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carjr f Mntfealw ILLINOIS I. VAN SLTKE. Edmr Md Publisher. McHENBi, 1 TURBULENT WORLD. JXTOBTANT HAPPENINGS OF PAT TOLD BY TELGOHAMT. j = S#sMitfn and Domestic IntfltlganM Trans­ mitted by Wire--A Kaleidoscope of Inter- ciitlng Occurrences--Political. Criminal, Accidental, and Industrial. REBELLIOUS REPUBLICANS. JSS|IJC«RTALB Portlom of th« Tariff Bill Dm Not < V RECEIVE Their Support THE Senate spent moat of the 16th inst; de­ bating the amendment by Senator Plumb to the eilver bill now tinder consideration. The amend- ! '"*nent provides that tho Secretaryjof the Treas- ? "tiry shall at no time be allowed by law to retain (MID bold in the Treasury Department as a sur- !•" 'T,'1»1UB an amount to exceed $HO,OOT»,OJU. This vv-'fcmendinent provoked a running debate, in •?, %-hieh Senators Plumb. Ingalls, ISherman, Ed- ' jfiiiirdfl, Allison, Cockrell, Reagan, and Vest par- • '-pyicipat-ed. All the speakers condemned the I.,>if«licy of hoarding money in the treasury, and ;V|ILPOME such measure as Senator Plumb's IS likely 4O pass. In the Hcnise Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, and Mr. Candler, of Massacliu- I ipettn, kicked over the traces. THE tariff ] |»ill wan under discussion in the House, and *llr. McKinley offered an amendment specifically ; •' Including gl'iss chimneys in the clause relative j 'I vi:. to thin blown glass at a duty of 10 cents a dozen ' ' ,I*ND 40 per oeiit. ad valorem. Mr. Henderson ; FEF? ' ' IAID he would decline to vote for the increase of ^..LIKNY duty when he had not the information to I •. iJuBtifv that vote. Mr. Candler stated that his j '•'*'*<S»ON8T ftuents were opposed to the feature | ' •'.IT>f the hill under discussion and that he ; phould vote against it. An amendmf1 it I • Offered by Mr. Henderson to leave the #uty on lamp chimueys as under ! ;the present law was defeated by a vote of 107 to .308, and the McKinley aniendiiient was agreed '•O. The wool schedule was next taken up, and R.;*eveTftl minor amendments offered by the Committee of Ways and Means adopted after •onsidt ralle discussion. The duty on woolen jfaru, which was fixed by the bill at twice the AMOUNT per pound of "the duty on-wool, was liaised to two and one-half times the rate on Wool. and the duty on wools of the third class : '•alued at 13 cents per pound or less was in- . -ij-eased to 32 per cent, ad valorem, and on those .'•> %alued at over 13 cents per pound was fixed at , JSJ per cent, ad valorem. At 5 p. M. the House ' fcok a recess until evening for consideration of to ameliorate the condition of the exiles in Siberia. BY tho explosion of the boilor of a Beading Railroad engine, near Sbanao- kin, Pa., Engineer Hoglegenz and Fire­ man Kanflmnn vera instantly killed Mid Conductor Yeager fatally injured. RoBtBT SHAW & SONS , of Bradford, cvnen of one of the largest cotton spinning mills in England, have become ao gre tly embarrassed a« to necessitate their assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities of'the htm are $500,000. A TRIPLE mnrder has. been committed at Bent!eysville, Pa. John Crouch, a fanner, his wife, #nd son Andrew, flged there in 1816. He was Secretary of Lega­ tion at London during President Van Bnren's administration. He was elected Mayor of Philadelphia in 1856. He has always been a ul ilwart Democrat. THB President ha* rent to the Senate the following nominations: Registers of Land Offices--J. I, Nesbitt, of Nebraska, at North Platte, Neb.; J. F. bheelian, of California, A" SEN Franeisoo; Joseph Tracy, of California, at HuuiUddt; J. H. Mclv W, of Colorado, at Hugo, Col. Receivers oi Public MONEYS--H. C. Heydlapf, of Wisconsin, at ABU- ltnd, Wis.: I). K, Honigardner, of Nebraska, at McCook. Neb. ; A. 8. Raldwin, of Nebraska, at North Platte; T. B. LAUG, of Oregon, at The Pallet. Oregon; L. E. Foote, cf Colorado, at Hugo. Col. ; A. T. Campbell, of Montana, at Miles City, Mont, Pay Inspector Edwin Stew­ art, United States navy, to BE Chief of Bureau of Provisions and Clothing and Paymaster Gen­ eral in the navy, with lank of Commodore. av i i;ninn ,n ihit _v, Peter Kenan, of Montana. to ba Indian Agent at thirty-five liviu£ ID THAT noi0U8u« TH#Jhiat A^oucy ** were"found (lend at t eir home, with their" .American. W. L. Ttochest(I7.16 6R tthletic....L3 ouisville.,10 St. Louis... 10 TOLEDO 8 Columbus.. 9 -Syracuse... 8 Brooklyn... 4 mi ; ..Ill -Iowa. W. V I>ubuqua...l0 '.,»ttuin«».. 0 jfonmouth. 7 C di Rapids 7 "v;- Ottawa .... 5 Aurora..... 4 ' Joliet 1 * ^Sterling.... 0 throats cut from ear to ear. The son's head was terribly bruised, showing evi­ dence of a struggle with the murderers. The appearance of tLe house indicate! that a thorough search of the premises had been made, as though to obtain plun­ der. The Ooucli fnmily were among the [ most respectuble and well-to-do people of : the community, and were supposed to j hav» larpe sums of money about (he | house. There is no clue t o the murderers. ! A NEW YOKK dispatch says: Judge Wallace of the United States Circuit Court, in the suit of David Armstrong, the loceiver of the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, against the Chemical 'National Bank, has entered a decree ordering the payment by the defendant to the complainant of the sum of $271,808. The suit was brought May :tl, 1^88, to re­ cover the balance due on collaterals given for an unpaid loan in excess of the amount loaned. AT Worcester, Mass., rfhe wife and daughter of President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, were suffocated by escaping gas. AT Lowell, Hag*., Ernest N. Bice, aged 16, and Perry BOBS, 17, sons of re­ spectable parents, are under arrest for burglary, having robbed A. S. Lyon's house of a watch and jewelry. They tamed on the gas to render the inmates insensible, and wonder is expressed that the entire family escaped death by as­ phyxiation. NELSON H. DAVIS, Brigadier General, U. S.A., retired,died at Governor's Island, N. Y. He had just arrived upon the island to visit friends, and was apparently in good health. On entering Gen. Tomp­ kins' office he was stricken down by an apoplectic fit and expired. • WE STERN H APPENING S. THE Missouri State Board of Railroad Commissioners has rendered an im­ portant decision to the effect that here­ after the practic« must be abandoned of collecting extra fare from passengers who fail to bu}' tickets, where the extra fare is in excess of the statutory rate. A DESPERATE conflict has taken place between Chickasaw cattlemen and Okla­ homa farmers on the South Canadian River, about seventeen miles from Okla­ homa, I. T. Five farmers were killed outright and several others badly wound­ ed. The formers have adopted a herd law among themselves and refuse to fence their crops. The cattlemen drove their herds over the river from the Chickasaw country, when the settlers resisted, nnd the bloodshed resulted. A number of the cowboys were wounded, but they fled, and it is pot known wb ether any were killed. Marsha1* are in pursuit. C. A. FILLSBURT, of Minneapolis. say» that the reportB of his buyers in both the Dakotas show that very much less rain has fallen there this spring than has been claimed, and that the condition of th« wheat orop is cashing much anxiety. As A result of the meeting of the Sheet Glass Manufacturers' Association, held recontly in Chicago, it was decided to shut down all blasts on the 1st and 15th of June, instead of July, as has been done heretofore. THE Plattsburg bank of Plattsburg, Missouri, has closed its doors and made an assignment of all its effects to Beatty O'Connor. The bank has always been considered in a sound financial condi­ tion, and the assignment caused consider­ able surprise and talk. The cashier is authority for the statement that the liabii- pane of glass." A 4 itiet are but $40,000. The assets consist Ice wis one'IShth'oT^tnch 1 of *50,000 in notes and $25,000 worth of • BASE-BALL. ' Relative Positions of the Various Clubs In thi Leading Organizations. *" • Players. W. L. c.I National. W. " ®hicogo 11 6 .<>43 Philad'phiall Boston IS 8 .600 Chicago 9 , JL^OOKLYN...!! 9 .550 Cincinnati..10 rittsburjj.. S 8 .5<X;.Brooklvn .. 9 1 tfhilad'phi* 8 10 .««;Cleveland.. 7 1 - Cleveland.. 8 8 .428 New York.. 9 JiewYork.. 1 10 .411 Pitt->burg.. 7 • Suffalo .... 5 8 .384 Boston 8 L. 5 6 8 8 7 10 10 12 .643 .600 .555 .£» .500 .473 .411 .400 SL& Western.. W. L. 19 c. ' .727 Denver... . .12 {J ,6(!0 TSGDES Moines. 13 ,5JB Sioux City. 10 .526' Mimiapolisll .4141Milwaukee. 9 .428Ouiaba 9 .380;St. PAul.... 8 .210 Kan aa City 7 ^ c. Interstate. W. L.OGO Burlington .10 . 8 3 3 P e o r j a . . . 8 ,B36 Evansville . 6 .583-Galesburg.. 6 .454 Terre HA'te 6 .444 Quincy S .100 .000 .31)0 .525 .523 .473 .428 .400 .308 F»c. .714 .571 .461 .461 .488 .375 HEAVY DAMAGE BY FROST. Fruit and Crops Suffer in Kaifcas, Xlssouri, Iowa, and Other States. ^ UNTIMELY frosts have caused consider* itble damage in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Snd Illinois, as the following dispatches aliow: A Winfleld, Kansas, special reports a heavy frost over houthern Kansas. Small fruits, wbere exposed, were nearly all killed. Vegetables on the low lands were badly injured. Corn i s in­ jured in many localities, and where frozen to the ground will be total! v destroved. A Kansas City telegram reports heavy frosts in portions Of Kansas and Missouri. Strawberries, grapes a»d berries of all kinds arecompletelv destroyed a»d»garden vegetables frozen to the ground. "At K1 Dorado the thermometer registered below FREEZING. The wheat crop was considerably Injured and fruits and vegetables were also hurt. At Atchison wheat was dam­ aged considerably and some fields that had begun to bloom were ruined. The IFOET was very heavy at Emporia, but seems ttot to have done^mucn DAMAGE except to vege­ tables. At Marshall, Mo., ice formed one-eighth ,.®F an inch thick. The growing corn has been - ®U<-H injured. A Waterloo, la., special says: ,JV severe frost in this locality damaged fruit *nd garden vegetables badly. In this city ice ~as irozen as thick AN in Montana. IK executive session the Senate has | confirmed the following nominations: Oklahoma Officials--George W. Steele of In- I diana, tiov«iuor; Kobert Martin of Oklahoma, L-wsremry; Edward H. Green of lllinoiH, Cuief Justice 01 the (supreme Court; K. J. Soay of Misoouri and .1. (J. Clark of Wisconsin, Asso­ ciate Justices; W. S. Lurty, Marshall; Horaoe Speed of Oklahoma, Attorney; All>ort H. Jones, United States Marshal for Colorado; W. H. Clayton, Attorney for Western District of Arkansas; John S. Durham of Pennsylvania, Consul at San Domingo. The nomination of William D. Horsby, to bo Consul-General to Ecuador, was confirmed by a strict party vote. THB Republican convention in( the Third Pennsylvania Congressional .JDisi trict decided it inexpedient to nornm-M#) a candidate and adjourned. The election will therefore be a walk-over for Mr. YftQx, the Democratic nominee* ACROSS THE OCEAN. ' WET weather has again given to Queen Victoria the rheumatism which she went abioad a month ago to cure. A MADRID cable sayB: Lieut Gen. Cassola died at his home in the Calle de Goya. Gen. Cassola served with dis­ tinction in Africa, Cuba and the Carlist' war. When Spain no longer required his services actively in the field, he at­ tained oqual distinction as a statesman, being Minister of War under Sagasta. EMIL BEY demands from the Egyptian Government seven years' arrears of pay. In addition to this, he asks that the Gov­ ernment grant him a pension. IN the Italian Chamber of Deputies Premier Crispi stated that the policy of the Dreibund was unchanged. It was a policy of peace and menaced no one, be­ ing solely of a defensive character. In re- ferrind to the African estimates Sig. Crispi said he was confident there would soon be formed an Italian EaBt African company. Speaking of the condition of the working man he said the Government had under consideration a measure which would reform existing regulations regard­ ing emigration. A QUANTITY of balistile, the new ex­ plosive, exploded at a factory near Turin, Italy. Fourteen persons were instantly killed and many others injured, some of them fatally. GENEUAL BOOTH, commaader-in-ehief of the salvation army, has opened a bank in London for the benetit of the poor whose deposits would not be received by the ordinary banking institutions owing to the smallness of the sums tendered. He explains that hiB object is not to make' money, except for those who transact business with tbe bank. K - >J®RO°klyn, la. special says : "There has been IS FROST here. Ice was one-eighth of an in< ; SULCK- SMALL fruit and vegetables were badly _ damaged. Potato vines and grape leaves are V' * #lack and flat on the ground.7 Dispatches from 1. •; flections of Illinois report a frost which danv "* #4>ED the fruit and early vegetables. • ^ *' * CARLISLE IS CHOSE&. fix-Speaker NominatMl for UNITE# States ^7 Sena'or. •?. ; , ^ FHANKFOBT (Kyi) dispatch says: Democratic caucus held to nominate : candidate for the United States Senate to fill out the unexpired term of the late Hon JameB B. Beck was short, yet lull of interest and excitement. Immediately upon the assembly of the caucus, the 36fegw»thdrawal of ex-Gov. Knott and Hon. Evan T. Settle was announced, after which 1 ballot was taken, resulting in Carlisle receiving 52 votes, Lindsay 33, and McCreary 30. The name of ex-Gov. McCreary "was then withdrawn, which left the contest between Carlisle and Lindsay. The second ballot resulted: Carlisle 72. Lindays 43, and Carlisle was declared tae nominee of the party. A committee was then appointed consisting f I-r\ of Hon. James Mulligan, who nominated FEE unincumbered real estate. Too much real estate and a falling off in business is the cause assigned. AT a meeting of the Board of Regents Of the University of California in San Francisco the resignation of President Horace David was accepted, to take effect Sept. 15. THE family of Mrs. Ahlers, at Ivanhoe, Ohio, have been made dangerously ill by eating sausage supposed to contain tri­ chinae. FIRE at St. Louis burned a part of Hellert 4 Hoffman's chair factory. The loss is $60,000, with $28,000 insurance. THE Winona (Minn.) Mill Company's flouring mill and elev ator have been de­ stroyed by fire, with 25,000 bushels of wheat 8nd 1,200 barrels of flour. The loss is figured at $300,000, with $200,000 I insurance, mostly in mutual companies. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. _ A BATON ROUGE, La., dispatch says: v Carlisle and Hon. C laude Thomas, who j The Governor's message submitted tpthe ' seconded the nomination, to notify the ' T.A()iawn^ JL,.* successful candidate of hw victory. They escorted him into the Senate chamber amid great applause, and, Mz. Carlisle made a brilliant speech accepting the nomination. w Fire Horror in Italy. I DUBING a fire which destroyed a car- 1 bridge, factory at Avigliano, Italy, many 1 workmen were trampled to death in their ' efforts to escape. Sixteen were taken i out dead, and a large number were more or less seriously injured. A Week's Business Serenes. BUSINESS failures for the week number 212, compared with 209 last week, and 242 in the corresponding week of 1889. lExclse Commissioners Indicted. Nxw YORK'S Grand Jury has found indictments against Excise Commission- • ere James Fitzpatrick, Joseph Koch, and Alexander Meakin, charging misde­ meanor in neglecting to investigate cer­ tain alleged violations of the election laws which were reported by the City Reform Club. A City Destr6ye«I by Fire and Flood. A ST. PETERSBURG cable says :. The city of Tomsk, West Siberia, has been almost totally destroyed by flood and fire, involving the loss of many thousands. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. ASA BISHOP, an employe of an acid factory at Middletown, N. Y., committed suicide by jumping into a caldron con­ taining boiling acetate of lime. His fel- low-workmen pulled him out as soon as possible, but he was so badly scalded that he soon died in great agony. Bishop was eccentric and it is thought he was insane. A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated in New York to secure 1,000,000 signatures to a memorial to be sent to the Czar of J&cssia, asking that he look into and seek Legislature takes strong ground against renewing the charter of the lottery com­ pany. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., has been Im­ partially destroyed by fire. The fire broke out in a grocery store and spread rapidly. The inmates of Mrs. Kelly's boarding-house were cut off and escaped in.tbeir night clothes to the roofs of ad­ joining buildings. Ten stores were burned and tbe loss is $50,000. A LOUISVILLE dispatch says*. A cais­ son at the new bridge being constructed over the Ohio from this city to Jefferson- i ville overturned and three workmen were : killed, while twelve others had a narrow escape from drowning. The names of the dead are: C. P. Witehell, second as­ sistant superintendent; CbarleB Sander- sky, a carpenter; and Joe Walton, a col­ ored man. THE Lottery Company has offered the Louisiana State Government $1,000,000 a year for a renewal of its charter, A LOUISVILLE, Ky., dispatch says: Over 12,000 people cheered the all-winter favorite, Riley, home, as he won the Ken­ tucky Derby--not only in brilliant style but just as he pleased, nothing being in it at the finish but the winner, who liter­ ally walked away from his field. THE Rev. Dr. A. Blackford, Presby­ terian missionary to Brazil, died at At­ lanta, Ga. He was en route to the Gen­ eral Ajjfembly at Saratoga. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. FRESH AND NEWSY. THE visible supply of wheat and*com is, respectively, 22,791,913 and 11,415,428 bushels. The increase since las! report is: Wheat, G64,686 bushels, and corn, 1,274,507 bushels. THE Alton, Wabash, and Missouri Pa- cifio^have met the $1 rate from Kansas City to St. Louis made by the "Q.," and tickets to that point can now be had at that price. The indications are that the rate will go still lower. GEX. THOMAS H. LOOKEB has re­ signed the office of Chief of the Bureau of Provisions aud Clothing, on account of ill health. THE action of the Secretary of the Navy in the case of Bowmen H. McCalla, late Commander of the United Statqg steamer Enterprise, has been made pub­ lic. McCalla was tried by court-martial on five chbrges, as follows: Striking another person in the navy (Fireman John E. AValker); violation of the twenty- fourth article of the articles for the gov­ ernment of tbe navy (inflicting improper punishments); maltreatment of persons subject to his orders; conduct unbe­ coming an officer of the navy, and violation of the tenth clause of the twentieth article of the articles for the governmant of the navy, in failing to read to the ship's company the articles for the gov­ ernment of the navy. The court found him guilty of all the charges and sen- tencrd him "to be suspended from rank and duty for a period of three years and to retain his present number on tho 1 st of commanders while so suspended." The action of the department is embodied in a general order issued by the Secretary ap- pioving the sentence. A Rio DE JANEIRO cable says: A ris­ ing of the people against the Government took place at Porto Alegre, In the prov­ ince of Rio Grande do Sul. A portion of the troops fraternized with tne people. The outbreak was suppressed by the po­ lice and the troops who remained loyal. During the fightin? a number of people were wounded. The Governor of the province has resigned. The primary cause of the disorders was discontent over the new banking laws. VABKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Prime f 5.00 THE announcement is made that Stephen B. Elkins will probably be a candidate for Congress in the Second West Virginia District. IN Mr. Randall's old Congressional district (the Third Pennsylvania) the Hon. Richard VAUI was nominated by the Democrats for Congress. The elec­ tion will be held May 20. Mr. Vaux is a native of Philadelphia, having been born FairtoOood.. Common Hoos--Shipping Grades KHEKP WHEAT--No. 2 lied CORK-- No. 2 OATB--NO. 2 RYE-- NO. 2 BUTT KIT--Choice Creamery...... CHEESE--Full Cream, flats.,."... EGOS--Fresh POTATOKS-- Choice new, per bo.. Poaa--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring ,j CORN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White RYE--NA. 1 BABLET--No. 3 POBK--Mess DETROIT. CATTLE Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COHN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT, CORN--Cash OATS--No. 2 White *EW YORK. CATTME Hoos SHEET.... WHEAT1--No. 2 lted v..., CORN--No. 2 White R* OATS--Mixed Western PORK--N ew Mess ST. LOUIS. CATTLE. Hoos WHBAT-NO. 2 Bed A Cobn--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Rik--NO. 2 INDIANAPOLIS, CATTLE--Shipping Stem Hoos --Choico i iight. SHKEP--Common to Prime...... WHKAT--NO. 2 Hod V. CORN--No. li White OATS-No. 2 White. CINCINNATI. Hoos WHEAT--No. Red COBM--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 Mixed RYE--No. 2 BUFFALO. CATTLE-Good to Prime Hoos--Medium and Heavy...... WHEAT--No. 1 Hard Colas--No. 2 4.50 3.00 >.75 4.50 .03 .34 .27 .52 .10 .08 .11*8® .40 0 5.75 & 5.00 & 4.50 C'« 4.50 & 7.00 & .94 .34V; .27!^ .53 .18 .091a .12% 52 12.50 &13.00 .88 @ .34>£® .2» <£5 . 5 - 2 & .S3 •£* .30 .53 46* 12.50 @13.00 3.00 8.00 8.50 .97 .35 .31 .92H® ,35>i <» .30 @ 4.25 4.2.5 4.00 .98 .41 .32 14.00 4.25 4.00 .92 .33 .29 .52 8.00 3.00 3.00 .95 .35 .28 FfJUGllT WITH CARVEBS. i THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. A. LULOOOT DUEL IN OHIO KITCHEN KNIVES. WtTH A T«LN« XU Murder* His MOOWI A*- trsjfer After • Desperate STRUGGLE IN Which Both Men Were NEARLY HACKED to Tiecen.' Portsmouth, Ohio, dispatch: There was a desporate tight hero with knives between James Mault and Spencer Huston, and the struggle ended IP the dearth of the former, he being stabbed to the heart. Mrs. Huston, a widow and mother of the murderer, keeps a boarding-house and Is in straightened circumstances. Mault boarded with the woman and loaned her Borne money so that she could purchase some pieces ot needed furniture. AS payment for this loan Mault in ­ sisted upon taking unlimited liberties in the house, ana succeeded in gaining such aiv^inttuenco over the widow that they were soon living only together. This so enraged the woman's son, who was workina 111 a neighboring town,that ho came to Portsmouth last, week, and, learning the true stato of affairs, went to his mother's house and an­ nounced his intention of killing both Mrs. Huston and Mault. The latter on seeing the son enter the house attempt­ ed to escape, but young Huston grabbed the man by the'coat and dragged, HI in back Into the kitchen. , "You cowftetU yonr ena hascome!" ex­ claimed tho you 11? nian as he drew A re­ volver from his uocket. L) » Mault, WFLIO had become desperate, grabbed tip a LAR^E carving knife and .rushed at the young man. The latter dropped his weapon, and, with the re­ mark that he would not take advantage of his opponent, succeeded in securing another carving-knife from tho kitchen table. Both men were powerful and a desper­ ate struggle began. The two fought for half an hour, everything in the room be­ ing bespattered with their blood. Both were so weak from the loss of blood that they could hardly hold the knife-handle at the expiration of thirty minutes. Final ly Huston succeeded in plant ing the blade between Mault's ribs, when he was on the floor, and, throwing Ills entire weight upon the weapon, he drove it up to the hilt into his body, tho steel penetrtatinsr the victim's heart. Young Huston, covered with blood, then endeavored to find his mother, whom he also declared he would kill, but the woman had lied from tho house as soon as the gory struggle began. The assassin had returned to the house and was preparing to mutilate the body of his victim when the town mar­ shal and several citizens arrived and without difficulty placed the young man under arrest . As soon as he was relieved of the bloody knife he fainted, exclaim­ ing as he fell to the Hoor: • 1 "Father, you are avenged!" The sympathy of every one in the town is with the young man, and it is doubtful if a jury can be secured in this part of the State to convict him. Friends of the prisoner say that he is insane and they intend toTnaT?ir>that plea the chief argument in his defeus^If the case comes to trial. THIS COMMERCIAL SITUATION AF- PEAKS TO BE BRIGHTENING. STANLEY AND VICTORIA. * The Explorer Has an Audience With the Queen. Edmund Yates' London cable to the New York Tribune says: "Queen Victoria has been much in­ terested in Mr. Stanley, and as she was determined to know him, she invited all the members AfHfer family that were available to MWBYIVIM. Ho droto from the station at Windsor on his arrival to Cranboume tower, Windsor park, where the Queen was having tea, and he had his first audience there, after which he drove back to the castle. After dinner he was desired by the Queen to give a short account of his journey, which short account took over an hour to de­ liver. "The Queen has now given up her habit of standing ftfter dinner in the gallery at Windsor, and as soon as she gets into the drawing room A chair is bronght and she sits down, as she can not from lameness stand any length of time. The Queen is Queen always. Nothing tires her so much as the draw­ ing -room , for the perpetual variety of colors dazzle and much fatigue her. She was, however, gracious and smiling, and no one would havo guessed from her ap­ pearance that she was unwell. "The visi t of the Shah's first favorite wife to Europe will cost at least £80,000. Iler journey from Teheran to Vienna occupied four weeks, and the expenses were A.T»,8')O. The fees of two surgeons who attended her in Vienna and oper­ ated on her left eye amounted to £1,000, and £1,000 has been paid for the hire of a villa at Franzonsbad, where the Sul­ tana is to go for a month before return­ ing to Persia. "The Sultana, who is just 42, but who looks like a very aged woman, has an immense influence over the Shah, who is devoted to her, and if she had died during the operation which she recently 'underwent the astrologer who advised th,e journey to Vienna would assuredly have been beheaded." Resumes WESTERNS AND SonCbeni Points ESPECIALLY Feel tbe Improvement--Some Figures on the Strikes--The Grain Exports- Reports from Various LINES of Trade. New York dispatch: Br&dstreet's "State of Trade," says: Special telegrams report substantial gains in the improvement of general merchandise, notably at western and southern points. Exceptionally favor­ able reports come from tue recently f looded region of Louisiana , where the demand for goods Is more than meeting the expectations and collections are im­ proving . In tho northwest higher prices for farm products have stimu­ lated trade and made collections easier. I11 some regions, however, frosts affected a previously bright crop out­ look, while In others rains havo had an opposite influence. San Francisco ad­ vices are that signal-service wheat crop reports from California to Washington present too gloomy an aspect. On May 3 San Francisco resumed shipments of brcadstuffs to Australia , a significant fact, sending to Sydney 18,248 centals of corn and 225 barrels of ilour. The official report of the production of i r o n a n d s t e e l i n the U n i t e d S t a t e s i n 18S9, jnst published, IS accompanied by the specific admission that the excessive productive pig-iron capacity is baok of the existing weakness of the late de­ cline in prices of crude irqn, which cor­ roborates our statement of a week ago as to increasing stocks of pig-iron. The number of strikes d u r i n g the first nine days of May excecde'd all' 'previous records for a similar period. They number 145, involving probably no fewer than 50,000 strikers. There were sixty-five strikes on May I alone. Thus far the strikers havo made substantial^ gains. The carpenters' strike for A shorter day has practically succeeded, meeting at New York and Brooklyn hardly any opposition. In Illinois 15,000 coal miners have obtained an advance, and will resume work. Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) from both coasts this week equal 1,873.- 270 bushels, against 1,273, 710 bushel$ in the like week A year ago and 2,747, 048 bushels last week. The total shipped from July 1 to date is 92,325.888 bushels against 75 ,357 ,748 bushels in tho l ike sharo of 18S8-89. Stocks of available wheat, on both coasts are slightly in ex­ cess of tho total held a year ago, but American, European and afloat stocks of wheat, as specially telosrraphed to Bradstreet's, decreased 10.200,000 bush­ els during April, as compared with a decline of only 5,000,000 bushels in March last. Dry goods are i n fair demand from jobbers in the regular way. Cotton goods are strong in price with agents, and tend upward. Print cloths have advanced 1-8 cent . A largo number of buyers have been attracted to New York by the flannel sales of May 9, 13, and 15. In all 2^,000 pieces are advertised to be sold. Raw wool is firm in price at east­ ern markets on steady but conservative buying by manufacturers and l imited stocks. Raw cotton is slightly weaker, -MI of a cant off. Tho business failures reported num­ ber 152 In the United States this week, against 133 last week and 174 this week last year. The total number of failures in tho Unitod States from Jan. 1 to date is 4,200, against 4,570 LA the like portion of 1889. & 4.50 & 4.50 & 5.25 & .86 T<$ .38 & .81H .83)4 .36 •30H & .5.25 & 4.75 & 6.50 & 1.00 & .42 .36 <414.50 & 5.25 & 4.50 «» .93 & .84 & .2»H 0 .58 & 5.00 & 4.25 C4 5.25 & M & .36 & The Malleable Iron Companjr with a Partial Force. Chicago, dispatch: The Chicago Malleable Iron company has resumed work with about one hundred men and a small force in each department. The company had announced that it would resume operations and all those who wished to could go to work. Several hundred men reported at the works, but there were still a great many employes who had not recovered from tho strike fever, and they succeeded in recalling a great many of those who had begun to think that It was about time to EA^N-K something. The stubborn ones en­ deavored to prevent anv one going back, but that was more, than they were able to accomplish, and several hours after •the smoke had begun to pour out of the chimneys thoso who still re­ sisted left the vicinity of the works. No further trouble is expected. President Batley said: '"We expect to have our full complement of men at work in a few days. The meu who have returned practically accepted the old rates. There w i l l p r o b a b l y b e s o m e changes i n the fiscal scale of wages, but that is matter for future consideration." 3.90 .95 .38)&<A .29YJ(<J .57 & .VI .893* 4.50 & 5.25 4.00 & 4.50 .98 & .99 .37 3 .38 They "Held Up" the Town. ' Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch: News is received from Cedar Keys, Fla., that that city has been in a terrible commo­ tion for SOVE^D days. The Mayor and Marshal, it is said, arc holding carnival. The lighthouse keeper had a pistol dis­ charged at him while he was on the street and was warned to stay at home. An Episcopal clergyman and his wife have left the city to avoid horsewhip­ ping. Tho United States collector has been held tin, it is alleged, by tho Mayor and his ally, tho town marshal and threatened with imprisonment if ho stepped out of his office, and R. M Dozler, agent of tho Florida Central railroad, was waylaid and an ^attempt made to shoot him. The telegraph operator was terribly beaten by a negro, the mayor being charged with holding a loaded pistol to the negro's head and forcing him to do tho whipping. It Is further averred that several ladies have been Insulted and many of the oldest and leading citi sens have left the place GEN. FREMONT IN LUCK. Instead of OWING the Government He Is Itn Creditor. 1 Washington dispatch? A- most enri- ons incident Illustrative of the delay in correcting official mistakes in the de­ partments at Washington has just come to l ight as a sequence of the passago of the bill putting John C. Fremont upo . the retired list of the army with the ank of Major-Goneral. The first Republican candidate for tho Presidency is a picturesque patriarch, 71 pears old , and has been for years in circumstances, If not of actual poverty, at least straitened . In H48, when lieutenant in the army, he seized and hold with an iron grip tho region which is now the State of Cali­ fornia, and no one denies that tho na­ tion is indebted to him for that gilded member of tho sisterhood. While en- gagoi in this service Lieut. Fremont's accoun ts with tho governmen t were l e f t in such a stato that ho has always been regarded as an official debtor to the gov­ ernment to the amount of S19.000, and this has been one of tho chief sorrows of Gen. Fremont's later years, that he was. unable to square this balance against him, the record of which was in the office of the third auditor of the treas- ury. The other day Gen. Fremont called at the office of Second Comptroller GILK'er- son of the treasury , whose business it would be to pass upon th,e balance against him. The old man in trembling tones stated to Col. Gilkerson that his financial circumstances are such that if his salary as a retired major-general were retained to meet" this alleged sho r t a ge , h e w o u l d be f o r s o m e t i m e i n actual want. At his request the second comptroller investigated the account and greatly to his surprise discovered that instead of Gen. Fremont being a debtor to tho Unitod States, the govern­ ment has actually owed him for over forty years $21,000. The amount duo him was made out and duly approved and signed. I f the General is paid the amount that is due him with 6 per cent interest, he will receive from Uncle Sam just 871,400. A SILVER CUP FOR MR. BLAINE. Pan-AmerlcAn Delegates Remember .the Servloes of the Presiding Officer. New York dispatch: Tiffiny & Co. are now working vpon a solid silver cup ordered by the Latin-American dele­ gates to the recent pan-American Con­ gress as a present to Secretary of State Blaine. Tho cup will be presented to Mr. Blaino about tho middloof this month, as a token of the personal esteem of the delegates and VN recognition of his ser­ vices as prtjsident of the conference. The estimated price of the cup is $500. It Is about twelve inches high and two and a half inches in diameter. On the sides of the cup, at equal distances from each other and curving outward and down­ ward to points four inches from tho bottom, are throe beautifully chased handles. One is inscribed with tho words "North America ," another with the words "South America," and tho third with the words "Central Amer­ ica." The names of the Secretary of State and all tho delegates are engraved also on its sides. TelegrapHIo Brevities. TH* schooner Mary Ellen was cap­ sized in a gale off Mobile and two sailors .were swept away. MONTANA cattlo Shipments this year wi ll reach nearly 100,000 head, an In­ crease of at least 30,000 head over last year. IN the criminal malpractice case of Etta W. Harris versus Dr. Ludgate, on trial in Boston the jury brought iu » verdict of guilty on one count. G. F. RICH, a Boston, drummer, 8*11 ing goods at Lfturens, S. C., wa« whipped by a mob with switches for holding meetings of COLORED peoplo. IS PAENELJL'S VICTORY A DEFKAT THE GOVERNMENT 13 nRHOUSK.OF COMMONS, Irish Agrtenltnral Eaborers* Bill AD­ VANCED to a Second Reading I'ewplte the Prat«8t« of Balfour and HI* Parly--A Blunder of the Conservative Whips. LONDON cable: Tho government lias been beaten In the Honse Of Com­ mons by a vote of 94 to »J8 oij, a motion to adjourn. Tho measure before the House was the Irish agricultural laborers' bill, which proposes the use of the church surplus to assist in the erection of 1 aborers' cottages. J oseph Francis Fox, tiie member for the Tullainore division of Kings county, a nationalist , moved the second reading of tho bill. Mr. Johnston, conservative member for South Belfast , moved the rejection of the bilj on the ground that the surplus was not sufficient to cover the chargos of the land bill and the laborers' bill. • . ~ The Right Hon. David Plunkctt ac­ cused the Parnellltes of trying to snatch a division. He said thoy had assembled in full force at a time when the bulk ol tho members were absent,, in order to get the bill real! the second time. The object of this was to destroy the labor­ er's claims in tho land bill. Ho reminded the House that Mr. Dillon had protested against the appropriation of the church surplus in the land bill as being a pure­ ly Irish fund which he wanted for edu­ cational purposes when homy rule was obtained. Yet here were the Parnellitcs proposing to devote tho surplus to the building of laborers' homes. T. W. Russell, unionist, moved to adjourn . He said that not a single clause of the bill had been explained. It was an attempt to stab the land b i l l in the back. MR. Balfour commcnte 1 on the silencc of the Irish leadors on the measure. Nobody seemed to think it uecossary »o expla in tho provisions of the bil l . In view of this state of affairs he would support 'the motion for an adjourn­ ment. Mr . Russell's motion to adlourn was lost--yeas, 68; nays, 94. The announce­ ment of the result was received with cheers by the Parnellltes. Mr . Parnell moved that the second reading be now put. Tho Speaker de­ clined to put tho motion, the House de siring to continue tho debate. < Mr . Balfour charged the Parnellltes'5 with introducing the measure through a mere desire to embarrass tho govern­ ment. The member who had moved the second reading of the bill and the member who had seconded the motion had taken up between them only ten minutes. Their conduct was unmistak­ able. They did not mean to obtain ad­ vantages for the laborers, but to injure the land bill. The conditions under which tho bill had been debated would depr ive any voto that the house might come to of all significance . Whatevei was the decision the government would attach to it no importance. [Parnellite cheers]. The second reading of the bill was agreed to without a division, amid pro­ longed Irish cheers. The defeat of the government was due to a blunder of the Conservative whips, who notified the-members of the government party that their presence would be required at 4 o'clock. This became known to the Parnellltes, who attended In full strength at noon and, after short speeches had been made, rushed a division before the Conserva­ tives could be mustered. THE LAW A FAILURE. Chinese Cross the Mexican Bordei Despite the Exclusion Act. WASHINGTON dispatch: Tho Secretary of the Treasury has transmitted to the Senate a report from I)atus E. Coon, Chinese inspector at San Diego, Cal., dated April 21, with respect to evasions of the Chineso exclusion act. Mr. Coon says it is true that tho Chineso aro com­ ing into the United States despite the efforts of the customs department to keep them out. An examination he made of the Stato line, Sir. Coon says, shows that the opportunities for crossing the Mexican border into California aro many and with tho force at tho com­ mand of the department it will bo im­ possible to prevent all of them from en­ tering this country. When they havo once reached San Diego unobserved it is practically im­ possible to prove when or how thoy came in. ComiiMnting upon charges that tho Scott exclusion act is a failure Mr. Coon says that this is practically true as to its execution for the reason that when a Chinaman is arrested he is enabled while in confinement to mako arrange­ ments with friendly countrymen to bo returned a second time and to be con­ ducted to some other town. He is also able to so disguise himself as to make identification, if caught, extremely dif­ ficult. The order of the Secretary of the Treasury prohibiting the transfer of Chinamen in transit in the, harbor of San Francisco was a most fortunate one and will check tho traffic for a time. But some other method,Mr. Coon is con­ fident, will be found by which to come into the United States. Mr. Coon sug­ gests treaty negotiations with the Brit­ ish government and RJexico looking to the exclusiotn of the Chinese, and says Chinesc-exctrtsion legislation will be very simple. Without such treaties the ex­ clusion of Chinese by peaceful means is an undertaking of great magnitude ow­ ing to the practical impossibility of po­ licing the thousands of miles of bound­ ary line. The Morrow and other bills, Mr. Coon declares, are defective in that they pro­ vide for the return of the Chinamen to the country whence they came. Even the children laugh when told of this law, for they know that the Chinaman returned to Mexico will be eating his breakfast in the United States tho next day. WHITE CAPS SHOT. One Killed and Two. Wounded bjr a Negro In Mississippi. MGRIPEX, Miss., dispatch: A nnmbcr of men in the western part of Kemper county have recently been playing the part of regulators or White Caps. in several instances in Lauderdale county they have whipped unmercifully persons whom they thought needed punishment. Last Sunday night they wont to tho house of a negro named Anderson. Ho barred his door and refused to show himself. They then attempted to break down the door, but failing in this they fired the house, after telling Anderson's wife that sho could escape. When she did so he ran out also and fired into lho crowd, killing Lewis Lang and, it Is said, wounding two others whose names have not been divulged. The negro made his escape. Absorbed by a Book Combine. * ST. LOUIS, MO., dispatch: It Is re­ ported that tho new American Sckool- Book company recontly oritanizcd by the four leading school-book publishing firms of the country has acquired tho controlling interest in the Standvd School-Book company of this city, tho most extensive school-book concern cit- sido of the combination. It owns tho copyright of the books supplied under the new Indiana law, and the Indiana contractors announco that they will not prevent it from carrying out its contract with the State. THE SENATE AND HOUSE. WATIOWAI. 1AW-MAKEB8 AND XSBAT ARE DOIB& if gfcoefeiiflti'igs of the Senate will «T Representatives -- Important Measures Dtac'ised and Acted On--Gist of the Business. Iw the Senate, on the 12th tost, Mr. Boar, from the Judiciary Committee, reported baok the House amendment to the Senate antl-tfnst bill, with an amendment. Messrs Vent p«ke that. as members of the committee, they did not concur In the report, and Mr Hoar explained tbe effect of the action r< commended. The matter went over. The Senate bill to 111 Jhe times aud places for hoVlirc Fadera.1 Courts In the District of Kansas re­ ported by Mr. Ingalls, from the Judiciary Committee, and -wag passed. The Senate bill appropriating §2JO.0JO for a building at Ogden, Utah, was reported and placed on the calendar 'i'he feature of the day's proceedings wag a long speech by Mr. Jones of Nevada in Bupport of his silver bill. He argued in favor ot tue freo coinage of Bilver, increased volume of currency and the remonetization of silver and blimetal- ism and warmly defended the silver miners from tbe charge of selfishness in desiring the remonetization of silver. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House Mr. McKinley of Ohio moved that speeches in general tfe- on the tariff bill be limited to one otin- nte. The motion was agreed to, and theHar, went Into committee of the whole. Mr, I'aym, or Illinois, in the chair. Mr. Anderson oQenu an amendment authorizing the President to suspend the duty on any artiole when he mar be convinced the production of the said article is controlled by any trust or combination to e?vern prices or production. Mr. McMillin de­ nied that any representative of the sugar trust *>aa over appeired before the committee. Mr. Niedringhti u a moved an amendment lor a reduction of the duty on boracic acid, yulte a discussion arose over the feature of tiie biU fixing t-be rate of duty OB this arUcte, which, it was explained, was us«d in the manu­ facture of borax. The California delegation op­ posed & motion made by Mr. Mills for a re­ duction of rate of duty, saying that the pro­ duction of borax recently discovered in Call- fprnia ought to be protected. Th3 motion to re-# e duty was defeated. Mr. Covert attack­ ed the feature of the bill which places a duty on muriatic acid and sulphine acid used largely In manufacturing fertilizers. After a long discus­ sion Mr. Covert's motion to strike out the clause placing a duty on muriatic acid was defeated. AMONO the petitions presented in the Senate on the 13th ins t. and referred was one, by Mr. Quay, from business men in Philadelphia, remonstrating again st the increase of duty on dress goods made wholly or partly from wool. Among the bills reported and placed on the calendar were the following: Senate bill appro­ priating $75,000 for a public building at Madi- Hon, Ind. Mr. Davis from the Committee on. Pensions reported back the House substitute for the Senate dependent pension bill with a written report, and moved that the IIouBe sub­ stitute be non-concurred in and a conferenco aaked. Agreed to. Messrs. Davis, Sawyer, and Blodgett were appointed confernees on the part of the Senate. The Senate then, at 1 p. rn., re­ sumed consideration of the silver bill, and Mr. Jones, of Nevada, continued the speech begun by hiin the previous day. At the conclusion of Mr. Jones' speech the Senate went into execu­ tive session and adjourned. Tho House, after the transaction of some routine business, went into committee of the whole (Mr. P;tyson of Illinois, in the chair) on tho tanff bill Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, moved to reduce the duty on ammonia. He could see no reason, why this articlc of necessity to the fanner Should be so heavily taxed. Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, opposed the amendment, and staled that since the tariff had encouraged competition in this country tho price of ammonia had been re­ duced from 20 cents to 7^ cents per pound. Mr. Butterworth then made a long s(«jech on the bill and at its conclusion, Mr. MclUlIin's amendment was rejected. Mr. Niedringhans, of Missouri, moved to amend by reducing the duty on refined borax from 5 to 3 cents per pound. Rejected--yeas, 01; nays, 81. Mr. Tracey, of New York, moved to amend the section relating to coal-tar preparations so as to reduce the duty from 20 to 10 per cent. Lost. Mr. Beggs, of California, offered an amendment increasing the duty on olive oil from a5 to 50 cents a gallon. He advocated the protection of the olive oil industry iu the in­ terest of pure olive oil. The amendment was rejected. Various other amendments were of­ fered but were rejected, and aftor considering thirteen of the 15ti pages of the bill the com­ mittee rose and the House adjourned. AMONG the bills reported and placed on the calendar of the Senate on the 14th inst. were the following : House bill to establish new har­ bor llneB in Portage Lake, Houghton County, Michigan; Senate bill subjecting imported liquors to the provisions of the laws of tbe sev­ eral States. Mr. Edmunds Introduced a bill to establish a University of the United States, and had It referred to a select committee of nine. The Senate bill appropriating $100,'/00 for a pub­ lic building at Kock Island, 111., waa passed. The silver bill was takSn up, and Mr, Teller addressed the Senate. Without concluding, his speech, Mr. Teller yielded to a mo­ tion to go into executive session. When the doors were reopened, the silver bill was laid aside informally and the Senate proceeded to business on the calondar In the House on motion of Mr. Morrill (KM.), the House insisted on its amendment to the Senate dependent-pension bill and a conferenco waa ordered. Tne House then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Grosvenor (O.) in the chair, on the tariff bill. Mr. Byuum (Ind.) moved to re­ duce the duty on common earthenware from 25 to 15 per cent ad valorem. Doieated--60 to £6. Mr. Dunnell (Minn.) moved to reduce the duty on china, porcelain, etc., from 65 to 35- per cent, ad valorem. Lost--76 to 91. Mr. Mc­ Millin (Tenn.) moved to reduce the duty on decorated chiuaware from 60 to 45 per cent. Rejected. Various other amendments looking to a reduction of the duty on earthen and glass­ ware were made on the Democratic side, bub- met with no success. Mr. Chandler (Mass.) offered an amendment fixing the rate of duty on lamp chimneys at 45 per cent, ad valorem. Lost- --55 to 70. Having considered sixteen of the 156- pages of the bill the committee rose and the: House adjourned. ' In the Senate Senator Teller concluded hie speech on the silver question, on the 15th. Senator Coke, of Texas then took tbe floor. Mr. Coko 6tyled the bill as nothing more m less than a warehouse bill, proposing M i. did to turn the Unitod States Treasury into a vast storehouse or warehouse in which to de­ posit large sums of silver bullion. He, for one, was not in favor of the United ytates going into the warehouse business. The amendment proposed by the Senator from Colorado, Mr. Teller, for the free and unlimited coinage of silvtr, he was heartily in favor of and would give it his earnest support. When Mr. Coke had concluded the Senate took up and passed a bill to authorize the sale of timber 011 certain lands reserved fori he use of tho Menominee tribe of Indians in the State of Wisconsin. I11 tho House Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, from tho < oinmittee on Rules, reported •> resolution providiug that Hereafter the House shall meet at 11 o'clock ; that after reading the journal and the disposal of conference reports the House shall go into committee of the whole on the tariff bill: that the bill shall be read through, commencing with paragraph 111, and •hall be open to amendment 011 atiy part of the bill following paragraph 110, and that 011 Wednes­ day, the 21st inst., at 12 noon the bill with pending amendments shall be reported to the House. After a long debate the resolution wa± adopted--yeas 128. nays 93. Messrs Morrill, Sawyer and Yoder were appointed conferroes on the Senate dependent pension bill. The Houso then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in tho cbair) on the tariff bill and spent the afternoon on the subject. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. .W .'I T! I A ' • ' "Qcfa , .. t* "y.1.4 -C; • V iiites Pit Concerniug Women. Woman is the cork to many a bottled secret. There is agoftddeal of laugh in aglrl'» cry and a good deal of cry in a woman'* laugh. A woman always grows o'd before her time, because the time never comes- when she should grow old. It is not her own homeliness that pro­ vokes a woman so much as it is the good, looks of some other woman. Stewed prunos are Mme. Patti's nos­ trum for her comploxiou. Her appetite for them is said to be Insatiable. Mary Queen of Scots' marriage con­ tract with Francis II. of France is to ba sold by auction shortly in Loudon. Paulina Marie Elizabeth Wedde, & Thuringian giantess, is good-looking and of a handsome, well-proportioned figure. She measures about 8 feet 4 inches in height. Mrs. Levi P. Morton is anxious to- make a return for the Bartlioldi statue. She has organized a movement to erect a statue to George Washington in. FraWe. . *; 1 Miss Matilda McLaugliin, of St. Louis, lias been- appointed a notary public b>| Governor Francis. Her busi­ ness is given in the application as that of a conveyancer and stenographer. Little Julia Ilonoro Grant, tho 16- year-dld daughter of Minister to Austria Grant, is considerable of a linguist, hav­ ing excellent command of French and German and a knowledge of Spanish. Sho writes a very pretty letter and olays- and paints nicely. Mrs. Grant is unre­ mitting in her devotion^ and while em­ ploying gentlewomen to instruct tho child superintends the work of the supil and teacher.