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ItOUNl) ABOUT HOME. MICHIGAN EVENTS RELATED IN BRIEF ITEMS. Michigan Association of farmer' CIuli lloltl Their Anna il Meeting Ht I.hiihIu; Mother nnd Son I'nltetl After 18 Years. Keport of the stato l.nb;r IUirtail. Irarniers' Club In Convention. The an rami nievting of the Michigan State Association of Farmers' clubs held a two days' session at Lansing. Jov. llich, after delivering an earnest address of welcome, acceded to the re quest of the. association and talked for fcotne time on state affairs, answering the question, "Is the Government "Worth What it Costs?" lie declared that Michigan was governed us eco nomically us any state in the union. 1 'resident A. C. llird in his animal address said that two years ago there were but 50 farmers' clubs in the state, while now there are over "00. The influence- of the clubs will bo ap preciated, he said, when it is stated that tomo l.",(J00 persons, with tho tamo interests and prtrposes, gather weekly in 200 communities in the state, lie said it was time for the association to take up a different lino of work tho great question of public expendi tures. The discussion developed much hostility to tho University, ami but little to the charitable and reforma- tory institutions. The general trend of discussions were to condemn tho state legislature, legislators, state institutions and state oiiiccrs in general; protesting against alleged excessive salaries and careless ness in expenditures. Gov. liich pro tested against tho wholesale condem nation of legislatures. The legislators were very much like the average farmer, who, as supervisor, was not particular to work too many hours n day, but never failed to charge full legal rates. Col. Vie l)e1and struck a responsive chord when he reuinded the ex-legislators, who had been kick ing on various legislation, that they did none of this kicking when they were in the legislature, where it would do some good, but they went with the crowd. Detroit and Detroit affairs . were unmercifully roasted by llobcrt Gibbons. 1'esolutions which were adopted favor equal suffrage, denouncing the appro priation for llsh commission purposes as extortionate, deelare against all junkets, want all otlieials' salaries and fees reduced, demand text books printed by tho state, advoeato reduc tion in tho number anil pay of depart- incut clerks. They will exact pledges from all legislative candidates to sup port these reforms. Officers were elected as follows: l'resideut, A. Iv. Kiinmis, Jr., Wixnm; vice-president, J. T. Daniels, Union Home; secretary, II. F. l'eckham, 1'arma; directors, V. II. Ilawiett, Dans- ville; C. J. Phelps, West Dranch. Hold Itobber Muko it lllff Haul. Win, If. Moyer, wholesale dealer in cigars at Traverse City, was sitting at his desk in his ollieo making out bills when two men entered the room, blew out his light and placing revolvers at his head, demanded his money. lie gavo them about 5570 which he had in his pocket. They then demanded that lie should open his safe, and with threats of instant death should he re fuse, compelled him to do so. lie was then securely bound, gagged, ted to Ids chair and the robbers took ? 1,700 and escaped. In the morning a do mestic came to the cigar storo of Tuoinas Thomas, across the street, and stated that Moyer had not been homo during tho night, and his family were much alarmed. Thomas went to Mover's oilice, found tho door unlocked and discovered him bound as th rob bers had left him. I.ahor C'ouiuiUsloiiriV Report Labor Commissioner Morse reports that during the past year there were :t, 137 factories inspected. Of theso factories 2,83(5 were running, and 3,581 of these were running full time, leav ing 57G idle or rnnning short time. Computed at $1.32 per day the average wages paid employes of factories in spected in 1895, the loss in money on account of short hours is $134.28 daily, or S13.",70 1.28 annually. The number of males employed was 1)0,881; number of females, 15, KM. There were found 140 children under the ago of 14 years working. They were employed in Ct different factories, and were all dis charged, the law being rigid in this respect. In 484 factories 1,089 children over 14 and under 1(J years of ago were found employed. A Happy Itrunlon. Mi-s. Thomas Smith, of Leslie, was very much astonished by a visit from a stranger about 20 years of age, who after ja short conversation proved to be her only son, whom she had not seen for 18 years. Ho was abducted from her home in New York state when 2 years of age. Finally when grown up he learned that the people ho lived with were not his natural parents. 1 lo learned his parents' name, then traced his mother. J lis father's name was Langthorn, Mrs. Smith hav ing been married before. Costly flro Ht Mt I'leHsnnt. ' Fire broke out in Vancise's cignr factory, at Mt. l'leasnnt, and spread rapidly to adjoining buildings, totally consuming Oeorgc 0. Faulkner's hard ware store, with Mall & Coffey's shoo . store, JJernhardt's billiard rooms, sa loon and restaurant, old Exchange ..hotel, and city lire department's barn, ivith a total loss of S.'O.OOX Ity hard work tho opera house -and First Na tional bank were saved. A state conference of district officers of the Kpworth league was held at Lansing. t A postoflice has been established at Day, Cass Co., with Kva O. llyrd as postmistress. The local option issue was defeated in Clinton county .by 2:J0 majority. Fight years ago it carried by about 550. a lews for the dry element of about 800 votes. A hired man named Walters, em ployed by Watson Fnwt, near Midland, accidentally lired a shotgun and fatally Mary Frost. . Complaint' was nia.lo against tho Kalamazoo Paper Co. for killing fish in Portage creek, by dumping vitriol or other liquid into the creek. MICHIGAN NEWS, A new state bank is to be established at Colo m u, I'scanaba has vote.! to bond for S50, 000 to construes a Municipal water works system. Revival services n' Albion resulted in C"3 new mcmbra being added to the various church's.. Henry Garvipc, ft.o. old French-Canadian surveyor, ivm found dead near Lake Linden, on ti? road to his home. Doing thinly ololLu J, he perished from cold. .lohn King, an JCvart youth, was lined only li) o?rls for disturbing a religious meeting Yy throwing cayenne pepper on F.he stove, but had to pay 515 COStH. Tho Christian tmdeuvor society of the state are preparing for their con vention at Ionia-. April 1-3. Free en tertainment v.-ill ho provided for 1,000 guests. A largo ft ree o men are laying steel rails on tho A -an Arbor road from Dundee to Ann Arbor. Tho improve ment will cost the company lt0,000 tho coming year. Nathan Tompkins pleaded guilt' at Dig llapids to Seating his three-year-old daughter with a stick of wood Tne justice gave him all the law per mits, a s?10J line. Jerry Seott, colored, of .Jackson, ar rested on the charge of beating his six-year-old daughter to death, nar rowly escaped lynching while being taken from court to the jail. Dauschko I'ros., of Kenton Harbor, who spent sl.uoo on a horseless car riage, admit the invention is a failure. The gas engine make as much noise as a steamboat and causes much ridi cule. A. Keppen, aged 31 years, was struck by an electric car at (irand Rapid?, and instantly killed. lie was walk ing on the truck atwl was not seen by the motorinau until the ear was almost upon hiin. Atlclbert Lyon, aged 21, was ar rested at Denton Harbor for swearing that Dertha Coulterman was 18 of age when lie went to get a licenso to marry. She is only 13. Her brother made the complaint. Kay Harris found a dynamite cart ridge on the railroad track at Grand llapids and began a series of experi ments with it. . lie is now minus sev eral lingers on his right hand, and has a deep gash over his eye. Defore the physics classes in tho U. of M. Professor Carhart and Assistant Professor Heed performed tho feat of photographing through a heavy paste board box and several sheets of paper, by means of Roentgen cathode rays. Food Commissioner Storrs reports that during last month the number of adulterated foods found upon the mar ket showed a marked falling off. lie roasts the numerous coiYeo substitutes upon the market, saying they are practically of no value. Mrs. Albert Allen, near Gobleville, went the barn to gather eggs, and dis covered the body of her father, Elijah Kullard, lying face downward. He was dead, and had probably been frozen to death, lie had recently been released from the insane asylum. The old Dewey & Stewart roller process flouring mill at Owosso was almost totally consumed by lire. Loss on building and machinery, about ;?',",000. Tho lessees, Miller It Iloxic, will lose about $5,000 with $3,500 in surance. The mill was one of the old est landmarks of Owosso. Jerry Seott, a colored man of Jack son, was arrested by Sheriff Peek, at tho suggestion of Coroner Slenou, and held on suspicion of having whipped his (j-year-old daughter so brutally that it caused her death. It was also alleged that Scott laid the little one on the stove and burned it badly. Poormaster Hush, of Kalamazoo, who was removed by the supervisors be cause of cruelty to applicants for aid, refuses to turn over tho books and will continue to hold his ofliee. County Clerk Forbes has, however, notified the grocers and butchers that tho county will not pay for Mr. Hush's orders. The common council of (irand Rap ids met in special session in honor of ex-Mayor Edwin F. Uhl. President Hall announced the selection of Mr. Uhl as ambassador to Germany and eulogized him highly. Others made brief addresses and a committee was appointed to draft resolutions oilicially expressive of the joyous sentiment in the city toward Mr. Uhl and the ap pointment. Jerry A. Hill, of Hrent Creek, Gene see county, has invented a dead -sure gunboat destroyer. It consists of a round brass ball live feet around, stuffed with dynamite. There's a sort of alarm clock which explodes a cap, while five magnets draw the ball closo to any steel-clad gunboat it may approach. They arc expected to chase a boat 100 yards distant. There was a largo gathering at Traverse City to perfect the organiza tion of tho Michigan Maple Lumber Co. Fifty hardwood lumber manufact uring concerns in the shore towns from Manistee to Little Traverse signed tho urticlc: of association. The membership will bo extended to in cluding the railroad points in north western Michigan. The general ollices are. located at Traverse city. The pumps have been stopped at the Davis mine at Is'egauneo and tho miners will propably attach tho prop erty to secure unpaid wages. About three months ngo it was announced that the property had been sold to Marquette and Chicago capitalists. Tho former owners still insist that they disposed of tho mine while the alleged purchasers deny buying it. Tho novel spectacle is presented of a valuable mine without an owner. Mrs. Jessie Wilkins was assaulted with criminal intent in tho yard of Hcthel Haptist church, which is near her home, at Kalamazoo, by a man who camo up quietly .behind her, grabbed her and carried her to the horse sheds near the church. Just os he had thrown her to the ground Mr. Wilkins appeared and a fierce fight ensued be tween him and his wife's assailant The fellow escaped, but Mr. Wilkin says he recognized him. Mrs. Wilkins is in serious condition. Allegan and Ottawa Maccabees met at Holland and organized an associa tion. They will hold a celebration at Mwcatuwn park, June li. i A Horrible Crime. Tho recent finding of the headless body of a young woman in a lonely spot near Ft. Thomas, Ky., across the Ohio river from Cincinnati has proved a sensation which shocked three states. For two weeks detectives followed every clue and were almost ready to give up when someone recognized a description of the shoes worn by tho woman as being that of a certain style made by a Portsmouth, ().. firm. lt was found that only a small number of this particular shape had been made and that they had been sold to a firm at Greeucastle, Ind. Thence each pair was traced and accounted for uutil it became evidentthat Miss Pearl Hryan, tiged 23, u farmer's daughter, was the victim and after tho headless trunk had been fully identified the trail be came clearer. It was shown that the poor girl was about to become a mot her; that Seott Jackson, a dental student in a Cincinnati college, and Wm.Wood, of Greeucastle, wero intimato with the girl; that she had left home ostensibly to go to Indianapolis, but instead had gone to Cincinnati where she was met by Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, his roommate. Theso two, and Win. Wood, were urrested and each made partial confessions im plicating each other, it wis thus learned that an abortion vvas per formed on Miss Hryan, bet Mint she died from its cll'ectsan IthattJhide tho crime the body was taken to the place where it was found, and in order to prevent identification the head was cut o .IV find thrown away, probably into tho Ohio river. Fnm ly of freveu Ilutchcre I at t'hteuso All entire family of nix. fathei1, mother, wife and three children, were murdered by liiehurd h'lattke, a Chi cago carp.: liter, who then completed the work by Killing himself. The members of the Klaltko family were found dead in t'leir little cottage at 207 Herseau aven-ie. Each had a bul let wound in the head and in each case the ball had penetrated the brain deatli evidently having been instantaneous, from the position of the bodies. He- side the body of Richard K lattice lay a revolver and empty cartridge shells were scattered about the rooms. There w ere no signs of struggling on tho part of any of th ictinis and a heavy odor which appeared to be that of chloroform pervaded tho house. From this it was surmised that Klattke had chloroformed the entire family and then taken deliberate aim and had put a bullet into the brain of each and then shot himself. Klattke was a rapid anarchist. llrtdgo )ll:pvt 1 ,'i Orowio.l. A bridge on the New England rail road over the Pequobuck river near Hristol, Conn., collapsed carrying with it 20 workmen, of whom 13 are be lieved to have perished. A fierce storm which swept over the state play ed havoc with New England 'ioilroad bridges and t'he swollen waters of the Pequcbuck river threatened to carry awiC,' a new bridge at Hristol so a crew of 20 men were set at work to save it. The old bridge had been condemned and was being torn npart that some of the ties migh bo used on the new one. Suddenly the old bridge collapsed with 17 men on it and only four were rescued. PEOPLE AND THINGS. Four white men and one woman were murdered by Hannegah Inoiuu on Kiake island, Alaska. A passenger train was blown from the track at Denver. Col., and live pas sengers wero badly injured. Lloyd Montgomery, aged 13, was hanged at Albany, Ore., for the mur der of his father, mother and uncle. Hon. "Win. English, prominent Dein oerat of Indiana, died at Indianapolis, lie was candidate for vice-president in 1880. The king of Korea has caused a revo lution by cutting off his queue and ordering all of his subjects to do the same. The picking house of the Tri-City Packing Co., ut Davenport. la., was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $110, 000; insurance, $7d,000. AH. & (. switch engine struck an electric ear at Pittsburg killing the motormau and conductor and injuring eight women passengers. Two children wero instantly killed and one young man seriously injured by falling chimney at a fire which oc curred in a cottage at Rrooklyn. A $20 J, 000 flro at McKeesport, Pa., destroyed among other buildings the Altmeyer theater and the Herald office. G. M. Burton, foreman of the Herald office, was burned to death. Hurglar.'j tried to blow up tho safe in Rogers fc Sons bank at Hodford, O., and used two heavy charges of dynamite- which w-reeked the interior of the safe, but failed to force the door. Tho London Chronicle says that there is a good prospect of a settlement of tho Venezuela question by a compro mise acceptable to the three govern ments concerned without loss of dig nity. A Hig Four freight train was de railed by a wheel breaking while cross ing a bridge near Lawrenceburg, Ind., and 30 euro plunged down 35 feet. Fivo tramps wero fatally injured, two dying almost instantly. Tho portc of Turkey lias communi cated to the ambassadors of tho pow ers its reply to tho proposals of the Zeitounlis of their conditions of snr rendei. It is stated that the porte promises a satisfactory settlement. A box was left at the I. A. (). depot at 'Washington to bo forwarded by ex press, but as thero wero two addresses on it Detroit .nd Haltimore it was opened to see if the right address could be determined. Tho corpses of two women were disclosed and a double murder was suspected until it was discovered that the bodies were for a medical college at Haltimore. An agreement has been reached on the question of log towing and rafting on the Great lakes and the house com mittee on rivers and harbors will re port a bill to tho effect that there be no limitations to the size or kind of rafts in the Great lakes themselves; that no bag or sack rafts be permitted on tho rivers; that rafts shall use the old channels instead of tho new one at the St. Clair Hats and Hay Lake, und that at the most tortuous portions of St. Marv's and St. Clair rivers tho size of ratts should be reduced to eight J btrings. j Our public debt increased S.". "47, 975 ( during January. CAUGHT ON THE PLY FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWii OF GENERAL INTEREST. L'mln Nam Now lloncl lame Solii With i Hush iitn lilc Premium -1. y. MUiUirr "Will I Incur tlit Dlxpleuuuro of tli llauuliiiu Govern moat. lopulr i;i:icN rioM 'Well. Tho U. S. treasury department re ceived 4,010 bids, representing W.", 2i)y,8.)0, when the time came to sell tho 15100,000,00;) issue of I. S. 4 per cent bonds. The immense offerings as tounded experts. The bids literally swamped the treasury department and it was impossible to tell at oneo with deiiuiteness how many bids and for what aggregate had been received at ligures in advance of the upset price of 110.0877, at which a syndicate com posed of J. P. Morgan t Co., Plinj Fislc i!c Co., of Mew York, und the Deutsche bank, of iierlin, offered to take the whole loan. Tho bids ranger, from a par up to a single $."0 bid at If o. Secretary Carlisle was greatly pleased ut tho success of the bond offering.-;. He said no definite statement could be made yet concerning the awards to successful bidders, nor how far, if at all, he would exercise his option of rejecting any or all bids, lie said that it showed what tho peo ple of this country would do when ap pealed to. He thought, too, that the effect abroad would t very marked in our favor. lT. S. MlnUt.r iKiu'.to I llawiiliuiit. Advices from Honolulu say: Diplo matic relations with the United States have been somewhat rallied by tho re fusal of Minister Willis to participate in the celebration?, of the national holi-daj-, Jan. K, Hit anniversarv of the birth of the republic. Mr. Willis also suppressed the invitation extended to Consul Mills and Capt. Pigtuan of the cruiser Rennington. It is said that through his personal influence h in duced the Hritish, French anil Japan czo commissioners to assume a Mini la r attitude regarding the holiday. Con siderable correspondence has passed between Mr. Willis and the Hawaiian government on the subject of the cele bration, but no definite or satisfactory reply has been received from the min ister in explanation of the action. It is reported that unless Secretary Oliiey apologizes for the actions of Minister Willis, that official may be given his passport soon. Conf ereiwo (if All Aitmrlr.ii ICcputUr'H. Washington: Minister Carbo, at Ecuador, has received a cable from the secretary of state of Ecuador stating that the Central American govern ments of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sal vador, Honduras and Costa Rica have accepted the invitation to join in a convention of American republics with a view to unifying them. This is the iirst affirmative action toward the con vention, which ife designed to bring about a common understanding of North, 'South nnd Central American countries on the Monroe doctrine. Seuor t'arbo says the Ecuadorian gov ernment took the initiative in calling the convention some ngo. The gen eral plan is to have the convention held at Washington some time in Au gust next, although the exact date is not settled. 5 I'eople l'rolinhly l)rwtitl. A special from Philadelphia says: Pocahontas dam at Morristown, N. J., has given uwaj-, Hooding tho city. Twenty-five peop'e are missing and may have perished. Tho dam held back the waters of Pocahontas lake which was greatly swollen by the melting snow and was full of iloaing ice eight inches thick. Tho flood over flowed every outlet and suddenly, without warning, a section of the dam gave awuy and a wall of water six feet high swept into the valley, broke the 1)., L. A W railroad embankment and Hooded the town to a depth of 10 feet in 10 minutes. Residents lied in terror to the upper floors and roofs. Many heroic rescues were made, but 2.) people are missing. Iklw'.n 1". t'ht ha Atiil4ft4clor to Gormitny. Tho President has made his choice for a successor of tho late Mr. Runyon, as ambassador to Germany, and there is every reason to believe that lion. I'M win F. Uhl, of Grand Rapids, lirst assistant secretary of state, will bo named for the post. Mr. Uhl first camo into national prominence witli the Incoming of tho prenont, administra tion, i'revious to that time ho had achieved a line reputation ns a lawyer In Michi gan, and ho also was well known tn finan cial circles. In politics he had always been a Democrat, and wa ut one time mayor of the thriving city of Grand Haplris. As tlrst assist ant secretary of state Mr. Uhl has fronuently been called upon to assume tho entire burden ot tho administration of foreign ulTairs during the absence or disability of tho secretary ot state. Atter the death of Secretary (ircsham he wa acting secretary oi state for somo weeks. flat" Shea Mast Die. Judge Maybam. of Albany, N. Y., has denied the motion for a new trial for "Hat" Shea. His reasons, he said, for so deciding arc that the confession of McGough was not supported by his evidence given before tho commission appointed by the governor as placed in contradiction to tho evidence of tho witnesses for tho people at the trial was lacking confirmation in many in stances. There is no appeal from the decision of Judge May ham, and Shea will bo electrocuted. Joe Merrifield, aged 12, shot and killed his little brother Frank, aged 7, nifd then shot himself, at Henderson, la., because their father deserted them. Their mother is dead. The passage of the anti-prize fight ing bill by congress has killed the pos sibility of the Mahcr-Fitzsiinnions tight in the United States and it will have to be pulled off in Mexico, if at all. The London Telegraph announces that the naval program, which in volves the outlay of 'J,500,000, is sub stantially completed. It is proposed to build five first-class battleships, four first-class cruisers, three second class cruisers, six third-class cruisers and 20 torpedo destroyers. President Kruger, o' tin Transvaal, lias accepted an invitation extended, by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain tn come to England, accompanied by so ue members of tho Transvaal gov ernment, to act as a commission, but asks that before lie starts Mr. Cham berlain specify the subjects which shall le discussed. OUR LAWMAKERS AT WORK. Sexatk. Fortv-cventh day. Mr. Morgan from tho committee oa forc!;,'ii relations, re ported the Cuban belL'i'renoy resolution, it Is In tliu sliupo of a con uric ut resolution nnd U us loilown. "itcsolvt'd. liy the Senato ahe House of KepivsentalivcM concurring i that tu the opinion oi rouirress a condition of public war cxiHts between ttio tfovorainent of .Spain and ihn i;ov eminent proclaimed, and for mouim ti.aitituinod bv ftuT-j of arm by th people of I'uba: and that tho United States of America should maintain a strict neutrality between tho I'outeaduijf powers und u'vord to each ail tho rUhtd ol bellkoients in tho ports mid territory of tho United States." Air. Quav tried to call up h!s resolution to re commit the silver substitute for the turlil bill, but tin: lluusbrouKh resolution tlireclinir the secretary of uuriciulure to execute the law us to seed distribution, had prcccdotico and Mr. Vest made u seiiiutioaal Mjeeeii urraik'nin,-; Sec? -clary Morton. A resolution to distribute appropriate bills unions tho several .com m tieos w;i8 uiruln taken up and discussed . uii.it i.ujwui lllll'.-lll, IIMt tUl. V ULIUfl. MtiU- uato from tho territory of Nv. Metieo urued me House to pass a bill it bill to prohibit prize llt'liiiiii.'. He wanted it pushed through so that ti;o puu'llistic festival near JC1 I'iiso eon Id bo ptvvcritod. An ob cctinti was made and Ih'j LIU wont to lite committee, hater In tho sion. however, the committee on ju liciary re ported thi bill and it was na.sscd without di vision. Tho Uis'rict of Columbia appropria tion b'll failed In pa.-s and was returned to tho committi'O. Tho Senate l'reo coinage Mibsti tuto lor the Jlnto bund bill was discus vl durinv the remainder of tho day and developed some hot debates. Senate. Forty-eighth day. Mr. Quay'd res olution to recoiin.v.t tho laruT-sllver bill came up, but ut hls.re Hiest went over. The House bill prohibiting pme tis-'ht.s in the territories wa.i taUen up. Tho bill wsis mud. No objection was made, luid w Ulna thn e niinutes from the time it had been presented to the Senate it was passed. Mr. Turpie then uddreNcd tlm Sotuito in favr of the election of United ,-tates M-na-liir by popular vote. Mr. .Muryiiii. jiem., Ala., otlcrcd im ameiiiiinei.t to the resolution of Mr. t.'iiay relative to recommitting the tarlil'-siiver bill. Mr. Morgan a iwueinliuent instructs tho tluavce comuiitteo ;o a.l.in pm-isio-, deducting Pi per cut from customs duties on roods im ported in vessels at tho Unittu .-dates or of tho country pro lucinvr the imported article, pro viued tint ihe countries exporting ntich coods shall provide bv law Ciut (diver bullion, tho product of United Stales mines, hhall be i;J mltte I to co!n;ie oa eimil terms wild po;J. Tne resolution to distribute the appropriation bills nmotii; tho various Senate committees was tako-i up but was not !i-posed of. HorsB The Senate free coinnpe sustituto for tlio House bond bdl was debated live hours in the aiternoon mm for three hours ut tho nU'ht session. Noverthelosa tho prossuie from mem bers for tune to present tlieir views was so Kieat that it seemed that tho debate would ba run over into another wee'.;. ' SKXAvi;. Fiftieth day. Mr. Frvc. liep.. Mc, wa elected president pro le:n of the Senate. Mr. Al'en. Poo.. Neb., addressed the Senato on the resolution known us the I 'avis resolution, previously Introduced, relative to too Monroe doctrine. A resolution offered bv Mr. Stewart was agreed to tullii k oa the wvri't try of tho treasury for information us to the esti mated iucre ise in revenue If tho pending tariil bin becomes a law. und wnut tne duly in wool per pound would bo under the law based on tho pre:-!it m irlu t in i.e o! wool. The llanbru;h .-rod resolution w-is Hum taken up. Mr. Jiimi eliard, J'ern.. l a.. (T"le in support of the reso lution. criticlsiii' the Secretary of uurrlculture for not distributlu seeds and Comptroller' Fowler for not payiri,; ihe uiifrur bounties, dc elarim; that, the loo;: the law bv the thro ;t. jiistu-iu highwaymen scles you on u lonely roa-!.'' Tne resolution eontetup alintf tlio dis tribution of tipo.-op'uatio!! bills u;nor tin sev era: committees wusiultcn up. sin.t .Mr. Alii oi. chairman of the appropriations committer, move 1 to refer lh" resolution to the committee on rule"', to be rcnoriod bucU without amend ment tho lirst Monuav of lecem!!cr. There was much confusion with connlciin'i motions undo:!orts at an njjrev-ment. but tno motion was carried and the .-euate udiour.ie I. Hoi si;. The debate on tho free silver substitute for the bond bill proceeded steadily, a sensational l'icident occurred when Mr. llurrett. Kep.. Mass.. moved to impeach Mr. Taibert. )Jem., S. ;.. for statements ninde on the Toortollie elect "thut south Carolina was not ashamed of tho part that she too'.c in lj:o late war: that she was proud of it, and that I for ono indorsed hecenslon then. I thought wo were ristht: I thinlc so yet. und ihut under the amo circumstances, surrounded by the same conditions, that 1 would do (he .sumo thing iwuin." Mr. Marrett declared the words us treasonable and seditious." Prominent leaders of both part ies too;; part in u boated discussion which followed. Tho motion was finally referred to the. committee on judiciary. President Cleveland sent to tho House the re port of tno commissioners appointed under uet of Conirress to muko un investigation of the route of tho proposed Nicaragua canal. The report contains vcrv elaborate data rcsp??thiu' the work ulready dono by the company end various other detailed information. Tho com mission presents a grund recapitulation of itm otimat s of cost for tho who.o canal, which amounts to ifliw.-irj.Mt :i. Fifty-first day. No session of the Senate. House The debate on tho free coinage sub stitute for tho House bond bill was very spirited, und occupied the entire day. Senate. Fifty-second day. Notice was given of the intenl ion of interested senators to call up the tariff bill, the Cuban question, the dc:lcicncy appropriation ami the Davis resolu tion on the Monroo doctrine within tho next week. Mr. Cameron. Hep.. Fa., presented a resolution that ihe good oitlces o,' the United Stales be recommended to the favorable con sideration ot Spain for the recognition ot tho Independence of Cuba. Mr. Smith, Jjem.. N. .1.. spoko on tho Monroe doctrine, declaring that the people had hud enough of pnoLin und deinauded that tho Senate now proceed to do floinetnini,'. 'Jndeed.il. is a fact" said Mr. Smith, "und wo may us well admit it llr.stus last, that the Ktcut ma.orlty of tho p..'op:e throughout thecountry ure disgusted with oa pross in general und tho Senato In particular. The most popular ininir we could do today, and probably, in tho present condition of urluirs. tho most beneficial thing wo could do. would bo to pass the necessary appropriation bills una no home. The mere fact tliut we ure in session is a menace to tho revival of business and the return of prosperity." Mr. 1'cttijrrew introduced u joint resolution directing the secretary of tho treasury to lore close the government lien upon the Union i-'a-cilic und Kansas i'ucilic railroads unci pay tho prior lieu upon them und to then take posses sion of the roads for the government. The speeches rousting tho agricultural department for the non-distribution of seeds wero contin ued. President Cleveland nominated Assistant Secretary of state Uhl us ambassador to tier many and it was promptly continued. The death of Uep. Crain. of Texas, was announced and after tho uppointment of tho committee to attend tho obsequies the Senate, us u further mark of respect, adjourned. Hochb Tho de bate on the bond bili continued and wis prac tically the only business of the day. The death of Hep. Crain. of Texas, being unnounced tho speaker appointed n committee to attend the f .meral und the House udjourned us u further mark ot respect. Eleven Sitllor Ilrowneit Scrsra Storm. In a very heavy gale the threo-rnasted schooner Alliance, which left New York, went ashore on Plum Island near (iloucester, Mass., and was stove to fragments, four of tho crew being saved and three drowned. The schooner Florida, of llelfast, Me., coal laden, went ashore ofF Salis bury beach during the gale. She went to pieces, and the eight men who wero aboard lost their lives. The I'lunilslund lifesaving crew attempted to reaeh the vessel with n line for tho breeches buoy, but failed. iThe sehooner Stella, coal laden, went ashore below Kye Jleach, near Hampton, N. Y.. during thegalo and is a total loss The crew of seven men was saved. The mayor and eight of the alder men of Dubuque, la., have been in dicted for voting themselves more sal aries than the city charter allows. The collieries of tho Heading, Pa., district have shut down indefinitely to restrict tho anthracite output anil 15,000 men are out of employment. A gigantic railroad and anthracite coal trust has been formed by the Vanderbilts. the Heading system and J. l'ierpont Morgan, of New York, to raise the price of coal $1 per ton. Tho trust has SV.ioo.ooj.ooo capital, and 'ii,"lm miles of railroad. They have already pushed coal up .1" cents nnd have ordered l'(),0()0 coal miners to (uit work to restrict tho output. The trust's profits will reach .Sfo.000,)(l) to be divided aiuenj 11 partit or companion., CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The house committer on foreign af fairs has decided by u strict party vote to report a resolution censuring Am bassador Ifayard for his alleged un American speeches in England. Lulu Kennedy, a Pittsburg steno grapher, was killed by n train. The patrol wagon,' while talcing tho re mains to a morgue, was run down by u street ear and tho driver was killed. Jos. It. Dunlop, publisher of tho Chicago Daily Dispatch, lias been sen tenced to the penitentiary for two years nnd to pay a tine of $2,000 for sending obscene literature his own paper through tho mails. A C. & M. V. passenger train ran into an old switch which had been left open at Hoseville, (.)., and was derailed. l;a ore-acre ma n Fisher wu. l.-51l.l un ! tiio engineer, fireman, mail clerk and one passenger wero badly injured. Tho insurrection against Japanese rule in the island of Formosa is spread ing. Ten thousand rebels are reported to bo operating against Tamsui. Suncho and Kosuki. The railroads and telegraph lines have been torn up and destroyed. A man who has every appearance of being Schlatter, the divine healer, who created such a sensation in Colorado, is believed to bo working in tho chain gang in San Dernardino, Cal. ile whs sent from lied Lands as a va grant, lie will talk to no one except when urged and say he is doing pen ance for his sins, lie lost his white mule on the desert near Yuma. Turkey's plan to implicate the Amer ican missionaries in Armenian aifairs is being steadiiy pursued. An attempt has been made to arrest Mr. Knapp, one of the hardest working mission aries at liitlis. on a charge of sedition and murder, based on un accusation signed under coercion by some Ar menians who were in jail Mr. Knapp appealed to United States Minister Terrell. The Hritish fruit steamer Laralngton went ashore oil' Ulue Point, Long Island, during a heavy fog and is pounding herself to pieces. Seven of her crew and seven employes of tho Merritt Wrecking Co. are "on board. Life-savers went to the scene, but were unable to get a line to her. 'Ihe men took to the rigging and after several hours hard work them were taken off in tho breeches buoy by the life-savers. New York and Urooklyn were vis ited by a heavy wind und rain storm. A three-story brick building wus blown down and two men killed. A clam mitig sloop was capsized near Fort Hamilton and two men drowned. Nu merous other vessels were wrecked. Telegraph communication along the coast was broken. In iS'ew York peo ple were lifted from their feet and many were badly injured. Floods at Hound Hrook, X. J., de stroyed a great deal of property, com pletely submerging tho business por tion of the town. Many people wero rescued with tho greatest diilicu ty. Two men wero drowned trying to save their families, and 10 or 12 others are missing. In some way lire started in a J umber yard and spread until 20 resi dences and four other buildings had been destroyed. Somerville and other towns along the Haritan river suffered from tho blood but not so severely. A sehooner which passed Key West, Fla., signaled the pilot boat Nonpareil that they had on board two stowaways. They announced themselves us Dr. Castillo and servant. Dr. Castillo stated that he was surgeon-general of the Cuban army and that ho left tho cauip of Gen. Gomez about 10 days ago for the United States on a secret mis sion of importance. He said that Go mez was encamped in the southern part of Cuba with a largo army and plenty provisions and ammunition, lie also said that the ultimate success of the Cubans was assured in a short time. THE MARKETS. lit VK MOCK. New Yirk Uatllo Sheep Best g rudes . ...v J.j SO s4 U 1 Lamba Hogs . Ht 4 hi J IK) 4 5') Lower grades... :n 4 w iJ Chi ('ago Hest grudos. ... 1 1 1 1 TO 3 7.1 L,owfcr grades. ,2 Si 3 4 0.) a til) 4 PA 4 05 3 80 Detroit Host grades. ...4 0)14 5 3 tt 4 f. 4 85 Lower grades. .tf u:)ij3 85 2 .V) ii 25 4 M t'llK'lllOlltl Hest grades.... I 0) i rr 3 C5 4 05 4 30 Lower grades.. 2 0Jj3 so 10 a 4 15 (Jinveiaitil Hest grades.... 4 0.1 4 10 3 50 4 K 4 35 Lower grades.. S 3 slit" S ib 4 20 I'ltlUtiirg TJcst grades.... 4 00 J 4 30 3 M 4 W) 4 40 Lower grades.. 2 25 a3 ut) 2 25 3 ISO 4 Zi OKAIX. KIT. Wheat. Corn. n. !! rn I It i.,lv Oats. No. 2 whits '4 i&'i 22 ..2J 22 ..22'i j Nw York V8 4.7s'i st if.ii'i tnicnyro 7Uld..7(),i 2-t'..2?",i ltrolc 7.4..75j 2S'4..2H' lOlftfll! .l,,) , . 1'iiw'lmiat I 7.i ..7.V4 Hi) ..;) 22 ..22'i Cleveland 75 ..7.V4 28 ,.SH 22 ..22 I'ltttthurff 75'..7.V,t 2S!4..2K'.J 22 ..23 Dotrolt-Hay. No. I timothy, f 15 per ton. Potatoes. 20c per on. Live Poultry, chickens. Ho per lh: turkeys. I2e: ducks. 12o. Kgga,. fresh, Iteperdoz. Liulter, fresh dairy, Ho per lb; creamery, 20c. It li VIEW OF TKADE. General tr.ule wailod tho results of subscrip tions to the bond issue aid the sentimental ef fects of tho unexpectedly favorahlo outcome have been for easier money and improvement. Additional favorahlo influences are found in heavier link clearings, continued llrmnessof prices sustained demand for iron and steel nnd tho announcement from some western cities of a revival in business with jobhera in staple lines. At somo eastern cities favorahlo trudo 1 oiHiillons 11 ro reported. At tho south gains in wlisle.-alo lines aro announced. Tho reverse reports includo tho depressing Influences of stormy and wet weather, continuar.eo of ex treme conservatism in almost all lines, nnd the fact that the rcl.er to the ticasury b the over subscription to tho bond issue in the absence of sound currency legislation by congress, will prooably prove only a temporary device to maintain tho gold reserve, i.ioiiernl trade nt leading cities shows no real gains from tho pre ceding week, w hen the situation was unlet oven to dullness, and tho outlook unsatisfactory. Wheat exports were larger than for the sunia week last year and tho price has advanced qutro heavily. Corn Is steady. Cotton and wool have tended downward. Iron and steel ure a little lower but have brighter prosiwcts. I'aiiures for tho past weolc were 323 in th V. a. against 281 the sumo week last year. A number of towns in South Dakota, and northern Nebraska and Iow pa. j port an earthquake, severe enough to j ruitie uoors huh wiuuows, I Advices from Havana say that nil kinds of provisions are extremely j scarce thero owing to tho stopping o'f I nil railroad tratlio by the insurgents. ! Starvation is staring many people in j the face. . Spanish troops at Sabanilla, Cuba, I slaughtered SC. helpless inhabitants , I'M at whom were women and children because they fed 11 band of insur j gent'.. This is us bad as tho Armenian ma-.sucves. i L