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THE DEMOCRAT. B. II. ADAMS, Publisher. CAPE GIRARDEAU. - MISSOCCL The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Proceeding t the Second Kesilon. IS the United States senate on the 3th the credentials on Richard F. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, reelected to the senate (or six years from March 4. l&S. were presented. The bank ruptcy bill was discussed In the house the bill to repeal the differential duty Imposed by the tariff bill on sugars from bounty-paying countries was considered. A bill was passed authorizing the secretary of war to make a survey of Kalamazoo harbor. Michigan. Mr. Springer introduced a bill designed to carry out the financial recommendations of the presi dent in his message to congress. Ox the 29th the bankruptcy Mil was dis cussed in the senate and Senator Chandler N. H.) spoke against the pooling bUL A bill was passed to amend the interstate commerce law mo as to permit the sale of Interchangeable mileage tickets to commercial travelers In the house the bill to repeal the discriminating duty on sugar was passed. The senate joint resolution reviving the grade of lieutenant general or the army for the benefit of MaJ. Gen. Schofleld was presented. A bill was in troduced advocating the publishing of labor bureau reports at intervals of not less than two months, to contain current facts as to the condition of labor here and abroad. Ik a discussion of the currency question in the senate on the 30th Mr. Vest said he would foltaw the president's lead no longer, and bit terly denounced the financial measure pro posed by the president A bill was Introduced permitting Associate Justice Jackson, of the supreme court of the United States, to retire on account of 111 health In the house the time was occupied in discussing the Union Pa cific railway bill. In the st-natcon the31stult. SooatorsGonran and Hill made strenuous efforts to have some immediate action taken on the financial ques tion. Resolutions were passed calling on -Sec retary Carlisle for lntonnat on concerning every detail bearing on revenues, reserves, de ficiencies, etc. A Joint resolution providing for a special election the first Tuesday of Cc tober. 1895, to ascertain tho will of the people respecting financial matters was introduced by Senator Peffer In the house the time was occupied in discussing the Pacific railway lundlng bill. P. OK the 1st the district appropriation bill wa taken up again In the senate and served as a text for further financial discussion, during which Senator Teller, representing the silver element, gave warning of opposition to any financial plan not agreeable to him In the house, during a debate on a Hawaiian resolu tlon. Congressmen Breckinridge (Ky.) and Heard (Mo.) called each other liars and one blow was struck, when they were arrested and made to apologize. A bill was passed giving the Seventh judicial circuit of the United States, composed of Illinois. Indiana and Wis consin, another judge. A resolution was adopted calling on the president for all corre spondence and information regarding the al leged aid furnished the rebels in Hawaii by representatives of the British government. DOMESTIC. Eiohtek.n thousand carpet weavers were preparing' to strike at Kensing ton, Pa., if their demand for higher wag'es was not conceded. It was said that some if not all of the state schools of South Dakota would be compelled to close on account of the defalcation of ex-Treasurer Taylor. Daniel M. Hakuwick shot and killed George Ward, his brother-in-law, at Mexico, Mo., and then killed himself. Family trouble was the cause. Police officers tired on riotous strik ers ic Hrooklyn X. Y., one of whom, Michael Madigan, was probably fatally wounded. Ekxkst R. SrrnKX, of Peoria, 111., eloped with Amanda Heberer, and his father threatened to shoot him on sight. A train load of ore valued at 81.000, 000 left the Independence mine at Crip ple Creek, Col., for Denver. Receivers were appointed for the Bucyrus Steam Shovel & Dredge com pany of South Milwaukee. The liabili ties were 8259,675 and the assets 84tl, 841. A stbinoest bill against prize fight ing and race-track gambling was meet ing favor in the North' Carolina legis lature. Oveb 300 families in Racine. Wis., were receiving help from the city. The men were willing to work, but could find none. The hearing of evidence in the trial of the American Railway union officials was begun in Chicago. Wisconsin cranberry growers are in need of aid, their marshes having been destroyed by forest fires. Eleven trained ponies and thirty five educated dogs in winter quarters at Hloomington, Ind., were burned to death. 4 The national board of trade met in t twenty-seventh annual session at Wash ington. W. Norton, jhe theatrical man ager, died from tfie injuries mt?ived In tho railroad wreck at Coatesvllle, Ind. The petrified body of a man 20 feet in length was found on Thamas Vurk er's farm near Albia, la. The will of the late, James G. Fair was stolen from the office of the coun ty clerk at San Francisco. David Hampton (colored) was elec trocuted at Sing Sing, X. Y., for the murder of Mrs. Annette Ahrens, a widow 70 years of age, in New York on the night of December 29. 1892. The work of the special examinersof the pension bureau in Washington has fallen into an arrearage of over 20.000 cases owing to the recent lack of ap propriations. The aggregate gross earnings of thir ty railroads in the United States for the third week of January were 83.341. 411, an increase of $5(i.302 over the cor responding period a year ago. A maxiamis to compel Commissioner I,oehren to restore the pension of Judge Long, of Detroit, to its former rating was granted by the District of Columbia supreme court. I Charles K. Hughes, Jr., was accused of using $40,000 fraudulently while cashier of the First national bank of Lima, O., and was arrested. Willie Hcsn and his brother tried to light a fire with gasoline at the orphans' home at Logansport, Ind., and one was killed, the other fatally burned. Eleven trained ponies and thirty-five educated dogs and one monkey, the property of Prof. W. Gentry, were burned to death at their winter quar ters in Blooming ton, Ind. Fued Hoffman, United States com missioner of D county, O. T., was as sassinated by unknown persons near Taloga. Boilers exploded in the electric rail way works at Denver, Col., killing Frank Waldrod and Conrad Uitzer and Edward Stanley and John Brown were fatally scalded. Joseph Havm & Sons, dealers in dry goods and general merchandsse at Me ridian, Miss., failed for 8200,000. Amono the numerous bills introduced in the Illinois house was one directed against the wearing of high hats at theaters. Crawford Crosby, alias Cherokee Bill, a noted outlaw, was captured at Mowata, I. T., by two men who had secured his confidence A sled load of young people went over an embankment near Salem. ()., four being seriously hurt. Weslet Tabor was arrested at Belle ville, 111., charged with the murder of the McClellands. father and son, et Centralia, fourteen years ago. George Bean, near Richmond, Ya., while protecting his stepmother from assault was shot and killed by his father. C. W. Stanford, tax collector and probate officer of Concord. Mass.. was said to be Sla.OOO short in his accounts. He had disappeared. The financial statement of the mid winter fair at San Francisco shows that the total receipts were 81,200,112 and the expenditures were 81,193,200, leav ing a surplus of 832.404. The Kansas legislature passed a law making every kind and form of betting and gambling a felony punishable by from one to Sve years in the peniten tiary. Peter Olson, wife and three chil dren, who lived near Sterling. N. 1).. and a hired man named Bathga, lost their lives in a fire. Chari.es Donovan died in an epilep tic fit while being arraigned in court at La Junta, Col., for attempted crimi nal assault upon a 3-year-old girl. All but a few companies of the troops on duty at Brooklyn, N. Y., were withdrawn, the strike being prac tically over. Sixty thousand dollars in gold was found by Jesse J. Drew at his sawmill near Hollandale, Miss. The treasure was supposed to have been buried dur ing the civil war. Wiley Clements and Joshua Hughes, mine bosses at the Champion mines near Birmingham, Ala., were fatally shot by Bud Jones, a negro miner. Solicitor General Maxwell has re signed owing to differences with At torney General Olney regarding the in come tax. Harrison Stevens (colored) was hanged at Dawson, Ga., for the murder of J. G. Wells a year ago. Mrs. Zindlinger and her twin daughters were burned to death by a lamp explosion at Philadelphia, I 'a. Arizona bandits held up a Southern Pacific train near Wilcox and blew the express safe with dynamite, securing 850.000. The bank of Trenton, Neb., was ordered closed by the state banking board. The twenty-seventh annual conven tion of the National American Woman Suffrage association met at Atlanta. Ga., with Miss Susan B. Anthony, its president, in the chair. An investigation showed that twenty-one of the chain gang of convicts at Savannah, Ga., were permanently dis abled by exposure to freezing weather. The Leonard Smokeless Powder company, with a capital of 810.000,000, made an assignment in New York. Exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 1st aggre gated 8942,531,003, against 8917,003,847 the previous week. The increase, com pared with the corresponding week in 1S94, was 24.2. The Michigan senate passed a joint resolution submitting to the people an amendment to the constitution pro videing an educational qualification for electors. The steamship Kingdom, forty-two days out from Shields, for Charleston. S. C, was thought to be lost with her crew of thirty-five. Intensely cold weather prevailed in the northwest. At Grantsburg, Wis., the thermometer registered 42 degrees below zero and at Negaunce, Mich., 40 below. There were 354 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 1st, against 363 the week previous and 370 in the corre sponding time in 1894. IJecacse his 2-year-old son wonld. j not stop crying Alexander onkariago. of Wilkesbarre, Pa., dashed its trains out on a hot stove. Champion CoSS'eit discussed spar ring matches before a committee of the Minnesota legislature, defending his profession. The Iron Mountain mine in Shasta county, Cal., was sold for 8300,000 cash to an English syndicate. A treasury statement shows that the receipts from all sources during the month of January were 827,804,399 and the expenditures 834,823,447, a deficit for the month of 80,719,048 and for the fiscal year of 834.282,070. John Keno died at Columbus. Ind. He was one of the first train robbers in the United States and was a daring in dividual. Catherine Morrison, of New York, a wealthy young woman, committed suicide by cutting her throat in a church confessional. Bud Ellis, a M-ithodist preacher at ! Aurora, Mo., while insane killed his wife, shot his daughter and took his own life. The coinage at the several mints dur ing January was: Gold, 83,098.300; sil ver, 8574,000; minor coins, 8OS.2O0. C)f the silver coined $200,000 was in silver dollars. Since July 1, 1894, the number of silver dollars coined was 3,293,978. Brouwer &. McGowan, brokers a the New York stock exchange, bav suspended with liabilities of $400,000. Directly lowered his pacing record at Fresno. CaL, by half a second, malt ing the mile in 2:07 K. Joe Patchen beat Robert J. three straight heats. Time. 2:06!,;. 2:12?, 2:00- T:e deaconess home, a hospital in Cleveland, O., was destroyed by fins and four of the fifteen inmates were cre mated. During January the fire losses in the United States amounted to 8l0.93(.9(i8, against $13,576,485 in January. 1S94. Gov. Morrill, of Kansas, signed tha anti-lottery and anti-gambling bills the first to lecome laws at this session of the legislature. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Db. Ferdinand W. Ostka.ndf.u. who had the reputation of ln-ing the oldest practicing physician in Brooklyn, N. Y., died at the age of !H) years. Judge E. Rotkwooi Hoar, United States attorney general under Presi dent Grant in 1870, died at his home in Concord, Mass., aged 79 years. Thomas Quayi.e. one of the veteran shipbuilders of the great lakes, died at his home in Cleveland, O., aged 85 ysars. Congressman John L. Wilson was nominated by the republican caucus at Olympia, Wash-, for United States senator. Ward McAllister, the well-known leader of New York society, died of tho grip, aged 04 years. Gov. Nelson, elected United States senator, resigned and Lieut. Gov Clough became governor of Minnesota without special formality. Miss Pearl Broadsword, age! 10, the largest girl in Ohio, weighing 480 pounds, died at Litchfield. Mrs. Joseph Studeiiaker, of Ander son, Ind., who had fasted and slept for 117 days, is dead. Capt. Isaac Keys, a federal officer under Presidents Lincoln and Grant, and a prominent banker, died at Springfield, 111. Rev. George W. Dunbar and Miss Elizabeth Mystery were married at Peoria, 111. The groom is 82 years old and has leen married five times In-fore. The bride is 48 and this is her first at tempt. FOREIGN. Costa Rica has joined the other Cen tral American republics in assuring Guatemala of support in the event of war with Mexico. The North German Lloyd steamer Ellie was sunk in the North sea by the Crathie and of the 400 persons on board but twenty-five were saved. A strong movement in behalf of an nexation to the United States was under war in Newfoundland. The sultan of Moroceo appealed to England to place his kingdom under a protectorate, as he did not feel able to hold it himself. Sweden has increased the tariff duties on all American products. Dispatches from Chefoo announced that the Japanese eaptured Wei-Hai-Wei. The Chinese loss was placed at 2,000 men. It was said that iermany was deter mined to force a tariff war upon tho United States in order to satisfy tho agricultural party. English bankers expressed the opin ion that Europeans were losing confi dence in the commercial honor of the United States. Twenty business buildings at Coati cook. Que., were burned. Investigation of the wreck of the steamer Elle in the North sea shows that 314 persons lost their lives in the disaster. An unknown man ran amuck in the streets of Constantinople, killing three persons, among them an American, and wounding ten others. Mexico had not declared war against Guatemala, but troops were being rap idly massed upon the frontier. LATER. In the senate, on the 2d,, the confer ence report on the fortifications appro priation bill was agreed to and a fur ther conference ordered on the item in dispute. Mr. McPherson (dem., N. J.) gave notice that he would, on the 4th, call up his resolution to discharge the finance committee from further itonsid eration of Mr. Sherman's bill "to pro vide fcra temporary deficiency of reve nue." In the house, the senate bill reviving the rank of lieutenant gen eral in the army, to le conferred upon Maj.-Geu. Schotield, was called up and passed. The Pacific railroad bill was then taken, up. The credentials of the Chinese peace envoys at Ijtiroshima were found, upon investigation, to be very imperfect and to leave them Slolutely jwwerlvss to conduct binding negotiations. The Japanese commission refused at once to continue negotiations and request ed the envoys to leave the countn as SOJu aS possible. A DISPATCH fftVui Cr.c-Koo, on the 3d. said that the Japanese hail captured the island of Ling Kung Tau, the last stronghold of the Chinese at Wei-Hai-Wei. The bombardment was terrific ami lasted for hours. The Chinese an swered it with unusual spirit, but many of their guns wre disabled early in the engagement. The Chinese government appropri ated 81.000 to the lather of Rev. James Wylie, the Scotch missionary who was murdered by Chinese soldiers near the Liaoyaug mission early in the war. The father has instructed the mem bers of the mission to erect a chapel and hospital at Liaoyang to Mr. Wy lie's memory. A dispatch from Chin Kiang, China, on the 2d, said that a small hunting party from the American war shipCon cord accidentally shot a native, and was overpowered and carried off by other natives. An armed force was sent to rescue the party, but had not yet reported when the dispatch was tent. The weekly statement of the New York associated banks for the week ended on the 3d showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, 89,128,950; loans, increase. 81S'i.S00; specie, in crease, SlJ'i'.SOO; legal tenders, de crease, S12,45,700; deposits decrease, S12,M,4O0; -circulation, increase, 851, 000. Chabi.ep 'II. Manning, the well knowa pool player, died, on the 3d. at his home in New York, of grip. He was born -i .Alton. 111., thirty-seven MISSOURI STATE NEWC Mlssourians at C'hlckamaufra. A Washington dispatch of a recent date says: Gov. Stone, of Missouri, has written to Oen. J. S. Fullerton. ot the Chickamauga and Chat tanooga park commission, about the participa tion of Missouri troops in the battles. A bill. Is now before the legislature for the erection of suitable monuments to the Missouri troops. The state was well represented on both sides in the battles of Chickamau ga, Missionary Kidge. Lookout Moun tain and around Chattanooga. The Mis iourians fought well, and lost heavily. Gov. Stoae writes that he has called the attention of leading members of the general assem bly to the bill, and has strong hopes that . it will receive attention. Other states have al ready provided for the recognition of the jalorous deeds of their troops on these fields. Eighty monuments have been put in place. The fields are to be dedicated in September by t he government, and state commissioners are flushing the work to have their monuments ready by that time. Col. It. F. Northcott. Col. Benjamin F. Northcott, of Lin neus, aged 77, died the other morning from paralysis. He was born In Fleming county. Ky.. and was the son of Rev. Benjamin F. Northcott. a noted pioneer Methodist preacher of that stale. He united with the Methodist church wten 17 years of age and began preaching at the ace of 23. In 1817 he was a member of the Illinois state constitutional convention. In IBM he moved to Linn countv. Mo., and was pre siding elder of the Hannibal district M. K. church. In lSft! he returned to Illinois, and, with Col. Jacquess, raised the Seventy-third regiment, volunteer infantry, becoming lieu tenant colonel of the same. This was the cele brated preacher regiment, all of its oftVers be ing Methodist preachers. After the war he re turned to Missouri. He was a member of the board of curators of the state university, and prevented the removal of that institution from Columbia. He was at one time president of the liuriinglon & Southwestern Railway Co. An Awrul Deed. Rev. Benj. Reed, of the Methodist church, who resided 4 miles south of Aurora, killed his wife and daughter, aged 10 years, the other day, by shoot ing. He then went to the home of his brother Perry, 2 miles distant, where he entered a room and shot himself, dying instantly. He had been married to the woman he killed only a week. He had two children by his first wife, a boy and the girl he killed. The mur dered woman also had a daughter, aged 12. The girl and the boy were at school when the killing occurred. No cause is known for the deed. Reed had made his will, leaving his property, about 5:5,000, to his children. Will ICeeommend a w Foot Office. J. T. Remington, building inspector of the treasury department, has in formed the post-office authorities in St. Louis that he will recommend the con struction of a new post-office building for St. Louis, the facilities of the pres ent location being inadequate for the increasing business. His idea is to de vote the present quarters to the fed eral courts and other governmental business, and put up a new building exclusively for use as a post office, on Twelfth and Olive streets. Lost at Sea. John B. Vinke, of St. Charles, was a passenger on the steamer Elbe, which went down in the North sea, and is numbered among the lost. Mr. Vinke was 39 years old. and a prominent citizen of St. Charles, where for many years he engaged in the urug business. He married a daughter of Capt. Ed Fulkerson. whose death occurred a vear or two after marriage leaving no children. Mr. Vinke had been on live months' sojourn in Germany, and the report of his untimely end prostrated with grief bis brothers, F. A. and Dr. H. H. Vinke. of St. Charles. A Generous Contribution. The citizens' soliciting committee shipjMMl from north Bates county the other day to J. F. Dye, at Palisade, Neb.. 23.000 pounds of flour and other provisions forthe drought-stricken suf ferers. The railroad company would no longer carry provisions to them free of freight charges, so the committee prepaid the freight to destination. A Temple for Spiritualists. Plans have been drawn for a temple for the St. Louis Spiritual association, which has been engaged during the winter in the work of gathering to gether a fund to purchase a lot and erect an attractive ind commodious house in which to hold their meetings. The site has not been chosen. Auditor Selhrrt's Report. Auditor J. M. Seibert has filed with Gov. Stone his statement of the trans actions of his department during Janu ary. It shows a balance January 1 of 8719,725.45; receipts during January, $903,441.47; disbursements, S157,490.l5; leaving a balance February 1 of $!, Ki5.G7G.S0. " ' itanlei It. GlaiebrOdk, Daniel Boone Glazebrool died in Audrain, Bates county, the other day, of pneumonia. He "fts CO years old, a brother of Sheriff. Glazebrook, who was asphyxiated and died from escaping gas in a hotel in Jefferson City some years ago. Mr. Quick, of Kansas City. From a package of letters and a pho tograph found on the levee in St. Louis, it is supposed that W. H. Quick, of Kansas City, committed suicide by drowning after placing the letters where they would be found. Raided by Whitecapa. Eleven whitecaps, it is said, visited the home of Wm. McGinnis, near Crutcher, Saline county. McGinnis was not at home, but his two sons were roughly handled. Y. 31. C. A. Rooms Closed. The Young Men's Christian associa tion rooms at Hannibal were closed the other day on account of the hard times. The furniture and fixtures will be sold to pay a debt of 82,000. On the I'o-Operatlve Plan. At St. Jopesh 200 collar and harness makers out of employment by the burning of Wright's factory will go in to business on the co-operative plan. Itad Fire at Riebmoud. At Richmond fire originating in Menefee &. Mayficld's hardware store destroyed the Democrat office and many other business establishments. Dead on the Track. Patrick Wolf, of near Noonan, Ralls county, it is surmised, fell dead on as railway track of heart disease, and the body was run over bv a train. MISSOURI LEGISLATURE. Jefferson City. Jat. S Senate The morning hour yesterday was spent in a lively discussion of the fets of the judge of tie pro bate court in St. Louis. Senator Lancaster, of St. Louis, wanted to make the salary of the office $$,500. Senators Klenc and Mott, repub licans, opposed the amendment. They said the probate court had been run for twenty-four years practically in the interest of one man. and that man is a democrat. The people bad elected him. expecting that he would re ceive the fees of the office during his incum bency. Senator Lancaster's amendment sought to cut off the fees at once. This would cut the juce off with a salary of ..vx) only, they said, when he expected to get $IH.0M. It was mado as an amendment to Klcne's bilL Senator Lancaster said he pre sented the amendment merely to get the opin ion of the members. His amendment is a retaliation upon the house republicans, who are cutting off democratic fees.! Lan caster's amendment was adopted by a vote of 15 to 16. This put the senate in a hubbub. Lancaster didn't want the amendment adopt ed, rnd he said so. but he couldn't change the result. Then he offered another amendment to have the bill become a law as soon as it is passed. The obvious Intent was to load down the bill so that it wouldn't pass. Senator Busche moved to lay the amendment on the table. This involved the body in a wrangle, which was Hnally ended by being withdrawn. The matter was left open pending an adjourn ment. House The house was the scene of a rat tling debate on the bill to suppress Sunday base ball. The previous question was ordered yeas. K): nays, 33 so the house goes on rec ord against Sunday base ball. The bill pro vides for a fine of &0 for each offense and prohibits football as well as base ball. Mr. Tubbs' bill reducing the salary of the lieutenant-governor to five dollars a day ond mileage during the sessions of the assembly and rU additional. during the years when the assembly is not in session, was sent to engross ment after a spirited debute. Mr. Phipp's bill taxing the big department stores in the large cities $50 per annum for each line in excess of one principal line of goods was discussed at length. A motion to bible received, ayes. SO: nays, 49, the speaker casting the deciding vote. JLFFEHSON ClTT. Jan. 31. SENATE LicKt.- Gov. O'Mcara's ideas for revision of the regis tration and election laws anplicable to cities have been emhodied in a bill introduced yes terday by Senator Morton. (Its principal features are the presentation cf the cenitieate of registration containing the voter's description as a condition precedent to his beirg iK?rmiiled to vote and com plete new registration every two years, be ginning the lirst Monthly in Junuury. Re peating is made a felony. The board of re. vision is to be appointed by the recorder of voters, who is to be the presiding oflicer. and it is to be composed of one membr from each ward, and to lie divided equally politically. Revision shall be for forty days and re view for ten days. The action of such board of revision and reviews shall not be s.ub ject to any review by any other tribunal. Pub lication of names of those stricken of! shall be made in one English and one German paper three lays before the board of review begins its work. I An amendment was added that the proceeds of the state tax shall l)e paid into the sem inary fund for the benefit of the state univer sity. HorsE Mr. Spencer, of St. Louis, intro duced a bill authorizing the authorities of the city of St. Louis to adopt a subway system, and to contract for its building. (This is an effort to have all wires, except trolley wires, placed under ground. JefkeusonCitv. Feb. I .Sen ate The fol lowing measures got through safely yester day: Hy Senator Wurdcman: To provide for the election of collector of the revenue in St. Louis county. Ky Senator Williams: Allowing officers with certificates in contested elections to challenge votes given to the contesting party by giving twenty days' notice. Hy Senator Kennish: To exempt cities of the fourth class from the Australian ballot law in city elections. Hy Senator Love: To establish a court of criminal correct ion lor Jackson county. Hy Senator Klene: living the circuit courts of St. I,oms jurisd.clion in contested elections of justii es of the peace. Hy Senator Uaskett: Increasing the salary of the penitentiary physician from $100 to iMJino. Hy Senator Gray: Itequiring counties. cities and towns to take bond from all contractors tor public works as a condition for the pay ment of labor and material. Hy Senator Klenc: To promote uniform legislation in the different states b7 creating a commission to confer with like committees from .ther states. House Among the bi. Is passed were the fol lowing: Senate bill providing for making a new Judicial circuit out of Pettis county. House bill making it a felony to enter a horse at any race track or fair association under an assumed name. House bill making it a felony to incarcerate any alleged insane person without due process of law. Jefferson City. Feb. 2. Senate Yester day the ways and means committee reported favorably the bill changing the terms of county assessors from two years to four years, and making them ineligible for any office until a term has intervened. The bill was engrossed. Senator Peers, of the committee on criminal jurisprudence, reported favorably the bill pro viding that a petition for change of venue must be submitted oa evidence, and may be rebut ted; engrossed. By Huskett: Authorizing citicS Of the third class to organize into special road districts. Hy Wurdcrman; Providing thjl flf ?rei annual payments shall have Deea made on life insurance policies they shall be nonforfeita ble Adorned until the 4th. Hc'use The resolution requesting the United States senate to pass the Hatch anti-option bill was adopted 100 to 13. The anti-cigarette bill was ordered to en grossment. Save the emergency clause the bill reads: "Any parson who sells, pays for, furnishes, or acts as agent for purchase or procurement of any cigar, cigarette, cigarette paper, or to bacco in any of its forms, to any child under the age of IH years, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be pun ished hy tine of not more than ."00 nor less than fcin for each offense." Representative Uittinger, of St. Joseph, in troduced a bill revising and making some im portant changes in the chapter concerning the suite university, and it meets with the ap proval ot the friends of that institution. An important provision is that not more than five curators shall belong to the same political party. Jefferson Citt. Feb. 4. The house con vened Saturday without a quorum being pres ent. Jackson county did not have a represent ative on the floor, and Messrs. Taturo. Kylcr, o Kelliy, Lynch and Rohna represented St. Louis. The house bill requiring corporations to pay wages weekly was reported unfavorably. Mr. Murray introduced a bill making It a misdemeanor for children under 18yeartou.se cigarettes. The committee on reads and highways re ported adversely a bill for the establishment of a roads and highways commission, coin posed of three senators, three representatives, the president, vice-president and secretary of the state road association. HOLIDAYS. Good Fkiday is a legal holiday in the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mary land, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In many others it is informally observed. Tun Jews were commanded to cele brate a jubilee feast, or national holi day, every fifty years. All Jews in bondage to their brethren went free on this feast. The Festura nerbarnm was the day on which the Roman women carried bundles of herbs and fruits to the tem ples. It was afterwards made a Chris tian lnMdar- THROUGHOUT MISSOURI. MiMourl School of Mine. Mr. Courtenay DeKalb, professor of mining' and metallurgy in the Missouri school of mines and metallurgy, at Roll a, in answer to the statement made by the junketing' committee of the legislature that nearly all the appro priation for equipment had been ex pended in such a manner as to give the students practice in the concentration and development of gold and silver rather than those minerals in which this state is more particularly inter ested, said: This is an entirely gratuitous assumption of the committee, absolutely without foundation In fact, and would indicate that the committee was unable to judge of the relative importance of the various appliances in the mining and metallurgical plant of the school of mines. The truth Is that out of an expenditure of $10.00) for equipment, only tCSO were expended for equipment intended for the reduction of gold and silver ores, being one-sixteenth of the to tal. Part of this gold and silver plant., moreover, is equally applicable to the treat ment of copper ores, which are mentioned la the report among the products of Missouri, so that, deducting the cost of this machine, there remains an expenditure for plant adapted only to the treatment of gold and silver ores the Insignificant sum of S34S, being merely one-twenty-ninth of the total outlay for equipment. The whole of the plant, excepting this small outfit for gold and silver, is adapted to the treatment of lead, zinc and copper ores, in addi tion to which it is applicable to the concentra tion of iron and other ores of less importance. The criticism of the committee, thetefore, falls, to the ground when tested by facts. The labo ratory equipment of the Missouri school of mines consists of the best and most modern apparatus, every appliance being of standard size, so that students will here be enabled to gain practical experience in the treatment of ores with identically the same machines which are employed in the great mills and reduction works of Missouri and other leading mineral states. Additional appliances are needed to perfect the equipment, but as it stands It Is capable of treating all important ores." Swept by Flames. Pon.AK 1'i.uff, Mo., Feb. 1. With the mercury at 1 degree above zero at 4 a. m... fire broke out in the rear of A. Frank's bakery, which resulted in-. the" total loss of that building, together with four others, caus ing the following losses: A. Frank., bakery and confectionery, total los $'.',()0a: C. O. Fisher, building. 81.000; same on removal of merchandise from, adjoining room, SoOO; Mrs. Waltemate, boarding house, S500; Ilutler County Democrat, total S2.0DO; J. C. Clevelan, jewelry, musical instruments and in surance, total loss, including the fire insurance record of Cleve lan. Duncan and Ilorton, at least $.",000, and 81,000 on building: tlrafe Bros., tailors, total loss, 85, 0(10 on stock and 81,000 on building; Spear estate, building, S'-J.OOO; E. W. Wright, saloon stock and fixtures. 81.000; O. R. Albro, building. $3,000; on billiard hall 82,000, and the Morris, hotel damaged S"00, making a total loss of nearly 830,000, with only part insured. The origin is supposed to have been accidental from the oven in the bakery Stories Quickly Told. Marccline has a population of 3,156. Pattonsburg has been voted avity of the fourth class. Considerable sickness exists in the 8edalia schools. At Springfield horses continue to die from wormy corn. Noah Hudson died from cigarette smoking at Centralia. The bankers of Pike county have formed an association. Rlackleg is prevalent among the cat tle in Crawford county. The union revival at Farmington re sulted in sixteen conversions. Carthage citizens contributed hand somely to the Nebraska sufferers. Ex-Congressman Charles H. Morgan will take up his residence in Joplin. Farmers in the neighborhood of Tar- kio are feeding cattle on cottonseed meal. David Groves, aged 89, a resident of Lexington for sixty years, died re cently. In Saline county Miss Mary A. White sues it in. i. f oreman ior oreacn of promise. Elder Dillon has brought fifty sinner! to the mourner's bench at Iterea church in Nevada. Mrs. George Tracey, colored, of Ham ilton, died from bullet wound from- an unknown. The Sedalia civic federation is get ting evidence against gamblers and saloonkeepers. Mr. Dave Lyons, of Marshall, ha two pieces of currency issued by the colony of Virginia in 1775. At St. Joseph J. M. White was held up and rooted in daylight while 100 people were around. Of the 229 boys discharged from the state reform school, 157 are reported as being good boys. The Sunday-closing law will be en forced by St. Joseph barbers. All vio lators will be arrested. Missouri has joined hands and sent the shekels flying from all parts of the state to the Nebraska sufferers. Anson Cory, aged 112, of Lafay-tt county, is the oldest ex-slave in Mis souri.' He was all through the r. John M. Nuckols, managing editor of the Kansas City Times, was married to Miss Emma Davison, of Jefferson City. Rev. E. A. Spring, pastor of the Bap tist church, Farmington, has been made treasurerofthebaptistcollegeatFa rm ington. Mr. Jared Williams, of Moberly, tried, to use lye instead of soap as a cleaner,' and he gave his face a wash that will" last for some time. The Alpha Literary society ot Cairo . and the Golden Star society of Moher ly will tear up the earth in a joint de bate a few weeks hence. J The bodies of two men, unknown, were found in a refrigerator car on tha Kansas City, Fort Scott fe Memphis railroad, at Kansas City. St. Louis capitalists have secured a sixty-day option on the Central school block at Nevada. They will build a " hotel and business houses Joe Coio, colored, waatedt for the, murder of Daniel Mitchell, at tha O'Fallon (St. Charles county) fair two years ago, was arrested at Quincy, 111, '