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VERY IATEST.
NEWslUMMARY.
Russia refuses to join a formal con¬
ference question. of the powers on the Bulgarian
Frank James has secured a position
of salesman in the largest shoe-house
in St. Louis.
W. B. Bate, ex-governor of Tennes¬
see, was elected senator from that
state, Tuesday.
Aldennan Hanishefski was fined $10
at Milwaukee, disorderly. Friday, for being drunk
and
The cold weather is reported in the Hillsboro, to have
killed the peach trees
Illinois, section.
The senate of Texas passed a bill ap¬
propriating $100,000 for the relief of the
drought-sufferers.
The bill empowering woman to vote
at municipal 26 elections to 13. passed the Kan¬
sas senate
constitution A prohibition adopted amendment by the to Ten¬ the
was
nessee senate—31 to 2.
coast John telegraph W. Mackay line lias running purchased from San the
Francisco to Santa Cruz.
The German government has forbid¬
den frontier the exportation direction. of horses across
the in any
limited On a farm of near Elgin, struck Illinois, by well- a
vein gas was
borers at a depth of 120 feet.
The Democratic legislative caucus
at Naslivilie agreed upon ex-Governor
Bate as its candidate for senator.
The circulation of the standard sil¬
ver dollar is steadily decreasing. The
number outstanding is 68,034,267.
The warrant for the extradition of
Hoke, the I’eoria forger, was signed
by the Canadian minister of justice.
One of the best gas wells in Indiana
was developed Monday at Marion by
shooting the bore with mtro-glyeerine.
A bill to forbid the marriage of in¬
has mates been of county introduced jails in or the poor-houses
Illinois
house.
The ice in the S squehanna river
near Lock high Haven, i'enn., is piled
thirty feet for a distance of tli i ee
miles.
The Illinois labor convention at
Springfield trial for declined the convicted to recommend anarchists a
new
at Chicago.
D. G. Brown, proprietor of an iron¬
works at Dayton, Oiiio, fell dead yes¬
terday writing in a hotel at Buffalo, while
a letter.
Hiram Sibiev, of Rochester, is
versity, about to give enlarge $256,000 the to Sibley Cornell uni
to College
of Mechanic Am.
A fire at Dallas, Texas, burned three
of the finest business buildiugs, occu¬
pied by wholesale grocers, whose losses
aggregate $400,000.
The Illinois labor convention at
Springfield passed a resolution oppos¬
ing the establishment of a military
post near Chicago.
The government of Quebec suffered
a defeat in the legislature by the elect¬
ion of Mr. Marchand as speaker in
place of Mr. Fanden.
■who Mr. passed Thomas through Stevens, Europe the and bicyclist, Asia
on his wheel, reached St. Paul Sunday
on route for Chicago.
Lieutenant Schwatka reports Yel¬
lowstone park buried in from six to
eight feet of snow, but describes the
winter effects as splendid.
A brewery in Des Moines supplied opened a
retail trade’Monday, without hesitation, and in order the to
make thirsty court.
a new case in
In the Monday village morning, of Uniontown, married Ohio,
since five
ladies of middle age have dropped dead
from supposed heart disease.
Mrs. Asa J. Wiltraan, living with
her husband near Burr Oak, Michigan, in
drowned herself and her two babes
a cistern Thursday afternoon.
T. B. Panned, sheriff of Mulilens
burg country, Kv., was shot dead at
Paradise attempted by to arrest a desperado, for murder. whom he
The new Western National bank of
New elected York, its with president a capital C. of N. $3,000,000, Jorduu,
as
now treasurer of the United States.
A sentence of ninety-nine years in
the penitentiary Sadie Hayes, was pronounced who
killed against police sergeant a in negress, St. Louis.
a
Dr. C. D. Bradley, had of practice Chicago, worth who
two years ago a
$10,000 per year, has been sent to the
insane asylum as a wreck from cocaine.
The federal authorities at Lawrence,
Kansas, have secured for $17,000 a
tract two miles long ami one aud one
half miles wide, for the Indian school.
John Splan, the horseman, is about
to purchase the stable of Daniel J.
Campau, of Detroit, trotter including Louis the K,'
paeer Jordan and the
Another dynamite cartridge street has
been cable road exploded in San on Francisco. the Geary A large
piece of iron was broken out of a car*
wheel.
The capital punishment commission
appointed by the governor of New
York is about to report in favor of
exterminating murderers by electric
shocks.
Sir Charles Tupper has resigned for Canada, tho
office of high commissioner
and will be a parliamentary candidate
for Cumberland at the approaching
elections.
William Hughes, the oldest mer¬
chant in Evansville. Ind., and Uriel
Mills, who entered the laud on which
stands the village of Salem, III. died
Thursday. has
The cabinet crisis in France
probably been averted by the with¬
drawal of ibe supplemental budget of
$75,000,000 introduced by the minister
of finance.
A dispatch from Santa Cruz, Califor¬
nia, chronicles the death of Mrs. Geor
giana Bruce Brook Kerbv, Farm formerly community a mem¬ in
ber of the
Massachusetts.
A farmer near La Porte, Indiana, has
a forest of sixty acres, representing that
every first variety settled, known from when which tree region has
was a
never been cut.
Abwimonel military reservations
couipns tig seven hundred thousand
acres are about to be their surveyed appraise¬ and
plaited, preparatory sale. to
ment ami
Excitement has been occasioned
among by the colliers throughout Scot¬
land a strike of three thousand
niuiets at Airdrie for an advance of a
•hilling per day.
The Michigan house lias passed bills
to break up the stockades in the lum¬
ber and nuiiiug camps mid to prohibit
the iuiporluliou of Pinkerton detec¬
tives into the state.
roe Woman's Christian adopted Temperance
union -•£X Vir L nun has a reso
Jutton — i. Grover Cleve
land r< her exami drinks. as an abstainer
frotu intoxicating
Those seinmoies or jnaian Territory their
who suffered by the failure of
crops are receiving from the funds of
the tribe a sufficient sum to tide them
over the next harvest.
S. A. Miller, elected to succeed the
late Mr. Patrick in ineligible, the Illinois legisla¬ hav¬
ture, is said to be of not
ing resigned his office alderman at
Minonk prior to election.
The Michigan Senate passed the
House joint resolution to submit a
prohibitory amendment at rejected the spring the
election. The Ohio House
township local-option bill.
N. < Nelson, of the N. O. Nelson
Manufacturing Company at St. Louis,
who last March started the establishment, profit-shar¬
ing scheme in his
thinks that it solves the labor pi idem.
Judge Harmon, of the superior court
at Cincinnati, which has ex-Governor resigned to Iload- miter
the law firm
ly leaves. The latter will enter upon
practice of the law at New York city.
The court of queen's bench at Mont¬
real has ordered the extradition of J.
F. Hoke, the bank embezzler, of
Peoria. 111., attempt who lias expended lus free¬ over
$2,000 m an to secure
dom.
The district attorney at Boston an¬
nounces a compromise in the case of
Richard J. Lane, late president of the
Arlington National bank, who restor¬
ed nearly all of the $120,000 which he
embezzled.
The American whaling fleet has de¬
generated to 121 vessels, one-third of
which are offered for sale. The total
catch of the year just ended was 20,000
barrels of oi 1 and 300,000 pounds of
whale-bone.
By the explosion of a car-load of
giant powder near Fort Scott a man
named killed, Scott Hooker was blown instantly to
fifteen cars were
atoms, and $10,000 worth of plate-glass
was broken.
Fourteen indictments against per¬
sons who violated the election laws
last November were returned at St.
Louis by the United States grand jury.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of
the accused.
Currency continues to flow from the
west and south to New York. The
banks of that city report a steady
increase in their reserve, the amount
in excess of legal requirements being
now $18,796,375.
At a court reception held in Berlin
on Friday assembled Emperor William that informed
the officers 72,000 men
of tiie reserves would be called out im¬
mediately repeating and drilled rifle. in the use of the
new
President Roberts, of the Pennsyl¬
vania the interstate railway, is of the act opinion will large¬ that
commerce
due ly prevent advantage the public from necessities taking un¬
of the of
railroad companies.
The heirs to Reno W. Renault pro¬
pose to hold a meeting in Pittsburg
next month, and prepare papers for a
suit Illinois to recover and Missouri, large tracts including of land $40,- in
000,000 worth in Peoria.
Suit for $20,(XX) damages against S.
Ruth & Son was begun at Baltimore
Friday, Knights by Labor, Assembly who claim 1,384, that of tho the
or
defendants violated a contract to pay
the union scale of wages.
A charter was granted which at Topeka,
Kansas, to a company Lyon proposes
to Kansas, hpild a through railway the from Indian Territory county,
to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Tne capital
stock is placed at $55,000,000.
“Club” AViley and L. E. Drum
fought with bare fists at Casey, Illi¬
nois, under London prize-ring rules.
In the sixth round, Wiley, places, whose knocked nose
was broken in two
Drum senseless and won the fight.
prize-fighters In the police McCoy court at and Cleveland, Gallagher the
were fined, respectively, $50 and $100,
and sentenced to the work-house for
thirty days. On a motion for a new
trial they were released on $500 ball.
The Alton road threatensto retaliate
upon the Northwestern and St. Paul
for taking lumber into Kansas at cut
rates by making soliciting traffic connections to
Omaha and Nebraska busi¬
ness.
The governor of Ohio, cattle on receiving
information that tiie quarantine
is evaded by round-about shipments
from Chicago, has extended to the
state of Illinois the provisions of the
order forbidding importations of live
stock.
The electors of the Exchange division
of Liverpool, Gladstonean by a majority for Parliament of 11 votes,
chose a
instead of Mr. Gosohen, the new chan¬
cellor of the exchequer. As nine votes
are in dispute, a,recount has been or¬
dered.
The number of strikers along the
water-front at New York and thousand. Jersey
City is estimated at fifteen
Three hundred policemen reinforced
the steamboat squad in the former
city, and many non-union men went to
work.
The Austro-Hungarian unabated. military In
preparations of mobilization continue three great
event
armies will be formed, each corps hav
ing no less tlian 250,000 men. the com¬
manders of which have already been
designated. The Merchants’
directors of the ex¬
change, of St. Louis, have William adopted R. a
resolution recommending place
Morrison for a on the interstate
commerce commission. The Toledo
produce exchange puts forward Reni
son B. Smith.
The Supreme court of Illinois has
decided that ihe university at Normal
is not the property of the state. In
1885 the the land legislature vested in declared Julia Bakewell, the title
to
but the srate board of education re¬
fused <o give possession.
lady Mrs. of A. Cincinnati, C. Kemper, appeared a prominent before
a
court in her Louisville, m behalf of her¬
self and brother, and argued that
her deceased father was not of sound
mind when he disinherited them. But
the jury sustained the will.
Dr. Schooler. Dean of the Iowa Col¬
lege rested of Physicians Des Moines, and Surgeons.waa charged with ar¬
at
complicity body of Miss in Mattie the “resurrection” Hull at Carlisle. of the
The doctor has been indicted by the
Grand Jury of Warren county.
named In Delta Holmes county, Michigan, his leg seriously a hunter
cut
while setting a trap, His companion
went for aid, and on returning within
an hour found that Holmes had been
eaten alive by wolves, after slaying
five of the pack with a revolver.
braska. Fifty masked drove men of at O’Neill, wealthy Ne¬
out town a
ranchman named Tobat, who was the
chiet actor in a social scandal. He pro
reeded to Lincoln and tiled a com¬
plaint against failing the sheriff of Brown
county tor to protect him.
Notwithstanding forbidden the fact that rail
state wav pools are law, the by various the Inter*
routine roe asso¬
ciations will probably retain their joint
tbackituuv lot the cumyiiai'ou ot aut?
tfstlcH. "iiiC p uoTjC ii*suil UTTafl6s« and
protection from fraudulent practices
by Rev. shippers. George II. Towue resigned from
an Episcopal pulpit in Baltimore last
November, remained a few days in ti
Catholic seminary, wrote some articles
for a New York newspaper, and now
informs the standing committee of the
diocese of Easton that he is conscious
of his mistake.
The wife of Frank Roth, a Bohemian
merchant and babe at Cleveland, with rough-on-rats. poisoned her¬ Her
self through
mind had become several deranged accurate
hearing read times an
and lengthy description of how Mrs.
Cabalek murdered her children and
then committed suicide.
It is stated that <lie circuit court at
Cincinnaii recently declared the board
of education of that city heard an illegal
body. Only the counsel the
decision pronounced, and they have
kept the matter secret because of its
importance, hoping to secure speedy
action by the legislature.
The state, in preparing its side of the
record for the consideration of the
Supreme court in the case of the ap¬
peal of the condemned anarchists at
Chicago, has photographed all tlm
plans of the halfs where the conspiracy
was hatched, and also all the varieties
of bombs that were seized by the po¬
lice.
The United (Riddleberger), States Senate, passed by a vote the
of 46 to 1
bill United to authorize the President of the
States to protect and defend
the rights of American American fishing vessels, trad¬
American ing and other fishermen, vessels certain
in cases.
Some of the speeches by the senators
were especially vigorous.
The planters of Hinde, Amite, and
Itankin counties, Mississippi, have felt
compelled to give enticing notice the to emigration to
the agents to stop of the Yazoo deltas. negros From
four swamps six hundred colored
hundred to The
men daily pour into Vicksburg.
emigration from Greene county, Ala¬
bama, is the largest of all.
citizen Colonel O. R. Westman,a Tempter prominent of Joliet,
Illinois, and committed Knight suicide by poison,
Friday morning. An injury to his
foot doctors resulted in blood-poisoning, thafgro and
had informed him save
his above life, the leg must He preferred be amputated death
the knee.
to being a cripple for life.
The steel cruiser Atlanta will next
week hope of go on a final marked trial trip, increase in the of
her showing a her speed being al¬
ready horse-power, above the contract line. Two of
her guns are twenty-four three-hundred- feet in length,
pound carry shot an for explosive five miles, and cost $1-5
pound for powder snot ror each nve nines, discharge. ana cost uuo
at
A jury in Chicago found a verdict of
manslaughter, with a sentence of
eleven years - Baker, in the who penitentiary, last fall
against John
crushed the skull of William Dwyer
with a bung-starter, as he lay asleep. of
Harry Gilmore was convicted the
murder of George McBride, and sen
tenced to thirty years at Joliet.
F. C. Sharp, postmaster of Oconto,
Wisconsin, has been arrested for ri¬
fling registered letters. On his person
was found $120 in bills marked decoy" by let- In¬
spector Kidder and placed in
ters. The criminal was a citizen ab ove
suspicion and published the leading
news paper in that city. The robberies
have been frequent for a month past.
Robert Walters, of Monmouth, notoriety Illi¬ by
nois, achieved some
swearing that he saw men and w'omen
swimming together the banks in of a nude Cedar state creek, at
a for picnic which on they indicted. lie
were
pleaded guilty and and meekly meekly to perjury accepted accepted at his trial
Tuesday tence ly f three three years years m m the the penitentiary. penitentiary. a a sen¬ sen
or
The kept Hon. hostage Albert by J. Seligman, the miners who at
was for
released Wickes, M. T., unpaid New York wages, firm was of
J. W. Friday, Seligman the & Co., telegraph¬
and
Helena ing the necessary off amount the ($75,000) who to
to pay men, not
only protected the property, but treat¬
ed their prisoner with the utmost
courtesy.
Old residents recall of South Bend, mysterious Ind.,
will doubtless the
disappearance of Isaac Kahn, a cattle
dealer, fifteen years ago. A citizen
was tried for his murder and acquitted.
His supposed widow married Nathan
Goldsmith, a merchant at Aurora, Ill.
Her brother in New Mexico writes that
Isaac is alive and is about to explain
his absence.
The joint ballot of the West Virginia
legislature for senator called into the
field as the republican candidate W.
T. Willey, an octogenarian who was
the first senator from that state after
its organization. J? He received 40 votes,
and N. Camden 39. The latter lacks
7 votes of an election, and there are
nine democrats who will vote for any
other party candidate.
In the steel-works of Spang, Chal
fant & Co., six miles east of Allegheny
City, a battery of four steel boilers ex¬
ploded, force Monday to wreck morning, the bar mill with depart¬ such
as
ment. A fireman was instantly killed
and another employe soon died from
his injuries. The mill was one of the
first to use natural gas. Three hun¬
dred yards from the scene of the ex¬
plosion was found a piece of boiler
weighing 2,500 pounds.
The speech of Queen Victoria at tho
opening of parliament, disturbance Thursday, of the pre¬
dicts that no peace
will arise from the unadjusted Europe. contro¬ Tho
versies in southeastern
condition of Ireland will require anx¬
ious attention by parliament, it is de¬
the clared, because the relations between
owners and disturbed occupiers of land have
been seriously incite by organized eombino
attempts to tenants to
obligations. against the fulfillment of their legal
Sulllivan. the pugilist, visited Dr.
Sayre's office, at New York. Friday,
when the surgeon made the discovery
that Sullivan s broken arm had been
set with the palm downward, instead
of upward. While the champion was
conversing sudden with his friends. broke Dr. Sayre, knit¬
with a wrench, and with the sharp
ting bones assunder, fell a lounge
unconscious. cry of pain, Sullivan When he recovered, upon a the
arm was re-set in a proper manner, all
and the doctor thinks it will be
right in four weeks.
The Connecticut Senate has passed
public an act schools, prescribing which the studies in the
shall specifies that these
be ‘’reading, writing, arithmetic,
English studies, grammar, including geography and such
other training in the
manual the school arts, visitors.’ as may 1 be prescribed Plunkett, by
Senator
a member of the New Haven board of
education, said the system of manual
arts had been introduced there, chil¬
dren that stood perfect being allowed
a little time to work with carpenter's
tools, and it was found very successful.
congrk'ssionaIm i
iC ;»»atto #
ja.. mu I*
fcorted from tho committee President on toreigu re
lations authorizing tiie to pro
J».".uuuS.
uavs° ‘(fidfflebereerr P * 88ed
coneeniingm^fflees 1 shall of the
tliird class, providing that they ZJXSZ not
T g ^rfeSpff "consdtutln^the^ .
fn’d H00 cm»ffio°ns
was*also SET*" aU10Unt ?1 ‘ 000 ’
was also paaed.
Jaw. 2>.—On motion of Mr. Blair HI air the tne „ un n .
finished business was Jaid
benate proceeded to consider tne constitu
tmnai amendment providing for suffrage
fer women, th« * ot “ U P° U
being, the chair yeas, announced *f* ”???*,”){* that he had placed Jrfhm his
rPh« (The hu bid new inwmms 8<>«s u^tlie'president!? to tf'p Pr^ideiit.) 6 The Ihe
proposed tending suffrage institutional to women, aniendment, in its full text ex
ThShTof shall notbe citizens denied of the United abrid^d States by
to vote or
the United bt'itcs or oy ^ stftfce on account
of sex. Congress shall have power the by ap
propriate legislation to enforce pro
visions or this article.
rH I6: , ““' v
^ of’oSl ’M^tehell of Teller, Pennsylvami Wil
Palmer. Platt, Sherman, aud
son of Iowa. public build
The Senate appropriated Minneapolis, for $200,000 at
ines $630,000 $300,OuO at Charleston, $150,
Chattanooga, Los Angeles, and at $53,000 at Santa
000 at the
Fe. The conference report agreed on to. Charles army
appropriation bill was
B. Farwell took his seat as Senator from
Illinois.
| Jan. 26.—m the Senate a resolution was
reported and placed on the calendar, from
the foreign relations committee, Webster* setting
forth that the claims of William
a citizen ot the United States, seeking in
demnity from England for land purchased
by him from native chiefs in ixew Zealand
before the British government founded acquired justice.
sovereignty there, the cognizance were and support on of
and deserve The
the government ot the United States.
resolution further requested the President
to adopt such action as may secure to Mr.
Webster a just settlement of his claims.
Mr. Edmunds alone, of the members of the
committee, dissented from the report.
The Senate proceeded to the considera
tion of tiie resolution reported by Mr. Hoar, and
instructing the committee on privileges allegations
elections to investigate the
made by three residents of Washington
counly, Tex., as to their being driven from
their homes, compelled to abandon their
property, and deprived of the right of
suffrage in that county. After a long dis
cussion, the resolution was adopted by a
vote of 31 to 2fi.
The Senate then took up the bill to es
tablish agricultural in experimental session this stations. after
The Senate secret time the
noon rejected for the second nom
lnation of James C. Matthews, for of Albany, the Dis
N. V., to be recorder of deeds
tr.ct of Columbia. There was an hour’s
debate over the nomination, and the vote
was about the same as that The by which to-day the
first rejection was made. vote
is understood Io have been 17 yeas, «1 nays.
Three Republicans voted yea, and about
lialf a dozen Democrats no on the question
of confirmation.
Jan. 27.~The Senate to-day passed bill. the It
agricultural experiment station
directs the establishment in connection
with tiie agricultural colleges designated of a depart
went to be known and as an
“agricultural experiment station.” Where
Vm)roMlated lle e8 ,l te
amount to each state and
territory for this purpose ($15,000 them a year)
is lo be equally divided between uu
less the state legislature shall otherwise
direct. The object and duty of such ex
periiuent stations is; To conduct original the
researches or to verify experiments and animals; ou the
physmlogy of plants
diseases to which remedies they therefor; are severally the chem- sqb
jectandrhe composition of useful plants; the
ical cropping; com
paratlve advantages of rotative
ihe capacity of new plants or trees lor ac
cltmatiou; the analysis of soils and water;
the chemical composition of manures; tho
adaptation and composition value of grasses and digestibility aud forage
plants: of the different the kinds of food for domestic
animals; ihe scientific aud economic ques*
tlons involved In the production of butter
and cheese, and such other researches or
experiments industry bearing the directly U on States the agri
cultural of uiced as
may be deemed advisable.
Jan. 28.—In the Senate bills were re¬
ported calendar from follows: committees and placed on the
as
For securing statistics of the extent and
value of the fishing interests of the United
States.
Fixing the salaries of the commissioners
Of education and labor at $5,000.
To incorporate the National Academy of
Science.
ed On motion of Mr. Hoar, leave was grant¬ elec¬
to the committee on privileges and
tions to sit during the sessions of the
Senate.
Mr. Plumb offered a resolution directing
the Secretary of the Interior to report
whether there Is any rule in the pension
office denying a hearing to claimants who
have petitioned Congress for relief. He
based the resolution on a letter (which he
read) had applied informing Coneress the.claimant that, he as had he
to for relief,
“forfeited” his right to a hearing in the
pension bureau. Laid aside without action.
The act granting pensions to depsndeut
parents of soldiers, etc., asked having yesterday oeeii re¬
turned by the house (as
by Mr. Hoar, who had moved to reconsider that
the vote passuig it), Mr. Platt stated
the motion to reconsider had been made at
his request. The bill pensioned survivors
of the Biackhawk, Seminole, and several
otli.r Indian wars. That he did not ob¬
ject to; but he wished to refer to some bill
statistics as to the amount that the
with was going to require, which it and would to compare require for it
the amount
union soldiers. He would do that soon.
Two messages from the President were
presented—oue vetoing the bill granting a
pension other to Benjauiiu bill for Obekiah, relief and of «ie H.
vetoing the the
K Belding. The messages were laid on
the table.
Mr. Hoar withdrew his motion to recon¬
sider the vote by bill which the dependent
He parents’ explained pension he was passed objection yesterday.
that had an to
the clause about dependant parents, but be
did not wish, by offering an amendment, to
imperil the final passage of the bill.
Mr. Edmunds, memorial in from presenting manufacturers to the Sea- and
ate a
business men in Vermont for a repeal or
reduction of internal revenue taxes, said
he wished to urge on the finance commit
duting, tee the if importance ot the repealing, subject of this re
not altogether unpleasantness
remnant of the ot tweuty*
five years ago.
dealers .iJj-fS in tobacco, , r«fr£te for the sixiiiuou , ssr.< ot , S!r tiie
tobacco tax.
The Senate then adjourned tin to-morrow.
**“*“*•
, „ , the House, to-day, Mr. Ham*
logon (Ion the the Attorney legal General tor under inturma
twdlncwcs as to ol tha Ca-'w* authority Pn.itL iUUrjad which
comhahy'cTihsoiiuafeiFiuaF company wTtn
the Kansas Pacific Railroad company and
<“£ee 1 1 S2“ 1 S , S£ ."uS’EUS sutd
iJuuhi Awru Pacific Railway last-named comp«ui>%
gas , which this company
»
*w8ri.sM8;
white aggregated H 208,49k Tiieap
missionin'* uaf'nmu^oMimrtfse^e
^he^^s'P^^iM ‘
"aim, 'is mSTfor the mensiVS
“ffKSrrk in the ilmise etc., to-day intro
duced and referred
were the followinc' By Mr. Springer, pro
posing a constitutional amendment fixing
.. first Wednesday m/tl.ea^e.nbUnrol of January in each
tinm Con¬
gress. By Mr. Lawler, a resolution direct
ing inquiry to be made into the expediency /0,0oo,00)
. immediately appropriating of
for Uie construction, equipment, be deemed etc.,
8UCh ,„. w vessels of war as may
neC essnry. By Mr. Thomas, to bill increase autlior
the naval establishment. This
$1,300,000 each; ami six steel torpedo miuhutits boats of
ono <vapi\ aii<{ five qtMii
^ bill ap“lat£ *5 committee A™’ of
The House then went into
»
bill shill be expended without the inter
vention of the Mississippi or Missouri
river commissions. More ihsfi an hour and
a half was consumed in securing a quorum
and then the amendment was rejected—7 in tha
to 157. Without advancing one step
consideration of tiie bill the committee rose
aud the House adjourned,
Jan. 25.—in the House to-day Mr. Turner
called up the contested election case of
Page vs. Price. The majority resolution
declares the seat vacant, while the Price minority tha
resolution confirms the rightof to
seat. Tiie minority resolution was rejected
—yeas agreed 108, nays 130; and the majority 33. reso
lution to—yeas 130. nays
Mr. Hatch bill, reported it the agricultural referred the ap
propriation committee of the and whole, was to
The reports of the board of survey on th»
proposal that the United States should
buy tiie Portage Lake and the Sturgeon
Bay canals were sent to the House by the.
war department to-day. Neither of theuv
will be printed in time to graft amend
ments on the river and harbor bill in the
House. The friends of the Portage Lake.
project think the report is favorable enough*
to secure the approval of Congress. the They
will put on an amendment in Senate*
setting aside the $35:),(XX) for this purpose.,
The outlook for Sturgeon Bay is not su»
good, as tiie report is not very favorable,
Jan. 2'..—The speaker laid before the,
House a letter from the Secretary of tliei
Treasury submitting estimates of the Sec
rotary meet of the tiie expenditures Interior ot' ail required appropriation, by the
to
Mexican pension bill. Referred. TheSec
retary ot the Interior estimates that $4,-
663,104 will be required for the first yearly
payment of pensions, auo asks for an ap
propriation of $257,000 for an increased
clerical force.
Tne Senate fisheries bill having been
laid before the House, on motion of Mr.
Belmont it was referred to the comm it tee
on committee foreign affairs, and leave granted tuna that The
to report at any
granting of leave id report at any time re
quired apparently unanimous disposition consent, but the there part was of
no on
any member to make an objection As it
h*s been frequently held that the right to
import at any time carries with it the bill right will
of immediate consideration, tiie
have the right of wav in the House as soon
*» R has been passed upon by the commit
^Mr. Bragg submitted the conference re
port u: on tne army appropriation bill, and
it Ou was agreed to. of Mr. Catchings bill
motion a was
passed united States providing for Vicksburg, holding terras Miss, of
courts at
Mr. lands, Payson, reported from back the committee the resolution oil pub
lie re¬
questing ihe Secretary of the Interior to
.procure the opinion of the Attorney Gen
erai whether any further legislation is
necessary to prevent the unlawful fencing
of public lands. Adopted,
House .The went morning into hour committee haying of exp the red, whole the
and (Mr. harbor McMilhn appropriation in the chair) bill, ou the river
Jan. 27.—The House to-day passed the
river and haroor appropriation in bill—yeas whicli it
154. nays 94—in the exact form
was reoorted from the commit.ee on river*
and harbors.
At a meeting of the House committee on
foreign affairs the Senate bill authorizing
the President to exclude front American
ports Canadian vessel*, and Mr. Belmont’s
bill on the same sutijec), boih known as the
fisheries bills, were referred to tne sub¬
committee, consisting of Chairman Bel¬
mont anil Messrs. Clements and full Rice, committee with
instructions to report to the
not later than Thursday of next week.
The merits of both hills were discussed.
Mr. Belmont, of course, favored the House
bill, thought which lie there admitted might good be Improved, for
but was no reason
haste. Mr. which Phelps had saw no need the tor Senate. the ex¬
citement swept over
The committee, bills lie thought, might better get oat
of tiie two something than
either. 'Ihe Senate seemed to want a par¬
tial suspension and the House a total sus¬
pension Canada. of The commercial intercourse careful study, with
matter needed
and so he moved iisreferenoo u> a sub-com¬
mittee, and his motion prevailed.
Jan. 28.—The House met at 11 o’clock
to-day in continuation speaker announced of yeste rday’s ses¬ the
sion, and the tliat
pending question w is ou the demand for
the previous question upon the passage of
the Washington cable railway bill. The
leinand was witmlrawii in order to allow
various amendments to be offered. After
some discussion the bill was liaaiiy passed
—yeas 155, navs 72.
Mr. Morrow presented a resolution of (be
chamber of commerce of ban Francis' o
against the commercial treaty with Spain
providing for a reduction of the duty on
raisins “Referred.
Mr. Forney bill presented the conference re¬
port on the making an annual appro¬
priation of 34 0,(00 for the equipment of
the uulitia forces ot the United States, and
it was agreed to.
The House then went into committee of
the but the whole on the pleuro-pneum.-nl.t withoutfiuai bill,
committee rose action.
The pleuro-pneumoiiia bill was discussed
and several amendments adopted.
still As the legislative unanimous nay of Thursday was
continuing the consent wn
required for for the bolding cons,deration of tiie weedy
sight sion bills, session and, Mr. vVailace objecting, ot pen¬
in**
House adjourned until to-morrow.
Near Colusa. Cal., ’_____” recently an arrow
mado of 1V0I 7 was extracted from
the breast of , a goose shot on the wing,
As there are no savages nearer than the
Arctic regions with whom ivory .L. is
n«w made from the tooth
WM of a walrus or
some other ivorv-jawed monster and
shot into the breast of the bird hv an
Esquimau, polar or perhaps by an inhabitant
of those regions which our world
■? i«r ,r r T| »
point time, had the beeu skin In the flesh for some
as of the goose had grown
over the arrow
Frank Rande’s Brain.
The brain of Frank Rande, the inhu.
man monster who committed suicide
in the penitentiary at Joliet the other
day, ought to be subjected to a most
careful and scientific investigation.
There in this was something that it is so worth very abnormal while
case to
know, if possible, whether he was a
freak of nature in her most diabolical
mood, or a lunatic. Thirteen murders
were committed by him. Rande was
not a product of his surroundings. Ho
belonged to a respectable family, re¬
mote from those centers of population
which produce habitual criminals. He
himself was once respected. At one
time he was a school teacher. The ge¬
nius of Hood Aram, has the given school immortality teacher to
Eugene committed murder. Everybody who
feels
that there is a peculiar incongruity be
tween teaching school and taking hu¬
man life. Had Eugene Aram been en
gaged in any other pursuit his case
would have been less sensational and
surprising. But in Frank Rande we
have a school teacher sunk to the very
bottom of the bottomless pit, as an en¬
emy of society. A in tramp human taking butchery. fiend¬
ish satisfaction
What was it? Did the snake in hi3 na¬
ture lay coiled in torpor until domestic
affliction developed it into the absolute
master of his life, or did reason abdi¬
cate?— Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Grocer Who Caved.
There was, up to a year or two ago,
a man in the grocery business in oneoi
the villages of Western Michigan who
was famous for his hatred of driim
mers. Travelers for Chicago, ordered Detroit
and other iiouses were out of
his store in the roughest leave manner, in and
several were assisted to a style
more hurried than graceful. The boys,
however, rather enjoyed it, and them a sort
of ring was formed among with
a solemn agreement until he to keep calling on
the grocer gave some one an
order.
On day, eight or ten months ago, an
agent for a Detroit house entered the
grocery prepared his for the be worst, received but
what was amazement to
with a smile of welcome. This was
followed by kind words, and later on
by an order for about $800 worth oi
goods. The agent was so elated that
he telegraphed the news home and to
several of his acquaintances, and it
was a week before he recovered his
equilibrium of he spirits. buy of
“And did continue to your
house?” asked one who had listened to
the drummer’s story.
“Well, no.”
“Why not ?”
“Because, within ten days after he
got our goods he failed and couldn’t
pay live cents on the dollar .”—Detroit
Free Fress.
How to Train Children.
Be careful with the children. Ex¬
plain things to them. Do not get im¬
patient if they fail to perform things They
correctly or just to your taste. from
are different, a great deal different
you. Everything is new to them. Life
is a sort of dream opening out to their
innocent, puzzled young hearts and
brains; therefore do not be surprised if
the children are slow, and apparently
dull, or if they do not understand ev¬
erything. Do not, either, when you
are but of sorts, praise tiie neighbor’s bright
children, or any particularly happen know.
child that you may to
Early impress :ous are lasting on child¬
hood, and many an honest little girl
and manly boy has feit tho young life
within them grow sour with disgust at
the praises of others that are continu¬
ally dinned intp their heads. Nine
tenths of the sweet scented dudes and
loafers who hang around public places
with their lianas in their pockets, hut were the
smart when they were young; well
dull youngsters always turn out
some of them deep and profound schol¬
ars, some lawyers, some merchants,
and others great mechanics, if you
will a ways treat your oh.el as »
child, you will he more successful with
him. *
__
He Always Held a Good Hand.
Two years ago the a good-looking and stuck young out
fellow came to town, Somebody
his shingle as a physician. and, just for ac
invite him to play, He Ho
comr odation he did so. won.
played again, and he won. The hands
that an used to hold were didn’t paralyzing. have at
He was in bad luck if he
least an ace full. One night, after he
had been here about three weeks, and
was about $2,000 winner, he sat down
to a game with some gentlemen, when
Col.-, a prominent State officinh
lounged into the room. Instantly the
doctor arose and started for the dooi.
He was gone before any one could stop
him. Then the colonel told what tnej
doctor’s little game was, and how he j
detected him, The doctor’s hands
were very larse, and in the palm oI I
his left hand he kept a bit of sticking j
plaster. He would slip in three cards. I
which the sticking plaster kept mi
place. The rest was easy enough to nni
adept. The colonel detected him aneri
he had dollars. been beaten The out doctor of several sudden!?! hun*|
dred the nex«
and mysteriously disappeared Berald. I
da y.—Frankfort Cor. Boston
The Same to Yon.
Fiitz, as he is familiarly called, « 4
genial old German who keeps a beer
saloon. He labors under the disadvar
tage of being extremely deaf, hence c
has a deputy who attend 3 10 tbe s P I rl
One as, ,
ual wants of the customers. Read,
a fun-loving youth, named «
tered the saloon with a few friend
their object being to test some of 4
beer, probably in the interest baste of»
ence. Fritz was as smiling raised as bis a rang"
of poker chips. Read t* 1
the one with the beer in it—and
teringly remarked to Fritz: mis® 1
••Here's to your health, you disgw
able old reprobate; you are a
to the nineteenth century.” Read, *
“The same to you Mr.
plied the old image, bobbing bis b**
and smiling, under the impression tn
some extraordinary compliment a 3
been paid him.
The following states have regular #
reads for the collection of stuti»ii tj 1
the labor question: California, Cons*
ticut, Indiana, Illinois, lows,
land, Massachusetts, Missouri, Michip
New Jersey, New York, Uhfi*
sylvania and Wisconsin,