Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 35, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 March 1896 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. A SACKED SENSATION. ST. LOUIS DIVINE MIMICS SALVATION ARMY. Älcnibers of His Fwcll Church Don't Like It-Dramatic World Mourns Jas. H. McVitkcr-Iieci.less Profligacy of a Prosperous Alaskan Miner Shocks Fpiscopalians. Canon C. M. Davis. .f Christ ChurchCathedral, St. Iyouis, Mo., with two assistant clergynn-n and ten members of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, recently appearel on Twelfth slnt-t, surplicel and cassocked. Forming a hollow spiare. with the Canon in the -ent'r. holding Uft a pron ss'oiial rss. they held a brief Mr r vice, pa turned after that of the Salvation anny. Canon Davis ami the ten brthers of St. Andrew lifted their vices in song. The crowd was then invited to follow to the chapel, and with th young and hamlsome Canon in the lead a procession was formed that marched to the cathedral. About twenty-live sinners, steeped in all degrees of sin. brought tip the rear. Canon Davis explained that this was the inauguration of Lenten services he intended to hold, with the assistance of tin St. Andrew Brotherhood. J. H. McVickcr I Dead. James II. M-Yiker. the veteran actor and manager, died at his Imme, Chh-ago, Saturday afternoon. Mr. McYicker was stricken with paralysis four -weeks aco while sitting in a chair at homo, lit was compelled to keep his house, and the gradual failure of his powers became apparent. His critical condition was not made known to the general public. For the last week he was under rhe almost constant influence of opiates. The profession generally loved hini. and he was known a- the "grand old man" of the drama, from coast to coast. His Knglish friends were also legion. Mr. McYicker often proved a jr. od Samaritan to stranded actors. pnmptcl ly recollections of his own early struggles. At the time of his death he was a wealthy man and owned conshlerabh realty in Chicago and Ticinity. His business investments, as:.J from ownership of McYicker' s Theater, were largely hi real estate. He Uofl Money to Throw Away. Three years ago Peter Wilborg left his home in California for Cook's Inlet. Alaska. For nearly three years he worked incessantly in the gold regions. Last Novemher hi; came hack to the States on a visit, bringing with him $4S.(KK) mi cold dust and nuggets. After hanking :.",M)0 in San Franeiseo. he starte! out to have a good time on the remaining $1.'5,hh. lie spent fur months in the Kastem and Southern cities, s;endhig the larger part of his poeket money. The other night he left Port Townsend, Wash., on the steamer City of Topeka on his return to the Alaskan gold hvlds. While the steamer was lying at the wharf lie amused himself by throwing double handfuls of silver dollars at the boys on the wharf. Kvery boy who cull hit the eccentric Alaska miner with a snowball received a 'landful nf coin in return. Wilborg appeared to njoy the sport as much as the lxtys. As the boat pulled out from the wharf he pelted the boys with money. His Doom Was Death. William Ftlingex, an outlaw living at Woodward, Pa., while resisting arrest, killed two constables, and then, after attempting to murder Iiis wife and children, who were barricaded wilh Jiim, he committel suicide in full view of his captors, standing on the threshold of his blazing house. He held a posse at bay for two hours by hurling dynamite from thy windows of his huse. Mrs. Ktlinger and her two children were witnesses of the awful fate of the husband and father. Twice in the last two years Ktlinger almost clubled three men to death, and he had shot four more in lights. Few Day More of Freedom. Justice Brown, of the Supreme Court, Satunlay night issued an order in the case of Joseph I. Dunlop, of Chicago, convictol of sending obsceno newspapers through the Unitd States mails. Justice Brown's order makes Judge (Jrosscup's certification to Attorney Forrest bill of exceptions operate as a supersedeas and Justice Brown commands Dunlop to appear before him in thirty days to show cause why the supersedeas should be fcn.e permanent. BREVITIES. The handsome high school building at Chattanooga, Tenn.. costing over $70,ff M I, has b-cn b'stroyed by tire, nothing but the bare walls being left; insurance, $12,300. A futile attempt was made March 1 to rob the Hife of the (Vtnty Treasurer at Crech, Colo. Bobbers worked the combination, but secured nothing, i.000 having been removtil to the bank. Congressman Wo.lnian. of Chicago, says Washington on Sunday is the lullm est town in America. He sah!: "I've tried Washington Sunday after Sunday anI there is absolutely no place to go to. So I tried a trip to Alexandria, f.r a change. Do you know over there rhe re was nothing open but the graveyard, so I put in the afternoon looking at the loadstones." A dispatch to the London Morning Post from Paris nports the text f a letter from Menelck. the Negus of Abyssinia, to M. De Lon ', etlitor of Lo Siecle, written prior to the battle f Adowa. ff'ring to accept' the arbitration of Leoptld, King of the Belgians. The corrcsp indent bclievts that fhis offer still holds gol, but King Leo pol M h'cüin's to act unless 'he is asked to do so by Italy, which is impossible. Winter wheat in central and eastern Kansas was never in letter condition at this season of the year than at present. Th ground has been thoroughly moistened ami the plant is growing splendidly. The only danger feared by the fanners is severe cold weather may come and kill the growing grain, which is now tender. The acreage is much less than usual. John II. Skinner, for fifteen years an Indian merchant ami -worth SlMO.OOO, weil known throughout the West, has been pjected from the Osage Indian nation by the agent. His goods and property will le confiscated.

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SPANIARDS STONE ANOTHER AMERICAN CONSULATE. United States Consulate In Vnleucia Attacked by a Furious Mob and Window S-'itiashed Princeton Students Hum the King in Kfily. Moll's Work at Valencia. Spanish hatrel of the Fnited States continues to break forth afresh. Bcnewcd demoiistr itions wen made Thursday and a mob stoned the Fnited States consulate at Valencia, in spite of the precautions of the authorities and the alertness f the police. When the mob formed, its objective point was the consulate and extra preparations were made t guard against an attack. But almost before the police were aware f it a Hank movement had been cxcctitc) ami the howling, yelling horde had gathered in the stre :. Stones w r thrown which smashed the windows of the cnsi:!ate. The police made a strong charge and li-pcrsod the crowd. The university has been dose! undT orders from the 'overnment. as it was fcarel the meetings of the stud nts would be a hotbed for breeding disorders. Uepeated attempts were made by disorderly paraders to make their way to the Fnihd States consulate, but they were as often frustrated, as the authorities hal receivcl sp-cial orders to be on the lookout for any demonstration against the property of the Fnited Slates. Special protectmn was a fiord cd the building in which the dlice if the consul is located. with a view to the same end. The mob. however, gathered in front f the building before the police wen aware if wliat was going on, and stones began to lly from the crowd, with riie reuh that many windows were broken. The crowd was cheered on by sympathizers hi the streets and from the neighboring houses. The police lost no time in c harging the rioters and the niob was speedily dispersed, although missiles were Hung as those who threw them were taking flight. ITALY'S DAY OF WOE. Whole Country IsAroucl by tlsc Overwhelming Defeat in Abyssinia. The news of territie defeat t its army in Abyssinia has set r.ll Italy wild with excitement. Premier Crisp; has tendered his resignation. wbi h lias ben acei ;.Te by the king, and it is announced that the Chamber of Deputies will be asked t iinpeach Crispi and the other members of his cabinet for gross mismanagement of the Abyssinian campaign. Indignation meetings have been held and riotous d :nonstrations made in most of the cities, and from the rural districts loud cries are sent up for vengeance upon those who have been responsible for this almost annihilating defeat. Indignation against the ('overnment is im-reastd by the calling out of SO.OoO men of the reseres of 1ST2 for active service. As the great majority of these men are married and have families Vi VI I i . ' KIXO ni'MBKKT OF ITALY. depending upon them for support, their prcpanitions to obey orders in Milan and other places were the signal for rioting, the agitation being led by the women and children, and in some instances the men were prevented from leaving the towns. The mobs stoned and otherwise beat the police into helplessness and even attacked the soldiers, nunn'rous persons throwing themselves in mail frenzy upon the naked steel in the hands of the troops. These demonstrations might have been expected from the excitable Italian people wken the sad truth burst upon them that through bad management at home and poor generals-hip at A Iowa the army in Abyssinia had been entrapped to its destruction, with a loss of live to ten thousand in kilh'd and wounded and of all the ammunition and fol stores, leaving the survivors in a hapless plight. Their situation is such that they cannot hope to be able to hold. their ground till the arrival of snllichmt reinforcements, even if they should be sent. The report that t'en. ItarnueiA WfiXK OF TIIK ITALIAN TltOl IlLK. oti'ii had committed suiciile turns out to be incorr'-: but it would seni as if that would have been the l'st thing he could do under the circumstances, for, if the darker and darker reports which are reaching Itome from Massowah are substantiated, he wilt have great litliculty in escaping a capital sentence on his trial by court-martial. It is said, among other things, that he deserted his troops while the latter were lighting gallantly against overwhelming numbers of Shoans, and fled. 1'oor Pay of Italian Army Officers. Italian army oMb-crs are wretchedly paid. A sub-lieutenant' salary is 1,SKJ lire ($210) a year, which, after paying the taxes and ollicial expenses, including the uniform. leaves him about $17 a month lor his board and lodging. The P.rices are going to Newport to live and have leased the $," "0,000 villa that beloDgs to William Waldorf Astor.

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MANY TOWNS LAID WASTE. Scenes of Desolation in Cuba Iieports of Hecent Dnttlcs. The reopening of telegraphic commucication with the region of Pinar del Kio, C-iibr., brings the first detailed information of affairs in that province for several weeks. The rich Vuelta Abajo tobacco district seems to have been put to the torch, and is apparently reduced to a desolate wilderness. Whole towns have been obliterated and reduced to a heap of ashes, and their inhabitants are wandering helpless over the face if the country, many of them starving. The villages and towns of Cabanas. Iahia Honda. San Diego do Nunez, Santa Cruz de los Pinos, Los Palacios, Piso Kcal de San Diego and San Diego de los lianos are known to be rediict-tl to ahes. All of these were important and thriving centers f population and business. The last town which has succumbed to the insurgents torch is San Juan y Martinez. The tobacco front this town is fam us the world over. Its cultivation broug'iit great wealth to the people of the'districi ami gave material for a large commerce in the town and support to over 1,mm families. Cariiio and Uojas, the insurgent leaders, at the head of about 7 of their followers. ro-en;ly attacked a company of the Sicilia battalion and the local guerilla force of San Andr. near Ilolguhi. province of Santiago de Cuba. The soldiers were protected by a convoy f provisions and supplies, made a brilliant defense and repulsed the insurgents with a 1 s of twenty-live killed. The enemy retired with many wounded. The troops lost one lieutenant killed and seven guerrillas wund'd. Salvad r. Kios.i. I'onseca. Itomuahlo. Aguiilrro and Chang . insurgent b ailers, at the head of :iIku! men, recently attacked a lieutenant and seventy guerrillas, wiiio were out foraging. The insurgents tired from the cane liehls and obi iget I the li-oops to retreat with T.ho loss of a lieutenant and four men killed and seven privates wounded. Aguillero was killed and six insurgents were wounded.

SPAIN'S KING HANGED. I'riiicetoni.iriH Swiii Him in Jlfliyy und Kip Up Iii Fla;;. Students of Princeton College hanged Alfonso, the King of Spain, in etligy, and. A;Wt Vir, xAi.rnoxso xnr. (Spain's Infant Ituler.) after dragging the gorgwus banner of the dons through the streets, tore it to pieces. This was the answer of the lusty American loys to the acts of violence against the Fnited States on the part of the students at Itarcelona, Valencia and Madrid. At Lcatlville, Colo., there was most intense excitement when the news was received of the burning of the American flag by the Spanianls. A Hag of Spain was discovered in Ihe stock of a dry goods merchant, and the crowd quickly found kindling wood. The wood was ignited, and while tin crowd sang "America" ami "Columbia" the llag of Spain was burned to ashes. A DISMAL FAILURE. The Ilaron Hirsch Hebrew Colony in Connecticut. A Chesterfield, Conn., correspondent says: As farmers the Hebrews who came to Connecticut four years ago with the aid of the IJaron Hirsch fund have dismally failed and mst of them have given up their vain attempt to till the rocky, barren soil of the Nutmeg State and have adopted t lie easier and more lucrative vocation of sewing for the New York l(Ai:ox niKscir. swoatshops Pravely they struggled through several winters on worn out farms in tumbledown houses, and while it lasted the struggle was a pathetic one. J tie lleorcws who came here were not fitted for the rugged life, especially in winter, and the wonder is that any of them survived one cold season The sei tiers could not learn how to farm. Most of them had come from cities and had made a precarious living by plying their needles, and it was natural that they should turn again to sewing after their other venture had proved a failure. With so many more "hands" looking for work in the clothing factories it is not to be presumed that wages in that department of industry will greatly advance another lesson in immigration. SPAIN'S NAVY. Uncle Saui HaH No Need to Fear Anything from It. The action of Congress on the Cuban resolution, makes it of interest to know just how strong a navy the peninsular power has at her disposal. Spain's navy eontains one old battleship, launched in 1S-S7, or nearly nine years ago, before Ilarveyi.el armor had revolutionized the art of protecting men f war. This is the Peliyo. Sh has a displacement of P.lHM) tons, a sp'cd f knots an hour and carries tw PJ'-inch guns, two 11-inch guns ami I'd smaller piece. Siblin also has ten first-class, six second-class and forty-nine third-class cruisers. In torpedo boats s-'ie leas forty. On the whole our navy has absolutely nothing to fear from that of Spain, for here is what we have to set against it: We have no less than fix first class vessel., each of them better -than the Pclayo, each with a greater horse power ami speed equal to her. Fach of them, to, is better armed. We have seven first-class, thirteen second-class and twenty-one third-class cruisers. We have, however, but three torpedo boatH, but -the efficiency of t his class of vessels has never yet been shown. The St. Iiouis coroner's jury has returnctl a verdict of justifiable homicide in the case of the dentist, Dr. A. Dill, who shot and kill Dr. J. J. Seaman, his assistant. ,

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tr mi. 'J '.'SI V.fS'tI 'X. is" Mcnelik II.. Knipcror of Shoa and Abyssinia. King of Kings in all Africa and monarch of Frhiopia. is the man who is causing all the trouble to Italy by not all. -wing that country to "protect" him. Menelik has an iIea that he is thoroughly capable of protecting himself and proposes to do it on his own ground rather than trade off ci 2 1 his real estate for "protection" of the European kind. This great ruler is. perhaps, the in st interesting monarch in all the worid. He claims to bo a line descendant of the famous Queen of Sheba, and that his ivahns are the famous Ophir of the Scripture. Whatever value may be in that claim, it is true that Menelik has th old-time ilea Of how to be a king. He has been able to teach a great Ihire-ix-an power a lesson which it will never forget. He has caused "all the b.g ministers of state and potentates in Europe to open tlo-ir eyes very wide and to realize that in him they have a real king to play with. Menelik is certainly a surprise to the King of Italy, and it is sa.id that he will be the most important man in the game of chess wAich the European powers are ever playing. lie was born in ISIS in his father's kingdom of Shoa. Hi mother was a beggar whom the king took a fam-y to and married, lie ruled in Shoa after having spent his youth in all sort? of wild adventures, and when King John of Abyssinia died in IKS'.) Menelik marched to Abyssinia. hal himself crowned Emperor of Abyssinia and Shoa and proclaimed himself King of Kings. He was enabled to do this with Italian interference, but he later flung aside -this alliance because, as he said. Italy desired to absorb his kingdom. The country he rules is very rich in gold, luxuriant in vegetation and in every way .1 desirable place. Its population is o, 0,000. MRS. LELAND STANFORD. Woman Who Won a Great Case After Years ot' Litigation. The Supreme Court decision in the Stanford Fniversity case was a splendid victory for eduation, and the noble lady, who has practically sacrificed her life and given away a queenly fortune for the higher good of humanity, is well worthy of the congratulation which, no doubt, will be showered upon her from all parts of the country. The case was a singular one. Had it been decilel against her she would have lost more than $1..0m),0o0. and the very life props of the splendid MRS. l.KI.AXn STAXDFORD. university at Palo Alto would have been swept away and the money turned over to the United States (lovernment. The case was started in California to force the Stanford estate, represented by Stanford's widow, to pay to the United States some $1..mhJ.000 as the share of Stanford of the d-bt due the United States by the Central Pacific Kailwoy, on the principle of stockholders' liability. Mr, Stanford won in the lower courts and now the Supreme Court has affirmed their decisions, which are briefly that the stockholders of the Central Pacific are not individually liable for their shares of the debt. Li Hung Chang has left Fckin to attend the coronation of the czar at Moscow. Dr. Buhl, who was vice-president of it he rMV.itag in IKS!), is dead at Deidesheim. Several churches, the posfoflice and fifty buildings wer' left in allies by a lire at A sperm, South Holland. There was no truth in the report tfiuat Prince von llot'ienlohe, the ( Senna n chancellor, had arrived in London. Losses aggregating LoOO.OHKl, insured for only JfllHUMiO, were caused by the fire in Juayaquil, Ecuador. CSreat distress exists among the poor in consequence. Seventy-one bo die of victims of tihe Clcophas coal mine disaster in Prussian Sih'sialrave been found, 'and it is believed fifty persons are tili unaccounted for. A. J. Balfour, lir.-A lord of the treasury, stated in the House of Commons that lie did not believe anything would be gained by (Jreat Britain taking the initiative in proposing a monetary conference. It is reported in Pekin that the Freneft fjovernmen't is supporting the offer of a Fvndh-a-te of French financiers to loan China HK),000,0(K) taels, France to guarnutee tihe interest ou the security of customs and other concessions.

HE DEFENDS AVEYLER

CUBAN AUTONOMIST LEADER CRITICISES THE SENATE. Does Not Believe the General I Bloodthirsty or Cruel Pos-sibility of a CoiiimisBion to Keport Upon Cuba Denial from Cleveland. Cuban Speaks for Wcylcr. Kafael Montora, h-ader of the Autonomist home-rule party in Cuba, a brilliant lawyer, a Cuban devoted to the inN-rests of tip island and a man of exalted character, in an interview at Havana, sah!: "I am amaz d at the spee-h s in tin United States Senate. Th.it body ha a right to declare sympathy for the Cuban rebellion if it chooses, but that great statesmen should employ the language they did pusses my comprehension. I recall nothing published from any reliable or responsible authority pring the frightful alh-gations against (Jen. Wcylcr mude in the Senate and throughout the United States. Neither have I ever heard the stories seriously narrated as facts by any responsible person. I have heard all manner of rumors n the subject, but never anything to bad me to accpc the-m as true. I do not believe the charg's." Cleveland Correct an 1'rror. The President said to a representative of tlie Associabd Press Friday: "I see that it is assumed in certain quarters that a deli v-ra nee published a few days ago on the Cuban pm-stion may be taken as defining the attitude of the administration on that subject. I wish y,u would say "that I never saw tln stati'inent nor heard of it until I read it in the newspapers, and even then neglected to read all of it. supposing it represented nothing more than a newspaper guess. I do not know how it originated nor by whom it was construct'! or inspired, but I lo know that I am in no manner responsible fr it nor in any way related to it. I only desire to say in addition that 1 lo not know whether the publication referred to represents the views of the administration on the Cuban question or not, and that 1 never have found any ditliculty in oinmuiiicating with the people in a manner which leaves no doubt of tin- authenticity of any statement which purports to rtpresent my views." Mission for Mcrritt. Vn. Wesley Mcrritt may be sent by President Cleveland to Cuba to report on the ral condition of affairs there. At army headiuartrs in Chicago no member of den. Merritt's stair is willing to le quotfd in the matter, as the secrecy that is being observed at Washington enjoins silence, but it was said that the President contemplates sending a cnimiss:oii to the island, with t'en. Mcrritt at its head. This idea of a commission is such a favorite method with the President out of just such difficulties as the Cuban affair that it would surprise few if lie adopted it. He t(Mk this course when there was a question of the true status of affairs in Hawaii by semling Commissioner Blount to that island, am! he recently obtained the appointment of the Venezuelan boundary commission. Kiissia Criticises Spain. Spain's attitude toward the Fnited States in connection with the Cuban question is regarded at St. Petersburg as ridiculous. The Lisbon correspondent of the London Times telegraphs tl;u the attitude of the Spanish ( Joverur.icnt in regard t the Cuban ditliculty is unanimously approved in Portugal, and he quotes the Coinmercio of Lisbon a saying: "The proceedings of tin- Unite! States are unique and unexampled in history, and will cause a complete disturbance of international rights unless all the nations of Europe rise and join Spain." NEWS NUGGETS. An eaftlnpiako in Burke County, Pa., shook houses and broke window glass. The Baltimore centennial exposition project has been abandoned because of lack of funds. A great strike has just bvn made at Ilahn's Peak, near Steamboat Springs, Col., by Balson Smith and Mcintosh. In a tunnel on the south suie of. the pak a vein has been cut thirty feet in width, twenty-three of which runs $7oo to the ton. i The Santa Fe, N. M.. New Mexican prints a spo-ial from (Johb'ii, Santa Fe County, which says a gold discovery has been made from which chunks broken off the croppings run as high as $l..otM in gold to the ton. The ledge is fully four fe't in width. J. L Archer, a well-to-do Kansas City business man. showed his sympathy for Cuba by publicly burning a Spanish llag. The act was loudly cheered by the mass of witnesses. Mr. Archer has a stock f Spanish Hags ami says he intends to burn one each night till it is exhausted. The wife of Bert McConnell. f Seville, O.. took a bundle of bills, notes and securities amounting to ."..M with Iier while she went calling. Ou her return she gathered up some loose paper in the yard, and entering the house thrust the entire bundle into the stove. The valuables represented the savings of a lifetime, which McConnell wouldn't trust to the banks. Dan Tal in age's Sons, New York, one of the largest houses in the rice trade, has made an assignment to.!. (Silla, with pref-ereu-es of $1L1J. Tin creditors number about seventy. The assignment is understood to be largely due to the low price of rice. ..which has bn brought about by th kcn competition in trade. The founder of the firm died twenty years ii go. In the Senat' Wednesday Senator Sherman rportod back the Cuban resolutions and movnl that the House amendment to the Senate resolutions be noncncurrd in and that a ct.nfereiuv committee bo npjiointed. The motion was agreed to and the Vice President appointed Senator Sherman, Morgan and Lodge a conference commitb'c. IL C. Wilmarth, with numerous aliases, recently arrested at Terre Haute, Ind., for bigamy, and taken to Kansas City, pleaded guilty to having .married nine wives, all of whom are living, in nine years. Col. Vo.hak, Russian military agent to China, confirms the report that the Queen of Corea is alive. j Ballington Booth's new army is to he called the "Christian Crusade." The nuj eleu is the Sea Cliff, Ii. I., band which I deserted from the Salvation army in a ' body.

TVOBK OF CONGRESS.

THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Dijgcs-t of the Prö cecdiiigs in the LeKlati ve Chambers at Watslnnston Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The first presidential veto of this session of Congress was overridden by the House Saturday by a vote of P. es to "S, FJ"J more than the requisite con-tituti nal two-thirds. The bill authorizes the (Jvenior and local otfu-ers of Arizona to leuse the educational lands of the territory for school purposes. The President's rbj'--tion to the bill was that it did tu t give the Secretary of the Interior power to disapprove the leases, and did not throw proper safeguards about the timber on the lands. The remainder of the day was consumed in the consideration of the legislative appropriation hi".!. The Senat oiuuncd in the action of the House in passing t'no Arizona land bill. The Senate Monday passed a bill for the increase f the naby. by th' addition of 1.hm enlisted men. th enlisting for not more than two years of th.. naval militia forces in case of e;nerge:i!-y, and the chartering of transport ships in case f emergency. The Hotie suspended rules, and by a vote of L'Uil to 17 ad cv.cd its ow;: resolutions of recognition of Cuban belligerency. Tim Senate Welneday began the conshlerat in of the llnpo.it election case from 1 dawäre. Bills wre passd for the purchase of sites for public bir.ldings at Hastings and Norfolk. Nl.: pensioning the widow of the into Unite! States Senator Speiu-er as brigadi-r genera! at S" per month; f,.r a puhlic huiiding at Fergus Falls. Minn., to cost .S17r..ooo: to reorganize tin cuM-ms collection listrict of Alaska; compensating I'lihu Hoot for assistance to the Attorney tJcneral. The House spent th entire lay fixing the salaries of United S.ates d'strie: attorneys in the amendment ! the legislative appropriation bill to abolish the lVe system. The law at present fixes th maximum salary from fees at JSV.hk. In only one case was the rtci:mm:idaiion of the Judiciary Committee h-parted from the wvstcrn district f Pennsylvania, where the salary reeom:n'ndel was increased from $',.7 0 to .L(M. The salaries for the district atlorneys w- fixed as follows: Illinois, northern. ..mh; southern, 4,(KX); In. liana. .S.ixk; Iowa, northern and sotithrn. Michigan, eastern, .S4.IMK; western. .:t.iui; Minnesuta. ?Looo; north. -m and southern. Hood; Oklahoma. Sö.mmi: Oregon. J4.mm; Wisconsin, eastern. S4.kh; western. .;.() k. The House Thursday wrangled for four hours over the salaries of Uni'ed States marshals and the ith-r featui's of the amendnxnt to the legislativ' appropriation bill to abolish the fee system in th cases of United States attorneys and marshals. Salary's of the marshals fixed were identical with those of the district attorneys, fixed Wednesday, except in the following districts; In. liana, ; eastern listri-t of Louisiana. .SL'.öoo; Maine. So.Oixi; Nevada. .S-.nm; N-w J.-r-sy. Hi; northern district f New York. .Sö.tKH; soutln-rn dlstri.-r of New York, JSÖ.ihmi. Under the f-e system both listrict attorneys and marshals were allowed fees, not to exceed i,oimi. and mileage, which, in sonio eases, swelled tin compensation to as high as .S.oio and !S 10,000. Instead f mileage at tin- rato of 10 c'tits pr mile each way. the amendment allows attorneys and marshals their actual traveling expenses. Jt fixed the fees of Fnited States commissioners -onsidcrably below the present seiiedule. The Senate passe! the following bills and resolutions: To pay the heirs of the late .lohn I loach S1S.SÖ. on the construction of the gunboat Holphin; to incorporate the supreme council f the thirty-third degree of Scottish rite Masonry for the southern jurisdiction of the Fnited States; establishing an additiual land oflie, in Montana. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: Samuel Comfort, of New York, to be consul :f the United States nt Bombay, India: Ceorge S. Wilson, to be postmashT at Malvern. Iowa: Commoloro Thomas O. Selfridg, to he a rear a.lmiral in the navy. Also a number of prmotions in the army and navy. The House passet the legislative appropriation bill Friday. Most f the time, however, was consumed in the consideration of the amendment to abolish the fee system in the cases of Unitvd States attorneys and marshals. This amendim-ait was perfccW'il ami adopted. A bill was passed to abolish the c::sl; payniMit of pensions, th. purpo-' of which was to prohvt veterans who iiaiid'tvd or were swindh'd out ot the p.Mis-.:us on juarterly pay days. Mr. Hull asked unanimous consent foe the consideration of a bill to relieve (Jon. Carlin of liability for ."LlH) 'xp'nded by Capt. .1. M. Clivb in the rescue of a party of students who wre snowbound in the Bitter Ib-ot mountains in lSp:t. Mr. Wilson objvted, saying that the party hal deserted a citizen of Idaho ami had left him to lie. The evening session was devote! to the cons-.Ieratiou of privatu penshn bills. O.hl Names, lu the corridors f a Philadelphia hotel n few nights ago ;i party of men wert talking of curious family mimes. A young man about tvu told of a family living in Kensington whoso surname was Budtl. Then were thrco daughters, he suhl, who were calh-il respectively Kose Budd, Lillie Budd and May Budd. A young man saw thin tale and went one boiler, declaring that what be s:ul was nbs.dutcly true. "The funniest of all the curious names I Jiavo ever heard." said lie. "belongs to a family by the name of 'Cais,' living in 'Buck Jersey.' a tract lying west of KirkwooL lel. The ld gentleman' name is Tllovcn Cats.' the eldest sou Tom Cats,' the laughter 'Kity Cats.' ami 1 would not stat- positively, but I think the mother's name is "Pussy Cats.'" Queen Tailor, of Abyss-nia js a handHme woman, the cpit'-si:i of w host eyes is benevolent r fiendish, as iho mKtI moves her. I'ven Kir.g Menelek himself Is afraid of her. She knows all the King's secrets and is indimvl to domineer in state mVairs. she is fond of European liquors, especially of champagne. It is said that the Lueen frequently drinks more wine than a good queen should. All politeness Is owing iolibortj. Shaftesbury.

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