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I. vm W.TWL CMtorMt PoMMMr ICoHENBY. 4 v 'J*1-' ILLINOIS. NEWS CONDENSED. .• . &Vr" THE EASTC TBX trouble arising oat of the refusal of KM cigar firm of V. Martinez, Ybor & Co., Of New lork, Ybor City, and Havana, to employ Cuban cigarmakers, culminated in A bToodv riot at Ybor City, in the course Of which the Cubans killed M. F. Martinez •fed fatally wounded four other Knights of Labor. THE Capital Punishment Commission appointed by the Governor of New York is about to report in favor of exterminating murderers by electric shocks ... H. L. Boss' dwelling at Pern City, Pa., was de­ stroyed t>y fire. His four children per- ilhed in the flames... .Four steel boilers at Spang, Chalfant & Co.'s Steel and Iron Works at Etnaborough, near Allegheny City, Pa., exploded with terrific force, completely wrecking the bar-mill depart­ ment, killing one man instantly and seri­ ously injuring a number of others. The concussion was so great that it shook the houses for miles around, shattering win­ dows in tbe vicinity of the mill and awakening the residents of the town, who rushed in terror from their houses, scantily clothed, to learn the cause. The ruin wrought in the mill by the explosion was complete. The building was laid low and the machinery broken and scattered in all directions. One piece of a boiler, weigh­ ing at least 1,0(»0 pounds, cut its way through tho entire mill and fell on the public road, fully 500 yards distant An­ other piece of boiler iron, weighing 2,500 pounds, was found 300 yards from the scene of the explosion. In its flight it cot through the trunk of a tree two feet in dia­ meter, leaving nothing but the stump standing. AT Philadelphia, Nellie De Coursy, who Is 45 inches high, and weighs 46 pounds, gave birth to a healthy 6on weighing 7£ ?Kinds. The mother is a niece of Mrs. om Thumb. Her husband is 6 feet 3 inches tall. EDWARD YO€N6EB. 52 years, has been •nested at New York for the murder of fhe o butchered man found in a trunk at Balti­ more. The motive of the crime was robbery. THE WEST. JOHN W. MACKAY has purchased the coast telegraph line running from San Francisco to Santa Cruz A farmer, near La Porte, Indiana, has a forest of sixty acres, representing every variety known when that region was first settled, from which a tree has never been cut The Judge of tbe Criminal Court at St. Louis issued a writ of habeas corpus di­ recting the Warden of the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., to deliver into tbe charge of the officers of the court tbe con­ victs Wittrock and Haight, that they may be taken to that city to testify in the case of the Adams Express Company against Messenger Fotheringham, who is charged With being an accessory to the noted. "Jim linings" train robbery. F. C. SHARP, postmaster at Oconto, Wis., is been arrested for rifling registered let- rs. On his person was found $120 in marked by Inspector Kidder and d in decoy letters. The criminal was citizen above suspicion and published the loading newspaper iu that city. The rob- s have bieen frequent for a month past. ROBERT WALTERS, of Monmouth, 111., ived some notoriety by swearing that lie saw men and women swimming together, 111 a nude state, at a picnic on the bankB of Cedar Creek, for which they were indicted, week he pleaded guilty to perjury, and ;ly accepted a sentence of three years the Penitentiary. LIEUT. SCHWATKA reports Yellowstone buried in from six to eight feet of snow, but describes the winter effects as splendid ... It is estimated that fully 50,- 600 strangers witnessed the second storm­ ing of the ics palace at St. Paul, says a special from that city. Probablv 100,000 people gathered within and outside tbe in- dosure and on the hills near by, while from 5,000 to 6,000 men and women in gay uni­ forms marched through the streets and joined in the attack. At a given signal the assault began, and for half an hour the air was filled with rockets and fire balls of every conceivable color, lighting up the palace in a manner indescribably beautiful. Suddenly, from the verv summit of the main tower poured a fiery torrent down the sides to the ground, and for a time tbe cas- seemed to be ablaze, a veritable Niagara in joint session. Another ballot for Uaitsd States Senator *»s taken on Wednesday by the Indiana Legislature, but no ohange in the vote occurred. The Joint ballot of the West Virginia Legislature for Sena­ tor on Wednesday called _ into the field as the Republican candidate W. T. Willey, an octogenarian who was the first Senator from that State after its organization. He received 40 votes, and J. N. Camden 39. The latter laoked 7 votes of an election A bill has been in­ troduced in the Michigan Legislature per- mitt ng soldiers' wives to enter the Stato Soldiers' Home The Rhode Island House adopted a joint resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to in­ vestigate the newspaper charges of rank corruption during the May session in 1886. A SANTA FE (N. M.) telegram says that "A. Gusdorf, Democratic member of the Legislature for Taos County, was unseated, and Pedro Sanchez (Rep.) given his seat, on a committee report charging Gusdorf with obtaining an election by means of in­ timidation and fraud. The Democratic Senators left the House in a body, leaving the Republicans without a quorum. The Sergeant-at.Arms, however, Drought back Senator Romero, and Sanchez was then sworn in by the President of the Senate, the Secretary of the Territory refusing to administer the oath." THE Democrats of Philadelphia have nominated Charles H. Barnes for Mayor. The bill repealing the law giving wom­ en the right to vote at school elections was killed in the Wisconsin Assembly Tbe Michigan Senate passed the House | joint resolution to submit a prohibitory nmendment at the spring election. The Ohio House rejected the township local- option bill.... The Comm ttee on Railroads of the Nebraska House have recommended the passage of the bill repealing the Bail- way Commission act. THE CSOUT1 * • 6 MURDERERS were taken from the at Warren, Ark., and hanged by a mob. Their bodies were subsequently cut down Hid thrown into a stream. THREE masked men entered the Gtflf, Colorado and Santa Fe . Railroad depot, at Bichmond, Tex., and, at the point of a pistol, compelled the watchman to open the doors leading info the inner offices. They then attempted to drill through the safe in tbe fetation agent's office. FailiDg, two of them went to the station agent's house and forced him to go to the station and open the safe. They secured $1,400 iq money, and escaped. V THE Senate of Texas passed a bill ap- $100,000 for the relief of the ' drought sufferers Fire at Dallas, Tex., entirely consumed three of the finest build­ ings in the city. The total loss on buildings and stock will aggregate $400,(MM).... A trunk directed to "J. A. Wilson" was opened at Baltimore and found to contain the headless body of a man. The feet, legs, and one arm were also lopped off, and were packed with the body, but the head waB missing. The trunk had been shipped from New York, and the calico shirt cover­ ing the remains had on it the name "C. Kankholdt." In the trunk were cards bear­ ing the name of a Brooklyn butcher. WASHlXCiTOX. CONGRESSMAN MORRISON is mentioned the position of member of the Inter­ state Commission, as are also Senator Con- and a son of Senator Thurman. The is $7,500 a year... .A bond call amount- to $13,887,000 has been issued. The uncalled 3 per cents, now aggregate $40,- «00,(I00. THE First Comptroller of the Treasury, abother opinion on the accounts of John Mosby as Consul at Hong Kong, has "lowed claims for $12,000. AN adverse report will be made on the *ill drafted by the National Cattle Grow- ' Association at their session in Chicago regarding pleuro-pneumonia and other dis- tases among cattle. POl'lTICAI* V HON. PHTLBTUS SAWYER was formally Ve-elected United States Senator from Wisconsin by the Legislature in joint ses in at Madison. The joint balloting in United States Senatorship fiyht in exas took place Wednesday, but without iTesult. Four ballots were taken, the last One standing: Reagan, 51; Maxev, 44; Ireland, 39; Shepperd, 1. The Republican members of the New Jersey Legislature ab- Sented themselves from the joint session *=,; On Wednesday. Leon Abbett received the f votes of thirty-eight Democrats for Sena- : tor. Forty-one votes constitute a majority ; : ' ' IXDI'STBLUNOTEL. THE struggle of the striking 'longshore" men, says a New York dispatch, which has, to a certain extent, become merged into that of the coal-handlers, has been trans­ ferred to a field of wider proportions. The Knights of Labor have decided that no coal of any sort shall be handled in the ports of New York by union men, on the ground that all coal in the harbor now has been put aboard the barges by non-union men. Tim-: the transferring of coal to transatlantic and coastwise steam­ ships can not be undertaken by any union man, and the supply of coal to con­ sumers in this city, Brooklyn, and other points around the harbor of New York can­ not be replenished by union men. The effect of the carrying out of the order of the Knights not to load coal became imme­ diately apparent all along the river fronts. All the ocean and coastwise steamship lines, with a few exceptions, suddenly found themselves deserted by the union 'longshoremen whenever there was coal to be transferred on the vessels. Owing to lack of coal the Havemeyers' sugar refin­ eries on Long Island have been closed, throwing a large number ot persons out of employment. THE Knights of Labor at Alton, N. H., through their local board, have ordered oat all Knights of Labor workmen in Coburn's shoe factory. The firm will doubtless shot down. A large number of men will be thrown out of work A New York dis­ patch of Thursday says: "Twenty thousand men are now on strike among the coal- shovelers, 'longshoremen, freight-handlers, and men employed oi the river front in almost every capacity, and the number is augmented to close on 40,000 by the' strikers on the Brooklyn and Jersey shores. In consequence, it is almost impossi­ ble for any of the steamers for Europe or coastwise to leave port." Helena (M. T.) special: "The Hon. A. J. Seligman, H. W. Child, E. W. Bach, and Thos.West, officers of the Gregory Mining Company, went to the mine yesterday, near Wicks, to close it down, and were seized as security by the exasperated miners, to whom two months' wages are due. The men closed down the works and took posses­ sion of the town. They are peace­ able and orderly. Bach, Child, and West were finally allowed to come to Helena to raise funds to pay the men, Seligman being held as a hostage. Selig­ man is the son of Jesse Seligman, of Seligman Bros., bankers, of New York." A Boston special says: "The Knights of Labor in Boston are very glum,.as all the operative tailors in the city, including the machine operators, basters, pressers, and all others engaged in the manufacture of ready-made clothing have decided to leave the order. They have been dissatis­ fied with their treatment by the Knights for some time, and since their last strike, which was unsuccessful, they have been very uneasy." » " GENERAL. 1 THE Canadian Government, having dis­ covered that a large number of counterfeit $2 notes are in circulation, has set detec­ tives at work to catch the culprits. THE National Woman Suffrage Congress was in session, at Washington during the week. Among tbe delegates present were: Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. May Wright Sew- ell, Mrs. Harrietta R. Shattuck, Mrs. Eliza­ beth Boynton Harbert, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, the Rev. Olympia Browfc, Phifbe W. Cozzens, Mrs. Hannah White­ hall Smith, Mary F. Eastman, and Lillian Devereux Blake. Miss Susan B. Anthony delivered the opening speech. Addresses were made by Mrs. Sewell of In­ diana on "The Condition of Liberty," by Mrs. Harbert of Illinois on "Our Moth­ erless Government," and by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker on "The Constitutional Rights of Women to the Ballot, by Miss Mary F. Eastman of Massachusetts on The Perils of the Country," and by Mrs. Blake of New York on "The Rights of Man." Speeches were also made by Judge Cary of Wyoming Miss Phoebe Cozzens of St. Louis. •• A series of resolutions were adopted demanding the passage of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution, which shall secure the right of suffrage to women of the United States, denouncing the disfranchisement Of women, and thanking the United States Senators who supported the suffrage amend­ ment. A committee was appointed to ar­ range a meeting in Washington next year to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of the movement for woman suffrage in this country. Invitations will be issued to women throughout the world who are interested in women's work. FOREIGN. A STRIKE has been inaugurated in Scottish collieries....A company of Italians has undertaken to light Rome by electricity generated by water-power at the Tivoli Falls. IT is stated that the Czar has forwarded a pacific message to the Emperor of Austria.... A duel was fought at Bucharest by tbe Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the latter receiving a bullet in his hand... European war sparks: An order has been issued at Berlin forbidding the exportation of horses across the German frontier in any direction. In special cases deserving of exception exemption will be made from the present and from future measures controlling the exporta­ tion of these animals. Col. Klepsch, mili­ tary attache to the Austro-Hungarian em­ bassy at St. Petersburg, arrived at Vienna, and was immediately summoned to an au­ dience with the Emperor and Count Kal- noky. Daring a debate on the budget in the lower house of the Hungarian diet. Premier von Tisza declared, amid acclama­ tion's, that no one wished for a war with Russia. THE speech of Queen Victoria at the opening of Parliament predicts that no dis­ turbance of the peace will arise from the unadjusted controversies in southeastern Europe. The condition of Ireland still re­ quires anxious attention by Parliament, it to declared, because the relations between tho owners and oooapiers of land have been seriously disturbed by organised attempts to ineite tenants to combine, against the fulfillment of their legal obligations. Lord Randolph Churchill gave the reasons for his resignation in the House of Com­ mons. He said he retired because the Government's naval and military esti­ mates exceeded £31,000,000, and ne also objected to the policy of needless interfer­ ence in the affairs of other nations... .The probability of conflict between Germany and France is being seriously disci:*gsed on the other side of the water. A dispatch from Pesth says: Herr Tisza, Hungarain Prime Minister, has spoken to his friends in very reassuring terms regard­ ing tho maintenance at peace. The Pesther Lloyd publishes a com­ munication from Berlin, which it asserts is from an* authentic source, and which states that war between Germany and France is regarded as more probable at Berlin than is to be inferred from the information which is permitted to be ac­ cessible to the public. The Berlin com­ munication, above alluded to, concludes with tl.ese words: "President Grevy and Prime Minister Goblet both, unsuccess­ fully, have tried to remove Gen. Boulanger from control of the military affairs of France. The maintenance of peace much depends on Gen. Boulanger's removal." V; ADDITIONAL NEWS. ^fetlsHon". Albert J. Selig man, wfco tttfs kept hostage by the miners at Wiokes, M. T., for unpaid wages, was released upon the New York firm of J. and W. Seligman & Co., telegraphing the necessary amount, ($75,tM»0) to Helena to pay oft the men. The miners not only protected the proper­ ty, but treated their prisoner with the ut? most courtesy .. .Fourteen indictments against persons 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. A BILL is now before the Indiana Legis­ lature the provisions of which are of so extraordinary a character as to make the proposed law of general interest. The bill simply provides that in case of willful hom­ icide in which the slayer is the father, brother, or husband of a seduced girl or woman, and the Blain is proven to have been her seducer, action for murder or manslaughter shall not lie. Under such circumstances the offense of slaying is re­ duced to a misdemeanor, punishable only by a tine, without imprisonment. This is the first instance of an attempt to enact a law which would under any circumstances, make the willful taking OH human lifo a simple misdemeanor. It is understood that a similar bill is to be intro­ duced in the Illinois Legislature The resolution for the submission to popu­ lar vote of a prohibition amendment to the State Constitution, which was adopted by both houses of the Michigan Legislature, has been signed by the Governor, and will be voted on in April next... .The Tennes­ see Senate has passed on its final reading the prohibition amendment to the consti- tutution, the vote being--yeas, 31; nays, 2.... A bill prohibiting marriages between white and colored persons has been intro­ duced in the Illinois Senate... .A bill em­ powering women to vote at municipal elec­ tions passed the Kansas Senate--25 to 13. THE Consul General at Shanghai re­ ports to the State Department that $1,260 was contributed by natives of that city for the sufferers by earthquake at Charleston. Gt M. Depew, President of the New York Central Road, asked of the Attorney General a hearing in opposition to the in­ terstate commerce bill. He was requested to forward a brief of his argument... .It is settled now that Mr. C. N. Jor­ dan, Treasurer of the United States, will relinquish his present office May 1 in order to accept the Presidency of the Western National Bank of New York, an institution now in process of organiza­ tion, and which will be fully established by that date. Mr. Jordan has not yet formally resigned, but expects to do so shortly after the adjournment of Congress. It is under­ stood that the change in office involves a decided increase in salary, the exact amount of which is not Btatea. The salary of Treasurer is $6,000 per year. The new office, it is said, will pay at least $10,000 per annum. Ma. EDMUNDS, in presenting to the Senate, on tb»2feth ult, a memorial from manufactur­ ers and business men in Vermont for a repeal or reduction of internal revenue taxes, said he wished to urge on tbe Finance Committee tbe importance of tbe subject of reducing, i( not altogether repealing, this remnant of the un­ pleasantness of twenty-five years ago. Mr. Mabone presented numerous petitions from Virginia manufacturers of and dealers in tobacco, for tbe abolition of tbe tobacco tax. Messrs. Evarts, Teller, Spooner, 1'ugh, and Eustis were selected as the Sena­ torial Committee to investigate the alleged Texas outrages. The President sent in a mes­ sage vetoing tbe bill granting a pension to Benjamin Obekiah. "The bill," he says, "di­ rects tnat the beneficiary named therein be placed upon the pension roll subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws. In July, 188), the person named tn this bill was placed Upon the pension roll at a rate determined upon by the Tension Hureau pursuant to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, and it is entirely cer­ tain that the s]>ecial act now presented to me would eive the claimant no new rights or additional benefits." The President also vetoed the bill for the relief of H. K. Belding, who was a mail contractor iu Minnesota in I860. The measure is vetoed because the President thinks the evidence ta tbe case gives rise to a strong presumption that the claim is entirely fictitious. Kdward F. Mealty, of Maryland was nominated to be Consul at Mnnich. The House of Repre­ sentatives passed the Washington cable-rail­ way charter and agreed to a conference report on the bill making an annual appropriation of $400,000 for the equipment of the militia forces. THE MARKET8. HEW YORK. BEEVES Hoos WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Red.... Coax--No. 2 ; OATS--White". ...."" PORK--Mess _ CHICAGO. BKEVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping Common... Hons--Shipping Orudes Fr,ocn--Extra Spring WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COKM--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery. Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar. Full Cream, new...... Eoos--Fresh ; POTATOES--Choice, per bu PORK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHKAT--Cash CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 "....' KVE--Not 1. t PORK--Mess TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 CORK--Cash OATS--No. 2 I DETROIT. BEEF CATTLE Hoos SHKiip *.] . ..'.'.I:'.'. WHKAT--Michigan Red COUN--No. 2 OATS--White w „ o ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2. CORN--Mixed. OATS--Mixed PORK--Mess CINCINNATL WHEAT--NO. 2 Red Coax--No. 2. OATS--NO. 2 POBK--Mess LIVE HOOS BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 CORN--No. S Yellow ^ATTI'* INDIANAPOIIA BEEP CATTLE Hoos 8hi:BP ' WHEAT--No. 2Red ......." CORN--No. 2 OATS EAST LIBE CATTLE--Best Fair Common Hoos .... BAIW $4.2> @ 5.73 5.00 5.50 ' .93% •«2 %<it .92 % .48'$ <4 .49S4 38 tf* .42 © 13.00 UU0 5.00 4.00 3.25 4.75 4.25 .78^4 .85 .2} >4 <a „ .20 .21 tfii .12?4@ .1314# .27 VU .48 13.25 & 5.50 <<$ 4.50 © 3.75 <4 5.25 A 4.75 .78 % .27'a .28 .24 •13* .28 .78 .35 .98 .50 13.25 «12.75 & .70 .as <t» .»<* @13.75 ,&3 @ .el <9 .8316 .37 .31 a 4.00 8.75 4.75 .84 .33 (# & 5.00 ® 5.2? <it. 5.50 .84*$ .38*6 .33}* .81 & .81V, .34^(31 .35 .27 <93 .28 12.50 ©13.00 .84^® OUR H0U88 OF LORDS. its and Sketches or Some of tie wly Elected United State* Senators. Dawes, of Massaohnsetta; Hale, of Maine; f ,./• Heant, of California, add -r Others. " •'< 1 Seary K. Dawes, of Massachusetts. Hon. Henry L. Dawes, who has been re-elected to the Senate from Massachu­ setts, was born at Cnmmiugton, Mass., Oct. 30, 1816. He was graduated from Yale College, began life as. a school­ teacher, and edited the Greenfield Gazette and Adams Tranncript. At the same time he fitted himself by his exertions for the legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He began his public career in 1848 as a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, and was returned in 1849 and 1852. In 1850 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1853 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and in Ihe same year was appointed District Attorney for the Western District of Mas­ sachusetts, retaining that office until 1857. He was elected to the Thirty-fifth Con­ gress in 1858, and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh.Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Foity-first, Forty- Second, and Forty-third Congress, declin­ ing in 1875 to be a candidate for election to the Forty-fourth. He served ten years ' as Chairman of the Committee on Elections, commencing with the Thirty- sixth Congress--during the most important years in the history of the country--through ttu whr and the reconstruction petigd*. In m those years there were more election con­ tests than ever before, arising from the war. He was many years Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and while in Congress served on every important com­ mittee. He was the author of many tariff measures, and assisted in the construction of the wool and woolen tariff of 1868, which was the basis of all duties on wools and woolens from that time till 1883. In 1875 Mr. DaWes was elected to the National Senate to succeed Charles Sumner, whose unexpired term had been filled by William B. Washburn. He took hiB seat on March 4, 1875, and was re-elected on the expira­ tion of ,his term in 1881. <n 13.25 ® 5.25 (A 5.00 <4 4.5J .35&«$ Eugene Hale, of Maine. Hon. Engene Hale, who has jnst been chosen by the Maine Legislature as his own successor in the Senate, is a native of the Pine Tree State. He was born at Turner, Oxford Connty, June 9, 1835, longer ago than his appearance indicates, for he is a wonderfully well-preserved man. He receivod an academic edu­ cation, and then read law. When 21 years of age he was admitted to the bar, and b€uzu| practice. In a few years* time he wa^B the enjoyment of comfort­ able means and an excellent professional practice. His first official position was as Attorney of Hancock County, which he held nine consecutive years. In 1867 he was elected to the State Legislature. His first election as a United States Congress­ man was to the Forty-first Congress. He was also elected to the Forty-second. Forty- third, Forty-fourth and Forty-tUHi. In 1874 he declined tbe position of Postmaster General, to which he was appointed by President Grant. He also declined a place iu Hayes' Cabinet. While a member of the Forty-fifth Congress he was Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee. In January, 1881, he was elected Senator for the full term ending March 3,1887, suc­ ceeding Hanuibal Hamlin. His re-election for a second term of six years has just tak­ en place. George Heurst of California, Hon. George Hearst first took his seat in the United States Senate in March, 1886, by appointment of the Governor of Cali­ fornia, as ttie successor of the late Sena- candidate for Governor at California in 1882, but Gen. Stoneman secured the nom­ ination from the San Jose Convention and was elected. At the time of Senator Stan­ ford's election in 1885 Mr. Heant received the oomplimentary votes of the Democrats. He is a very wealthy man, and among his real estate owns 40,000 acres of the finest lands in the State, situated in San Luis Obispo. He is the sole owner of the San Francisco Examiner. Joseph B. Hawley, of Connecticut. The Connecticut Legislature has re­ elected Hon. Joseph R. Hawley to the Sen­ ate from that State. Mr. Hawley was born at Stewartsville, N. C., Oct. 31, 1S26. His father was a native of Farmington, Conn., and to that State the family returned in 18.(7, afterward removing to Cazenovia, N. Y. QiWfef®aviie# Jeceived his early edi ' . :• ^ u-'- I In Mllllfimil I ,j ,, , . . " DARIN8 ROBBKRT. NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS. Mask •en Plunder the He Express Near Ferl Worth, Texas. A\W,\W. @ 5.09 4.50 ® 4.0® in 5.50 @ 4.75 Farmington and Harford, Con»..andin 1850 commenced a law practice in Hartford. He •ery early took a deep interest in the poli­ tics of the country and was an active op - ponent of slavery, especially of its exten­ sion to the Territories. In February, 1857, he became editor of the Hartford Evening Press. Upon the outbreak of the war he enlisted (April 15, 1861 >, being the first man to enroll his name for volunteer ser­ vice from Connecticut. He went to the field as Captain of the First Regiment Connecticut Volunteers^ and . fought at Bull Run. After the three months' campaign he recruited the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers and was com­ missioned Lieutenant Colonel. He was commissioned Colonel in 18>2 and Brigadier General in 1864. He served in the Army of the James before Richmond and Petersburg. He was appointed Mili­ tary Governor of Wilmington, N. C., and was brevetted Major General in 1865; was Gen. Terry's Chief-of-Staff at Richmond, and was mustered out of the service in January, 1866. He was elected in April, 1866, to the Governorship of Connec­ ticut, holding the office one year. He returned to journalism as editor of the Hartford Courant, and was President of the Chicago National Republican Conven­ tion in 1868. He was elected to the Forty- second Congress Nov. 5, 1872. He was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress in April, 1873. Upon the organization ot" the Centennial Commission he wa^i chosen its President. In 1881 be was elected to the. United States Senate and has just been re* elected. George Gray, of Delaware. Hon. George Gray, who has just been re­ elected United States Senator from Dela­ ware, was born in New Castle, Del., May 4, 1840. When he was 17 years of age he en­ tered Princeton College, graduating from-- tor Miller. He has just been elected to serve the full term beginning with next March. Mr. Hearst has had an eventful history. He went to California across the plains in 1850, and commenced as a com­ mon laborer in the mines. Finally he made some money and formed a partner­ ship with Haggm <fc Tevis, and the firm has amassed a large fortune in buying mining claims. They now own one of the largest and most profitable mines in Butte City, Montana, and also mines in Arizo na Colorado, Oregon, Mexico, Idaho, and Cal­ ifornia. Mr. Hearst is considered the most expert prospector on the Pacific coast, and his judgment iu regard to a mine has never yet been at fault. He is a tall, well-formed qinn about Miy^e jeaxfi old. He was there in 1859. After reading law for three years with his father, the late Andrew C. Gray, and with William C. Spruance, he passed a year at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1863. Directly after his admission he commenced the practice of law at New Castle, and soon established a lucrative practice. In 1881, having been made Attorney General by Governor Hall, he removed to Wilming­ ton. His first term expired in 1883, bat he was reappointed by Governor Stockley. Although the attorney generalship was the only office he ever held prior to his Sen­ atorial appointment, he has ever been most active in political affairs, and in the Demo­ cratic national conventions of 1880 and 1884 presented Bayard's name for the Presidency. A. 8. Paddock, of Nebraska. Hon. Charles H. Van Wyck was be iten for Senator in Nebraska, after a hard fight. His successor is Hon. Algernon S. Pad­ dock, who was beaten by Van Wyck in 1>:81, after having served one term in the Senate. Mr. Paddock was bord in Glens Falls, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1830. He spent his youth at that place, entering the Glens Falls Academy in his thir­ teenth year. He pur­ sued his stucVes there until he was eighteen years old, when he entered Union Col­ lege, New York, where he remained until his senior year, when he left and went to Detroit, Mich. He began the study of law there. In May, 1857, t e removed to Fort Calhoun, Neb., near where he pre-empted a farm and settled. In 1872 he moved to Beatrice, Gage County, where he now lives. During 1858 and 185V) he was en­ gaged in editorial work for the Omaha Bepublican. In I860 he was a dele­ gate to the National Republican Con­ vention at Chicago that nominated Lin­ coln. He was nominated Secretary of Nebraska Territory, and assumed the posi­ tion April 1, 1861. In 1864 he was a dele­ gate to the National Convention at Balti­ more. In 1857 he was a candidate for tbe Senate, but was defeated by John M. Thayer. In 1868 he was nominated Gov­ ernor of Wyoming by President Johnson, but declined the place. In the winter of 1874-'75 he was elected to the United States Senate for a term of six years. In the winter of 1880-81 he was a candidate for re-election, but after eighteen ballots was defeated by C. H. Van Wyck. He served as a member of the Utah Commission, to whicn place he was appointed by President Arthur. Mr. Paddock lives on a farm near Beatrice, and is a man of large means, owning valuable property in Omaha, Bea­ trice, and other Nebraska cities. Sparrowgra8s--Say, what'll yon charge for pultin' in this here notice o' the funeral of Si Lobdell's young baby what's died? Editor--Fifty cents. Sparrowgrass--But you put in two fur Tompkins' folks fur seventy. Editor--Well, if this baby was twins I'd do it again. We always make re­ ductions on job lots. PBISONER--Do yon think they will hang me. Counsel--Li t them do it if they dare. It would be the best thing that could hap­ pen for our side. We could recover heavy damages. Fifteen Thousand Dollars Thought to ,̂ lat» Been Secured by the Bobbers. ' [Fort Worth (Texas) special.? One of tbe most daring and suoceesful train robberies ever committed in this State was perpetrated by eight armed and masked men two miles east of Gordon, on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, between 2 and 3 o'clock Sunday morning. As the regular passenger train pulled out from Gordon for the east two masked men jumped on the engine, one on each side. The engineer, John Bosquet, turned to them and asked: "Where are you fellows going?" "Just going, to take a little ride," an­ swered one of them. " You will not ride on here," said Bosquet. "I guess we will," said the man, and in an instant the engineer was covered with two pistols pointing directly at his head. He was ordered to pull ahead, which he did until he reached the coal chute at the trestle bridge, something over a mile east of Gordon. Here the engineer discovered that obstructions had been placed across the track, and he was ordered by the two men, who still held their pistols in hand, to pull up. As soon as the train stopped six more nfen, all armed, appeared and ordered the engineer to take his pick and hammer and break in the door of the express car. He refused at first, but was induced to do 60 by threats of instant death in case of con­ tinued refusal. After the door had been forced the robbers entered and went through the safe, taking everything they could find. The amount of the loss could not be ascertained exactly, but report places the amount at sums ranging from $8,000 to $15,000. Having finished the work in the express car, the robbers went to the mail-car and made a demand on tho route agent for all the money or valuables he had. Thinking that the robbers would not dare to molest the United States mail, the agent was Very cool, and told the robbers that they were in the wrong place, and that he was a United States mail mau. This declaration had no effect on the robbers, who told the official that uuless he complied with their demands he would soon be a dead man. There were sixty registered mail packages in the car. While the robbers were going through the express matter the mail agent had secured thirty-two of them and only gave up twenty-eight to the robbers. Tbe passengers were not molested. A Sheriff who was on the train exchanged shots with the robbers without effect. There were also negro soldiers on the train. The value of the mail packages cannot be esti- PHILETUS SAWYER. Re-elected to the United States Senate ffOhi Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Legislature has for the •eoond time elected Hon. Philetus Sawyer to represent his State in the Senate of the United States. His new term begins on the 4th of March next, and ends on the 4th of March, 1893. Philetus Sawyer was born in Whiting, Addison County, Vt., Sept. 22, 1816. His father was a farmer and blacksmith and lived at a time and in a region where those employments offered but little return. When a mere chikl his father removed to Essex County, New York, where the com­ ing Senator's childhood and youth were spent among the mountains and forests of the Adirondacks. His early life, like that of most of the dwellers in that region, was one of manual labor, with only the opportunities for education that the limited resources of the common schools at that time presented. At the age of 17 Philetus Sawyer bought his time for $100 from his father and started out in­ to the world alone. He was so successful in his efforts that at the a?e of 31 he bad saved $2,000, and with this be was enabled to seek a more profitable field in Wiscon­ sin for his future efforts. He settled on a farm in Rosendale Township in Fond du Lac County. After two years of farming with indifferent success be turned his atten­ tion to his old calling, that of "logging," and he removed to the then villasre of Al- goma, now the city of Oshkosh. Here he rented a sawmill, which he finally bought, and from that time to this his business career has been the most sue- oessful. His industry and sagacity have been so rewarded that he now stands in the front rank of Wisconsin's wealthy men. In early life he was a Democrat, but united with the Republican partv on its organiza­ tion in 1854. His public life fcegan with an election to the.State Assembly in 1857, and a re-election in 1861. In 18o3 and 1804 he was Mayor of Oshkosh. He was elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress in 1864, and by re-election remained a member of that body until March 4, 1875, when he de­ clined another election. In January, 1881, he was elected United States Senator from Wisconsin, and on the 26th of January, 1887 was re-elected for a second term of six years. BLOWN TO PIECES. Fov FIRIOIII Klllmt BY Ihe Biplotfaw af a Bolter In Indiana. [Indianapolis special.] The boiler in a saw mill owned by Jack­ son Norris, located in Daviess Corn v, three miles from Washiugton, Ind., - ploded with terrible effect. Norris au<" . s two grown sons, Frank and John, .1 William McAfee were killed outright, their bodies being terribly mangled. The mill and machinery were tota'ly wrecked. Por­ tions of the boiler were carried four hun­ dred feet from the scene of the catastrophe. Norris was aged 55 years. He leaves a wife and two children. McAfee was sin­ gle, as were both sons of Norris. The boiler had been in use a long time, and it was the intention to replace it with a new one in a few days. V-'V AN English inventor claims to save one-third of tlie time and 10 per cent, of loss in the cooking of joints of meat, by thrusting into them metallic con­ ductors W insure their simultaneous heating throughout, these conductors being copper blades with globular heads of iron Flesh is a very bad conductor of heat, and without this device tho outside of the meat is greatly over* cooked, with much waste of nutritious juices, before the inside ia well done. I* Beta* Um Ha* tfoMl IcgMataire. ftoa •xten»ton of tbi Hawaiian trtatjr far MV*B years was bjrttta Bonate net session, Jan. 33, by a vole of 43 to 11. Tbo Uacusslon in tbe Senate over tbe proposed ?"*** Britain was abaiactertarf b» be most bitter personalities. Evarts is said to' •» mortally offended wittBlddl.beraer tarda? scribing him as a -parrot or the other Just asTnls inlw ̂dî &S îuX day becoming more in love with monarchical bto - •titutlons ana dissatisfied with SSTOS & resolution bv MR Wallace cmtoeHawSTIS reciprocity treaty, which recites the s»J?r dent and Senate have ratiOed a conventions tending tbe terms of tbe treaty seven voir* longer, and that tbe treaty contains provisions /or the admission of certain articles free erf Autv, and instructing the Committee on' Jn- diciary to inquire into theee facta and report vliatha* * 4.1 ^ and ot.Representatives; WM idopted by This resolution ia in the interest of the Louisiana sugar planter*, who are opposed to the extension erf th3 Hawaiian treaty. Senator Biddleberger introduced a bill to abolish tbe Mississippi River Commission, which waa promptly referred. The Secretary of the Tre&s- ury sent a communication to the House in an- Bwer to a resolution, stating that the amount dnefrom the Pacific Kail road companies to tin : United States, on account of interest and bonds. ' was $157,332,615. The House considered tho river and harbor bill. THE bill to authorize the President of tbe United Statea to protect and defend tbe rights of American fishing vessels, American fisher­ men, American trading and other vessels in certain cases, passed the Senate Januarv Biddleberger of Virginia was the only Sonator voting in the negative. The bill concerning postoifices of the third class, providing that they ahall not be changed into postoffices of the fouith class, where tbe gross receipts amount to #1,900 a year or where the box receipts and commis­ sions constituting the postmaster's compensa­ tion amount to #i,0uu, passed the Senate. Sen­ ator Allison introduced the primary bank- reserve bill in the Senate. A resolution waa introduced in.the House by Congressman Law- ler directing the Committee on Naval Affairs to inquire into the expediency of a bill appropri­ ating 830,000,01)0, to be expended under the direc­ tion of the Secretary of the Navy, for the construction, equipment, and armament of such new vessels of war* as may be deemed necessary. Mr. Springer, of Illi­ nois, introduced a constitutional amendment changing the time for the assembling of Con­ gress to the first Wednesday in January of each year. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, introduced a bill to increase the naval establishment. It author­ izes the construction of two steel cruisers, of about four thousand tons displacement, of the type of "cruiser No. 1," at a cost, exclusive of armament, of not more than S1,HOJ,UOO each; five steel gunboats, of tbe type of "gunboat No. 1," at a cost, exclusive of armament, of not more than 8520,0 J0 each; and six steel torpedo boats, having a maximum speed of not less than twen­ ty-four knots per hour, to cost, exclusive of arm­ ament, $100,000 each. THE proposed woman-suffrage amendment to the Constitution was defeated in the Senate Jan. 25. Those Senators voting in the affirma­ tive were: Messrs. .Blair, Bow en, Cheney, Conger, Cullom, Dolph, Farwell, Hoar, Mander- • son, Mitchell (Pa.), Mitchell lOregon), Palmer, Piatt, Sherman, Teller, Wilson (Iowa)--16. Pairs--Messrs. Chace and Kansom, Dawes and Maxey, Gorman and Fryo, Stanford and Cam­ den, Miller and Kenna, Butler and Cameron, and Jonos (Arlc.) anil Harrison. Mr. Plumb waa absent when the vote was taken, but alterword said he would have voted aye, The Senate ap­ propriated for public buildings Se5J,0J0 at Min­ neapolis, £200,000 at Chattanooga, $300,000 a\ Charleston, 8150,000 at Los Angeles, and #52,00 at Santa Fe. The conference report on the urmy appropriation bill waa agreed to. An amend­ ment to the bill to create a Department of Agriculture was introduced by Sena- . tor Morgan, which provides for tho transfer of the signal service to civil . authority. Senator Beck introduced a bill to amend the oleomargarine law. The Presi­ dent Bent to the Senate the following nomina­ tions : William Reed Lewis, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul at Tangier; Thomas B. Connery, of New York, to be Secretary of tho Legation to Mexico; Aaron A. Vedder, to be Postmaster at Whitehall, 111., and John Banta to be Postmas­ ter at Muncie, Ind. The House decided the con­ tested Khode Island election case of Page vs. Pie«ce by adopting the minority report, which confirms the right of Pierce to the seat in tho House. A KKSOLUTION offered by Mr. Hoar, instruct­ ing the Committee on Privileges and Elections to investigate the allegations made by three residents of Washington County, Texas, as to their being driven from their homes, compelled to abandon their property, and deprived of the ' right of suffrage in that county, came up in the Senate Jan. 2tj, and gave rise to a warm debate. Mr. Coke protested that the proposed in­ vestigation was into' a subject outside tije ju­ risdiction of Congress. The State of Texas bad State autonomy. Her constitution and lawa were in full force and operation. She could re­ dress all grievances, personal or otherwise, oc­ curring within her t> >rders. The subject was one peculiarly within the jurisdiction of the State, and the resolution was an intermeddling with something belonging wholly to the State, and outside of the jurisdiction of the <ii3neral Government. He gave a history ot the case, to the effect that a respectable white Democrat had bjen shot by a colored man at the polls near Brenham, Texas; that three colored men had been arrested and placed in jail, charged with that crime ; that a mob had taken ttiern out of jail and hanged them, and that the three peti­ tioners, Hackworth, Moore, and Schultze, Who had been prominent in influencing and delud­ ing the negro population thero, had supposed their lives to be in danger and had tied tho country. He had received a telegram fr^m D, C. Oiddings, of Brenham, formerly a Kepresen- tative in Congress from Texas, saying that the three petitioners were of the worst typo of scalawags; that they had been main­ ly instrumental in stirring up strife between the races, and were charged with in­ vestigating the murder referred to; that they were not driven from their homas nor were their lives threatened, but that their own guilty consciences bad causei them to leave the country for the country's good Mr. Hoar said the three petitioners represented them­ selves to be men of property and wealth: that they had been earning their liv­ ing in peaceful, lawful, and honorable ways; and that they bad been driveu out from their homes on American soil. Mr. Hoar, referring to the speeches on the fisheries bill, asked whether the right of an American citizen was less sacred in the eye of the American Con­ gress when it happened to be violated on Amer­ ican soil. Mr. Eustis (a member of tho com­ mittee) opposed the resolution as a "waving of; the bloody shirt a little in advance of the usual season." Mr. Evarts (a mem­ ber of the committee) . sustained tho resolution and argued that now, when there waa an opportunity to prove, under the authority of the Senate, that this was a mere" "waving of the bloody ahirt." it should do so. The resolution was adopted--31 to 2J. By a vote of 17 to 31 tho Sen­ ate rejected the nomination of J. C. Matthews, a colored Democrat from Albany, as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. Tho Senate fisheries bill was laid before the House, and on motion of Mr. Belmont it was referred to tbe Committee on Foreign Affairs, and leave granted the cf m o ittee to report at any time. TBE agricultural experiment station bill pass­ ed tbe Senate, Jan. 27. It directs tbe estab­ lishment in conuection with the agricultural coll ges 01 a department to be known and designated as au "Agricultural Eipjrimant Station." Where there arj twj such colleges in one State the ainouut appropriated to each State and Territory for this pur­ pose ($15,000 a year) is to be equally divided between them unless the State Legislature shall otherwise direct. The ob­ ject aud duty of such experiment stations is: To conduct original researches or to verify ex­ periments on the physiology of plants and'ani­ mals ; the diseases to which they are severally subject and tiie remedies therefor; aud chemi­ cal composition of useful plants ; the compara­ tive advantages of rotative cropping; the capac­ ity of new plants or trees lor ac. liiflktion; tbe analysis of soiis aud water; the chemical com­ position of manures; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kiuJs ot food for demesne animals; the scientitlc and economic <iuestions involved iu the production Of butter aad cheese, and such other researches or experinie n« bearing directly on the agri­ cultural.. I s».ry of the United States as may uuvisable. Tbe Senate also passed "< Iljuse bill for the relief of dependent parents and of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors now disabled. A resolution was adopted directing an investigation by the Engi­ neer Bureau of the alleged obstructions to com­ merce iu the Columbia Itiver by salmon traps and wheels. Senator •Ingalls introduced a bill to amend the Kevised Stat­ utes so as to provide that no person shall be engaged in or carry on the business of rectifier, wholesale or retail liquor dealer, whole­ sale or retail dealer in malt liquors, or distiller, nor shMll the Collector of Internal Kev )uue re­ ceive from any such person any in pay­ ment of special taxes or for rav.^je stamps, until the dealer has first made a sworn state­ ment that he has fully complied with alt the laws concerning his business of the district in which the business is to be conducted. A reso- tion, previously offered by Mr. Hoar in executive session, declaring that after the Senate baa refused its advice and cousent to the appoint­ ment of anv person to office, it is contrary to the spirit and intent of the Constituti >n to des­ ignate the same person to the sum 3 odice imme­ diately thereafter, was taken up uy the Senate and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The House passed the river and harbor bill--yeas, 154 ; nays, U4--in tho exact form in which it was reported from the Com­ mittee on Kivers and Harbors. The House Judiciary Committee reported adversely a joint resolution providing for the election of United States Senators by the psojile of the States, and it was plaf" ' n -1 ».h • "n l '<» <r. As actor may b« another actyr'i enamy ts8