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EPITOME OF TEE WEEK.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY FOR
BUSY MEN,
Oeaseased Telegraphic Report the
Important Events of the Fart Week
AU Oral the Wort.
FOREIGN.
Portugal's Cabinet has resigned because
el a refusal ot the Cortes to approve its
financial schemes.
The young son of M. Bourgeois, Min
ister of Justice of France, has been kid
napped at Paris. Anarchists are sus
pected.
Deputy Zerdi, one ot the chief boodlers
ot Italy, connected with the bank 'scan
dais, followed Baron de Belnach's example
and committed suicide.
Spain has taken official action in the
matter ot an American syndicate secur
ing control of Santo Domingo and a pro
teat may be forwarded to Washington.
In the House of Commons at London, in
reply to an Inquiry, it was stated that
the British Government had received no
official information from the United
States In regard to Hawaii.
Cases caused the death ot over a score
of miners in Spanish cad mines.
Gladstone's home rule bill for Ireland
had its first reading in Parliament last
night, and its second reading was set for
March 13.
Chancellor von Caprivl's speech in the
Reichstag is believed to mark the rupture
between the Government and the Con
servatives.
WASHINGTON.
The trolley car has invaded the sacred
precincts of Mount Vernon.
Congressman Bland says the Sherman
bond bill will be fought bitterly in the
House.
Secretary Kusk makes an elaborate de
fenseof the appropriations and expendi
tures of his department.
There will be an unprecedented crush
in Washington at the inauguration of
Cleveland, and accommodations will be
at a tremendous premium.
Elegant apartments have been engaged
at the Arlington as temporary quarters
tor the families ef President elect Cleve
land and Colonel Lanioat.
Congressman Wilson, spoken of tor At
torney General under Cleveland, says he
does net aspire to the Cabinet honors.
H is said that ex-Internal Revenue
Collect or Miller.of Huntington, V. Va.,
Will succeed John W. M.iann nresant col
lector.
The Director of the Mint has submitted
te Congress an interesting report on the
production and coinage ot precious met-
A futile effort has been made by con
servatives on both sides of the silver
question to reach a compromise. Mr.
Carlisle is exorting himself to that end,
but so far to no purpose.
The pension appropriation bill has
been passed.
GENERAL DOMESTIC.
Ozark, Mo., was raided by burglars
Bunday night.
At Allentown, Pa., a metorman's wife
gave birth to quadruplets.
The defense was opened In the Bona
vides extradition trial at San Antonio.
Governor McKinley's liabilities in the
Youngstown, (U.) failure are said to be
nearly 1100,000.
Geerge W. Sechlenthaler,ef Blooming
tea, 111., a noted conchologist, died in
Ban Francisco.
The long Senatorial deadlock in North
Dakota has ended in the election ef Wm.
H. Roach, a Democrat .
Chas. Johnson, wanted fer the murder
of Policeman Cox, ot Lomasce, Ky., was
arrested at Princeton, Ky.
A convention will be held at Wichita
Falls, Tex., to organize Northwestern
Texas for immigration work.
Five men created a state of terror on a
Missouri Pacific train between Bonnett's
Mills and Sedalia, where they were ar
rested. A young man obtained several, thou
sand dollars at Ottumwa, Ie., and Gales
burr nd Monmouth, 111., on forged
deeds and abstracts.
A sugar bounty of anywhere from 16,
000,000 to $12,000,000 annually is the bug
nader the chip in the Hawaiian job, to
say nothing -of ether manifold burdens
that annexation ot the islands would Im
pose on this Government.
John C, Eno, the president ot the New
York Seoond National Bank, who ab
sconded in 1881, and was indicted for
stealing $2,400,000, has returned and given
himself up. , His bond was fixed at $20,
f 000 and his trial set for March.
The Reading Railroad Company, after
wm wuii wu lis WVri UU
. various changes, has gone into the hands
f receivers. Chief Justioe Paxon.of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, . President
MoLeod, of the Railroad Company, Uid
BliBha Wilbur,ex-president ot the Lehlrh
Valley branch, being appointed-
. A ogul ng-mtrsxplidid Its boiler at
Ftrt north, Tex., with terrlflo effect,
killing one man and seriously Injuring
several others.
The heaviest snew in years is falling
.. throughout $ho Upper Ohio Valley,
"" k n New Yark, died from
Jim Brown and Jeff as J Dick Harrison,
all white young met,, the latter a boy of
15, whoso robberies have been terrorizing
Alabama for a year, have teen put ia jail
at Birmingham.
A delegation of 200 cititrns of Kansas
City left home for Jefferson City to urgs
the defeat ot the Lyman official salary
bilL.
Judge Geo. 0. Rohrer is dead at Chilli
cothe, Mo.
Gov. Hogg.of Texas, vetoed a bill mak
ing a new judicial district.
The North Carolina branch ot the Far
mers' Alliance will have its charter re
pealed. Seymour Allen, alias Harrocks, alias
Wilson, a notorious criminal, escaped
from the Southern Illinois Penitentiary,
George A. Jenks, of Pennsylvania, is
now spoken of strongly for Attorney
General iu Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet.
' At Helena, Ark., Dr. Overton Moore was
shot and killed by Dr. C. R. Shinault, a
rival, in a quarrel over a patient.
Ed Sparks, a planter near Abilene, Tex.
killed his neighbor, named Chandler, and
surrendered to the Sheriff.
The funeral of Judgs Scholfleld ot the
Supreme Court of Illinois was attended
by a large number of prominent jurists.
Editors M. W. Connolly and L. W.Car
mack, of Memphis, Tenn., are after each
ot her, and they do say there will be a
duel.
Agent Brown of Pine Ridge Agency
says the Indians desire peace and that the
chief danger is from the effects ot wuisky
on them. -
The Senate in Arkansas debated a bill
governing the election of Aldermen, and
in the House the salaries of prhon of
ficials were fixed.
Two Kontuckians near Cat les burg,
settled a grudge by fighting a duel with
pistols. Both were killed. The wife of
one of the men was present at the fight.
At Newport, L. I., on the pillow of a
sick child, hundre.ls of persons claim ti
have seen the outline of a man's face in
monk's head dress, side by side with feat
ures of the patient.
A visit to Terre Haute, the home of ex
Secretary Thompson, by the committee
investigating the American end of the
Panama scandal iB likely, in order to hear
the ex-Secretary's evidence. He is too
ill to appear at Washington .
Bradstreet's notes a general check to
business owing to bad weather.
Dun's Trade Review reports the week's
business throughout the country as good.
The decrease in the cotton crop for the
season is nearly 2,000,000 bales under last
season.
The Arkansas House of Representa
tives passed the bill preventing prefer
ences in assignments.
The Faulkenberg brothers, noted
Whits Caps, in l'erry County, Indiana,
have been cenvicted.
Tennessee will abolish the convict
lease system, build a new prison and
work the men on State account.
The jury in the McDonald will case re
turned a verdict to the effect that the
will was a forgery.
Ten cars of merchandise and an engine
were destroyed in a wreck on the Illinois
Central at Kankakee.
A general depression and nervousness
is noted in stock dealings by Bradstreet's,
due to the decision of the Government
not to issue new bonds.
Albert Wing pleaded guilty of murder
at Louisville. At the instance of Judge
Eaves, the father of the wife he killed,
he was given a life sentence instead of
the death penalty.
J. Sterling Morton has been awarded
the Agricultural portfolio by Mr. Cleve
land. Judge Culberson of Texas is be
lieved to have bean selected for the un
assigned Attorney Generalship.
News from Honolulu by steamships
Belgic and Monowai is that all is quiet.
The American flag still floats over Ha
waii, and the sentiment in favoi of an
nexation with the United States Is said
to be growing.
The- skeleton of James Knight, who
was murdered 10 years ago at Crane Hill,
Ala., has been found In the woods.
THE MARKETS."
NEW YORK.
Cattle, t3.S0a5.00j Cotton, middling,
9K9Kc; Wheat, No. 2 red, 7i!75W:
Corn, No. 3, 513lk: Oats. Mixed West.
em, 35 36.
ST. LOUIS.
Cotton. Middling. OffiQt? rvttla
choice steers $.5.0O5.15j medium, 12.72(3
4.86; Hogs, fair to select tS. 25(i$7. 75:Sheep,
fair to choice it 804.60j Wheat, No. 2
red 68 68Ji; Corn, No. 2 mixed 42
42; Oats, mixed western 2930; Rye,
No. 2, 6354: Butter, choice dairy. 1SJ
20; Eggs, fresh 2828. . - ,
. CHICAGO. J : : -!
i ino, ouipping, w.surS3.t; . MOga,
fair to choice S5.25iaH.B0: Klitum "'fair tn
choice $4.5.00j Whea,'No. 2 red 73ft
74; Corn, No. 2-1241; Oats, mixed
Western, qowSl.
. A" KANSAS CITY. ' ' V'
Cattle. ' ahlnninir atMN 1 V3it f
Hogs, $3.50(37.85; Wheat, No. 2 red
66; Oats, mixed western, M.
Electric Brevities. ..
Connolly and Carmaok, the belligerent
Memphis editors, cams to am amicable
understanding and will fight no duel.
Peaoa again reigns at the Kan
sas oapitai, a compromise agreement
having bean signed by both taotloaa,
and all troops have bean withdrawn.
--fha JflUure of a banking friend al
?n, involved Governor iUICl '
-to the ar"" "
THE LEGISLATURE.
Freeeedlnts of Miuouri's Senate and
Honse of Representatives
Jeffebson City, Feb. 15. Senate:
The Senate convened with barely a quo
rum present, owing to the absence ol
two important committees.
Mr. Weeks introduced a bill requiring
eouaty roads to be worked by contract.
Mr. Dunn introduced a bill requiring
pharmacists to register in the county
where they live.
Under a suspension of the rules, Mr.
O'Bannon introduced a bill repealing
the present change ot venue laws in
criminal cases, and enacting the laws of
1675.
The following bills were passed:
House bill adding Audrain county to
the St. Louis Court of Appeals district.
Senate bill to prevent the sale ot in
toxicants to Indians or intoxicated per
sons. Authorizing county schooT districts to
levy 20c on the tlOO valuation lor road
purposes.
Adjourned till 10 a. m. to-morrow.
. House: The following new bills were
introduced:
Mr. Coots: To prohibit both the man
ufacture and sale of cigarettes within the
State.
Mr. Reynolds: A joint and concurrent
resolution asking Congress to appropri'
ate 25,000 for the construction of a bridge
on the mail route at the crossing of Black
: River, In Reynolds County.
I House bills were taken up for third
reading and passsage and disposed of as
follows:
j Requiring applicants for marriage
! license to tile a joint affidavit that they
are of legal age and that their marriage is
not prohibited by law in any respect.
Passed.
Jefferson City, Feb. 17 Senate: Mr.
Stone introJuced a bill empowering pris
oners convicted before the Court of Crim
inal Correction of St. Louis to take ad
vantage of the insolvent debtor act.
Mr. Bradley introduced a bill to tax all
, franchises.
The House bill requiring the Railroad
' Commissioners to regulate the charges of
express companies was reported favorably
by the committee on Internal Improve
ments, with an amendment striking out
the emergency clause. On motion of Mr.
Stephens the amendment was adopted.
Senate bill modifying the anti-pool law
so as to authorize the sale of pools on
Eastern races while the same are in pro
gress, was taken up for a third reading
and defeated yeas 16 nays 14.
At the afternoon session ot the Senate
barely a quorum was present.
Mr. Hines introduced a bill abolishirg
the State Bureau of Geology and provid
; ing for transferring all the effects of the
office to the Holla School of Mines and
Metallurgy.
Senate bill giving the Coroner of St.
' Louis an additional deputy was ordered
engrossed.
Mr. Rouner's bill for the taxation of
merchandise accounts was engrossed.
'Adjourned till Monday at 2 o'clock
p. m.
House: Mr. Edwards introduced a bill
requiring all persons sentenced to doath
to be execut d in the Penitentiary.
There was a wrangle lasting an hour
over the arrangement of the House cal
endar so that bills reported unfavorably
may be called up for consideration. It
was finally decided to give such measures
a place on the calendar.
House bill fixing the minimum price
ofconvict labor under the contract sys
tem at 60c per day was reported favorably.
This is the measure introduced by Mr.
Davis, of Buchanan County, a month
ago.
The Committee on Printing reported
unfavorably the bill to relet the State
printing contract In 1896.
An effort was made to reconsider the
vote by which House bill repealing the
township organization laws was defeated,
and pending debate on the same a recess
was taken.
At the afternoon session of the House
the bill repealing the township organiza
tion laws was reconsidered and passed.
Other House measures were taken up for
third reading and disposed of as follows:
' Empowering Circuit Judges to refuse
to allow the elestion of a special judge
When circumstances make It proper to
do so. Passed.
, Making it grand larceny to steal a hog
overs months old. Lost.
Exempting cities of 'he fourth class
from the provisions of the Australian
ballot law In muniolpal elections. Lost.
Providing for the weighing of all grain
Consigned to publio warehouses by the
State grain Inspection .department.
Passed.
Amending the building association law
o as to limit the number of shares to
10,000 and requiring half the stock to be
subscribed before incorporation. Passed.
Providing that in the redemption of
tree or unborrowed building and loan
association shares no mora than the lace
value and premium shall be paid. Passed.
Providing that when unpledged build
ing and loan association sharac reaoh
maturity all payment of dues shall cease.
Passed.-; . - , i . .-.
Recess till 7 p. m. ,-. ; i -,' ''"
Tha House held a night session ia or
dsr to give members Whose bills were
reported unfavorably an
bo beard. '""
MISSOURI NEWS.
A great deal ot Interest is being mani
fested in the coming convention of tha
National Electric Light Assoeiatioa,
Wblchoneets at St. Louis February 28,
continuing In aession three days. Mat
ters of very great Interest to both tha
publio and the electric world will be con
sidered at thia convention and for that
reason the attendance will probably be
larger than at any convention heretofore
held. One important matter ia the com.
plicated incandescent system and tha
perfecting of arrangements for holding a
meetiug at Chicago during the World's
Fair. The Electric Club, which is mak
ing arrangements tor entertaining the
delegates, has issued a handsome invita
tion to persans to be present at the lec
ture and demonstration ot Nikola Tesla,
the celebrated electrician. The lecture
Will be one of the most important feat
ures ot the convention and will take
place on the evening of March 1, at the
Exposition Muslo Hall. The audience
will consist of representative business
men of the city, and the leading electri
cians of the United States. A Citizens'
Reception Committee has been appointed,
Which will have charge of the arrange
ments for the entertaining of the dele
gates, A complete programme has not as
yet been arranged, but it is given out
that the following will in all probability
be followed out: On Tuesday evening,
February 23, the delegates will visit the
Missouri Electrio Light plant.and if pos
sible the power plant of the Union Depot
Railroad Company. Wednesday evening
a reception to Mr. Nikola Teela. Thurs
day evening a visit to tha Lindell and
Belletontaine power plants. On Friday
there will be an excursion on the Subur
ban Railway to De Hodiamont and thence
to the end of the line, giving the excur
sionists a tour over the longest
electrio railway in the world. Large
delegations have announced that they
would attend from New York, Chicago,
Boston and all the large cities. The New
Yore delegates will come on an "electric
special," leaving New York via the Penn
sylvania on Sunday, February 26 at noon,
and arriving here Monday, February 27
at 5:3 J p. m.
The nominating convention of the So
cialist Labor party was held at Central
Turner Hall St. Louis. There were about
200 people present. Mr. G. A. Hoehm
presided, and Mr. Albert A. Sanderson
acted as secretary. An entire city ticket
was nominated, the candidates selected
being submitted to the convention by the
German and American sections of the
party. Albert E. Sanderson, editor of a
local labor paper, was unanimously nom
inated for the Mayoralty; E. O. Schultz,
of Journeyman Tailors' Union, No. ll.for
President of the Board of Public Im-
i provements; Max Stoeln, for President
of the Hoard of Assessors; G. A. Hoehnj,
President City Council; Gustav Eckhoff,
lun berinan, Inspector Weights and
Measures; Chas. F. Bechtold, Secretary
Brewers' Union, Comptroller; J. A. Ken
dall, Auditor; Herman Herminghaus,
Register; August Pricstback, Treasurer;
Wm. Schillig, Collector; S. Boiler, Mar
shal and Henry Kallee, Henry Werdbs,
G.Barricelli, Thos. 8. Walton, Jno. M.
KobbandF. W. Steinmann, members
City Council. Tha nominations to the
House of Delegates will be left to the
wards. Their platform embraces nine
teen demands, the most important of
which is that the city shall own and op
erate all street railways, telephones, gas
and electric light companies, the abolit
tion of contract work, a classified civil
service, and that the city shall employ
all residents who cannot obtain employ
ment from private sources.
A mass-meeting was held in the Court
house at Liberty to discuss the proposed
Congressional legislation in reference to
eliminating the free wagon road feature
from the franchise of the railroad bridge
across the Missouri River at Kansas City.
The approaches and piers were built by
the Winner regime about two years ago,
when the company went Into a receiver's
hands. The property was sold the first
of the month to the Union Security
Company ot New York, composed of the
old Btock and bond holders. This-new
company, immediately after buying in'
the property, posted to Washington for
the purpose of amending tha charter.
The meeting was called to protest against
the amendment and it dida' almost
unanimously. Messrs. .Withers, Knout
hoff. Morrow and Deneese,. ot Kansas
City, spoke la favor of the amendment
aid W. W. Morgan, of Kansas City, and
Messrs. Sandusky, Dougherty, McClel
land and Allen against. The courtroom
was crowded and the sentiment waa al
most unanimous against the change and
a resolution to that effect was adopted.
A. E. Aahbrook, of Kansas City, aecre -tary
of the Illinois-Missouri Circuit,
leased the Fair Grounds ia Marshall and
arranged for a fair and race meeting the
first week ia August. Tha track and
grounds will be improved, and everything
will be dona to make tha meeting a sue-
oess.
Oscar V. Florea, sob of tha ex-Bpeaker
protein, of the House, waa married last
I
lBBU
week in Stanberry to Miss Llnnla
Bandera. ''
From a latter of February 18,
by J. E.. Lynch, 0
Char!
WOMAN'S MINUTE.
UM of tsut Hood Bubu4
BMiw au4 Walt-
lie stood beside tha curbstone. -
mute, impassive objeat ofp5rv'
JhuidrMo' ' casting
. . . . i
curious ana sometimes sympauieuo
stances at the sufferer, savs an, ex-'
change, but not a man stirred a band
to help the helpless. , -
The wind whistled through the
cold November air and he anWared'
anew at each cruel blast. '
Men with fur-lined coats hurried
past. Now and then one glanced at
the spare frame and noted the be
numbed fingers vainly endeavoring
to make the ends of a collar meet
around a thin neck, but never a
nickel was proffered the miserable
wretch. For a season the law'of hu
manity seemed a dead letter. :
Slowly the hands of the clock at
the corner moved 'round the dial and
still the shivering mortal held his po-
D1L1UU vii cue UUI U . i . .
At length a man passed who had
apparently known the waiter on the
curostone in oeuer days, lor in the
glance he threw at him there was a
start of recognition. " At first he
.1 - 1 " 3 1 . . .. ....
Beeiiieu iiiuuneu wgo on 1113 way, dot;
a second look at the pale, tired iace
compelled him to obey the better
promptings of his heart. He stepped
on one side and took the outcast
kindly by the hand.
"Why, Jack!" said he, "what are
you doing here?"
A tear fell from the eye of the
wanderer and a wan smile stole over
his face.
"Bill, old man," he replied, wita a
choking voice, "she's in there; she's
she's shopping!"
He pointed with a gesture of de
spair to the window of the store in
front of which he stood, where ladies'
attire reigned supreme.
"Poor boy!"
"It's it's all right, Bill. She'll
be back in a minute. She told me
she would when she left me an hour
ago."
Bill's hand crossed his mouth in a
suggestive way, but the hapless bene-
resumed ni3 attitude oi patient wait
in? on the curbstone. ,'
No Cloud Without Rain.
A very curious fact is that a cloud
Is always raining. Even in summer,
when the cloud over our heads is
white, the drops are falling from it.
But they are very small and they
evaporate before they reach the
earth.
In evaporating they pass from the
cloud-particle stage to the haze-particle
stage; from saturation to simple
condensation; or the dry dust parti
cles on which the condensation
takes place may be left perfectly dry.
It is a general truth that when a
cloud is formed it begins to rain.
The minute particles f water come
iown in millions. .The distance they
fall depends on their size.
If the air the cloud rests on is dry
and warm they do not g . far. If it
is chilly they collect ii? masses and
form drops of rain that reach the
earth. Longman's Magazine.
Feter Gruber's Unique Garb.
Peter Gruber, the Rattlesnake
King, of Venaugo county, has mad
the most unique costume any man
ever wore.. It consists of coat, vest,
trousers, hat, shoes and shjrt, and is
made entirely of the skins of rattle
snakes. Seven hundred snakes, all caught
and skinned by Gruber during the
past five years, provided the material
for this novel postume. To preserve
the flexibility of the skins to the
greatest possible degree, the snakes
he
09
ile
were skinned alive, first being mai
unconscious by chloroform.
They were . then tanned-' by a
method peculiar to Graber, and are
as soft and elastic as woolen goods.
The different articles for this outfit
were made by Oil City tailors, shoe
makers and hatters, and the costume
is valued at fl.OOO. New York Sun.
Quite I.!k Patagonia 1 ,
An unusual spectacle "was observed
on . Riverside drive. New York. 1
A nark nolinemari shot a. bull that
was running amuck, and sent for the .
keepers of the menagerie to cart
away the carcass of the animal. In-
the meantime residents in the vicini
ty came with butcher knives p
buckets, carved up the beast and (
ried the meat off to their homes.
AU Walked oa Their Toes.
During 1770 French women
shoes with very pointed toes and h
'lender heels. In 1789, the year
revolution, an abundance or jron
many
won c
many patches and vmi'-
con8ld,