Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 February 1896 — Page 2

tCI?e3nbcpcnbcnt Z1MM HKMAA V SMITH, Publishers and Prop -ietors

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. MANAGUA CAPTURED. CUBAN INSURGENTS CAPTURE A BIG TOWN. Only Twelve Miles Distant from Havana-New Witness In the Hrjun Case New York Crusade Against Intoxicating Confectionery. InBurscntH Win a Nattlc. The town C Managua, four leagues from Havana. w.ts again attacked by tue insurgents Saturday afternoon and captured after a light lasting forty minutes. The Spanish regulars, fortifying themselves' in the churrli, held out an hour longer. The Spanish volunte er garrison, however, went over to the insurgents at the beginning of the attack ami to a man joined the invaders, with all the arms and ammunition at their disposal. The Cuban foreo was led by Col. Castillo, of Comez's advance, who, after taking the church by Htorm. disarmed :ind then paroled its defenders. Castillo was slightly wounded during the light. .Managua is an important mountain rcsorl. frequented ly rieh ci'izcns of Havana, and is connected by a carriage road with Havana. Tlie news from Managua ereat -l eKeifuient in Havana military and high otlicial circles, and tro.nw wen started out to eheek the new Mid unexpected rebel advance upon the cap:' a I. No Hrandj Drops and Winks. The police department of New York has begun a crusade against the sale of "brandy drops." "winks" and the various other kinds of eandy containing nlcoholh liquor. .Mrs. 11 Fram es Lord, president of the New York Count y Woman's Tem-iM'i-anee I'nioii. w rule a brief letter to the Po!ie li,.ard some time ago complaining that thi.J sort if eandy was being sold to school t hoMron all over the -it y. Chief of lVliee Conlin sent his e'dieeis out and had them purchase large quantities of the "brandy drops" and "winks." which he employed his leisure h ur in testing. His decision was tl:at the selling of alcoholic candy was as wrong as the selling of alcoholic liqr.ors without a license, and lie Kaid he would see that his orders were promptly carried out. and that all wh failed to respect iln-iii w.e.ilJ be severely punished. l-'jistens the Crime. Tli' strongest link in the ehnin of evidence against the two murderers of lVarl Hryan made its appearance Saturday afternoon at Cincinnati. A reputable witness has bet-n found who weiit with the party to where the murder was committed, and in the jail he positively identified AYalling as the man who sat on the cab seat with him and directed him where to drive. He also picked out daekson from among thirty other prisoners as tin malt who was in the ab wirii 1 ail Hryan on the fatal drive. At midnight otlieers accompanied the colored man to the woods where he sa s, the murder was committed, in orr io discover any traces of the crime that may have I ein left. Ceorgo II. .laeksui). private .-aehnian for .Major Widdilie-d, Mount Auburn, revealed the fctory. Murder Prompte! by Jealousy. IJeorge .Tones, of Centerville. Ia.. shot ami killed Iiis sweetheart. Leah Martin, her mother. Mrs. W. .1. Martin, and then put a bullet into his own head. .Tones was .f a good family and the Martius are also highly respected people. The seei.e in the house indicated that Jones li.nl gone there itnd had a quarrel with the girl and that the mother interfered between them; that Jones sind the mother first aud then the daughter. BREVITIES. Mrs. Kliza .T. Nicholson, proprietress of the New Orleans, .a.. I'icayuiie. died Saturday morning. She was suffering from the grip when her luphand died, and the event so shat tcrcd lo r system that the disease developed into congestion of the lung's. Sarpy County olh.ials arrived in Omaha with warrants to arrest all Fnited States soldier engag 1 in a prize light in that county on Sunday. Over 1H of the privates at Fort Omaha are said to have witnessed the light between two Soldiers, who, it is alleged, f.i ght for a purse put li hy oili -ers who were present. The fort commander denies that any oilicers were present. Frank .1. Miller, a butler in the employ f .!. L. Franklin, of San I'm ncico. Cab. hhut and Killed John Anderson, a burglar, and w;H himself s!..t through the neck and dangerously wounded. The dead thief was a sailor with a criminal record. A year ago an attempt was maile to rob Hie Franklin residence. Miller kept the hurglars out of fnc louse, though friglitfully Ireaten by them. A sensation was created at Springfield. O.. by a disjiatch from Loonardsharg, Delaware County, to the effect that Mrs. C. M. Powell, formerly a biarding house keeper at Springfield, had been arrested Ihere. She is charged with poisoning T. S. Maloney's two children, who died: his wife, who recovered, and also Prof. Van Sickle, who died in Mr. Powell's house last Ileceinher and was buried at Caliiiolis. Mr. Maloney makes the charges. Henry Vine, a tinsmith at Omaha, wrote Henry Segal at Ladd. 111., announcing that he inteiitV-d to commit suieidi Fob. 10. Segal sent the letter to the po lice, who found Vine and took him before llie captain. Vine s;.id he had written tin btter and had nothing to retrn-d. If he wanted to commit suicide he (vouhl do so regardless of the polb r. He is tough mau. His landlady says Vine had been m ry despondent, owing to sickness ami want of employment. The Hutchinson. Kan.. Hardware Com pany, one of the largest concerns of its kind in Central Kansas; was closed by mortgage, .lohn W. Woods, its manager. Avas connected wiih the Valley Stab Hank, which recently failed and the hit ler is supposed t,, have involved the hard ware company. Liabilities, JSUl.CXJO; as wis. .$10,1 XX. The Kxehange 1'ank of David Wilson Ac Ce. assigned at ITemingsburg, Ky.. lt. K. Hart and Kobert Sourlej-. The estimated liabilities are .7Mk;u. with as ets of over 1K).ix The bank will envre than pay out.

EVENING AND NIGHT

The air is very still. On yonder wooded hill; The old day slowly dies Iii Paradise. What colors manifold! lied molten with the gold. Islands of amethyst. In lakes of j,;'.ure mist. The hour whispers peace. The tired reapers cease. And rudely sweet ami strong lliseth the harvest song. The evening star above Kindles her lamp of love. And lends her light to bless Their song of thankfulness. And from the utmost rim ( )f the horizon dim. The harvest moon comes sweet Over the sheaved wheat. Her chaste and holy light. The stilly hush of night, The incense in the air. Proclaims (bid's presence here. Still is the starry I'ast. Sleeps every bird and beast, Still is the faded West, liest, gleaner, rest. -Pall Mall budget. STORY OF A GOLDMINE Stories of gold strikes at Cripple Creek have revived those ancient lepeiids of accidental mineral tiuds which lend such a glamour to the avocation of the prospector. If one can find an old miner with an unoccupied half an hour lies rare and picturesque and sufficient in number to freight a train can be had for the asking. Colonel Thomas .1 offerson Maloney. now an operator in Cripple's properties, has been through all the lliuh times Colorado has known. and has likewise tightened his belt for lack of a more satisfactory dinner in those times when Colorado was not o Hush. "There li.iv' been so such strikes in tin last five or six ye n s." said Cdomd Malotuy, "as we used to have in the good olddays w lii'ti old man Tabor jrruhstaked the two (Jerman shoemakers. Hook and UK-he. and went to sle'p in his clothes two nights afterward a millionaire owner if tin' Little Pittsburg. It was hard petting; him to hod, too. I think be would have be;i celebratinjr the strike yet if the boys hadn't chloroformed him. Now when a man makes a find he gios ainl covers it up until h can Von' his neighbors ut of their claims. In the otluT lays I speak if a man who struck it rich w'iu ut m the causeway and proclaimed his great luck. He sp'Ut all Ids money in adding; to the gemnal joyusn'ss of tin camp and mad- no Muff at work until his nutans for inducing eclcbrathm were wholly exhausp 1. "Yarly all the bonanza strikes have been made by avilent. There was Atlanis famous link ovt in the Sandia rang'. Adams said h' was a h'scondant of the family that hal so many Pnsich nt..; and signers if the declaration in it. I always s!t him down for a liar he came from FIgin, 111. He was invariably making this declaration of ludepen lence play w hen lr. should have been doing; asst'ssnu-nt wrk. This man's natu' was John Quincy Adams same as tin last ProshhMit of tin name ami lie n'ver let you po to sh-ep In ignorance of tin fact. Why Providence should pick out such a man to shower favors on I never cotihl imaplne. It was bis Miotic catvlossmss that made him a plutocrat. Any man with a morsel of sense would nevr have got rich as be IM. He was always prspectinp around in the most unpromising: spots. II' packed a jack-load f plunder with him, pans and picks and shovels and povlei besides his grub. One day he wasproji'ctingaround tin Sandia hills, thinkinp he was lookinp for float ami letting ids bart swdl with family pride. lie had his haversack slunp over bis sbouMer, and among other truck in it w'iv tn or twelve cart rilg's for Mastinp. His inapnifyinp plass lay at th' top of the bag. Adams sat low n apainst a rock to rest, and the plass focused the sun so it set lir to the anvas ba. Attains said subse(ptciitly he tiiad' the ijtiickesl play of bis life in getting from untler that haversack strap. He hit nie ridge and landed forty rnls away behind another I (orr.b m:k his ( Axni.t: fi.ickki:.'' ro'k. II bad just ra-hel eover. and binp! off went his blastinp pvdT. Adsiins went back tut if the idlest ciirhisity to so what kind of a hoi,, it had made. He found the rock he bad leaned against scattered at larg' ovr tin fa oo of the earth. The haversack had fallen into a sort of crevi at the foot and the explosion had lifted everythinp into the air. Aiming other things it had ojM'm'd a vein -of fm milling ore running to the ton. That man Adams sohl a tenth Interest for .;,nh. It was worth ten times as nitu li, but he Heeded money for development. He made more than a million, and they Are workinp on the vein yet. Adams Is blooding it back in Massachusetts. He boupht some of the old property of the family back, and naturally glided and

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"I never let fewer than three men wuk in one of my mines," said an wner of property In th Clear Creek listrict. "It may be an idle notion, but I have been haunted by the idM that I came near -onimittmg munler of the most cold-blooded character a few years ag. If tla'iv had be n three of us, instid of two partners, the tluupht never would haw conn to me. and 1 wouldn't haw the bad dreams that disturb me occasionally. I have never since put myself in a position where a possible homicide wouid not have at leat one witness. I will not work alone with another man hf a mine. "I pot my start up in Fanuomb Hill, dim Souther was my partner. W had a fairly pood claim: mdhinp if the bonanza in its nature, just a good, honest uneo-anl-a-half or two-ounce proposition that beat day wapes by a shade only. There is one thing about Farncomb Hill, that is its utnvrfainty. You never know what the next wallop with the pick r the next shot with a artrhlg' will uneowr. Souther was down in the hole and I was on ihe w indlass hoistinp the buckets he lillel with ore. We hal a soft thing so far as labor was concerned, ami cotihl almost shovel the ore up. It was a soft talc, a cross between chalk ami putty. I pot a bucket at last along about l! in the afternoon that w'ighl like a ton. I couhl scarcely lift it. I lumped it ami almost droppetl dead. Tin' ore was so rich in pold I couhl s'o it shin I oxatnimMl the bucket and found little strinps of wire pold banginp to it. .Tim had struck one of tluxe celebrated Farncomb freaks, ami it w as s dark down tlmiv h' hadn't 4?". - i'f'trS'CC- " it lit: M.ir. Tin: d ickest ci.ay ov ins LIKE. notuvd the alteration in the cbacter f th stuff be was sending up. IK you recall that tino-twistcd wire pdl exhibitel at the Wirhl's I'airV Mu h of that was what Suther ami I toik n:t of that shaft. 1 called to .Jim to stand from under, for I aimed to cme V.wn and s' him awhile. I broke the nevs to him and then we bpan to lipure eut how we stood. As nearly as we couM l'-ide w had a pocket or chamber vi this stuff '.t-nding into the sile of tl"? shaft about ight feet. We nmhl reach in and p't out handfuls of linespun pdl that hmked like it am' from under a rod-headed pirl's hat. Hut we couldn't stand in the shaft and admire it all day. There was at least Sir.ooo worth of the stuff. The metal that was not free couhl easily cm.uph be separatel from tin? r'st if the ore. It was inclosed in decomposed tpiart. and required nothinp but rubbinp between th lingers to get it. W decided to raise it all that nipht-that is unless it turned out a bigger liml than we thought. We lipure 1 it best not to go about beatinpthe drum to advertise our st rike. but hoist tin tire ami lo our talkinp later. Mini stay-l in the mine and 1 went back on tb' winch. Then my temptation came to me. There was a. pood big piec of money there for m man. ami just half as much each for two. I have ivail sonmw her' that every man has his pr'uv if yu k'ep m bhhling; you can reach him sure at some spot. Since that lav I have shudder'l b think how cheap I am. A measly $1ö,kn in uv came miar p ttinp me. It all came to me as if it wr printed in big letters and held before my face. I could call to dim and i;et him out of the drift into the bottom of the shaft ami let p the windlass. Tlmre wouldn't be a kick left in a man who had been smashed on the head with a seventy-live -pound bucket, with Hot) piuimls if or in it. after a lifty-fiot fall. The first time I called I couldn't rais my vdc ovr a whisper, it nmimlcd me of Hie time I had the pneumonia my first year in th mountains, and .1 i m nursed me out of it. He walk'l twenty miles ivr th' hills in a snowstorm to gt nmdh-in for me. ami it's th' surest thinp in the world I wouldn't hav' b'cn hoisting pure gohl out of a Pnriicomh Hill shaft if .lim ! Soulher hadn't sat up w ith me day and night for a wek four years before. I thoupht of all this whih 1 was limberinp ui my vdc for tin second try at calling him. That time I dhl it. ; 'What is it. HillV he hollers back. I couhl so' his -andh II Icker as I looked lovu tin shaft iva!y to b-t go th' w hu h, when I had him i l.i d ripht. What's eating if yui now ?' n kps on. W' ain't pot any time for merrymakinp or visitinp if we pt this spending money out t lay,' In says. 'Make your talk piick. Hill.' "I had to try I hive tiims again before I cotihl make a noise. 'Shake a bush, says .Ihn, 'if yui can't sp:ik. ''I want ym t -uiie tip ami work the wim h,' I yell back. 1 don't lik to be s far away fnun the stuff. "All ripht,' he hollers tip. 'if you pr'fr it. Hut you know yni can't stand it lown In-re as well as I can, and I'm some afraid you'll pet the worst of It.' "So .Urn came up and I took his place. When I was polnp down the shaft he says: " Vu look lik you had seen a dad friend. Hill. I think auotlir strikt- like this would plve yon heart failure.' "What did the find do? Wc took out

$22.0fH) from that pocket and sold tht claim fir .4".oni. Yes. Souther is still in the mining btisineo with me. 1 told him about my plan to dissolve partnership when he was in the shaft. He said: Do you know. Hill. I had a stionp notion to belt you m the head with a pick when you came down the shaft ami I found what kind f a pile of putty I had lup into.'" Chicapc Times-Herald.

True-Heart od. "It makes all the lifTrem-o In the world what a person marrh's for. I:;i mi thankful that I lidn't make any mistake." said a small, shabbily-hvssed. tired-lookinp woman, who wis caneseating bairs at a hous where she had asked for work. Her tinpue av is as nimble as ii-r lingers, but her vis on all topics were so che ry ami hpeful, notwithstanding her manifest poverty, that her parrulity lil nt In come tinvjoiix'. Her opinions on marriage, coniinp as they lil from a woman to whom marriape had broupht pov'erty and umvasing labor for an inval id husband, were refreshiup, ami had th' ring of a true h ai t. "Yes," she said, "folks that marrie:? for but one thinp makes a dreatlful mistake. I often think to myself, -What if I had married for anythinp in the world but love, real, penuine, sureenough love! What a iix I'd be in today !' "You see. my husband's be'n an invalid for nine years. He wont into slow consumption four years after wo were married, ami ho ain't worked six weeks, all tohl, sim-e; and I'w had all the support if him and our tlnoe children for nine .wars, and I've don it by trailin 'round from house to houso cane-seatin' chairs: and all the feeliu I've had about it has been ne of thankfulness that I was able and wiilin to do it. "S'posin' I hadn't marri'd fr low? S'posin' Fd married for rhdios. and they'd 1aken whips and Hew away? S'posin IM married for beauty, and si km ss and mis'ry had robbed my husband of his po)d looks? W)uldn't I be in a nice iix? "Hut I didn't marry for a thing on earth but ivspect and love for a pood man. and I :iin"t reprett'l it. and I ain't a bit unhappy or discontente 1, xceptin in the srrtw that -onus from the -'rtainty lhat I ain't poin' t have my husband with me much lonper. 'lie's fa Hin fast now. potr b'ar! I ain't never looke1 on him as a burde'i. I ain't th rowed it up to him that I've had the livin" to mal:. I ain't fivttetl nor cimplainl, nor done any d' tie; things I would suioly hav hme if I'd matle the divadful mistake if niarryin for anythinp but real affectum. "Fdks that marrh's for anythinp dsi has got a lot f uuhappiness befnv ''in that I loift know anything about." U fr l.ffect of liipht. It is iissertcd by n' f the leadinp authorities n lipht and heat that tho bams if the sun and moon have a very deh'terious 'ffM-t upon all kinds of 'lged tods. An exposure of a f'v hours to sunlight will "turn" tlu Ige d" the best razor ever nial', and ne. night's exposure to the rays if the full union will ruin such an instrument forever. Similar exposure to lipht will finally spoil knives, scythes and sikles, the pr'monitoBv signs f -miing uselessness beinp noted in the blue ohd" which the metal assaiiu s. When the elg' of sm-h tods tm-e disappears as a result of nmlinuod exposure lo the light of either tlm sun ir the moon, they are absolutely usdess until tlmy have be'ii lvtchipcrcd. I 'cause of this peculiar notion of lipid on steel purchasers should always be tin their guard against buying from pIdlrs who carry th'ir waivs xposetl. ir from retail lealrs who have su h totds m display in show windows. especially if such Avindows be located so that they receive the full glare f the sun or moon at any time of day or night. The uuservice;iblenss if td.i :itiuiitl under such circuinstaiiees is generally wrongfully altiihutctl to bad material u inferior wtirkuianship. Hismai'ck and the Doctor. Prince Bismarck is fond of asking questions, but does not like to answer them. On one occasion, says London Million, the ChnuccAor allel in a younp physh-iau who. indifferent to hi-s patient's rank and prstig. ctitdly jirocccded to put him throuph an exhaustive pnifessituial examination. Hismai'ck btvnnio impatient ami finally le lar'd ln would not answer another tuest ion. "Very well." calmly replied Ihe doe. tor. "if ym tb not want to be piestinel you hal bettir seiul fir a wterinary. He is ac usbm'l lo treat his patients without r'iuiiiii answers from them to any questions." The audacity of the younp lotr cause! the Chaii-'lhr to remain dumb for a moment: then he primly said, "If you a iv as skillful as you are impertinent, younp man, you must b' a pre.it physician." Xi Allipators. An American naval ollicer. wishing to bathe in a Ceylon river, askl a native to show him a place wlu-iv then wor no nlligabu-s. Tin native ttMik him to a pool los t tin estuary. The ollicer enjoyel his dip; while lryinp hims'lf, lu askt his guil' why there wore never any alligators in that pool. "Hccause, sah," the Ciupalese replied, 'they ph'iity 'frail of shark!' America's Lead in Hlectrfc Invention Durinp 1SIM, :i,315 patents relating to el'tricity wvtv. prantetl in (Sivat Hritain, the I'nitetl States and (,'ermany. or thse l.l.'HI were Hritish. b'inp one-twentieth of all Hritish patents, 1,701 were American, and -181 were Oci inan. It is much easier to make that which Is uply uplicr still than it is to improve that which is already handsome.

BOAT'S GHASTLY LOAD

F1VL CORPSES AND SIX UNCONSCIOUS MEN. Drifts Abhöre on a Florida IslamlDcpot tltühcr Killetl ty the Tdan lie V.'r.s Trying to Serve Kaunas Town Hub Oil Fever. C'- 'n y the Sea. A b -at ceutaiiiing five -orps-s aud si inea barely alive drifr-i aslit.re o:, 1 u Island, off Ca rra belle. ITa. YYI-. :i dNcot red the survivors were lying unconscious (.;i lj( ('( oinjiosed eorjiscs of th1.!' eoir.pa liioas. I.a-t week the e'e ven m a left Key West on a smack to lisli on the sr c-ar. When two days o.;t tic smack was wiveked. the men e-capiag in a boat without f 1. wat ; cloiliing. TIsre days a f I erward Frank Mason died, and soon after Max Thornton. Alfred S;:!fi'nl. due Wis; and Nathan Adam su - uiahed. The survivors were too ,,V",i!; to throw their dead coinradt s into the sea, and the ccrpsc-; lcniaii.ed in the boe.t. For tin las two days ('über! Hohin-s was the only o:ie -otisc'oiis. ami he tlocs not remember all that happem-d. Tin1 s-ene in the boat was horrible. The living and the th ad v. ere tumiled tog ther. The eorjiscs M iinnl to be gnawed in p'..:c-. and the lisheracn sngu'ested that in desperation the .-wrvivors tried t sustain life on the floh of their ieaI ei.inpanioiis. Tiie six survivors are being eared for on l.g N!:uid. Several of them seem to have l -en leiidered insatie by their sufferings. Tragic Death at a Depot. 1'dvvard It. Mastersot.. an u-!ier a' ihe Pennsylvania Uailroad station i:i Nev: Hruuswick. N. .1.. was delibcra-tely j i - !n I in front of a train Thur-day nig'ii and so shockingly injured t'iat hodh.l an hour later. Tho-.nas 1'. Ionhin. of Ph;iade!phia. who caused Masicrson's deatri. aite'iijited to escape, but was .- a: el taken to the p dice station. In the an'.rry foVvd were s.'Veral who attempted to ! him injury, but they were kept uway. Mastersoii w as standing at ihe edge .f i !nplatform, warning passeng rs of the approach of a fat freight. .iut as a switch ngiite whs hastening past to get ie.t of the way lonhili attempted to cross the tracks. Mastersoii tried to force the man back, when Doiilan became angry and gave the usher a stuhlen puh. which sent him headlong to the track in fro;it f the passing train. Fire Horrtir nt Kcua.lor. Tim tir' th;t su pt through tie Ciiy d (luayaquil. Ijeuador. did not result in o many deaths as at first r ptu ted. lott thpiop'ity loss was iir.teh greater. Only live lm-mliers of ihe tire brigade wer; killed, though forty were wounded, several so sewivly that t lit' death list may le materially increased. More than lot houses, including several public buildings of gn at beauty anil me or more of historical interest, wvre destroy'd. Among the lattT wvre tho ithedral ami the coinvnt adjoining. The loss is conservatively estimated at $ l.Mi.OiN. Tin panic that stizotl upon th' pe !' d' tin city liam;i'red the work of the fire brigad', and it is a womh'f that the loss to life ;u:d property was not much givater. NEWS NUGGETS. Hy a vote of -10 to IN) Friday the House r fused to concur in the Senate's free silwr amendment to the h-.uul bill. The Hrisbane river at Urisbane. (Jm-ens-land. has Invti greatly swollen recently, awing to the Hoods. While a small steamer was crossing the rivr Thursday, with ulioiit eighty passengers .u board, she was eapsi.el and uily forty persons were sav- ;!. A liloody battle tKk phot' at a school house in Hopkins Cutity. Texas, in w hich Charles Walker was killetl outright. William Walker recdving a fatal wound and I'lton WalkiT a scalp wound, .hick Williams was shot through both thighs and will lie. A man w ho has lived in Hut to. Mont.. r.r several months under the nam1 of John Ladusky was betrayed hy his wife as the man w ho destroyed the residence of Martin Huekly at Häsin, Mont., with lynamit' s'veral months ago. willi the intention of killing Ilnckly and his entire family. The woman betrayed her husband because he beat her nearly to death. A negro burglar, or a white man blackened up. entered the hotis of .leffcrsott Smith at Dallas. Texas, at midnight Thursday night. Smith grappled with iiim and was slabbed in the back thive times and is believed to be fatally injuivd. His wife tried to assist him and the assassin Tushed her skull with a Mow from an axe. She is unoiiseioiiH and cannot recover. 1-M ward WVhster, chief grain inspector al ( !a3v'ston. Texas, reports that from Oct. 1H to .Inn. LH.I there was exported from that port to foreign points l.SlK.li7 liush Is of corn. So far during the pivsont month there has h'on exported about !im,000 bushels, making the total grain exports thus far this season nearly o.otxi,IKHI bushels, with nearly l.(NNI.tMH) bu.-h-els on hand awaiting tonnage. Hreuson, a small town in Kansas, is much 'Xcited ovt-r the action of the Standard Oil Company, which intends to op'ii tf.l well plugged lh re a year ago. The company a year ago drilled several wells at Hrensoii. but soon plugged thtui up. and this pave ris- to a suspicion that oil hail been found and the company was suppressing the fact. The company has now begun to unload oil-drilling ami oil (limping machinery at Itrensoii. and the citizens believe this substantiates their theory of ihi-eption. Wood & Robinson, New York lumber balers, assigned to Andrew M. I'nderhill. with preferences for $!.i(K. Assets and liabilities about Jf -lo.ooo -aeh. Far is entertained in Valparaiso that Argentina will begin war with Chili in April- A Valparaiso dispatch says it has btvn agivetl to settle all th' Fr nch claims for $20,NM. At Tvrre Haute. Ind.. Ihe jury in the ase of the three Kellers, indicted for Iii' murder of Clara Shanks, Friday morning brought in a verdict f not guilty. The e so was brought on a change f venue from Hark' County. The anu'iidnu'iit to the bond bill to ctiin the American produ-t if sihvr was 1'-f-at'l in the House Thursday by it vote of 41 yeas to IIS nays. I'aden'wski's manager. H'rr von (orlitz, ha been nrreshtl at San Francisco fur non-payment of a hill of $-01 for dry tooda contraettl sevtnteou years ago.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF CUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week'o Proceeding in the I In II of Ctnii;rcM3 1 ui t;rtant Mi-astirt Discussed nml Acicd llpoti An lniiartial licsiime of the lbiiiies. The National Solone. rJbe Honst; h-bate Saturday i:p;-:i the Sei;ate"s free eoicyge substittite for tl." bond bill w.ts very spirited. Mr. Towm. a Minnesota lb-pub:i e;, u, claitued lh" attention .f the House ;.u gaücries i over an hutr with an i M 'p:e.': fi'ert i behalf of free coinage. Mr. ll.iii. i l)eti.oemt from Missouri, on its.' ethi . i.;;-.!.!. auiionm-etl his ceii versien to "s oi::l t.:o:ic ' in a rather sens it:. mal :,( .(:, in whi.-h he ehargi'il licit l ight S i.itors wlio Voted f.r free coinage, according I 'credible information." had privately :.'.! that they believe 1 free coinage .: I bring upon this country national ::ini iini.videal bankruptcy and ruin, lie barged them with trying lo 'fe.ii!: r lb-ir jm-.-'.s at home" and declared t!:" greatest sin of the present age v,a tie cowardice of statesman. lie als i ief-larel l ! :i t a high i'liicernf th- a'lminist ration h:ei said lliat the silver agitation had already cost th ( bivernuieid .-"-.(((,( :n bo:; 1 is,:ues, and ia I'm- cmirr-e ;i ; -ext twelve in Ii t h :- the bond i-u:es v.oc.'l i',ert use SI. t.i kk !..' k. Mr. Hr.'i .ted for free coinage in the iast Cengrts-. The Nati' n.'i (Jarne. Hird ml Fish 1!! -teetive A 'sin -iation las ;" pared a hi". whie!i will st.on 1 intro-ie.e.'d in botti ho'i:-s of Ct'P.'-rec. lixtfjtt to app tin: t, Unite time for the hearing of several important matter, the Senate did ie t !l lib... Monday e.ve-p wrai.ie ov.-r res..'i?i"!is atnl amentlteeu's o:i-e-rising t!e Monroe d" rire-. The llou-o i -intitiiiet! d'-ha!; of tin- bond bi.i. T!;e Senate did abs. ly nollrng .;f iiiip ifane" T;;e-day. Tie- Proj.'.-f. t e;.r the f.,11 . ving ti .taicatious: Wiiiiatu Wo i.iv;:;- It-.-khiih of M.iry:.;d. to I-A-itant S- r-'aiy of S'.tte; ':;tt!ii:.s A. Smaü-y l';cted St: . of (!.:.. t 1 e Mar-h-il d" ti.e f..r T::e N..rth. J ':m :'.' of Ohio; ":ip -r N. Mo :.! :). of M:- i-y-. to be .in.!- A'ho.-a'i.. wit!. ;!,. rank Major. Tie .lay in ;h- IIo.:e w as tievotti to the c.msideratioii .i bu:;:es rep-.r;-d from the ,'oii;tnitte ni; th" Histri'-t of ( 'oltuiibia. At I o'ch-ek ;!e 'h bate en the bond bill was ro-'in.ed. Com-u:--l-hn. was ojiposetl by Messrs. Hiil ilb-p.) of Connecticut. Lai y ilb'p. i i I -ova, and Horton (Kep.i of Missouri, atnl ( gth n iHcnij of Louisiana, spike in i'i it favor. There w-re .uly tlitrte.'ii members present at the night session of the Hon-e. Tie' House Thursday, by a vote of S' to 11N, in coinmittee of the winde t ejected the Senate free ciinage ameiitlne at to ti e bond hill :inl report'd the bill to the Ibiuse with a reeomriemhitiou to n in-cm-t-nr anil insist on the House bill, l'ropesitious wer' offered during the day to concur with auiendinents as follows; M'o coin the American siher product, for the retention of the seigniorage by th- Joveriinient. and to open the mints t 'lie free coinage of silver at tie ratio i I.'d.j to 1, when (lermany and France sho ihl have agreed on similar action. Ail w re defeated by large majorities. Ity a vote of Ul yeas to LMd nays, the Senate dep. i led tiemtition of Mr. Morrill, chairman of the Finance Committee, to take e.p the tariü" bill. The negative vote which defeated the motion was given by Dem. erat". Populists ami four Republican Senators, viz.. Teller, Mantle, Dubois and Carter. The a'ilirniative vole was entir ly Keptibli -an. but its total of Ü1 is less than half of the aggregate Itepublican strength. A resolution was adopted directing the Pacific Kailroad committee to make impiiry into the status of the I'aciii - railroad. Later in the day Mr. l'ettigrew math- a savage speech against the "highwaymen and conspirators" connected with the I'acili railroads and urm d !!; forceiosuie of ( overnment liens. Consideration ,d ihe urgein-y tbliciency bill was then restun d. and soon thereafter w::s frissed st'bsta.'tiall.v as reported. It carries about ( M H t,i M N I, a large increase over tife amount passed by liie House. The House Friday rejected the Senate's free silver substitute for th" bond bill by a Vote of LM."i to '.Ml. The veiling session was devilled to pension leMs. Tire delm:.. Which piveeded tlni Vtde Was of till ililersting character but devoid of any sensational features. The gallorii's, as usual n a field day in the lov r brum It of Cotigress. were clouded to the doors, and tpiite a number of Senators, Sin-Puling Messrs. Tabier of Illinois', Kacon of (leorgia. ("oekrcll of Missouri and Itatlec tif .Noilli Carolina, sat through the !iihoitr tlehtite. Secretary Ilerb -i t was a! ju-'sent. The Senate did nothing;. 1'irin His iuns. Rome reiiiaikable re-oris- in log gi;:i tiring were nuule by the gun m vs of the Hritish llagship Koyal Arthur iff lh l'a-itie cast a w'-k or o ago. At lite hallle of the Ltihi river, in tlio ('hiiuse-.Tapaneso war, ;ui ;tv'rage of one sind in liftecn foumi its marl:, and v'ii at this rate the havoc among the war ships Avas terrible. In tin 1 loyal Arthur's practice 'ich! shells with ;i bursting -bärge, were tired from tln twenty-two ton guti at I.simi yards, at a targd in the wafer ten f't highland lwdv' feet sipiare. and every shot hurst within a ihlius of fifty fe't if the target. The lost no tivenoss tf su h ftring in th ase of u war ship some LM0 feet long may be imagined. Of ctmrse, such marksmanship ill irlit not be possible in the ocitcincnt f an actual figlit. Ott another practic trip rv'ntly n gunner, with a siv-imh quick-tiring gun. put el'v'it out of twelve shots through -i cauas target ten feet stpiare t ltN yards. Iticyclcs l'seI in .iiiiii, Nearly ivery army has now a bicy Je cirps. In Oermany six men f every regiment are mounted on w heels to act as scouts. Sixty anarchists have Invn arresh'd at Lisbon, Portugal, as a result of the explosion of a bomb in the house of r, phw;. cian who had b'stilied to the insanity of the man who threw a stone at the king. Seimr Antonia d'Aszcvdo. minister of iustice, locht rel in the hamher f leputi h that the ('overnnu'iit was !eterniitud t. atlopt the sevrest measures ti suppress anarchy. Miss Clara Harten, president of the Hed Crss Society, with her party, has left London on her way to Amu-ilia for the distribution of the relief fhnd in hex bands.