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. .. .. • u eed. RA4 I~~~~rUI &fl4 'ed 15Wb5 4pett .@ii v L bu ei IaEL EN A M A MIC T v XXX1 HLEAMONTANA. W, DN1EODAY MORNING, JA.NUARY 28, 1891, PRICE FIVE CENTS METZ' beg to announce that they have .determined to positively * CLOSE OUT.J their entire stock of Decorated r AR T CHINA, Consisting of products of the a Limoge Factories of b, T JAVIL4ND & LEONARID } This step has been -rendered I. necessary by*the rapid advance U in ,"Local Art,"" many users olf a this class of goods preferring to ti do their own decorating. Con. b, ti sequently we find ourselves withl e a large stock of beautiful it IQE CrEAM SETS, ic DINNER SETS, TEA SETS, d, COPFEE SETS, f" GAME SETS, FISH SETS, ETC., ETC. I Tiese- goods will positively be sold AT CBST! AT COST!; It bi This is an h araleled Offer! Customers from out of town will at do well: to correspond, or, come to in ,person. ti, to RIC-A-BRAC! C ril All our stock of vases, rose jars, i bottles, etc., of celebrated pot,; t teries will be sold ho of be IGM1BýLSS OF COST, aý th Wi ap This is "strictly business;" we are going to devote our down we stairs room to our Manuifacturing 051 Dept., which has outgrown its ti present quarters. O NiT MISS THIS SALE. mi vii in Leading Jewelers, IIELE.C, - ,. MONTANA liv N. B-Finest watch repairing g in the borthwest. Jewelsy made " he 'to order and repaired. Diamond or setting mad engraving, original , and artidic. A MAIL ORDER DE PARTMEITr. Write for a ring ; E SCORE SOULS Ushered Into Eternity Without Warning, in the Twinkling of An Eye. A Long Line of Calamities in Pennsylvania, the Last the Worst. Explosion of Fire Damp in the Friks Co.'s Mammoth Ahiatt-Mournatag in the Coke Relion. Soorx..nSux, Pa., Jan. 27.--By. the expo laon o" fire damp.in the Mammoth shaft of the H. C, Fricke Coke company to-day ful ly 110 sturay miners were ushered, ·nto eternity and A' number seriously inJu&ld. The explosion ooanrred this morning after nine o'clock, stal, it is supposed, was the result of ignition from miners' oil lamps. The after damp, which followed the fire damp explosion, suffocated nearly every workman. A few nen realized the awful situation, and fell to the ground, thereby preventing the gas from striking them. The persons not killed are in such a critical con dition that their deaths are momentarily ex pected. Up to this writing sixty bodies have been recovered, all without sign of life. The fire which broke out after the explo sion was soon extinguished by the immense fans, which were put in operation, but af terward, broke, out again and it is feared many bodies will be cremated. The Mam moth plant embtaces 509 ovens, one of the largest plants in the coke region, but it is hard of asocess. It is situated near the United works where an explosion recently destroyed the entire shaft. The affair has cast gloom over the entire coke region, and to-night hundreds of minert are flocking to the scene of disaster and offering assist an.p. The appalling loss of life at the Dun bar disaster is more than overshadowed by the destruction of life in the Mammoth calamity. The news spread throughout the entire coke region with great rapid ity and everybody was awe stricken. Coffins have already been ordered for eighty persons, from Mount Pleasant undertakers. No one escaped from the mine in a condition to tell the story of awful disaster. It is estimated that there are sixty wives and families left wholly dependent upon the charity of the world for sustenance by this disaster. In fact, they are almost penniless, as the plant had pot beep running full force for some time, and work had been exceedingly scarce. Everything possible will be resorted to to supply the widowed mothers and their children with the aopssaries of 'life. The company will ot librally in this direction. ' te. r Workman Peter Wise haa sent an appeal for aid to the miners and cokers of the region. THE AWFUL DETAILS. Scenes Sad Beyond Thought and Imagina tion-Around the Pit. EcorTDxLE, Jan. 27.-This evening a par tial story of the disaster was obtained. An unexpected flow of gas was struck and the miners working in headings connected with flats 2, 8 and 4, were all killed. The fire boss, as is his duty, had been in the mine and examined the workings of the places. His mangled body lies at the morgue. The only evidence that he attended to his du ties are the certificates of inspection re ceived from him this morning, which guar, anteed the mines safe. The miners knew these certificates had been filled out and went to work. They never returned. Bd perintendent Keighly, who was mine in spector in the Dunbar district when that horror occurred, was at the mine when the explosion took place. He immediately called for volun teers and gathering a few about him, de scended the shaft. Before doing so he no tified General Superintendent Dinah, and that gentleman ordered all mine superin tendents in the region to the scene. When the volunteers entered the mine a sight im possible to picture met them. A bank of cars, mules, and more terrible than all, men were piled in a compact mass, against ribs or walls of coal, and not a living thing was in the wreckage. It was alnost solid as the coal itself. So terrific was the force of the explosion that this obstruction was removed with diffi culty, and they entered the chamber of horrors. The first object they discovered after leaving the main entry was a gum boot. In it was the leg of a man. Farther on they found a human head, but nowhere in sight was the trunk that had borne it. But in a few minutes after walking some distance, snrroundea by dangers unseen, they found the trtink. The ragged neck. with blood oozing from it, told a story of appalling disaster. Working their way in they found bodies strewn along the gangway. One unfortu nate met death while on his knees in pray er, with hands clasped aid eyes uplifted. His body was found in this position. It was a pathetic picture. While all this was oconurrqng the people of the region were concentrating at the scene of the great dis nester. Women, children and relatives and friends of the unfortunate victims rushed to the month of the pit shrieking and sob bing, and the scene was one never to be forgotten. Following them came physi oians and undertakers fSom Scottdale. Mount Pleasant and Greensburgh,and after them Father Lambing, of Scottdale. who went among the bereaved with words of s~ympathy and condolence, besides urging men to greater work to rescue any whoo mightbe alive and imprisoned. The ser vices of the physicians is little needed, for I every man in the heading, where the explo sion oecurred, was killed. None were injured and dead bodies were brought up i in a very few minutes. Every corpe was covered and no one even ventured to in quire which body'it was. for they knew tiSat every one in that part of the mine at the time of the explosion was dead. Superintendent Keighly was sorely dia tremeed. He had been in two other mine disuasters, Dunbar and Youngstown,-but this was far theworst He sid: "No man I living knows the cause of the aooident, and it will never be known for a certainty. i many were killed by the explosion, _ fter damp came and the to it. This I. abhown thoetat~ r . bodies in the mme diat -tt worst I wreckage were mut One foeman conneated with the malie said that safety lamps were not used i The prempce of gas had not been au p.tee led Superintendent Lynch said to-night that e thpnght it possible that in drawing ribs or pllars some miner tapped g.. All ighs were open and waats an unexpected thing. Up to one o'eloc a. m. Jrty bodies were recovered. Every five minutes a corpe would be brought to the eurface. nd pss through the line of wachers without comment save the expression of "another mone." It is impossible to obtaina list of the I deed, as not even the bosses know jumat who went down in the moringI ;JobW . .li, I bose ** ssa o . 1* *-~· L. I6141 "Abot'two weas so thater wee an aRpltion Of gas a this m.ne ano one rua was burned to deat . No safety lamps Wet. used her. There wae too much werk for one Ae bos.. They disobhrged ont a couple of weeks ago to redues $. Cease, nd one man ha been f to.do the work, I intend to . | publio the lat report of the mine Insptor and it is a very inport nt dooumeti J1tn now." The latest examination uf the m.i moth by the state inspector was made oi Jan. 10. It .hows that at th Inlet, which is about a mile or more away from the shaft, there was 55,080 oabic feet of air ena teing. The general condition of the mine was marked fair. gOLDrItis IN A WRIaK. A speoial Carrying 400 Runq into a Pa.s senger Train. TorxA. Kan.f Jan. 27.--Partioulars of the collision between the passenger train and special bearing United States troops from Pine Bidge, which oobrred last evening on the Union Pacifo railroad at Florence, near Irvine, Kan., has been 'received here. The special train consisted of seven passenger cars and twenty-four freight oars and .bads on board 400 soldiers, part of the Seventh cavalry and a batther of light artillery bound for Fort liley. Three engines and several cars were completely wrecked. Many soldiers were seriously and at least. two fatally injured. The dead so far as can be ascertained are: t4ergeant Shorthat, artillery E, cut all to pieces; Private Meil, troop , Seventh cavalry, left leg cut off and head smashed. None of the passengers on the other train were injured. The con doctor of the military train was held re sponsible for the accident, as he was run ning on the express train's time. He has disappeared. A large number of cavalry horses were killed. well from a Smokestack. QumNov, Ill., Jan. 27.-At three o'clock this afternoon Guns. Meyer, colored, who was painting a smokestack on the mills of the American Straw Board company, fell from the top of the stack, striking the roof, a distance of seventy-five feet, and then rolled-from the roof, making another fall of twenty feet to the ground. He only lived a half hour after the accident. UNlFAVORABIE AUGURIES. Many Northern States to Boycott the Chi cago ExpIlsition. MAnrsoN, Wis., Jan. 27.-The story is current here in political circles that a com bination has been entered into between democratic members of the legislatures of Wisconsin, Indiana ant6ther states where democrats are in the mdjority to adopt the tactics of some of the southern legislatures, and oppose legislation for World's Fair ap propriations if the election bill passes. Will Take No Part. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 27.-A resolution was introduced in the general assembly yester day providing that if the election bill is passed by congress, New York will make no appropriation for, nor take any part in the World's Fair. Will Withhold Any Appropriation. TaEoNTOI, Jan. 27.-In both branches of the legislature Monday night a resolution was made the special order for Tuesday night denouncing the elections bill and de claring that the state will withhold its ap propriation for the World's fair if the bill becomes a law. To-night the resolution was adopted. Indiana Will Stay Out. INDrANAPOLIS, Jan. 27.-The senate this evening, after a long debate, adopted the house resolution not ti mlke an appropria tion for the World's falrf- the election bill becomes a law. IN THE SPRING. The Young Buck's Muiend Will Lightly Turn to Thoughts of War. KANsAs CITY, Jan. 21.,-James A. Finlay. of this city, Indian trader at Pine Ridge agency, returned home this morning for a brief visit. Finlay reports when he left the agency on Saturday everything was peace ful and quiet, and that Gen. Miles said he did not expect any further trouble; but the general opinion among the military officers was that the Indians would go cn the war path again in the spring, as there are not over 100 of them disarmed. Roving' Reds Repulsed. OxMAH, Jan. 27.-A special from Rapid City, S. D., says: A party of roving Indi ans made an attack upon the ranch of Noah Newbanks, Saturday night, but when New banks and his men returned the volley they retreated. Blood stains were found in the snow the next day, and it is supposed that some of the Indians were wounded. FLIRTED WITH THE WIDOW. And She Exposed His Real Estate Swindle to the Police. CmcAoo, Jan. 27.-C. Perry Bvam, widely t known in Grand Army Circles as "the 1 youngest soldier of the rebellion." and Henry Hart, formerly a board of trade man, are under arrest charged with a real estate I swindle. It is asserted that they paid a small sum on a large tract of land south of the city and advertised lots for sale in ex change, for grocery stores, saloons, etc. As soon as deed of property was made over to them they would mortgage it and let the business r-n itself. It is needless to say the deeds they gave for the real estate were valueless. It is asserted that they have netted $20,000 from many victims. The exposure came about through a widow named Graves, who followed Byam fromut -t. Paul a few months ago, under promise a of marriage. When she learned that he al ready had a wife and children she exposed the scheme to the police. Nureesace of sorrow. NEw Yoarx, Jan. 27.-Mrs. Flack, formerly wife of ex-Sheriff James A. Flack, died b this morning. Her illness dates from tle ' day she discovered the perfidious method her husband took to rid himself of her by frandolent divorce. Trying to 1)1VIde Up. C.amoo, Jan. 27.--ix oommissioners of c the Western Traffe association resunmed their meeting to-day, devoting the entire p session to the discussion of territorial divi- c slonus. This is no easy task. A stumbllng block has been foand in the objection of the Northwesterd.toad to having itS Lake Buperior buainesi mubject to the provisions of the sgrement. Intersational Press Club. Pixrsrma, Jan. lT.-The first Interns- d tional Press eclnub convention opened this t morning. Sixty dalegates were present t from all the prineipal eities of this country and Oanada. Foster Coates, of New York, b w elected president. After the appoint- s mnt of a committee to .1ae p for :Orgniatisthc usv adjorn~ o TIY REASON TOGETHER. S-Faners' National Alliance Dole. gates, Full 150 Strong, in Ses. slian at Omaha. President Powers Advocates the Close Unions of Laboring Men and FPrmers. Independent, Political Action, But No e d ew Party-ciSforms Deemed Nec. essary by Him, a e 4 A, Jan. 27.--The eleventh annual Smee~n of the Farmers' national alliace oo0eid here this morning. A resolution waas'uptied excluding all persons bot mema ber ithe dlliance from the session. About 150 delegates are present. The morning sesson; was consumed in routine business and'the reading of President Powers' an nt seaf address. Hle advocated the general a organization of trades unions and Knights of Labor with the alliance. No effective arrangements of a national character for a the conduct of the business industries of the conntry can be made and prove of ben efit without being in effect the laws of the e organization which adopted them. To y prevpitt general and continual conflict with laws the government itself must be con trolilb by these societies. For the attainent of , the object Powers opp a a new political party as not1practicabletfor industrial organizae f tions, rs the platform on which the party I might be formed would soon became ob solete. Witness the two parties which have divided the government for the last thirty 1 years. He favored independent political Saction and believed in men pledging them elves to vote for good men or good meas ures bepause the majority of any party or olass p:y demand it. He outlined' the plan for action as follows: Let the alliance diseuss and agree upon a such mneasures as it deems expedient to form ilbasis for political action for this year bpd next. Place this by correspond ence before the other great industrial or ganieitions, and with, their concurrence let a convention be called to compare views and adopt a national platform, a concise set of principles which can be cordially supported by all, publish them to the world, disseminate them and prepare for the great struggle in 1892. He thought the subjects on which these principles were founded, included in th3 following list: Money reform, land reform, transportation reform, ballot reform, and the suppression of any vice tolerated by law to the peril of our national prosperity. Powers dwelt at length on the money questfO, advocating the loaning of money f by the government to working people with out interest. If money is thus furnished by the government its hoarding will soon be stopped, and all the money will soon be in circulation. He urged that the govern I ment take the railroads into its own hands and furnish service for the people, which corporations have failed to do. This could be brought about either by purchase or coniiscation. Land reform was only lightly touched upon. Powers advocated the taking of the right of franchise from the ignorant and vicious and giving it to women. In conclu sion Powers said: "There was a tine when I corporations and monied oligarchies looked upon us with contempt. That condition is changed. The enemy is already marshallkd for battle. We must conquer~ or suffer ignominious defeat." SAt the afternoon session a ;eolution by a delegate from Illinois ex-aessing the wish of the National alliance that the leg islature of Illinois select for United States C senator a man favorable to the welfare and prospects of the alliance, was adopted. A resolution to send a telegram,to Kansas urging Pfeffer's election was lost after a delegate from Kansas had denouniced him as no friend of the farmers, although edi tor of a farm paper. National Treasurer Ashby read a report showing the order in flourishing condition. Five new states were organized during the year. He urged that the organization keep out of politics. An effort will be made to form a co-opera tive union, and a conference will be held in Chicago, Feb. 9, with the Farmers' Mutual Benefit association. A committee of five from the F. M. B. A., of Illinois, headed by W. E. Stillwell, were admitted to the con vention, stating that they had come for the purpose of securing union between the alli ance and the F. M. B. A. Threaten Retaliation. CrATTANOOOA, Tenn., Jan. 27.-At the of fice of the Southern Steel company there has been posted a notice stating that after Feb. 1 the wages of men earning more than $1 a day will be reduced 10 per cent. Most of the'een employed were hired in Eng land and brought here, it is said, in direct violation of the labor contract law, and they say they will not submit to the pro posed cut. They say that if any civil ac tion for breaking the statutes be brought against them it will cost the steel company a $1,0OO fine for bringing them over. They assert that they will stand up for their rights and a strike is probable. They claim the company pays less for melting and other work than any other great mill in this country. One Way to Equalize. CmcAoo, Jail. 27.-A meeting of the pas senger officials of trans-continental and trans-Missouri lines was held to-day to con sider the complaint of Salt Lake City, of Utah rates as compared with those of Mon tnna and California. No action was taken pending the arrival of the Salt Lake com mittee to-morrow. A majority of the roade favor equaliaing rates by advaneing those to Mlontana insteading of cutting them to Salt Lake, but it remains to be seen what will be done. Tariff and Reelproelty. raimnornan, Mass., Jan. 27.-The agri cultural paper which, a short time ago, an nounced the result of the postal card votes of 110,000 farmers in all parts of the .oan try on presidential preferences, has com piled the result on the tariff. It shows a considerable majority for the McKinley bill, anoverwhalming demand for Blaine's echemof rnlprooltynd an almost equal ~· lertenst agia reciprocity wh The fIrst Stake Drives. Oaero, Jua. .f7.-The first stake was driven -.d4 the Afrt spadeful of earth turned.an the lake Ieat to.dsy in conaso tion with the World fair. Preparationas were beuun for the ereelon of a temporary bailding to be used by the chief of con strauction and ausdtants. Some property own, n l ke frot P4rk threaten 1 HiAP'iPENS FRgEQUENTLY A Grip on the Walkervllle Cable Takes a Morning Spin, Bvrrs, Jan, l.--[tpeoisl.]-At eight o'elook this morning a grip and oar on the cable line to Walkerville ran away, on ao count of the loosening of some attachment to the grip. The line descends the hill at an angle of about thirty degrees, and the runaway ears attained a degree of speed that was terrific, Besides the gripman and e conductor there were two male passengers on the train and Mrs. Ryan, a lady resld ing in Walkerville. 'he conductor shout ed to them to jump and they did so, sus taining severe bruises. Mrs. Ryan was rendered powerless by fright and was una ble to move. The conductor, James Shoe maker, carried her to the platform and dropped her off the train and then jumped himself. Both escaped comparatively an. injured. The car ran a mile down hill and I left the track at the corner of Granite and SMain streets. It hit a telegraph pole in front of the First National bank, demol i- ished a freight wagon, killed a horse which was tied to a pole, smashed the plate glass g windows of the First National bank and a stopped in the middle of the street. Had I- the accident occurred later in the day when I the street is generally crowded loss of life I would have ensued. or NEW TOWN IN GALLATIN. Manhattan, to He Made an Agricultural anad Malting Center. BozmawN, Jan. 27.--[8pecial.]-The West Gallatin Irrigation company has a large amount of railroad lands in the Gallatin e valley, betweee the West Gallatin river and the Madison river, and is now con structing a large canal, which will cover the lands under it, some 60,000 acres, above Manhattan City, and will eventually con duct water to lands at the point heretofore known as Moreland. The company has a body of financially strong stockholders, I living in Montana and in New York. There is also the Manhattan Malting company, with a capital of $1,000,000, composed of monied men, who mean business at the im portant point on the Northern Pacific rail road and the West Gallatin river, to be known hereafter in the history of Gallatin valley and Montana as Manhattan. This is the point heretofore and favorably known as Moreland. The operations of this com pany, which has just filed its articles of in corporation, are industrial, as it has all ,s year-round water power, among the finest e to be found in Montana, rising from warm springs, flowing without freezing all winter. a Its operations will develop the agricultural resources of this rich valley into propor tions commensurate with the natural wealth of the region and with the demand now pressing for its products. The important feature of this enterprise is that it is in a dustrial and manufacturing, and conjoined with the land and irrigation improvement above spoken of, insures speedy and sub stantial growth to Manhattan, SRec. el.v Their Friends. .MILES irr, Jan. 27.-[8pecial.]-Judge G. B. Milburn and wife received their friends to-night at their residence. The occasion of the reception was the celebra tion of the fifteenth anniversary of their marriage, it having been continued from I Dec. 7, on account of the illness of neigh bors and of the family. It was the social a event of the season. Hidden from view t the Keogh orchestra discoursed sweet music 3 while the guests engaged in conversation. During the evening fruits and ices were served. A presentation was made which was a total surprise to the judge and wife. The judge presides over the Seventh dis r trict, including Dawson, Yellowstone and Custer counties. The Ptest of His Days. LrvnosToN, Jan. 27.-[Special.]--Judge s Henry thismorning sentenced Urban Mosier to be confined in the state's prison at Deer Lodge during the remainder of his natural life. No motion for a new trial was made. ' Mosier broke down and wept like a child after being taken back to jail. Fire at Forsythe. I MILas CrrY. Jan. 27.--[Special.]-. fire occurred at Forsythe to-day which destroyed a part of a frame row, including several I saloons and a hotel. None of them were fully insured. Loss, $7,000 on property, which was covered. THE DAY IN CONGRESS. WAsmINoTON, Jan. 27.-The senate met at noon Adnd the journal of Thursday, cover ing the proceedings of Thursday, Friday BSaturday and Monday, was read and ap proved. Eustis rising made a personal ex planation, reading from the Washington Post the following sentence: "Mr. Eustis was also brought from home, although he did not arrive until after the vote had been taken." He said the statement was wholly inaccurate. He had been in the chamber an hour before the first vote was taken, and was present when that vote was taken and did not vote. He deemed it proper to make this explanation beoanuse of the im portance of the vote of yesterday. The credentials of Stanford and Irby, senators-elect from California and South Carolina for the terms beginning March 4, 18)1, were presented, read and placed on file. Those of Stanford were criticised by Hoar as unsatisfactory in the form the governor used in undertaking to comrmission Stanford instead of simply certifying to his election. Harris said there was abundant time before the explra. tion of the present term to have them put in proper form. Among the petitions pro seted and referred was one by Frye, in favor of havin potatoes received by the overnmen and treasary oerlfleates isuled thrco en ht ' . The howe bill to prevent as i.M., relation to the power - tityto compel attendance of absentees went over. The house bill for the payment of Indian depredation claims was considered until two o'clook when the apportionment bill was taken up, the question being on Dawes' amnendment to give an additional member eas.h to Arkansas, Minnesota. Missouri and New York. No action was taken and the senate soon adjourned. The speaker laid before the house a me sage from the president vetoing the bill authorizing Oklahoma City to issue bonds i or railway companies. The bill wa passed for a railway bridge over the Misouri B river between Council Blns and Omaha. The bouse then went into committee of the whole on the miliUtary academy appropria tion bill. In the eoursa of ieneral debate, Rogers, of Arkansas, referred to the recent Indian war as unprovoked and indefensiable 0 and the Wounded Knee asair the most p shameful murder in the annals of oar his- tl tory. Flower favored a searchinba invest gation into the eaues of the war. Peel, of Arkansas, and Ontoeheoba: of Michigan, de fended the army and courted thorough in vsstigation. INGALLS AND SPOONED After March 4 Next. They May bi Addressed at Leavenworth and Hudson. Editor Pfeffer will Suooeed thi Former and Hon. W. F. Vilse the Latter. General Pollcy of tihe Wow Kansas Triban -Mr. Vilas' Career--Moody is Losing Ground. Toraxx, Kan., Jan. 27.--When the nse congress meets the seat of Hon, John Jame Ingalls will be occupied by Alfred Pfefei of the Farmers' alliance, who in joint see sion of the Kansas legislature to-morr.. will formally be declared elected Unite States senator. The prediction of the know ing ones that the alliance would be unabi to agree upon a candidate, and that failur to agree would disrupt the organizatior went wide of the mark. The caunos we harmonious last night and after each bell. the name receiving the lowest vote we dropped from the list until the choice we made. Rumors of defection in the vote i the house to-day likewise proved unfound ed. The proceedings of both houses war of orderly character. In the house fifty three petitions from G. A. i. veteran throughout the state for the re-eleotion o Ingalls went over under the rule. Whet the result of the ballot was announced th alliance men went wild and cheered fe several mipntes. The vote stood: House, Pfeffer ninety six, Ingalls twenty-three, Blair five. Se ate, Ingalls thirty-five, Pfeffer two, Blai one, Congressman Morrill and State Sena tor Kelly one each. William Alfred Pfeffer was born in Cam berland county, Pa.. in 1881, and le Dutch parentage. In 1880 he caught th gold fever and went to California where a remained two years. He made considers ble money and returned to Pennsylvani and later to Missouri. He served durn the war in the Eighty-third Illinois volan teers. At the close of the war he settle at Clarksville, Tennessee, practicing las and in 1870 .boved to Kansas, taking up. claim. At different times he edited variou papers, served in the state senate and wase delegate to the national republican conven tion in 1880. In that year he moved t Topeka and assumed editorial control a the Kansas Farmer and afterwards boagh the paper. He has been engaged in tb publication of that paper ever sinee. Th paper bhs wide circulation among the Jan sas farmers :nd has mneh influence ove them. He joined thesalliance movement year ago and in the spring of Le year began a bitter, deterinaed war fare against Ingalla' re-election. U] to a year ago Pfeffer wa a staunch republican, when he joined thb Farmers' alliance. He outlined his polio as senator to an associated press represent ative to-day. He said he favored absolute unlimited coinage of silver and conservative expansion of currency along the other lines He was in favor, he said, of protection te hdme industries, but believed the best pro tection did not always result from high tar if. Protection by tariff and general princi ple, he said, was wrong. High tariff shouli be called into aid only for individual strug gling industries. He now favored an aver age ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. He we opposed to the force bill. Senator Ingalls, in an interview this af ternoon, said he had no plans for the ft lure, except that he knows he will remain ii Kansas. SENATOR VILAS. The Ex-Cabinet Ofrcer Elected to Sneoeee Spooner. MaD.son, Wis., Jan. 27.-W. F. Vilas re ceived a majority over Spooner to-day whea both houses of the legislature voted fo: United States senator. William Freemar Vilas was born in Chelsea, Vt., July 9, 1840 He went to Wisconsin when 11 years old with his parents, who settled in Madison. He graduated at the state university a Madison, in 1868 and at the Albani lair school in 1880 He practiced in Madison until thi civil war began when he enter the army as cap tain in the Twen' ty-third Wiscon sin volunteera He rapidly rose tc the rank of lieu tenant - colonel, and commanded his regiment du.r ing the siege o1 msw. V. ViLAS. Vicksbourg and fot two months afterwards. Resigning his commission in August, 1863, he returned to the practice of law. He became a lecturee in the law department of the University ol Wisconsin, and reuent of the institution. Hr was avpointed by the supreme court in 1875 one of the board that for three years was en,:ged in revising the state constita tion. He declined to be a candidattfor governor in 1879. in 1884 he was eleeted to thelegislatre.. The same year he at tended the democratio national convention as a delegate and was chosen chairman. On March 5i, 1885, President Oleveland made him poetmaster-general, and in 1887 he was transferred to the portfolio of the interior to succeed L. Q. C. Lamar, who had been appointed to the supreme bench of the United States. His term of office as sena tor will expire March 4, 18L7. moody Will Join Pierce. P-mtan, D., Jan. 27.-Two ballots for esnator were taken without result to-day. Moody has released the republican eanucus, but will not withdraw from the race. His vote fell to-day on the last ballot to thirty nine against seventy-two yesterday. All sorts of spenulations are being induged in. No Election in Illinois,. SPmRo·., , Ill., Jan. 27.-After the thirty-sMventh ballot for United Btatesr us ator was taken without result the joint se sion adjourned till noon to-morrow. To Repeal the Inanett Law. MY.wusax, Wis., Jan. 27.--'The demo cratIo majority in the house, under a sus pension of rules, paseed a bill rpea.ling the Bennett school law, the chief issue l the last campalgn, and rejected the repeb lican substitute, which retained the eleat rnoring inetruetion i the NagIto lea guegs