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twgfteindcirter I VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. McHENRY, - ™ I ILLINOIS. ffigL--LL^l -- ANOTHER HERO GONE. A*>RFAULTING TELLER m INDIANA BANK. . ; Polaonei fey KatLngr St. tools Ch«ei»- Kalner'a Mm Qui* Makloe Coke--Two Murdewrii lI»n(f<x(-Wom«n and Chll- "4nm Baitd «E»* Uelor*--SulcMe. ^ ; TALKING OF FREE COINAGE. ;v' - fterthrr H aring Before tits Committee of th* Hon**. . TH* Committee oa Coinage, Weights and Measures continued Its hearing on the iQ ttth. F. J. Newlands, of the National Silver Committee, continued his argument beftun last week. Mr. Neviands, in refer­ ence to statements made before the com­ mittee forecasting the flooding of this country with silver if the free coinage bill VU passed, said this could be prevented very easily by passing the bill with a pro­ viso limiting tho coinage to bullion, the production of the mines of the world aud Wtduding foreign coin. Mr. Newlands was then excused and Mr. Holden, of Colorado, addressed the cjiumittco in favor of free coinage. In the Senate the diplomatic and { consular appropriation bill was reported r< ^ attd placed on the calendar. The House bill for a pub!lc building at Richmond, Ky,, at a cost not to exceed $75,000, was passed. Ocoskleration of the copyright bill was thou r «£m»ed. WEEKLY FAILURES. v . " ' J f a d * I s U n s t a b ' t , b a t I n d ' c a t i o n s A r e f o r fj.. Improvement - H, G. Dtrs & Co.'s weekly review of \ trade says: F, There is some improvement in business at •' «fce East and a more confident feeling, and at Chicago the tono Is very hopeful, but at vest of the other Western and nearly all Soathern points business snows no increase In volume and is rather hesitating. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 2*7 as compared with & totai of 306 last Week. For the corresponding week of last jmar the figures were 302. ADMIRAL DAVID O. PORTER. Commander-in-Chief of the United States <1*4 Navy I^ Dead ' ADMIRAL DAVID D. PORTER, who has in failing health for some time, died suddenly at Washington. All of tile members of the family ware at home at the time of his death. Tho death of Admiral Porter has been so long expect­ ed that it caused no litt e excitement. The Admiral had for ^ral months been practically dead t . world. He had not left his room since he entered it in October, on his return from his sum­ mer home at Newport. His death finally came from the result of a combination of causes, not the least of which was his advanced age. The Admiral's death will result in no naval changes. Though nominally on the "active list," he has . been in practical retirement for a great Many years. CRIBBED BANK FUNDS. Teller Bitter, of the Evansville First 1 ,V h i National, a Ble TWan'ter. CHARLES RITTER, paying teller of tho ? Jtrst National Bank of Evansville, Ind., • . is a defaulter in a large sum. The dis- «overy was made during Mr. Hitter's ' 'confinement at home by recent sickness. As paying teller he had access to the money of the bank, and his irregularities were covered up by a most ingenious system of false entries which almost dc- fled investigation. The exact amount of the shortage is not knov/n, the examina­ tion of his books being still in progress, but the shortage thus far is in excess of Us bond, which is 825.000. The cause of his downfall is believed to be his am­ bition to make money. He is the head of the Schmidt music hous3 at Evans­ ville, and has estab'ished branch con­ cerns of tho same. Those houses have been badly managed, and have been a continual drain upon him. Sy Hens Oor. of a M. •!> JAUES STOBY, of Parsons, Kan., has Just received letters patent from Wash- :: tngton for his invention of an artificial egg. The inventor says that he can make one carload per day, at a cost of 3 osnts per dozen with machinery that •will cost only $500. Rainer's Men Quit AT Scottdale, Pa., 6C0 employes of W. 3T. Rainey quit work at the Paull and Itort Hill works and joined the strikers. Deputy Sheriffs and Pinkerton guards are protecting Rainey's works <X«p threatened raids. Woman and Children Burned. ^ NEAR the village of SL Albert, Ont,, '%;, family named La France lived in a * small house. During the night the house took fire. Mrs. La France and the two children were burned to death. Is , Eleven Persons Poisoned. ELEVEN persons are lying at their homes in North St. Louis, Mo , in a pre­ carious condition from the effects of 4B*ting some poisoned choese. •' 1 •111 • ' iiv , . Suicide nf a JtulgF. . ; AT Clifton, A. T., Judge W. R. Mc- > ' >&>rmick killed himself for some un- : known cause. He was well known on W the Pacific coast. :> im: Fizagma Bombarded AT New York Messrs. Flint & Co. rc- -#»ived the following cablegram from Chili: "Pizagua bombarded and burning; blockade ceased at Valparaiso." Two Delaware Executions. : AT Dover, Del., Jesse H. Proctor and Frederick Young were'hanged for mur­ der. - Took Chloral and Died. MKS. LAIRD of Winona, Minn., com­ mitted suicide by taking hydrate of jChloral. No reason for the act is known. Host Remain a Mystery. f • MUB body found at Shiloh, Ohio, was identified as that of William Genee, . Who lived at Cleveland. How he met his ^ '^feath remains a mystery. A post mortem -,ms held, but no evidence of foul play ., - firaa discovered. • • EUc rle Omblm. " RTV AT Pittsburg, Pa., the Thomson-Hons- V ion and Westlnghouse Electric Company r, ;^|»ave combined. This will no doubt • ferve to withdraw the numerous suits % ^throughout the country over alleged in- frlugeinents. _____ BA8TERN OCCURRENCES. fireman of the wild engine. Albert En- glehart, was also killed. The engineer was badly hurt, but will probably re­ cover. AT New York, an act of heroism cost the life of Simon Joseph. Two little girls were crossing Broadway directly before a team, but none but Mr. Joseph had the presence of mind to act. IIo saved the children, but was fatally lnjrt. THOMAS THOMAS, a hermit, aged 75 years, residing at Carmantown, N. J., died after several, months' suffering from a cancer. He had lived the life, of a miser for many years, and since his wife's death had lived by himself, doing his own housework. Tho old hermit was worth about ^50,000 in money and ownea several lino houses. He had been known to beg food and on election day he voted for the party which paid best. During the spring of last year a fierco forest fire raged in tho woods near his house, and fearful for his j rorerty, ho ran into the house and came out again carrying a chest fu 1 of money, it is said, all in $20 gold ]>ieecs. THE Lunacy Commissi, n in tho case of James M. Dougherty, of New York, Mary Anderson's ihsane lover who shot and killed Dr. (George L'oyd. reported that Dougherty was as dangerous a lunatic as the commission had ever en­ countered. ONE of tho, Staten Island Milling Company's barges, laden with Hour, sank at pior 14, East lliver, Now Yi&rk. /The loss on the flour is $3,000. AT Ayer, Mass., the First National Bank and the N01 th Middlesex Savings Bank closed their doors, and ugly rumors are afloat concerning them. H. E. Sp&nlding, cashier of both institutions, is missing, and where he ha > gone 110 one there knows. The exact financial condi­ tion of tho banks is not known. The officers and directors are very reticent, and nothing definite can bo obtained other than that they consider that the banks are perfectly solvent, and that not a dolllar or a l oud on de.pod 't has been disturbed. Tho books will be ex­ amined at oncc. THE "physicians in attendance on Gen­ eral Sherman entertain the gravest fears regarding the result of his illness. The erysipelas has subsided, but what the doctors have been vainly fighting is oedema or, dropsy of the lungs, which commonly results from the disease. Un­ less the congestion can be relieved pneu­ monia will inevitably set in. The Gen­ eral's vitality is at the lowest ebb Under the conditions a fatal termination of his illness is all but certain. The intermit­ tent delirium still continues and General Sherman has several times insisted on getting out of bed. The doctors agree, however, that ho will live for some hours. NEWS is received of the death in Nashua, N. H., of Samuel Morey, who came into prominence during the Gar^ field-Hancock campaign of 18S0. He was arrested in connection with the famous "Morey Chinese Letter." WESTERN HAPPENINGS. TWENTY-FOUR incendiary fires and a case of spontaneous combustion, all at once, made it lively for Sioux City. A quarter of a million dol'ars'damage was done. It looks as if it were intended to destroy the city. JAMES GAFFN^Y, living in St. Louis, Mo., is an industrious Irishman and has saved considerable money. He had about $2,800, which he placed in a small wooden box and concealed in an unused parlor stove. He started a tire in the stove, and in a few minutes his wife thought of the money and a frantic struggle began to rescue it from the fire. About $500 was entirely destroyed and tho balance badly mutilated. AT a meeting of the Fargo Board of Trade a communication was presented from Mcintosh County appealing for aid for the destitute there. It was repre­ sented that 150 families in that county are in need of immediate assistanca HEXBY RAXTISDEL, a laborer employed at Armour's packing-house at Kansas City, Mo., met a horrible and instant death in full view of his wife. He was running to catch a passing train on the Santa Fe tracks, his foot caught on a wire, and fie fell forward on his face between the rails. Before he could arise a switch engine cut him in two. Two BOYS, sons of a German farmer named August Ford, were found dead two miles northwest of Utica, Minn. They got caught in the blizzard. BURGLARS raided the wholsale notion house of Joseph A. Bigel & Co., at Cin­ cinnati. Silks and velvets valued at 550,000 were stolen. AT Big Run, Ohio, J. W. Griffy com­ mitted suicide. Although having a wife and eight children, Griffy fell in love with a young widow, and the latter's failure to reciprocate the unholy attach­ ment led to the tragedy. FIRE destroyed the packing-house of A. D. Karling near Malaga, Cal., with 15,000 boxes of raisins and a large quan­ tity of vineyard material, causing a loss of 834,000; insured for 823,003. AT Poplar Bluff, Mo., Matthew Van- dover was shot and killed while asleep in his own house. Vandover's wife was occupying another bed in the same room. Mrs. Vandover says she awoke ju^t in time to see two men pass hurriedly out of the door. The wcapou was placed so close to the murdered man's head that the hair was singed. GEO. J. GIBSON*, secretary of the great whisky trust, was arrested in Chicago by United States officials on the charge of being a participant in a gigantic con­ spiracy involving the destruction of life husband and that it was a plot between them. After the murder Long went to Bloom field, Mo., where he was arrested. AT Evansville, Ind., fire totally ruined the stocks of M. Ungerlieder, trunks, and Evans & Verwayne, dry goods. The loss will be $40,000, covered partially by Insurance. SOUTHERN INCIDENFS. . J NEAR Elkhorn, W. Va., the body of James Wilson was found with seven bullet holes in the body and two knife- cuts. A gold watch, $75 and a revolver were missing. , HELENA, Ala., was swept by a cyclone, several buildings being wrecked. Three persons were woundod. AX Greenville, S. C., during a dispute over a game, of cards, Maj. W. A. Will­ iams was shot and instantly killed by J. B Williams. THE explosion of a boiler in Giles' steam saw-mill, near Reidsville, Ga., killed six men. THE coldest bllszard in two years was reported in Texas. Flocks and herds wore scattered. At Chattanooga, Tenn., over two Inches of rain fell, and high water In the Tennessee River is ex­ pected. AT Plneville, Ky., Judge Wilson Lew­ is, of Harlan County, the man who made himself famous as the loader of the Law and Order League which waged such a bitter warfare against Wils Howard and his infamous gang, was murdered by his son, Sidney Lewis. Tho son was a mem­ ber of the lattor gang and had made frequent threats against his father's life. The Judge, fearing that his son would carry out his threats, had him put un­ der bond to keep the peace. This in­ censed the son, who went to his father's home. A wordy quarrel ensued, when tho son pulled a revolver and put five bullets into the Judge's body, killing him instantly. JAY GOULD was taken suddenly ill at St. Augustine, Fla., and by advice of physicians started for New York in his private car. The nature and extent of his illnesi is not known, as the party left St. Augustine on a special train at ten minutes' notice. GMitossiA's otralME % i / ' f j - E~MSASTEB.;eOKE W0RKE& FffiM. AMERICAN ON BO IN SAILORS IMPR1S- HBR COAL MINB8. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. THE great strike in the Connellsvillo coke region has begun, and every mine and coke works in tho region will be closed down. Tho miners to the number of about 10,00<) refused to go to work, the only men now work­ ing being the coke drawers. Six thou­ sand men are employed at this work, and as soon as they have drawn the coke from the ovens they will quit also. The strike is for an advance in wages of 12H cents per ton, and against a 10 per cent, reduction. Both sides are firm, and a long struggle ap­ pears inevitable. The operators claim that owing to the depressed condition of the coke and iron trades a redurtion is necessary, while, upon the other hand, the workmen say the depression is only temporary, and the operators can well afford to pay the increase. There aro over lfi,000 ovens and seventy coal and coke works in the region. AT Kearney, N. J., riot and bloodshed occurred at Clark's thread mill. When tho non-union spinners quit work they were carried over tho river from the Newark side in a launch, and when they landed on the Kearney side they were met by a throng of 2,000 persons, men, women and children, hoodlums predom­ inating. Special officers were stoned, and scarcely a whole pane of glass is left in the mammoth factory. Several per­ sons were injured, but none killed. Grave trouble is feared. FRESH AND NEWSY. THE fruit steamer Simon Durmer, for Matanzas, Cuba, is supposed to have foundered near New York. She carried a crew of sixteen men, and a cargo worth 822,000. AT Omaha, Neb., a Union Pacific en­ gine jumped the track and overturned. Jacob Jensen, engineer, and William Martin and William Hayes, switchmen, were terribly injured. At Ingleside, a station on the Wabash Road, seven and a half miles northwest of St. Lt«uis, a collision occurred between a Wabash and a St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern freight. Both engines were badly wrecked. Brake men W. M. Bush and Keefer, of the Northwestern train, were killed. Conductor John Broderick and Fireman John Con ley, of the Wabash, were seriously injured. UNEMPLOYED men in Toronto, Ontario, to the number of 2,500, paraded the streets bearing a flag with the motto, "Bread or Work." Vague threats of violence were made. AT the Quebec Worsted Company's factory, at Hare Point, the boiler ex­ ploded, completely demolishing the en­ gine house and about half of the factory. The work of removing bodies from the debris was begun at once. Over thirty bodies have been found. The artillery was ordered out trj assist the police in keeping order and controlling the enor­ mous crowd of excited men and women who blocked up every avenue of ap­ proach. In the great confusion prevail­ ing it is impossible to get a list of the killed and injured, and no complete list will be obtainable until tlje ruins are thoroughly examined. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTI.E--Common to Prime S 3.25 HOGS--Shipping Grades 3.00 kHKEP 3,00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed UE CORN--No. 2 . . . . 0) 5.75 & 3.75 @ 5.80 and a vast amount of property. The J OATS--No. 2 conspiracy involved the destruction of > £YK_No-v • • ~ the Shufeldt distillery and several otft- i gSSS^Z!:::": crs outside of the trust, and which have Kco»--Freeh given the whiskv combine a good deal of POTATOES--Western, per bu trouble. The arrest was made by In- ! CATixE-shippif01^^^01'18, <9 •50?2@ .44 & .73 @ .23 <3 .1934# .90 & .97 .513$ .45 .74 .27 .90 & .93 If? F ; ( ( A LACKAWAXNA train collided at El- %'pnira, N. Y., with a wild engine. The i d train was going at a high rate of speed f,;:; when it struck the engine, and the ex- \ jpress engine was thrown off the track and completely turned over, its tender on the other side; the wild engine like- feSvvjwise was demolished. The engineer of p the express train, James Powers, was Jbadly crushed and was removed from the to;? gv&fi >track in a dying condition. His fireman, ? iuame unknown, was fatally injured f James Powers, employed on the ' engine, died within half an hour. -.-jv •'iSJMSrarJS- . ?,V spector Stuart of the Postoflice Departs ment, Deputy United States Marshal Oilman, and Treasury Agent Brooks, of New York. Gibson, who lives in Peoria, had just arrived in the city, and was ac­ companied by his wife and daughter. The Treasury Department at Washing­ ton was Informed of the conspiracy some time ago, and its officers were set to work to thwart it and arrest the par­ ticipants. "V JACOB FKEUNDLICH and his team were drowned in sight of loo people In the Ohio River at Evansville, IncL A NATCH A 1, GAS explosion occurred at the corner of Salisbury and Columbia streets, In West Lafayette, Ind. James Jenners aro?e to see what the time was, and, striking a match, there was a ter­ rific explosion, followed by a second one, completely wreckin? the building and severely if not fatally injuring its occu­ pants. It was a large double house, and both sides were completely demolished. The debris ( aught lire and a large dwell­ ing adjoining was also consumed. IN the Omaha, Neb., jail, physicians forced food down the throat of II. M. Rodgcrs, who tried to commit suicide last week, after confessing to complicity in a Pennsylvania murder. He fought the doctors with all his strength, but a qu^rt of milk was pumped into him. AT Poplar Bluff, Mo., Mrs Matthew whose husband was killed ing by her side, went before made confession under oath n named Marion Long shot her Vandove while sle a justice tb»t; a HOGS--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Red COB*--No. 1 White OATS--NO. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE. HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 Red Co UN--No. 2 OAT»--No. 2 : IIAKLKX--Minnesota. CINCINNATI. CATTLK. HOGS WHEAT--No. 2* Red... .V..!!!!]!.'! Cons--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixei DlsrjttOIT. CATTLE. HOGS Sheet WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORW--No. 8 Yellow OATS--NO. 2 White...* TOLEDO. . WHEAT COBM--Cash OATS--No. 2 White CLOVES SEED EAST LIBERT Jf. CATTLE--Common to Prime Hoos--Light SHEEP--Medium to Good LAMBS MILWABKKB. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White !.. RYE--No. 1 BARLEY--No. 2 FORK--Mess... NEW YORK. CATTLE .. Hons HHKKP •" ' • WHRAT^NO.2 Red..!... CORK--No. 2 OATH--Mixed Wcntaa,,..,.!..,; BUTTKII--Western KGOB--Western... 3.50 @ 5.00 8.00 © 4.00 3.00 @ 4.75 .90 (A 1.01 .52 <$ .62'$ .46 .47)4 4.00 @ 5.25 3 ̂ @ 3.75 .975* .49 @ .50 .45 .46}$ .73 .74 3.03 8.00 '3.00 .99 .54 @ 4.50 & 4.00 40 5.50 <& 1.01 .56 .48,'$® .49)6 3.00 8.00 3.00 1-01 .53 ® 4.75 S.75 «« 4.50 @ 1.02 & .54 •4«)4 .47)4® 1.00 & 1.00)4 .58 iff .J4 .47!$ c# .48)4 4.45 & 4.55 4.00 2.25 4.00 4.00 .93 .60 .46 .74 .65 9.75 ,4.00 8.25 4.00 X10 .63 .51 .10 5.00 <E> 4.00 (# 5.50 <(£ U.75 .93 & M & .47 .77 & .67 <310.03 ® 5.75 m 4.00 (<C 5.75 & 1.12 W .64 M .04 .27 •SBO* # *- ' 1'OBK--New Mess. .23)4 10.0J ($11.93 TJi«y TTere Poachers, uil Han No Re- drass--Forced to I»l«r Coal Thoy Had No Knowledge of the Testimony at tho Tri*l--Captives for Three Years. [Boston dispatch.] One of the greatest outrages ever In­ flicted upon American citizens by the decree of a foreign power has been the Imprisonment of four New England sail­ ors--one of them born in Boston--for two years and ten months in a Siberian coal mine. One American died, after starving.upon rice soup and being eaten by vermin. This seems also to have been tho fate of the twelve or fifteen Japanese who made up the rest of the crew. The first member of this little party to reach home after being mourned as dead Is Capt. Joseph W. Morris, of this city. Ho suffered unheard-of cruel­ ty as punishment for poaching in Rus­ sian territory, and is one of two surviv­ ors of the awful punishment inflicted upon the crew. The fact that he was poaching Invalidates his claim for in­ demnity from the Russian Government. He had made one successful expedition to the islands in Behring Sea, and then he tried it again. The second time he had an experience which has effectually cured him of poaching in Russian terri­ tory. The schooner made a successful run to the islands, secured a full cargo of skins, and was headed for Yokohama, when a Russian man-of-war overhauled her. The man-of-war proved to be the Rasabonach, It took the schooner in tow and reached Vladivostock without incident. ^ The trial was conducted in Russian. They told their stories in English, and they were translated for the benefit of the court, but were ignorant of the tes­ timony against them. They were taken to the town jail, a small stone building with cemented floor. Their cells were 16x20 feet, walled with stone and light­ ed with slits in the wall with bars across. At the end of a week they were taken out, wet and hungry, and started on the road for Nicolaski, 150 miles to the northward, near the Gulf of Penjinsk. When they reached Nicolaski they learned that they were sentenced to work in the mines three years. Capt. Morris was the first to go down, and he did not again see the light of day for two years and ten months. When Morris came out he found F. C. Crocker, of Sears port, Me., one of his crew, had just been released. Together they walked 150 miles to Vladivostock, the Russians refusing them transporta­ tion. An American vessel took them to Nagasaki, where the United States Con­ sul provided them with clothing, and they took their first hot bath in three years. PENNY POSTAGE. A Bill Introduced for the Establishment of a Parcels Post. The annual report of the Postmaster General has piovoked considerable in­ quiry as to the necessity for reform in postal rates. The ideas advanced by different writers upon the subject as to the most desirable changes that could be made are generally prompted by personal or business interests. Many believe that the public generally will take the view that the Postal Depart­ ment was established for the safe and rapid transmission of letters of a busi­ ness or personal nature, and for the prompt dissemination of news matter, and that all other undertakings of the Postal Department should be secondary to this. The public demand not only the rapid apd safe transmission of letters and news nifatter, but that the rates on this legitimate class of mail matter shall be placed at the lowest figure consistent with its cost Tho report of the Post­ master General shows that the present 2 cent per ounce rate on letters yielded the Government during the last year, $38,- 000,000, and that tho actual cost of carrying and delivering such letters for the same period was but $8,000,000, leaving a clear profit of $30,000,000. But the final balance shown in the re­ port shows that, instead of there being a profit of $30,000,000, there was an ac­ tual deficiency or loss of $5,7G8,300. In­ quiry into the causes of this deficiency discloses the fact that it is due-- First, to carrying through the malls, at rates largely under cost, tone of matter composed principally of advertising schemes and dodges of every character, and merchandise packages of every nature, overburdening the already overtaxed facilities of the mails to such an extent as to render the prompt transmission and de­ livery of legitimate mail matter almost an impossibility. Second, to the shipment through the mails of Government freight that could and should be forwarded through' other channels at much lower cost. In tho face of this report a bill has been introduced in Congress for the es­ tablishment of a parcels post, which pro­ poses still lower* postal rates than ar« now in effect on a class of business that has been largely instrumental in re­ ducing a profit of $30,000,000 to an actual loss of §5,768,300. It Is not of as mach importance to the average citizen that the cost for the transmission of a rack- age of merchandise or other articles of like character through the malls shall be less than the government pays for trans­ porting it, as that the rates of postage on regularly established newspapers and personal and business letters which are the province and property of all shall be placed within the rcach of all. Tho revenue of the Postal Depart­ ment, If properly applied, fully justifies the reduction of rates on letter postage^ and it is undoubtedly the duty of every voter to urge upon their Repre­ sentatives in Congress to legislate for penny postage on letters and for the continuance of the present rea­ sonable rates that are afforded the legit­ imate newspaper interests of tho coun­ try. The surplus revenues of the Postal Department should be used for this pur­ pose, and for the improvement of the facilities for local delivery of letters and newspapers, and for the extension of mail routes to regions of the country not already favored with acceptable postal communications, and they should not be used to build up a branch of public serv­ ice that is not required by the public, and which expedience has demonstrated will exhaust the revenues and absorb the facilities needed for other and more im­ portant branches of the postal service.-- Chicago Eagle. MANY] | EN KIU.EO .OSION. N Missing Link*. PltATiNUM can now be drawn into wiro strands so fine that twenty-seven twistsd together can bo inserted in the hollow pf a hair. FREDERICK LIVINGSTON,in his ninetieth year, continues to perform his duties as President of tho First National Bank in Petersboro, N. XL THE Fulton, Ky., gourmand who un­ dertook to eat three quails a day for thirty days stumbled at his twenty-ninth bird on the tenth day of his task. THE royal baron of beef placed on the Quoen's table on Christmas Day was cut from a Devon ox, fed on the prince con­ sort's Shaw farm, Windsor. The joint' weighed over three hundred pouuds. A Cow belonging to Mrs. M. E. Marin, of Llncolnton, Ga., went mad Tfeecow ran everybody of the premises, but she fell into a ditch and broke her neck before doing any damage. " " " X Aboi the Qui at Hat molishj half of hands ber w{ Is the thus far." ken from tho Wreck-- |lf Demolished by the irtial List ol the Victims. : special.J lornlng the boiler In fed Company's factory, kplodid, completely de- pgine house and about A large number of 'in the ruins. A nuin- Styles, the engineer, Iwhoso name Is known ie work of removing bodies from the debris is now actively going on, Thirty bodies have been removed. The worki of the Quebec Worsted morning's fatal ex- are situated at Hare heastern outskirts of er a large area, and .than any other man- men t in the city, d down for two and machinery d refitted. Op- resumed this operatives some cause, not started, y of them, Jttuilding. a of the -fmth. den explo- ecked the en- Company, plosion Point, the cl ernplo ufactu They weeks whi were being erations morning, an were on however, the and they were however, lemi number keeping itj engine-room for thi' About 9:45 there slon, which complete gine-house and dye-house, and damaged a large part of the main building. A great crowd gathered immediately, and the work of res.me commenced. The fire brigade was callcd out, but for­ tunately tho horrors of fire were not added to the calamity. A battery of artillery was ordered out .to assist the police in keeping order and controlling the enormous crowd of men and women who blocked up every avenue of ap­ proach. In the great confusion prevailing it is impossible to get a list of the killed and injured, and no complete list will be ob­ tainable until the ruins are thoroughly examined. About twenty bodies have already been taken from the wreck. Among the dead and injured are these: WTiIliara Forest, dead; Emilia Cote, bad­ ly scalded; Alex. Martineau, dying; Miss Rousseau, broken thigh and fractured skull; Timothy Enright, injured about head; Pierre Peterson, scalded and bruised; William Biouin, scalded; Amelia Boule, dying; Miss Meyer, dead; Joseph Dufresne, dead; Henry Laberte, dead; Josepa Mieliaud, dead; J. Styles, badly injured: H. Styles badly scalded; John La Montagne, dead; Arthur Tree- die, dead. A good force of doctors and surgeons is on hand and the wounded are receiv­ ing prompt attention. Many persons who left their homes this morning to go to work in the building are reported to be missing, but the number is probably much exaggerated, for, as already stat­ ed, the greater portion had left the building before the explosion occurred. The cause of tho accident is not at present known, but it is thought that some of the pipes had been frozen while the iires were out and so caused a stop­ page when steam was gotten up. Kansas Flillonophy. Be economical with your friendship. The less you say, the less you have to take back. There are so many wise people who have 110 wisdom. Those who are not led by reason are driven by want. Thinking of any.man or woman will suggest lessons to others. Trust in others, and you will increase their confidence in you. Sometimes the early bird' finds the worm too large to swallow. The man who always buys on tick/ls the man you have to watch. The greatest men of a town^fiay al­ ways be found in its cemeteries Good people make a mistake when they dress up Sin as beautiful. We all like to have a man on our side, but we don't want him on our back. There is one thing about an enemy: he never forgets you, though your friends may. There Is no law compelling you to like people simply because they aro good. If your name Is William, get rich, and the people will not be so apt to call you Bill. A bad man's reputation flies ahead of him; a good man's follows slowly behind him. There is only one thing stronger than anger, and that is the power that con­ trols it. Ho is never just right: the young man" tries to act old, and the old man tries to act young. It will usually be found of weak-head­ ed men that they are most apt to be headstrong. The Indian is no fool. He does not want his squaw to become civilized, and be a suffragist. The reason the men always "pick" on a woman is because she is better picking than a in an. Intemperate men should learn a lesson from the Christmas stocking that gets full but once a yi ar.. Some people permit a thorn to remain in their flesh in order to be able to say that they have one. When he is settling with the fiddler, is a poor time to remind a man that he was the best dancer in the house. When you find the women sympathiz­ ing with a man it is usually because his wife imposes upon him. The more wealth an old bachelor has, the more positive the women are that he must be awfully lonesome. Don't think that all the parsons say is gospel. If you do, you may become dis­ gusted with Christianity. So many young men save up their money and buy bicycles that they after­ wards trade off for baby carriages. Tjie man who is careful in scraping ac­ quaintances misses lots of the scrapes acquaintances get a man into. There are strings to everything in these times; even the harp that we are going to have in heaven will have strings to it. Every man should arrange for a little idle time after he passes forty or fifty. He will need time in which to take care of his teeth and liver. The men are not so powerful, after all. Every year they fight Christmas as hard as they can, but the women and children have their way about it just the same; When you are sick^ and send for a doctor to tell what-is the matter with you, he gets you to tell him what is the matter with you. When a man is injured in a railroad wreck, the lrytnagers of the road know that if he fails to recover, his relatives will try to. So many troubles in marriage originate In the fact that, the man thinks the wife belongs to tho husband, and' the woman thinks the husband belongs to the wife. --Atchison Ololte. The Landlord Must Pay Damages. W. A. Thomas, a guest of the Windsor Hotel, Montgomery, Ala., of which Cap­ tain D. R. West is proprietor, fell in a hallway, alleged to be poirly lighted. Both arras were broken. The plaintiff sued Captain West for $10,000. The jury, after being out for forty-eight hours, returned a vcrdlct awarding the plaintiff $2,500. ' SIXTEEN THOUSAND MEN DE- V MANO MORE PAY;"; H fH-ganlzed, They Say' They TTII1 to the Bitter Knd -- Pinkerton Ciuards--Trouble Kxprcted--Business Is SuBittisc. [Soottdale (Pa.) dispatch. J The great strike of 16,000 coke workers materialized to-day. There Is hardly a man at work in tho whole district out­ side of those employed by W. J. Rainey. There is every reason to believe that the fight will be hotly contested, as„ the men are much excited, and say they will never return to their posts of duty at a 10 per cent, reduction, and intimate that noth­ ing save an advance will satisfy them. It Is predicted and expected in labor circles that the employes of , W. J. Rainey, numbering 1,000, will come out on strike to-morrow morn­ ing or the day following. Rainey has now his works guarded by Pinkerton de­ tectives, whose duty It is to keep labor agitators and strikers at a distance from the place and from the employes. Trouble is expected, as the strikers are aroused and may make an attack on Rainey's works at any moment. The strike is already having a perceptible effect on all business. There is but little doing on the Fcuthwest and the Balti­ more and Ohio Road and about 200 men are out of work. While the furnaces at various points are fairly well supplied with coke some of them will have to close down if the strike continues any length of time. There are still no signs of an immediate settlement. JAMES REDPATH DEAD. An Ardent Abolitionist and a Warm Friend of Ireland. [New York dispatch.] James Redpath, the famous Irish Na­ tionalist, journalist and lecturer, and the Vice President of the Anti-Poverty Society, who was run down by a Fourth avenue horse car opposite the postoflice one day last week, died at 0 o'clock to­ day at St. Luke's Hospital from the effects of his injuries. Mrs. Redpath and her daughter, Mrs. Sanner, were a\ his bedside when he died and had been with him ever since yesterday morning. Ever since Mr. Redpath was removed to St. Luke's from the Chambers Street Hospital last Saturday, his condition ha,s been regarded as extremely Critical. The wheel of the car passed over the left arm as it was bent inward, bruising and lacerating all the smaller bones and crushing the muscles, which resulted in paralysis of the arm and almost the en­ tire left side of the body. James Redpath was born at Berwick- on-Tweed, England, in 1833, and emi­ grated with his parents to Michigan in 1848. Ho became a printer, newspaper correspondent and editor, and was long connected with the New York Tribune. He became emigration agent of the Haytien Government in the United States and afterward Consul at Phila­ delphia. He was a war correspondent during the civil war. and established at Bostor) in 1868 the Redpath Lyceum Bureau. He was an ardent advocate of "rights in Ireland" and a pronounced abolitionist. He was the author of "The Roving Editor," "A Hand-Book to Kan­ sas Territory," "The Public Life of Captain John Brown," "Echoes of Har­ per's Ferry," and "A Guide to Hayti. " One of his latest ventures was Red- path's Weekly, which suspended re­ cently. James Redpath was better known In recent years through his connection with the Irish movement. He first got inter­ ested in it through making a trip to Ire­ land as a correspondent of the New York Tribune. He had failed in a theatrical ventre and sought literary employment for relaxation from care as much as for remuneration. His trip through Ireland ^uring the partial famine of 1879 and 1880 made him a complete convert to the doc­ trines of the Land League, and his let­ ters, which aro widely copied, had more to do with awakening American sympa­ thy than any other agency at that time. Coming back to this country he gave a series of lectures tocrowd&d houses, which had a further effect in the same direction. Returning to Ireland ho Jthrew himself heart and soul into the agitation, and delivered a number of speeches at nationalist meetings which exceeded those of almost any of the Irish agitators in violence of tone. He denounced Chief Secretary Fofsre? and the Irish land­ lords in unmeasured terms. When some of tho local leaders were thrown into prison Redpath filled thVtr engagements and the Government did not arrest him. • The English press, not knowing that he was English by birth, called him a "Yan­ kee demagogue" and upbraided Dublin Castle with its cowardice for failing to arrest him. So absorbed in tho new movement did Kedpath become that on his return to New York he started an Irish weekly paper, attended all tho Irish conventions and for some years did not touch any other movement. The Irish got to regard him as one of them­ selves. Worth Kerne in ber Ing. FBOM 90,000 to 120,000 hairs grow In a human scalp. 1 THE estimated population of the world Is 1,450,000,000. Ox July 6 the earth Is farther away from the sun than at any other time. THEBE is only one sudden death among women to every eight among men. NEW YORK, Paris a*ud Berlin all to­ gether have not so large an area as London. OF the white population in America 8 per cent, are unable to either read or write. FABM lands in the United States, tak­ ing the country as a whole, occupy only 289 acres in every 1,000. A HEALTHY adult, doing an ordinary amount of work, will require from ten to twelve ounces of meat a day. To COMPLETE their growth, the nails of the left hand require eight to ten days more than those of the right. ENGLAND has more women-workers than any other country in proportion to population, 12 per cent of the Industrial classes being women. A GBAIN of fine sand would cover 10Q of the minute scales of the human Skin, and yet each of these scales in turn cov­ ers from 300 to 500 pores. THEI?E are 950 submarine telegraph cables now in operation, most of them in Europe, their total length being over 89,000 miles. TIIEBE are about 105 women to every 100 men; one-quarter of the population ot the world die before the age of 17 years; only one in a thousand lives to be 100 years old, and only six in a thousand reach 75. A GERMAN biologist says that the two sides of a face aft) never alike; in two cases out of five tho eyes are out of line; one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten, and the right ear Is generally higher than the left. Twill Be a Famous Museum. The old mansion at Appomattox, V&, in which Lee surrendered to Grant, has been purchased by a Niagara Falls (N. Y.) company, and will be made a museum for war relics. A Trainer Wants His Money. Suit against Senator Hearst for $9,595, alleged to be due as salary and commis­ sion upon winnings, was brought at New York by Matthew M. Allen, the trainer. THE NATIONAL S0L0NS. 8PT4XE AND HOUSE ^ *BNTATIVEGY , '2 Lawmaker. ' f t ] Are Dolus for the Good or the Counts*-- ' Various Measures Proposed, Discussed,' ; •nd Acted Upon. . ^ BUT little was done by Congress on the ^ 7th, except to consider World's Fair matt ters. After a long discussion concerning Oi? salaries of officials, Col. Davis, Director * >- General, was awarded $7,500 per year, and K his position was made a national one. Th® "* " President will bo paid $5,000, Vice Presit dent $4,000, the Secretary $3,000, and $8,000;-- wlll be devoted to clerk hire. These figured : .;, are greatly reduced; but the action of th»*J House in recognizing the Director General *•, % v national officer is regarded by the Fair < - 1 officials as a great victory, as it stamps th* „ ~ enterprise as a national one and will glveM1 'f ^'•s\ assurance to foreign exhibitors that private . V Interests do not control it. President- ; Palmer regards the action of reducing salaries with disfavor, but says he should work as hard for nothing as ho would for 1 big figure; and he says the exhibit is tobgr"" the grandest the world ever saw. 1 r THE Senate on the 11th agreed to a reso^ ' vjt lutioa calling on the Secretary of the Treaa-. ~ . 'dry for a list of all persons, firms or associ-t <• atlons by whom bullion had been offered! -• • * (under the act of July 14,1890), the amount*' ' * a n d p r i c e s ; a l i s t o f t h o s e f r o m w h o m s i l v e r 1 4 - bullion had been purchased, the basis ott which an estlmste Is made of the market ^7 price of silver and the amounts and prices;"'." of silver bullion purchased outside of tbft -"f United States. In the House Senate amend-r • ment to House bill to fix the rate of wage*, of certain employes of the -government >0.. printing office was non-concurred in. Sen--- 1 ate bill was passed to establish a record ' and pension office in the War Department}' also Senate bill providing for the selection' of a site for a military post at San Diego, ' Cal. A bill was passed extending the tim »' within which the Choctaw Coal and Rail­ road Company tdiall construct its roacj'- through the Indian Territory. The Hous<» ' j'- then went into committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill. IN the Senate on the 12th the credential* • of Mr. Teller for the new Senatorial tern> •, beginning March 4 were presented and filed* , '4 The following among other bills were passed; - Senate bill establishing pier lights at Ahna*v : ^ pee, Wis.: Senate bill for creation of A fourth judicial district in Utah; House-bill * to grant right of way through the Crow" \ " \reservation to the Montana & Wyoming' , ' Railroad Company (with amendments). Th# •" Senate then resumed consideration of th# J • copyright bill, the pending question being th» - ̂ amendment offered by Mr. Sherman to strike out the word "prohibited"and Insert j- * the words "subject to the duties provided M, by law," so that foreign copies of book* . . patented in the United States shall not b« prohibited, but shall be subject to tarllj' -nV<< duties. Owing to the absence of Mr. Sher* * man the bill was laid aside. In the House, '! '.;J Senate bill was passed authorizing the Kan* T sas and Arkansas Railroad Company td extend Its lines in the Indian Territory, The House then went into committee ot the whole on the legislative approprla-* ~ - t i o n b i l l . , i f =f= . The Science of Smuggling. / j.^-. ^ With what skill adulterators some- - f times utilize the resources of chemistry 1 or physics in order to imitate* natural substances or to sophisticate manu-r •; factured products is well known. The ,, - * genius of smugglers knows no less,.*' •; ,v limit. We have recently been apprised^ manufactured products is well known, The genius of smugglers know no les# limit. We have recently been ap- • prised of a fact which appears to us tcf*"-• .TS. c a p t h e c l i m a x . W e r e g r e t i t f o r t h e s " f , sake of our neighbors across the Rhinei but it is a question of a German fraud.., , The Longwy custom house seized a- German car that had started from the* Luxemburg station, carrying so-calle<l?§iJ%jf dressed stone. From one of the blocks there was oozing a liquid that wast „ recognized by the inspector as 96 de-t V-^ gree alcohol. The car was put on the ' < i wharf, and the stone was taken off antV 0 £ • broken, when it was observed that the. interior, which was hollow, held a zinci - * " > box of 1 m. by 0.7 m. by 0.4 m., con- * 7*0 taining 297 liters of alcohol. The other'- • blocks were found in the same condi- tion. The screw cap wan carefully 1 ,/• concealed under a layer of cement uni­ formly marked with the letter D. Thet'.;./-V; numbers succeeded each other, ana upon each stone there was found an-& other mark indicating the contei^yjia; liters.--Scientific American. :'V- X M Cleanliness of the Japanese. In his article upon Japan, in thef; ?v January number of Scribner's Maga* , • zine, Sir Edwin Arnold says: "There are eight or nine hundred public bath^vc'^ in ^ Tokio, where 300 persons baihe daily, at a charge of one Hen three rin> \ '• (about a cent) per head, and less thank a farthing each for children. The poor-8 f' est may, therefore, bathe, a,nd alwaysf ^'W do; so that, lately, in the time of dear^v rioe, when money was given to the' * j poor, a tenth-part was allotted to bath-*, ing tickets. Besides the public bath-' r \A ing establishments, every good housed ' also possesses its own bath. The Jap- a n e s e h a v e a p r o v e r b : ' E v e r y t h i n g c a n , % be cured by a bath except love.' They- are the greatest lovers of 'the tub' in • the world, and undoubtedly the clean­ est of all known people. A Japanese crowd has ho odor whatever, and your jinrikisha man perspires profusely without the smallest offense to the nicest sense of his fare close behind. True, they were no underlinen and put on the same garment after the bath, but these articles of clothing are con­ stantly being washed." * . How toPreserve the Eyesight. _ Avoid all sudden changes between light and darkness. Never begin to read, write, or sew for several minutes after coming from darkness to a bright light. 4 Never read by twilight or moon­ light, or on dark, cloudy day®. 2 ^ When reading it is best to let the •* " light fall from above obliquely over: " | the left shoulder. # Do not use the eyesight by light so scant that it requires an effort to dis­ criminate. The moment you are instinctively prompted to rub your eyes, that mo­ ment stop using them. If the eyelids are glued together on waking up do not forcibly open them, V but apply saliva with the finger. It is the speedist dilutant in the world; then wash your eyes and face in warm watrcr. . • Ctood Manners. NEVER press a fa.vor where it seem» undesired. NEVER Intrude ill-health, pains, losses, ft- or misfortunes. NEVER unavoidably Wound the sw­ ings of a human being. ^ NEVER forget that vulgarity has tta origin in ignorance or selfishness. '•* * ? NEVES urge another to do anything L • against his desire unless you see danger before him. „ . { Do NOT ask another to do what you - ^ , would not be glad to do under similar circumstances. NEVER omit to perform a kind act ' when it can be done with any reasonable - * amount of exertion. NEVER needlessly wound the vanity of > another or dilate unnecessarily upon dis- • * agreeable subjects. -** \ NEVER talk aloud so that others thane the one addressed can hear, in public- places or upon the street. 1̂4 r\i " • VV.