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VOL. X. ARRAXGINGTHETIMBEB THE CABINET CONTINU S TOBE MADE AND TAKEN APART. Mr. Manning Preparing to Accept a Port folio—A Messenger on Ilia Way With Tidings—The Sure Trio—Congres sional— News Notes. New York, Fib. 21.—The Times’ Albanv special says: “Rumor brings td the front one more the old Roman of Ohio. A confidential agent has been dispatched by the president elect to Mr. Thurman, it is said, with anus sage concerning a certain cabinet office. The office is said to be the secretary of the inte rior. The bearer of the message is reporb'! to be Francis Lynde Stetson, the Now York lawyer, who made Mr. Cleveland a visit late one night this week in company with William C. Whitney, and who is supi>osed to have taken the train for the west Cot Lamont, with charming frankness, says he is not aware that any prominent democrat is expected at the Towner mansion this we* k. Mr. Cleveland had no visitors. Mr. Manning is putting his house in order preparatory to making a change in his business routine*. The stockholders of the Argus have held a meeting and discussed the arrangements ne <is vro I* mr.de n a change o oa-rigen civ 01 dm newspaper at an eaiij itea Ti y are satisfied that Mr. Manning will l>e a mem ber of the cabinet, and some of them have nrfc *d him to accept the portfolio knowing v, ; . 1 that he bad it under consideration f< .nth;- -fine. Three other democrats are l»e --lievcd G.> 4tfpud.lv certain of portfolios; they ar- i' . ard, Garland and Vilas, the last t:al entleman. by the way. being one of th.-individuals whom the confidential agent lias been commissi-aed to sec in the west. Th ■ latest visitor to Mr. Cleveland’s residence in ■* arch of news said, w ith a disgusted air, ‘A ft ’l* v can guess more news than he can get up there. 1 ” The l imes' Washington spx-ial says: “The only assurance that democrats have been able to get in regard to the cabinet was that con veytsd in guarded statements by Mr. Bayard, that Mr. Cleveland would probably not an nounce any of his ministers umii all were deci ded uf»on, had been consulted, and had agreed that they would get along together amicably and with some degree of harmony. While the make-up of the cabinet continues to occupy much the largest share in conversation among senators and representatives, information ujaon the subject does not grow definite and trustworthy with that swiftness which the statesmen would like. That Mr. Bayard will perform the duties of secretary of state, Mr. Garland those of attorney general, and Mr. Lamar those of postmaster general or secre tary of the interior, during the next adminis tration, is all tha’ the politicians here are agreed upon. There st ems to Im 1 no doubt in the minds of their colleagues that these three gentlemen will step out of the senate into the cabinet next month.” Senate. Washington, Feb 21. After the usual routinp business, on motion of Mr. Gorman, tie ret an of the interior was called upon for information as to whether the Pacific railread, to whom subsidies had been granted, had built aud maintained and operated their telegraph lines, and were receiving massages without discrimination in prices, a> required by law. The chair laid before the senate the Des Moines river bill. Mr. Lapham continued his opposition to the bill, when the Galveston harbor bill came up. Mr, Morrill moved to give preference to the bill for the retirement of the trade dollar. After some discussion the motion was agreed. The result had hardly been ann< >unced be fore Mr. Hale moved to take up the agricul ture! appropriation bill. The senate agreed to the motion by a viva voce vote, thus remanding the trade dollar bill to the calendar. The agricultural appro priation bill was read and discussed by sections. House. Washington. Feb. 21.—The house matin continuation of Thursday’s session, and im mediately went into a committee on the river and hnrbor bill Various amendments to the Mo-k -pi river clause were voted down. Finally, to get the bill into the bouse, the friends of the measure ] r.niit.' I the entire clause to be stricken out, thus cutting off the amendments. The Hennepin canal clause, upon which cer tain points of order had been made, was fin ally erased, and the decision of the chair was reserved. The chair overruled the points that it was not Germaine, but sustained the point that the proposition should have been considered by the committee on railways and canals, and that paragraph must go out. Mr. Henderson appealed from the chair’s decision. Pending the action on the appeal the com mit tee rose, and the house adjourned, and ■was immediately called to order for Friday’s session. Ou motion of Mr. Dorsheimer it was or dered that when the house adjourn it be to meet at the call of the speaker upon the arri val of the procession from the Washington monument. Mr. Wolford iKy.i called up the motion to reconsider the vote by which the house re fused to pass the bill granting a pension of fifty dollars per month to the widow of Maj. Thornburg, who was killed at the Ute massa cre. After various motions for recommital the bill was finally i a fed. The > nate bill inc. < using the pension of the widow of Commander Craven was lost. Mr. Spooner (R. 1.1 < ailed up the bill for the transfer of ground to the city of Provi dence for highway purposes. It was passed. Washington Notes. Washington, Feb. 21.—Detectives Wright and McElfresh went before the house commit tee on pensions, bounty and back pay and testified that their expenses in Ohio were paid out of the campaign funds. They were under the direction of CoL Dudley. Their official positions were not exercised in the campaign work. The committee adjourned to Monday, When Chief Special Examiner Rathbone will be heard. Dakota*** Dream. Bismarck, Dak., Feb. 21.—The council by unanimous vote passed a bill providing for a constitutional convention for South Dakota, to lie held in Sioux Ealls, September 8, and appropriates $20,000 for the mileage and per diem of members, and providing for refund ing to the territorial treasury by a tax levied on the South Dakota counties. The bill was als< >to pass the bouse, and is regarded as a step toward statehood. It is proposed to elect state officers next fall, but they will not as sume their fmictions without authority from congress. Hie Oregon Deadlock. . a •.eM. Ore., Feb. 21. —The legtslative ses si :i .as expired by limitation. The senato rial situation has hardened into what seems to be a fixed and permanent deadlock. A ma jority of the republican members are now voting for HiitL and declare they will not feilji gjbateggit Ww. desert him even If the result should be no ( lection. The minority of the republicans ho are voting for ex-Attorney General 'Villiains are equally firm in their declara tions. The democrats are eager to unite i the election of a mugwump, but neither of the republican factions are in lined to unite with them. It is proposed rs a solution of the problem to elect •■ames G. Blaine, and this extraordinary i esult ir a possible outcome of the deadlock. The efforts of the democratic national com utee ha>e been chiefly directed against a’illianis. but they are as yet without effect. . here is considerable talk in the lobbies about ! '-ov. Moody and Henry Tarling, of Portland. ' uning in toward the last a* compromise can lidates. It is understood that in the event of ho election Gov. Moody will appoint W. Mir : 1 all, of The Dallos. The free-for-all contest hi ch began thirty-nine da vs ago will be re amed with every bow bent, and there will ■w no armistic* until some one is elected or ike legislature expiree by limitation. INSANE ASYLUM SCANDAL. A Slander Case Which Involves the Reputa tion* of Several Officials. Chicago, Feb. 21.—Several benches in Judge Garry’s branch of the criminal court nere filled by plump looking women with I anged hair and fashionable hats. They were i 'male attendants from the county insane asy lum subpoenaed to testify in the criminal •ci case against Dr. Charles Koller. The ioctor is being tried for an alleged malicious , bel against Miss Kittie 2m Andrew, the . csekeeper, and Messrs. Hannigan and Ley lea, of the board of county commissioners. Til.■ i»ersons named were charged with im noral conduct in the asylum, and the art icle ■ •mis published in the Staats Zeitung the instigation of Dr. Koller, who was at me time assistant physician in the institution. Dr. Charles Koller was ••ailed in his own liehalf. He gave his age as twenty-five, th- High he looketi fully forty-five, with a heavy, taded red l>eard. He acknowledged that he ave the “pointe” to the reporter from which was written the allured lilwdous article, but that he went to the newspaper office the next iaj' and made a partial retraction; ho said bis room ail joined the one occupied by M’ss McAndrews, and that he had heard voices in he room at different times, winch he recog nized as those of Mi s McAndrews and Cum missioner Hannigan. On one of those orca rions, it was about 5 o’clock in the morning of September 17 last, i'* was not so positive in his state ments about Miss McAndrews, but he had ocn her on one occasion run from the flist to ihe third floor, chased by Kavanagh, the ei*- jnecr. He also sw >r»‘that he had seen Miss M. Audreys under the influence of liquor on •»' end occasions. I'p >n cross examination ;.h- witness said he had a lock put on the door leading from Ins room to Miss McAndrews for fear she might come in the night and “do bim up.” Witness further said that he was responsible for all he had told the Staats Zui u ig reporter as to KI ttie McAndrews and [.ommissioner Hannigan, but had retracted as to Commisisoner Ixstien. Fire keconl. New York,-Feb. JI. - Hames were discov ■-nd in the real* of iho second fl<x>r of the cen tr.d portion of Marvin's safe factory, West venth s. ret t, between Eighth and Ninth avenues. There were three elevator shafts in the front building, an 1 through them l flames spread with lightning rapidity, and in less than a half hour the whole building was blazing. Occupants of the tenemeut hou.->e adjoining the building were rutiseu f .n!) their sleep and forced to vacate the house. Several hvndred massive sales fell through the upfier floor with a tremendous crash, carrying down the other floors. Then the front and I .ack walls fell in. The build in ' wan completely destroyed. Loss on stock, £75,000; on machinery, S7O,(XX); on building, f 125, MO. Two hundred and fifty persons lose employment. Chicago, Feb. 20.—A fire broke out in the r.piM r story of the fine Grannis block, 113 and 115 Dearborn street. The building contains three banks—the National Bank of Illinois, E. L. Brewster & Co., bankers and brokers, and the Continental National Bank. The iq>- p-r sUTies were occupied by some forty law and other offices. Notw it hstanding the build ing was considered fire-proof, the upjier stories were gutted by fire and the lower ones flooded with w'ater. An expi-zd'-n of gas in the vault of the Ba :of Illinois occurred, v recking portions of t ? c lower walls, but it is thought the valuables and records are safe. St rimers are still playing on the building. The total loss will rc.u ■: from $125,000 to £150,000. The block wa-purchased by Shep pard Trucks, of Boston, for $|75,000 a few months since, and its annual rental amounted to S4O/MJO. Fort Worth. Tex.. Feb. 20.—Jos. H. Brown’s wholesale drug house, the largest in Northern Texas, was destroyed by fire. Loss nearly SIOO,OOO. Hamburg, la., Feb. 20.—The Hamburg plow factory, withall its contents of manu factured farm implements has been consumed by tire. Ixjhs $ SO,(XX); insurance $20,000. Desperado Lynched* Portland. Oro., Feb. 21. —Intelligence has just been received here U' the lynching of a desperado named Calvin Pierce on Palouse river, Wy. T. Pierce was mining at a camp known as Hoodoo diggin ;s. Pierce provoked an altercation with a young miner named W. H. Newcomb and split hLs head open with a pick-ax. The murdi rt r fled, but an alarm was given raid h< was speedily captured. A vigilance cimmittee composed of miners tried Pierce, condemned him to death and he was immediately hanged to the nearest tree. The body was left suspended swne time, but was finally buried. Over one hundred miners participated in the lynching. After the body was buried the vigilantes quietly dispersed. The authorities were notified, but have made neither arrests nor an investigation. Pierce vias generally n g irded as a desperado of the “cowboy” type. He shot and killed George Curtis last April at Grand Ronde, Ore., with out provocation, but the jury acquitted him. Tins so incensed the ciuzi us that they gave Fierce twenty-four h«hi >to leave the country. UNNATURAL PARENTS Freeze Their Child Fntil the Toes Drop Off, and He Dies. Geneva, 111., Fob. 21.—Michael Nolan and his wife have been held in bail on a charge of inhumanly acd brutally causing the death of their son, aged twelve years. After cruelly beating the lad they kicked him out doors. The Ixiy crawled to the cow shed and found shel ter during the bitter cc! of the night, freez ing his hands to the db >ws and his legs to the knees. Next hk min he crawled to the door and was tak n in and laid down by the stove. Hi- toes hit against the door casings and braking off fell to the floor. The boy was left to lie on the floor until he died shortly after. Gone Beyond. Nlw York. Feb. 21.—Dr. Lewis Esberg. .•I ' • . 614 Fifth avenue, died after a short il Dr. Esberg was perhajis the most cmi ne.it specialist of the diseases of the larynx i.i th. world. He was forty-eight years of age. He graduated in medicine at Jefferson col lege, Philadelphia, and afterward became a general practitioner in that city. COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24. 18S5. HE DIED OF HIS WOUNDS ANOTHER GREAT MAN IN THEENGLISH RANKS SACRIFICED. General Sir Herbert Stewart Fa«»eA Away at Gakdul Wells —The Gloomy Feeling in England—“ Who Next ? *’ —Off for the War —The News. Korti, Feb. 21.—Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, who was wounded at the battle of Abu-Klea, died at Gakdul Wells, to which place he had been removed. His death cast a gloom over the entire British army. London, Feb. 20.—The news of Stewart’s death spi'ead like wildfire throughout Loudon, and on every side expressions of regret were heard, and the names of Gordon, Earle and Stewart are on every lip, and the query of the moment is, “Who nextf” The surgeons state that Gen. Stewart’s wound was of such charactor that recovery was hopeless from the first. Off for the War. London, Feb. 21.*—The third battalion, grenadier guards, started for Suakim. Pre vious to their setting out from Windsor they wore addressed by the IM nee of Wales. He said he well remeinliered the day, thirty-one years ago, when this same battalion departed for the Crimea, and he distinctly recalled the bravery with which they boro their part in that great struggle. The prince shook hands heartily with the officers, while the men raised enthusiastic cheers. The queen commemorated the occasion by sending an autograph letter to the officers. She assured them of her good wishes and prayers. After inspection was over the guards marched from the castle to the Southwestern railway. The streets through which they passed were brightly decorated with flags and banners. A crowd of people thronged the walks and cheered as the grenadiers marched by. At the station th(\y quietly entered the train and were brought to Waterloo station. An immense crowd gathered here, and the arrival of the train was greeted with tremen dous cheering. Wives of the soldiers were admitted to the platfi rm to bid their husbands good-by, and the pathetic scenes when the Coldstream guards took leave were again enacted. At all stations along the way crowds assem ble* 1 and enthusiastic cheers greeted the train. It was a constant ovation from Windsor to Gravesend. The men, though touched by the leave-taking, quickly rallied, and were soon in remarkably high spirits, singing war song fter war song with stirring effect At Gravesend an enthusiastic reception awaited them, and they embarked on the steamer which takes them to Egypt to the in spiring strains of music from the bands and the sweeter music of cheers from the tliroats of a thousand fellow countrymen. Marctiing Menaevil, London, Feb. 21.—Gen. Wolseley tele graphs the war office that on the 16th inst. Gen. Buller reached Abu Klea. Here the rapidly increasing num tiers of the mahdi’s forces became so threatening that they men aced the safe conduct of his column back to Korti. He was oblige* Ito call a halt when the messenger left with dispatches for Wolse ley. Gen. Buller expected an attack at any moment arid his men commenced throwing upe ntrenchments. Anarchists. Berne, Feb. 21—A manifesto issued by the anarchists to the artisans of Switzerland con cludes with the sentiment: “The only way to secure a letter future for our wives and children, is by revolution. Vivo la Resolution Sociale.” The police are quite incensed at die failure of their efforts to silence tlm socialistic propaganda. War Measures. London, Feb. 21.—Active military prepar ations continue. The war office has issued an order calling out the militia for garrison duty to take the place of the regulars sent abroad. All transfers from the army to the reserves has also boon ordered suspended. Fgryptian Blue Book. London, Feb. 21.—The blue book on the Egyptian financial question has been issued. It contains protests from all the powers against the suspension of the sinking fund, which measure, it argues, would threaten validity to the treaties in the east Roman Dynamite. Rome, Feb. 2L—A bottle of gun-powder ex ploded near the entrance of the parliament house. No harm was caused by the explosion. No clue to the miscreants. Notes. The queen has returned to Windsor. The Prince of Wales has arrived in London. Baron Von Schleinitz, German statesman, formerly Prussian minister of foreign affairs, is dead. Mr. Astor, United States minister, had an audience with King Humbert, and presented his letter of recall The government will introduce a bill in the lords to enable the British colonies in Aus tralia to organize a confederation. The Knugburn cotton mills, at Blackbum, England, burned. Loss SIOO,OOO. Two con stables were killed by walls falling, and sev eral employes are reported missing. Minister ami Brother. Quitman, Ga., Feb. 21.—While Rev. Rob ert Raymond was standing on his church steps after having dismissed prayer meeting he was called aside by Brother Robinson for private conversation. The departing wor shipers were startled by a pistol shot and rushed to the scene. They found the minister mortally wounded. No cause for the act is known. A New Moon. Chicago, Feb. 21.—The eastern railroads are taking slightly more new business and say they are rapidly cleaning up their tracks. The officials hope to lx? in good shajie by Sat urday. Western lines report an improved condition, which is confirmed by the arrivals of grain and stocks. Trains are mostly on time. Merchants say there is little trouble in shipping to the interior. Trade is slightly better in the way of orders. Cutting off Supplies. Caldwell, Kas., Feb. 21.—Gen. Hatch 1. us just received orders from Washington to I aul no more provender nor provisions to ■ jamp Russell, Oklahoma, until after the next dministration. Gen. Hatch has ordered J?,(XK) troops to be sent to him at Fort Reno t<» li.-arm the Indians by request of Maj. Dyer, agent of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes. Denouncing the Koller. Oil City, Pa., Feb. 21.—Bishop Mullen, o this diocese, has condemned roller skati;. rinks, and pastors of Catholic churches ha. • notified their flocks that sax rament will here after be denied to those riaiting such places in future PHCENIX-LIKE. James K. Keene, the Bankrupt Wall Street King, Klxes Again. New York, Feb. 2L—The word went around in Wall street that James R. Keene was trading in stocks again, and that he had a hand in the late manipulation of the market. It was the first news that the street had ob tained of Keene’s being on his feet. It was a little less than a year ago that in the language of Wall street, Keene “lay down” and con fessed himself “broke.” He was cleaned out and owed $250,000 besides in balances on his “privileges” which he gave notes for. Had he been driven to it he might have scraped together $300,000 or so m “cats and dogs” by which is meant old laces, diamonds, pictures and the like that he had accumulated in his prosperous days. Those things were all he had. His money was entirely gone and with out money, he was helpless. The predictions about his future were conflicting. Some said his days in the street were ended, but others who knew his pluck said he would get a start again. The talk about him finally subsided and he dropped out of sight altogether. He was never re ferred to in the street It was thus that he got into the market and to making a little of his old power fait before the finaijcial world knew it. He never did anything so quietly before. He had scraped a little money to gether, and two months ago he caught a drop and then a rise in petroleum and cleared $300,000. That sum enabled him to settle ev ery embarrassing obligation and also to lx>gin speculation in a trifling way for him in stocks. ■When a reporter calle 1 he would say noth ing. There were a number in liis office dial ing and smiling, and, judging by their looks, they were on the right side of the market. At the close of 187 V Keene counted his riches at SI9,(XX),(XX), and no one put them below $13,000,000. When he came from California to New York he was worth $5,000,(XX), and he “played it up.” Keene is an Englishman. When he firet came to this country he peddled milk some where in the western part of this state. He afterward taught school for a time, and sub sequently edited a newspaper in the Red river country. When the Cdmstock mine excite ment was at its height he discovered that- the ore had run out. He scraped together all he could and sold the stock short. Then he cir culated the news that the ore had given out and the Comstocks dropped like a plummet. In the Comstock operation ho hurt Flood, O’Brien and Mackay, the California million aires. He knew if he stayed in California they would lay plans to break him and he came east with his newly acquired fortune. DIDN’T STICK. The Charge of Conspiracy to Kill Is Dropi»vd and Prisoners Santa Fe, N. M., Feb. 21.—After a two days’ hearing in the district court of the ease of John D. Allan against Cyrus Smith, Win. Hill, and John Martin, charged with conspir acy to kill Allan and his wife and kidnap his young son, the jury were instructed by th j judge to render a verdict of acquittal upon the grounds of want of proof of conspiracy, and improbability that such a nefarious scheme was contemplated. The court also ordered the arrest of Jack Berringer and Charles Millspaugh, Allan’s two principal witnesses, for perjury in con nection with the case. The tlu’ee defendants wore set. at liberty after having been confined in jail about six months. Allan is from Chi cago, where he has a wealthy brother, and about two years ago purchased Smith’s in terest in the local smelter, the last payment on which is soon to fall due, and Smith’s im portunity for payment last August gave rise to the charge of intimidation ami conspiracy with intent to commit the above named crimes by use of poisons. The Demon Jealousy. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 21.- Wm. Coombs and Jake Mason, neighbors at Hodgerville, have been enemies for some time, jealousy being the cause. Wednesday Coombs told ins wife he was going to Elizabethtown and would not return until the next day. He sus pected Mason of intimacy with his wife and hid in the vicinity. Mason came to the house in the afternoon, and Coombs suspicions being confirmed he fired both barrels of his gun at the pair, filling their heads, nocks and face with large squirrel shot. Mason was killed almost instantly, and Mrs. Coombs was badly injured. After the shooting Coombs went to Mason’s house and told the dead man’s wife what had happened. The two then packed up a few things and left for Nashville or Memphis. The wounded woman dragged her self a mile distant to a neighbors, where medi cal treatment was given her, but it is thought she will die of her wounds. Courting the Noose. Pittsburg, Feb. 21.—About 150 socialists of various degrees of ferocity gathered in Turner hall to hear the much advertised mis sionaries of their gospel Mr. W. J. Gor such, the anarchist, did not appear as ad ver tised. Samuel Tieldon, an Englishman of the inflammatory type, addressed the audience. He advocated the destruction of the present system of society and government, and ad vised the tearing down of property, and, after that, to consider what to build up. Citi zen Frick poured forth a stream of furious denunciation of the greedy capitalists. Con rad Miller also made a highly inflammatory speech. Those among the audience who owned property looked upon the proceedings rather gloomily, but those who had no such incumbrance applauded without a pang of regret. CHICAGO SOCIALISM !• What Drove the Olivers Out of South Bend, Ind. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 21.—James G. Oliver and son, of the Oliver chilled plow works, South Bend, are in the city prospect ing for the removal of their works to this city. The removal contemplates the expendi ture of S6OO,(XX) for the plant. The works employ 1,000 men. The Olivers say they are too near Chicago and its socialistic influences for their own good. A Matter of Policy. Cleveland, 0., Feb. 21.—John Newell, president of the I.ake Shore railroad, has de clined the offer of the presidency of the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. Mr. Newell intimates that he has tx'cu too long with the Vanderbilts to leave them for an op position line. He was offered $25,000, which is said to be an advance of $5,000 over the Lake Shore figures. A Bluff. New York, Feb. 21.—Assistant District Attorney Purdy has said: “Had I known that Phelan intended flight I would have clipped his wings, and had him put in the house of detention. We will see on Saturday what can be dene.” Short’s counsel says he will not move for the dismissal of the case, but will demand that Phelan lie produced in court. Legal Light Extinguished. .Meadville, Ba., Feb. 21.—Hon. Hiram L. Richmond, sr., is dead, after a long illness from erysipelas. The deceased was the oldest men. ber of the Crawford county bar, having stud led law and was admitted to the bar with Hon. David Dickaca la ICJb. RAILIIOAD HOLOCAUST. TWO TRAINS COLLIDE AND A SLEEPER JUMPS THE TRACK. New and Fatal Diseases Among Cattle and Hogs Which Can Not be Kxplained— Ravages Among the Cattle - Hog Cholera Rampant. Washington, Feb. 21.—The collision ou the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railroad at Four Mile Ru i was more disastrous than the meagre d< <-tils obtainable at first indi cated. The lollowing are killed: Andrew Augur, conductor of freight train, aged thir ty-eight, married, lived in Alexandria; Thos. Dowling, fireman of the passenger train, in jured; John Bruce, engineer of the passenger train, seriously injured; Brakeman Steward of the freight train is thought to be fatally injured; Geo. Miller brakeman on the freight train, ear cut off and head badly mangled and arm broken in sev eral places; T. W. Jones, chief clerk of postal car, injured alxmt the head and body; W. A. McNeal, mail agent, injured about the head; C. T. Stewart, postal clerk, J. T. Frane, col ored, postal clerk, and Thomas Gaylor, mail weigher, are in ju red se ve rely. The missing ?ire George Freer, engineer of the freight train, who was probably killed; Fireman Moloney, of the freight train, is be leived to be in the burning wreck As soon as the collision occurred the freight train caught fire and was consumed. The freight train consisted of thirty-one freight cars and four new passenger coaches just built for the Midland railway company, and were being taken to Alexandria. Twenty seven freight cars were destroyed with their contents. The passenger train, consisting of baggage, express, postal and smoking car, was entirely destroyed, with their contents, both engines lx?ing in the center of the burn ing pile, and they were completely destroyed. The safe in the express car, containing $200,- 000 in cash, Was destroyed. A Sleeper Derailed. Cincinnati, ()., Feb. 21.—Information is received that a sleeper on the Ohio and Mis sissippi eastbound train went over the Muc catatack bridge half a mile above North Ver non, Ind. Among the dead is a commercial traveler, 12Mridge by name, and a man un known. Two others are also reported killed and wounded. Fatal (attie Disease. Geneseo, 111., Feb. 21. —Stockmen say this has bi'en the severest winter in their rec ollection, and that generally stock is in a very poor condition. A peculiar and unknown dis ease has appearol in t his locality among cat tle, and has resulted fatally to every animal attacked. The disease affects the spine at first, and the skin Incomes loose along the backs of the animals. In removing their hides nu merous places i »n eit b.er side of the backbone are filled with water. Monroe Brown, John Cos tello, and others have lost some fine stock in the. past: few days from this disease. They are inclined to (.he belief that the se verity of the weatiw r. is . tha cause of the trouble, the cattle baving been housed most of the time instead of being turned out in stalk-fields, this having been found necessary from the fact that the fields are snowed under from two to live f<*et deep. This has been an expensive winter for stock-raisers here, and unless blessed with an unusually early spring, many of them wall have to buy feed. J Cattle Disease on the Hudson. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 21.—An offi cial communication from Washington, from the chief of the bureau of animal industry, indicates that an expert will be sent into this district at once to inquire into the alleged re ports of rinderpest, meningitis and other dis eases among cattle. One of the local sur geons reports a strange disease among the cattle of John Winslow, and that there are forty cases of bog cholera on a farm four miles from the city. Hog Cholera. Boston, Feb. 21.—A peculiar and fatal hog disease is raging in many sections of Massa chusetts. The symptoms are loss of appetite, sight and strength, death invariably resulting in three days. Thousands of hogs we dying off. Captured Prisoners. Olean, N. Y., Feb. 21.—Three prisoners have from the jail at Smithport, Pa. The weather was intensely cold and for -this reason the fourteen other prisoners did not take advantage of their opportunity to leave comfortanle quarters. The mode of escape was jieculiar. The jail wall consisted of large square stones laid in mortar and doweUed with iron pins. The prisoners picked the mortar out around one of the stones and with notched case knives attached to a long stick patiently sawed at the dowels whenever they could work unobserved. Finally the stone was loosened and removed. It left an open ing forty feet above the ground, and the men escajied by sliding down a long piece of rul>- ber hose to the ground. They were recaj>- tured in the woods after twenty-four hours’ search. They were nearly frozen to death. Revival Me stings. Muncie, Ind., Feb. 21.—Mrs. Lydia Wood ruff, the laxly evangelist who recently held such wonderful religious revivals at Hartford City, is now at New Comer, a small village in this county, where her work has already cre ated intense excitement. More than a dozen persons have been entranced. It is said some have lain rigid for more than an hour. Fif teen or twenty persons have testified to con version. The largest church in the village is crowded day and night. The meetings are held continuously from early morning until late at night. The entire population bus given itself up to attendance ujion them. Harvard Shaken. Boston, Feb. 21.—An explosion took place in the yard in front of Sever hall, Harvard college. The shock was felt very plainly in the college dormitories. The explosive ma chine was placed about one hundred feet away from the hall. It tore up the earth for sev eral feet and shattered a tree. The instru ment used was a hollow wooden tube over a foot long and an inch in diameter, which had evidently been crammed full of some explo sive, tightly plugged at each end and then closely wound over the whole surface with heavy wire. A searching investigation will be made. A Greaser Gone. San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 21.—The corpse of a Mexican was discovered banging from the Lion river bridge, ten miles west of this city, by th<- train men on the Sunset railway. He was evidently lynched, his hands being tied behind his back. No particulars. Bound forth » Circus. Boston, Fob. 21.—The ancient and honor able artillery company left Boston by special train to New York to attend the dedication of the Washington monument. One hundred and seventy-five members made t he trip. Without Pomp. London, Feb. 21.—1 n conformity with Mr. Lowell’s desires the funeral of hh> late wife will be conducted privately. 7HE CONDENSER. Fresh, Pithy Si items Boiled Down for the Hurried Reader. A congregational church is to bo organized at Zanesville, O. There is no change in the ballots for the Illinois senatorship. C. Cavarois, Son & Co., of Cliicago, large liquor dealers, have failed. Fannie Murphy was beaten to death by her husband in Pittsburg. The Oliver & Roberts wire mill, Pitts burg, will start up in all departments. The Pittsburg Bricklayers’ Assembly has withdrawn irom the Knights of Labor. The Pennsylvania senate defeated a bill to provide a whipping-post for wife-beaters. A now weekly paper, “Sam, the Scarar mouch,” will soon bo issued in Cincinnati. The flouring mills of A. S. Staples, of Rea dout, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Loss $25,000. The snow blockade in Canada and the northwest is ended and trains are running on time. Twenty knitting girls in Weil’s hosiery fao tory, St. Louis, struck against a reduction of wages.* War Jig, a once famous race horse, was gold at an auction stable in Cincinnati for S3O. The Pennsylvania senate urges upon con gress prompt action upon the Grant retire ment bill. One of French, Palmer & French’s spice mills, Rochester, N. Y., was destroyed by tuu. Loss $40,000. At a roller skating contest in Canton, 0., the winner made live miles in 21 minutes and 17' y seconds. The western export association, holding u meeting in Chicago, have adjourned without accomplishing anything. The postoffice appropriation bill as reported to the senate appropriates $53,819,990 —$3,279,- 179 less than the estimates. The schooner Olive was wrecked on Dixie Island, at the entrance to Mobile bay, and crew of live and cargo were lost. A petition in amercement has been filed in the Hamilton county probate court against 'tiqui: ■ Sanderson, of Cincinnati. The dairymen’s protective association of Cin cinnati, has decided to raise the price of milk to eight cents per quart. ‘•Florida’s Chautauqua” was opened Wed nesday at Lake De Funiak, Fla, the assem bly to continue until March 6. The Western export association decided to continue on the basis of twenty-eight per cunt, of productive capacitys. Vico President Hendrick will go to Wash ington in the private parlor car of President Garrett, of the B. and O. railroad company. Roller skating rinks are to be required by the council of Newport, Ky., to take out a license and to pay a heavy fee for that privi lege. ' The Pennsylvania railroad company has an nounced that it will not longer recognize the deferential rate principle iu the passenger rate war. A United States marshal arrested C. B. Sanner and E. L. Bates, of Connellsville, Pa., for the robbery of the po.stoffice at Coal Val ley, W. Va., last August. The board of police commissioners of Day ton, 0., has ordered the chief of ijolice to arrest all parties interested in any way in Sunday theatrical performances. The Brown, Bonnell & Co. iron mill, at Youngstown, 0., is in operation in all de partments for the first time in two years, giv ing employment to 1,000 men. The knights of labor of Jackson, Mich., presented a petition to the state house of representatives asking that national leg islation be urged to make Alaska a }>eual colony. L. H. Maloney and J. H. Britz, two firemen who were testing a portable fire escape at St. Paul, Minn., fell from a third-story window aud sustained fractured skulls. Both will die. The alumni of Harvard university formally excluded two colored graduates from the an nual dinner. The alumni of Anu Arbor uni versity admitted three colored graduates to theirs. There are thirteen descendants of George Washington liearing the family name, the number corresponding to the number of orig inal colonies. They will receive special honor during the monument dedication cere monies. Captain Irving Deaxl. New York, Feb. 21 —Capt. James Irving, ex-captain of police of this city, and the most daring and successful detective, is dead. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Latest Quotations of the Stock, Produce and Cattle Markets. New York, Feb. 20.—Money 1% percent. Ex change quiet. Governments firm and dull Alt. & Terre Haute 22 Morns & Essex ...120 Bur. k. Quincy ... Missouri Pacific.... 08'7 Canada Pacific . 89- b N.Y w Erie 12 7 a Canada Southern.. 88 N. Y. Central Central Pacific Northwestern 98>j Chicagc) & Alton... 181 Pacific Mail 54' a (J., U., C. &1 Bi> Rock Island IIS Del. <t Hudson ... 75 St. Paul 72U Del . Lack, it W.... 99 St. P. &S. C Illinois Central 121% do preferred Bs* a Jersey Central 38Texas <t Pacific.... 13' H Kansas it Texas .. 17>b U. Pacific 48,‘/ a Lake Shore 00> ! s West. Union ..... 5s 4 Louisville *t Nash 28'zi Nash. Chait 39y 4 General. Cincinnati, Feb. 20.—-FLOUR—Fancy, s4.Afi(flD 4.60; family, WHEAT—No. 2 red, 86c; No. 3, 82(3)850. COHN—No. 2 mixed, 45‘.jc; No. 3,45 c; ear, 48c. OATS—No. 2 mixed, No. 2 White, 86c. RYE—No. 2,73 c. BARLEY—Spring, 56@65c; fall, PORK—Family, regular, $13.50. BACON—Shoulders, y»s>Xc; short clear sides, 7%ft!>7.65c. Lard —Kettle -7' j' >sc. CHEESE—Prime to choice Ohio, 10 $llc; New York, 12!/a((08>- 2 c; Northwestern, POULTRY—Fair chickens, $2.25'7/3.75; prime, ducks, $4.00; geese, $8,003)5.00 per doz.; live turkeys, dressed, HAY No. 1 timothy, No. 2, $11.50 @12.00; mixed, $10.00@11.00; wheat and rye straw, $6,00@7.00; oats straw, $7.00@8.00. New York, Feb. 20.—WHEAT—No. 1 white, 91^0; No. 2 red, 90%@90%c. CORN-Mixed western, 51'4)55; futures, 58%c. Oats— Western, New Orleans, Feb. 20.—SUGAR- Refining, common, inferior, UfSriPjc; choice white, 5%c; off white, choice yellow, MOLASSES—Good fair, 25(3)32c; prime, choice, 44c; centrifugal prime, fair, 32c. Detroit, Feb. 20^—WHEAT—No. 1 white, 87 No. 8 red, 77c; Michigan soft red, 87‘4c. Toledo, Feb. 20.—WHEAT—No. 2, No. 2 soft, 85>2(|986c. Live Stock. Cincinnati. Feb. 20.—CATTLE —Good to choice butchers, $4.2.7(05; fair, common, $2 (<08; stockers and feeders, yearlings and calves, HOGS- Selected butchers, $5.00(§)5.85; fair to gcxKl packing, fair to good light, $4.55 common, $8.58<3)4.50; culls, $3.26@3.85. SHEEP—Common to fair, good to choice, $8 .'iX(o.2s'; wethers, $4.50@5. LAMP>> Common, $3.00@4.00; good, Chicago, Feb. 20.—HOGS—Fair to good, $1.40?$ 4.85; mixed packing, $4.5(X<0.75; choice heavy, CATTLE—Exports, good to choice shipping, common to fair, $L20(^0.50 f * Mockers and feeders, NO. 259 iMJSTETTEift CELEBRATED *** || V ■k eroMAcn rf® ! ‘Wt£R s By iheufie ot Hostettf r*s btoirsch Bitters the m.-resrsroe ol the conutensuce end H»howue«s oi dyspeptics are supplanted by a Itetllhler look, and is the tood is assimilated, the bud; acquires Hubfctai.ee. 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