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‘umrs. ZOL. X. AFTER PARTY SERVICE? DEPARTMENT OFFICES BESIEGED BY ANXIOUS AUDITORS. laiiir Lie I of Those Who Want the M»u» Important Places Bushels of Post office Applications The New* of a Political Nature. Washington, March 11.-—There was Aery little personal pressure for place at the white house. A few stray delegations called on the president, and senators and rep resentatives were frequent visitors, but Mr. Cleveland saw nothing like the throngs that bore down on'the heads of departments. The brunt of the battle was borne by Postmaster General Vilas, whose office was in a state of siege all day. A quorum of the senate could have been found there at any time, and there were enough representatives and ex-represen tatives to make a full house. Col. Vilas ad mitted visitors only by card, no exception being made ©ven for senators. The object of the visitors was chiefly to see about the small pustoffices, although some of them spoke their visit as just to pay respects. Personal applications, like those received by mail, were turned over to the prop l !' clerks for filing. A huge pile of application*- came uv. r to the department from the white house. These, too, were tiled away. The other de partments were not so much visited, although all the secretaries had all they could do tc keep up wit h callers. The friends of Gen. Rose rans are preying him for the place of architect <1 the capital. He is an architect and engineer, and want! to take charge of the completion of the cap itol terraces and the perfection of the vent! latiun of the capitoL Gen, Singleton, of HL, ex-member of coi gross, is said to bo the coming commissioner of agricultHire. He has the support of agrfat many western democrats. He u a practical farmer. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston s friends say it is the railroad commissiouorship that he wants The town is overrun with Missourians. Nc such delegation was ever seen here Mr. Nicholas Bell of that state wants to Lie assist ant postmaster general. Gen. Buckner wants to be internal revenue commissioner. Col. W. G. Switzler wants to be commis sioner of education. Ex-Gov. Crittenden wants the Mexican mission. Mr. (.‘has Gibson, of St. Louis, wants the Berlin mission. Ex-Congressman Franklin, of Kansas city is after the mission to Brazil. Col. C. H. Means is willing to go to Chili. Mr. E. C. Moore, of Culm. bia, has applied for the Roumanian mission. Mr. Harris, a lawyer of St. Louis, wants te go to Switzerland as the envoy of the United States, and Mr. Pat Carmody, ex mayor ol Moberly, wants the marshal ship of the west ern district. The Miasouriaua have had twc or three conference® and are talking of or ganizing a raffle to dispose of the offices. Il that dosen’t work about fifty of them propose to form a combination and freeze the rest out. Mr. B. H. Hill, of Atlanta, a son of the late Senator Hill, is here alter the office of United States district attorney in Georgia. Capt. R. W. Banks and Major Lugent Sykes, of Mississippi, are both anxious to gel the collectorship of internal revenue from that state. Ex-Congressman Murray, of Ohio, will I* satisfied with the post of third auditor of the treasury. Chairman Bargar, of the Ohio democratic state committee, wants to lie United States attorney for the southern district of Ohio. John G. Thompson wants a Unite*i States marshalship in Ohio, or anything else that I >ays. The Illinois delegation, headed by Mr. Bpringer and Mr Townshend, waited upon Secretary Manning to present the name oi J. H. Oberly for collector of customs at Chi cago. They said they did not want to hurry matters, but wished Oberly to be ahead when the time came for a change They were listened to, but no assurances were given. Haren WauS to be Tried. Washington. March 11.—It is understood that Gen. Hazen has written a letter to tlx new secretary of war asking that no steps L< taken to dissolve the court-martial recently ordered to try that official (it ha\ ing been in* ti mated that such action would lw taken b\ President Cleveland) and requesting that In may be tried in justice to himself. Assistant Fen etary of State. Philadelphia. March 11.— Mr. Rayan has offered the position of assistant secretary of state to Mr. John Cal wallader. of Phila delphia, who is a connection by marring-■ of Mr. Bayard, and a cousin of Mr. Juba Cai wallader, of New York, the assistant secre tary of state under Hamilton Fish. Mr. Cadwallader has arranged tn sell his Phila delphia house and take up his residence ir Washington. He represents one of the oldesi English families in tflis country, and is con nected with the English aristocracy. He is e son of Judge Cadwallader and has been e life-long earnest democrat of the Bourbor type. He is a prominent member of the St. Georg© society, and his distinguished social connections and his ability as an entertainer it is thought will, with his national abilities, fit him eminently for the place. He is a mar of wealth and belongs to the most seelusire circles of Philadelphia. The Senate. Washngton, March 11.—The vicepresi dent laid before the senate a request from tht secretary of war that the papers on file in the senate committee relating to the loss of th< steamer Don Cameron, be returned to the de partment, also a communication from the governor of Arizona asking that provision* be made for an additional United States judge in that territory with additional com peusation. A resolution directing that the oath of office be administered to Henry W. Blair, United States senator from New Hampshire, came up. A long debate followed in which Hoar, Vest and Saulsbury were the princi pal speakers. Mr. Hoar holding it to be ir the power of the senate to decide the matter, and Vest and Saulsbury holding it was nc precedent for an appointment by the gov ernor of United States senator for the ful term. Murder and Suicide. Lovington, 111., March 11.—C. F. Riggin and wife were found in bed, each having a bullet-hole in the head. The husband had undoubtedly murdered his wife and commit ted suicide A revolver was found lying be tween them. Mr. Riggm was an old resident of this place, aged about sixty-six years, and respected. It is suppose! that a recent loss by the failure of the Merchants’ and Far mers' bank, of this place, was the cause of his crime. Death Roll. Marqubttb, Mich., March.2l.—Ex-Mayo: Janies P. Pendill long prominent in the af fairs of the iron region, is dead. IN THE FIELD OF LABOR RAMPANT RAILROADERS REFUSE THE 'RUNNING OF TRAINS. Railroad Officials Refuse to Run Mat! Cars Without Passenger Coaches. Alarming Aspect Troops Called Out—Labor Notes. Atchison, Kas., March 11—Upon the ar rival of the Missouri Pacific train from St. Louis the striking shopmen boarded it and detaching the coaches refused to let anything but the mail car go through to Omaha. The same thing was done upon the arrival of the night train from Omaha and by daylight the upper yards were full of coaches and Pull man cars. This was continued all the fore noon until the arrival of the regular train from the south, when Supt. Fagan gave orders to send no more mail out unless the regular passenger trains went also. The company took the stand that their contract with the government is that mails must be carriad on passengers trains and that if the strikers prevent the departure of passenger ears the company cannot fulfil their contract. This declaration threw con sternation into the ranks of the strikers and when Major John M. Crowell, the pustoffioo inspector, stepped in and laid the law down to the men, they called a meetingXiL committees and agreed to molest passenger trains no more. This was a square back down and is re garded as a sign of weakening. It is antici pated that the end is not far off. Supt. Fa gan issued a circular Sunday, calling upon the shopmen to return to their places or present themselves for their pay and consider themselves discharged. Thirty-two men have, in obedience to this call, signified a willingness to resume work if the rest of the strikers will permit them. The shops will be visited by the foremen of the several de partmenfe and a peaceable effort made to re sume work. Failing in this, the governor will be called upon to summon the militja, and this power failing President Cleveland will be called upon to send troops from Fort Leavenworth. The situation, therefore, is becoming de cidedly serious, and there will be a conflict of forces unless either the strikers yield or the company accedes. A delegation of twenty-five strikers from Sedalia was in the city to encourage the men here. They proceeded to Omaha, and it is understood that the Union Pacific shop hands there will join in the movement. The Missouri Pacific comyjany is keeping all the enginesand trains possible out of Atchison. There are two hundred car loads of freight side tracked be tween Atchison and Hiawatha, five hundred between Atchison and Kansas City, and a great number on the central branch. This is done bi keep the Atchison yards open and to keep the engines out of the hands of the strikers. Militia Mustered. St. Louis, Mu., March 11.—A telegram from Jefferson City announces that the gov ernor has ordered the state milita of this city to Sedalia. Militia Ku Route. St. Louis, March 11.—The state militia have left here for Sedalia to protect the rail roads from the striking employes. Trouble is feared. Among the Weavers. Philadelphia, March 11, -The history of the carpet weavers’ strike in this city has been greatly perverted by prejudiced reports of both employers and employed. Among these have been numerous statements eman ating from the manufacturers, but some of their assertions are pure fictions. There are no mill ow ners in the country more grasping than the carpet manufacturers of Philadel phia. Their greed is without a parallel in business. They are exempted from paying a mercantile tax; they have the advantage of improve*! machinery on which there is no royalty, and the protective policy of the gov ernment has benefited them to such an extent that their business has assumed a gigantic monopoly. The operations of the tariff can be seen when it is explained that “extra super,” or two-ply ingrain, carpetings can lie bought in England for forty cents per yard Against the importation of these goods there is a spe cific duty of eight cents per square yard and an ad valorem duty of thirty per cent,, which makes the grxxis cost sixty cente per yard to land. Not content with this protection, the manufacturers in this city expect, by grind ing down the wages of the weavers to the level of pauper labor, to be able U) sell their goods at fifty five cents per yard. If this course be pursued it will result in the wages of the weavers being about the same as paid In England, while the purchasing power of the money in this country is considerably less. Dago* and Swedes Strike. Pittsburg, March 11.—One hundred and fifty Italians and Swedes employed by Booth & Flinn in laying natural gas lines near here, struck for an advance in wages from tl.lo to $1.50 per day. Fears are enter tained of an outbreak unless an early settle ment of the trouble is had. Avenging Ker Wrong*. Decatuh, T«x. f b 11. —In Main street Miss Mollie Hart, aged fourteen, awl respect ably connected, shot at W. A. P<x>le. She was but a few feet distant. The bullet grazed his cheek. By-standers prevented her from shooting again. She was arrest* ion a charge of criminal assault. She stepped at Poole’s house Sunday night, and claims that Poole assaulted her during Mrs. Poole’s temporary absence. Tho sheriff had to put a strong guard about (he jail to keep indignant citi zens from Ij .iching Poole. Shooting F'raca*. Chicago, March 11. —Officer J. J. Mahony ordered a gang of roughs at the corner of Archer and Stewart avenues, to move on. They refused and when he a tempted to ar rest one of them all attacked him. The offi cer was knocked down and in that position fired several shots into the crowd. William Pitt, aged twenty-four, of McGlashen street, received a bullet in the back and is fatally wounded. A young man named Rosenmau was also hit but his whereabouts are unknown to the police. Sensational Scenes. Raleigh, N. C., March 11.—The house oi commons was densely packed to hear the committee report in the case of R. Y. McAden for assaulting Richmond Pearson, a member of the house. The committee found that the assault was made not solely on account of words spoken upon the floor of the house by Parson, but upon the occasion of further words uttered upon the street without the de sire of any offense upon the part of Parson, but so construed by McAden, and this, coup led with the disclaimer of McAden of any in tent to infringe upon the privilege of the house, was not in the nature of contempt. The report was adopted after a long and heated discussion. It was the first affair ol the kind which ever occurred in this state, and the scene was sensational in the extramft COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY vt » S > STG, MARCH 12. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS AN INTRIGUE EXPOSED BY THE FRIENDS OF A CROWN HEAD. Edmund Yates. Editor of the World, Re- leased from Prison—Slowly Fading Away The Durham Divorce case —The Mahdi in Dread. Paris, March 11.—Prince Victor Napoleon and his two companions, the Comte De La valette and Comte Dumaiue, have just had a Gil Blas-like adventure, which forms the general topic <<f conversation. The prince the other evening < al'ed upon a lady residing at No. t> Avenue Des Chasseurs, to whom, for I some time, his highness has been paying | marked attenti n. The lady in question’’was lately annoyed by annonymous letters. In the hope of discover ing the bearer of the letters, Comte De La vftiette and Comte Dumaine (who act as chatnlierlains to the prince) waited outside under a lamp-post whith the prince was con . versing within. . Hoon a cab appeared, a man jumped out, rang the bell of No. 6 and handed a letter to the conciergen. He was about to step back into the cab when the two zealous counts dashed at him, seized him by the throat, thrashed him with canes, pounded him with j their fists and kicked and maltreated him to l their hearts’ content. Than they hustled him into the prince’s 1 brougham, drove to the police station and gave him in charge as the bearer of anony mous ami libellous letters. The victim, more dead than alive, protested his innocence and turned out to be the valet of a well known Parisian doctor, one of whose fair patients was suddenly taken sick, and who had sent a note for his coll ague K who ha \ med to I* visiting friends also residing at No. fi Avenue de Chasseurs) to assist at the bedside. The two counts, on discovering their mis take, offered the victim 100 francs to let the matter drop. Liiis was laiused. and the twc ig if . o.: ach irge o a gru an! la ory, i •*.-re io- k< 1 up lor ilh oi i 1 ; :i. > .ic< station. Next th a. \v re released upon th* pi r <t oi 1 ’» .> ■; i' f‘ • \ Mm and 3,0 Iran to ’ ( «.o. b poor. ,r a*ws irelrase ’. London, Marc ll F-t >ui 'i .s, editor of the W'Mni. ba b- eii rer ust f. >l.l u do wav prison, having served exa tlj one and rv. n oo d cf + he mon+h®’ son tell '■ .1 •' .16 .by i/H'( L’hiel « ;.■»( ■ C>! fol h iAiug a I L rd ft a.*bro.. ■ 1 ■ IL.-. I her coUho.l, Lady lx race Fune, and I. r 1 . de, I an c’ t e. i st . . pu d h< I 'a the Mr. Talc... w .*m released, uppeareu ai.ich wo d i b < He ww paac and hr ■d. To the few that met him ’ . g ! 11 nas lx inp h ’iii’f il ■ ' Ito b om <>. prison, aid .aid he ioR Lunj v.cll. He wa at once dr »eu to his ho *e. His fj o. he i- much ‘ liii.i r iL. i i.m he ci. be red on the term and his iiesii is flabby q,nd al Logo Lhur pie,exits an unhealthy *pp*oi;'ice. Mr. Yd * '.-p< h lei'el c.b the 1..- tiuu of the home b r ita.-y, Si; V/i!liaio Verno . !. r ar -urt, who h.o» been freely peti tion i f»r bis release oi the gron H I bat im prisonment was slowly tilling him. Mr. Futea ■'> greatly surprised when in form ••< I<■ hi> f• d -tsc. The n w if <’ ■ action of the home secretary wa> kept fr <;>. ii •. up to tlr i time appointed to give him ids idiei'ty. Tlie hour previous to being informed of his pardon Mr. Yates hud ordered his u ual sum] >tuoi.s L:‘-aufast. an.l had about set; led d< wi to lis regular daily pout is. He d >vo old’ io a brougham which waited uu t e en trance to the jail- D onl} o( i c ipant besides Yates v. ■. a hidj’&o ueavilj veiLd as to baffle recognition. Durham Divorce Suit. Lr>v;wi\. Mar h 1 l.— n .-it Durham d..' "ce suit . -o ,bi • d ii ;div.s en ■ urt, Sir James lianneud presiding, when again it was crowded to its utmost capacity, auu v he case wa. called the interest manifested by the distinguished audienre . pres? n i.; 4 in uns.. The court refused to , rt. ,i 'he petition of the Earl of Durham, and dis missed the case with costs against his lord ship. In rendering his decision Sir James Banned said as far as he could learn from the evidence which hud been laid before the court, the respondent, Lady Durham, instead of having been insane previous to her marriage, had simply loved another. His strictures on the conduct of several members of Lady Durham’s family, the Mil ners, were exceedingly harsh, and lie severely censured the part which was performed in arranging for the marriage with lx>rd Dur ham when they must have known slie loved somebody else. In concluding his remarks, Sir James said the attempt to prove insanity previous to marriage had completely fadeci. Mahdi Feanu Kortt, March 11.—Information from na tive sources reached here to the effect that the mahdi had started for Abbaha, which is on the Nile, 130 miles south of Khartoum. It is further said that the mahdi is in great dread of assassination, owing to the wide spread discontent which has taken possession of many of his followers. Now Archbishop Walsh. Dublin. March 11.—Dr. Walsh, president of the Waynooth college, has been elected archbishop of Dublin to succeed Cardinal McCabe, deceased. The election is subject to the approval of his holiness, the pope. Dr. Walsh is a moderate home ruler in politics and his elevation to archbishop is regarded is a triumph for the follow cis <-r I’arneLL McCaffrey and Sullivan. Philadelphia, March IL—The articles of agreement unfit which John L. Sullivan and Dominick F. MX‘affr- • / will meet have been signed. The article • . pulate that the men will meet with gloves j a contest or four rounds on the night of March 30. The win ner will receive sixty-five per cent, of the gate receipts and the loser thirty per cent. McCaffrey is now in training near this city, and declares he will defeat Sullivan. The latter will train near Boston. Washington Notes. Washington, March IL— If some of tht current gossip in reference to the reorgani zation of the senate committee is true, tht republican caucus committee have lieen hav, ing a pretty lively time during the pas’ forty-eight hours. It seems that the bone ol contention is the finance committee. Thu committee’s duties are the same us those ol the house committee on ways and means—re lating to tariff and kindred subjects. The first formal cabinet meeting of the ad ministration has been held. All the member were present. Steamed to Death, Grand Rapids, Mich, March 11.—Fred. Rustan, an employe of the Grand Rapids ve neering panel company, went into the steam box to look at some logs. The wind blew the door shut, imprisoning him. Two fellow- I workmen saw the mishap. In five minutes be was taken out but life was extinct. The flesh peeled from his arms and legs. He was literally cooked. RUSH ON THE RESERVATION. Lively Times on the Winueb . .♦ ?n<i Sioux Lands Oklahoma. Dubuque, la., March 11. Deputy United 1 States Marshal Hopkins and his a istant I have returned to this city from the Winne- I bago and Sioux reservation hither they went to look up claims and hut u criminals. . They relate a remarkable ex]X‘ri. nce with the ; rush of people, who went then* by the hun- I dreds to claim these lands as soon as Presi- ■ dent Arthur attached his signature to the document which opened said lands for settle ment. ! The reservation, he snvs comprises the best lands in Dakota, having b 'en selected by the Indian agents years ago. They are on the , east side of the Missouri river, and those por- < tions opened for settlement are bounded on the north by Pierre, and on the south by . Chamberlain. The area of the district opened ! for settlement includes twenty-six townships, I with thirty-six miles to each township, and 540 acres in a mile. According to the home stead law, every head of a family, whether an able-bodied man or a servant girl, and and every male over twenty-six years of age, has a right to pre-empt 100 acres of land. Five minutes after the time on Friday af ternoon, when President Arthur signed the ; executive order opening the lands to settle ment, the fact was known in Chamberlain, and as soon as one man crossed the reserva tfon line with a load of lumber thousands of other in waiting followed him. All the hired i girls in the hotels w r ere in the fjpont ranks, i Not a barber-shop was open. Nearly all the 1 • business men, except the hotel and saloon . ■ keepers, were in the anxious and excited crowd. Teams and wagons were employed to haul set tiers at $25 ]>er day in advance. I Those who preferred town lots employed a lawer, who laid out a town site opposite | Cbamliei lin. During Friday night the erec tion of 100 houses was commenced, and the i town is being rapidly built. Many of the ! houses are already occupied by families. The prosjiect is that much litigation and bloodshed will be the result of the excite ment. The agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad filed warrants in thti name of his company to a large porti<m of the land contained in the reservations and now settled upon. The Indians are unfriend)}" to the settlors and are encouraged by the In dian agents, who, in many instances, drive settlers away. Until a registration office is open on the reservation the settlers will not leave their < lainis, fearing that they .would lie jumjxed if they did so. The Indian agents i refuse to register until they receive formal notice frofli the government, that the laud has been thrown open to settlement. In many cases the settlers were unable to find the corners of the sections, and when surveys were made it was found, in many cases, that cabins some distance apart were really on the same section, Then the question arose who settled here first, and the man who displayed the most formidable Winchester rifle or navy revolver generally induced the other fellow to believe that he did. The work of erecting shanties on the claims progresses night and day. Several lawsuits have been entered where more than one have taken possession. People from abroad did seem to anticipate the rush, fox those who ar rived at Chamberlain Wednesday found that every inch of the land had been pre-empted. The trains going to Chamberlain consisted of several sleepers and passenger coaches, jam med full of poor fellows who labored under the delusion that, they had only to visit the reservation and stay on it over night to ac quire possession of 160 acres of land. Agen Gassman received orders from the interior department not to allow the Indians to inter fere with the settlers, but. their is b.ul blood existing and trouble is feared at any time. Oklaliuiua Troubles. Wlchita, Kan,, March 11. —Being the day set for the adjourned term of the United States court at which the Oklahoma boomers were to be tried, they were all on hand. Captain Couch and secretary McCord came up from Arkansas city. 'There was no court, It was intended to continue the adjourned term to the twenty-fourth inst.. in order to summon the jm y to dispose of these cases, but Judge Foster having been called Io Topeka to hold court there found it would be impos sible for him txi be here on the twenty fourth inst. The court accordingly adjourned sine die, which throws it over to the regular term in September. Warrants were issued for forty other boomers. The authorities will continue to issue warrants as they get names. Captain Couch said that he would start for Arkansas city immediately, and the colony would move in a day or two. General Hatch will leave here on the same train with Couch, and will join the troops there. GRANT BETTER. The Old Warrior Sleeps we 11— Consultation of Physician*. New York, March 11.—Dr. Douglas said: “Gen. Grant did not sleep well last night. During Monday he had several profound Heeps. At noon he said he felt no pain whatever at the throat and rejieated it this evening. He complained of need of sleep. An anodyne was given him, but it was not effective. Later a stimulant was given in stead. His pulse was normal and while I was there the general took food and went to bed. l ijere is no increase of the ulceration. His family says the general sleeps more than he thinks he does.” There will be a consultation of physicians on Sunday fxi devise morns of toning up Gen eral Grace’s system. It will not interfere with the work of Dr. Douglas, except as it may be designed to aid him by strengthening the patient’s general condition. Dr. Barker’s mail contains daily many letters from all sorts of persons, many of them country wo men, rec-'/inmending herb and other cures for General Grant’s malady. The doctor says that the passage of the retirement bill, while very gratifying to General Grant, had a bad imme li t e effect on him, as he had aband oned all idea of such a thing, and hr was not in condition to enjoy a surprise. The memoirs on which General Grant has been at work for months, and about which he was specially solicitous, are at last finished, much to General Grant’s satisfaction. He now spends some time each day in looking over his proofs and in other revising Work, but the burden of finishing the Look is off his mi nd. H* • has received man congra tu latory lettei's in regard to the retire aent bill. Insane Death. Philadelphia, March 11.—Miss Kate Eliason, an epileptic; twenty-six years of age, of No. 518 North Beveuth street, got out ’ t>f her Ixxi stealthily and wandered up to the roof of her residence, which is thr< e stories high. Her brother was aroused b ciasof “Save me! save me,” and rushing outside he ■aw his sister hanging from the roof, and be fore he oould procure help she fell to the : [lavement, dying instantly. The dead woman j was demented. Ellis Hardy was convicted oi muraer id 1 the first degree at Marietta, but the court ‘ set aside the verdict on the ground of insuffi-1 I eiency of evidence, and none additional be-1 ■ ing sec ured Hardy was dismissed. j Ten thousand of the coal miners in the Pitts ; burg district “ went out” Monday morning ‘ for an increase of wages to three cents. The remaining two thousand will do likewise. The operators say they will nut accede to the demand. gocca FOOLED AGAIN. Two W«n: ell Him About a New Pyn nite Machine. New Y< larch 11. —Jeremiah O’Dono van K ailed on at his office, No. 1! Chamh ; meet, by two women who gav< their ; mos as Miss Bellinger and Misi Louin- Patrick Joyce saw'them first and commuu * sated with his chief. “I think they are of the Dudley type,” sak he. “11 they n f that kind show them in by all means,' - : i Rossa. Tut} -o > ted themselves, and Rosst bark.*.: h ast the wall to rest his Dudley Wf -r’' conversation was opened by th< Ik uiii ~ r woman, who said she admired Rossi and hail an infernal machine which would blow up England ; >re successfully than any other machine ever known. The dynamite chief referrod the women to Joyce, who promisee to call on .h< m at their home, No. 284 Fourt street. He thought they w ere British spiel and he sent two minions, who found Mis Loundes. She asked them to wait a moment and went out of the house, locking the dooi behind her. In a little while she retnrne* with Miss Bellinger, who, however, relusec to reroguu ? the men until they produced e letter dby Joyce, i-me would not tali with them, lint insisted on Rossa and Joya coming. Miss Loundes is housekeeper for Hornet GillierL father of Linda. Gilbert, the frienc of the prisoners. Miss Bellinger is a servant for Det :jve 1 -oyer, who was for years in th< service oi Viau Pinkerton. PHILADELPHIA’S LATE HORROR. General tlanagenumf of the Alin*houM Condemned. , Philadelphia. March 11.— Chainnar Ridgeway of the city council prison com nit tee submitted a report of the committee’s in vestigation of the almhouse fire. They find that the efficiency of the board is greatly, il not totally impaired by constant bickering and an utter want of united action in any direction. Politics had more to do with ap pointments than fitness for office. The char actor and general fitness of the nurses is very low as a rule. Heads of departments were not vested with proper authority. The report further stated that at no time in the history of the alms house had any effort been made to guard against fire. President Lawrence of the com mon council corrected this statement and said that four years ago the almhouse w"ai provided with u fire engine, and the inmates w ere drilled to operate it. For some reason or other this had been abandoned. Insurance In North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C., March 11. —One of the most ably discussed questions before the leg islature has been that of insurance. Thai body has now passed a bill making great changes in the old law. The new' law re dhices the annual license tax on insurance companies from $125 to SSO; repeals the law requiring all insurance companies to make SIO,OOO deposit before doing business in th( state; [>ermits persons in the state to go out of the state and insure in foreign comjianieSj whether the companies have paid taxes iii North Barolina or not, and rendering valid all such contracts. It repeals the loss and average clause, but does not touch the three fourth value clause in policies. Poison in a Dakota Family. La moure, March 11. —A mysterious and fatal ease of poisoning has occurred in the family of Joseph Hall, six miles south ol hero. Hall, his wife and three children re tired at th a usual hour in go<xl health. Ht had arranged with a neighbor to ride into town with him. When the latter called at Hall’s house he found all of the inmates nn eonscious except a the woman. One of the children, aged five, was dead. Mrs. Hall wat barely able to speak and could give no ex planation. Physicians can not tell w-hat caus<‘d the trouble. Hall’s face is terribly swollen and discolored. He may recover, but the doctors think he w'ill die. The Muscle Slmals Delayed. Chattanooga, Tenn., March 11— Maj. King, engineer in charge of the Muscle Shoalt canal and Tennessee river improvement, says that the failure of congress to pass the riVei and ha rbor bill will delay the completion ol the Mus*’’? Shoals canal sixteen months. Over S,<KK),OOO has been expended on the work and but $300,000 is necessary to finish it. This amount was embraced in the rivei and harlxor bill, which failed. A force of several hundred mon will be reduced to a minimum in order to proceed on the uncom pleted work until there is another appropria tion. New Code of Ifoapitality. Philadelphia, March 11.—Judge Ashton, in rendering a decision in the case of Daniel O’Brien, deceased, on a claim put in against his estat -by a brother-in-law of the decedent for board while paying him a social visitj said he would not allow it. To admit de mands of this kind would be to render necee sary a new code of hospitality. Before solic iting a vi- : t from a brother or friend it would be necessary for the host, in order to avert suspicion from his motives, to pledge hixnsell that no comj ’nsation would l>» exacted from his guest. The Lullaby in Pittsburg. Pittsburg. Pa., March 11.—Fritz Emmett, who has been under restraint at the West Penn hospital here since his spree on Satur day, was sufficiently recovered to leave th« hospitel, and returned to his room at the Monon., d: cl a house. This evening he met his comisel and instantly . settle*L the suit brought I v the managermmt of th<* opera house for 1 : s incompleted engagement here Mr. Emmett, with his son, left at 8 o’clock for his home in Albany, N. Y., where he will remain until he recuperates sufficiently to ful fill his engagements. North Carolina tensions Its Soldiers. Raleigh, N. C., March 11.—The bill tc pension soldiers who were in the service of the state during the late war has become e law. It allows each soldier S3O per annum, provided the total amount of the annual ap projir’a: ion sba.ll not »?.•;<•(* *d ; vi.ooo. Widow* of soldiers have all the lv>ncfits of the act; The legislature adopted a con urrent resolu tion to adjourn sine die next 3 hursday. The legal limit of the session has expired. Th« members will serve five days without pay oi allowance. Peace at Last. Wheeling, W. Va., Mar a 1. -William Brown, a prominent democratic politician of Marion * ounty, was eighty-.line years old Sunday and celebrated the day by a dinner, to which a number of friends were invited. Bes .re si'ting down to the .east, he made a speech saying that now that the democratic party wa restored to power in the land, he was prepared to die in peace. Half an hour lat* r h v a corpse, h tving choked on a piece of meat and strangle*! to death before any relief could be afforded. David Davis Celebrates. Bloom inton, TIL, March 11—Yesterday was the seventieth birthday of ex-Vice Presi dent David Davis, who m celebration thereof entertainsd at dinner a small company of his family connections at his fine home in this city. Mr. Davis was in the best of health and spirits. THE CONDENSER. Fresh, Pithy, News Items Roiled Down fol the Untried Reader. Mrs. Mary A. *J;iiglcy, a milliner, dropped lead at Marietta, <). The governor of Dakota vetoed the bill to remove the state capital. A fire at Murfreesboro, Tenn., destroyed three buildings. Loss, S2O,OCX). The court house at Powhatan, Ark., was destroyed by tiro. Loss, $20,000. Peter Wolff, near Brooksburg, Ind , hung himself on account of poor health. The harbors on the east side of Lake Michigan are filling with ice again. Joseph Bolilnian was killed by contact with an electric light wire in Cincinnati. The first number of the Mansfield (O.) Daily News was issued under date of March 7. The United States hotel, at Steubenville, was destroyed by tire. Loss, $135,000. Three boys i >erished in the flames at the burning of their home in Pearlington, Mils. A fishing schooner was lost off Gloucester, Mass., and the crew of fifteen men perished. Secretary Bayard has appointed John Cad walader, of Philadelphia, secretary of state. A kind of epidemic consumption has broken out among the Usage Indians of the territory. John Bridge, aged, seventy-three, was killed at Hamilton, 0., by an engine on the C., H. and D. Annie Marshall, a young lady of Lafayette, Ind., accidentally shet herself while handling a revolver. The grist mill and rtevator of C. Banks, at Liberty Mills, Ind., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $20,00(1. Hon. A. H. Garland was formally installed in the office of attorney general by the U. 8. supreme court. Judge William W. Wilson, of Lebanon, 0., died Sunday afternoon of Bright’s diseaw of the kidneys. Thomas Arvin was killed near Frankfort, Ky., by the accidental discharge of a double barreled shot-gun. The whisky establishment of Williami Bros., Louisville, was partially destroyed by fire. Loss $25,000. The assets and liabilities of Bray Bros., San Francisco, are reported at $232,000 and $583,000 respectively. The ha me shop of Hayden & Boyd, prison contractors, Auburn, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000. The private banking firm of M. C. Rock well & Co., Union, N. Y., assigned. Liabili ties and assets about $50,000. The clothing house of Joseph Mahley, Jackson, Mich., was closed on an execution from Philadelphia for $1,700. Joseph Meredith was instantly killed on the O. and M. track, near Sedanisville, by being struck by an express train. The steamer Alamo, from Galveston to New York, went around on the southwest reef at Tortugas. Wreckers are at work. There are indications of a revival of in the iron trade in Pittsburg. {Several mills liav« resumed, and others are proposing to do so. An employe of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) veneer company entered a steam box whose temperature was 200 degrees, and was suffo cated. The national bank examiner reports that the capital of the United States National Bank, of New York, is intact, with a surplus of $200,000. The employes of the Gromme shovel com pany, of St. Louis, struck for a restoration of the the ten per cent, taken off their wages last August. Thomas Scott, a farmer living near Mt. Vernon, 0., and a bachelor aged eighty-live, committed suicide. He said he was of no use in the world. The senate committee of the Texas legisla ture recommends a bill to prohibit railroad companies from reducing without a thirty-days’ notice. A large consignment of p* - made arti cles from the United States has been seized in London, Ont., the importation being in violation of a law that went into effec t a few days ago. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. L»t«*t Quotations of the Stock, Froduos and Cattle Markets. Nkw York, March 10.—Money 2 per cent. Ex Excba nge dull. Governmt-uts quiet but flrm. Alt. & Terre I lutite 23‘ 2 Morris A Essex ...121 Bur. & Quincy .. 122 a Missouri Pacific ... Canada Pacific 40 N. Y. Erie lUJj Canada Southern 31; s N. Y. Central Central Pacific . 34 1 ~r t Northwestern HA Chicago & Alton 132 a Pacific Mail ... C C., 0. &1- 35 Rock Island.. . US Dei. & Hudson .. 78J, Be Paul Del. Lack. & W.. 105 St. P. & S. C 26 Illinois Central . Dtt 1 i do preferred Jersey Central . , 40% Texas &. Pacific.... Kansas A'Texas. 18/8 U. Pacific 47Ti Lake Shore. t>4 3 West. Union Louisville & Nosh.. 82kg Nash. & Chatt.... 11)4 General. Cincinnati. March 10.—FLOUR—Fancy, $4,000 4.50; family, i>3.45(04.80. WHEAT-No. 2 red, No. 3, 78®82c. CORN—No. 2 mixed, No. 2 white, RYE-No. 2,68 c. BARLEY -Spring, 56(g>6uc; fall, 75(585c. PORK Family, regular, @IB.OO. BACON--Shoulders, 5%@5>4c; short clear sides, 7 ; Lard Kettle. CHEESE- Prime to choice Ohio, 0 New York, 12@13c; Northwestern, 7 g)Bc. POULTRY Fair chickens, $2.50 prime, $3.2fi@53.50;- ducks. $2.75(4.3.75; geeae, $3.00@ 6.00 per doz.; live turkeys, 10>£@llc; dressed. 13@ 18>4c. ’ HAY—No. 1 timothy, $12.50@13.0d; No. - , i 11.50 @12.00; mixed, wheat and rye straw, stl.vu ■' <.00; oats stra.v. $7.00 Nxw York. March 10. WHEAT—No. 1 whit©, Olkjc; No. 2 red. 8' ! CORN Mix -I western, • r futures, 50%(^52 : )'4C. Oats Western, 3s^4oj a c. New Orleans. March 1<».- SUGAR--Refining, common. 4 »c; inferior. D{>;» 3 c; choice wliite, 6J4c; off wii.:e, 5'' 4 c; choice yellow, '' ;, m MOLASSES fair. * pi hue, 34 choice, 44c; > ntrifugal prime, 2>(<p3r fair, 23c. Detroit, March io. WHEAT No. 1 white, 87’ 2 c; No. 3 red, Michigan soft red, B<k4 c - Toledo, March 10. - WHEAT - No. 2,7814 c: No. 2 soft, S6c. Live stock. Cincinnati, March!'. CATTLE- (food to choice buialiers, $4.2 ’><*»; fan , •(>5.00; common, $2 00@8.00; Stockers and feeders. $8.75(414.50;, yearlings and < ■ vex 32.. u; a:?.25. HOGS Select. I butchers 55,00@5.25; fai to g<M>d packing, $1.60h£5.00; fair to good light. $4.50 @5.00; commo i, $3 <a..15; culls, £:*.'»0@3.85. SHEEP -Co•rim*m to fair. $2.50(«3.25; good to choice, $8.50@L50; weathers, $4.75@5,00. Lambs —Common, $3.00(<t»3.75; go«xi. $4.25t54.75. Chicago, Marcli !0.- HOGS Fair to good, $4.35 @4.80; n ixed packing, $4.3 <0.60; choice heavy, $4.70@4.95. 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