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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher.
PLY MO. ITH.
SHE SPIED A BARGAIN:
AND FELL OVER EVERYBODY TO
GET AT IT.
Clicai;o Herald ami Post Now Owned
by Jas. Y. Fcoit-Mny Aluo Get the
Times-Silver Men KcpMlsctl in the
Senate.
Quick Way of Getting to a Harrain.
Three women took a tumble down a
Stairway at the Boston Store in Chicago
Tuesday, landing in a heap at the bot
tom chagrined and mortified, but nut in
jured. A large woman with her arms f till
of bundles was at the head of the stairs
leading from the second story. She caught
sight of some bargain sign on the tloor
below and tried to crowd her way through
the throng. In her effort she tripped on
the front edge of her dress skirt and
started on a headlong plunge down the
stairs. Most of the people pot out of her
way in time, but alut half way down
the steps she caught two women ahnest
as large as she and rolled straight on to
them. The force of the contact upset thrt
two women and they accompanied the
first one in her original method of getting
to a bargain counter, all three going down
the stairs in a heap which to the spec
tators seemed to be made up mainly of
wildly waving arms. hats, and draperies.
At the end of the stairs the women were
picked up by the store employes and sort
ed out.
Scott Buys Chicago Papers.
James W. Scott on Tuesday gained con
trol of the Chicago Herald and the liven
ing Tost. John R. Walsh, president of
the Chicago National Hank, who, since
INN.!, has held a two-thirds interest in
the Herald and who has held a like in
terest in the Evening I'ost ever since it
was founded, has transferred his entire
holdings to Mr. Scott. The deal was
made on the basis of approximately $11.
OOO.Ooo for the two newspapers and the
property of all sorts belonging to them,
Mr. "Walsh receiving in the neighborhood
of 1,330,(100 for his interests. At the
same time comes the news of a probable
consolidation of the Chicago Times and
the Herald. Mr. Scott and the owners of
the Times, it is understood, have agreed
uion terms, and in all likelihood the plan
of consolidation will be ierfected very
soon.
To Sue Owners of the Kibe.
An action for damages against the
North Herman Lloyd Steamship Company
will be brought by Siegmund Frank, the
brother of Jacob Frank, the Buffalo
ticket broker who was lost in the wreck
of the steamship Kibe. The damages spe
cified will be !j-70,ooo. The first steps in
the proceedings were taken Monday in
an application to the surrogate at Buffa
lo for limited letters of administration.
Siegmund Frank gave bonds and qualified
as aliui:..tratir. Allidavits have been
.oi.t'-.'.ucd from two of the survivors, Carl
Hoffman and John Vovera.
No Vote on Silver.
The silver light in the Senate is finished
and no vote will be had on the Jones hill.
The one day Tuesday devoted to that
bill showed conclusively that no amount
of pressure would bring about a vote, and
if the silver bill was kept before the Sen
ate that it would result in defeating the
appropriation bills and force an extra
session.
BREVITIES7
William Scott celebrated his 100th
birthday at Delphos, O.
Martin Meyers, the stage robber, was
sentenced for life at Oroville, Crd.
A. K. Hunt, chief of the Seattle, Wash.,
lire department, has disappeared.
Phil Dawson killed his father at Bir
mingham, Ala., when the latter repri
manded his daughter.
The tug Sea King towed the derelict
schooner Ocean Spray into San Francisco,
Cal. The schooner was capsized.
The schooners Ida C. Schoolcraft and
William C. Wickam, bound for Rich
mond, Va., are believed to have founder
ed. R. L. Hawkins, of Van Buren, Ark.,
was shot and killed by a ncgi named
Turner for putting him out of a railway
depot.
The Montana Supreme Court has decid
cl that Harriet Sheffield and Erwin Da
vis, niece and brother of Andrew J. Davis,
the Butt? millionaire, may contest the
will on the ground that it was a forgery
and was revoked by other wills.
A man giving the name of Hartwell P.
Heath, but believed to be Frank II.
Trtusdell, an ex-newspaper man of El
mira, N. V.. and San Francisco, has been
arrested at I'mporra, Kan., charged with
trying to swindle banks by means of forg
ed drafts.
Thomas Cook, a merchant of Fl Moro,
Colo., was forced to open his safe by a
masked man who got the drop on him, but
as the burglar was leaving the store Mr.
Cook shot at him with a Winchester. The
bullet struck the robber on the shoulder
and fell to the lloor flattened out, showing
that the outlaw had some sort of bullet
proof covering for the upper part of his
body. 1 le escaped.
President McBride of the American
Federation of Labor is again home at
Massillon, O., preparatory to taking a
long leave of absence. He will go to Hot
Springs or some similar resort. He has
been advised that'll- must do this or dir
within three months. McBride absorbed
nicotine into his system last year by
smoking while he had a bad cold sore. II -has
been taking treatment ever since, but
lias not succeeded in throwing off the ioi
Kon. Plans have been accepted for a Phelps
memorial gateway at Yale to cost $100,
000. Bank Cashier Daniels shot at a robber
in Azusa, Cal. Constable Stevens
thought it was the robber shooting and
returned fire, hitting Daniels in the shoul
der. The robber, Fllsworth Myers, was
caught.
Jaeob S. Monis, one of the most widely
known railroad men in the United States,
died at Toledo, U., from grip.
Representative W. L. Wilson denies
the htory that he has been tendered the
presidency of the T "as State University.
EASTERN.
An explosion of natural gas at Mead
ville, Ph., Wednesday wrecked the store
and dwelling of (Jeorge II. Cutler, killed
George II. Cutler and his son, and injured
Mrs. Cutler and Kate Strack, a domestic.
The houses were completely demolished
nml the ruins, taking lire, were destroyed.
The explosion was caused by a leak in
the main, the escaping gas igniting from
the otliee stove.
Captain Baudclon and the officers of
La (Jascogne were entertained at dinner
at the Hotel Martin, New York, by A. A.
Riehe, who is one of the happiest men in
New York. As the ten naval guests from
La tJascogno entered the dining room in
full uniform they were greeted by shouts
of "Vive R:tudcloii." Ladies waved their
handkerchiefs and men grasped the hand
of the otHcers. Then all standing, drank
to the health of the stanch ship and her
brave commander.
Reports from remote portions of the
State continue to emphasize the fact that
the late storm was almost unprecedented
in Maryland. James Brunner, a colored
man of Pisgah neighborhood, Charles
County, was found standing in a fence
corner on the public roadside, frozen stiff.
Two dead men were found on the railroad
tracks between Oxford and Faston. They
were identified as hands on a dredge boat
frozen up at Oxford. Robert M. Dawson,
of Wittman. reports that there is a Hock
of at least fifty wild goose frozen to death
near the mouth of Fastern Bay.
The freight train known as the Troy
pick-up. hound north, parted about a mile
north of Khineeliff, X. Y. The divided
parts came together and live cars were
telescoped. The wreck blocked the down
track, and before a langer signal could
be displayed the south-bound fast mail
ran into the wreck, the engine and three
express cars of the fast train jumping the
track. The locomotive went into the
river, taking with it Fnginccr James D.
Dohohue and Fireman Green. They were
e.trioatl by tin crew of the train. Fn
ginccr Donohuo is badly scalded about
the chest, has severe spinal injuries and
is suflering so much from shock that he
cannot recover. Gre-u will recover.
Engines Nos. 0 and S on the Castle
Shannon Railroad collided in the tunnel
near Monongahela. Pa., causing one of
the worst wrecks that has oecurn-d on the
road in a number of years. Five men
were hurt and an engine and twenty-live
ears demolished. The injured were: Con
ductor John Walker, Fngineers Henry
Hitters and Frederick Risgar, Fireman
Emmet t Hamilton and an unknown man.
The first three were seriously injuretl, but
it is thought all will recover. The loco
motives met in the center of the tunnel.
In the crash that followed the men were
buried in the debris and their escape from
dath was little short of miraculous.
Traffic was delayed for several hours by
the accident.
Lynn, Mass., was visited by a bad fire
Welnesday night, and besides the loss of
property, there was a sad loss of life.
While the fire was at its height, a dozen
firemen were crushed beneath the walls
of one of the buildings as a result of an
exploshm of powder. Half the firemen
were on ladders directing streams of wat
er into the burning building. They es
caped, but with bad wounds. The bodies
of three of their comrades were dug frm
beneath the debris, and it is believed that
one or two more have not been recveivd.
A man named Buttrick was with the fire
men at the time the wall collapsed, and he
has not been seen since then. Two or
three other firemen are missing, and three
bodies may still be beneath the big pile
of debris. Several of the men who were
dug out alive were so badly injured that
it is feared they will lie. The fire, which
caused a loss of $100,000, consumed two
big business houses on Monroe street. It
started in the hardware store of Repre
sentative William II. Hutchinson and hal
gained considerable headway when dis
covered.' Thomas F. Gilroy, formerly Mayor of
Xew Y'ork; Thomas F. McAvoy, William
W. McLaughlin, Alexander S. Williams,
Police Inspectors, ami two police cap
tains, whose names are kept secret, have
been indicted by the special Grand Jury
of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The
special Grand Jury has been in session
since the beginning of January. Its main
object was to investigate charges of mu
nicipal corruption. Witnesses have gone
in and have left, but their testimony has
been guarded carefully from the public
ear. It was said three weeks ago that
the jury was prepare! to find fifty-two in
dictments. Municipal and iolice officials
implicates! in the revelations before the
Lexow Investigation Committee have
been anxiously awaiting for some time the
first big batch of indictments to be hand
ed down by the special Grand Jury. The
result of the special Grand Jury's work
was certain to be interesting to the public,
but the size of the sensation to be cr
ated was not known to anybody ox'pt
the Prosecuting Attorney until Friday
aftorimon, when the news leake! out that
the forgoing hal been indicted and that
the papers were then being prepared for
submission to the court.
WESTERN.
Joseph Robinson, agent of the Ncz
Perces Indians in Idaho, is dead.
At Xew York Michael Capezzuto was
senteiH-el to life imprisonment in Sing
Sing for the murder of his wife.
By a vote of U5 to 20 the resubmission
of the prohibitory amendment was defeat
ed in the North Dakota House of Repre
sentatives. The next proposition will be
for $1,0M) licensfor cities, leaving pro
hibition in the other parts of the State.
The Russian Thistle Interstate confer
ence at St. Paul adoptel a series of pro
posals for laws in the interested States.
Their purport is that the weed should be
declared a public nuisance and a special
law relating to Russian thistles alone
should be passed.
Prominent ministers of all denomina
tions ami leaders of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union in South Dakota
are waging n vigorous fight against the
proposel divorce bill. They have issu'l
sin appeal to the people of the State for a
petition against it.
At Fast Tawas, Mich., there was a dis
pute recently as to the renting of a pew,
and the Rev. Mr. Brueck, the pastor,
ehoppcl up the pew with an ax while one
of the disputants was occupying it. He
has now been suel for $10,0(10 damages
by the aggrieved church member.
The Rev. Andrew H. Randnhl, pastor
of the Swelish Evangelical Lutheran
Churches at Ehijo and Highland Grove.
Minn., has brought suit for $150,000 dam
ages against the publishers of the Augus
tana, a church magazine, In which he says
he was widely published as a liar and a
swindler.
The Kansas City Commercial Club
1 ttimrmwii i. m i
completed the collection of a charity fund
recently started by it, and immediately
distributed the $2.010 received to Kansas
ami Nebraska, sending $1.0lo to (governor
Morrill of Kansas and the balance to
Governor Holcoinb of Nebraska. Tor
city charity $2,MJ0 was distributed by
Mayor Davis.
Throe nun entered the store at Alma.
Ariz., where ld man Doll and Iiis son
were murdered a few weeks ago and at
tempted to hold up John Roach, who is
in charge ol the place, but Uoach was Uo
quick for them. Before they couhl use1
their guns he tired six shots, which
brought one of the would-be robbers to
the ground, perhaps fatally wounding him,
and the others l''d.
A bomb was thrown into the ollice cf
the Buckeye Class Works at Martin's
Ferry, Ohio, doing considerable damage.
Manager Humphrey was supposed to be
sleeping in the othco at the time. This i
the secoinl attempt on his life, as he was
shot at about ten days ago. A strike v:is
inaugurated in this factory some months
ago. and early in January operations wro
resumed with non-union men. Since then
there have been frequent outbreaks.
"Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie" were
played as a joint melody Thursday night
at the Chicago Auditorium while öco men
who had once recognized the airs as the
battle marches f contending armies stood
touching glasses in good fellowship and
cheering themselves hoarse in the enthu
siasm of friendship. It was at a reunion
of "the Koys of the Blue aim the Gray,"
and it formed the most inspiring feature
of a banquet given under the auspices of
Columbia l'ost, No. 7od, G. A. R.
Much excitement exists at Norman. O.
T., over the report that 2?J00.OO0 was bur
id near the town some time ago by a par
ty of Mexicans who w-ro routed by Indi
ans in a light. When the Mexicans saw
they were overpowered l.y the Indians
they hid their money and lied. Several
Mexicans have been seen in the vicinity
for some tino, and one of the number let
the secret out to a Xorman man. who
has organized a oinpany to mak- a thor
ough search. The company is hi adi-d by
I). L. Larsh, of the Xorman State Bank.
The United States grand jury in s-s-sion
at Dead wood has found indictments
for murder against Captain Straighthcad
and seven members of the Indian police
force of the Cheyenne Indian agency lor
the murder of William Fielder, interpreter
at the agency. The ag-nt, Major Lilli
bridgo, had snt the police out to arrest
Fielder, and with instructions to bring
him in without fail. The police followed
th-ir instructions to the letter. Fielder
refused to come alive, so they filled him
full of holes and brought him in dead.
Fielder had b-cn charged with wife-beating.
James Roach, an ex-employe of the Pro
bate Court at Chicago made a vicious at
tack on Deputy Sheriff Hermann Schar
ingburg in the office vault adjoining the
court-room Friday afternoon. lie tried to
escape at once and got as far as the -le-vators
before he was overtaken. With
Charles Cullen, a friend. Roach made a
ih'sporatc tight against the ofiicers. but
was finally overpower-! and taken before
Judge Kohlsaat. After receiving a sen
tence of thirty days in the county jail
for contempt of court Roach kicked an
other man in the stomach. lie was land
ed in jail without further casualties.
Considerable stock lias already perished
on the ranges of Colorado in consequence
of the c!d, and it is feared the loss will
be heavy unless a change takes place soon.
Many settlers in Eastern Colorado are
suffering from cold and hunger. .Tubs
burg reports extreme weather has bH-n
recorded for twenty-six days, the ther
mometer ranging from 10 to 30 lgr-es
below zero during the recent blizzard.
Millions of snowbirds and rabbits have
been frozen to death. Denver is about
the center of the region affected by the
coll wave, which seemel to be backed up
against the Rocky Mountains all the way
from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fl Paso, Tex.
With the Federal and State courts on
his trail Attorm-y Joseph A. Nealey, a
Chicago attorney furnisher of straw
bail on short notice is in a bad box.
Judge Grosscup sent him to jail for per
jury for swearing he ownel a six-story
Hat building at No. ,"7(I'J South Leavitt
str'-t, a sjHit occupied by railroad tracks,
and he will have to give bond before he
obtains his liberty. Judge Chetlain, who
held him to the Criminal Court for con
spiray, is confident he can send him to
the pMiitentiary for from two to fourteen
years, tln-re being three distinct charges
on which he can be convicted. When
Xealey swore to the ownership of the
mythical South Leavitt str-et building
he enabled matrimonial swindler Cavelle
to escape. Inspec tor Stuart was convinced
he was committing perjury, ami twenty
four hours investigation showed there
wasn't a building within blocks of the
place where tin; attorney's structure
stood.
Forty thousand dollars is the reward
offer'd for the apprehension of Dr. George
Fraker, of Kansas City, Mo. The ofiVr
is made by the insurance companies which
issued the policies on Dr. Fraker's life.
When the confession and judgment was
taken in the Federal Court in the case
brought to cdlect the $40,000 insurance,
it was agree.1 in the stipulation filed that
the main sum should not be paid until
the expiration of six months. There were
no reasons given by the insurance so
licitors for this clause nml none was re
quired, but it was understood that it was
simply one of business, and that It was in
good faith. Now, however, it is learned
the companies have joined in issuing a
circular to its agents offering $40,000 re
ward for Fraker's recovery within the six
months' stay before the payment is due.
The number of agents employed by the
companies amounts to a small army ami
inchules every city, village ami hamlet in
the land. In addition the offer has been
male to every reputable detective agency
in the country.
SOUTHERN.
Thomas Ault, a St. Louis timber man,
end'l his life by poison at Memphis, Tonn.
James Hodges, ex-Mayor of Baltimore
and prominent in public affairs during the
know-nothing days, is dead.
Ramlall Adams was seutcncel at Louis
ville, Ky., to the penitentiary for life for
killing Marshal Russell Wiseman March
IT, 1SS0.
Max Meyer tried to asphyxiate him
self, sht himself, an! leaped from a
furth-story window at Austin, Texas.
He is dead.
The continued cld weather has causel
a stagnation in the Alabama iron busi
ness. Several furnaces have closed down
at Birmingham.
Peter May, n negro farm laborer, Rhot
and killed W. B. Lyle, the overseer of th
i 1 1
large South Christian farm of W. S.
Cheatham at Hopkinsvillc, Ky.
The tank steamer Flsie Marie, from
Hamburg for Baltimore, which went
ashore on Little Ya'hiongo Shoals, off the
Virginia Shoals, was pulled .-ff with little
damage.
WASHINGTON.
The Lady of the Lake, one of the oldest
st-amers on the Potomac, burned to the
water's cnlg:- at her wharf in Washington.
Loss. $: o,o h).
The interstate commerce commission
has suspended the long and short haul
clause of the interstat commerce law so
as to enable railroads to curry at cheaper
rates to points in the Nebraska region of
crop failures.
The third attempt of the Administra
tion at this session to secure legislation
looking to the ivliof of the treasury failed
in the House Thursday. First, the Car
lisle bill for the reform of the currency
system went dinvii; next, the bill for the
issue of $.VK.(r,0,!Hi of gold bonds ar.d
the retirement of the legal tenders, rec
ommended in the President's special ines
sag, was deflated a week ago by a ma
jority of 27, and Thursday the House, by
a majority even larger (47. refused to
order to a third reading the resolution iy
which it was proposed to authorize the
h-sno of ,VVT K (.; :o ;', p..r rent, gold
bonds to Substitute for tin 4 per rent. "O
ycar coin bonds sold by Secretary Carlisle
under the contract with the Rothschild
Mcrgan syndieate.
FOREIGN,
United States Minister Isaac V. Gray
died of pneumonia at the City of Mexico
Thürs! ay evening. He had been micmi
scions sixteen hours. He was carried
from the train to the American Hospital,
and Dr. Bray place! in charge of the pa
tient. The phy :;:' n saw at once then?
was no hope, ami informed Mrs. Gray
that her hu.-l aiel wiM not live twenty
four hours. He had just returned from
Washington.
Intelligence was received at Yoko
hama Weliieslay morning of the surren
der of the Chinese forts anil warships at
Wei-IIai-Wci. The surrender is complete
and the Japanese are in full possessiju of
Woi-IIai-Woi. It is officially announced
that Captain Xuros, of the Japanese
fcquadron operating at Wei-IIai-Wei, re
ports that on Tuesday one of the enemy's
gunboats approached the Japanese licet
flying a white flag. She brought a mes
sage from Admiral Ting, of the Chinese
navy, offering to surrender Wei-IIai-Wei
and his vessels providing that the lives of
the soMiers. crews and foreigners were
seetired. Captain Nuros reiort added
that a formal surrender was yet to be ar
ranged. The commander of the second
Japanese army, in an official report of the
operations of that body befre Wei-IIai-Wei,
says that its losses from Jan. -) to
Feb. 1 w-re eighty-three kille!, inclmling
five ofiicers, and 1110 woundel, including
General Otera and thre other ofiicers.
During the same period TOO of the enemy
were killed.
IN GENERAL.
A bill has been r'iortel to Congress
granting the ahandoiiotl Mount Verm.n
barracks military ivservation, comprising
alntut sixteen hundrMl acres of sterile
html, to the State of Washington.
Much anxiety is felt at Philadelphia
over the safety of the British steamship
Kingdom, Capt. Jones, which sailed from
Hamburg De'. IN. The last report of Iter
was De-. -4, when she was siguale! from
the lighthouse station at the Butt of
Lwis, one of the Orkney Ishs. At
Lloyds a premium of GO guineas was
asked fr her insurance. She Las a crew
of forty.
Traveling men all ver the country were
jubilant over the action of the Presitlent
in signing the bill amemling that part of
the interstate cunmerce act which refers
to mileage ti k-ts. For several years the
Travelers' Protective Association, the
largest organization of traveling men in
the world, lias been agitating the mileage
ticket luestion, and it has just carried its
point. Under the old system all a man
couhl get was a 1,000-mile ticket, gool
over just the road that issued it. Un
dr the new law he will be able to buy a
fi.OOO-inile tick-t. good over any roal or
number of roads ho wants to use it on.
R. G. Dun & C.'s weekly review of
trale says: "AnotluT week's exports of
gold and withdrawals from the trasury
have ben almost entirely stopped by the
contract for purchases of gohl from
Messrs. Relmt.nt and Morgan. Ftr the
moment busim-ss only waits to know
whether sales if American security's ami
withdrawals of gdd frm the treasury
have ben lastingly stopped by the r
markable increase of conthlence. The
two obstacles which hhck the path just
now are exceeding cheapness of farm
products and restricted operatins in the
industry's. There has been no gain !n
pri-es of farm products n the whole."
MARKET REPORTS.
Chicago Cattle, common to prime.
$3.75QÄ.75; hogs, shipping grades, $,?.00
(&4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $i.00(ft4.75;
wheat. No. 2 red, GOQolc: corn, No. 2,
4.iM3e: oats, No. 2, 27(r2Se; rye, No.
2, .r2(gr4c; butter, choice creamery, 23(3!
24c; eggs, fresh, 23fff21c; potatoes, car
lots, per bushel, 70S0c.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3(3
T.50; hogs, choice light, $3'?j4.73; sheep,
cpmmon to prime, $2(f4.75; wheat, No.
2 red, KföKIc; corn, No.l white, 41
42c; oats, No. 2 whit, 3232.
St. Louis Cattle, $3t5.75; hogs, $3
4..r0; wheat. No. 2 retl, ft Bei 52c; corn.
No. 2, 4W?41e; oats, No. 2, 30&31c; corn,
No. 2, 54?f ftOe.
Cincinnati Cattle, $3.505.50; hogs,
$3.5(VM.50; sheep, $2r4.ft0; wheat, No.
2, ftftTfifttic; com. No. 2 mixed, 44344c;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 32i32jc; rye, No. 2,
ON) (50c.
Detroit-Cattle, $2.5055.50; hogs, $4
4.50; sheep, $263.50; wheat, No. 1 white,
54?t55c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42f342c;
oats. Xo. 2 white, XtyaZfyjic; rye, Xo. 2,
54GY5(o.
Toledo Wheat, Xo. 2 red, ft3?54e;
corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 42(?t43e; oats. No. 2
white, 33ir,34VL.e; rye, No. 2, 53ri55c.
Buffalo-Cattle. $2.50(5.50; hogs, $3ft
ft.00; sheep, $3.50H.75; wheat. No. 2 red,
57,'i5Nic; com, No. 2 yellow, 47&47c;
oats. No. 2 white. 35(3(P!c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, ft3c
ft3'.e; corn. No. 2, 43(t43Vv.c; oats, No. 2
white, Uldi'Mlte; barley, No. 2, 53ra50e;
rye. No. 1, 52(54 e; pork, mess, $0.75
10.25.
New York Cnttle, $3fi75.75: hogs, $3.50
?5.00; sheep, $3(J5; wheat. No. 2 red, 50
GjoOc; com, Xo. 2, 4S40c; oats, white
Western, 37C?41e; butter, creamery, 15
2Gc; egt, Western, 2S20c.
S 'Til' I i
OPTION HAS EXITBED.
SYNDICATE MUST NOW BE GIVEN
THE NEW DONDS.
Silver IIa Many Supporters in the Sen
ate Scriou Family Kow Caso-c.I by u
IYstiferus Pii Pup Fear l)aui;tr
front I'loutis.
Must Deliver Bonds.
The option under which it would have
been pos.-ihlc for Congress to substitute
a M per cent, "gold" bond for the 4 i --r
cent. "Voin" boiid which the Secretary
of the Treasury has agivl ! Al the
niont-Morgan syndicate expired at noon
Monday, and now Secretary Carlisle must
deliwr the bond.-, to the purchasers as
fast as they are called for and as jrohl is
leposiied to meet thi'in. The Bureau of
Engraving aii.! printing has been -:igagod
for several days in printing n-w bonds
from the old plates that w-re used wh-n
Senator Sherman was at the head of the
treasury during the Hayes administra
tion. TIhto will be nothing to ditiiiguisi
the n'W bonds from the old 4 per -eiits.
x pt the dates and the signatun's f the
ri!i. i.:ls. Betwe-n Ss.O'w.!o.i and .""..o(k.
(too of gold has already been deposited i:i
anticipation d the first payment, and
't ry stcann r sailing from Fuipc in this
l:r-ct ion for s.nio we-ks hcii-c will bring
yellow 'oin, which the syndicate will
draw from the Bank f England and oth
er ;-0Ul'c'S.
Silver Men Push the Isue.
The strength of the free silver men i:i
th- S'iat was shown Monday by a vote
d I'M to 'J7 to take no tli- .b.ncs bill for
tin unlimited coinage " silver, the Iov-
crnmeut to retain tin- s-i::niorage as pfoiit.
With only a doz-n working das in vhi !i
to dUposc of the gn at appropriation bi!!-
the silver men, conscious of tlu-ir s-trength
but -areless of eois-q lcp.ces. decided to
take up tl: ir lavorite scheme and keep it
.n the boards, it!i r forcing a vote or
ompelling th 'alüng of an -:tra p-ssit:u
o pass the a ppr; pri.il i n bills.
Anxiously Watching the Ice.
The warm whither d" ihv past few days
has hrl it oftVct upon th' i e in the riv
ers at Pittsburg. The i e in the Moiion
gahcla was fourtctn inches t Iii -U ami in
the Youghiogheny it read:cl a thickness
of twenty-thr'e inches. If the warm
weather cmlinucs it will cause the ice to
rot gradually and pre lude the danger of
a Hood,. but if rain sets in there is grave
fVar of a breaking up in th' rivers, which
would result in great loss to the boats
which aiv frozen in along the shores.
Moonshiners Make a Hard l'ight.
Deputy United States Marshal G. W.
Drak with two assistants, aptuiv!
seven lsperate nioonshimrs on Out!i
Cr''k. in Knott County, Ky., after a harl
batth'. Among tln-m was Isaa Sloan.
on f the liv' men who inunlered I.'nile!
StaU-s Marshal Frastus Wieruian :v.t th
:'am pla-e six y-ars ag.
Twelve Fatally Biiruel.
Twelve men ;ire said to have b'ii fatal
ly burnel by an explisitu of gas at the
West Bear Ridge .lli-ry m-ar Ashland,
Pa. Fiv- ni'ii have ben taken out. None
of them will rev'r.
NEWS NUGGETS.
It is a niiou!i-'d that Congressman V.
L. Wilson has been temh-red the position
of preshlent of the Universiiy f Texas.
The presence of cholera in Argentina
has been formally retgnizcd by the Ar
gentine lovernment.
An lnluke Albert died Monday at Aro,
South Tyrd. of -ong stion of the lungs,
lie was in his 7Sth year.
Fire consumeil the large breaker f
William Coniu-ll t Co. at Cnn41tui,
Pa. The loss is $ 100,000. Six hunlrl
men and boys are thrown out of employ
ment. Disobedience of onlers n'sultotl in a
collision between a Santa Fe passenger
train and a live stock express car near
Guthrie, O. T. Charles Upleby, of To
peka, was killed and a score of other
passengers injured.
At Xew Albany, Inl.. because his wif
lillov'd her pug dog to kiss her and would
nt pTmit him the sann privih-ge, IYter
Bowman struck hir. Two sons atta k'!
him with clubs ami fractured his skull.
Thi boys were arrested and p!ael in
jail to await the result of his injuries,
whi h are serious.
The full Si'nat ('mmitfee ;n Appro
priations Monday h-cided to report an
amendment to the sundry -ivil appropria
tion bill for tin' sum f 1 oo.i h to.n o f
rt ili at's of inIebidness if the !omun
iuatioii d" S20. t run for tw years and
lraw 3 p-r --nt. in!Test. and t be good
only fr th purp sc f supplying the
treasury lcli i,ncy.
Th- oilnvrs f the Bank of Le.ingtoii
at R'u hnioml, Va., I'-ib'l to inak an as
signment t s-cuiv its -relittrs. lis lia
bilith's are $71,000. C. M. Figgat. the
cashier, h'ft town suddenly, and a lett r
from him aiinumvl Ii' spent money in
private speculations. The accounts are
-nfusel. and tin amonnt f his shriagi
is not known. Figgat belongs to an old
and honorctl family.
A d'putatin representing the fanners
in the departments of Pas le Calais ami
Xord, Frau-', visite! M. Gadaud. Minis
ter f Agrh-ultutv, Momlay. ami joint'l
out t him tin grave langer of infection
t Frem h cattle arising from the importa
tin of AniTican catth suffering from
cntagius lis-as's. M. Galaul inform!
the deh'gatitui that the matter to which
they re ferro I hnl Ikhmi submitte! ti a
cmmitt' f exprts on catth liseasos.
Charles Anderson, f Cincinnati, Ohio,
ag'l 12 years, was so wrril over fail
ing to pass the examinations at school
that he took poison ami i!iol.
A locomotive wont iat the rmr at
Khincliflo, X. Y., taking with it Engi
neer J. D. Dnhue and Fireman Red.
The former was killel and the latter fa
tally injured.
John Brabits and Ids son James -Aver
killed by the fall f a tr r.ear Mont
gomery. Minn.
Will Swearingen ami Walter Gar!ner
were killed by machinery in McElni's
mill ner Glost-r, Miss.
Chicago capitalists are reprteil to have
purchased a large loly f valuable cal
lands near Wollston, Ohio, for $10,000,
000. Rich furnishings imported from France
for John Jacob Aster's new house have
been seizvl by New York customs flieials,
who claim that they were undervalued.
mii.
WOKK OF COXGKESS.
THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE
AND HOUSE.
I A Coiuprc hcrivive Digest )f tin- Pro-
ceedinu in the I-ck Iniat i c Cham
bers at Ya;öiingtoi: Matters hat
Concern the I'ci;!o.
Law mahert; at Lubnr.
A bill providing for tl" is.-r.anee of
Strs.mo.M'O in -,.!,! bonds was presented
to the Senate Wedue.-day by Mr. Vilas.
A r'S 'luti..n a:Ml;orizh:g Secretary Car
lisle to sei! gold bop. 1 v::h favorably re
port -l t the House f:..m the Va s and
Mans Comn.il t A py jf the ljnd
contract was also submit t-l.
The II'Kisn Tl iirsday .'-f. r.tel the prop
osition of t !:' Pre :d. !!t to issu' gold bonds
wher-by li.nM.ii in interest -ou!l
have b-'n sav'd. The m'asure prviling
for the constrict ion f a m-w IYleraI
building at CLic.-igo has been si::el by
President C!'v Ian-l. In response to a r'
quest Secretary Carlisle has s :tt to th
Senat, his- J'Muros on t!. trasury gohl
reserve ;,i.l -..i-n iitur s. Lab r Cm-mission-r
Wriirht bus snhi:ii:t-d a report
outlining plans for providing hoi.n-s for
th working peop! on asy t rius.
The Senate pas.-d the jnistofTice .ppr
priation 1 ill Friday. S.-nate hostile ai:i-i:d-
nienJs 1. inir deflated. Tl:e agricultural
bill was taken up. Sen-itor Chanlhr has
introlr.eed a bill to establish fr-' Ameri
can ports where foreign law nr.it ri.il may
be manufacti'.red. Strong pposifion to
lh' bill appro-. riating money to build
more war ships was developed on the I'.oor
(l the Hor.se. Th' Hus' Committee n
Coiumer- submit:-.! a report favoring a
deep wat nvay to connect the ocean and
gnat lakes. The Navy Department is
advised that the war sht.ts Charleston
and Yorktown .-re rescuing Amcri an mis
sionaries at Che Foo.
In the Senate Saturday Mr. W I.-ott
i argel tl;.. President with misstating the
financial situation. S-nati.rs Cul'.on: and
P.ihm-r appeared before the suh-couuuit-t
e of th" Senate Appropriation Co-nmit-t;
e and urged an amendment to tin sun
lry -ivil bill providing an appropriation
for the b-gii-ning of the work n the pro
posal new Chicago post office bu-Ming.
They have r- iv-d a letter from the Se
retary of the Treasury re"ommenling ait
npprpriation of $4oo.0o0 for beginning
work on the new building. anl of $2oo.ooi
fr temporary p.;art-rs fr the post office
while the new building is in course of
construction. The IIuse votl to in
eivase the navy with throe battle ships
and twelve torpedo Ixtats.
The Administration's lond contract
was sharply crifi iscd Monday in the Sen
ate. S'i;atr Gray vigorously lcfonlol
th Pr si. lent. By a v.te of 30 to 27 tho
S-nate d i.led to take up the Jones free
silvr bill. The ".grw-ultural appropria
tion bill was pass-d by the Senat-, an at
tempt ttt eliminate the irrigati: clause
being lefent-d. A pn.vis-on for th issu
ance f $loo.ooo.oK in d-bt n-rtilicnto
was insrt-d in the sundry civil bill by
th S'r:ate Commits- on Appropriations.
The House passed thv bill to make th
pensions of all veterans of th- Mexican
war $12 p-r month. A bill for an int-r-national
commiss'mn to investigat th
o-idition .f the seals was favoraMy re
prtvd to the IIus. IIus c:iferees
rf'.:se to :igr' to the Senate's Hawaiian
cable amendment to the diplomats- and
onsular apprpriatin bill.
Mr. Vilas defended the lond -ontra-t
in a four-h.ur sp-eeh in the Senate Tues
day. Silv-rit-s wen unabh t for-- a
vte on the .Ton-s bill, but will pass a
res du t ion h-4aring in favr f fre -oin-ag
In r-ply to a Senate resolution Se--retary
Carlisle says no necessity exists
for providing for a l'fi it in the r-v-nus.
Despite the entreaties f the Illinois mem
bers of the IIus the S-nate Judiciary
Committee refuss to riort the bill re
ating an additional district jtnlge. Con-si.h-ration
of the naval appropriation bill
was ontinu.l in the House. A numb-r
of measnr"s v-r jassed. A favorable
r-ioit has been ordered by th House
omniitt' n the bill to tension survivors
of the Indian wars. Representatives of
the Pacific roads held a nf'ivnoe with
the House committee reganling a settle
ment of tl;- debt t the Government.
TIa Cnrsc f SNt lanI.
Among the reasons why the nin of
tiainonds Ins be-n calb'tl the curse of
Scothunl. I think that the fdlowing
has not le-ii given:
"!ianionls. nine of. calh-l th curs
of Sit!anl. from a Scotch inoinht-r f
Pai-Iiainent, jiart f w liose family arms
is the nin- of lianionls. voting for the
lntrdu ti)n f the malt tax int Scot
land." "Chimlogy; or. tlu Ilist
lian's Companion," fourth edition, by
Thomas T-gg, London, 1S20, p. 30S
(A(llonla.
Couhl the arms of D:inil Campbell
oShawliebl. member of Glasgow, con
tain the nine l7.ng-s? His house was
destroyed by a inol in 1727, Invauso ho
was si!sructtl of - having civ
t'l government Infnnatin on
th habits and statistics of
Scoflau! necessary fr the preparation
of the malt tax, as well as of having ox
iwsed a system of evasion of duties in
the Scots tobacco trade." Seo "llistorv
of Scotland," by John Hill Burton.
In the Index to the "History," Camp
bell of Shawfleld's Christian name Is
given as David.
There Is a Gtwge Camplx-ll nien
tionel as having causcnl the nine of dia
monds to !e callel the curse of Scotland
because lie stole nine diamonds out of
the royal crown in the reign of Mary
Stuart, in continence of which ail
Scotland was taxed. Notes and Que
ries. Odds ami Ende.
The original of the face on the silver
dollar is Miss Anna Willess Williams,
formerly a teacher in the Philadelphia
schods.
Matauzas Inlet, Florida, was named
by Menendez to commemorate his vic
tory over Ribout. The word means
''uassacre."
India rubber used for erasing pencil
marks was known in England as early
as 1770. A cube of It half aa Inci
square cost 3 shllin

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