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•j. ..« .,. :C i" II MM jit ':i E E A By BLANK & BLANK. WESSING10N SPRINGS, DAKOTA TERMS -\$2.00 (S1.00 Per Ye r, if in Advance. If not in Advance. A SOUTH DAKOTA BUDGET. Tlio State at AVasli 11^'t Oil. Senator Moody has introduced three joint memorials from the South Dauota legislature. One asking relief of settlers upon a part of the Crow Creek reservation. Part of this reservation -was opened by or der of President Arthur. President Cleve land revoked the order after the settlers went upou the lands. These lands were not in that part of tbe Sioux reserva tion recently ceded, and the memorial asks that they be allowed the time spent on these lands to apply upon resideuce time upon other tracts. Senator Moody will introduce a bill in accordance with the memorial. Another memorial asks that Big Stone Lake be surveyed and improved so as to make it one of the reser voirs for storing water to improve the navi gation of the Mississippi river. Another requesting pension legislation in accord ance with the resolution of the national Grand Army of the Republic. (_ Senator Moody has introduced a bill granting the right-of-way to the Britton, •Sissetou & Browns Valley Railway com pany through the Sissetou and Walipeton reservations. Senator Pettigrew has intro duced a bill in relation to a farm for the Indian training school at Pierre. Commissioner Groff has issued instruc tions to the registers and receivers of the land ofliees at Pierre and Chamberlain, S. D., and O'Xeill, "eb.. to use every care and precaution to prevent the entry or filling for lauds which are occupied by Indians under the act of congress of May 2, 18S7. Mr. Gifford has introduced a bill to es tablish an Indian school at Chamberlain, S. D.. with an appropriation not to exceed $75,000. The delegation from South Dakota has agreed to recommend S. A. "Williams to be register of the land office at Yankton in place of F. M. Zeibach. The house judiciary committee has re ported tbe bill establishing three terms of court in South Dakota—at Pierre, Sioux Falls and Deauwood. Dakota Pols. JERAULD county equal suffragists have formed an association. CiiA.HA LoriSE KELIJOGG will give a concert in Huron April 1. THE building of a new court house is being discussed in Me Cook county. THERE,is talk of putting in alarge butter nnd cheese factory plant at Mitchell. BROOKINGS county has money enough on hand to pay all outstanding warrants. AYOKK has been resumed on the big Redwater irrigating canal in Butte county. THE Harney Peak Mining, Milling and Manufacturing company will be prepared by May 1, 1891, to place upon the market from the Black Hills all the tin required for consumption in the United States. An idea of the enormous proportions of the com pany's plant can be had from the fact that it will furnish employment to from seven thousand to nine thousand men and will require a railroad eighty miles in length to form a circuit of the different rmues within the territory. The name of the postoffice at Sandham, Turner county, has been changed to Mon roe. A "WELL defined lead mine has been dis covered less than a dozen miles from Min nesela. MKS. NATHAN STONE, a Dioneer resi dent of Yankton, died at her home in that city at the age of 8(3 years. During the war she resided in Lawrence, Kan., where her husband, Nathan. Stone, was killed in the celebrated Quautrel massacre. In 1865 she removed to Yankton aud had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Kingsbury. THE Frankfort Advoeatc declares that from August 1 to February 1 that city shipped 327 carloads of wheat and wenty two carloads of flour, and that there is now on hand in the warehouse about 25,000 bushels of wheat and in the hands of the farmers tributary to the town from 75,000 to 100,000 bushels. Tbe flouring mill has been running night and day to supply the local trade. THE Bald Mountain and Ruby Basin mines in Lawrence county have over $500, 000 worth of ore in Bight. OTTO LINDLOFF, a young German, and foreman of the men laying gas mains through the streets of Pierre, was killed in the ditch. While kneeling to put a cap on the gaspipe, from which it was supposed the gas had been turned off, the gas was sud denly forced into his lungs before he could escape from the ditch and he died in stantly. From letters found on his person it appeals that he is highly connected in Germany. ALFRED BHUM)VELL, of St. Michaels, Neb., and late postmaster of that city, died at the residence of his brother, F. It. Brumwell, at Huron, of consumption, aged 26 years. About half an hour before his death his little daughter Nellie died of la grippe. AN effort is being made to secure the pardon of Christian Sorenson, who was sentenced to twenty-four years in the pen itentiary from Moody county for killing a neighbor in a dispute over some property. Sorenson has become insane anil his friends want him transferred to the Yank ton asylum. DIVIDING Dakota into two states com pelled a New York publishing house to cut up and sell for waste paper over i0,0i new geographies. A COLONY of Blunt bromers will estab lish a town in the center of NowJin county —said to bo the "cream" county of the whole reservation. REPORTS from stockmen along the Belle Fourche and Little Missouri rivers is that the calf and colt crop for Iri'.iy will be 95 per cent, or better. The Scotland city council closed all the saloons in that place by demanding SI 2.1 as a license for ihe privilege of running until closed by tha law. Tix concentrates are now being shipped to Chicago from the Glendale mines near Hermosa. TIIEISE are 31.000 mining claims re corded in Lawrence, Pennington and Cus ter counties. Red Oak, Butte county, has been estn:i lished as a postoffice with Carl I-Lirriugiou as postmaster. HENKY LYMAN, a yoang lialf-brcci Sioux, formerly of Yankton, is studying in Yale college, where he is reported to stand verv high in scholarship. A WOMAN WHO SUES. NOT A SINGLE MAX IIEAIST TUT A COV£V OI TIIKM. Ail Indiana Town's Officers in the Courts on a Woman's Charge-Th«\v Disregard an Injunction —Other Mutters Kast ami West. All the city officials, consisting of the mayor, councilman, city attorney and street commissioner of Yincennes. Iud., have been arrested at the instance of Mrs. Clarissa J. Pauley, who had enjoined them from grading a street next to her property. The injunction was not observed aud therefore Mayor Murphy, Cily Attorney Goodman and others were arrested for in direct contempt of court. The fight that has led to this wholesale arrest has been a spirited one. and has been going on for two years. The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad company was perpetually re strained two jvars ago from raising the track to correspond with the grade of the street, and last December Mrs. Pauley re covered damages from the city in the courts from injury to her property from overflow of water in the gutters. The fight in the courts will be a bitter one. The city attorney will enter suit against Mrs. Pauley for S20,000 damages for false imprisonment. The mayor will also ask for $15,000 damages for the same reason. AS AVJCLL AS HEAD. An Indiana 7udg Who Possesses Koth in an Admirable Degree. The most prominent families of "Wayne township, near Indianapolis, Ind., have been deeply interested in the outcome of a divorce suit between W. M. Calvert and his wife, the latter a prepossessing little woman, who had the sympathy of all her neighbors, Tbe husband's complaint charged her with an act in violation of her marital vows, and in her answer she ad mitted her guilt, but charged cruelty upon the part of her husband. On the witness stand she was as disingenuous as a child, and it was evident tbat the court's sympa thy was keenly excited. An effort was made to reconcile the parties, but the hus band sternly refused to have anything to do with his trembling wife. Thus force.I to make a ruling, the court said: "If she erred he has been much to blame himself. He left her alone and unpro tected. She had done what I never knew to be done before—she confessed her single mistake—and did not come into this court and add perjury to her sin. You can not teU me she is a bad woman. I will not believe it and the records of this court shall not con demn her. She shall not return to her friends with a brand upon her. I shall not give a divorce either on the complaint of the plaintiff or the cross-complaint of the defendant. I shall enter a decree dissolv ing the marriage, and so the records shall show." Turning to the only chill of the parties, the court asked whom it preferred to live with. "Mamma," lisped the little one, and the court entered an order making it award of the court till of age and giving the mother its custody. He then ordered Cal vert to pay the mother #2,500. Everybody was astonished at the outcome, and a deathlike stillness prevailed through the court room during the delivery of the judgment. ST. LOVIS UPPER TUN DOM. A Priest Scores Society People for I5ad JSehavior. An indictment of scandalous propor tions has been presented against the "best society of St. LouiS by a Catholic priest, backed by a host of witnesses. Lately at St. Alphonsus' Catholic church James Hunt Lucas and Prudence M. Huut were the contracting parties in the most fash ionable wedding of the year. The wealth iest and most exclusive circles of St. Louis were strongly represented, as the b'ide and groom were connected with the most ultra-fashionables. No one was allowed in the church without a card of invitation. The people who attended the wedding showed themselves so devoid of respect, not to say common decency, that they were threatened with expulsion from the sacred edifice. They talked, laughed, joked, stood on seats, passed around candy, and even hung their wraps on images and in the confessionals. Father Brown denounced them from the altar. A witness says: "In the first place a great number of ladies were in full dress, which in itself was shocking, for when they were all seated an observer was inclined to think they had come to witness a theatrical show, and not the performance of a solemn ceremony in the house of God. They showed no re spect whatever for the place they were in. They talked, joked and laughed, and even passed around candy to while away the time. Twice Father Brown came out and endeavored to effect quiet. The first time he exhorted, the second he threatened. Both his threats and his exhortations were equally unavailing. In fact, some of the people, instead of being stung to the quirk bv his just rebukes, were highly offended at what he said and continued their dis graceful conduct. When the bridal party finally arrived the people abandoned all idea of propriety. They stood upon the seats of the pews and sat down on the backs in order lo obtain a good view." A Jilcnv at a Trust. Judge Wallace, at San Francisco, ap pointed a receiver for the American sugar refinery, whose franchise was recently de clared forfeited ou account of the com pany's connection with the sugar trust. -Must Attend I'aroeliial Schools. Manager Doane, who was lately given the title of prothonotary apostolic by the pope, has notified the parishioners of St Patrick's cathedral, Newark. N. J„ that they must take their children from the public schools and send them to the paro chial schools on penalty of excommunica tion and denial of absolution. S CON VICT ]L,\H01{ IX ALAl'.AMA. V»'o nen. Children the Affod and Tnlirm J'riMMiers to Io Farm Wor!:. R. H. Dawson, president of the state board of convict inspectors, lias sent to the governor an interesting statement of the condition of things in the penitentiary. The law piovides that wmes, boys under 15 and physically disabled men shall not he hired to work in the coal miue^. This class of convicts is sent to the penitentiary and provided for at the state's expense. Of th class there are now inside the walls lio-l convicts. Some of them aie mere children, and some of them are over 80 years old. They are utilized as farm labor ers. Col. Dawson has made a contract with Thomas Williams by which tii- con victs will be worked this year, and they are going to make the largest experiment with commercial fertilizing ever attempted in the south. In Iii3 report Col. Dawson says: "I have made arrangements to cultivate 1,100 acres of land. Of these 90ii acres will be cotton aud 200 in corn. The con tract with Colonel Williams is that 1 am to cultivate aud gather the crop and to furnish labor to handle it in ginning aud packing. He furnishes the land, teams, farming implements, wagons and gin presses aud ruus the engine at the gin house. In fact, he furnishes everything except the labor. He will also furnish '200 pounds of cotton seed meal, 10U pounds of high grade acid phosphite aud 100 pounds of German kanit and the cotton. These 1,100 pounds of fertilizer has cot Mr. AYiliiams about §8 per acre. It is now on the ground ready to be applied. He is to get one-half the crops aud all the cotton seed and the state gets one-half. I expect to make H)0 bales of cotton for the state aud 5,000 bushels of corn." AF11AI1) OF THE REtOltllS. .Mormon Attempts to Steal tlie Kcnu-cls of tlie Utah Commission. A few days before Christmas the Utah commissioner's office, at Salt Lake City, was entered by burglars and an unsuccessful attempt made to steal the books and papers. The Utah commission is the body of men who have charge of all election matters in this territory and keep all the records per taining to elections. It was generally sup posed that the Mormons were at the bottom of this attempted burglary, for they were desirous about that time of procuring the regis tration books, if possible. Friday the Mormans began their contest in the Third district court to compel the Utah commission to issue to their candi dates for the city council from the Third aud Fourth precincts of this city certificates of election. They have the majority of votes in those precincts and if the court decides that precinct votes count for councilman instead of the gen eral vote of the city the Mormons will have six out of fifteen council men. The case was set for Monday for appearing, but the opinion, prevails that the old law is still in force and the precinct vote will not count. Lrst night another attempt was made to steal tha records of the Utah commission, but as the important papers are all in the safe deposit vault of the Union National bank nothing of consequence was obtained. Tne burglars, however, stole the gold watch of Gen. McClernand and §120. A SOCIETY SENSATIOV. A Late Providence Millionaire's House keeper Proves to 15© His Widow. Providence, R. I., people are discussing sensation which overtops anything which has come to the surface there in a long time. It concerns the life of the late Amos N. Beckwith, the wealthy cotton man ufactuier, who is said to have contracted a secret marriage with his housekeeper. The death of Mr. Beckwith was htely'an nounced. His first wife died several years ago. She was a sister of ex-Gov, Lippitt of Rhode Island, and they were high up in society.. Soon after Mrs. Beckwith's death a housekeeper named Sherman was en gaged. She was the divorced wife of Capt. I] a I'd Kay, but she used her maiden, name. She managed the affairs of the Beckwith household in a judicious man er, and was looked upon as a model in her way, but she was never admitted to Providence society. Twelve hours prior to Mr. Beckwith's demise he made a trust deed conveying his stock to Henry C. Cranston |and another in trust, and his cotton mill property in trust to the Rhode Island Hospital Trust company. It was thought when he died that there would be nothing left but to settle the estate in con nection with the trust deed, aud Ihe first steps were taked. Then the trusses rani against a snug in the shape of a lnarriage certificate which was produced by tbe housekeeper and wlii::h named her as tho widow of the deceased millionaire. (.'onsjiir.il ,,i An esl |. I uitod Stat, deputy marshals went to Sharon. Ga., N aud arrested seventeen prominent citizens charged with, conspir acy and intimidation against the newly ap pointed postmaster. Duckworth. They brought the prisoners to Augusta. The olnceis went to Sharon armed with rifles ami prepared for trouble, but met with no resistance and laid the weapons aside. The warrants for the arrest are based on testimony taken by the postoffice inspec tor. A i5ij .' l'l The Louisiuuit Lottery company is mak iu« i» desperate effort lo retain* its corpo rate life. It has failed to secure a charter rom Xoith Dakota, and its'next move, it said, will be an enormous bribe to the Louisiana legislature for a renewal of its present charter, which will expire two years hence. Its proposition will be to to pay the entire state debt, amounting to lorn ?ltV.K!(l,(iClll to Sl-2,(iU(i.i)tlli. Tlielot- 11 """.tii or (tM.UOl) per annum, net. Main promi nent Lousianians fear that the br be mav be accepted. SIBERIAN ATROCITIES. DETAILS OI' WOMAN HEATING THAT ENDED IN DEATH. An Official Act lor the Sake of Enforcing Authority and as ail li\ani|)lc-A Story That Slakes the Itlood Hoil—Other of Good and 111. NCWK Sergius Stepniak, the well-known writer upon Russian political and social condi tions. when a^ked whether he could give any information in regard to the political outrage at Kara, in eastern Siberia, re plied that the reports already published gave only a hint of the horrible tragedy enacted at Kara. Perfectly trustworthy in formation, he said, had been received in cipher letters that tell the story only in its main outlines. The full details of tho dreadful story cannot be long now in reach ing the western world. The facts so far received are as fol lows: Madame Sagida did not com mit suicide, as the earliest reports stated. She died from the effects of the cruel flogging to which she was subjected. The flogging took place Wednesday, Nov. G. It was continued till under the brutal blows the unhappy victim lost consciousness. The news of hc-r shocking murder produced widespread dis may and anguish among her female fellow prisoners, aud three of them, unable longer to bear their wretched fate, committed sui cide by poison. Their names were Mario Kiilnzhnaya, Marie Paoloona Karaleskaya and Nedezhda Smirnitskaya. Marie lial uzhnaya was arrested in 1881, then a girl of 13, on the charge of disloyalty. Every means tried to extort a confession impli cating her friends were futile until Col. Katanski brought her a forged statement purporting to be the confession of her fellow conspirators and promising immu nity. Marie fell iuto tho trap and con fessed and her confession was used against her friends, who were sentenced to penal servitude. When she learned of the de ception she procured a revolver and tried to kill Katanski. For this she was sen tenced to twenty years of penal servitude. Marie Paoloona Karaleskaya was a young married lady about 35 years of age ana of a good family. In,18vl she was sentenced to thirteen years' penal servi tude, with exile to Siberia for life, for be longing to the secret circle. Her husband was sent 1,000 miles from the mines to which she was sent. The separation drove her insane, and in 1SS1 she was allowed to join her husband in the hope of restoring her reason. She recovered, but a new gov ernor separated them again and she was returned to tho Kara mines. Nedezhda Smirnitskaya was 33 years old and a stu dent in a woman's college. She was sen tenced to the Kara mines for fifteen years of penal servitude. Shortly after the suicide of the three women a brother of Marie Kuluzhuaya, also a political prisoner, died suddenly. Another exile named Kakokor committed suicide rather than submit to the cruel hu miliation aud suffering of flogging. The flogging of Madame Sagida occurred under orders issued by Lieut.-Gen. Banon Korff, governor general of the province of Amour, in which Kara prison is situated. These orders directed that the secret edict of March, 1888, signed by Galkinev raski, director-general of prisons for the empire, should be unflinchingly enforced. This edict was to the effect that political convicts should be treated by prison offi cials in precisely the same manner as criminals condemned for common law offenses. In what particular way Madame Sagida transgressed the prison rules is not clearly explained, but flogging a sensitive and cultured woman to death for any lack of conformity to prison regulations, Step niak thought, would impress the western world with a profound horror. The political prisoners at Kara, Stepniak said, had in some way learned that politi cal exiles imprisoned at Seghalied had also been subjected to cruel floggings. They were constantly in dread of similar torture to that inflicted upon Madame Sagida. Stepniak thought it not unlikely that the publication of the facts would force the superior officials of Russia to take some notice of the affair, but flogging and all other brutalities were entirely due to the direct orders of the central government at St. Petersburg. ATJSTUALASIAX DISASTER. Heavy Storms, Destructive Fires and Other Dire Happenings. The steamer Zealandia brings advices from Sydney to Jan. 22, and Auckland to Jan. 2G. Queensland was visited by se vere storms early in January, resulting in serious floods, causing several deaths aud much loss of property. Afire in Sydney Chrismas day destroyed the sheds of the Tasmanian Steamship company's wharf, causing a loss of $150,000. The new year is remarkable in Australia for its many fatal accidents, one of the most prominent being the collapse of a hotel in Sydney, in which twenty people were buried in the ruins and burned. The condition of the unemployed at Sydney is becoming serious. On a recent night 5U0 men an) women were counted! asleep in the parks of the city, all being without money or homes. A New Examination Ordered. Secretary Xoble has given a decision in volving 70,COO acres of land in Dallas county, Iowa, which the state claims under the s» amp land grant. The lands were held by the government on the supposition that they did not answer the description of Bwamp lands. The state protested that they were swamp lands and claimed in demnity. A special agent went to examine and reported on the greater part that thev were not swamp lands. The secretary says he has investigated the methods of the special agent enough to find that his report was wholly unreliable. For this reason he annuls the decision of the land commissioner, based on that report, and orders anew examination as to the char acter of the lands. It is possible that the state is entitled to the entire 70,000 acres mm ,. ACCIDENT TX CiTUKCir. A Gallery Fails and Hui-ies Twenty Per sons. Au accident: of an alarming character, by which several persons were seriously in jured, occurred Sunday evening during divine service at Bromley Independent church, Paris. Across the end of the build ing over the entrance was fixed a balcony capable of holdiug sixty or seventy peo pie. While the pastor was readiDg th» lessons the gallery with scarcely any warn- ing suddenly collapsed, precipitating its ro'infblicn^ S -ClllU'll'i,_ occupants into the body of the church. A cloud of dust obscured the view of the re mainder of the congregation for a few min utes, but when it cleared away it became ob vious that a number of persons were buried beneath the ruins of the gallery. The fallen debris caused an obstruction at the en trance and prevented any assistance being rendered from the outside, but willing hands were soon at work clearing away the falling timbers and extricating the unfor tunate occupants of the fallen gallery from their perilous position. Tho gallery was pretty well filled at the time and about twenty persons were burned. The work of removing the debris occupied some time,and when accomplished it was found that while most of the victims of the accident were severely bruised and cut, five had received serious injuries, which in some instances may prove fatal. One young lady was un conscious when extricated. Two medical gentlemen in the congregation attended to the injured, of whom several had broken legs and arms, while others has internal injuries. TO KEEP RIVERS CLEAR. A Hill to Prohibit tho Deposit of Dehri in Navigable AVaters. An important bill introduced by Senator Dolph, of Oregon, has passed the senate. It is to prevent obstructing navigable streams, and provides that it will be un lawful "to cast, throw, empty or unload, or cause, suffer or procure to be cast, thrown, einpied or unloaded, either from or out of any ship, vessel, lighter, barge, boat or other craft or from the shore, pier, wharf, furnace, manufacturing establishments or mills of any kind whatever, any ballast, stone, slate, gravel, earth, rubbish, wreck, filth, slabs, edgings, saw dust, slag, cinders, ashes, refuse, or other waste of any kihd into any port road, roadstead, harbor, haven, navigable waters of the United States which shall tend to impede or obstruct navigation, or to deposit or place or cause, suffer or pro cure to be deposited or placed any ballast, stone, slate, gravel, earth, rubbish, wreck, filth, slabs, edgings, sawdust or other waste in any place on the bank of any nav igable waters, where the same shall be lia ble to be wash%d into such navigable waters either by ordinary or high tides, or by storms, or floods, or otherwise, whereby navigation shall or may be impeded or ob structed." A penalty of 925(1 for each of fense against the provisions of the act is provided. The bill will surely pass the house. SOME SUNDAY CRIMES. The Devil Was Abroad in the fcaml Yes teriluy— Soino of His Work, Isaac Jacobs, a resident of Brooklyn, killed Herman li ivozinsky at daybreak, in a stable at 47 llidge street, Brooklyn. From there he went to the murdered man's residence, 54 Eidge street, to kill his wife, Johanuah. She was coming through the doorway as he approached and shot her with a revolver. The ball entered her neck, Otto aud The woman's 18-year-old son bounded from the room leaped at the murderer. Jacob turned and fled. When near the corner of Broome street Jacob turned on tho young man and aimed his revolver at him. Otto dodged behind a wagon and Jacob seeing two policemen approaching placed the muzzle of the revolver to his own head and fired. He died in a few minutes. Mrs. Koyozinsky was taken to the hospital in a very critical condition. 'Ihis led Various causes led to the shooting. The trouble began three years ago. At that time Jacob is said to have smuggled a lot of diamonds into the country, which he ^placed in the murdered man's keeping. When the danger was over Jacob asked for the return of the diamonds, i'wka, Fargo uml Devi! Rovr7incki it ic cni.1 ™i„„u l,r"vilinK lor division of vojozinski, it lb said, lefusedto give them mio throo divisions, BO.-S OIIS up. 'Ihis led, to a quarrel. Another cause is found in the fact that Jacob was enamored of Royoziusky's niece. His suit prospered until it was learned that he had a wife and children living with him in Brooklyn, when Koyozinsky refused him the house. Fre quent and bitter quarrels ensued. Jacob went to the house at 4:30, knocked on tho door and told Koyozinsky that somebody was stealing his horses. Koyozinsky dressed himself and went out aud the tras edy followed. l'lungcd Through lirid}.,,. The engine and baggage car of the Gal vestion express plunged through a bridge six miles foutu of AVichita, Kan. Boad iiiasto .Peters, of Newton, was killed. The engineer and fireman each had a \e broken and several passengers were in juieu. At templed Slouxieide. Big Head, a leading Sioux Indian chief tain, attempted suicide at Standing Hock, N. D. He was found hanging from a tree with a cracker box kic! ed from beneath him. After rubbing and the application of rsstoratives he regained consciousness. He said that tbe recent loss of his grand children inside him feel bad aud he wanted to join them in the happy hunting grounds. He lias been placed in charge of officers until his troubles are forgotten This is an unparalleled case. No Sionx" Indian was ever known to make an tempt to take his own life. Big Head was one of the Indian delegation that Washington several weeks ago TOLIJ JX visited f*V, THE ACTS OF COX SICCINCT Si:jIMAliY OP I.E ISJ.AT1VE AVO Hills and Resolutions llltroii,u.I: les Discussed Law Makers. 1 ly tho Nati "'nsl In tiic senate on tlie 17th Senator sentcil over 21)0 petitions from M. stating that over WJU.000 gallons Y." liquors were annually from tho United States to asking that tho business ,-enator Chandler presented sov(r„. representing that th Mississippi had recently enacted".' taliliBhinu B, now consiitution for 12th of Anuust. iK!in tho 12th of August, ixS'io, not to bo submitted to the peopio tion, and that TTUB the avcn', of tho democrats to cum,',, lent methods 10 deprive many reus of their franchise. Jtefirrwi •,'1 xirittce on privileges and eloet-or liJuir pros iitod a petition si^Vi8 members of the (i. A. It. in fnv.r army nurses, nod petitions igm UUCV'UG persons in favor of tbe Anionic other petitions presented* for a por di'in pension bill: or ti the iimitation on pension .tr» for ft bounty to soldiers of army who •erved in the war of 1 ho houHf amendment to tho bi:i*. tiKticB of mortgRL'o inde tedness the nextcensiUH \\iiy|non-concm*rct|.. fevenoe was asked. S nator Chr,:,.. resolution nvnic vent overt can '.I torney-i'eneral for inlormation recent a*fn.Hriinution of United I-t.-t Marshal Saunders in Florida. Ti .1 i,:ing the president t- confer tho 1 oila-ora of the United Statop r.n.:-, servie.es in Indian campaigns journed. In the house Mr. Carlisle referred tests that had been made by the Hide to the appr-\ni of tlio prannd that it contained tho nairns' members pre.-.ent and not voting. the house had isduptvd 1 he code in^ for such praeiice. Againttt tl. crots hnd protested. :nd would juvo unconstitutional practice. Jtut i: tion which couUl not be decided in and whenever a proper occasion tro to some ot-hor forum. It WHK his side of the house to that- t: shouid bo made in such -.hnpo as to ho linaily and decisively jJ Therefore, h'.« now saw no :v:ison\ nal ot the form which, tin house), to prescribe should uoi be approvi-d done. A resolution K-tLinu' i'hv.r::': any. Feb. and lil. fordebare on fajrliilis, nnrt Monday, tbu ti, adopted. The bill for ihe relio.' I Indians at L:d:e a-iiency. No pa sed under a suspension 01 the journed in tho senate on the 18th nmonc !].»• ported in the senate from ccmiv: plucod on tho calendar were th Making an appivprlat i«,n for a deei. bor at (hilvoston establishing a pot'tn at Sioux City. la. appropriating public buiidinc at ft rami j-er and to provide for the iuhr the srato of Idaho into ,.. Senator linle, Jroiu the conference"* or. the bill to reoi^re the su].erint'. census to ascertain the number o: j-. own their farms nnd bcim sand th r, mortgage indehtt dues- thereon, recommending that the house agrcd to, The conference rejv t». Tho house Ml'for tho relief of th-' dians .at i-'evils Lake a^oncv. N. similar to tho senate bill pas-s.-. since, passed, and the senate bill v.i from tho liou^e. Adjourned. In the house. Saturday afternoui. !\1 was set apart-for tlie delivery of the late Kopresentaiivo Kelley, of (ij nia. The appropriation committiv the pension appropriation bill, aiiil ferred to the committee of the wbclt, ference committee was ordertd I to direct the superintendent el ti I collect statistics of farm mortgage ednesB. The speaker hnd before message jroui the presid. ut. tranMi.i:ti out communication from the -.nterierl ment, proposing an amendment totb viding tor allotments of lands in Indians. Thy souate 1 ill providin rl pointmentef an usststunt secretary, laid before tho house and the house committee of the u-hole on its cor.s Tho dUeussion continued until 3 :'m committee rose without action and resumed consideration of the temporary government for 01»lah inn'. the debate the house adjourned. In the senate on tho l'.th the message transmitting the agreemt n: made with the isset.m and AVahpeto of Sioux Indians for the session of th i] I was presented aud referred to the on Indian affairs. Among the biil from committee and placed on tii» were fcr tho inspection of nit.: portation and prohibiting the in.pi of adulterated articles of food and the relief of women enrolled as a/n.yl Senator (Ullom. from the interstate CJJ commitiee, reported a preamble and re reciting the allegation that it sive freight rates on certain lines of a gr. at section of coantrv batwa Kochy mountains and thv foot! distributing centers ot the" unable to marmot its food products an tain for th'. tlie actual cost or prod: *. directing \he committee to in\eft\U'| allegation. a.:d report to the Semite such rates are tvasi nahle or unreu-o:: whether a eduction of su'jh rates i^ 1' or hindered by reason of any pre the mter-state commerce act, uini more stringent. enforcement ui act is practicable and wouid tne difficulty complained of. .Ur| jn motiono .Senator Wilson of lowu. ate bill appropriating £lfiC.0o0 for building a rt Dod^e. la., wa^takeafl calendar and passed, Senator Call tcntion to tbe lact that this was tht publ buiididg passed for Iowa th^ The en ate bill establishing a custom tion district to consist ot i^ortli and kota passed. Adjourned. Jn the house tho committee on I'atr Beuted a favorable report upon the hi. ing for the appointment of rep esi-ma the part of the I'nited States to the ional industrial conference at Madi.tl next April. The bill passed to divide til cial dtMtrict of North Uakota into ft ur o' sessions of court to be held in 7 S-oiitli of court-i at i.-ux Falls. J'ierre and l^ejul* house wont into committee of the v. bill to provide for the appointment fsistant si.cr« tary of war. After toni": the bill was favorably reported froin initio# of the whole to ttir house. Kiid 'I I homa bill was then taken ut penui-: on which the house adjourned. tho senate on tli6 *^0th after sen:- 1 resolution wa ayrccu to calling torney-general for information cuiut I murder of l)eputv uited i-tales Mm ders at Quincv, 1'lu. The house u:.. to th senate bill for the time in: l'l holding terms of the United Sti'.. court in South lJakota were concun journed. the house the conference rr senate bill to inereas .- tho pension Jess soldiers was adopted.lMr. Can-il world fair committee presented t,--' world's fair site. The claims of Cnieago, St. ouis and Washington by various members until adjournm In the senate on the 21st- the con port on the bill to increase the pei:^1 tally disabled pens ners was a-.Tee explanation to the el'tcet that under it had been provided that totin pensioners h-n drawnv-* a mon. ceiwj £72 that the increase did i. 1 iilM'TJi. THE Salem. 111. robbed of §10,(100, bes-.d No clue. National bank was es some securities. s'r'* r% 1 t.iose ensioned ther».-aftor that tl.:' passed the senate was intended to oinisskn that the house had arm-'-1* to allow arrears pensions in sucl: tii at thi% result was practically an the semito bill as originally passed being allowed. Among the bids placed on th.' calendar were the fob" the establishment of a pure food div. d» pavtm"iit of ag-iculture topi' ,,v establishment of a gun found is in a a in oronance 'n the PaMrtc ce:i I tator Kdmunds introduced a Polish crimes against officers of -1 States while in the discharge of t: i! and ib7 ie:]uest) a bill to reorgani. and pay of the personnel of the i-11' lerrod. The senate proceeded to cun^ I uf'iou--e bill to provi-le for townsit*' Oklahoma. Anumborof public buil,lll I passed, including one for i. and one increasing the hm:. of the Omaha buil lingto S'i.OOO.O.-O- A .| Tho day in tho house was consume cussjon of tho world's fair site bill- THE St. Louis Republic MAKE^'^fl ment that Capt. Jack Haynes, tlie er in charge of the engine at the Fn-v" ing, is 102 years old. He is a Tei^l vy birth and doesn't look to be overi