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^TW 2%^ Princeton Union. E.C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms:(2.00 per year in advance. IT IS alleged that the catacombs of Rome contain the remains of about 6.000.000 human beings and those of Paris about 3,000.000. A KANSAS statesman, in an appro priate note of thanks to the proprie tor of the wollen mills at Fort Scott, acknowledges the "recete of a butiful pare of woolinsox." Two brothers were wrestling at Northwood, Iowa, the other day, when one of them was thrown with such violence that his neck was broken. JfJonx BANCROFT, who went to Port land, Ore., a very poor man eight years ago, died lately and left a com fortable fortune to a woman who once gave him some good advice and a breakfast. THE Cincinnati Enquirer does not allow the mention of John Sul livan's name in its columns. How soon the drunken pugilist would flat ten out if the press generally follow ed the Enquirer's example. THE fastest vessel afloat is said to be the 3,200-ton English built war ship intended for the Argentine Gov ernment. She made 21.2 knots under ordinary draft, and 22.4 knots with forced draft. THE accumulation of wealth, esti mated at 14 per cent, of the gross earnings of mankind, now aggre gates $5,000,000,000 per annum, and is increasing, relatively as well as absolutely, from year to year. SMOKELESS powders are not noise less, as is so frequently stated. The *oise is somewhat different from that ^of black powder, being on a higher key but it can be heard quite as distinctly and as far as when the latter is used. A MARRIAGE occurred at Parkers burg, W. Ya., recently at which there ^ras only one high,contracting party. The groom was nearly seven feet tall, while the bride was but three in height. The bride said, "Love me little," and the groom responded, 4 Love me long." ONE of the three daughters of John D. Rockefeller, while a student at Yassar, had a handsome allowance in the way of money from home. In stead of spending this on rich gowns and apartments she paid for two years the tuition and expenses of a girl from the country who was not able to pay them herself. ABOUT three years ago seven men in Perry, Ga., paid $1 each to start a savings-bank. The bank is now operated under a State charter, is located in a building owned by its stockholders, and during the last twelve months over$200,000 of bus iness was transacted through its cashier. AN extraordinary incident occurred recently in England during a run with the hounds of Sir Watkin "Williams Wynn. In passing a cot tage the fox found himself among a lot of fowls. Absolutely regardless of possible consequences, he snatched up one of the birds and carried it|in his mouth to the end of the run, and ^\as killed with it in his mouth. THE smallest town in the United States which has an electric street railway in operation is Southington, Conn., with a population of 5,400. The cars are in service over two miles of track, and the average daily re ceipt are $9 per car. The power for the operation of this road is furnish ed by the local lighting company, and costs $1.25 per car per day. IT was at one time claimed and attempted to be showed that the Puritan Mayflower of 1620 was aft terward used as a slave ship. Close research revealed the fact that the elaver was another ship of the same name and different burden. Histor ical records show that about the year 1474 Richard, Duke of Glouces ter, had a ship called the Mayflower nd Hunter, in his "Founders of New England" mentioned some 20 *hips as bearing that name between (the years 1583 and 1683. THE WEEK'S DIGEST. A Brief Kecord of the Happen ings of the Past Week. WASHINGTON. Senator Petf igrew has introduced a bill In congress to prohibit the sale of arms and ammunication to Indians on reservations, providing a penalty of two years' imprison ment or $300 fine of each offense. It also prohibits the Indians from carrying arms, unless they have a written permission from the agent in charge of the reservation. The secretary of the interior has reversed a derision of the land commissioner under the last administration which will give to William Jones his homestead in section 3, township G2, rango 14, of the Duluth dis trict. The secretary goes into the case in de tail, showing that Jones was a poor man, who was obliged to leave his land occasion ally in order to earn money on which to live. Testimony was submitted to the secretary that he was held In high esteem by many prominent men that his absence from his land was about two days every two weeks, on the nvernge, and that ho was a sufferer from epileptic fits. The secretary says an injustice was done him in refusing to accept his final proof, and orders that this shall be done. PERSONAL. Prof. Snow, of the Kansas State univer sity, has discovered the existence of a disease which kills chinch bugs. Infected bugs were let loose in a bug-infested field. The disease spread so rapidly and was so fatal that the field was soon lid of the pests. CASUALTIES. The fire at Minden, Neb., destroyed eight business houses. The Joss will not exceed $35,000, with insurance of probably a third. A passenger train on the Baltimore & Ohio ran into a snow back near Harrison burg, Ya and was wrecked. Six trainmen were injured, but the passengers escaped with a bad shaking up. A pilot boat employed in Bogue inlet has drifted ashore at Beaufort, N. C. A heavy gale has prevailed for several days, and it is thought that the pilots who were on the boat have been drowned. The Burton block, between Canal and Clin ton streets, Chicago, was burned. The loss on the building and contents will aggregate $80,000, moBt of which is covered by insur ance. At Southport, Conn., fears ar* entertained that the steam barge City of Utica of New York, bound for Westpurt with coal, has gone to the bottom of the sound with all on board. Wreckage bearing the name City of Utica has been washed ashore. Much havoc has been wrought by storms on the southern coast of Europe especially around Sardinia, in which vicinity eleven persons are known to have been killed and fifty injured, while many vessels were wrecked and a number of houses shattered. Lulu Steigmier of Attica, Ohio, and May Stevens of Clifton Springs, N. Y., who were the worst burned of the victims of the birth day party at the Buchtel college, at Akron, O.. have died. May Baker of Johnson's Creek, N. Y., and Aurelia Wierick of Storm Lake, Iowa, are most seriously injured of the surviving members ot the party, but the physicians say there is no immediate danger. Two freight trains on the Union Pacific collided near Coyote Station. Brakeman James was instantly killed. Engineer Nich ols and Fireman Giese were seriously injured. Both engines were completely telescoped and the track torn up for nearly a mile. The east bound train toad orders to side track lor the west bound freight, but for some rea son did not stop. Christ's Episeopal church in New York, on the corner of Thirty-filth street and Fifth avenue, was burned. The church was va cated two years ago, the congregation have ing consolidated with another church. Re cently J. Bentley's painting, '"The Ideul Head of Christ," was on exhibition in the church. The picture, valued at $50,000 was destroyed. The daniasre to the church is al o estimated at $50,000. WICKEDNESSES. Pat Killen and Joe Sheehy fight in St. Paul. Sheehy bites Killen, to whom the fight is given on a foul. Miss Ida Laycock, a young lady teacher near Longmont. Col., was stabbed four times by one of her pupils named Bert Myefs, and may die. At Columbus, Ind., John Petilliott, charged with murdering his wife July 4, has been sentenced to ninety-nine years in the state prison. McDaniels. the notorious desperado who was the leader of the Cotton Belt train rob bery, has been arrested near San Antonio, Texas. Father R. A. Finerty, pastor of the Sacred Heart church at Dayton Ohio, has been dismis sed for alleged immoral conduct with ayoung lady member of his church. During the ceremony at a swell wedding in the city of Henry, 111., vanda les stole all the twraps of the guests and the more valuable wedding presents. Nathaniel Green, cashier and bookkeeper for Farnsworth & Buggies, draymen of San Francisco, is missing, and the statement is made that the firm's bank account has been overdrawn between $10,000 and $15,000. State Representative Brandt, who died a few days ago, was $6,000 short as treasur er of Vencie township, Seneca county, Ohio. He was nlso a bankrupt, with liabilities of $30,000 and assets of only $10,000. Nelson C. Jennings, who for four years has been the trusted cashier of the Chicago branch of the Sunday Creek Coal company, haB absconded with $6,380 belonging to the corporation. In Memphis, Teun Miles Ogle, the notori ous counter'eiter, was convicted of having in his possession and passing counterfeit mon ey and sentenced to fifteen years in the the penitentiary, in addition to a fine of $5,000, In Keokuk, Iowa. Joseph Bean aud Jose phine Marion were indicted for the murder of the latter's husband Sept. 12. Poison was administered to Marion in a piece of pie, and shortly afterward he died in great agony. Just before the death of an unknown man at Tennyson, Ind., a few days ago he made a startling assertion that he was the mur derer of John P. Bilderbach, near Fort Branch, twenty years ago, for which crime 1 nomas Camp was hanged. A reward is offered for the arrest of George Roberts, president of the Miners' Union of Ironwood and Hurley, Wis., on the charge of embezzlement. Theamount is not known. It is thought that he has gone to Winnipeg. His actions are a great surprise, as he has always been considered a very straight man. P. E. King waB found dead at the Rock iBland depot in Chillicothe. III. His head had been crushed in with a bolt of iron about two feet long. The bloody instru ment was found lying by his side. King drew a large sum of monej and thi may have incited the murder, as his pockets had been rifled. In a shooting scrape which occurred fi'teen miles from Bowen, Miss., Will Blue, Dave McKee and Bob Applewhite all were mortal- ly wounded. The fight grew out of thekillinir of a cousin of McKee by Blue at a party in Jefferson county a short time ago. All the parties are young men. A murderer at SummerviDe, Mo., is in hid ing in a large cave. He is armed to the teeth and boasts that there are not men enough in the state to capture him. He has a small" terrier dog chained near the entrance to the cave, which gives the alarm when any one approaches. A large reword is offered for' his capture. Louis A. Pfeiffor, who was president of the broken Bank of America nnd vice president] of the American Li'e Insurance company was arrested in Philadelphia. Bail was fixed at $20,000 in default of which Pleiffer was taken to prison. James S. Dungan, who was the cashier ot the broken bank, was ar rested at Newcastle, Del., where he has been living. Dungan consented to come without a requisition, and on his arrival, in default of $20,000 bail was locked up. An encounter took place recently between a band of cowboys and a number of Indians at Ray's ranch, above the mouth of Battle creek, west of the Cheyenne river. The cowboys were secreted behind a wood pile in Daly's yard, and the Indians attempted to ride through the gate into the ranch when a cow boy named Thompson shot and killed one of them The other cowboys opened fire nnd two more Indians fell. Tho Indians re turned the fire, nnd one of the cowboys was seriously if not fatally wounded. FOREIGN. A docree has been issued announcing that the emperor or China will grant a yearly audience to all foreign ministers. Snow storms prevail everywhere in Great) Britain. The fall has been deep and traffic is blocked in many places. A number ot[ wrecks of small vessels have been reported.' The grand duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin undergoing treatment by Prof. Koch for tuberculosis, and has received several injec-, tions of lymph. Moses H. Devy, a riveter at Roach's ship. yard, Chester, Pa., is one of the heirs to an estate in Staffordshire, Eng., valued at some thing over $5,000,000. The court of inquiry appointed to investi-! gate the loss ot the British cru iser Serpent, off the coast of Spain, has decided that the loss of the vessel was due to an error of judgment on the part of the navaga tion officer. The reaction against the Koch treatment has increased in violence in Paris. Eight patients have died soon after the injection of the lymph, and this combined with the fact that there is no verified cure, has intensified the public feeling against the experiments. A number of hospital patients in Paris, and in Lyons who have been undergoing the Koch treatment have refused to submit to further trials. Owing to the public furore the commission headed by Prof. Nallopoan, which is testing the remedy, has decided to maintain absolute silence as to the results until the tests have been completed. IN GENERAL. An old ordinance is dug up in Chicago which may compel the abandonment of the lake front as a site for the world's fair. Near Fresno, Cal., two men have found what is claimed to be a genuine petrified body of a man It is remarkably well pre served, and even the lines of the back ot the hand are visible. The Davis Plaform Binder Company of Cleveland, Ohio, engaged in manufacturing harvesters and hinders, has temporarily gone into the hands of a receiver. Assets, $400,000 liabilities, about $0,000. Tho Flint & Pere Marquette freight hand lers at Ludington, Mich., have struck against a reduction in wages, and there is likely to be trouble if the company imports new men. The grand jury at Kansas City is investi gating the charges of bribery in the city council. The attorney for the incline plane company, it is said, has made startling dis closures. At a meeting in New York of the wealthy Arab citizens it was decided to form a Bilk growing and fruit raising syndicate in this country, which will give employment to all Arab emigrants ar-riving in America. The deaths resulting from the powder ex plosion at Taiping China, in November were more than at first timated, it being stated that 800 coffins had been taken out of the city and yet they were not enough to bury all the dead. The Farmers' Alliance of Atchison county. Kan., the home county of Senator Ingalls, At a recent meeting adopted resolutions recommending the retirement of Mr. Ingalls. from the Senate nnd the election to his seat! of a Farmer's Alliance man. John Morris obtained a writ of mandamus to compel the secretary of state of Louisiana' to promulgate the lottery bill comply with the law lequiring the proposed lottery nmendments to the constitution to be sub mitted to the people. The Chicugo Orchestra society has voted to engage Theodore Thomas as director for' at least three years and to secure tho audi torium for the concerts of the society. Fifty wealthy citizens subscribed $1,000 each for1 three years to the society's guaranty fund. 1 S. A. Kean, doing a banking business un der the name of S. A. Kean & Co., made an assignment at Chicago to Benjamin F. Ja cobs. The deposits amount to about $450,- 000, belonging to well-to-do people. Mr. Kean has turned over all his private proper ty to tbe receiver. At has been discovered by Attorney Gen eral Miller that the local directory of tho world's fare hnsmot accepted the ordiance passed by the city council providing for the issue of $5,000,000 in bonds in aid 01 tbe fair] Until this formality is nttonded to nofuither progress toward the issuance of the president tial proclamation can bp mnde. The defect will be remedied as quickly as possible. Tho Alaskan exploring party has had seii ous trouble in their camp. The explore^ quarreled and divided into three parties. Glave started for New York In disgust. Wells and a band of natives pushed on to the interior. At last accounts they weru snowed in for the winter with but forty1 pounds of flour in their camp. Others of the expedition took another route, striking overland for Southern Alaska. i Caught. A man who has the rare faculty of keeping in with those best-of-best fel lows, the chronic borrowers, without much expense to himself was caught in his own trap the other day. 'Look here, Tom, eld boy," said the cheer ful borrower, I don't like to nskyou,/ but I must have $5. I'll return it to you next Saturday." "How unfortu- nate," said the other. "I have only cot $ 1 to my name. Half of it's yours, though, old chap," and say ing this he thurst his hand into his pocket where he had placed the bill for such an emergency and drew it oot. I was a ten. \nd now he is calling that a cheap administration which will issue $10 bills without any fluted sides, raised letters, or electric bell attachments so that a fellow can tell one when he gets hold of it in the dark.From the New York Tri bune. TROOPS HEMMED IK Beports That Two Companies in the Yellowstone are Sur rounded by Indians. Gen. Miles Discredits the Re ports But Sends Reinforce ments to the Scene. EAriD CITY, Dec. 24.A report has readied Gen. Miles via Missoula that two companies ol soldiers in the Yellowstone region are sm rounded noith ol Cave Hills by 500 or COO Indians and have sent couriers out with notification of danger to the settlers. Gen. Miles bays there are Indians in that vicinity, but discredits the report that the troops are hemmed in. lias, however, ordered reinforcements sent. Dispatches to Gen Miles from Col. Sum ner to-day show that nearly all of Sitting Bull's followers together with Big Foot's band have surrendered to him. Col. Sum ner in a dispatch tays this disposes of all the Indians along tho Cheyenne river, and if there are any more of Sitting Bull's peo ple out he does not know where they can be Gen. Brooke reports the arrival ot lricud ly Indians at the Bnd Lands camp and says the capture of Sitting Bull's people and Big Foot's Forces will aid the efforts of the friendlies to bring in the hostiLes. A In dian scout reports to Gen. Brooke that Short Bull's followers are anxious to come in, but are withheld by the threats ol Kick ing Bear, one of Sitting Bull's agents. The scout thinks, however, that the Inendlies will at last succeed in bring out Short Bull's followers. The report is that theio are about 3,000 Indians, including women and children, who are badly armed, coining on to join those in the Bad Lands. There are about 600 fighting men among them. This report is thought to be somewhat exaggerated, as there are thought to be not over300 fighting men among them. ONE GOOD INDIAN. The Results of One Day's Skirmishing by a Company of Rangers. DENVEK, Dec. 24.A News special rom Hart's ranch, near the Bad Lands, says that last night news was brought in that the rangers on Coal Draw, near Battle creek, killed an Indian, and that he, with others, was trying to set fire to a ranch belonging to a man named Thompson. This report was verified this morning. About 170 Indians ironi the Cheyenne agency are known to be coming to Short Bull and Kicking Bear's people in the Bad Lands. Gen. Carr's, Col. Sumner's and other large forces are now out to intercept them before they reach the Bad Lands, and a report of their capture is momentarily ex pected. Should they make any resistance. a fight will take place. It is reported that there are about 500 Indians Hearing the hostile camp who are going to make a strong effort to bring them in, but no suc cess is expected from this move. It is certain that there are now enough troops around the Indians to compel their absolute surrender. Two companies of the Seventeenth infantry, comprising over 100 men, reported to Gen. Carr to-day, also forty-six Cheyenne Indian scouts reported which now brings the strength of thi* com mand up to over 700 men. A decisive movement of some kind or another with a skirmish with these Indians is momentari ly expected. GATHERING THEM IN. Sitting Bull's Band of Hostiles Rounded lip by Troops. At Gen. Ruger's headquarters yesterday it was reported that the band of Siou\ under Big Foot had surrendered to Col. Sumner. This latter officer has been in camp on the Cheyenne, near the mouth oi Belle Fourche, and marched from there to Cherry creek, where Big Foot's band was captured. Among the prisoners were sev eral ot Sitting Bull's band of hostiles. Advices from Fort Bennett state that Capt. Hurst and Lieut. Hale have captured about forty of Sitting Bull's scattered band, and are taking them to that post.] CONFIRMED BY GEN. MILES. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 Maj. Gen. Scho field has received a telegram irom Gen. Miles, dated Rapid City, S. D., Dec. 22, as iollows: "I believe all or very nearly all the fol lowers ot Sitting Bull have been captured. Col. Sumner reports to-day the capture ot Big Foot's band ot Sioux, numbering 150 has been one Sf the most defiant and threatening. The result so far has been satisfactory." STILL. HAS His SCALP. A Traveler Crosses the Sioux Reserva tion Without Being Molested. PIERRE, S. D., Special Telegram, Dec. 24. Leo Kauffman has arrived irom a trip on horseback across the country irom Dead wood. did not see any hostile Indians, but heard plenty of rumors. Between Mexican Ed's ranch, on the Cheyenne, and Mitchell creek there are Boldics patrolling to prevent hostiles Irom crossing noith and south. James Hall, a merohant at Midland, ninety miles Irom Pierre, arrived to-day and says the Indians are breaking up into small bands and marauding any unpro tected places before the troops reach tliem. All the people living in tins county have fled to places of salety. Cavanaugh, who has a big ranch and store on Plum creek, was, together with his men, ordered av\ay by Big Foot's men. who told them they would be killed it they stayed. Alter they left the Indians killed some cattle and pillaged the store. Nothing Serious Before Spring. WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec. 24. "If any serious trouble is had with the Sioux," said Senator Moody after he had read the dispatches in this morning's papers, "it will come in the spring. I do not think there will be anything serious* now during the winter. The greatest fear is irom scattering raiding bands. One of the most serious effects ot the whole busi ness will be seen when spring conies, and farmers are kept from their famis through iear 01 their lives. That will be a bad thing all round." i Depew ac It, &N Usual. N EW YORK, Dec. 24.The eighty-fifth an niversary dinner ot the New England so ciety was held in the Madison Square garden concert hall to-night. Nearly five hundred members and guests were present. J. Pierniont Morgan, president of the so ciety, was the spmposiarich of the banquet. He delivered a brief address in introducing Money for a College. PIERRE, S. D., Special Telegram, Dec. 24. State Treasurer Smith has received $15,000 appropriated by the last session ot congress ior the state agricultural college and ex fntomental ieri station at Brookings. This goes the maintenance fund oi th'st institu tion. SITTING BULL'S DEATH. Resolutions Demanding a Congressional Investigation of the A flair. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.In the house to day Representative Blanchard ot Louisiana offered the following preamble and resolu tions: Whereas..The recent kill-ng of the In dian chief, bitting Bull, appears to have been accomplished under eiicumstanccs (cognized neither by the laws of war nor those of peace "Resolved That a committee, consisting of five members of tins house who are meni iiers-clecl to the house oufnrepresentatives ol he Fifty-second to be appointed by the speakenrr of the present house, is di- ^m i 1 (,i l, investigate the icongress t" to C(Jt0 killing ol the said Indian chief. Hating Hull nnd the immediate causes leadn.tr thereto" and whether a state ot war existed which justified his nummary taking oil, and if not. what justifhutlon, if any, there was lor 1,IH violent death at the hands of In dian police in tbe employ of the govern- ment." Thai tho pommiltpo Is charged with the du.y of investigating the threatened Indian outhienk 111 the Wet and the causes there 0 whHher neglect by the government of is treaty obligations with the Indians or the tardy or inadequate fulfillment such obligations on the pait of the government had anything to do with the turbulent btate of ullairH existim.' among the Indians I hat the committee BIIUII have power to appoint bubcominittccH and to travel from point to point as niav be necessary and in doing so it is authorized to use government conycyarces and means of ti asportation. inat the committee may sit during the present session and after the final adjourn ment of the present congress, and snail make report by the 1st of December next to the 1'ilty-second congress Representative McAdoo offered a resolu tion calling on the secretaries of war and oi the interior for ail official correspondence relating to the killing ot Sitting Bull, and more especially for the reports of those hoers and agents directly concerned in or dering or effecting the arrest of Sitting Bull. BLAINE WILL BECOMMEXD. A Coming Communication to Congress on the Uehring Sea Difficulty. WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec 24. Secretary Blaine has prepared a communi cation to congress on the Behring sea seal catching question. will send it to the capitol as soon as it can be laid before Lord Salisbury, as it would be a breach of diplo macy to make it public here in advance of the time when Salisbury sees it. This message, it is semi-officially an nounced, will suggest that some active and immediate steps be taken toward arbitrating the questions invohed with the British au thorities. Since the report ot Prof. Elliott recently published, that the seal were rap idly disappearing, Mr. Blaine's position that the poaching by British vessels was contra bonos mores is to an extent proven correct. It is expected that Mr. Blaine ill recommend the appointment of a commis siosn? to investigate the seal fishing question ^apt'ate or refute the statements in 1 rof. Elliott's report, and at the same time to arbitrate the entire question with the proper representatives of her majesty's gov ernment. It is expected that Mr. Blaine's message will be sent to congress early in Januarv. THE TROUBLESOME CHINESE. 4. Ne Point Which May Cause the Whole Country Vexation. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.For some time past it has been the practice of the treasury department to return to China at govern ment expense all Chinese laborers con victed of entering our territory in violation of the Chinese exclusion act. This applied to Chinamen smuggled over the Mexican and Canadian borders, as well as those com ing direct from China. A recent decision by Judge Maxey, of the United States district court of the Western district of Texas, however, will, if sus tained, compel a material modification of this practice. It is that the go\eminent has no right under the law to send to China Chinese laborers who enter the United States from contiguous countries. unle the evidence is produced that they came from China, or in other words, that the language of the law authorizing their re turn "to the country whence they came" should in such cases be construed to mean the contiguous country and not China. Secretary Windoni and'Assistant Secretary Spaulding are considering the matter. THE HAST INNG & DAKOTA GRANT "Dar" Hall Futs the Case to Mr. Noble Very Pointedly. WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec. 24. Representative Hall was to-day promised by the secretary of the interior department an early settlement of the Hastings & Da kota land grant. went to Secretary No ble about the matter, and again stated how many settlers were unable to determine whether they owned the land they were on and had been for many years deprived or title to lands which they should have. During the conversation Mr Hall inci dentally stated that the secietary had promised him an appointment on one of the many Indian commissions, an appoint ment that had failed to materialize. 'Now," said the Third district man, on can do something for me and do it now. There is no pending legislation topre\ent this adjustment, and it is merely a matter ot doing on your part." The secretary was rather pleased with the blunt request, and proniised to set the machinery in motion to accomplish what was asked. M. *.^M- With Parnell to the Last. CHICAGO, Dec. 24."Irish-Americans in mass meeting, 0,000 strong, stand greeting. Victorious or vanquished in North Kilken ny, we are with you to the last." That was the message a rousing big meeting in Bat tery to-night ordered cabled to Parnell. The enthusiasm displayed was phenomenal even ior a Celtic gatnenng. Everv mention ot Parneli's name brought wild outbursts ol applause. Might Have Been Worse. STAPLES, Minn., Special Telegram, Deo. 24.George Leuts, while intoxicated, &hot at, but missed, Jack Ennis while they were conversing together in W. P. Buckley's lunch room last evening. The ball struck the wall, glanced and struck the counter about a foot Irom where the waiter was standing. Leuts was to-day fined $10 and costs. A Bridge Opened. LA CROSSE, WIS., Special Telegram, Dec. 24. The La Crosse wagon bridge was opened for travel to-day, and 200 teams and a large number of foot men passed. Parulyzing Traffic. GLASGOW, Dec. 24.The railway strikers have so far succeeded in paralyzing traffic throughout the district. At a meeting of railroad strikers held in this city to-day the announcement was made that 4,500 men had quit work. There is an absolute cessat 011 ot f.eight traffic, and only a few pas senger trains are running. The railway managers are making a firm stand against Jthe strikers. The latest report is that the wike is extending. One instance is report ed ot a locomotive being derailed, it is sup posed, by strikerc. The stoppage of opera tions ar the Singer Sewing Machine Works throws 1,000 persons out of employment. WORK OF CONGRESS. Proceedings of Both Branches of the National Legisla- ture. Tuesday December 16, SENATE. Senator Hoar read a letter fi om John T. Davenport, making a vigorous denial 1 hi* charges prelerred against his condu as chief supervisor of elections and professing ,1 williriirness to appear befoie a senate com mittee to answer the charges, iiousr:. Mr Dunnell, called up the apportionment bill ana briefly explained its provisions TUP bill appeared, he said in respose to the le quirements, of the constitution, and was based upon the 11th census, whieli showed tfraliymg increase in the population of the United btates. Wednesday December 17. SENATE The morning hour having expired, the sen ate resumed the consideration of the election bill, Mr Dolph continuing Lis speech upon the subject The secretary of war to-day transmitted to the senate a pie'iminary of the board on gun factories and steel forging'or high power guns, appointed by the president undei an ace of the last session of congress. In a letter ac companying the report Secretary Proctor Btates that it may be advisable to* establish at no distant day a gun factory at some point on the Pacific coast of sufficient capacity to supply the guns required for the armament of that coast. HOUSE. After a long debate tne house passed the apportionment bill without amendment years, 187, nays, 82. Acting Secietary Chandler, of the interior department, in the absence of Seeretarv Noble, has sent to Speaker Reed a copy of the letter which Indian Commissioner Mor gan addressed to the secretniy, urging the passage of the Sisseton and Wahpeton In dian bill. The Indian commissioner in bis letter des ribes the destitute condition of the Indians at the Sisseton agency, and ex plains thnt owing to the act that tins bill was pending last session no appropriation was made for the maintenance ol the bisse ton Indians. Both the Commissioner and Secretary Noble urge that something ba doue immediately looking to the passage 01 this bill. Thursday December 18. SENATE. Mr. Sherman, from tbe committee on finance, reported a bill providing against a contraction of the currency, which was printed and recommitted. The elections bill was then taken up. and Mr. Coke addressed the senate in opposition to it. The bill was then lajd aside, and after passing a few local appropriation bills, tho senate went into executive session. HOISE. The senate bill was passed amending the interstate commerce act by pro* iding for the taking of depositions for notories public. A ter considerab'e wrangling the house went into committee of the whole, Mr. Burrows, of Mielugnn, in the chair. Mr. Farquhar then moved that the house proceed to the consideration 01 the senate hill to place the American merchant marine on an equality with that of other nations. Mr. Springer made the point of order that the motion was not in order, hut that th& committee must proceed to the considera tion of appropriation bills The chanman ruled that the motion was in order for the reason that the rules gave the committee authority to decide what measure it would take up. Friday December 1 9 SENATE. Mr. Stanford addressed the senate on the bill to increase the circulating medium At the conclu-ion of his speech the bill was re ferred to the committee on finance. Senate bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North at Dray ton, N. D. was reported and placed on the calendar. Also senate bill appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Fresno, Cal. Mr Manderson offered a resolution, wmoh was referred to the committee on Indian af fairs, instructing that committee to lnquire mto the conditian ol Indian tribes in North Dakot.i, South Dakota, Montana and else here, the steps necessary to disarm them, etc. HOUSE. The indications are that the subsidy ton nage bill will pass the house nnd the outcome' may be a bill for mail subsidy merely be tween thi eouutrv and the South and Cen tral America states Like all such indefinite measures no reliable estimate of the cost cars be made. Saturday December, 20. SENATE. Mr. Washburn presented a memorial of the St. Paul board of trade asking full experi ments to ascertain thej feasibility of irriga tion by artesian wells in North and South) Dakota. Mr Piatt introduced a joint resolution in the senate appropriating $100,000 toenable the president to take action to obtain fioro the German government a supply of the remedy discovered by Dr Koch and tbe formula for its manufacture. Mr Spooner spok in support of the Force bill and Ingalls contributed some peppery remarks. HOUSE. A bill was passed by the house to author ize a tunnel under the waters of the bav of New York between Middletown and New Tjtrecht. Mr Comstock introduced a bill piovuhnar that the little arm ol territory extending north of the boundery of Minnesota into Manitoba, near the Lake of the Woods, and a part ot The old Red Lake Indian reserva tion, shall be declared a national park and improved as such. The house concurred in all the senate* amendments to the urgent deficiency bill ex cept the amendment providing lor the pay ment of senate session emplojes, including1 the clerks to senators. The committee on appropriations recommended the concurrence in the amendment, with an amendment striking out the appropriation for the sen ate clerks, which viitually made them annu al employee. Monday December 22, SENATE. Mr. Higgins spoke in the senate to-day in supnort ot the elections bill. Mr, Voor hees opposed it. criticised President Harrison for that portion ot his message to congress urging the passage of the eleetioi* bill. ,,.._. The senate passed a bill to establish the record and pension office of the war depart ment. The senate adopted the conference jreporfc on the Sioiix reservation bill. HOUSE. The house devoted the day to the con" sideration of District of Columbia affairs. Wounded In a General Bow. MOUNT VERNON. Ky., Dec. 22.At Bush* Creek, nine miles east of this place, on Fri day evening, five persons were wounded in a general row. Jack Baker received a ball the left breast, ranging upward and lodging under that shoulder blader Andy Mason had his wrist shattered! from a ball a son of Mason got a furrow plowed across his head just over the leit ear John Angliu received a similar wound and Anglin's wife was shot in the back. How the fight came up no one here has yet been able to learn. All the participants* are related by marriage to each other.