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THE DEMOCRAT. B. II. ADAMS, PablUher. CAPE r.TRARnFxr MT!nrT?i r JANUARY 1 896. 2 Sun. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri. SaLjj: 4 ill 18 it 25 8 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 3 19 20 21 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 TfTTTTTTTTVftnrTTVTTT4 The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. The Proceedings of the First Session. The republicans carried t:ielr resolution In the senate on the 3uth lor teoieanisa tlon by a vote of 30 to 2. the six populisms, who held the balance of power, declining to vote, and the list of committees was announced A bill was introduced pio hibitlng the issuance of bonds by the United States unless confess shall by resolution declare the necessity for them. Senator Loage (Mass.) speke at length upon the Monroe doctrine, and closed 1 y predicting that the Venezuelan question between England and the L'n:ted States would be peaceably wttled The house was not In sesnion. In the senate Tuesday Senator Sherman (O.) offered a resolution for the eatoraur-n of the gold reserve, which thereafter should be held sacred for the -edemp'ion of the greenbacks and treasury notes, the former to be reissued only in exchai.be for gold coin and bullion. No action w as taken. Adjourned to the 3d.... In the house bills weie Introduced to repeal tne law allowing a rebate on the tax on al cohol, and to repeal the ten per cent, tax on the circulation of banks other than national banks. Adjourned to the 3d. In the senate on the 3d Senator Sherman 0.) spoke at length on the bond question, paying that additional revenue is needed, that the gold reserve should be kept Intact, and that free coinage was the most danger ous of policies. Senator Elklns' W. Va.) resolution directing that all bond Issues be advertised and the bonds offered to the public caused a vigorous debate, but no ac tion was taken. Adjourned to the 7th In the house a resolution was offered to impeach Comptroller Howler, of the treas ury, for refusing toexecute the laws of con press in paying the sugar bounty. Ad 4ourned to the 6th. DOMESTIC. It was said that hundreds of cattle And horses were drowned in the swollen ptreams on the Usage reservation in Oklahoma, entailing- ruinous losses to many stockmen. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 30th tilt, wns: Wheat, 69,958,000 bushels; eorn, 5.S17, 000 bushels; oats, G.4GS.000 bushels; rye, 1,553,000 bushels; barley, 3.702,000 bushels. The Li. W. Ladd company, one of the largest dry goods firms in I'rovidenee, 11. I., failed for $227.51)0. James A. Boyd, whose name is known wherever pressed brick are made, died at his home in Chicago, aged 56 years. Express trains on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern collided near Scki tan, O., and two men were killed and ine injured, five of them fatally. The house of William Atkins was destroyed by fire at Akron, Ala., during the absence of himself and wife and their three children were burned to death. The Western Baseball league will consist of the following clubs next sea son: Milwaukee, St. Paul. Minneapolis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Detroit. Co lumbus and Grand llapitis. In speaking of the burning to death of Mrs. T. J. West and the shooting of W. A. Devers by a mob near Lexington, Ky, Gov. Bradley eaid that he would spare neither labor nor money in run lung down the perpetrators of the crime. Willie Black, aged 11; Sao Toole, lf. and Addic Clay born, 14, were drowned while skating at Creston. O. rts iuc resuii oi a iuei eausea Dv a feud, J. W. Spafford, a planter living near New Lewisville, Ark and Jobu Croker, a neighbor, nre both dead. The Larson & Libbey company, deal er in lumber and manufacturer of sa; h, doors and blinds, failed in Chicago lor 5100.000. All the furnaces nt Newcastle, Fu, were closing down as the result of de mands of employes for pay for a day and a half on Sundays and a corre spond increase on holidays. During1 the year 1895 immigrants to the number of 229.G07 arrived in New York, an increase of C1.944 over the year 1S94. Heavy frosts prevailed throughout California, seriously damaging the orange crop. The national Armenian relief com mittee of New York appeals to the peo ple of the United States for immediate and generous contributions to relieve the needs of 350,000 Armenians who are destitute. Thepresidentannouncedthe appoint ment of the Venezuelan boundary com mission as follows: David J. Brewer, of Kansas; Richard II. Alvey, of Mary land; Andrew D. White, of New York; Frederick R. Coudert, of New York, and Daniel C. Oilman, of Maryland. The loss of life by railroad disasters of various kinds in the United States in 1S95 was 3,600, against 3,04 S in 1894. The losses by fire in the United States in 1S95 aggregated $131,57500, as com pared with $115,590,S42 in 1894, an in crease of $15,987,304. The number of legal executions in the United States in 1S95 was 132, the same as in 1894, as compared with 120 in 1893 and 107 in 1892. Scores of vessels were driven ashore near Boston by gales and the damage to shipping along the New Kngluud coast would exceed $500,000. The northwestern millers' trust has been reorganized. Alfred Ely Beach, editor of the Scien tific American, died at his home in New York of pneumonia, aged 70 years. Earthquake shocks were felt at Me tropolis, 111., and Cape Girardeau, Mo. The Atlanta exposition came to an end. The total attendance during the 54 days was 1,200,600 and the receipts amounted to nearly $400,000. To prevent a strike the Illinois Steel company closed 'their shops near Chi cago, throwing 4,000 men out of work. The legislatures of .New York, Massa cnuseits anu .Maryland convened in Iheir respective capitals. Gideon llauser, a tramp, shot four men at Avilla, Ind., and then killed himself. Five men were burned, three of them fatally, by an explosion of gas in the (iirard mine at Shamokin, l'a. Two baby boys of Thomas R. Bebb were burned to death ut I'almyra, O., and the mother lost her reason in con sequence. Henry F. and David B. Quarrels, cousins, and both aged about 19 vears. vhile crossing the railway tracks near Ellyrons, Ya., were struck by a train and killed. While asleep in their house near 1'roiitenac, Kan., Robert, John, William and Archibald McFadden (brothers) were burned to death. Five villages, with a population of 1C.00O were annexed to Cincinnati, giv ing that city a population of 355,000. For the first time in the history of Colorado the gold output for 1895 ex ceeded in value that of bilver. The fig ures are: Gold, $17,340,495; silver, $14, i59.049. Andrew Brown, a negro cattle thief, was hanged by a mob near Westvilie, Miss. The Philadelphia bourse, the first genera1 exchange building erected in this co-iutry, was formally dedicated. The public debt statement issued on the 2d showed that the debt decreased $1,179,349 during the month of Decem ber. The cash balance in the treasury was $178,027,200. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $947,298,202. Montana produced in metals about $47,115,000 during the year 1895. Mrs. John Brumer and her two girls went down an embankment in a wagon near Akron, O., and were fatally in jured. The monthly statement of the di rector of the mint shows coinage exe cuted at the mints of the United States during December, 1895, to have been as follows: Gold, $8,097,145; silver, $75, 592; minor coins, $107,830; total, $8, 280.573. Anthony Huber, William Fenn and John Strong were fatally crushed while working in a box car near Cincinnati. The Hour output at Minneapolis for 1895 was 10,581,000 luirrels, the largest ever made by bOO.OOO barrels. F. M. Ynnden & Co., wholesale dealers in liquors and tobacco at Jackson, Tcim., failed for $lu0.000. Albert Woodley, who murdered his intended wife, Jennie Buchanan, on May 7, 1894, was hanged in the yard of the county jail at Pittsburgh, l'a. Gov. Greenhalge, of Massachusetts, was inaugurated at the capitol in Bos ton. The president gave his first state din ner of the season, thus inaugurating the social gaieties of the winter in Washington. In a fire that destroyed the residence of John II. Ilihlinrd at Columbus, O., he ni.d his wife and two children and Miss Fay Ilibbard and Mrs. Grace Hibbard Lee, his two sisters, were burned to death. l'eter Scbertz, in the banking and lumber business at Metamora, 111. failed for $100,000. In anticipation of the expected bond is:-:ue there was considerable business in gold in New York at l',4 per cent, premium. Four persons were killed, one fatally injured, four more were missing and 31 received lniuries more or less serious as the result of an explosion in a build ing in St. Louis. The money loss was $ I I.O.IK 10. Fire swept over ten square miles of valuable territory in Boulder county. Col., causing a loss of over $300,000. The statement of the receipts and ex penditures of the United States shows that during the month of December the receipts aggregated $2',2SS,937 and the expenditures amounted to $25,S14, 317, leaving a surplus for the month of $474,020. The exchanges at the leading clear ing houses in the United States dur ing the week ended on the 3d aggre gated $1,020,042,400, against $1,144,92S, 202 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in IS 95, was 7.4. The burning of the Thornton Buggy company's house at Dea Moines, la., caused a loss of $100,000. There were 403 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 3d, against 316 the week previous and 373 in the corresponding period of 1S95. At Millidgeville, Ky., a boy named Walters, while playing, secured a re volver and fatally shot his two little cousins, two girls, aged four nnd eight, and then sent a ball through his own head. The bodies of two more men were found in the ruins of the explosion in St. Louis, making a total of six lives lost. A fire that originated in the basement cf Horton Donilson's furniture r-tore in Creston, la., caused a loss of $150,000. Singer & Wheeler, wholesale dealers in drugs at Peoria, 111., failed for $130,- COO. Fire destroyed the hammer fhop of the American bridge works in Chicago, the loss being $100,000. Two men were fttally burned. Intensely cold weather prevailed in the northwest, the thermometer rang ing from 12 degrees below zero in Illi nois and Iowa to 24 below in Wisconsin. A report reached Knoxvil'e, Tenn that seven men were killed in a battle Between moonsniners ana oiocers near the Tennessee and North Carolina line, Fifteen persons were Injured, some fatally, in a railway wreck on the Erie road at Meadville, Pa. cnarlPS c Hilton, of Chicago, was appointed by 4Jov. Altgeld to succeed Alfred Orendorll us adjutant general of Illinois. Judge Morton decided in the United States district court at San Francisco that every Chinese born in the United States is a citizen thereof. The oath of office required to be taken by a cardinal was administered to Mgr. Satolli in the private chapel of the Catholic legation in Washington. The Solicitors' Loan and Trust com pany of Philadelphia made an assign ment. The assets were $1,200,000, lia bilities unknown. L. T. Myers, of Richmond, Va., has been appointed assistant general super intendent of the railway mail service. At Lincoln. Neb.. Judge Holmes sen tenced George W. Davis to the peniten tiary for life for wrecking a railway train, whereby 11 lives were lost. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Kx-Gov. Edward J. Curtis died at Boise, Idaho. He served as territorial secretary and acting governor 10 years. Mrs. Patty Richardson, the oldest of the eight widow pensioners of the revo 1 1 it ion, died nt her home in East Bethel, Yt., aged 95 years. FOREIGN. It was learned that a syndicate was being formed in Berlin and London to take up the proposed new issue of United States botuis. It was announced that Russia and France had promised diplomatic sup port to the United States in the Vene zuelan trouble. In a dispute at Huitzi, Mexico, over a boundary line four persons were killed and 20 injured, some fatally. It was reported that an armed force of the British South Africa company, numbering 800 men, invaded the Trans vaal territory. Queen Victoria appointed Alfred Austiv poet laureate of England. An explosion in a coal mine at WrageL Prussian Silesia, caused the death of 21 men. The insurgents in Cuba were again moving in the direction of Havana and great excitement jirevailed. Reports from Constantinople regard ing the recent outrages iu the vilayet of Khnrput alone show that 138 towns and villages were desolated, 5,064 houses burned and 2,078 persons were killed. Not a single Turk was killed so far as known. What promised to be the most im portant session of the Canadian parlia ment since 1807, when the provinces were confederated, opened at Ottawa. On the question of schools in Mani lobfci the government was so seriously divided as to jeopardize its stability. Dr. Jameson. who invaded the South African republic at the head of 700 men, representing the Chartered Brit ish South Africa company, was cap tured by the Boers. It was reported that Dr. Jameson, the English leader in the Transvaal, had lieen shot by the Boers. Advices say that the whole province of Havana was up in arms against the government, and that the authorities confessed the grave condition of af- ' """" Y".' 1 he provinces of Havana and P.nar del j ,? . . , , " . c . v L.ie .rr ii.,. ior vi.e vear S9.j show that Canada s aggregnte i iv.ij snow tnat lanndas aggregy trade fell from $230,000,000 to $218,000, 000, as compared with the previous year. LATER. Sechetaky Caui.isi.e issued, on the Oth, a notice that sealed proposals for the purchase of $100,000,000 coupon or registered 30-ycar coin bonds, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent., will be received up to 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, the 5th day of Febru ary, 190. The new b.mils will be in denominations of S:0 and multiples of that sum, at the choice of the bidders. Utah was added to the sisterhood of states, on the 4th, at 10:03 a. m., when President Cleveland signed a procla mation to that effect. 'Hie officers of the new state entered upon the dis charge of their duties on the 6th, the legislature also meeting in special ses sion on that day, which the governor by proclamation declared a general holiday. The London Yachtsman says that Lord Dunraven has signally failed to substantiate Ins charges against the New York Yacht club, and that it be comes more and more apparent that an egregious blunder was committed in making them. The paper adds that the committee of inquiry was actuated throughout by an impartial spirit. The weekly statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 4th showed the fol lowing changes: Reserve, increase, 53,810.000; loans, decrease, 512,885,800; specie, increase, 51,840,500; legal ten ders, decrease. 530.1.100: deoosits. de crease, 59,4 1 4,400; circulation, increase. $: Jim The Bar association of Pittsburgh. Pa., has decided to permit women to practice law in that city. A resolution to exclude women from practicing law was overwhelmingly defeated, on the 5th, after a spirited discussion of near ly two hours, at one of the largest meetings ever held by the association. News was received in Norfolk, Va.. on the 5th. of the sudden death on board the United States trainingship v. v- i . tssex, lying at lorktown, of Com mander Lewis Kingsley, U. S. N., com manding that vesseL The Textile Manufacturers" associa tion has postponed its conf erence.called to meet in Chicago, on the 14th, until the 21st, the date set for the annual meet ing of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers. A defalcation of 5600.000 in the cus tomhouse receipts at Cartagena, U. S. C, in which several prominent officials are implicated, is reported. Ox the 4th the associated banks of i'w lorn cny neia si:,77U,675 in ex- nf th rin;mni. 'v.nt mi MISSOURI STATE NEWS. State Board of Health. The annual meeting of the state board of health was held in Jefferson City. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Dr. F. J. Lutz, St. Louis; vice-president. Dr. T. II. Hudson, Kansas City; secretary, Dr. lllis P. King, Kansas City. All cases against St. Louis midwives for adver tising as physicians were disposed of with the exception of two, ell others having complied with the law by re moving the signs as directed bv the board. HEALTH IS TOE STATE. The report of the secretary, which will shortly lie made to the governor, will show the general condition of health m the state to be excellent. During the first part of 1893 the board quarantined about a dozen places in the state on account of smallpox, but at the time of making the report there was only one point in the state where the disease existed and that was Charles ton. secretary King complains of the ignorance of local authorities all over the state as to the law governinir the board, and of the lack of promptness in reporting epidemics. A Dlftafttron Tour. Poor in pocket, but rich in experience and by no means crushed in spirits, the Missouri University glee club returned to Columbia from their holiday tour through Missouri and Kansas. Two of the members of the club came in on foot, but the rest of the club had snftt cient wealth left to secure seats in a wagon, and rode in, cheering lustily and waving their musical instruments in the air. In Kansas the club were greeted with almost empty houses at every point, and left a trail of debt behind them. At Atchison they were stranded, and were obliged to borrow money from Columbia in order to con tinue their tour. They had better luck- in some of the Missouri towns, how ever, and in Kansas City performed to a crowded house. But they still owe several hundred dollars, and are re solved to give Kansas a wide berth In future. The object of the tour was to pay off the debts of the foot-ball team. St. Louis' Great Bnnloeu Year. Says the Globe-Democrat: The clear ances of the St. Louis banks were 81,118.573.210 in 1890. 51.139.599.575 In 1891, $1,231,571,003 in 1892. 51.139.014.291 in 1893, 51,127.702106 in 1894, and$:,244, 323.653 in 1895. There was a p-ain in 1895 of 10.34 per cent, over 1894. When the "good old times" of the recent past are spoken of anywhere in the United States, 1892 is always in mind. That year represented the high-water mark in general trade in St. Louis as well as in the rest of the country. The conn try at that time, as gauged by the bus iness barometer, was at the topmost wave of prosperity. Yet in extent of bank clearings, which are a fairlj- trust worthy index of trade in general, St. Louis in 1895 beiit its record in 1892. State Penitentiary Population. When the books of the Missouri state penitentiary were closed for the ! year 1895 Warden James I.. Pace found , a pain of 18 convicts in the prison pop . ulation for the year. During the vear there were received 905 males and 21 females, making a total of 9?6. while tht.re were dischar?ed g:6 niales and 31 females, and 21 males died, making a total oi 908. On December 31, 1894, there were o n8 convictsIn j.he pr; nn n...mwi iaor 1 i.v Secretary Lcfturor's Statement. Secretary of State Lesucur gives out the following statement, showing fees, corporation tax, etc., collected by his department and tnrned over to the state treasurer for the year 1895: From notaries public I 7.nos on Aliscellalienus fees 4.02 V ' Larnl department fees aa s Corporation tax. domestic M.fiSi nil : Corporation tax. foreign 3.1SS o Knilowinent corporation tax 6,1 5 .K) j Filinir and recording contracts MO 75 Bank and buukcrs's fees 3.C10 01 1 Total.. Ills Father Wa a Supreme Judgr. I Lawrence MacFarland, the 16-year- ' old son of Judge B. MacFarland, of the supreme court, died in Jefferson City j of appendicitis. He was taken sick on i Christmas eve, and grew steadily j I worse. W ell-known physicians per- i formed an operation, in the hope that i nis lite might be saved, but it proved unavailing. The remains were taken to Mexico for burial. o Destitution In Camden Connty. Mayor Hastain of Sedalia has received letters from County Treasurer Foster and County Clerk Nelson -of Camben county, denying that the people of Linn Creek and vicinity have been rendered destitute by the recent floods from the Osage river. College President's Change. Dr. S. F. Cooke, LL.D., has resigned the presidency of the Baptist college at La Grange, after completing the thir tieth year in the office. He will accept the presidency of the Webb City col lege. Drowned In a YVelL Mrs. Mary Breder, aged 51, whose home was at 1321 Blair avenue, St. Louis, fell head foremost into a well while attempting to draw water, and was drowned. Her feet slipped. Will Bnlld a New Church. The congregation of the German Evangelical church, Sedalia, has de cided to erect a building, to cost 815, (XX). Ladies of the church subscribed 1500. Family of Five Drowned. The home of William Jones, on Sao river, in Cedar county, was washed away by high water. Mr. Jones, his wife and three children were drowned. Allege "Indignities." Watson J. Terry, a well-known law yer of Kansas City,hasbeen sued for di vorce. His wife alleires "Indignities," but does not state their nature. The School of Mines. Prof. W. B. Richards, director of the tchool of raines at Roll a, reports the school in g'-od condition, although at tendance has fallen oft MISSOURI CULLINGS. Thirty-one railroads enter St. Lonla. The Frisco railway now enters St. Louis over its own tracks. S. A. Gleason, aged 93, pioneer set tler of St. Clair county, died at Rosco. Fully 35.000 pounds of poultry, most ly dressed, was shipped from Lathrop, recently. Post office receipts at St Louis dur ing -ISOS averaged a gain of ten per cent, over 1894. Mrs. Maria Crecelius, an old resident of SL Louis county, died recently, leav ing 72 descendants. The Shelby County state bank of Clarence has increased its capital stock from $15,000 to 530,000. L. C. Shanholtz was jailed in Nevada on the charge of having stolen a horse from a Vernon county farmer. Fred Meyer fell from a window in the fifth story of the Third national bank building, St. Louis, and was killed. Miss Nellie Wilson, daughter of B. E. Wilson, president of the New Florence bank, was married to Amos J. Palmer, cf St. Louis. The old citizens of Moberly, those who have made the town their home before and since 1873, held an experi ence meeting at the city hall. The courthouse of Lafayette county is to be remodeled and improved, an order appropriating 512,000 therefor be ing made by the county court. The farmers' special course at the state university, Columbia, will be at tended by the largest number of stu dents ever known at Columbia. In default of 5800 bail Robert Tharp, from Pierce Ctv, and quite aged, was committed to jail, charged with mak ing and issuing counterfeit money. Otis Jackson, who was held for the murder, by poison, of Station Agent istevens, several weeks since, at La throp, has been discharged by Justice Kiley. Miss Harden, daughter of Louis Har den, Musick's ferry, SL Louis county, was accidentally shot by a young man named John Warren. She will re cover. The residence of Dr. J. D. Forest, Se- dalia, was burned at one o'clock the other morning. The family had a nar row escape from cremation, fleeing in their night clothes. A camp of United Confederate veter ans has been organized in St. Louis, and an effort will lie madetosecure for that city the national reunion of the organization in 1897. Rev. Allen J. Van Wagner, for eight years pastor of the Congregational church at Creston, la., has been called to take charge of the Congregational church at Carthage. In the amount of second-class mail handled the St. Louis office stands third, or after New York and Chicago. This is an index of the enormous pub lishing business carried on in the city. Six men were injured in a wreck on tne .Missouri, ivansas x lexas near Clayville. The wounded were taken to Sedalia for treatment. Conductor H.nekett has taken all the blame upon himself. Thomas Wilson was married to Miss Annie Peeler, the pretty daughter of a wealthy farmer near Favette. The bride's parents objected to the match so a friend stole her out and escorted her to town. Rev. G. L. Leyburn, pastor of the rirst Presbyterian church of Boon- ville, nnd Mrs. Belle L. Wool folk were married at the residence of William M, Linnlierger, in Boonville, Rev. W. R. Dobyns, of Marshall, officiating. C. M. Robinson, lumber dealer, died at Lamar of pneumonia. Ha leaves widow and three children. Judge Rob inson, of the Missouri supreme court; William Robinson, of Nevada. Mo., and L. H. Robinson, of Paris, Mo., were brothers of the deceased. The Alfrev Heading Co.'s works, lo- i cated in the sontnern part of Poplar Bluff, were destroyed by five the other morning. The fire originated in one of the dry kilns. The company cm- ployed a large number of men, and manufactured barrel headings. The loss is estimated at 535,000, with 53,000 insurance. George W.Johnson, of Texas, and Miss Luda Lamb, of Hannibal, were marneil recently, ihe bride is a granddaughter of Claybourne F. Jack son, governor of Missouri at the out break of the reliellion, and the groom a grandson of George W. Johnson, lieutenant-governor of Kentucky dur ing the war. Jake Brown and Bert Filo, aged 13 and 10 respectively, were arrested at St. Joseph and confessed to more than twenty robberies. The other night they robbed a hardware store, and with stolen weapons attempted to hold np and rob Al Gulff, a well-known res ident. He put them to flight by the use of a heavy cane. His description of the young desperadoes led to their arrest. Col. Nat C. Dryden, the criminal law yer of St. Louis, delivered a lecture on "Total Abstinence" at Fergn son's opera house, Montgomery City, recently. Col. rryden said he had spent 550,000 trying to learn how to take three drinks of whisky a day and then quit, but he failed, and at last came to the conclu sion that if he everquit the use of it he would have to quit compromising with it. Col. Dryden says he firmly believes that the drink habit is a disease after being kept up for any length of time, as much so as consumption. George A. King, a clerk in the state insurance department at Springfield, 111., recently found his brother James in the city hospital at Sedalia, after the family had for years supposed him dead. Fourteen years ago James, at the age of 13, ran away from his par ents at Allendale, Wabash county, 111., and all efforts to locate him proved futile. On Christmas day. after a fight in Sedalia, which resulted in the break ing of three ribs, he wrote to his brother George, who arrived from Springfield, and, attired in an entire new outfit of clothing, James was taken back to the old home at Allen dale. I THE BOND ISSUE. leeretarr Carlisle Iasnes a Notice to Fi'W pert Ive Sobseribeni for One Hundred Mil lion Coin Ronds, Coupon or Kejrliitered, to Bear Interest at the Rate of Four Per Cf nt. The Notice also Hade to Cover Prospective Legislation. W"ashixto2J, Jan. 7. At midnight Sunday Secretary Carlisle prepared the following notice, which will be ta bued to-day: "Tkeasi-bt Department, Washington, D. C, Jan. 6, 1996. f Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the secretary of the treasury at Washington. D. C, until 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, the fifth day of February, 1896, for the purchase of ne hundred" million dollars (5100.000,000) of United States four per cent, coupon or registered bonds in denominations of fifty dollars (S50) and multiples of . that sum as may be desired by bidders, "The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. 'The bonds will be dated on the first day of February, 1895, and be payable in coin thirty years after that date.and will bear interest at four per cent, per annum, payable quarterly in coin, but all coupons maturing on and before the first day of February, ISM, will be detached, and purchasers will be re quired to pay in United States gold coin or gold certificates for the bonds awarded to them, and all interest ac crued thereon after the first day of February, 18!K5, up to the time of ap plication for delivery. "Payments for the bonds must be made at the treasury of the United States, at Washington, D. C, or at the United States subtreasuries at New York, Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis or New Orleans, or they may be made at San Francisco with exchange on New York, and all bids must state what de nominations of bonds are desired, and whether coupon or registered, and at what place they will be paid for. "Payments may be made by install ments, as follows: "Twenty percent. (20 percent.) upon receipt of notice of acceptance of bids, and SO per cent, (20 per cent.) at the end of each ten days thereafter; but all accepted bidders may pay the whole amount at the date of the first install ment, and those who have paid all in stallments previously maturing may pay the whole amount of their bids at any time, not later than the maturity of the last installment. "The bonds will be ready for deliv ery on or before the 15th day of Feb ruary, 1S96. "Notice is further hereby given that, if the issue and sale of additional or different form of bond for the main tenance of the gold reserve shall be authorized by law after the 5th day of February, 1896, sealed proposals for the purchase of such bonds will also be received at the same time and place. and up to the same date, and upon the same terms and conditions herein set forth, and such bids will be considered as well as the bids for the four-pert cent, bonds herein mentioned. "J. G. Carlisle, "Secretary of the treasury." CAUGHT IN A CAVE-IN. fen Men Entrapped In a Colorado Gold Mine with no Hope of Kneape. C01.or.ADo Springs, Col., Jan. 6. The Cripple Creek district has heen excep tionally free from serious mine acci dents, but its reputation in this re spect received a serious setback yester day by a cave-in in the Anna Lee mine at Victor, belonging to the great Vor mand company. The last reports place the number of men who are buried un der thousands of tons of rock at ten. The Anna Lee mine is located near the summit of Battle mountain and is one of the finest equipped mines in thi state. Its working shaft, which oown ytio teet, is the deepest in tie camp. The shaft is a double compart ment one and vertical, from wlJich levels are driven every 50 feettocut the immense ore chimney whicll lies some distance from the shaft a&d has an incline of about seven degrees. Ten men, including General Mana ger John liarnan and Assistant Supt. Sheldon, were caught in the cave-in, and at this writingthere does not seem to be the remotest possibility that any have escaped. Well posted miners say it will be a miracle if any are taken out alive. The Work of Rescue Belns Punned For. ward Ueneral Manager liarnan Safe. Colorado Springs, Col., Jan. 6. The ivork of rescuing the eight imprisoned miners who were caught in the cave in at the Anna Lee mine at Victor yes terday morning continues. Victor was crowed all day with people and the Anna Lee mine was surrounded bv hundreds of anxious friends and rela tives who were eager to learn the latest developments, which as the hours slowly rolled by, be came more and more discoura ging. Ihe drift from the seventh level of the Scran ton mine, which was started soon after the cave-in occurred and which was cut through 35 feet of solid granite, reached the Anna. T shaft at 11:30 last nieht. From tl.i. point down a distance of 200 feet, the Anna shaft is open and work of remov ing the great masses of rock and broken timbers was begun. General Manager John liarnan. who was reported as lost, is alive, he ha vino- come up on the last trip before the ac cident. THE RAM KATAHDIN. I-he President Sign the Resolntlon Autho- l ner Acceptance. Washington, Jan. 7. The nni,inf. has signed the joint resolution author izing the acceptance of the ram Katah din. The president also annrnvH . joint resolution transferrinsr the of fices of the United States for the terri tory of Utah with all their fittings, etc., to the state of Utah and a joint resolution fixing the times for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in the northern anA southern judicial districts of Iowa.