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paiiflealn IHMnVHE. Editor ami FsMisher. iLLiNora THS NBWS CONDENSED. EAST. HOB broke open the door of the OmI -.liftM, it Troy, N. Y., and wrecked the .̂ Ise*. mob smashed everything. Type ;;'iig strewn about the room, frames broken, And foRM wreeked. The raiders had their boet blackened so their identify ooold not be ascertained. Charles B. Con ant, the editor, was poanded and kicked after the ettce had been sacked. ^Recently the Chrl JhM been noted for the virulence of its at- tMiks (m the Kniffhts of Labor, and Conant that he recognized several of the at­ tacking party as members of the order Two of the wealthiest Episcopal churches in New York--Grace and Trinity--are to have free pews. The pews already sold an to be purchased by the churches and opened to the public The Mayors of Pittsburgh and Allegheny hare refused to Heebie John L. Sullivan's exhibition. A NEW-YOBKEK has invented a "vacuum oar" with which to navigate the air. . . . George Clark, the millionaire land-owner and bop-dealer of Springfield, Otsego Oounty, N. Y., has failed. THE polioe in New York arrested 300 ttoiekeepers and clerks for sweeping dust into the street. Each was fmedM^&yerelj - lectured *•.. j• THE. WEST. -';S GAS was struck at Shelbyville, ID.,, at the depth of 916 feet and 51 feet in white Trenton rock....A jury at Morris, HI., pronounced Schwartz and Watt guilty of the Bock Island train robbery and the murder of Messenger Nichols, and sen­ tenced them to imprisonment for life Another partial cure of consumption by the Bergeron method is reported from Teire Haute, Ind., the patient being Richard Jay, a nailer, whose death was momentarily ex­ pected. He is reported to be rapidly im­ proving. AT Morris, HL, counsel for Watt and .Schwartz entered a motion for a new trial, and were given ten days in whieh to file papers. The prisoners assert they are tlxe victims of perjury. LEASING citizens of St. Paul are organ- icing to bring about a centennial celebra­ tion of the passage of the Congressional ordinance organizing the Northwest Terri­ tory Hon. James G. Blaine, of Maine. accompanied by Mrs. Blaine, Miss Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Miss Hattie Blaine, and B. C. Kerens, of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, arrived in Chicago April 20. The party came from Fort Gibson by the way of St. Louis. Only one or two newspaper reporters and Mr. Blaine's two sons, Walker and Emmons, were on hand to welcome the distinguished visitors. Mr. Blaine was looking extremely well, and seemed to have grown much Center than he was when last in Chicago. AT Galena, 111., the proprietor of the De Soto House ordered from the dining- room a colored man who had accompanied the National Guard Company of Freeport to Galena, and who was breakfasting with the men. The military guests left the ho­ tel in a body and went to another hostelry. • THE SOUTH. |kr Smith County, Virginia, the bouse of a man named Brewles was destroyed by fire, in which two of his daughters, aged 19 and 21 years, were burned to death and three ether persons so badly injured that ' they cannot survive. The fire was caused by defective flues... Jfeout fifty New York city dealers in oleomargarine pleaded guilty of violating the law, and were fined from $50 to $10<J each. A DISPATCH from Waco, Texas, says: "The glorious rains of Western Texas that have filled the heretofore almost dry chan­ nel of the Brazos River have brought with the current a moss of polluted cattle car­ casses that offset the advantages of the rain and give promise of disease. The carcasses are evidently from the alkali country, as they are entirely devoid of hair. The stench from the floating carcasses is dreadful. The people are no less delighted at the vol­ s' Time of water than disgusted with the pollu­ tion." Maj. John E. Blaine, brother of the Hon. James G. Blaine, died at Hot Ark. um POLITICAL. SI&AYOLI COKE, of Texas, has written an open letter protesting against the Dem­ ocratic party, as such, taking sides on the prohibition question in that State Prom­ inent Democrats attribute their victory in Rhode Island to the tariff question, and to the fact that the demand for free wool brought the patty the rapport of that in­ terest. A HIGH-LICENSE bill, intended to cover the objections raised by Gov. Hill to the Crosby bill, has been introduced in the New York Legislature. It divides all saloons into two classes, the first comprising places where all kinds of liquors are sold, and the second where malt liquors, wines, and ci­ der only are sold. The rates established am as follows: New York and Brooklyn, first class $500, second class $100; Buffa­ lo, first class $300, second class $60; all other portions of the State, first class $100, second class $30. THE West Virginia Legislature met in extra session last week. May 3 is the dav eet apart to begin balloting for United States Senator The President has made the following appointments: Samuel F. Bigelow, of New Jersey, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; Henry F. Merritt, of Illinois, to be United States Consul at Chemnitz. New Mexioo A statement' Just pre­ pared by the Treasury Department shows that the number or distilleries run­ ning April 1 was 656, ' with a capacity of 311,'.*36 gallons. March 1 there were 634, with a capacity of 301,736 gallons. Thi number running in Illinois is twenty William J. Allen has been appointed to the Southern Illinois Judgeship* made vacant by the death of Judge Treat Col. Wes­ ley Merritt has been promoted to a brigadier generalship, to sncoeed Gen. O. B. Wilcox, retired. SIGOUKXET BOTLEK, of Boston, has been appointed to be Seoond Controller of the Treasury Edward A. Moseley, of Boston, has been elected Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission. MA/OR F. W. BENTEEN'S sentence to dismissal from the army for drunkenness has been commuted to one year's suspen­ sion from rank and duty on half pay Ed­ ward F. Bingham, of Ohio, has been ap­ pointed by the President to be Chief Jus­ tice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to fill the vacancy occasion­ ed by the death of Judge Cartter. Judge Bingham is a personal friend and associate of Allen G. Thurman, who warmly recom­ mended his appointment, as did all the members of the Supreme Court of Ohio. INTERSTATE COMMISSION. A CHICAGO man has written to the Com­ mission asking that Section 22 be sus­ pended for the Chicago and Northwestern Road. He complains that he now has to pay his fare, whereas formerly he had a pass Counsel for the League of Ameri­ can Wheelmen complains that the Coving­ ton and Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Company compels bicyclers to dismount iand walk over its bridge, and yet to pay an extra charge for their bicycles. The bridge has street railways over it, hence the writer assumes that it falls under the pro­ visions of the interstate commerce act.... Several petitions have been received from California business men asking for relief from heavy overland freight rates Representative Payson, who is strongly in­ terested in railroad matters in the House, said to an interviewer at Washington that he was disappointed and disgusted at the way things had been going as to the inter­ state commerce law. He declared that the Commission had no warrant for the sus­ pension of the long and short haul clause, and exceeded their authority in suspending it. The arguments upou which they acted in doing so, he said, were the same that were made against the bill in Congress, and were then overruled. If there was anything Congress insisted on, it was that clause. He thought that at the next Con-, gress the friends of the bill would propose to repeal the clause which gave the Com­ mission any discretion at all in the matter, and he thought Congress would insist that the long and short haul clause be given a trial. GEOBGE GKAY, attorney for the North­ ern Pacific Railroad, appeared before the commission and stated that on an examina­ tion of the fourth section he had reached the conclusion that the railroads could not take it upon themselves to determine what constituted "similar circumstances and con­ ditions." The traffic officers and the man­ agers of the road had prepared schedules to be submitted in an honest effort to comply with the law." He filed a petition substan­ tially similar in purport to those presented by the Southern Pacific. Gen. Will­ iam Belknap, representing tbe St Louis and San Francisco Road, presented a pe­ tition setting forth the circumstances influ­ encing the company's through traffic, and asked that the fourth section of the act be suspended. James F. Goddard, Assistant General Manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Company, was sworn, and in reply to inquiries by counsel substantiated under oath the matters f et forth in the pe­ tition mentioned above. He was in­ formed that since the new rate went into effect the steamships had raised their rates materially, keeping just enough below those of railroads to take the traffic. A. T. Britton, attorney of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, read a pe­ tition setting forth that the road and its connections were engaged in transconti­ nental traffic. In an honest endeavor to comply with the law it had put in opera­ tion new schedules, which, while they in­ creased the through rates, largely reduced the rates to intermediate points. The average reductions were from 5 to 30 per cent., according to the class of freight carried. While this had not rt suited in increasing the way traffic, it had entirely destroyed the through traffic. Charles H. Tweed, of New York, addressed the commission in behalf of the prater of the Southern Pacific Rai Iroad for a sus­ pension of the fourth section of the law in its behalf. A telegram was received from the manager of the New Almaden quick­ silver mine at San Jose, Cal., the largest in the United States, saying that the present transcontinental rates shut his industry out of the New York market.» «E>ERAL. •ay that ex-Secretary Manning is greatly improved in health Buccaneer, the fa­ mous stallion owned by the Austrian Gov­ ernment, for which $100,000 wM refused iu has been shot on account of his old age. SEVERAL Gladstone Liberals, says a cable dispatch, desire to have Parliament issue a summons to the editor of the Lon­ don Time# calling fcim before the bar of the House of Commons to answer for breach of privilege in avusiug Mr. Parnell other members of the House of complicity in crime, or that Mr. Gladstone propose the appointment of a committee to examine the Time*' charges. The Parnellites have been consulted, and their leaders opposed the proposition. Mr. Biggar will stio the Timet* for libel, and make that paper's articles on "Parnellism and Crime," of the series of which the Parnell letter was the culminating part, the basis of the action. FRENCH manufacturers ask their Govern­ ment to postpone the International Exhibi­ tion to a more favorable date than that of 1889... .The Vatican, in answer to in­ quiries as to whether the Pope was in favor of having a reconciliation effected with Italy on the basis of a renunciation of the Papal claims to the temporal power of the Pope, states that the Pope desires peace with Italy, but has never thought of abandoning the rights of the Church or the Papacy. • ? i. i : thx1- ADDITIONAL NEWS. r:'r ___ ; n; • ij NEARLY three pages of the last ispueof Bradstreefa was deroted to a review of the remarkable boom in real estate in the South and West during the pist months. The article says: "The activity in real estate within six months has been very conspicuous, the first four months of 1887 witnessing an extraordinary increase in the speculative interest. The greatest activity has ruled in the more recently set­ tled regions of the West, and in those* por­ tions of the South which have shown marked progress in manufacturing." THE Mexican House of Deputies has passed, by an overwhelming majority, a constitutional amendment which would give to President Diaz a seoond consecutive term of office... .A sensational newspaper of New York prints a letter from Havana stating that a band of Cabau outlaws laid their plans to capture Senator John Sher­ man on his recent visit, and only failed by being live minutes late. Miss MART GARRETT, cf Baltimore, offers to endow Johns Hopkins University with $35,000 per annum, on condition that the institution be removed to Clifton and that it sustain % scientific school. THE French have occupied the Wallis Islands, in the South Pacific, for a coaling station A chorister in the Military Academy Church in St. Petersburg com­ mitted suicide. It was then found that his house was a Nihilist rendezvous. ELEVEN TO ONE Disagreement of the Jury in the Trial of a John Arensdorf at Sioux Oity, Iowa. .rv ?• ' Tie One Jnrer Who Thought Hint Guilty Firmly Fixed In His ; " vy Opinion. IKDI'STBIAL BOTES. BTOVE-MOLDEKS in Pittsburgh and sur­ rounding towns refused 4o work on the boycotted patterns sent from St. Louis, and went out on a Btrike. In Pittsburgh fifteen foundries and over seven hundred men are idle. Nine hundred stove-molders at Cin­ cinnati struck against the boycotted pat­ terns. At Cleveland 500 went out, and at Louisville 500 quit work. The Bridge & Beach Manufacturing Company, of St. Xouis, whose patterns have caused all the trouble, started up their foundry ng>in last week. PROCTOR 4 GAMBLE, the well-known Cincinnati soap manufacturers, propose to •hare their profits with their employes. The plan is to appoint three trustees from the employes who shall, twice a year, after allowing,*) per cent, interest on the capital opployed and reasonable salaries to* the members of the firm, divide the remainder of the profits for the previous Bix months between the firm and the employes in pro­ portion to the capital and the wages earned The employes have accepted the proposi­ tion with thanks, and resolved to allow no outside influence to disturb the relations between them and their employers. WASHINGTON. THE Western Union Telegraph Company has increased its capital stock $1,200,000, making the total capital $81,200,000 Lieutenant John Danenhower. of Arctic fame, was discovered dead in his quarters at the naval academy at Annapolis, with a bullet hole in his right temple. He was found lying in front of his tire place with 1 a tag tied to his button-hole saying: "Send to my brother at Washington." Although he has had mental troubles since his return from the Arctic regions, what immediately led to the suicide is thought to be the recent grounding of the Constellation on its way to Norfolk, which he had charge of, and for which it is supposed he had a fear of being court-martialed. A LETTER from Rudolph Schnaubelt, the much-looked-for anarchist and alleged thrower of the Haymarket bomb, has been received in Chicago. Schnaubelt, about whom hundreds of most contradictory stories made the round through the daily press; whose corpse was upon one, occasion located in Lake Erie and shortly afterward found in a Connecticut village; who was seen in New York, New Orleans, Mexico and California, but never was captured, is heard from at last. He turned up in Ghristiania, Norway, and it is from there that his letter is dated. Schnaubelt denies throwing the Haymarket bomb, but says be is sorry he didn't do it, and only left be­ cause he knew it wasn't safe for him in Chicago, How They Wed in Albania. The dress of the Albanian women, says an exchange, is ungallantly de­ scribed by travelers as hideous. It is said to be of thick material and shape- less; a leather band enciroles the waist, and usually a little black cloak is thrown over the shoulders. .But the wearers are the most beautiful women of Eastern Europe, and their manners always gracious. Flirtation is unknown, and even tho most decorous love-making forbidden. The proper thing is for the lover never to see his intended till their marriage day. fehe has been carefully secluded in the recesses cf her home till her par­ ents think she is old enough to be mar­ ried. Having arrived at this conclu­ sion, they announce the fact; if the mere announcement is of no avail, they adopt strong measures. The lady's hrother will politely coin© up to a friend in the street and pleasantly remark: "You are just the fellow I wanted to see. My sister is 14 years old; you must marry her." No Albanian who respects himself rejects the proposal of his friend; in fact, he regards it as an honor, and knows that a refusal means a duel to the death. Like other more Western mortals, he may have a mor­ bid curiosity regarding his friend's sis­ ter's personal appearance, and then he has recourse to the inevitable old woman, the entremetteuse in the true sense of the word, whose profession is to intervene in such cases. She calls .on the bride, inspects her, and then re­ turns to the expectant swain with a de­ tailed account of the young lady's qual­ ities, of course colored in direct propor­ tion to the fee she has received. Then the wedding day is fixed, and at last the happy pair are face to face. The etiquette of Albania requires the bridegroom to be coy and reluctant; it is considered degrading to liis dignity to affect any tenderness for the fair sex, and therefore he is bound to offer strong resistance to her approach. In marked contradistinction to the usual marriage ceremonies, which point to a capture of the bride, the Albanian cus­ toms indicate a capture of the bride­ groom, and yet the whole race displays a degree of contempt for women which not to be found in the most bar­ barous nations. It is worthy of re­ mark, also, that in every family the males usually go\ to t(ie mosque, the fe­ males to church. \ A MCISIOK was rendered in the Su- fteme Court of the United States in what is known as ttte Maxwell land-grant case, thus settling finally a matter that has been in dispute before the Interior Department (Utd the courts for nearly twenty years. ¥h« eouit confirms the decree ot the Vnited States Circuit Court, and estab-IWMS tbe validity of the grant for 1,700,000 of land located in Colorado and | ADVICES from Bournemouth, FOREMAN. As THE result of a recent trial at Posen, Germany, nine socialists were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment An ele­ gantly dressed Frenchman called on Mar- shal Bazaine, in Madrid, and alter con­ versing with him a few moments suddenly drew a poinard and cut the Marshal about the head. Shouting "J'ai venge mapotrie" he fled, but was afterward arrested. The prisoner's name is Nillair, and he claims to be a correspondent of the newspaper Cour- rier de Rochelle. He says he went with the intention of killing Bazaine, and that his dagger was poisoned. Medical men believe that he is insane. THE following cablegram from Rome has been received at New York: "The Pope has decided the question of the Knights of Labor in favor of that organization. This decision will stand so long as the present method pursued in furthering their aims prevails. The document of Cardinal Gib­ bons has been indorsed. The Pope fur­ ther decides that in Canada, where a man- dame nt had been issued against the knights, the members of the order shall receive absolution on promise of obedience to future decisions of the Holy See. If the knights identify' themselves with the theories now being disseminated by cer­ tain agitators, this decision in their favor will be revoked." TH-E MARKETS, 87J6'« .27)6 « .20 @ .18 • «. .1334$ .12 «? .70 30.90 M .38 28 .21 .20 MM ."K .13 .75 @21.00 .39 .63 15.25 .78 & .76U "" & .39 & .33 & .63 (£16.75 & .83)4 19 .40)$ & .30* & 6.00 & 6.00 & 5.50 & .84 .« & .34)4 I .81 .28* @17.25 ' NEW YORK. CATTLE ...$5.00 @5.75 HOGS 6.75 @ 6.00 WHEAT--No 1 White 05 <& .95*4 No. 2 Red 92 & .93' CORN--No. 2. 49 <$ .50 ?ATS--White 88 0 .42 OBK--New Mess 16.00 @ 16.50 CHICAGO. CATTLE--Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 <§• 5.Z0 Ciood Hhlpping 4.25 <O) 5.00 Common 3.T# 4.50 Hoos--Shipping Grades 5.25 <D> 5.75 FLOUB--Winter Wneat....J 4.25 <$ 4.50 WHKAT~*NO. i Spring..-, 83 <S> CORN--No. 2 OATH--No. 2 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery Kine I>airy CHEESE--Full Cream, Cbeddar. l ull Cream, new EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu POKK--Meai MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash COBN--NO. 3 OATS--No 2 White RYE--No. 1 POIIK -Mesa TOLEDO. WHEAT -NO. 2 ,88 COAX--NO. 2 .. 40 OATS.... .» DETROIT. BEEP CATTLE 4.00 HOGS 4.«0 SHEEP ....; . 4.33 WHKAT--MICHIGAN RED 83 CORN--NO. 2 40 OATS--WHITE .34 ST. LOUISL WHEAT-NO. 2... .77... .83 CORN--MIXED .86 OATS--MIXED J(8 PORK--NTFW MESA.... 16.75 M CINCINNATI. WHEAT--NO. 2BED .83 CORN--No. 2 41 0 43' OATS--No. 2 80 ¥" .81 PORK --Meia 16.00 @16.50 LIVE Houfl., 6.00 6.75 BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hftra.. .SO .go COIIN--No. 2. Yellow 45 «» .45)4 CATTLE 4.50 & 6.25 INDIANAPOLIS. BEEPCATTLB 8.78 & S.A> Boas 6.56 @ 5.75 S H E B B . . . . J . 8 . 5 0 < 3 4 , 7 5 WHKAT--No. % Bed, ,.81 .81 )$ COBS--NA a. .87 <<E .87)2 OATS--Mixed : ... .29 & .80 KAM' LIBERTY. CATXL*--Bejrt €amsn&.'. .. Haas t| the case of Jot the wealthy brewer who has been on trial at Sioux City for several weeks past for the murder of Rov. George C. Haddock, has been discharged, having been unable to reach an agreement. The jury Btood eleven for acquittal to one for conviction. The latter was proof against the appeals and arguments of his eleven obstinate asso­ ciates, and as they were equally fixed in their opinions, the oontest ends in a drawn battle. It has been a protracted and weari­ some-trial, Involving the examination of over one hundred and twenty witnesses, with an immense volume of testimony. That a vast amount of perjuiy has been\ committed is apparent to all, aa shown by the conflicting testimony. It is not deter­ mined when another trial will be had. It is probable it will be in the May term. [Sioux City telegram.] Judge Pendleton made the closing argu­ ment to the jury for the defense, and Hon. M. D. O'Connell closed for the State. Sat­ urday afternoon tbe case was given to the jury. The instructions of Judge Lewis to, the jury were full and cloar, covering ev­ ery point of law involved in the case. Re­ ferring to the question of conspiracy, the Judge said the jury may and should take into consideration all the facts in relation to the prosecution of liquor cases in the courts to close the saloons on or before Au­ gust 3, the part that Mr. Haddock had taken in those prosecutions, the rela­ tions which Arensdorf and his alleged co­ conspirators sustained to the prosecution, the appearance of Arendsdorf and his al­ leged co-conspirators on the Btreets on the night of the murder, and also the meetings of the saloonkeepers at the various halls prior to that time. Under the indictment, the Judge held, it was competent to admit evidence to prove the fact of conspiracy, and if the jury is satisfied that a conspiracy was formed with which he was con­ nected, evidence of the acts or say­ ings of conspirators is admissible wheth­ er defendant was present or not. In relation to testimony of accomplices, the Judge instructed that it should be cor­ roborated, and the law says the corrobora­ tion must be such as connects or tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the ciime. It may be circumstantial or by witnesses, but it is not essential that it should cover all the matters involved. In proving an alibi, the Judge held, the burden of proof rests upon the de­ fendant. It must be established by pre­ ponderance of evidence, and evidence of that nature is to be critically examined and weighed, because of the facilities offered for introduction of manufactured testimony. In closing the Judge administered a severe reproof to one of the jurors, whose actions in court and talk on the streets have been subjects of comment. The Judge spoke as follows: . Gentlemen, at the conclusion of this lengthy case, and as you are about to retire, 1 ought to thank you for your promptness in attandanco and good attention. I think that no case has ever been tried in the courts where attorneys and jurors have made atrial more pleasant While I may say this with regard to the case and its conduct generally, I feel I would hot discharge my duty fully al.ould I fail to call attention to the fact that there is one juror who from the time he was sworn has shown a stubborn disposition and apparently no desire to reach the faats in the case. I think that I have never before seen such an exhibition of impatience and unrest as I have seen on the part of one of the jurors in this case. From day to day I have, regretted it. I trust now that wM|kthat juror is called upon to act in iffMtltag up a verdict in so important a case as this he will see the propriety and justice of giving that attention and deliberation which every fair and honest mind knows that both the State and defendant are entitled to. Lest this remark may be misapplied, in view of the faot that there has been some newspaper comment as to the juror Adair, I may say that the remark is not intended to in any way apply to him. I have been pleased to note that he, with ten other jurors, has given good and respectful at­ tention. This speech created a sensation in court. The jury went into retirement at 4 o'clock p. m. Saturday, and remained in seclusion until noon Sunday, when Judge Lewis called them into court and asked them if *, they had decided upon a verdict. Foreman Webster, who was the juror so severely criticised by the Judge in his instructions, answered that they had not. The Judge then said be supposed each of them had decided in his own mind as to what the verdict should be, and they replied that they had. The Judge said that he did not wish to keep the jury out to punish them, but to give them time to deliberate. Foreman Webster said that be did not believe they wanted the case taken from them yet. There was one Btubbom man on the jury, but he thought before night they could arrive at a verdict. Juror Dennis O'Connell arose and, address­ ing the Court, said that he had made up his mind in the case in the fear of God and without any regard to the favor of man. He had considered the case carefully and wished to do justice as between man and man and to his country and his God, and if he was kept there three or four weeks he should not change his opinion. The Judge said that, this being the condition of affairs, it would probably do no good to keep the jury out longer, and he ac­ cordingly discharged them. This leaves the case in tbe same condition as it was before the trial began, so far as the court is concerned. There is considerable comment on the street upon the action of tbe Judge, and the friends of Arensdorf are loud in their denunciation, while others pay that in view of the statement of Juror O'Connell he was justified. On the first ballot the jury stood ten for acquittal and two for convictiou. C. G. Goss was the other juror who voted for conviction, but after three ballots he went over to the ma­ jority, leaving O'Connell alone. Juror O'Connell was interviewed by a newspaper reporter. He was aBked: "Mr. Webster told Judge Lewis that you must have been bought by the prosecution. What have you to say to that? "I have been very careful to avoid even ipeaking to the Judge or the State's at­ torneys during the progress of the trial. I always passed them without so much as saluting them." "Wouldn't there be more likelihood of bribery on the other side?" "I don't want to implicate any one," paid Mr. O'Connell, significantly. "Were you offered a bribe?" "I was asked to name my price." "Are you willing to say for publication that you were asked to name your prioe?" "I am." "Was that offer made in behalf of the prosecution or the defense?" "It was in behalf of the defense." "Who made the offer?" "I decline to say at present, aa I do not wish to get him into trouble." erly direction, the large and upper end keeping a course more nearly straight and the lower end, referred to by eye-witoesses as the tail, lashing about, striking a house now and demolishing it, ami then not touching the earth for perhaps hundiedsof yards. ; . THE LIE DIBEOT. JP •«•«»* «•» Brlttok •wiii.jt Commons Daring the Coer­ cion Debate. Healy and Sexton Denounoe Mqjor Saun­ as a Liar--Heal? Suspended. ' t* [London cablegram.] One of the most exciting incidents in the present Parliament occurred soon after midnight. The debate on tiie second read­ ing of tbe crimeB bill proceeded decorous­ ly enough until Major Saunderson formu­ lated a charge against the Parnellites as being associated with crime and criminals. He named among the latter Patrick Ford, P. J. Sheridan, and Mr. Egnn. Mr. Healy rose to a point of order. The Speaker replied that Major Saun­ derson made the gravest changes, but these could be met in debate. He himself was unable to interfere. Healy responded that he would say what he thought of Saunderson regardless of consequence^. If Major Saunderson re­ ferred to him, he had no hesitation in say­ ing that Saunderson was q^ar. This re­ mark was greeted with roufl^ Parnellite cheers. The Speaker called upon Healy to withdraw his expression. Healy replied: "I am not entitled to rise until yoa sit down." The Speaker resumed his chair. Healy again took the floor and said: "I am only able to meet the charge in one way. If you rule Major Saunderson in order, my expression is equally in order. If you rule him out of order I shall withdraw my expression." The Speaker--"That's not so. Saunder­ son made a charge of the gravest nature. The responsibility rests entirely with him­ self. It is his duty to prove it if he can, I can not allow the expression you used." Healy repeated that Saunderson was a liar. A great uproar arose. The Speaker again called upon Healy to withdraw. Healy refused. The Speaker thereupon named him, and W. H. Smith moved that Healy be suspended. Mr. Redmond jumped np and shouted: "I say he is a liar, too." The House divided on the motion to sus­ pend Healy, which was carried--118 to 52. When the vote was announced Healy walked out of the House, applauded by all of the Parnellites, who stood up, waving their hats, and raising cheer after cheer. Mr. Sexton demanded that the gentleman should withdraw his statement that he had been the associate of murderers. The Major demurred. Sexton then, in excited tones, looking toward Saunderson, said: "You are a willful, cowardly liar, and if I had yon outside the doors of this House I would cram your words down your throat." Tbe Speaker promptly directed that Mr. Sexton withdraw his offensive expression, intimating that otherwise he would be com­ pelled, with great pain, to take the same couse as he had done in the case of Mr. Healy. Mr. Sexton replied that if Major Saunderson would withdraw the charge he would withdraw his language. The Speaker having appealed to the Major the latter made an explanation which satisfied Mr. Sexton. Maj. Saunderson resumed his speech. He said that Sexton was present at a meet­ ing at which Egan was made Secretary of the Clan-na-Gael, which was a murder so­ ciety of America. Sexton rose to a point of order. The Speaker advised Saunderson to with­ draw the offensive expression. Another scene of confusion ensued, Saunderson re- peatinghis words, whereupon Sexton shout­ ed: "The honorable gentleman is again a liar." The Speaker again called upon both members to withdraw their offensive in- marks, which they did. FIVfi PEOPLE KILLED. A Water-Tank on the Northwestern Railroad, Bursts with Fatal Besnlts. -• BIRTH OF A CYCLONE. Aa Ohio farmer llvholila m Strang* 8pec- tacln. IWheeling (W. Va.) telegram J The origin of the whirlwind which devas­ tated a large section of Belmont County, Ohio, a few days ago, has been definitely fixed. A farmer liviug just north of Lloydsville, a village sixteen miles west of this city, saw the column of dust and leaves rise where two depres- •ons in the rolling ground formed and allowed two currents of wind to cross at right angles. A little eddy started, sucking up leaves and dirt, and momenta­ rily increasing in size until it formed a col­ umn from the earth, apparently to the sky which advanced with fearful velocity, through an erratic course, in a general east- Persons Orerw the Weight of Several Tons of Water. * [Chicago special.' • terrible and peculiar accident occurred Sunday afternoon at Palatine, a station twenty-six miles northeast of Chic ago, on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. By the bursting of a large railroad water- tank five men were killed outright and four were seriously injured. At an early hour in the morning two freight trains collided at Palatine. Tho engines were wrecked and a number of cars demolished and hurled from the track. The colli­ sion occurred directly beside a large watertank which stands near the depot. The ground was torn np, and some of the supports must have been lowered. The water-tank had a capacity of 100,000 gallons, and contained at the time about 80,000 gallons. A wrecking train was sent out from Chicago, and a large force of men set to work to clear up the wreck. As it was Sunday, and tbe people of the village and neighborhood were idle, a large crowd of men and boys gathered around the scene of the wreck, watching the work of the wrecking hands. As the greatest amount of work was being done right beside the water-tank, the largest crowd of spectators collected there. Men and boys stood around and under the water-tank, and leaned against the large posts supporting it. Suddenly there was a report, in volume as loud as tbe disoharge of ten ordinary pieces of musketry, and the structure collapsed. The great, sides of the tank were forced outward, the hoops parted like threads, and, nnder the weight of 80,000 gallons of water, the heavy, water- soaked timbers and wroqght iron descended on the heads of the unfor­ tunates underneath. It would be impossi­ ble to picture the sight. Hemmed uuder the parted tank, and for a moment totally submerged in the deluge that followed, were the people caught in the crush. When the water had flowed off--the work of but a second--five men, instantly killed, could be seen through the ore vices'of the piled-up staves. The following are those who were killed and injured: Edward Wenke, of Palatine, killed; William Garms, of Palatine, killed; George Myer, boy, of Arlington Heights, killed; William Myer, brother of tbe pre­ ceding, of Arlington Heights, killed; Fred­ erick Boeger, of Arlington Heights, killed;' John Asmust, of Palatine, crushed about the head, probably fatal; Charles Storms, a boy, of Palatine, probably fatally injured; Augustus Fisher, of Palatine, severely bruised; unknown man, of Palatine, badly braised. Half a dozen ochere received minor injuries, but were able to get to their homes. HERE is the way they make sparrows useful in Germany: Long troughs, placed at the eaves of houses, are oc­ cupied by the sparrows in building their nests. Wlien the young are hatched and the mother goes out to procure food, wire screens are placed over them, with interstices large enough to permit the passage of food in to the younglings, but too small to allow them to escape. As soon as they are large and plump they are killed, and make a very desirable article of food. " '• "• Ov the 46,000 votes cast ia the last election in Washington Territory, 16,000 were cast by women. SUDDENLY CALLED AWAY. Death of Alexander Mitchell, the Millionaire Railroad He Expires Suddenly in a Hew York monia.. [New York special.! Alexander Mitchell, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Railroad, died at his rooms in the Hoffman Honse, in this city, on Tuesday afternoon. He had-been been gradually losing strength for two months, bat the illness which re­ sulted in his death began only a week ago. Mr. Mitchell some months age deter­ mined to withdraw from active business pursuits, and Dec. 1 last, accompanied by Kev. Dr. Kean, his old pastor, he started from Milwaukee in his private car for a trip to his winter home, in Florida, whither Mrs. Mitchell had gone some t:me before. 1 At his magnificent place, "Villa Alexandria," just at the head of the St. Johns Hiver, he devoted himself to the pleasures of a winter r<.sort, spending much lime out of doors and getting far more exercise than he had ever had before. Yet, although he seemed lo be in the best of spirits, he steadily lost flesh. He had always been one of ihe most methodical of men, and tbe c!.anfire told on him. Three weeks afto Mr. AJituhell and Dr. Kean left Florida, J caching this cify April 2, and going immediately to the Hoilman House. Two days later Mr. Mitchell com­ plained of feeling unwell and developed feverish symptoms, but he soon recovered and was able to go down town, although the feverish condition returned at in'ervals. His sou, John L. Mitchell, had joined him in the meantime, and with hi» son and a a party of friends Mr. Mitchell heard Patti sing at the Metro­ politan Opera House last Wednes­ day night. Sitting in the front of the box be was probably exposed to a draft, for be­ fore the last act he complained of illness and left the opera house. So weak was he when hia carriage reached the hotel that he had to be assisted to his room. After that he never left his bed. Dr. Edward Brad­ ley, his physician, found that he was suffer­ ing from a malarial trouble and bronchial pneumonia, from which he failed to rally. .He sunk into a state of coma Monday evening and ne^er recovered conscious­ ness. Death resulted from asphyxia, caused by broncnial pneumonia. Alexander Mitchell was bom Oct. 18,1617, in the pariah of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father was a farmer, nnd the early days of the future financier were passed in the same avocation. For two years he studied law at Aberdeen, and then went into a bank at Peter­ head and remained there nntil be came to Milwaukee in May, 1H:M, when, in company with George Smith, of Chicago, he organized the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Com­ pany, an institution that was in reality a bank, although not called one on account of the law then in force. The bills of this company were the only reliable paper currency the Territory had for many years, lyet despite tlie times every dollar was redeemed when presented. It is as a manager and promoter of railroads that the deceased was best known to the world, he having been for years at the head of the Chi­ cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, a cor­ poration that controls more miles of road than any other in the world. Politically Mr. Mitchell was originally a Whig, then he joined the Republicans in electing Lincoln and prosecuting the war, afterward joining with the Democrats in support of Presi­ dent Johnson. Since then his party sent him to Congress in 1870 and 1872, and would have continued him there hnd he not declined further office. He was one of the delegates that nomi­ nated Mr. Tilden, and was one of his most ar­ dent supporters. In 187!) the Democrats want­ ed hini to be a candidate for Governor, but he declined. Throughout his political career he was always moderate and conservative in his views, and seemed to favor measures that would insure general prosperity rather than party success. Mr Mitchell is survived by a wife, a son, John L., an adopted daughter, Mrs. Dr. Mackie of this city, and a sister and brother living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Mr. Mitchell's es­ tate is variously estimated at from 915,000,000 to 935,000,000. isfflgmw. ' X I I - I, MY*«& Sensational Statement Published If * Western Bentecraae^t * V Journal. The Preiident Will Set Under Any • : A LIFE SENTENCE, v -------------- Schwartz and Watt Convicted of Che Murder of Messenger Kel­ logg Nichols. The Jar? Return a Verdict After "Being Ont a Little Over Five Hours. fMorris (111.) speoial.] After a trial lasting thirty days, Schwartz and Watt have been declared by a jury of twelve good men and true guilty of the murder of Kellogg Nichols, and their punishment fixed at imprisonment for Hfe in the penitentiary. W|ien the jury re- tired, on Tuesday afternoon, it was the general opinion that there would be a dis­ agreement. After a seclusion of a little more than five hours word was sent to Judge Dibell that they had reached a con­ clusion. A few minutes afterward they filed into court. When Judge Dibell said: "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" E." H. Robinson, Ihe oldest jnror on tbe panel, arose and handed the verdict to the Sheriff, who passed it UD to the court. Judge Dibell scanned it, and tben read it: "We, the jury, find Newton Watt guiltv of the murder of Kellogg Nichols in the manner and form as charged in the indictment, and fix his penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of his natural life." The verdict as to Schwartz was then read. It finds him also guilty in tbe manner and form charged, and fixes his penalty at imprison­ ment in the penitentiary for his natural life. Each juror then in turn ratified the verdict. There was a death-like silence in tbe court-room. Watt was sitting near his brother, with his arms resting on the table, still gazing steadily at the jury. Schwartz sat near his father with his hands clasped across his breast, gazing away from the jury, seemingly insensible to their presence and veredict. Neither of the men mani­ fested ihe slightest emotion. Watt talked with his brother and smiled when spoken to by his attorney. Schwartz was more serious when his counsel approached him, but a slight, reluctant smile gathered on his countenance. The Court thanked the jury for the attention during the trial and dis­ missed them. The murder of Keliofg Nichols, for Which Echwartz and Watt were convicted, occurred ttse night of March 12, 18%; Nichols was ex­ press messenger rn the Rock Island train run­ ning out of Chicago. Ho was killed in iiis car, near Morris, and tLe safe opeued and riiled of » package of money containing about |2D, )0J, Clever Colored Women. Tlie richest colored woman in Amer­ ica is Mrs. Amanda Enbanks, of Rome, ( a., who pays taxes on $400,000 worth of property, said to have been inher­ ited by will from her white father. All over the country colored women are ad­ vancing themselves in all financial, in­ tellectual, and moral ways. In Phila­ delphia a colored woman writes for the newspapers, and is considered clever, and also conducts a special department in the leading organ of the colored race in this country. Miss Charlotte For- ten, now Mrs. Franfe Orienke, has written for the Atlantic Monthly. A colored woman is a lawyer in New York City, and in other cities of the North are to be found many colored women physicians. It is a little bit curious to know that the first. Sunday-school in New York City was started by two col­ ored women.--New Orleans Picayune. A special dispatch from Washington to the St. Louis Republican gives this rattier startling information: President Cleveland neither wishes nor will accept a renomtnatton. This will be Btartline information to the country, setting at re at th* important question of a second term, now the subject of interested consideration in political circles everywhere. The correspondent of the Be/nibUcan has the highest possible authority for the statement, however, and it can be de­ pended upon as strictly and entirely true. It comes from the President himself, who m.j. a declaration to this effect Wednesday to a prominent Democratic Senator from one of the Western States, who is on terms of especial in­ timacy at the White Honse. The President spoke with so much deliberate earnestness and such studied emphasis that the Senator with whom he was talking Is certain there is no rea­ son to question his perfect and entire sincerity His manner, no less than his wprds, indicated that the declaration was simply the decision of a firm resolution which had resulted from care­ ful consideration of all phases of the matter. The President said he had not given any intima­ tion of his feelings to the representatives of the press for tho simple reason that he felt nothing: he might say about not wishing or being willing to take a second ttrm would be believed "I hardly expect anybedv to believe it," he said "except my wife, but it is so none the less." Continuing, he added: ".Everything Z do every appointment I make, they think it is to secure re-election. On the contrary, X am connt- ing the days that remain until suy release from office, just as if I were a prisoner in confine- £uent-. Ko man, be said, could endure tfa& severe strain of such labor, at once physical and mental, for a longer period than four years without risk of permanent injury to His health. For these reasons he could not think of a con­ tinuance of his term beyond tlie four years ho has now half completed. Nothing, he said to ®®T1B^orial visitor, would persuade bim to» -alter this resolution, wliich lie li&d deliberately formed. He did not want a second term, and bo did not believe there were any obligations of Eublic duty which could require him to foreso is personal wishes. The Senator, who has repeated this signifi­ cant conversation to his friends, says that while- the President was not talking for the purpose of getting his views about re-election before the- public, there was no intimation that he desired his words to be regarded as confidential. The Senator has spoken freely of the interview to- personal friends without any injunction of se­ crecy, and it is not unlikely this private dis­ cussion of the matter will eventually pro­ voke some formal and public utterance by the President. The Senator is quite sure there was none of the coy strategy of the artful politician who thinks by thiB device to appear as being sought by rather than seeking the of­ fice in this disavowal of second-term nmbition by President Cleveland. He is convinced that every word is meant for jnst what it implies, and that it will be wholly useless to plan the next campaign on the basis of a renomination of Cleveland. The President was specific and decided in saying he could not be induced by any possible considerations to change his mind, that ther* was nothing in tho way of argument which could be brought to bear to alter a resolution determined alike by every consideration of per­ sonal comfort and happiness and by the most conscientious regard for what could fairlx.be; asked ot him as a patriotic servant orAt people. . ia • K t if WEPT BY STORMS. 1 « Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kentucky Devastated by Terrific Winds. Scores ef Men, Women, and Instantly Killed by Flying Debris. ifcflMssonli [Nevada (Mo.) special.] A terrific cyclone swept over thi# (Ver­ non) county Thursday night, dealing death and destruction wherever it struck. Fences, houses, barns, and everything in the line of the storm, which was about half a mile wide, were picked up, rent into splinters,, and cast down hundreds of yards away. These were torn up by the roots. Over thirty houses were destroyed, and about fifteen persons killed. Bel'iable news has only been received from Osuge Township, and it is thought that the death-rpll will be swells& t̂o over seventy-five. \ In Arkansas. IClarkaville (Ark.) special.] A terrible cyclone passed over this coun­ try from west to east, from two to three miles wide, Friday morning, doing fearful damage. Houses and fenccs were demol­ ished as if they had been conslructed of straw. Six persons were killed aud a num­ ber of others more or less injured. The loss to fawners in buildings, fences, stocks, and growing crops is very heavy. All the farms are lying open, and many families will suffer if ilot aided at once. In Kansas. 4 [Prescott (Kansas) special.! ^ "lit;; terrible cyclone swept this piaea Thursday evening. There were fifteen killed at different points throughout tho county, and an incalculable amount of damage was done to all kinds of property. Prescott was literally wiped out of exist­ ence, not a single building being lef t stand­ ing to mark' the site of a once prosperous and thriving plac?. Reports are coming in from all over the country of damage by the terrible storm. Hail fell all over the county, some stones measuring thirteen inches in circumference. The force of the storm was appalling, and wonderful freaks were performed by the wind. It is report­ ed that several persona were killed in Blue Mound and Mapleton. • In Kentucky. [Cincinnati special.] A tornado swept through apbrtton of Kentucky, south of Cincinnati, Friday morning. At Paris, while a violent rain­ storm, with thunder and lightning, was in progress, a continuous rumbling sound was beard, w hich proved to be a tornado, which passed in a few minutes, leaving a track 400 yards wide in which trees were leveled and houses unroofed. No loss of life is reported. The damage to property """ia beavy. * In Texas. [Blossom Prairie (Texan) > A cyclone passed over (his town Friday morning, doing much damage. No lives were lost. The storm moved north, pass­ ing through tl e town in about four min­ utes. Nearly every business house in the village was moved from its foundation. Several dwellings were nnroofed. Great damage was done to fences and orchards in the country. • Storm DamagHH at Other Points. Windows were smashed at Centralia, 111., by huge hailstones, the storm being followed a few hours later by a heavy fall of rain. A heavy snowstorm oc­ curred Friday in Northwestern Wis­ consin. Seven inches fell at Ban Claire, and at Ashland trains were blocked. A fierce gjile piled the snow into drifts. Snow ana sleet storms are also reported from portions of Minnesota and Da';ota, followed by cold weatber, which will retard seed planting, already ten days or two weeks late. An ice gorge at Mon­ treal caused a sudden rise of four feet in the St. Lawrence, doing considerable damage. Wanted to Kidnap Sherman. . Ftom private letters from Havana it is learned that a party of kidnapers or out­ laws, "comprising much of the dangerous elements of Cuban banditti, had arranged to capture Senator John Sherman on his recent vis t to Cuba. Tbe project only failed by a differ­ ence in time. The plot was well arranged, the banditti were iii sufficient for 10 to cap­ ture Sherman's party; but, fortunately lor the distinguished gentleman's safety, they left the plantation intended as the scene of the outrage just five minutes before the outlaws appeared* It te thought that the owner of the plantation was a party to the scheme. M