Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 September 1893 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The wheat acreage in Kansas for next season will be 00 00 acres short. Texas is in financial difficulties. There -will bo a dehciancy cf $2.0)0,000 at the end of the fiscal year. World's Fair officials will endeavor co Siave Congress extend the time for closing the Exposition from October 30 to Janwary l, A great many good people in attendance at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago have keen robbed by pickpockets of all their valuables. Controller Eckels, at a banquet of Chi cago - bankers, Thursday night, said that confidence is fully restored and we arc bound to have good times. - No bad play goes at a Choctaw Indian game of base ball. At San Bais, in a tight growing out of : game, a sheriff and his deputy were killed and a white man was wounded. 6 Ten thousand dollars worth of gold bullion fs mysteriously missing from the vaults of the mint at Philadelphia The superintendent will be compelled. to make the loss good. Yellow fever, prevalent at Brunswick, Ga., for some time, is increasing. Four cases developed Tuesday. No deaths have been reported. Nineteen cases are now under treatment. W, S. Street, Vice President of the insolvent Guaranty Loan Company, was arrested at Minneapolis, charged with having declared a dividend when the company was insolvent. Every department of the plant ot the Otis Steel Company, of Cleveland, is in operation again, except the plate mill. The Bessemer department, which has been idle for more than a month, has also been started. In the Senate, Vednc3day, Mr. Turpic submitted resolutions from the Knights of Labor at Washington, lnd., against the repeal of the Sherman silver act. The resolution contends that repeal would "demonetize silver." The Kanawha, W. Va.. Coal Exchange has appointed a committee of twentythree of the coal operators in the State to go to Washington to protest before the ways and means committee, against the repeal of the duty on foreign coai. The whole of the 370,000 taken by the Mineral Rauge train robbers last week has beeu recovered. Several arrests have been made. The train men were implicated and one of the men arrested has confessed and revealed the whole plot, Senator Irby, the Populist successor to Wade Hampton in the United States Senate, supplied the people of Columbia. S, C, with a short lived sensation, leaving however, an enduring entry on the poll j court records of that city in the shape hi a "drunk and disorderly conduct, count No. 1;" "carrying concealed weapons, count No. 2." The President', Tuesday, appointed Jos. W. Nichol, formerly of Indianapolis, now of Washington, D. C, who served as law clerk q( the Postoffice Department under his first administration, to be Deputy Second Controller ot the Treasury. He also sent to the Senate the name of William Bracken, of Brookville, to be collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Indiana. During a theatrical performance at the opera house at Canton, 111., Tuesday night, fire started in the scenery from fireworks being used in the third act of "Michael Strogoff."' In les3 than two minutes the company had to leave the stage. The flames spread rapidly. The audience had a narrow escape. Those in the galleries became panic stricken and a struggling mass of humanity jammed up the stairway. Many were injured and five were badly burned. The building was destroyed together with two adjoining structures. Loss, IC00J0. The Chicago Tribune reporter drew a vivid picture of the scene of the big train robbery when he said: "The ptace selected for the dastardly crime was a most propitious one. Far from any human habitation and surrounded by great forests, etc." Quite an-imaginative cuss, indeed, when it is taken into consideration that then; is not a forest in that locality that would hardly hide a red squirrel, that the farms are all improved and people living oa all sides. The above is a good sample of reportorial veracity. Ligonier Banner. The silver men in the Senate are feeling decidedly more encouraged as the prospect that the federal election bill may reach that body increases. Said one of their leaders: "We can hold off for three weeks certainly, if there is a prospect of getting tfee election bill here in that time, and I am assured that we will get it in less time." If the election bill reaches the Senate before the Sherman bill is repealed it will be the policy to substitute Sonator Hill's bill, which has already been reported, for it, as that bill is on the calendar, and there might be doubts of getting the House bill out of committee. The weather crop bulletin for the last week says: The temperature was excessively warm until Saturday, when it became cool both day and night. Abundant' rains ell at the beginning of theweek nearly every whei 3 They cam - too la to to do good to corn, hut pasturage, meadows and other vegetation wore benefited and are improving. The soil, being wetted several Inches deep, was in good condition, aad plowing and sowing wheat were vigorously prosecuted. Much corn is cut and in shock and that which is still standing can only be hurt by a very severe frost within a few days, most being beyond all danger. Grasshoppers and crickets are verv numerous. The disappointed boomers who failed to secure claims in the Cherokee Strip arc returning in large numbers. There, is nearly as great a rush to get out as there was to get in. There were at least ten men for every possible claim. DeaCi by prairie fires and the excessive heat have been numerous and tho actual number may never be known. Nearly evevy town site on the Strip has a rival. May crimes and murders are reported. The .Strip was swept b? a hot wind Monday th.Lt readied a velocity of thirty-six miles an hour. Thehetwas stilling ahd ire air was filled with sand that made lie a burden. Further investigation of tho shortage of gold bullion at the Philadelphia mint has led to the startling disclosure that the value of the stolen tnetal will reach 1134,001, and the further discovery that the thief was an old and trusted employe named Cochran, who had been in the service of the government for forty years, fie was charged with the crime and con

fessed, and has made restitution through a return of a portion of the metal and by

means of property and a recourse on his bondsmen. The stealings have been carried on at intervals during the past eight years. Many casualties are reported from exposure and prairie fires in the Cherokee Strip. Elizabeth Osborn, 78 years old, of Saginaw, Mo., was burned to death at Buck creek. She and her husband made the race for a claim in a buggy. In the valleys of Duck creek, where they intended to settle, the prairie lire came sweeping after them. Some one "collided with Osborne's wagon and broke it. Osborne jumped out, turned his team loose and ran for the creek. Mrs. Osborne started to follow, but became entangled in the tall grass, and before she could get out was burned. Between theChickasaw river and the town of Kirk, a distance of but a few miles, there are six bodies. Two of them had bullet holes in the head and four of the bodies are burned. The prairie tires are still raging. Government employes, as a rule, are very much encouraged by the many indications given by various Congressmen of their intentions to enact legislation for the relief of those who are injured In the performance of their public duties. The disaster which occurred in Washington last summer, when the building known as Ford's Old Theater, occupied by the clerks of the record and pension division of the War Department, collapsed and killed twenty-one men and injured many more, has revived interest in the subject of compensatory damages to Government employes injured in the service. A resolution has been introduced in the House calling for an investigation of the facts of tho Ford's Theater accident, and bills will soon be introduced in both Houses providing for a disability pension list. Senator Voorhees has already begun the fight in the interest of one of his constituents by introducing a bill providing for an appropriation of $10,000 to bo paid to Capt. John B. Dowd, of Indiana, for injuries received when the old theater building collapsed on J une 9. FOREIGN. Lord Aberdeen, the new Governor-General of Canada, has been sworn in. A plot, against the life ot Emperor Francis Joseph has been discovered. London bankers have been notified to look out for a sleek gang of American forgers that are supposed to be on the way to England, ad big 4 wreck 2 A sesational story is printed that, owing tothe increasing hostility of the Italian government, tho Pope is considering the advisability of removing from Rome and that he may establish the Holy Sec in Spain. Rio, Brazil, is in a state of panic as tho result of the rebellion, the shells of the attacking squadron having done much damage. The editor of the Rio Heraldo, who favored the Rebels, was murdered. CONTAGIOUSCMME. A Successful Train Robbery in Michigan. The "Bandits Four" Get 975,000 and Want More. A train was held up between Hancock, Mich., and Calumet by three masked men and robbed of $75,C0). The scene of the robbery is on the Mineral Range Road, running between Houghton and Calumet. The Calumet and Uecla mine gives employment to about two thousand men. The company pays its men about the 15th of each month. The money taken was sent from Eastern banks by the company. The men who committed the robbery were evidently acquainted with the manner in which the Calumet and Heel a paid its employes and the day on which the money is usually shipped to the mine. The robbery occurred at 9:30 o'clock Friday morning. The engineer and fireman were covered with revolvers by two of the robbers, while the other two ordered the express messenger to put the contents of his safe in a bag which one of the robbers carried. The messenger immediately complied and handed out some $75,000 consigned to the Calumet and Hecla mine. Securing the booty the robbers fired a shot and ordered the engineer to "go ahead" which he did, and the whole affair was such a surprise that the passengers knew nothingof the trouble until after the train had started. The light guards and the sheriffs are out scouring the country. It is thought the robbers had horses conveniently near and a boat ready at the lake, for which point they could make for Northern Canada. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Great Alarm and Some Lossoi Life Near Ashland, Wis.

Tho Panto Stricken People Pray For Rain Bat Are Called From Devotion to Fran t to Exertion. Sunday was an exciting day at Ashland, Wis., because of the forest tires which threatened the destruction of the town. Settlers came in from all directions running for their lives and special services to pray for rain were held in all the churches. At noon the people were called from worship by lire alarms. The cinders and smoke became almost blinding all over the city. Over 1,000 volunteers were added to the fire department tt fight the fiames, which rushed in on the city from Ohanah Indian reservation. At 3 o'clock there was a wild cry of despair among the people living near the Milwaukee, Laice Shore & Wostern railroad shops. The waterworks had given out and there was no water. The chemical engines were tried, but it was useless to endeavor to stop the flames, as a gale of wind was blowing There are but few wells in tho city. Tho car shops caught fire and the plucky engineers soon had the thirty dead loco motives fired up, running all rolling stock to the lake front. Household goods have been burned and over one hundred families are already homeless. The sight was almost obscured by the heavy clouds and cinders. Twenty men were overcome in fighting the fiames and taken to the hospital. The timber and vegetation was like straw. A'o rain has fallen since July 10. Three families near .Marengo have perished. There was no help to go to them. Destructive fires were reported from various points in the Northwest.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Scarlet fever and diphtheria in Columbus. vRrownstown wants a waterworks system. z North Vernon is howling for a brass band. 2 Alexandria schools can't open. Diphtheria. Crawfordsville maintains six gambling houses. Elkhart has only 40 persons In its infirmary. Frankfort has quarantined against Muncie. 2 A light frost visited Greenfield, Sunday morning. Fort Wayno is overrun with stroliiug musicians. 4 Several Elwood factories resumed operrtions. Monday. 4 Strawberry vines in Porter county have teen killed by the drought. Thirty-eight divorce suits are pending in the Madison Circuit Court. All gamblers and fakirs are denied admittance to the Bedford fair. A stock company to estabish water works in Corydon, is being organized. Over 10.(03 people attended the feast day meeting of tho Friends at Plaintield, Judge Stephenson has set the BrownWosner murder trial at Lebanon for Oct. 17. The Kankakoe region in the southern part of Laporte county. is being devastated by fire. Elwood is overrun with counterfeit half dollars. Supposed to be tho work of local talent. Valparaiso claims to have the largest church membership of any town of its size in the State. James Little, of Xewton county, reports that he reaped 7X0J bushels of wheat off 1C0 acres of land this season. Judge Neal, of Lebanon, Thursday, appointed Judge Stephenson, of Noblesville, to try the Brown-Wcsner murder case. 2 Four attempts at highway robbery were made at Kokomo, Saturday night. Three arrests were made. All the victims showed fight and the robbers secured nothing. The street railway system at Evansville, is still tied up by the strikers. The strikers offer to return to work at seventeen cents per hour, but the management will pay but fifteen. ' The Bruce gang, in jail at Terre Haute charged with safe blowing, say they will make it warm for 'Kid" Gerald when they get their freedom. It is said that Gerald squealed, O. W. Riddle, of New Carlisle, while pushing a cart, struck an obstruction. The handle flew up, tearing open his mouth nearly from ear to ear and breaking both jaw-bones. Riotous and drunken conduct is reported on the part of tho Fourteenth Regiment Ohio militia, at Huntington, while enroute home from Chicago. It is alleged that the soldiers looted tho railroad restaurant and stole even the dishes. The Elkhart Review says the large destruction of fences in the late drouth by fires has turned the attention of fanners to the cost of lumber for fences, and the superiority of wire fencing. The woven wire fences arc vastly better than rail or board. The teachers of the township institute meeting at Brookville were so well satisfied with the treatment received at the hands of John C. Ellis, township trustee, that they clubbed together in a purse and sent Mr. Ellis on a visit to the World's Fair. Swindlers circulated in Dearborn county offering farmers $2 for tho privilege of posting show bills on their farms. The farmers were called upon to sign receipts for the money, and these receipts afterwards. turned upias notes calling for $50 and even $ 100. The A. P. A. is getting ir; its work in Northern Indiana. An appeal has been made to Gov. Matthews for arms to equip a military company by parties who four a Catholic uprising. The Governor responded in an official paper advising against such proceedings. A regulation prize-fight between Chas. Johnson and V. Evans took place near Broad Ripple, Monday night. Only a 'select" crowd of "sports"' were permitted to find the place of meeting, and all the arrangements were conducted with the greatest secrecy. Johnson won in nine rounds. Anderson has taken additional steps towards enforcing the quarantine against Muncie. Tuesday night thirty men were appointed to patrol the roads leading into the city and turn back those seeking shelter from the infected district. So far the disease has not appeared at Anderson. The Albion Democrat says that the total amount of taxes paid in Noble county in 1833 was $1,000. At present the total taxes will reach over $177.0X). Fifty-five years will make quite a change. Noble county has no debt hanging over it, anr. it ranks at tho head of the list of wealthy counties In Indiana. Tne grand jury, at Tipton, has returred indictments against James Armstrong tnd his son Cal, the alleged defaulting treasurer and deputy. James is held on three charges of embezzlement and conspiracy, and Cal on embezzlement. Two other sons of Armstrong, and the two young men who tried to get Cal out of jail, were also indicted. 4 The twelve years-old son of Randolph Trissell, of Muncie, was taken with smallpox. Monday As the officers forced the door open to take the boy to the pesthouse the father fired on them. The ball passed through the coat sleeve of one of the officers. The boy was secured, however, and taken to the hospital, while the father was put in the guard house. The special correspondent of thelndi? anapolis Journal at Delphi charges the Carroll county commissioners with having secretly sold $80,000 worth of county bridge bonds at a discount of $3,0;X), without the formality of advertising the same. The bonds bear 6 per cent, interest and run one-fourth ten years, one-fourth fifteen years, and one-half twenty years. Carroll county bonds have always sold at a high premium. Sf It is doubtful if any hank in tho State can report a more novel deposit than was made in Petersburg, last Saturday, when a full grown and well-fatted hog was do posited without ceremony in the ce.Iar of the Citizens' bank. Cashier Benton offered a certificate of deposit which was however, refused, tho owner doubtless thinking the stock would not bear suilicient interest at the close of a year. A Lake Shore railway detective, work-

in? up irelght-ear robberies at Butler, caused the arreat of Thomas Greenwood and John Leonard, and in Greenwood's house twenty-six suits of ready-made clothing, a box of shoes and a quantity of soap were found concealed in the wall. Leonard attempted to shoot tho officers, but wa9 overpowered. Both men were committed to jail at Auburn. The mother of Greenwood was also arrested for harboring stolen goods. After his arrest Leonard is reported as having made a confession implicating a numbor of parties in various towns along the line of the Lake Shore. The jury impaneled at Danville in the case of Henry Allison, of Plainfield, indicted for the murder of Alva Williams on tho 21st of October, during a Democratic rally at Plaintield, remained out Saturday night, and, Sunday, reported an agreement to disagree. The poll stood ten for acquittaland two for conviction. The defendant, Ahison, Is seventeen years old. On the night of the -killing, while Congressman Coopet was speaking, squads of boys and men circulated about the streets, cheering for their respective candidates. One of these was led by Williams. During the evening there was a controversy between Williams and Allison, and in the melee which followed Allison was cut in the cheek, the scar still remaining, and Williams was shot dead. Allison avoided arrest by leaving Plainfield. He afterward returned andu voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. The first grand jury which convened indicted Allison for manslaughter. A second grand jury also considered tho case and returned an indictment for murder in the first degree. This indictment proved to be defective, and he was brought to trial on the first There has been considerable feeling shown on both sides. It's Overdone. Stenography has become a craze with young women, and the consequence is that the supply greatly exceeds the demand. Hundreds of young wonea of good family connections do not care to enter stores as saleswomen, and, supposing that shorthand work is a little more respectable, go into that as a business. The profession has been overdone, and the result is that waes have fallen. Young women who show special aptitude for the business and more than usual dexterity, can command good waes, but the greater part are not well paid, nor are they likely to be until the number of those in this callinsr is diminished.

THE MARKETS. Sept, 21 1893 Indianapolis. QUA IN AND II AY. Wheat No. 3rcd,filc; No. 3 red, 58; rejected, 40(50; wagon wheat, 01. Cobs No. 1 white, 4:c; No. 2 white. 41Hc;No. 3 white, 41c; No. 4 white, 4')e;No. 2 white mixed, No. 3 white mixed, 3Sc; No. 4 white mixed, 30c; No. 2 yellow, ;wjc; No. 3 yellow, 3Uc; No. 4 yellow, 30c; No. 2 mixed, 40c; No. 3 mixed, 40c; No. 4 mixed, 30c; sound ear, 4"c for yellow. Oats No. 2 white, 29c; No. 3 white, LY)c; No. 2 mixed, 0tc; No. 3 m,ixed, 4c; rejected, 23."c. Kvk, 43c. Hay Choice timothy, 113.00; No. 1, $12.30; No. 2. Slor; No. 1 prairie, f0.75 mixed, $3: clover, 9. Bran, 12. live stock. Cattle Export grades $ 4.254.75 Good to choice shippers 3.M5.4.20 Fair to medium shippers a.203.UO Common shippers 2.50(3.00 Stackers, out) to 800 2.003.75 Good to choice heifers 3.wxtf3.50 Fair to medium heifers 2.2.:w2.75 Common to thin heifers 1.50S2.U0 (ioodto choice cows 2.GO(?3.00 Fair to medium cows 2.00$2.40 Common old cows 1.001.75 Veals, common to good 3.005.75 Mulls, common to fair l.r.O'o.OO Hulls, good to choice 2.2.Va2.75 Milkers, good to choice 27. 35.00 .Milkers, common to fair 15 0022.00 Hogs Heavy packing and shipping $'UX)rK32 Mixed 5.S(Kif5.25 Heavy 5.70 ut5.15 pjgs 5.00(015.55 Heavy roughs 4.50ra;5.75 SiiEEi Good to choice 3.00'$3.50 Fair to medium . . 2.75(3.3;) Common thin sheep 2,002.50 Lambs 3.75rW.25 Bucks, per head 2.00aj4.00 poultry and other produce. Prices Paid by Dealers. PouLTUY-llens, 7c lb; young chickons, 7li'c tt; turkeys, young turns, tie lb; hens. 8c $ tb; ducks, Oc tb; geese, f t.20 for choice. Eggs Shippers paying 10c. utter Grass butter, 14.0-153; lloN'KY 18 20C. Fkatukks Prime Geese, 40c IP H mixed duck, 20c V lb. B e k s w a x 20c for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool Fine merino, 16c; medium unwashed, lfic; coarse or braid wool, 141oc; tub-washed, 18i23e. Detroit. Wheat, 04c. Corn, No. 2, 43c. Oats, No. 2 white, 30c. Minneapolis. Wheat, 67Xc New Yoric Wheat, No. 2 red, TSjtfo. Corn, No. 2, 49c. Gats, 32c. Lard, $8.75. Butter, Western dairy, irrigate; creamery, 18 27c. Chicago. Wheat, fi8'e. Corn, 40'Te. Oats, 20:c, Pork, iit.:.0. Lard. $u. Short-ribs, 110 12.50. Cattle -ivYUM prime steers, $5.25 et5.40: choice, t.75i'5.15; Ood, $4.-10:-4.05; medium, $3.50 J; common, S2.70t1,3.30: cornfed Texaus, 3.15' 4.10; grassled Texas steers, t2.15( 2.80; grass-fed Texas cows, $1.50e'3.;:0; Western steers, 2.75(i'"3.M; Western cows, $1.752.10; feeders, $2.15(2.75. Hogs Heavy mixed and packers, $5.25et5.s; prime heavy, $5.S0(t5.y7; prime Hunt, $5.l.H'tV. 15; other lights, $4.310.10. Sheep Natives, $2.00 (a4.15; lambs, $2.75'5. 0. Cincinnati. Wheat, No. 2 red, t'0. Corn. No. 2 mixed. 42c; Oats, No. 2 white western, 28c; Rye, No. 2, "0c; Mess Pork, $12.22; Lard, $8.12; Hulk Meats, $10.25; Hacon, $11.75. liuttcr, creamery fancy, 22c; Eggn, 12l'c. "Cattle, $2.50ii)$5.25. Hogs, $ri.25(f$ti.)0. Sheep, $2.50vu?$4.75. Lambs, $4(64.60. St. Lotiln. Wheat, No, 2 rodt3c; Corn, No. 2 mixed, 40; Oats, No. 2,20c; Hutter, 22c. Ilutralo. Cattle, $3.50(H.l.a Hogs, heavy, $5.05r5,75; mixed, $0.05 $0.75; light, $7.UO"fi$7.10. Sheep, native, i.00t$5.00; Texas, $3.25( $4.75. Philadelphia. Wheat, No. 2 Red. 7lVc73!. Corn, No. 2 Mixed, Wc; Oats, 35c; butter, creamery, 27c; eggs, 15c. lialtlraore, Wheat, No. 2 Red, 00c; Corn, mixed; 4S,V"48V, ; Oats, No. 2, White Western, 35c;Ryo,53Kc; pork,$l0.G2; HutUr.ereacicry; 25c; Eggs, 13c, Kast JUberty. HogS, t0.20(-0.uO.

THE EXTRA SESSION.

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In the Senate. Friday, Senator Lirrdsay, of Kcntuckj, made his maiden speecii in favor of repeal. Mr. liiggins, ot Delaware, spoke in favor of repeal because fee believed that it was impossible for the 1'nited States to maintain free coinage alone. At the conclusion of Mr. lliggfn's speech the Senate, after a brief executive session, adjourned. In the House, Friday, the Re publicans continued their filibustering tactics ad the dead lock continued till 2 p. m. A lanro number of bills were introduced by Indiana members, mostly private pension hills. In the Senate, Saturday, Mr. Voorhees renewed his request that a day he fixed for a final vote on the repeal bill. Mr. Teller said that he would like to discuss the question, but did not wish to waste time that way. Mr. Voorhees then again withdrew his request from present consideration. Mr. Voorhees said the contest was now a test of endurance, as there was a clear majority for repeal if a vote could be had, but that there was no power on earth, or in the heavens above nor in tho depths below that could force the Senate to vote on the question. He announced that he would move for longer sessions at an early day. Mr. Allison addressed the Senate in an able argument in favor of repeal. He said that the true way to re-establish silver on a firm basis was to stop its purchase and thus force European countries to consent to an international agreement. Our present attitude, said Mr Alison, only aids England in carrying out her policy in India. Mr. Allison held the lloor for three hours and was listened to with the closest attention. At the conclusion of his remarks the Senate listened to eulogies on the late Leland Stanford, and adjourned. The proceedings in tho House, Saturday, were a repetition of the proceedings of Friday and the day before, with the single exception that the session was shorter and lasted but forty minutes. Tho tactics which the Republicans have adopted to keep out a report on the Federal Election Repeal bill, were again resorted to, and tho Democrats, not having a quorum, yielded to the inevitable, and moved an adjournment, which was taken at 12:40 until 1:45 Monday. In the Senate, Monday, Mr. Peffer occupied the time in a discussion of a resolution favoring the offering of a reward for thescalpsof tra'n robbers. Mr. Dolph opposed any action by tho Federal government in the matter. Mr. Cullora moved that the committee on judiciary be instructed to consider tho matter. The Senate then took a recess to attend the anniversary ceremonies of the cornerstone laying at the east front of tho capitol, and then returned to the Senate chamber and adjourned. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, has been ininstructed by the Committee on Judiciary to report a hill to repeal the Federal Election law When the call of committees comes the Judiciary Committee will be called earlier than the Committee on the Election of President and Vice-President. The bill from that cemmittee will consequently be reported before the Tucker bill. It lies with the Committee on Rules to fix a special order for the consideration of either bill. Judge Gates's bill is a little more conservative than the Tucker bill. It leaves in the statutes the clause cmpowering the Governors of States to call upon the Federal Government for aid !n the nent of violence and disorder. United

i States supervisors and deputy marshals

at the polls are, however, done away with. In the Senate, Tuesday, Senator Voorhees vigorously defended his course in conducting the tigut for repeal. fcfcI am arraigned for not terminating thisdebate," lie said. "I might as well be arraigned for not checking the How of the tides. Since 1800 to.thc present time, the Senate has proceeded upon the rules of American manhood, self-respect and high propriety, as well as a sense of duty to the public and of decency to itself. It is a mighty tribute to this body. There is a prevailing belief yet that no Senator will abuse patience in this debate." He alluded to the Force hill and declared that it was not debated to death, though the consideration of it lasted fifty days and the debate thirty-one days. It was killed by the power of thought and reason, slain by the law of tho majority, voted to death. fcIf there is power here to talk this bill to death," he said, alluding to the Wilson bill, 'I am ready to embrace its fate and mine with it." Senator Dolph spoke against repeal and did not disguise the purpose of, the silver men to filibuster. Mr. Voorhees then gave notice that on Wednesday he would move for longer sessions. Mr. Teller ;spoke against repeal and stated that when the sessions were extended into the night that the advocates of repeal as well as its opponents would have to be present. Mr. Hill asked Mr. Teller if he was not satisfied that there was a majority for repeal, to which Mr. Teller replied that Mr. Hill had no right to ask such a question at this time and declined to answer. Mr. Mills then took the fioor in a set speech in favor of repeal, and stated in the course of his remarks that the President wanted bi-metallism, not the monometallism of silver. In the House, Tuesday, Mr. Flinn, delegate from Oklahoma, created a sensation by asking for immediate investigation of outrages by troops at the oponingof the Cherokee Strip. He sent to the clerk's desk and had read tho accounts of the alleged depredations of the troops and then, in a passionate way, he declared that all the regulations, under which the Strip has been opened, were a disgrace to modern civilization. "The capstone of the whole infamous business," he shouted, "came when settlers, who had stood for hours in the line famishhig for the want of water, were heartlessly shot down by the military. Col. Oats, of Alabama, objected to the present consideration of the resolution and thereupon the struggle to prevent the report of the Tucker bill repealing the federal election laws was resumed. In the Senate, Wednesday, the Senators from the silver States absented themselves from the chamber at roll call. The situation became embarrassing to the friends of repeal. Mr, Voorhees moved t hat the repeat bill be taken up. Mr. Piatt was recognized, but Mr. Voorhees refused to yield the floor. He said that Mr. Piatt had not asked him to yield, and as he had arranged with Mr. George, of Mississippi, to speak, Mr. Piatt finally aswed Mr. Voorhees' consent to proceed, which was given. Mr. Piatt then proseeded with a speech in discussion of cer-

fatft rules to which he proposed to offer ait amendment at a future time. The repeal bill was then taken up, and Mr. George addressed the Senate in opposition to the measure. Mf. Voorhees moved that the Sergeant-at-Arms be directed to enforce the attendance of absentees. Mr. Cqckrell moved that the roll of the absentees be called which was done. Mr. Teller sat in his seat, but did not answer when his name was called. Forty-seven Senators responded. The absentees were Messrs, Allen, Carey. Coke, Colquitt, Davis, Aldrich, Dixon, Gordon, Hansbrough, Hunton, Irby. Jones of Nevada, Kyle, Lindsay, McMillan, Manderson, Mills, Mitchell ot Oresron, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill, Palmer, Pasco, Pettigrew, Power, Proctor, Pugh, Ransom, Sherman, Shouo, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie, White of California, White of Louisiana, Wilson and Woleott. Mr: Teller obtained the floor when It was announced that a quorum was present, and explained his action in not answering to his name. He said that he did not answer when his name was called, because It occurred to him that if he did so ha would be recognizing a rule never recognized in- the Senate that the presiding officer had a right to call a Senator on a roll call unless the Senator addressed the Chair. The Vice-President assured the Senator from Colorado that he had not been counted. In th3 House, Wednesday, the ba ;tle to secure the report on the Tucker bill, repealing the federal election laws, which began five days ago, was won by the vigorous application of the party lash, supplemented by an order from the committee on rules. Even then it required six hours of hard fighting before the stubborn minority could be defeated. Every expedient that skillful parliamentary maneuvering could devise was resorted te by ex-Speaker Reed, who stood in tho breach all day directing the movements of the minority. The task was hopeless, however, as long as the Democratic quorum, which appeared for the first time today, held. Once only did the quorum breakdown. But on the next roll call it reappeared, and the ground that had been lost wasquickly regained. Gradually by roll call after roll call, the minority was hemmed in. Tho Speaker's rulings enraged the minority, and the excitement rose to fever pitch, but there were no wild scenes as characterized the Fifty-first Congress. At one time during the fight Mr. Reed said: "if it is the purpose ofthe majority to have a rule artificially drawn, seized upon by the Speaker of the House by main strength in order to rob the minority of its rights, we want the country to understand what has been done. If you want to push this through," he added, sneeringly, "we shall see what we snail

see." An extended and bitter debate continued for the entire afternoon. The report of the committee on rules was then agreed to yeas, 17G; nays, 9 and the Speaker proceeded to call the committees for reports. Mr. Tucker reported the federal election bill and it was placed on the House calen-iar. The liouse then, at 5:45 p. m., adjourned. "TQEi0T OF ALL EVIL"

The Lore ot Money aad Iti Tragic t9uitt. The Ligonier Register gives the details of the terrible tragedy enacted near that city several days ago, which resulted in the death of Amos Bachtel and others. Samuel Deeters, a bachelor, possessor of considerable property and an erratic disposition, drew Sl,200 from bank several months ago. and in his desire to conceal it and his fear of robbery, he became well nigh bereft of reason. Finally he was induced to redeposit his money, and he placed 1,000 in the Davis bank at Auburn. Part of this money was specially secured, but when the bank failed he lost 1300. Doe tors blamed those who had influenced him to redeposit his money, On the morning of the tragedy he borrowed 170 of his old mother, Mrs. Mary Deeters, and when he asked for 75 additional she consented, but required his note for both amounts. Thereupon he gave her a frightful beating. Her screams attracted Mrs. Laura Lowe, daughter of Amos Bachtel, living a short distance away, and when she camo in front of Deeter's home, he opened fire upon her with a revolver, shooting her In the groin and arm. She died of her injuries. Then he set fire to his mother's barn and left the farm. A short distance away he met Wm. Yates, with his wife and four children, who were driving homeward, and he began firing upon them. Yates jumped from his wagon to disarm Deeters and was shot down. He is still alive. While Deeters was reloading his weapon the" Yates family drove off and escaped further hurt. Amos Bachtel then mounted his horse and started to notify the authorities at Butler, but Deeters seized his horse by the bridle rein and shot Bachtel through the abdomen. Bachtel lived but a short time. The entire community then aided in capturing Deeter, which was done without further loss of life. All the persons shot by Deeters were leaders of that community. Two thousand people attended the funeral of the victims. FORTY PERSONS DROWNED.

Frightful Flood in a Spanish Town. The town of Villa Canas, province of Toledo, Spain, has been devastated by floods. Heavy rains swelled the river and inundated the town. The people had no thought of danger. Late Thursday night, when most tho inhabitants had retired, the cloud-burst swept down on the town, carrying away almost everything In its path. Huge trees, that had boen torn bodily from the ground, were hurled with frightful v iolence against the houses. These trees acted as battering rams, and carried houses before them. So sudden was the catastrophe that the affrighted people had no chance of saving themselves. Men and women awakened from sound sleep by the tottering of their dwellings, frantically rushed to the windows and leaped out, only to be engulfed in the water that was seething about the falling houses. Other houses that escaped being demolished by the floating debris were rapidly undermined by the waters, and in many cases collapsed before their occupants could leave them. The town is a wreck. It is positively known that 40 persons were drowned, 2 The steamer Campania has beaten all records bv making the passage from New York to Queenstown in days, H hours and 50 minutes,