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VOL. V. TIE CAPITAL BUDGET. SHEKHAS'S FUNDING BILL IS THE ■ ',/> SENATE. The Time Limit Stricken Oat by a Deci sive Volto— Other Material Amendments to the Bill— A Favorable Report Prom ised from the House Committee Upon the Division of Dakota— The Apportion ment Favorably Reported— The Straw Bond Star Route Oases— Coal Product of theUnltod States -General Capital News. The Senate. Washington', Jan 27— Senator Garland pre sented a petition from the residents of and visitors to Hot Springs. Ark., for an appro priation of $500,000 for improvement of the permanent government reservation and streets at Hot Springs. Referred. Bills were introduced BySenolor Holmau— the distribution of pure vaccine virus to the people, and di recting it to be furnished by the national board of health to all persons applying for it at cost price. By Senator Edmunds— To prevent and pun ish counterfeiting within the United States of notes, bonds and other securities of foreign governments. (The bill is the one introduced by Senator of Illinois, in the last con gress specifying penalties, etc.) By Senator* Beck— To provide for the erec tion of a public building at Lexington, Ky. Senator Momll, from the committee on ed ucation and labor, reported favorably, with amendments perfecting minor details, the bill to establish an educational fund and to apply a portion of the proceeds of all public lands to public education, and to provide for a more complete endowment and support of colleges for the advancement of scientific and indus trial education. The latter portion of the morning hours -was occupied in discussion of the proposed new order of business, and at 1 o'clock consid eration of Sherman's 3 per cent, bond bill was resumed. After discussion the amendment of Davis, West Virginia, striking out the time feature of the new bonds and making them payable at any time at the option of the gov ernment was carried. Ayes 38; noes 26. The following is the vote: YEAS. Bayard, Grover, Plumb, Beck, Hampton, Pugh, Butler, Harris, Ransom, Call, Hill, Ga., Saulsbury, Camden, Ingall3, Slater, Cockrell, .Jackson, Teller, Coke, Johnston, Vance, Davis. W. Va. Jonas, Vest, Fair, Jones, Nev., Voorhees, Farley, Jones, FJa., Walker Garland, Maxey, Williams, George, Morgan, Windom— 3B. Groome, Pendieton, NAYS. Aldrich, Frye, Mitchell, Anthony Harrison, Morrill, Blair, Hawley, Platt, Cameron, Pi., Hoar, Rollins, A Cameron, Wis.,Lamar, Saunders, Conger, I McDill, Sawyer, Davis, 1115., 1 McMillan, Sherman, Edmunds, Mahone, Van Wyck— 23. Ferry, Miller, Col., Senator Butler said he was paired with Cam eron, of Pennsylvania- The amendment, offered by Senator Sher man, allowing subscriptions for new bonds made at a postal money order office upon the postmaster giving additional bonds, was agreed to. I Senator Sherman then moved to amend so a3 to make the bonds redeemable, at the pleasure of the government, at any tiiue after January 1 , ISB7. J Senator Davis, of West Virginia, said this was substantially the *ainf> proposition which had been voted upon. Senator Edmunds denied this, claiming the single question as to the time of the bond had not been put to vote. Senator Harris moved to amend the amend ment so as 1 o lessen the period of the bond to three years. Agreed to— yeas 33, noes 29. Senator Teller said he voted for Davis* amendment in order to make the bill as ob noxious as possible. Senator Sherman, in reply to latter, ridiculed the assumption his own efforts to reduce the public debt could be distorted into special cou cern for the banking and money rings. He thought, perhaps, the fallacy of that gentle man's argument was to be found in the fact of which, he, (Teller,) seemed to boast, that he did once belong to the Democratic party. (Laughter.) Sherman's amendment as modi to pro vide for a three yeir bond, was then lost. Ayes 25, noes 36. The senate then to >lc up Vest's amendment which makes the proposed issue of $300,000,000 of 3 per centl's, the sole basis for the increase of circulation of any national banks now in existence, or for the circulation of any nation al banks hereafter, is published. Senator Pugh submitted an amendment modifying the provisions of Vest's amend ment as follows: First — Making more em phatic the provision it shall apply only to banks hereafter organized or increasing their capital. Second— Striking out the proviso which forfeits the charter of a national bank if it keeps bonds on deposit ofter they have ceased to bear interest. Third— Making sec tions 5,159 and 5,160 R. 8., which the Vest amendment re-enacts, apply only to new 3 per cent.V. Discussion followed, participated in by Hill, of Georgia, Puc;h, Beck and Hawley, when it was agreed to defer the vote until the amend ment as proposed to be amended, together with the sections repealed and re-enacted thereby, could be printed. Upon this agree ment the bill was informally laid aside. Pending a motion for an executive session, Senator Butler introduced a bill for a public building at Greenville, South Carolina. Senator Terry introduced a bill granting pensions to certain Union soldiers and sailors of the war of the rebellion who were confined in so-called Confederate prisons. Messages from the president were received transmitting in further response to the senate resolution of December, a report from the secretary of at itc embodying the purport of the recent telegram from the special envoy of the United States setting forth the conditions of peace presented by Chili. Also the further response to the senate resolution calling for correspondence touching the modification of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Referred to the committee on foreign relations. Adjourned till Monday. • Rouse of Representatives. Washington, Jan. 27.— Mr. To wnsend, Il linois, offered a resolution reciting the charges that certain [residents of the territories, known as Mormons, are inciting thePiute and Navajo Indians, in Arizona, to outbreaks and lawles3 -uees, and calling upon the secretary of the in terior for any information upon the subject on file in his department. Adopted. Mr. Orth asked further consideration of the resolutions reported by him from the com mittee on foreign affairs, requesting the presi dent to obtain a list of American citizens con lined in English prisons, be postponed until Tuesday nest. Mr. Robinson, N. Y.,at first objected, de claring the resolution was a humbug, and he would move! to lay it on the table, but subse quently agreed to the postponement, which was ordered. A few private bills were reported and placed on the calendar, and the house went into com mittee of the whole, Mr. Townsend, Ohio, in the chair, on the private calendar. At 4 o'clock the committee rose and the hoase passed several private bills. The bill for the relief of Gen. James H. Carleton was lost, yeas 84', nays BS. Mr. Cornell (Wis.) ,from the committee on appropriations, reported the postofflce appro- Driation bill, and said he would call it up on Wednesday next, Mr. Prescott (New York), from the commit tee on census, reported the apportioniurnt bill, and Cole (New York) presented a minor ity report. The bill was made the special order for Tuesday. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president, transmitting in further response to the house resolution of the 24th inst., the report of the secretary of state on Indian affairs; also a communication from the secretary of the navy, In answer to the resolution of the house calling for Informa tion relative to certain lands and harbors, know as the Chiroque grant. Referred. Also a communication from the secretary of the treasury in answer to the house resolution calling for information as to national banks. Referred. Adjourned until Monday. Proposed Legislative Apportionment. Washington, Jan. 27.- -The apportionment bill agreed upon by the census committee pro vides that after the 3d of March, 18S3, the house ©f representatives shall be composed of 320 members, to be apportioned among the several states as follows: Alabama, 8; Arkan sas, 7, a gain of l;' t California, 5, a gain of 1; Colorado, 1; Connecticut, 4; Delaware, 1; Florida, 1, a loss of 1; Georgia, 10, a gain of 1 ; Illinois, 21, a gain of 2; Indiana, 13; lowa, 11, a gain of 2; Kansas, 6, a gain of 3; Kentucky, 11, a gain of 1; Louisiana, 6; Maine, 4, a loss of 1; Maryland, C; Massachusetts, VI, a gain of 1; Michigan, 11, gain of 2; Minnesota, 5, a gain of 2; Mississippi, 7, a gain of 1; Missouri, 14, a gain of 1; Nebraska, 3, a gain of 2; Nevada, 1; New Hampshire. 2, a loss of 1; New Jersey, 7; New York, 84, a gam of 1; North Carolina, 9, again of 1; Ohio, 21, a gain of 1; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania. 29, a gain of 2; Rhode Island, 1, a loss of 1; South Carolina, 6, a gain of 1; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 10, a gain of 4; Vermont, 2, a loss of 1; Virginia, 10, a gain of 1; West Virginia, 4, a gain of 1; Wisconsin, 8. Coat Product of the United States. Washington, Jan. 27.— The census office has just published its report on the product ion of bitumous coal, from which it appears the total amount mined in the United States during the census year 1880, was 42,420,580 tons, of which total 29,842,240 tons were pro duced in Appalachian coal fields, Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, furnished over one tenth, and the states of Pennsylvania. Illinois, and Ohio, nearly three-fourths of the entire product. The average price per ton at the mines, in 1880, waa $1.22, while iv 1870 It was $t.92,ata cost of 88jcents. An average of 431, -53-100 tons was raised per mau, and 665 per cent, of the year's workiner time, or about twenty days per man, was lost in strikes. Suf ficient information was gathered to justify the assumption that exhausted fields form but a very small fraction of the total available coal land. Attention is called to the fact that although the value of tin product has fallen wages have not correspondingly decreased, and totals prove a gain of nearly a third of a million dollars annually, in favor of labor. The anthracite| product was 38,640,996 tons, ue arly all furnished by the state of Pennsyl vania! making the to'al product of this country lor the censns year, 71,067,576 tons. England produced 146,818,122 tons in the, same year. Division of Dakota. FAVORABLE COMMITTEE REPORT. [Special to the Western Press.] Washington, Jan. 27. — The sub commit tee of the house committee ou territories, to whom was referred the bill to divide Dakota into two territories, have agreed by a vote of four to one to report the bill at a meeting of the full committee to-morrow, with a favor able recommendation. The member who cast the negative vote was Dugro, of New York, who regards the bill as a republican party measure, but he admits the full committee will undoubtedly take favorable action, and thinks it will be certain to pass the house Hainin ii to the Pine Land Hi mi. Washington, Jan. 27— Senator Van Wick, Nebraska, to-day submitted the following resolution, and asked that it lie over until to morrow as he proposed to make some re marks upon it: Whereas, The records in the general land office show great abuses and frauds in surveys allowed by deposit under sections 2,401 and 2,402 and 2,403, Revised Statutes; therefore Resolved, That the secretary of the interior be directed, through the commissioner of gen eral land office to instruct the surveyor general approve no more applications for survey un der the deposit system, and that all proceed ings In: suspended under applications already approved until further action by congress, so that co itracts unlawfully procured may not be recognized as valid. Resolved, That the committee on public lands make investigation of the nature and ex tent of such alleged abuses and frauds, what redress may be had for auy los 3 sustained by the government, and what legislation is neces sary to prevent their recurrence in the future. Senator Van Wyck says the system of town ship surveys have become a gigantic swindle, and he proposes to demonstrate it in his forth coming speech. The original law provides that parties depositing money to pay for sur veys, might get scrip in return, which should be receivable in payment for lind within that survey. Van Wyck says parties feeing how it could be used, got the law amended so as to make the scrip receivable for public land anywhere In the United Slates. He says an enormous ring has been formed,which includes most of the surveyors general and other government land officers, and that this ring makes a survey of worthless land, and then uses the scrip they get in return for de posits tor surveys to purchase the most valu able government lands of the West; that last year this ring made $2,000,000 out of this method of operation, and he proposes to crush the ring. Senator Van Wyck says he has the proofs necessary to establish these allegations. t '-.it* Amendment. Washington, Jan. 27.— The following is the text of the amendment to the funding bill offered by Senator Davis, of West Virginia, and adopted to-day: "That the bonds herein authorized shall not be called in and paid so I long as any bonds of the United States here- j tofore issued bearing a higher rate of Interest than 3 per centum, and which may be re deemed at the pleasure of the United States, shall be outstanding. The last of said bonds issued under this act shall be first called in, and this order of payment shall be followed until all shall have been paid. Galumtt Canal . Washington, Jan. 27.— The secretary of war to day transmitted to the senate the re port of Major Lydecker, U. 8. engineer upon the survey of the Calumet river, from South Chicago io the village of Pullman, on Lake Calumet, Ills. Major Lydecker recommends an appropriation of a blank sum for improv ing the Calumet river and the Illinois from its mouth to the forks at Lake Calumet, and suggests all expenditures for this purpose to be limited to perfecting and maintaining. General Capital Netes. ANOTHER MEMBER TO ILLINOIS. Washington, Jan. 27. —The house commit- I tee on census has finally agreed to increase the j number of representatives from the state of ! Dlinois from twenty to twenty-one, which j will make the total number of representatives , 320 instead of 319, as proposed by McCord's I bill. With this amendment McCord's bill is to ' be favorably reported. j THE JEANNETTE. Secretary Hunt has received the following . cablegram, by post, from Yakutsk, Siberia I January 7, via Irtusfe: "S.XTST, Secretary of the Navy, Washington. —Telegram received. Every effort i 3 being made to find the missing men. Melville, with two men and Russian authorities, goes north. Danehauer and nine men go to the Atlantic seaboard. Report sent by mails. (Signed) Melville, erroneous. The statement that the United States treas Daily urer had reversed his decision in regard to the surrender of bonds deposited as security for bank circulation, which bonds have been called in for redemption, is erroneous. I-;;,-;" £ EULOGY. A eulogy upon President Gar field will be de livered in the house of representatives Feb ruary 27tb, by Ex-Secretary Blame. ; t£;V£ NOMINATIONS. The president to-day nominated John Campbell surveyor of customs at Omaha, Neb.; W. A. D. Lewis, postmaster at Vin cennes, Ind. BREVITIES. Washington, Jan. 27.— president has signed the bill authorizing the retirement of Ward Hunt from the supreme court. - ";[• * The secretary of the Interior transmitted to congress the report of the government direc tors of the Union Pacific Railway company for 1881. The directors claim that enormous benefits have resulted in the West from the competition of this railway in developing its great resource. Gen. Hazen, chief signal office U. S. A., states, A. J. Tilby, who has been attacking the service through the colums of Western newspapers, styling himself "Retiring libra rian of the signal corps," is actuated In that course by refusal of the chief signal officer to reenlist him in the service, because of his ut ter incompetency. '■ ,? : v The treasury department purchased 355,000 ounces of silver for distribution at Philadel phia, San Francisco and New Orleans mints. The senate confirmed: F. K. Jones, com missioner of the New Orleans mint, and Milo Blair postmaster at Sedalia, Mo. The house committee authorized a favora ble report on Representative Ritchie's bill pro viding for three terms of the circuit and dis trict conrts of the United States for the west ern district of Ohio. ;: ":'-/.' i : -'i The postofflce appropriation bill was report ed to the house to-day. It appropriates $43, -639,800, being $22,500 less than the amount asked for by the estimate, and $2,681,868 in excess of the amount appropriated for the current year. STRANGE CASUALTY A Can From the Damping around Caares an Explosion, Killing One Person and Injuring Nine Oihcru. New York, Jan. 27.— At the dumping ground in East Ninety-Ninth street, Benjamin Burns, aged 14, picked up from the debris what appeared to be a tomato can filled with grease. He threw it into a bon-fire when an explosion immediately occurred. It was violent enough to throw a saloon keeper in an adjoining street from his shop Into the street. Dense black smoke and clouds of ashes obscured the scene of the disaster. When It cleared away, ten persons were found lying in the lots injured, and neighbors Hocked to their rescue. NAMES OF THE UNFORTUNATES. Benj. Burns, aged 14; killed. The wounded are. Mary O'Keefe, Eliza Jones, John Ross, Joseph Jones, Albert Jones, Catharine Miller, Michael Poleson, Thomas Ward. Some of these are severely wounded. The can is thought to have contained nitro glycerine. A BLACK SHE El*. H . O. Hoffmao, the Eloquent 31. K. Divine, Convicted of Adultery, Bloomington, 111., Jan. 27.— Rev. O. H. Hoffman, pastor of the First Methodist church, has been on trial before the church committee for the past ten days. The charges were teductiou and bastardy in con nection with a former servant girl named Zetta Robinson, poor, but of decent family. To-day a unanimous verdict was found, de claring him guilty. Hoffmann is one of the most prominent and talented Methodist minis ters in the West. He Is aged 47. About six years ago he was acquitted of n similar charge by the church at Quincy. Chicago Summer Trotting Meeting. Chicago, Jan«27.— At a meeting this after noon of the Chicago Driving Park Associa tion, the progiamme for the summer trotting aeeting was adopted. The meeting will begin on July 17th and last a week. Eighteen races are announced, with purses aggregating $30, -700. The sum of $10,000 has been set aside for special purses. In offering them due cousideration will be given to such trotters as Maud S., St. Julieu, Trinket, Hopeful and others, whose records prevent them entering class races. It has been found necessary to bar Little Brown Jug from the pacing class. A special purse or Btake will be offered for Phil. Thompson, Sweetheart and Fred. Crocker. Two of the eyents will be on stake races, with $1,000 added in each case by the association. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Oil City, Pa., Jan. 27.— A boiler at Logaa's machine works, undergoing repairs, and being tested this morning by James Tarhill, fore man, exploded under a pressure of sixty pounds of 6team. Tarhill was on top of the boiler at the time, and waa thrown up into the air and killed instantly. His arm was hurled against the front of the opera house across the street, bespattering the bricks with his blood. Two other employes were seriou9ly Injured, and a number of persons on the street had miraculous escapes from death. Several win dows in the opera house were demolished. Suicide for Love. Dayton, 0., Jan. Thos. Allen com mitted suicide this morning near Brook3ville, ten miles from D.tyton, by shooting himself through the head. Allen was engaged in Billing goods through the country and he be came enamored with a lady whom he met. She refused to receive his affection, and after an interview last evening he gave up all suc cess. Allen was an old soldier and lived at the Dayton home. ; WONDER UPON WONDER One Piano Worth $650 and $100 Worth of - -' , ' Goods Given Away Free Again Colton & Co. come to the front with ; the above munificent offer. Every person visi- ! ting the Big Glass Store during the next ten days will receive a numbered business card; ! and, at the expiration of that time, duplicates lof the same will be placed in the hands of i some well known citizen, who will draw one from the lot, and the person holding that number will be entitled to select goods to the value of $100 from Colton's enormous stock, free of all or any charge whatever. Every per son purchasing 50 cents worth of goods in the same time, will receive a card entitling them to a chance in a fine upright Kirn ball piano, costing $650, the drawing of which will be conducted in the same way. Messrs. Colton j & Co. take this means of drawing people to i their grand closing-out sale. New goods are ! now arriving and the stock on hand must be j disposed of. A list of the prices at which they ' are now selling goods, would seem so incredi i ble that we will not attempt to give It, but we • say go and see' for yourselves, and you will be t surprised. For enough money can be saved in ! a purchase of $2 or $3 to pay your fare from i St. Paul to Minneapolis and return, j ________ : A young man and his fair damsel, liv ing in Bernadotte, Nicollet county, went to St. Peter the other day to get married. He left his bride expectant in a store for the ostensible purpose of procuring a mar riage license, but took his team and left, and the girl had to wend her way home alone. She says the truant swain must yet come to time, or there will be a "muss." 81, PAUL, SATUBDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1882. STORM SWEPT. Disastrous Storms Throughout th* East ern States— Large Destruction of Prop erty In New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Verm nt, Etc. Boston, Jan. 27.— A heavy gale to-day from west, northwest, did much damage in portions of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. It was very severe at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Congregational church steeple was blown down, another steeple badly damaged and much loss occasioned by the tearing up of tree 3 and fences, the demolition of chimneys, signs, etc. Three persons were injured, Mrs. Godfrey probably fatally. Thousands of dollars worth of property were destroyed. At North Adams a one story brick building, 800 feet long, belonging to the Zylorite works, containing some valuable machinery, was blewu entirely from its foundation, the bricks scat tering in all directions. The walls v>f a two story brick building belonging to the same company, was so damaged 300 feet in length will have to be reduced and new roofs laid on the whole works. The works are owned by New York and Bostoi. parties, and the loss is said to reach $10,000. A steam engine house at Cheshire, and Ice houses attached to the property of the Housa tonlc Ice company, blew down, with a damage of $2,000, and the covered highway bridge at Bard well's ferry was completely demolished. At Newburyport, about 100 feet of tin roof, with timbers attached, blew off the Grand Army hall, aud smashed in a dwelling house. At Nashua, N. H., the four story shoe fac tory building was raised two feet out of per pendicular, and caused the 200 workmen in it to stampede. Julln Clark jumped from the second story window, and it is thought he Is fatally hurt. Others were bruised or fright ened. At Rochester, N. V., the large exhibition building of the Rochester Fair Association, was overturned. It was filled with carriages, all more or less injured. At Lewiston, Me., four chimneys were blown down, plate glass windows were blown in, a horse car overturned and church steeples started. At Rockland, Me., the roof of the gas house and many chimneys were destroyed. At Gardner, Me. , the ice house of the old Orchard Ice company was destroyed. Burlington, Vt., Jan. 27.— This morning the 'city was visited by the severest gale for many years, doing great dam age to property. One wall of the Burlington and Louisville Railroad depot, a lofty brick building, was blown in and the roof blown off. The roor was also blown off of two buildings of the Burlington Cotton mill. Many chim neys were blown down and large numbers of trees was prostrated. The ice was swept out of Lake Cham plain and the. Burlington bay almost in an instant. Much havoc was done in the lumber yards. New Yohk, Jan. 27. — Furious wind storm prevails througbont interior of the state, se riously interrupting telegraphic commuaica tion, ac Syracuse, school house blown down and other damage done. ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. The Howard alumni held their annual ban quet last night. Jno. MeEwao, a prominent lumberman of Bay City, Mich., died Thursday. Eight new cases of small pox were reported to the state health officer of IliiuoW. yuatc.rday. Chas. Hazelton was killed yesterday at Fon dv Lac, Wls., by a load of wood falling upon him. Muoro's Seaside Library printing house, New York, was badly damaged by fire on Friday. Washington Roberts killed his wife and then himself at Memphis yesterday. He accused her of infidelity The legislative dead lock at Albany, N. V., continues. The legislature has adjourned un til Monday night. E. N. Burghart, merchant tailor of Detroit, Mich., has assigned. Assets estimated at $9,000, with less liabilities. Judge Price killed Capt. Harry Turner at Chester, Mississippi, yesterday. They were lawyers and quarrelled in court. Hartlaub, Smith & Co., importers, of To ronto, have called a meeting of creditors. Liabilities, $60,000, assets $23,000. The firm offered 25 cents on the dollar in cash. Wilson Russell, a prominent lumberman of Northwestern Pennsylvania, was killed yester day by a log falling upon him while loading cars at Big Shanty, twelve miles south of Bradford. W. Gilmore, a man of family, and a paper hanger by trade, of Louisville, Ky., fell through a hatchway at Bradley & Gilber's book bindery yesterday afternoon and was fa tally injured. J. Cohn & Co., Chicago, jobbers in tobacco, have failed, through having attempted to do a large business on a small capital. Liabilities $40,000, assets $60,000. The debtors are almost entirely in the east. The second inquest held at Lowell, Wia., over the body of Mrs. Thomas Doyle, re sulted in a verdict of death by strangulation. Her husband, who was arrested as the mur derer, is out on a ten thousand dollar bail bond. An unknown man who died of smallpox in El'iotville, Ohio, was buried after remaining four days in an outhouse. He has been iden tified as Renton Coulter, aged 20, a native of Ohio. He formerly traveled with Sells Bros.' circus. The secretary of the interior has transmitted to the committee en Indian affairs a letter concerning the alleged complicity of the Mormons in the Indian outbreak in Utah and New Mexico. He orders the fullest investi gation. The iusurance department of New York has been notified by the Union Aid Association, of Buffalo, that state, a co-operative life in surance company, that owing to the failure of members to pay their last assessment, it will discontinue business J. A. Htflln, of Wapello, Louisa county, lowa, fatally shot hsB wife Thursday, and then ended his own exietence by patting a bullet through his head. Nothing as to the motive is known beyond the fact that the couple had lived unhappily together. At Flint, Mich., Thursday, night, Wm. Sul livan and Leander Ogdeu compelled a man named Wright, at the mouth of a revolver, to yield up his money. While counting the money the thieves were arrested by officers who had been apprised of the contemplated raid. The Western Furniture Manufacturers' con vention at Cincinnati voted to raise the price of black walnut furniture ten per cent, and all other five per cent. Also to fix sixty days as the limit of credit, except in the far West, wheie it may be ninety days, and to give ten per cent, oil to retailers for cash and fifteen off to jobbers. The military reservations reported to the hcaue as no longer needed by the department are: FortFetterman, Wy.T.; Fort McPherson, Neb.; Camp Sheridan, Neb ; Camp Indepen dence, Cfll ; Forts Hartraft and Benton, M.T., Hot Springs and Fort Sieilacooa, W, T.. Whipple Barracks, Arizona; the coal reserva tion on Sulphur creek, VVy. T.; Fort Dodge, Kas. and Fort Lyon, Cal. Mrß: High, teacher of a public school three miles from West Jefferson, 0., called In John Butler, one of the directors, yesterday after noon, to assist her in quelling a disturbance among the pupil?, instigated by a boy named Geo. Scott. Butler so enraeed Scott that the latter struck Butler on the head with a piece of coal and crashed his skull. It is not possi ble for Butler to recover. Scott, who is 19 years old, has escaped. A wildcat was killed the other day near Cannon lake, which weighed twenty eight pounds. John B. Qough has engaged to deliver ten lectures in Minnesota this winter. •.CKfafaE. CHOKING HIM OFF. Gulteau to be Deprived of Publishing Ad dresses or of Writing Letters-Mrs. Soo- vllle Still Hopeful or the Final Result- Apt Suggestion of a Slipping Nocse by Henry Ward Butcher. Washington, Jan. 27.— Scoville and Warden Crocker had a discussion at the jail yesterday as to the propriety of allowing Guiteau's ad dress to go out. Scoville at first opposed, but finally yielded in this instance. He said so long as the papers will print Guiteau's screeds he fancies he has the ear of the press, that he is superior to hla counsel, and can manage the case entirely in his own way, while as a matter of fact he is indebted to his own utterances for yesterday's verdict. Warden Crocker suggested: "If you will not supply him with any more stationery I will see that he does no more writing." it was finally set tled between counsel and the ward that for the next week no one shall be permitted to inter view the prisoner, and that no communication shall go to the public. Mrs. Scoville. ■ Mrs Scoville, who has kept herself aloof from the reporters since the news of the con clusion of the Guiteau trial, was asked last night if there was any truth in the story that her husband was about to apply for a divorce on the ground of insanity. She expressed greal surprise and indignantly repudiated the suggestion as ridiculous and untrue. She showed this dispatch: "Washington, Jan. 26, 2:35 p. m —Mrs. Francis A. Scovlile, Chi cago: Have written fully. Nothing new. Remain quietly at home. Imperative. (Signed) Geo. S. Scoville. He put imperative in because he feared that she would start East upon receiving news from her brother, J. W. Guiteau. that the ver dict "guilty," could not be otherwise under the judge's charges. She didn't think the verdict settled anything but it was provi dential for it probably saved Charles from a mob. The next time the case is tried the re sult will be different. Public Sentiment. Dcs Mgines, Jan 27— In the house to-day Repres«ntave Stone offered a resolution that the jury in the Gulteau ease deserve the plaud its of the American people and that they be hereby tendered the thanks of thia house for their most righteous verdict. Mr. Monton thought the resolution out of place and stat ing that the jury had only done their duty. He moved to lay the resolution on the table. Carried. An Inspired Slip-Noose . New York, Jan. 27.— Henry Ward Beecher, af_ dinner of the stationers' board of trade to-day, speaking of Guiteau's cage, said: "I think the man who received an inspiration from heaven will also have a line dropped to him from the same direction. Question of Jurisdiction. Washington, Jan. 27.— 1t is said to-night after consultation with able lawyers, Guiteau's counsel are thinking of raising an issue against the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia court, and of applying for a writ of habeas corpus to bring the assassin before the District supreme court. The defense Will Claim mat ttie court in Washington had no right to try the prisoner because his victim died in New Jersey. Several leading lawyers of the bar here are of opinion this would be a formidable move on the part of the defense. THE GALLOWS. Two Victims Swung Off, and Tlm« Called on Two Others. Sentenced to Hang. St. Loma, Jan. 27.— Emmett Jones, who shot and killed Anton Valle while asleep on board the steamer Lady Lee, lying at the wharf in this city, July 29, 1881, and Chas. Rose, who killed Geo. Ingram at the corner of Sev enth and Cairo streets early in April of last \ear, were sentenced by Judge Laughlin, of the criminal court, this afternoon, to be hung on the 10th of next March Both men are colored, and both had motions for a new trial before the court, which were overruled. •John A. Morris Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 27.— John A. Morris, colored, was executed at Shelby.N. C, to-day, In the presence of 4,000 people, for the mur der of Joe Rourk, colored, on the streets of Shelby on the night of August 10, 1880. The murder was committed in revenge, the mur dered man testifying falsely a&ainst Morris In a larceny case. In his confession several oth ers are Implicated. August Davis. New Orleans, Jan. 27.— August Davis, colored, was hanged at the parish prison for an indecent assault upon a white woman in the suburbs of this city on the 25th of Octo ber. Davis aseerted to the last that he was in nocent of the crime for which he was to die, but was not sorry to go. A Confession Implicating a Brother. Hapbisbcbg, Pa., Jan. 27,— Frank Rum l>erger, Victor Proatmon's murderer, under sentence of death, made what he calls a true confession, this afternoon. He charges the shooting of Proutman to his brother, Henry Kiimbcrger. The Church of Humanity. The church of humanity in Brooklyn has started on its second year with the following unique programme: "First — To give every tramp a good bath byway of baptism into the church. "Second— To dress him in a new and clean suit. "Third — Give him a square maal. "Fourth — Put him to work, and if he declines the offer and is able to work, send him along. "Fifth— Provide a lecture room, read ing room, library, and all the blessings of society. "Sixth— lf he drinks too much, colon ize him in the country, twenty-five miles from a grog shop. This church has no salaried officer. No one ever gets a dol lar for working for humanity. It puts every member to work, helping each other. It is a mutual help church. Several thousand dollars was spent last year, and more will he needed this year" Willing to Divide. [Detroit Free Press.] One of the New England regiments which went into the action at Second Manassas had been on short rations for two days, and on that morning some of the companies hadn't a single hard tack left. As the fight opened and the bullets began to sing, one of the men rushed up to his captain and called out: "Say, captain, can I be excused?" "What for?" "I want to go back and hurry up our provision wagons. ' ' "Can't spare you; fall into line; the wagons are ten miles away." '•Yes, I know they are," protested the soldier; but I've got hold ot a blamed fool who'll bet two to one that I can't make that ten miles in fifteen minutes. Lemme go, captain, and I'll whack up half of the bet." RAILROAD NOTES. . Supeiintendent Sanborn, of the lowa and Dakota road, is in St. Paul. E. A. Holbrook, of Toronto, age at for immigration to Manitoba, is in St. Bgul. G. S. Pulford, city ticket agent c f the Grand Trunk road at Brockville, O it., is in St. Paul. A. B. Stickney, president of the Ci nnon Falls River Improvement company is fit ting up an office in the Donaldson Hock. General Manager Haupt telegn.phed transportation, on behalf of contra 3tors, to take 100 men from Little Falls to work on the Little Falls and Dakota railroad. The travel to Winnipeg is something surprising, and every train that go 28 up goes heavily loaded. The railroad men here say they never saw any thing like it before. S. S. Merrill, general manager cf the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul roaJ, P. M. Meyers, secretary, and C. 11. J »rior, assistant general manager, are in St. Paul consulting. As an indicaiion of a large immigra tion this coming year, it may be men tioned that the Northern Pacific sert out three parties yesterday to Miles City to establish sheep and cattle ranches. One of the charcoal cars on tie St. Paul and Duluth road took fire a aight or two ago, and was burned up and ut terly destroyed near the Northern Pacific junction. It is supposed that seme of the fire in the charcoal was not t xtin guished when the coal was put on the car, and that the breeze fanned the slight fire into a blaze. • The treasurer, auditor, and the pur chasing agent of the Northern Pacific road arc to move to the fourth story of th ? Da vidson block,on the corner of Jackson and Fourth streets. Mr. Hannaford will remain with the freight office where he vow is In the two rooms over the land office. The land department will also remain where it now is. In view of the recent accident at \ alley City, Gen. Haupt has issued a circuHr, to all the men on the road, cautioning them to exercise extra precautions. He tails upon all employers, superintendents to take every means to induce the men to be careful and guard against accidents. The circular closes with a notification that no one will be removed except for caust . DAKOTA SWINDLING. A Report that There is an Organized Crowd to Defraud Eastern Business Men [Racine, Wis., Special (Jan. 26) Evening Wis consin.] Albert Brown, of Scotland, Dakota, who was reported by the commercial agency of R. G. Dun worth $25,000, tried to swindle Freeman & Sons, the Ricine boiler makers, out of $1,600 by forging a paper with signatures of alleged wealthy farmers who are myths. Freeman <fc Sons shipped them a car load of fanning mills, and were tendered this paper. The commercial agency reporter at Scot and, Dak., seems in league with them as well as other noted men, and reports on the paper were favarable. By accident sus picion was aroused and an agent of Vree man & Sons was sent out to investigate. He reports, so Mr. Freeman states i a an interview, that there is a band of influ ential men, the foreman of the grand jury, secretary of the govern or, justice of the peace, constable, commercial agency reporters, and others organized to swindle eastern nan ufacturers. Requisition papers were issued by Governor Rusk and placed in the hands of ex-Sheriff Fielding, who, in company with Freeman's agent , left here Tuesday, and will arrive in Yank ton to-night The jealousy of Sheriff Breinner, of Racine county, let the secret out, and serious threats are made towards him. It is estimated thai the total swindles of these Dakota carpet bag gers amount to over a quarter of a mil lion dollars. Every effort is being made to keep it quiet until Brown is captured. It is believed he will squeal on the ot tiers. The most prominent Dakota officials are reported implicated in the great.' teal. A DYNAMITE SCARF. rhe Story of an Old Man, a Small B<>,j, a Hog and a Tin Can, [Boston Post.] A rrowd waiting for a train at an up country railroad station had a heap of fun the other da)'. An old man came there with a small tin can which h3 set down on the platform. There was quite a crowd present, and among the gang a farmer with a big yellow dog, and i boy with his Satanic Majesty in his heart. The boy set out to have what he con sidered fun. While the farmer and the owner of the can were not bok ing he inveigled the unsuspi cious canine over by the can. The ahe produced a cord and tied the can to the dog's tail. These proceedings ivere watched by many of the bystanders jvith keen.interest. When the job was done the boy drew away to give the dDg a chance to run. But the animal didn t. It just stood and looked miserable. The crowd whooped to start him. The(oin motion attracted the notice of the faraer and the owner of the can. Thefatmer was awful mad. He wanted to we Hop whoever tied the thing to his dog, and was about to release him; but the old nan interposed: "Run foryour lives!" he cried. "There's dynamite in that can, and the minuU the dog starts things will be scattered round here like an earthquake had called." A great change came o'er the crcwd. Their looks of mirthful interest fa-led. They turned and fled. The dog saw t aem going and started after them . The f a rm er was nearly frantic. He wanted to save his dog, but after hesitation, tuined and fled, too After him went the dog, on the gallop, dragging the can. It ttiln't explode at first, but they knew it was liable to at any minute, and they ran like deer. The train came to the station, and the old man who had not fled, bo i -ti ed and left. Finally the can got de tached from the dog's tail. Then the terror of the mob had subsided. They retnmed to the station. Somebody discovered that the cover of the can had come off. The can contai ned only two eggs. Half the crowd had in tended to take the train, but by fleuns? they had lost it. They were the mad dest men alive. They couldn't get at the old man, tor he had gone on the train But they took hold of that boy, and while two held him the others took turns with the shingle. His yells were he ard two miles away, and the hide on cer am parts of him is all tired out. He won't try to amuse a crowd again. OLD WORLD NEWS. EFFECTS OF THE PARIS PANIC . . SPREADING, OVER EUROPE. Failure of Leading- London Slock Flinu— Startling Conspiracy Discovered In the County Cl*re, Ireland— DeFreyclnet In trnsted With the Formation of ■ New v French Cabinet— A Morrnan Emigration ■ Meeting on the Outskirts of ' London Broken Vp I>y a Mob— General European Neiri. ■ : >:■ ..^b'M^ .JZZ:../ .GREAT BRITAIN. • London, Jan. 27.— A dispatch from Dublin says: Lloyd, magistrate of Claire, Limerick and Cork counties, has informed the authori ties of a widespread and dangerous conspiracy in his district, an informer having revealed all the plans of a secret association engaged in it. . ■.:, ■■■- Ji ■. : . ... " . The following stock exchange firms have failed: Chas. Ray, Jr., with heavy differences in Erie; Dacosta & Fuld; Nathan A Hertz, dealers principally in foreign securities. Also the old established firm of Manner, Button & Graham; liabilities of the last mentioned firm are estimated at £30,000. . . . . The Russo-Jewish committee will meet Ellin ger, the delegate of -' the New York emi gration board in London, Monday next to con sider his emigration scheme. . The lord mayor has conferred in the past few days with English Jews in regard to the emigration of Jews from Russia to America. London, Jan. 27.— Six : Mormon elders en deavored to hold an open air meeting at King's Cross yesterday. They were accompanied by a procession of Mormon men and women, singing hymns. One of the elders delivered an address, and urged upon his hearers the advantages of .„ emigration to Utah. ,' The meeting was broken up by a large crowd who attacked the Mormons. Several persons were hurt. London, Jan. 27.— Sir Robert Christisoa died to-day, aged 84. . ; , Dublin, Jan. 27— A stock broker has failed for £180,000 sterling. Five of the merchants failed. Liabilities £(50,000. London, Jan, 27— A dispatch from Berlin says: Alexander, a highly esteemed broker; committed suicide yesterday on account of Bourse settlements. There were a few minor failures here \ and at Hamburg and Frank fort. A dispatch from Geneva states the panic oa the Bourse there continues. A lending bar rister committed suicide. London, Jan. 27. — News 7 dispatch from Paris states De Freycinet, Andrieux, De Chan- " zey, Say and Ferry had an interview with President Grevy yesterday. The Times' correspondent announces De Freycinet has been intrusted with the forma tion of a cabinet. . FRANCS. Paris, Jan. 27— It is reported President Greyy has sent for De Freycinet and Leon - Say! ■„■• "■■■<•-; Geld in the banks of France sin cc the last report has increased 111,828,000 francs and silver 93,687,000 francs. London, Jan, 27— A Paris correspondent says iv regard to the consequence of yester day's vote in the chamber of deputies, it may be predicted Sambetta's fall will not make a profound impression on the bulk of the na tion who thirst for the rest they have long . lacked, and which Gambetta's accession to power apparently made more remote. Paris, Jan. Gambetta's speech in the chamber of deputies yesterday was very elo quent, and was applauded even by his adver saries, especially the ; part in which he repudi ated the insinuations that he aspired to the dictatorship. After his speech he proposed that the clause in favor of the pemtin de llste be inserted in the committee's resolution, and that the final paragraph of the resolution, which the government opposed, namely, the one asserting that "It is expedient to revise constitutional laws," be voted upon first. The proposal was made primarily in the hope that the chamber would not stultify itself by reversing the decision it had just recorded on Barodet'9 amendment in favor of revision of the consti tution in its entirety. The chamber adopted the paragraph by a vote of 282 to 227. . Gam betta then announced his resignation. By this maneuver he appears before the country as having been overthrown for opposing a wild scheme for indefinite reform. Other votes • on the bill were taken subsequently. After the eittin/ Gambetta appeared to be cheerful and confident.* . '• . <i !■", S'KKAL FORK I G N Vienna, Jan. 87.— -Many Austrian gendar mes iv Herzegovia have deserted, owing to the insurgents committing barbarous cruelties on captives. ■ r -\ Berlin, Jan. 27.— Emperor William spec dally thanked Bismarck for his defense of the imperial rescript In the reichstag, Tuesday. Great Indignation was created among the mem bers of the reichstag by. an article in the North German Gazette, bitterly attacking Haenhel, who attacked the rescript in a speech before the reichstag. St. Petersburg, Jan. 27.— report is re ceived here of the murder at Scivotilo, of * Jewish family consisting of a father, mother, daughter and little child. . Berlin, Jan. 27.— 1n the relchstae to-day Henry Van Boetlicher, secretary of state, said the government regarded the proposed exhibi tion at Berlin In 1885 as premature, and be lieved the advantages that might result from the exhibition would be out of proportion with the expenditure involved. International arrangements are nearly concluded with re gard to the periods for holding exhibitions, and in what countries alternately they shall be held. -:-' 1 .;';; .."•: daily weather bulletin, Office Chief Signal Ojtioeb, # Washington, D. C, Jan. 27.-9:66 p. m. > £>:■"-: Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather. Fort Garry.... 30.27 -9 N Lt. snow. St. Vincent . . 30.27 -12 " NW Lt. snow Bismarck ..... 30.40 -13 NW Clear Moorhead.... 80.25 , -10 N. Hy enow. Du1uth....... 29.84 26 NW Cloudy. St. Pau1 ....... 29.87 34 8 Cloudy. DAILY LOCAL MEANS. Bar. Ther. Dew Point. Wind. Weather. " 80.080 20.6 : 12.7 SE Fair. Amount of melted snow .0; >■ maximum thermometer, 84.0; ; minimum thermometer, -1.0; daily range, 35 0. River— Frozen. — Means below zero. : Note— Barometer corrected for temperature end elevation. • Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. O. a. m. cosh, Private Signal Corps, U. S. A. WEATHER TO-DAY. v Washington, Jan. 28, 1 a. m.— lndications: For Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, light rain or snow, easterly to southerly winds during day, shifting to much colder west and northwest winds, followed by rlsicz barom eter. _____^ •■••■- ' , -.^ . ° Mr. John F. Finerty will elucidate the Irish question to-night at the opera house. Go and hear him. '.- Queen Victoria once wrote a leader for the London Times. As she has never written another; it is supposed the type setter made her say, instead of "The sun never sets on the British dominions " "The gun never rests on the blighted Domicians . "—Courier- Journal NO, 8