has signed the joint resolution authorizing the employment of an architect to assist the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in drawing plans for the Chicago public building. Three 1o:toii hotels refused to entertain Ilishop Arnett, of Wilberforce, Ohio, senior bishop of the African Methodist church. Harry M. Fowle. a trusted clerk of the Shepard & Morse Lumber Company, of Hoston. has been a 'Tested, charged w ith e m be . I i 1 1 g $ö M m m .

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REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceed in.; s of Senate ami House-lJills Pa-scd or Introduced in Lit her itraiieL-Oiiestimis of Moment to the Country at Larue. The LcxiJai i ve (irind. An animated debate over tit question of taking a vote on the peri ling silverbond bill closed the ..ssiu:i of th" Senate late Thursday afternoon. Mr. Stewart declared that it made n difference when a vote was taken, or whether any was taken. It was all '"lifss parade" and "buncombe." lie added the significant statement that the pending silver amendment wo':!d be genuine as an amendment to the tariff bi!i. and that when the latter measure ca.nie before th .Senate he would offer a silver amendment to lest the Senator? their choice be tween, tariff and silver. The Senate went into executive session and then took a rcess without any exact understanding as to the time of taking the vote. The attendance in the House was slim. Th report of the Flections t 'ommil tee in favor of the siiting member. D. F. Culberson, from the f.ontii Texas district, and against T. H. Davis, was adopted w ithout division. On motion f Mr. Doolittle iljep., asli. 1 a resolution was adopted requesting the President to transmit to Congress the report of the Hoard of Hngineers on the Nicaraguaa canal. The bill to amend the dependent pensions a t of ls.i so that in considering widows' claims seven years of unexplained absence should be deemed sufficient proof of the death of the soldier, was passed. The speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Wellington (Rep.. Mo. on the Committee on Labor, an 1 Mr. F.elknap Kp., 111. ..n Kailwavs an 1 Canals. The Senate I'riday spent :iiot :" thj time sparring over the free coinage measure. The 1 louse conti nt-d itself to routine business. Most of the session w as devoted to the District of Columbia appropriation bill. The regular attempt was made to have all the expenses of the District government paid by the District, but the notion made by Mr. De rniond Dem., Mo.) to etl'ect this was ruled out on a point of order. The District bill carries Ü?r,417,t0, .:.'t.42:; less than the sum appropriated for the current tiscal year. How He Sclicdulcil. A Detroit jobber last week got an order from a small interior town, an-1 replied that, as the customer was unknown to Iii 111. a check would be necessary before be sent the goods. Th check came ami the jrooils were shipped. The jobber also sent a blank form for a rating, so that in case of future orders he would have something to go by, as the customer's commercial rating could not be learned through the regular channels of information. The blank has been iitunK-l. tilled out as follows: t. What amount of stock do you carry? A. All we can get trusted for. Q. What is due en your books and accounts? All we want these times. (. What value have yo.i in real estate? A. Less than three years ago oa some property. O. What do you owe on book accounts? A. All bills that are due. O. What do you owe 0:1 notes? A. All notes that are not outlawed. . What other debts are you owing? A. C rat it tide to the Lord. . Is any of above owing to relatives? A. One-seventh goes to the Lord. (. Is there a chattel mortgage against your stock? A. Not that we know of. . For what amount are you insured? A. All we can afford to pay ". iter cent, for. Name references. A. St. IVter. Shot by Iiis Dog;. Louis Lezotte was shot by his own dog while squirrel hunting in the woods near Rehobeth, Mass. He had a double-barreled pun with him. and sighting a squirrel high up in an oak. lezotte let go one band, badly wounding the squirrel. Standing the gun against the tree Lezotte began to climb to secure his quarry. The dog. which from the time of the discharge of the gun had been miming excitedly around the tree, began to jump against the truuk as if trying to follow his master. His paw struck the trigger of the unloaded barrel, seuding a charge of shot up past LozottoY, sidand lodging in the muscles of the right arm near the shoulder. Lezotte fell, but managed to make his way to a doctor in Rehobeth, who sent for an ambulance to take the wounded man to the Rhode Island Hospital. What Did He Moan? Two young gentlemen met in one of the Pittsburg parks, according to the Chronicle-Telegraph. One of them was wheeling bis lirst-born son. "All, good morning, Mr. HelleHel, said the proud father. "Now, isn't that a pretty baby?" "It is. indeed." said Mr. Hcllelicld. "I have never seen your wife, but I fancy the child must take after its mother." Out of His Line. The Hoston Transcript reports that two gentlemen fell into a talk about books. "What do you think of the 'Origin of Species?'" asked one man. "I have never read it." was the other's reply. "In fact." he added. "I am not Interested iu financial subjects." In 1S1H) the United States produced $32,S4o,000 bf gold. Of this total a little over two -fifths came from California, which is still the principal goldproducing State. At Algona. Kossuth County. Iowa, there Is a "roaring" well, forty live feet deep, which lias boiling hot water at the bottom of it. The teeth o tNli. like teeth of most animals, are not fastened to the bone, but are held in sockets.