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The Lbadbb. fltllibl E*try We4a««4ay Evm!i|. BROOK HAVEN. : : MISSISSIPPI. CURRENT COMMENT. Gov. Tcrney, of Tennessee, granted 620 pardons daring his term of twa year*. . _ Lovisiaha claims to have the largest farm in the world. It Is a tract in tha southwestern part of the state, and ex tend* 100 miles north and south and *5 miles east and west. It was bought in 1WJ by a syndicate of northern capi talists, by whom it is still operated. The public sentiment against bull fights in Mexico is spreading and Chiapas has followed the example of Chihnshna and passed a law prohibit ing the sport in that state. Other state legislatures were also discussing the advisability of prohibiting bull fights._ Henry Chexowitz. a mason. 55 years old, returned to his home in Long Island City recently after recovering from a surgical operation by which the whole of his tongue was removed. HU trouble was due to cancer. Local phy sicians said that Cfienowitz's recovery was one of the most wonderful tri umphs of modern surgery. There are going to be some remark able features of the big inauguration parade in Washington March 4, and one of them will be the appearance in line of the Allegheny County Six-Foot ers' club of Pittsburgh, Pa. Every one of the 100 members of this organization is at least six feet tall, and some of them are veritable giants. They will be equipped with full dress uniforms. Statistics recently published by the Spanish government show that out of 19,000,000 inhabitants 8,727,519 persons are not engaged in any business. Many of this class have been supported by the enormous taxation levied on the colonies. The number employed in ag riculture is but 4,033,491, of whom 800, 000 are women. There are 6.104,470 illit erates in Spain and 91.227 mendicants. Georgia is the banner state of the blacks, having a colored population of 858,996 to a white population of 978,357; Mississippi is second, with a colored population of 744,749 and 544,851 whites; South Carolina is third, with 689,141 colored people and 462,008 whites; Ala bama, fourth, with a colored population of 679,299 and 9X3,718 whites, and Vir ginia fifth, with 6S5,858 colored people and 1,020,122 whites. A feature of the inaugural parade at Washington will be a band of In dians in their full regalia. The idea, which was first suggested by the civic committee, has received the approval of Grand Marshal Porter. The feature is expected to be extremely' interesting and picturesque, as the Indians will march in their own distinctive dress, with all the paint and ornaments they wear on gala occasions. The aggregate amount of money given by private individuals to Amer ican educational and religions institu tions, to charities, libraries, hospitals, museums,etc., during 1896 was 833,070, 120. This shows a gain of $4,000,00C over 1895, and $13,000,000 over 1894. This showing only tells a part of the whole story of the giving of the year, for it takes no account of the gifts less than 81,000. Colleges received one-halt of the whole sum, or 816,000,000, and the charities came next, receiving $10, - * - m , - Marked progress has l>een made in the framing of the new tariff law. An effort will be made to report the bill . to the house within a very few days after the meeting of the special ses sion. Excessive foreign importations in advance of the increase of duties will be checked so far as possible by two devices. One will provide that goods in warehouse when the new bill takes effect shall become immedi ately subject to the duties then in force. The other device for limiting importa tions is to get the bill upon the statute book as quickly as possible. Ix his report to the Smithsonian regents Secretary Langley claims to have practically solved the problem of aerial navigation. He says he has reached a measure of success which justifies him in stating that mechanical Hight has now been attained. On May 16 last a mechanism, built chiefly of steel and driven by a steam engine made two flights of over half a mile. Since that time this result has been nearly doubled. In each case there was no support from gas. The ma chine was 1,000 or more times heavier than the air in which it was made to move. _ The most expensive work that ever was published in the world is the offi cial history of the civil war, which is now issued by the government of the United States at a cost up to date of 62,384,828. It will take three years longer and an appropriation of per haps $600,000 to complete tlie work, so that the total cost undoubtedly will reach $3,000,000. It will consist of 112 volumes, including an index and atlas, containing 178 plates and maps, illus trating the important battles of the war, campaigns, routes of march, plans of forts and photographs of scenes and persons._ Pkof. M. E. Hoi rac, the eminent French scientist of the Lycee Condoreet in Paris, where have taken place so many remarkable demonstrations in hypnotism, has just caused a sensation among French savants by causing a , person several miles away to suddenly "* . fall asleep. This extraordinary dem onstration that distance is not a fatal bar to hypnotic control is regarded as important, because the subject hyp notized is unaware that he or she has been under the influence of another mind. Many fear the newly discovered power may heighten the abuses which are now made of hypnotism. The elaborately designed new silver certificates have not won the popular success that was hoped for by the au thorities at Washington. The wide spread criticism on account of the left handed Goddess of Liberty that was directed against the »1 certificate when it made its appearance has been fol lowed by more serious objections to al 1 the certificates on the part of bank cash levs and others whose business re quiresthtwp to handlqthe notes in large quantities. The great objection is that the differentdenominations of the new certificates are not nearly so readily distiaguished as the former issue. At lf*t a successful electric omnibus has bean perfected. The vehicle was gives * trial in London recently and its performance is said to have been aatipfbctoryia every respect, starting with s loa^of as passengers, a route was selected through some of the mosl ww4*d thoroughfares of the me trope fiph were traversed with r than is experienced with mH* *5|he omnibus will travel H recharging. By the eno of the present year it is believed tht Wm bus. horse will have disap NEWS OF THE WEEK. OlMned By Telegraph and Mall PERSONAL AMS POLITICAL Tire Kansas City Live 8toclc exchange adopted a resolution on the 26th strongly urging Secretary Coburn, of the Kansas state board of agriculture, for secretary of agriculture in Presi dent McKinley's oabfnet, Prksidkrt-rlkctt McKinley has writ ten a letter to the committee having charge of the arrangements for the inaugural ball deprecating the expen diture of $50,000 on the affair in the face of the hard times and suggesting that $35,000 of the amount l>e devoted to alleviating the wretchedness in the great cities of the United States. $15, 000 to relieve the horrors of the plague and famine in India and $10,000 to pro vide food and shelter for the persecuted Armenians. Thr National Woman Suffrage asso ciation had a heated debate at their convention in l)es Moines. Ia., on the 38th about a proposition for a plan of work. At the afternoon session the following officers were re-elected: President, Susan B. Anthony; vice president-at-large. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Philadelphia; corresponding sec retary, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery. Phil adelphia. Henry Herr field, was on the 28th elected United States senator at Boise, Ida., to succeed Senator Dubois. The vote stood: Heitfeld. 36; Dubois, 30; T. F. Nelson. 1. Heitfeld was born in St. Louis and lived at Seneca, Kan., from 1870 to 1883. Comptroller Eckels, of the treasury department, on the 28tli gave his views upon the financial condition of the country to the house committee on banking and currency, several bills introduced by members of the house having been referred to him for his judgment. Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, visited Maj. McKinley at Canton, O., on the 28th. Mr. Gage was tendered the port folio of the treasury department at Washington and accepted it. The semi-centennial of the New York Academy of Medicine was celebrated on the 29th, President Cleveland mak ing the principal address. A dispatch to the New York Sun on the 29th stated that the Cuban insur gents were fighting near Havana, an engagement having taken place a few days ago at Managua in which they de feated the Spanish troops and captured a great quantity of guns and ammuni tion. Gen. Russell A. Alger visited Presi dent-elect McKinley at Canton, O., on the 29th and was formally offered the secretaryship of war in the incoming administration and he accepted it. M ISCEELANEOfS. The Patton seminary, a boarding school for girls at Oak Cliff, Tex., was destroyed by fire on the night of the 28th. About 40 girls were in the build ing and they lost all their effects and tiad to be taken in closed carriages to Dallas. Ed Henderson and his nephew quar reled iu a machine shop at Charleston, 111., on the 29th and one used a monkey wrench and the other a hammer. One was reported dead and the other dying The failures in the United States for the week ended the 29th (Rradstreet’s report) were 328. being a decrease of 102 from the previous week and of 87 from the corresponding week of last year. Jim Jackson, a negro farm laborer, assaulted a girl at Six-Mile. Ala. Two lours later a posse went after Jackson, who hail in the meantime got hold of a mule, and the chase was kept up for 20 miles, when Jackson was picked off the mule by u shot and the mob caught iiim, strung him up by a horse’s bridle jnd riddled him with bullets. Two colored servants at the residence jf Henry Daspit, at New Orleans, made t charcoal fire in their room to keep warm anil one was found dead and the Dther dying from the fumes. Gertrude Palmer died at, Mamaro aeck. N. Y., on the ?9tli, making the j third victim of Arthur Palmer’s frenzy, ae having previously killed his mother mil brother. The sheriff left for St. Louis, where Arthur Palmer had been irrested. At the Georgia mine, near Flemiug ton, \V. Ya., by an accident on a coal incline railway, 30 men were thrown from a car and one was killed, two others were fatally and eight seriously mjured. Fire destroyed almost the entire lms mess portion of the town of Center jurg, O.. on the ‘38th. Eleven men were injured, one, Louis Fogler, probably fatally, by an explo sion in a coal mine at Foster, la. Joseph Smith, head of the Latter Day Saints church, arrived in Atchi son. Kan., on the 28th to unite all Lat ter Day Saints factions in that city with the reorganized church. Smith j is working to unite all factions of Lat er Day Saints in the United States, in cluding the followers of lirigham Younsr. C. K. Rash, of Wayne, Neb., mur iered liis wife and three ehildren. When the sheriff reached the house the dead bodies of Mrs. Rash and her ten-year-old son lay on the floor, frightfully gashed, and the two young ?r children lay dead on their beds with their heads mashed to a jelly. It was supposed that Rash’s mind had become unbalanced as the result of the excite ment of attending a revival meeting. A SLEDDING party of about 30 persons from Tyrone, 1’a., was precipitated over l stone wall about six miles from that place. The party was mostly made up of young people. A special train con veyed to the scene of the catastrophe ill the doctors in Tyrone. Several persons were found to be seriously in jured, having their arms and legs broken and bleeding from wounds. The residence of Charles .1. Barnes, it 333S Calumet avenue, Chicago, was iestroyed by fire at two a. in. on the J5th and Mrs. Barnes and four servants had to flee from the flames in scant at tire while the murcurv was It* degrees below zero. Mr. Barnes’ library, the Snest in the United States, was da Itroyed. Loss over $300,000. The first steps have been taken at Omaha, Neb., for the consolidation of ill the German turners between the Mississippi river and the Rocky moun tains into one big association for hold- j ing a grand tournament at Omaha I while the exposition is being held. Mks. Maky Abbams, aged 77, was burned to death at McKeesport, Pa. She arose to start a tire in the room, when her clothing was ignited. She ! ran to her bed. where two young grand children were asleep and set the bed clothing on fire. The two ehildren, though badly burned, will recover, but Mrs. Abrams was so badly injured that she soon died. The Tomboy mine in Colorado was bought on the 3»th by the Rothschilds, of London. Within the past two years they have invested $150,000,000 in Amer ican mining property. Ar a meeting of coffin manufacturers at Chicago on the Sfth the old trust was reorganized and an agreement was reached to advance the price of caskets 10 to 30 per cent. Jack Rvkkhahdt, of New Orleans and Matt Matthews, of Brooklyn, fought a 14-round draw at the Union Park Athletic club at New York on the 35th. Jack's left hand was injured in the seventh round. Matthews made an excellent showing. Willard Coltor, of Cleveland, Q„ cams home at three o'clock on the morning of the 29th. quarreled with hit wife, shot her dead and then shof himself through the head. A powder magazine at the Crystal Ridge colliery, near Hazelton, Pa., ex ploded about midnight of the 98th, do ing considerable damage. The night watchman was the only person injured. The heat from a stove was thought t« have caused the explosion. Hazelton was considerably shaken up. Fire destroyed Olson A Co.'s furni ture factory at Chicago on the 29th. Loss. $:V>,000; partially insured. Albert Ctrrisg, a coachman, shot and instantly killed Mrs. Henning at Chicago and then attempted to shoot ! her two boys, but failed. He after ; wards shot himself in the breast. Cun I ning had an undue liking for Mrs. Henning and she had forced him to leave her house. To keep out the cold .Mandilla Hunt made a big fire in her house near Spar tanburg, S. C., and went to bed with her two children. The house burned down and the three were cremated. Mrs. John Shaw, of Aurora, 111., while in a state of temporary insanity, administered arsenic to her two young boys and herself. They were all re ported in a critical condition. The fruit steamship Albert Rumois I collided with the steam yacht Argo in the Mississippi river near New Orleans on the 28th. The yacht sunk and two reporters for the Picayune were drowned. The small steamer Plankinshaw was scuttled by ice and sunk in the Ohio river near Evansville, Ind., on the night of the 27th. The engineer was drowned and 17 others on hoard escaped to a barge in tow, but suffered considerably from the cold weather ami several were badly frozen. The bill to permit glove contests has I passed both houses of the Nevada leg j islature and Dan Stuart has announced that the Corbett-Fitzsimmons tight I will occur In that state. The pottery factory of Coneiad Bros, at Peru, Ind.. the largest in the eoun j try, was burned on the 26th. A SECTION hand on the Mobile A Ohio railroad at Beech Ridge, 111., wasfound frozen to death the other morning. The Colonial express on the Consoli dated road struck and killed five men ! at East Norwalk, Conn., on the 27th. The men had been working on the track and stepped out of the way of one train directly in front of the ex press. The greater portion of the village of Holland, N. Y., was burned. The citi zens fought the flames with bucket lines. Arnold Treitiiaut, n farmer, was found frozen to death near his home at Nauvoo, 111. By the explosion of a gasoline stove in Popp’s livery stable at Toledo, O,, which caused a fire, 13 valuable coach and blooded horses were suffocated by the smoke and 30 others were so badly burned that the majority of them had to be shot. An explosion of nitro-glycerine oc curred in a storehouse of the Ohio A. Michigan Torpedo Co. at Ilrader, O., and two men were blown to atoms. Sam Boykin, a carpenter, was over come by smoke and burned to death in u lire at his boarding house at Yoakum, Tex. A bloody battle took place in (Iray son county, Ky..(I. \\ . Ilazelip, Alfonso Ilazelip and his son on one side and Eugene and John Carrier, Luther Scaggs and Nathan Scaggs on the other. The fight was caused by the alleged betrayal of the Carriers' sister by Alfonso ilazelip. Two of the Haze lips were fatally wounded and Nathan Scaggs was probably mortally wounded ami a looker-on was shot in the hand. PoSTMASTEB-CfENEKAL WlLAON lias made public the statement of postal receipts for the quarter ended Decem ber 81, IS'.Mi. as compared with the re ceipts of the corresponding period of 1805, which shows a decrease of about $30,000. Of 80 offices only 18 show an increase, while 17 show a decrease. As the result of a misplaced switch, an engine drawing a train of empty cars collided with a loaded passenger train on tin* Brooklyn elevated railroad on the night of the 28th. One person was killed and five were injured, one perhaps fatally. The engine and the forward ear of the loaded train top pled over into the street 20 feet below. A house on a farm near Belleville, Mich., was burned through a defective •himney and Miss Anna Vanadawater ind a girl and boy were burned so milly that their bodies could not be recognized. The large grain elevator of the W. IL Purcell Malting Co. at Chicago was lestroyed by fire on the 20th. The loss ,vas estimated at $350,000. The fire nen were handicapped by the intense •old. Prominent stockmen of the Indian territory and the Panhandle in Texas lave reported that the recent blizzard lad resulted in the deaths of thousands )f cattle on the range. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Italian laborers will take the place of negroes on the Texarkana & Fort Smith railroad. On the night of the 30th snow fell all over north, east and west Texas, vary ing iu depth from three to twelve inches. Two fires occurred in Hoboken, N. J., on the 31st which resulted in the loss of seven lives. Bailey Eidson and Lovell White sides had a fight in Franklin, Ky., on tbo 81st and Eidson will die. White sides is dead. Senator Lodge expects to secure con sideration of the conference report on the immigration bill during tho week. An English syndicate is reported to have bought out a number of Cincinnati breweries. Wauaseka, a small town on the Cot ton Belt railroad, near Pino Bluff, was destroyed by fire on tho 31st. Bank clearings for tho United States last weok wero 7.5 per cent greater than the same week last year. The Nevada prize-fight law has been signed and Messrs. Corbett and Fitzsim mons will settle their dilferences there. Drink and a step-daughter caused Wm. Colton of Cleveland, O., to murder bis w ife and killed bimself on the 30tb. George F. Turner, free silver Re publican, has been nominated for sena tor from Washington. 0. K. Rash, a religious enthusiast, murdered, bis wife and children at Wayne, Neb., on tho 3(nh. Lyman Gagk has formerly announced that he will be President McKinley's secretary of the treasury. Failures the past week have been 331 in the United States, against 404 last year, and 57 in Canada, against 70 last year. Walter Winters and Doc Smith, who, with six other section men, were on a handcar near Balls, W. V*., on the Roanoke division of the Norfolk & Western road, were Instantly killed by a collision with a passenger train, on the 37th, which suddenly appeared around a curve. The bouae committee on labor on the 37th authorized a favorable report on a bill to prohibit the employment of prison labor on government buildings. GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER The Michigan Man Will Bo McKin ley’s Secretary of War. The Announcement Made After a Confer ence nt Canton lie Waa a Noted tiener al. fiovernor of IIIn state and Candi date for President- Brief Sketch. Canton. O., Jan. SO.—“I have been tendered nnd have accepted the war portfolio." Thus spoke lieu. Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, to the Associated press representative yesterday after noon. The general . had just emerged from the south parlor, which is the conference room while Mrs. McKinley is out of the eitv. He and Maj. Mc Kinley had just completed the inter Kl'MSKfX A. ALGER. view in which the formal tender and acceptance had passed. (Jen. Russell A. Alger was born in Lafayette township. Medina county. O.. February 27, 1836. His grandfather served In the revolutionary war. and is claimed to have been a descendant of William the Conqueror. When 11 years of age both his parents died. For the next seven years he worked on a farm, earning money to defray his expenses at the Richfield, O.. acad emy during the winters. Subsequently ho taught school, and in March, 1857, entered a law office in Akron. Two years later he was admitted to the bar. He entered the law office of Otis & Coffin bury in Cleveland, but aban dons! the practice of law the following autumn on account of failing health anti moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he engaged in the lumber business, and where in 1861 he was married to Annette H. Henry. In 1861. Alger enlisted in the Second Michi gan cavalry and was made captain of company He was wounded in the battle of Boone ville. Miss. Owing to his part in this engage ment he was promoted to the rank of major. In 1862 he became lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Michigan cavalry, and in 1863 was made colonel of the Fifth Michigan cavalry, his regi ment being in Custer's famous brigade. In 1864 his health Induced him to retire from the serv ice. He was breveted brigadier and major general ’ for gallant and meritorious service,” and was on private service in 1863-64, receiving orders personally from President Lincoln. In 1863, he removed to Detroit, where he has since been extensively engaged in the lumber and pine land business. Gen. Alger was elected governor of Michigan in 188-1. receiving a plu rality of 3,95'J votes over Begole, fusionist. In 1888. he was one of the leading candidates for the republican nomination for president. The acrimony which developed between the Alger workers and those of Senator Sherman, who was also a candidate, was intense, and the breach of friendship caused thereby between the general and senator is believed to have only recently been healed. He served one term as commander-in-chief of theG. A. It. Goff and the Cabinet. Charleston, \V. Va., Jan. 30.—A very close friend of Judge Nathan Goff has given out the information that Goff lias declined the attorney-generalship in McKinley's cabinet, offered him by Mc Kinley last week. He preferrs to re main on the bench as United States dis j triet judge. One reason known is that the judge and his wife dislike Wash ington. A well founded rumor is abroad that Goff will be a candidate to I succeed Senator Charles J. Faulkner two years from now. BRADSTREET’S REPORT. A Lulling Off in General Trade Owing; to the Cold Weather—Failures. New York, .tan. 30.—Hradstreet'a report says to-day: There has been a falling off in general trade, owing to the heavy fall of snow and cold weather. There is a moderate increase in the distribution of heavy winter goods, but com mercial travelers very generally report buyers as even more conservative than earlier in the month, and that wholesale trading In January, except In the lines specified, is smaller than for years. Mercantile collections are interrupted, and the improvement looked for in iron and steel is not in sight. The most favorable feature of the business week is the sudden and sharp falling off in the total number of business failures in the United States, the aggregate being 325, as compared with 429 last week, a decrease of 102. When compared with the corresponding week of 1890 this week's falling off is 67. but there is an in crease of 1-Tas compared with the like week in 1895. Contrasted with the like period in 1894, there have been 14 fewer failures this week than three years ago. There have been increased sales of hides and leather; in some instances of shoes, of coal, fer tilizers and southern pig iron for export. The downward movement of prices for some of the more important staples continues con spicuous, notably for flour, wheat, oats, lard, coffee, petroleum, turpentine and tin plate. Quotations for Indian corn. pork, sugar, cotton and print cloths are practically unchanged. Concessions have been made in prices for irou and steel, yet quotations are nominally uu j changed.._ Independence or Death. New York. Jan. 30.—Referring to the report that Spain was about to concede a home rule measure to the Cuban in surgents, Thomas Estrada Palma, of the Cuban junta, said yesterday: “Un conditional and absolute independence ; is all that Cuba will ever accept from ; Spain. If she cannot have it she pre fers extermination. It is scarcely worth while to discuss a home rule proposition. It has not been made, and if it should be it will receive no consideration at our hands.” The Plague iu India* Bombay, Jan. 30.—According to the otlicial report, just issued, there have been 4,395 eases of the plague in Bom bay and 3,275 deaths from that disease; at Karachi, 094 cases and 044 deaths; at 1‘oonah there have been 65 eases and 00 deaths, and a few eases have oc curred at Surat, Baroda, Ahmadabad, Kathianwar and Cuteh. An Art Approved. Washington, Jan. 30.—The president has approved the act to attach the county of Audrain from the Western judicial district of Missouri and attaeh it to the Eastern district. Hnrned to Death. Han Antonio, Tex., Jan. 30.—Mrs. Lydia Baequet tvas burned to death at Gonzales yesterday. Hhe was standing before an open grate, when her dress caught lire, and she was enveloped in flames and fatally burned before as sistance reached her. A Sruilnary Hurued. Dallas, Tex., Jan. 30.—Patton semi nary, a boarding school for girls, situ ated at Oak Cliffs, three, miles south of Dallas, was totally destroyed by lira last night. About 40 youug ladies were in the building. All escaped, los ing all their effects, however. Daughter Dead and Mother 111. Atchison, Kan., Jan. 30.—Miss Cora Badger died at Muscotah, Atchison county, yesterday of blood poisoning. Mrs. W. P. Badger contracted blood poisoning while waiting cn her daughter, and is not expected to live. The family is widely known in this section._ Texas Legislation. Austin, Tex., Jan. SO.—In the house yesterday a bill was introduced prohib iting the manufacture and sale of pis tols in this state, and providing a tine of from £100 to •1.000. EUROPEAN BIMETALLISTS. french. Herman nnd Knfllih ®*pert■ *>® the Outlook. Lorpox. Jan. SO.—The February number of the Nntionnl Review will contain an important review of the bi metallic situation in Europe by the leaders of the movement in England. France and Germany, and arranged especially in view of the visit to Europe of Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, who is now in Paris. Edmund d’Arters, secretary of the French Rimetallic league, contributes a careful article on the situation and the steady growth of Lie movement in France. In it he de clares that there is no doubt that the French government and a great major ity of the French parliament are in favor of bimetallism. Dr. Otto Arendt, a member of the reichstag and of the Prussian diet, honorary secretary of the German Bi metailic league, declares that only En gland blocks the way. Germany, he adds, will participate in a conference called by any other power. Lord Aldenham, who is a director of the Dank of England, thinks that the month of March will enable Mr. Mc Kinley to carry ont the St. Louis pro gramme in regard to bimetallism and concludes with remarking: “There is no doubt that France and the United States, by agreeing together, could themselves maintain a bimetallic law, but for greater certainty and con fidence it would be reasonable that they should ask for English and German co operation.*’ THEY USED DYNAMITE. A Traill In Oregon Held lTp and the Kxpre.s far I.noted anil Burned. Portland, Ore., Jan. HO.—The north bound overland train, which left San Francisco Wednesday and was due here yesterday, was held up two miles west of Roseburg, Ore., early yesterday morning. Fireman Hendricks slipped from the engine and ran to Roseburg and gave the alarm. Then, arming himself, he started back to the scene of the trouble. Superintendent Fields, of the Southern Pacific road, who was at Roseburg, quickly gathered a posse of a dozen armed men nnd started for the seene on an engine. Heavy explosions of dynamite or pow der were distinctly heard at Roseburg during the progress of the hold-up. When the officers arrived it was found that the express ear had been looted and burned. No one was hurt and the highwaymen succeeded in makingtheir escape. The explosions set fire to the express car, and when the robbers left it was a mass of flames. tXUlTLLJ UUUU httLI NU The Effect of a Speech by President Cleve land to New York I>oetors. New York, Jan. 30.—The occasion of the celebration of the semi-centennial of the New York Academy of Medicine at Carnegie hall last night was made auspicious by the presence of Presi dent Cleveland. The president was in vited to attend the celebration by Dr. Joseph I). Bryant, who is president of the academy, and also Mr. Cleveland’s private physician. Carnegie hall was taxed beyond its capacity by the doctors and their guests long before the exercises of the evening were begun. On the stage and in the audi ence were many leading physicians from all over the i'nited States. The feature of the entertainment of the evening was, of course, the address of President Cleveland, which excited con siderable merriment and good feeling. ECKELS’ SUCCESSOR. The Next Comptroller Will 1’robably Bo Charles <1. Hawes, of Evanston, 111. Washington, Jan. 30.—From infor mation gathered from applicants for position who have talked with the president-elect on the subject, the As sociated press feels warranted in stat ing that Charles (}. Dawes, of Evans ton, 111., will be appointed comptroller of the currency to succeed James II. Eckels. The friends of Mr. Dawes believe that he will fully sustain the high standard of the office and additional prestige. lie is at present a member of the repub lican national executive committee, and has achieved great success, both at tlie bar in Nebraska and in business circles in Chicago, during the past three years. BUYING UP MINES. The HothftchilflH Said to He Investing Heav ily in Western Mining Property. New York, Jan. 30.—The “Tomboy” mine,of Colorado,was formally bought yesterday by the Rothschilds, of Lon don. The price given was #1,500,000. The purchasing agent was the Explora tion Co., of London, which is the name of the mining branch of the Roths childs investment bureau. Within two years that same buyer has invested nearly #150,000,000 in American mining property. A conspicuous purchase was that of the Anaconda copper mine, of which the first quarter was taken at #7,500,000. Then eaine another quarter interest ut $0,000,000, anil finally the entire issue of 500,000 was secured for a total of #34,000,000. Gov. Sadler Signed the Bill. Carson, Nev., Jan. 30.—Gov. Sadler signed the glove contest bill yesterday afternoon, thus insuring the Fitzsim mons-Corbett fight for Nevada. Carson and lteno are now bidding for selec tion as the scene of the contest. Car son and, it is safe to say, nearly the whole western portion of Nevada, is all excitement, and all one can hear on the streets is talk of the probabilities of Corbett and Fitzsimmons coming to Nevada tf> settle the world's champion ship. Mr. McKinley I. Fifty-Four. Canton, O., Jan. 30.—Mrs. McKinley, who is still in Chicago, congratulated her husband by telephone yesterday morning, the president-elect being 54 years old yesterday. No special demon stration in honer of the event was made during the day. Frozen to Death. Bloomington, 111., Jan. 30.—Nicholas Foley, aged 75, wandered from his home during the night, and yesterday morning was found lying in the snow in the street, lie was terribly frozen, his legs being solid from the knees down. lie died in the afternoon. Re.v. C. U. Mitchell'. Successor. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30.—Rev. J. W. Haneher, of Newark, N. J., has been chosen to succeed Rev. Charles B. Mitchell as pastor of the Grand Av enue M. E. church in this city. Dr. Mitchell’s pastorate here will expire in March, when he will go to Minneap olis. Statue to Uen. Slocum. Washington, Jan. 30.—The house committee on the library recommend ed favorably the bill appropriating $50,000 for tile erection of an equestriun statue in this city to Maj.-Gen. Henry W. Slocum. Police Force of Its Own. Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 30.—Swift A Co., packers, have decided to estab lish an organized uniformed police force at their Armourdale plant to watch the plant, prevent stealing by employes and outsiders and exercise a general police supervision independent of the metropolitan police department. Furniture Factory Destroyed. Chicago, Jan. 30.—Fire, caused by a defective flue, completely destroyed Olson Sc Co.'s furniture factory at Oak ley and North avenues at seven o’clock this morning. Loss, $35,000; partially covered by insurance. MISSISSIPPI MATTERS. Track Urowem* OrfUtntlM. The truok growers in various portions of tha Stats are organizing and prepar ing for a larger business this year than ever before. Those in the vicinity of Krookhaven recently held an interest ing meeting, one of the principal ob jects being the establishment of a can ning factory. Several of the truck growors gave their experience. Ur. Butler said: "I was stockholder in a canning fac tory. We paid 20 cents per bushel the first year aDd the next year 15 cents. I have seen from 300 to 000 bushels taken off ono acre. It depends on how much a man knows about raising toma toes.” Question by Capt. S. I). Powell: "Doc tor, how many bushels do you think can be raised here on this pine lsnd? Answer: “I think you could count safely on 500 bushels.” F. F. B *cker said the canning com pany would furnish fertilizers and seed at cost and take pay out of the vege tables with all who went into a con tract with the company. S. P. Oliver offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That wo, the llrookhsven Truck Growers’ Association, will use our best effort! to encourage a diver ity in farming, and to promote the growing of such vegetables as will fur ther the agricultural Interest of this section and at the same time enable tho canning factory to handle our produce." The Lumber Interests or Mississippi. Mississippi's lumber interest comes noxt to her agricultural interest; why not protect it? If the press of the Stato would come out and favor the adoption of somo plan by which the lumber manu factured would bring a better market value our senators might bo induced to advocato whatever measures that might como up bofore that branch of congress to gain such an end. The sup ply of oak, gum, ash and cottonwood material for lumber is almost inex haustible in the Delta country, and in other sections of the Stato tho pine and poplar abounds almost to an equal ex tent. Cotton of late yoars has hardly brought tho price of production. Let us protect our lumber and make it bring a good price worth tho while be fore it is too late. We can raise another crop of cotton tho next season, but when tho lumber material is exhausted It is gone forever.—Tunica Democrat. The Vicksburg Mat •!» Factory. Tha Vicksburg match factory, an in dustry started in Vicksburg within the past fow months, is now unablo to till the orders roceivod. It has boon a suc cess from the beginning, and the plant is running to its full capacity. A Gubernatorial Appointment. Gov. McLaurin last week appointed Frank J. Harlow coroner and ranger of Tunica county. Capital Socking Investment. Gov. McLaurin has received tho fol lowing letter from Albert L. Rice, New York City: “No doubt you are in terested in the development of your State. I can furnish you ono-half of tho capital necessary to build long lines of railroads, where itcan be shown that they would bo good paying roads. When companies can raiso one-half of the money I can furnish the other half.” McComb City to Have an Ice Factory. Arrangements have been made to build an ice factory at McComb City with a capacity of twenty-five tons daily. It is expected to be in working order by March 15. This factory is being put in to supply tbo trade along the Illinois Central Railroad fifty miles above and below McComb City at tho very lowest prices. Death of .Mrs. J. DetVItt. Mrs. J. DeWitt, of the Goodwator neighborhood, died last week at the advarcid ago of 1*0 years. The remains were interod in the Goodwater Cemo tery. __ Columbus Lighted by Electricity, For the first time in her history Co lumbus was lighted by electricity last week, and simultaneously there flashed from tho forty arc lamps which had been placed throughout the city a light which cannot be surpassed in brilliancy and quality by any city in the South. A College Moved. Stone College, of Meridian, with its boarding paironago and faculty, was removed to Shuqualak and consolidated with the Shuqualak Female College. Prospects are bright for the future of the college. Chief Justice Calhoun. Chief Justice Thomas II. Woods is still too ill to leave his room, and there is no prospect that he will be able at my time soon to take part in the delib erations of the court. On this account Sov. McLaurin has appointed Judge S. S. Calhoun to take his place on the bench till ho recovers. There are sev eral cases pending before the court which it is important should be dis posed of as speedily as possible. Judge Dalhoon is one of the ablest lawyers of ibe State and his appointment will give miversal satisfaction. Profiting by Experience. We feel satisfied that the farmers of ;his county have profited by experience .hoy bavo bad in the past four years, mil will follow the safo plan of plani ng plenty of corn, potatoes and other 'ood crops, which will make themprac [ically independent of the variable coa litions of the cotton market. Farmers ihould now realize that in case there ihould be a large cotton crop made this year that prices must necessarily be ower than at present, and it is within [he range of possibilities that cotton will fail to have a market value.— Meadville Advocate. Odd Fellows' Hell at Water Valley. When the Odd Fellows have finished th-ir lodge hall there will be no hall in [he State that will compare with it. Water Valley has one of the largest ind most progressive lodges in the State. The fact is all the lodges and ardors of our city are in a flourishing tondition, and the cburobes are not a whit behind in anything. Thesesplen lid conditions are brought about by a careful, watchful and persistent spirit an the part of our people to do the right ibing at the right time, and to appro bate our circumstances. — Water Valley Itemizer. Mardi Gras at Bay St, Louis. This year the Mardi Gras festivities in Bay St. Louis will be celebrated on a more elaborate scale than ever at tempted, and the arrangements have been so constituted that It cannot be otherwise but a thorough success. The parade will bs Interesting end dazzling in splendor. The Mystic Jolly Boys will give their grand fancy dreaa and calico ball Mardi Gras night at the Boardaaan partition. Admission will be by invitation only and no tickets will be sold or ad mission charged.—Bay St. Louis Echo. 1 NATIONAL. LAWMAKERS. fwimm Prannllnp from Day to Day of tha Ri»h and Renat*. I* the senate on the Stth Senator Torpte find.) made a speech of two boors' length on the Cameron Cuban resolutions He bitterly denounced <'apt-Gen. Weyler. characterising him as the "Horod of Havana." and paid a glowing tribute to the insurgent government and Its leaders. Eulogies were tben delivered on the Into Speaker Crisp and a memorial was presented front the presidential electors of Delaware, asking for » congressional Investiga tion of u leged election frauds in that state.... After consuming most of the day In District of Columbia business the house took up the In dian appropriation bllL Mr. Curtis (Kan.) got an amendment adopted permitting merchants to go Into the Klckapoo reservation to collect their accounts. The conference report on the Immigration bill was presented and Mr. John son (Ind.) made a speech In favor of the early reform of the banking and currency laws. Is the senate on the 3Sth Senator Turple (Ind.) closed his speech on the Cuban resolu tions, holding that Spain had utterly failed to quell the outbreak, and that the United States should Intervene The Wolcott hill for an In ternational monetary conference was consid ered. but no Anal action was taken. The Nic aragua canal bill was then drbated. After* wards the amendments to the senate bill for a survey of a water route from the mouth of the jetties at Galveston. Tex., to Houston, were agreed to and the bill Anally passed — The house passed over the president's veto the bill to pension Jonathan Scott, of Oswego. Kan., at the rate of tK a month. The Indian appropria tion bill was then considered. A bill was also passed to satisfy a claim for kepplng 36 African slaves, landed at Savannah, Ga, In 1859. until they were sent back to their country. ihk .senate on me nin passeu me military academy appropriation bill after the defeat of the amendment for the participation of the West Point cadets in the inauguration cere monies. The Nicaragua canal bill was then taken up and debated. Senator Vilas (Wla.) made a motion to recommit the bill, but the senate adjourned before n vote was taken The house, after a debate of four hours, adopted the conference report on the immigration bill by a vote of 131 to 118, Mr. Bartholdt (Mo.) speak ing against the report. Th* bill for an international monetary con ference was debated In the senate on the 28th, Senator Chandler (N. H.) speaking in favor of it. Senator Stewart (Ncv.) criticised the com mission as futile, but stated that he would not oppose the measure. The Nicaragua canal bill and the bankruptcy bill were before the senate for a brief time, but no progress was made on either of them. Early in the day a lively de bate occurred over the resolution of Senator Allen (Neb.) questioning the president’s right to foreclose against the Pacific railroads. The resolution went over for a speech by Senator Thurston (Neb.). A number of petitions urg ing the speedy ratification of the Anglo-Ameri can peace treaty were received. Senator Pef fer (Kan.) stated that the sentiment in Kansas appeared to be strongly in favor of the early ratification of the treaty. The appointment of William S. Forman, of Illinois, as commis sioner of internal revenue was confirmed — The house passed the Indian appropriation bill and entered upon the consideration of the agri cultural appropriation bill. The feature of the day was the scoring Mr. Do Armond (Mo.) gave the secretary of agriculture for the recent issue of a pamphlet entitled “The Farmers’ Interest in Finance.” By the decisive vote of 46 to 4 the senate on the 29th passed the bill for the appointment of commissioners to an international money con ference. The bill authorizing the patenting of lands containing petroleum and other mineral oils under the place mining laws of the United States and the bill to prevent the speculating in claims against the federal government by United States officers were also passed. Sen ator Bacon (Go.) introduced a joint resolution, which was referred, deprecating war and avow ing that the policy of the United States was to arbitrate all differences with nations when ever possible. The senate then adjourned to the 1st_The house had an acrimonious debate on the conference report to confer the fran chises of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad on the purchases under the mortgage foreclosure. Mr. Murphy (Ari.) introduced a bill to try Indian criminals in territories in the United States courts only. It was referred. The house then discussed the agricultural appropriation hilL The evening session was devoted to private pension bills. TO SHUT OUT COXEY. Populist Editors Will Hold a Meeting in Kansas Pity—The Object. St. Louis, .Ian. 30.—Rumors of a still further split in the ranks of the popu list party were verified last night when A. Rozelle, secretary and treasurer of the National Reform Press association, issued a numerously signed call for a meeting at Kansas City, Mo., Febru ary 22. This meeting will be in direct opposition to one which President Van dervoort has called for the same date at Mdlnphls, Tenn. Following the call is a statement that the present Nation al Reform Press association has dimin ished in membership until it has ceased j to lx* a representative body and is run by men who have been repudi- ! ated by the party. This last is taken to be a side shot at Coxey, and it is hinted that the main purpose of the Kansas City meeting is to shut out the Massillon reformer. When Coxey was here some weeks ago with his “rump convention” he adjourned it to meet again in Memphis, February 22. The Rozelle party claims a following of 00 percent, of the populist editors and in sinuates that if Coxey goes to Memphis he will meet another frost. TWO REPORTERS KILLED. Two Steamship* on the Mississippi Collide with Disastrous Result*. New Orleans, Jan. 29.—At 12:30 o’clock yesterday morning a collision occurred in the river about 12 miles above the quarantine station, between the steam yacht Argo and the fruit steamship Albert Dumois, in which the yacht had her bow stove in and sank within a very few minutes after the accident. How the accident occurred and who was to blame for it the courts will most probably be called upon to decide. Messrs. Hester and lllassini are missing and their fate is doubtless sealed. They were well known and popular reporters on the Picayune. Melton Will He Freed. Washington, Jan. 80.—The prisoners of the Competitor, who have been lan guishing in Cuban prisons, are to be unconditionally released, by order of the Spanish government. Aside from the general interest attaching to this information, it possesses a decidedly local flavor for Kansas people, as one of the prisoners, Owen Melton, hails from the Sunflower state. League Club. In the Parade. Washington, Jan. 29.—Gen. Horace Porter, grand marshal of the inaugural parade, was in conference yesterday afternoon with D. D. Woodmansce.presi dent of the National Republican League of Clubs, and yesterday evening issued an order pacing the Republican League clubs in one division, and ordered that they have the choice of position in the civic division. President Woodmansee is appointed marshal of the division, with the right to select a staff of 50 members. All league clubs are di rected to report for assignment not later than February 20. FACTS AND FIGURES. In Italy there are more theaters in proportion to the population than in any other country. Insurance companies claim that bicycling is more dangerous than trav eling either by rail or ship. Of the gold coins now in circulatiou in Kugland only a very small propor tion bear date earlier than 1879. Russia has the most rapidly increas ing population of any country on earth. The growth of the last 100 years has been a fraction less than 1,000,000 an nually. The largest orchard In Great Britain is at Tottington, in the county of Glouces ter. It is 500 acres in extent, and some seasons it yields its owner. Lord Sudley, a profit of (50,000. Apples and plums are raised there chiefly. Of the 274,940 Hungarian gypsies enumerated in the last census 243,432 are described as sedentary, 20,406 as seniisedent&ry and only 8,938 as nomadic, while 2,164 are either soldiers or in jail. All profess some form of Christianity and 17,000 are professional musicians. The moon rotates on its axis in ex actly the same period that it revalves around the earth. M TH» BTATIft J H«nea hare become so cheap |a (*rta of Mlaaouri that a two-year-olf eolt of good pedigree eotd at auction .*■ Rich Rill foe 122. The keen political discrimination 0f » Todd county (Ky.) turkey I earned after Ite death wHcd a McKlnler button was found in Its crop. J Pending the adoption of a plaatodi*. pose of impounded and unredeemed doge et Macon, On., by electricity, „a experiment hns been made upon Vats It waa successful. Pumpkin pie for the season la assured In Mercer county, Ky, where act-pound pumpkin was grown Ite circumfer. eace was five feet and eight inches. For stealing from e deaf mute car penter aomo of the tools of his trade another deaf mute, against wihom threo others of the sih«Dt people testified has been sent to jail at Kansas City. Instead of hia usual Sunday ’eTening sermons, a clergyman of Chapman’ Kan, is reading to his congregation a continued story, entitled: “Jake, tho Merchant,” which'he wrote himself. After a long amd luxurious yawn ems morning a Westwood (Mich.) man couldn't close hi* mouth. His jaw had been dislocated. Ho waa so frightened that since It was set he doesn’t dare even to smile broadly. "ThfE WOODEN MEN.” Hatches chickens from hen’s egg*. jt j, 10x1.3*8 inches; will hatch 38 eggs Ph™ 16.00. Write to Mr. (ieo. H. Stahl, Mfr.,’ Quincy, 111., for a copy of his booklet “K ’’ describing the “Wooden Hen.” also large oatalogue. Both sent free. “What a distinguished looking man.” “Yes, the last time 1 saw him he was on the bench.” “What, a judge?” “No; a substi tute ballplayer.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1667 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE. Don't believe it, nor did the editor until he saw Salzer's great farm seed catalogue. It's wonderful what an ar ray of facts and figures and new things and big yields and great testimonials it contains. Send This Notice and IOCf.nts Stamps lo John A. Sul/.er Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for catalogue and 13 rare farm seed samples, worth $10, to gel a start._[k] Titky say rich people worry more over their riches than the poor do over their poverty. But lots more folks feel sorry for them.—Wasliingtou Democrat. 9100 Reward 9100. 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