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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 10 Feb 1892, p. 2

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•£:W fl^iispa .W l̂FfsWsi rutn fj laiudcalci I. VAN 8LYKE, Editor mid P^llih^r^ ICeHSNBY, ILLINOIS. />i' BUNG IN KENTUCKY. THREE MURDERERS PAY THE DEATH PENALTY. Kearly Denlroyed-lo. the Red Man, Haj Now Get Dnak on -- Oppo««d to Bumaril--MM* I'I Memorial MMtlng. Hummel] Company, Newark, N. J., caused the death of three persons, in­ jured several others, and partially de­ molished the building. A FIOHT between negro and Italian miners took place at Smithton, Pa. One Italian was fatally wounded, one Specta­ tor was shot in the neck and will die, and another was^wounded in the knee so that amputation of the leg was made necessary. THE ladies of a church near Buffalo, N. Y., were anxious to raise funds to pay off the debt and to buy coal to keep the saints and sinners from freezing. So they got up a social and six of the pret­ tiest of them sold kisses to the men at 25 cents apiece. A big sum was raised, court excepting Justice Field concurred in the opinion, although Justices Harlan, Gray and Brown did not concur in one line of reasoning. The decision ©ver-c rules the decision of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, holding that Mr. Boyd was not a citizen and that Governor Thayer was entitled to hold over until a suc­ cessor had been duly electod. The main question was whether Mr. Boyd became a citizen of the United States without taking out naturalization papers, his father, a British subject, never having become fully naturalized, although he had declared his intention to take out the necessary papers. The son went to Nebraska when it was a Territory and was one of the foremost of the pioneers who developed it. rThree Men Hanged in Kentucky. / I WTLIIIAM PTTCKETT Was hanged at brine, Ky., for the murder of William 'Hall. Puckett's crime was committed November election day, 1890. Robert Charlton, colored, was hanged at Hen­ derson, Ky., for the murder of his } [mistress, Minnie Hoskins. He killed her on the night of Nov. 27 because she re- fused him money with which to play craps. William Bush was hanged at Stanford, Ky. Ho murdered his wife at Clay City, April 22, 1890. He tried to Implicate Alfred Smith, saying his wife feoew about a lot of Smith's devilment, and was going to talk. He held several pub but the social broke up in a fight, for | "c offices and it was not until after he or.,..,) -- I had served for some time as Governor of MR. SPURGEON ISl DEAD. AWFUL DEEDS INCH1NA CUEING INTEM END OF ,THE FAMOUS LONDON V PREACHER. H» 'Jfaroi- Awijr at Mentone, la lentil Ituce, After Months of Patient Suffer- Remarkable Popularity--Work for Humanity and Charity. HUNDREDS ARE BURNED ALIVE ; BY REBEL4U <'•>'* : OB* 8QRTON'S GREAT WCT ' WARSAW. IND* A Wife Accu9ed of Poisoning. CHARLES PIETRI, JR., a Buffalo res- tiu^ant-keeper, being stricken with a sudden and suspicious illness, left his family in Buffalo and went to his father's. house at Erie, Pa., where he died in great agony. The coroner held an autopsy, which shows that <le&th resulted from poisoning. The peculiar feature of the ease is that Mrs. Pietri's mother and sister accuse tho Jpoung wife of the crime.^ Indians Can Have Beer., A* Helena, Mont., Judge Knowles, of the United District Court, decided that beer is not an intoxicating liquor. It was in the case of a man arrested for celling beer to a Crow Indian, and the decision was that that liquor does not come under the statute which reads "spirituous liquor or wine." Destruction of a Kentucky Town. „ - MOST disastrous fire" occurred at Morganfleld, Ky. The business portion of the town was destroyed. The total loss was $60,000; insurance about $4,000. Nit <=.. Slight Shock of Earthquake. A* San Jose, Cal., a slight shock ol earthquake was felt which lasted about two seconds. Brief Items of News. KVE deaths from "spotted fever* are reported from, Texas. J. C. MOBO^K'S paper-mill at Battle Creek, Mieh.,was destroyed by fire. BY Justice Bradley's will his wife is given the use ;of his entire property. BELIEF is current-that Minister Pos­ ter at Italy JLS investigating the Mafia lynchings. , RAILROADS of Kansas City have not «nough cars and engines to transport the wheat crop. DOMINION farmers have refused to veeommend the imposition of duties on American pork. Two RUFFIANS at Harrisburg, Pa., wounded several men who were attempt­ ing their arrest. ^ A. BHiii aimed to break up the sugar trust has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature. THE conservatives triumphed at To­ ronto, Ont., and won two seats in the Government House. JAMES ODEM, who 'wantonly killed ^two negroes in Louisiana, was shot dead while resisting arrest. TWENTY-FIVE saloonkeepers of Ot- tumwa have been caught Violating the Internal revenue laws. some angular women who weren't kissed tore their husband's hair for kissing the pretty ones. WESTERNT S A COMPAKY of Sioux infantry has been taken to the fort at Salt Lake, Utah, to be. educated in English and military tactics. JOE MARISCAKO, a fruit merchant of Evansville, Ind., has been bitten by a tarantula concealed in a bunch of ban­ anas. He may die. THE Supreme Court of Wisconsin has granted leave to have suit brought to test the apportionment bill passed by the last Legislature. A KANSAS farmer claims that four "bad men" in Chicago have a cinch on the wheat market, and are manipulating deals to suit themselves. A FIVE-MONTHS-oijD child of Martin Silon was smothered to death by too much wrapping while the family was out driving near St. Mary's, Ohio. • „ . . ACTOR CURTIS or "Sam'l of Posen" is playing the chief rol<? in one of the last acts of a tragedy. In San Francisco he is on trial for killing Policeman Grant. IT is said that a man named John Boyd has confessed to wrecking the Bichmond and Danville train, in which! twenty persons were killed last Sep­ tember. REPBIRD, who killed Haukakoxie on the Sisseton reservation last month, was committed to jail at Huron, S. D., to await the action of the United States Grand Jury.' THE Commercial and Savings Bank at Kearney, Neb., has been forced to the wall by the withdrawal of public funds. Their assets are exceeded by their liabilities to the amount of $25,000. AT Omaha the Union Pacific Bailway is resting^pon a sleeping volcano. Al­ ready there are *aint mutterings of an explosion, and if it comes there will be one of the biggest strikes known to rail­ road history. HENXING PETERSON, a Fort Dodge, Iowa, tailor, laughed himself into a state of coma. His risibles were excited by a comic song, and his iaughter soon be­ came uncontrollable, though not resem­ bling hysterics. At the end of an hour Peterson was completely exhausted and became insensible. All efforts to arouse him have been in vain. It is thought he will die. AT Zarley's, one mile south of Joliet, 111., the boiler'of Engine No. 47{ on the Chicago and Alton road, blew up. The dead are: Brandon Thomas," of Brighton Park, fireman, and C. F. Hastings, of Bloomington, head brakeman. The only Survivor was William Dubois, engineer, of Bloomington, who had one leg bioken, head and face crushed and scalded. He is in the hospital alive. The engine was the last new one turned out of the Bloomington shops--a mogul. AN army teamster named Jack Dal- ton is at Los Angeles, £al., trying to get a new head of hair. Jack was team­ ster near the Mexican line when rene­ gade Apaches captured his outfit, shot and scalped him and left him for dead. He made his way to the nearest settle­ ment. but his head was so neglected that he lost all his hair except a little fringe geaj the ears. Surgeons believe the skin of a dog may be grafted on his head, and Jack is now looking for a doc- the State that the question concerning his citizenship was raised. A long con­ troversy ensued as to whether Boyd or the, former Governor, Thayer, was en­ titled to the seat. The Court says that the fact that he votfed and for a Long time held public office is sufficient to establish his right ttf citizenship. THE Democrats carried the municipal election in Duluth. THE Democrats of the Iowa Legisla­ ture stand firmly by their old liquor act. The House will institute war on private detcetives. .FOREIGN. \ ^DEPOSITORS of the Kearney (Neb.) C; b.aDk: ̂ hi0h r6Cent.ly \ai,lea' wiU receivc It looks now as though a majority of * fcv about 80 cents on the dollar. THE resolution declaring Senator Call legally entitled to his seat was unani­ mously adopted by the Senate. THE anti-lbtteryites fear some trick may be played to defeat their scheme for the dissolution of the octopus. GERMAN divers have examined the hull of the steamer Eider, and assert that the craft can never again sail. THE Standard Oil Company will com­ pete with the Bell telephone people after 1893, when the latter's patents expire. Gov. FLOWER has signed the law amending the electrocution act, which provides for the presence of reporters at executions. 4 WARRING church factions at Lancas­ ter, Pa., have been turned out from their place of worship, and the Sheriff * placed in charge. F- PITTSBURG looms up as the latest candidate for honors. The city author­ ities have Rurested some harmless youth •ad aver positively that he is Tascott. THE big iron-beam trust formed two years ago and embracing most of the immense rolling-mills of the East, and some of the West, has been dissolved. Gov. THAYEB, of Nebraska, will at­ tempt to save himself from being re­ moved from the administrative chair by appealing to the State Supreme Court. NEW YORK legislators have been asked to pass a bill prohibiting the "employ­ ment of barmaids by saloons. They are driving men out of the business, it is claimed. • JOHNSTOWN'S gratitude to the world for favors during the flood was voiced at the opening of the memorial hospital. Resolutions of thanks and other forms were adopted. THE unknown man who has lain at an • undertaking establishment in Cincinnati for four days has at last been identified •s Newton Mowery, a kidney-cure agent. A MOB near Hendersonville," Tenn., attacked two negroes who had been ac­ quitted of a charge of barn-burning, shot through the window of their cabin and killed their aged mother. EMPLOYES of the Oxford Nail and Iron Company at Trenton, N. J., who have been locked out for three months, are actually starving, but their former 4 employer is indifferent. majority the 500 Chinese cooped up at the quar­ antine station on Angel Island, near San Francisco, will oome down with J small-pox. It is reported that there are thirty 6ases, although an official count gives only a dozen. This disparity is due to the fact that the Chinese conceal the presence of the disease as long as possible* as they dread medical treat­ ment by the whites. The quarantine officer refuses to permit six customs of­ ficers at the station to return to the city, holding that they would spread con­ tagion. Military still maintain their dead line and no quarantined persons are allowed near it. Six European pas­ sengers, who are confined with the Chinese, ar$ making great complaints over lack of suitable accommodations. Another China steamer is expected, and if small-pox be aboard the Pacific Mail Company will have to furnish a hulk as a lazaret, as the quarantine station can not accommodate any more. SOUTHERN. EASTERN. ' A PITTSBURG electric-car, containing ; : thirteen of the non-union employes of the company, was wrecked by dynamite, hut fortunately no one was seriously in­ jured. Strikers did it. THERE arrived at New York by the Italian steamer Massilia 258 exiled Rus­ sian Jews. Sixty of them have been detained at Ellis Island 'pending inves­ tigation of their ability to sustain them-" ^ Halves in this country. THE explosion of an alcohol con­ denser in the hat factory of the J. .. *. i , \ 'j \ iv.' AT Shelbyville, Texas, five of the men who participated in the lynching of J. O. Shields are in jail. There is fear of lynching the accused and the jail is guarded, as is also the old lady Binson, who is protected, by guards for fear of foul work to keep her out of court as a witness. THE Louisiana lottery has thrown up the sponge and quit the fight. At least that is what John Morris and the people associated with him in the game de­ clare. Its present franchise expires in 1894, and a renewal will not be asked. This is all on account of tho recent Federal Supreme Court decision that the anti-lottery law is constitutional. IT is a strange story. Deputy Mar- shalls Burrell and Reynolds arrived in Atlanta, Ga., after a big haul in Rabun. The deputies raided three stills. Seven men were captured. While on the way from the place of capture to Gainesville Deputy Burrell followed some distance behind Deputy Reynolds. Reynolds had four of the moonshiners in charge and Burrell had three. Two of Burrell's prisoners were handcuffed together, while the third, John Lovcll, marched in front of Burrell. Suddenly two women sprang out from the bushes. One was aged while the other appeared to be not over eighteen years old. They were the deaf^and dumb sis­ ter and mother of young Lovel!. Mrs. Lovell quickly grasped Deputy Burrell around the body, pinioning his arms lo his side. Seeing the timely aid that was being rendered by the two women, Lovell, who was not handcuffed, broke for the woods. Reynolds shook Mrs. Lovell off and would have fired at the retreating moonshiner had not the deaf and dumb sister sprang directly between them. The young fellow made good his escape. , THE River Neth, an American bark, was wrecked on the west coast of Ire­ land. THE troops from Dahomey raided French territory and carried off 3v0 slaves. HUNGRY workmen made a raid on Lis­ bon bakeries and carried off everything in Bight. THE British warship Victoria is strand­ ed at Platea, but will be gotten off With pontoons. FUNERAL services were held at Menr tone, France, over the remains of Rev. Air. Spurgeon. AUSTRIA will not permit any penniless Jews to cross her borders, unless they be America-bound. AT Pressburg, Hungary, an explosion in a smokeless powder factory cost three men their lives. * THE will of the late Cardinal Man­ ning shows that he posse"ss«l less than £100 at his death. * CHINESE insurgents are being sur­ rounded and slaughtered without mercy on the border of Manchuria. A SPECIAL prayer for relief from the ravages of influenza has been issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Succl the faster has abandoned his attempt to go without food for fifty-two days. He fasted forty-four days. ITALY and Belgium, and possibly Switzerland, propose to retaliate France's course in raising tariff rates by following suit. THE Schneiders, man and wife, have been found guilty at Vienna of murder­ ing several girls. They will be executed on the same day. MUCH alarm is felt at Hamburg over the prevalence of hog disease in the Al- tona district, and it has been decided to close the cattle markets. AT Mentone, France, the Rev. Charles Hadden Spurgeon died. The English public generally manifests the deepest grief at the demise of the great preacher. In London the Chronicle appeared with a mourning border. It compares thq dead pastor to Martin Luther. The Telegraph characterizes him as a "great, fearless, and faithful minister." It adds: "Albeit if homely in genius and elo­ quence, all agree that he leaves a void that will be filled with difficulty." IN GENERAL JOHN UPLAND, of Meaford, Ont., was killed at Gladstone, Mich., a pile of coal falling on him. THERE are good prospects for a gi­ gantic combine of all the electrical busi­ ness in the country. THE Norwegian steamer Coringa, which sailed from Glasgow Jan. 27 for Philadelphia, Ijas be.en damaged in col­ lision and put back for "repairs". CANADIANS have sent the captain of the steamer Glendon a new union jack in appreciation of his conduct in refus­ ing to haul down the British ensign. WINNIPEG people oj^all wearing stiff, high collars, and keeping their eyes open for some miscrrant who is following in the footsteps of New York's "Jack the Ripper." - . AN extraordinary^accident occurred in the harbor at San Francisco dUring a heavy rainstorm, when the British ship Orissa dragged her anchor and crashed into the British ship Gowanbank. The Watchman on board the Orissa was evi­ dently asleep, for he allowed the strong tide caused by the gale to set tho vessel to drifting. She came down like a phan­ tom ship on the Gowanbank. The watch on the latter shouted to the Orissa, but got no response, and in a moment came a terrific collision which tore the masts out of the Orissa and brought down tho spars on the other vessel. It was a naTrow escape from total wreck. It will cost $10,000 to repair the Orissa. MARKET REPORTS. 4 H,-' POLITICAL. THE United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in the Nebraska governorship case in favor of Mr. Boyd. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Fuller. All the members of the CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.. HOGS--Shipping Grades HHEEP--Fair to choice ". WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 KTt-No. 2 Burr KB--Choice Creamery. CHEESE -Full Cream, flat s EGOS--Fr* eh POTATOES--car-loads, perbu... INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping HOGS--Choice Lij^hc SHICEP--Common to Prime.... WHEATS^No. i Red COKN--No. 1 White OATS--No. 2 White . ... ST. IVJUIK. CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 Bed.. 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SO <& .85 <& .40 .30 & .78 .31 .13 .24^ .40 8.25 @ 5.00 3.5 J («§ 4(75 3.00 ® 6.25 .91% .40H(S> .34% 8.50 & 4.75 3.50 VM 4.7J .8S>S® .89'* .36 (T# .37 ® .30 <® .79 .29 .77 8.50 3.00 300 .33 10 @ 4.75 & 4.7-i CC 6.25 .91% •41;* .34 3.00 3.00 3.U0 .92 .36!^^ •33!-s if .«> .38 .31 @ 4.75 V9 4.25 5.0 J .93 .811* .34 .00 .4J .33 ,B3 4.00 3.75 LOI .43 @ 5.75 MI 4.75 1.02 & .45 .30 .31 .7U 11.75 8.50 3.1/0 4.00 1.01 .49 .81 «V2 9.7# Death of • Great Divine. 1 Telegrams announce the death at Mentone, in South France, of Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, pastor of the Lon­ don Metropolitan Tabernacle. Mr. Spur­ geon had long been a sufferer from gout, and about seven months ago his condi­ tion became so serious that even then his life hung iji the balance for weeks. Eventually his naturaiiy rugged consti­ tution overcame the disease so far as to permit of his being removed to Mentone, where he had been for some time. first the mild climate to which he had gone proved benefloial, and the famous preacher's physicians were beginning to look for their pastor's complete re­ covery. A few days ago alarming symp­ toms made their appearance. The rev­ erend gentleman grew steadily worse, and the end soon canie. Mr. Spurgeon was born at Kelvedon, Essex, June 19, 1834, and was educated at Colchester, Maidstone, and elsewhere, finally becoming usher in a school at Newmarket. Having adopted Baptist Tiews, he joined tho congregation which had been presided over by the late KoV ert Hall, of Cambridge. He subse­ quently became pastor at Water beach, and his fame as a preacher j-eaching o1> MPmt.'fc'Mti* en and Children, Followed by Wholesale Executions of the Barbarian*. Whose <.Iicutl* Were Mowed Off !>>• Scores. THE SENATE ANDH0USE.I«> •; Op OF OUR NAT10NA1» **AW«» ' i CHARLES n. SPURGEON. London he was offered the pastorate of the church meeting in New Park Street Chapel in Southwark. He first preached before a London congregation in 1853, with so much suc­ cess that ere two years had elapsed it was considered necessary to enlarge the building, pending which alteration he officiated for four months at Exeter Hall. The enlargement of the chapel in Park street, however, proved insufficient and hearers multiplied with such rapidity that it became expedient to engage the Surrey Music Hall, and Mr. Spurgeon's followers determined to build a suitable edifice for their services. The Metro­ politan tabernacle was accordingly built and opened in 1861, and ever since when the great preacher occupied its rostrum on Sundays there was present a congre­ gation averaging over 6,000 persons. Mr. Spurgeon once preached to a con­ gregation of 20,000 at the Crystal Palace near London. When, during the pro­ gress of repairs at his Metropolitan tab­ ernacle, he preached in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, his audience numbered bout 20,000 persons at every service. Connected with his church, outgrowths of its^energies, are the pastors' college from which several hundreds of young men have been sent out as ministers, and an orphanage which was begun at the instance of a lady friend who sent Mr. Spurgeon a check for $100,000 with which to begin it. About three hundred orphans are fed, lodged, clothed, and educated in this institution. With the exception of Mr. Gladstone he received the largest mail of any man in the three kingdoms. A great many of his letters from saildrs, from poor# fellows whom he had managed to help out of the gutter, were simply addresssed Spurgeon, En­ gland. To° these he replied cheerfully and was always ready to give advice. Nor was this all. He gave freely of his money. In fact, he was a poor man. If it had not been for the kindness of his congregation he would have been penni­ less. Eli person Mr. Spurgeon was short, thick-set, with a face by no means hand* some and markedly English in type. But he had kindly manners that rendered him agreeable to those who knew him. Though he had accomplished so much labor in his life he has been for years a frequent sufferer from rheumatism, a disease which troubled both his father and grandfather. In recent years, since ho had had much ill health, much of his parochial work has been undertaken by Mrs. Spurgeon, who is a devoted, unselfish woman, with a pleasant face and voice that win her friends everywhere. She is a ministering angel among the poor of the great city. In every respect she has proved herself a worthy helpmeet for the great preacher. Their twin sons--their only children-- are both engaged in the ministry. In a Heathen Land. A Shanghai correspondent give* de­ tails of a terrible atrocity committed by Chinese rebels on the border of Man­ churia, and of equally terrible punish­ ment inflicted by government troops up­ on the captured rebels. These rebels were led by Several Buddhist priests, and they were especially savage against native Christians. At one place they burned sixty children and butchered t nine Chinese nuns. At another they | cremated sixty men whom they impris­ oned in a barn. Their expedition were solely for plunder and without political purpose. Viceroy LI sent a large army against them, and their strength was broken. - Hundreds of prisoners were taken. The punishment meted out to the rebels by their conquerers was most re­ volting and the executions were con­ ducted on a wholeeale scale. Men were beheaded by hundreds, and entire trunks of trees were utilized as blGcks along which prisoners were ranged in lines and their executioners simply mowed off their heads when the signal was given. Generally in China the condemned are ranged in small knots kneeling before the executioner, but here the wretched miscreants were too numerous for the usual rules to be observed and they were seized by their queues by soldiers from the other side of the lately im­ provised blocks and their heads lopped off. They were not even tied and the headless trunks fell against the block or tumbled backward or to one side when tho fatal sword severed the neck. The heads were hung in long rows on poles as a warning to others, and in a short time Intense cold froze the bodies stiff, but not before camp followers and' ghouls had stripped them of every atom of clothing. The rebels, it appears, were mostly bandits, who roam the country just out­ side the walls of China. Last spring they joined forces and entered upon a regular plan of campaign of plunder. The most horrible atrocities were per­ petrated by these wandering" despera­ does. Eye witnesses state that almost the entire population of villages was cruelly maltreated and murdered. The burning of children alive, tho brutal treatment and murder of women, the carrying off of everything from tho homes of the wretched people, was the general line of conduct of these inhu-» man fiends. A case in point is the occurrence at a village called Kutulan, in the Jehol pre­ fecture, Manchuria. A band of 500 marauders swooped down upon this place in the dead of night, captured all whom they did not kill outright, and finally carried away with them all the women. Before going, they put sixty men in a large barn, securely fastened all places of egress, and set fire to the place. The shrieks of those being burned alive reached the ears of a few . persons who had escaped to the hills. The scene was frightful in the extreme. This, however, is only one of a dozen such incidents. The rebels raided and destroyed QJiris- tian and heathen villages alike, but to captives of the former places they acted in a particularly ferocious manner. At .83 .37 .32 (4 .61 & .56 T 12.25 ui 5.00 & 4.75 4$ ff.00 1.03 & .51 4* .37 ® .3* An Unbroken Record of Cnrea--A. Remedy for the Drinking'Habit that la Kffe«iu»l In all Stair** or Disease--Plain Story of • Besvfin-iiot Remedy that la Butoc liiS'alien Men to Usefulness. I^ymoath Institute Sights. He who changes a confirmed inebriate into a reputable, rational, sgjl-respect- ing member ot society is worthy to take rank among the greatest benefactors of mankind. For his good work not only restores to usefulness a man whose time, energy and opportunities have been worse than mis-spent, but he confers the boon of pcace to many homes, the har­ binger of joy to many bruised hearts. Just such a benefactor appears to be Dr. T. A. Borton of Warsaw, Ind., and In the work of redeeming fallen men he has earned a heavenly crown of glory. Of scores of suffering persons, who have sought him out, not. one has failed to find complete and permanent relief, not one has relapsed into the drinking habit, an unbroken record of cures that has no­ where been equalled. ,, ,The "Borton Cure," as it Is becoming to be widely known, depends entirely for its reputation upon the unsought and willing testimony of those who have ex­ perienced the treatment. No attempt has been made to acquaint the public with its.merits, and it might almost en­ tirely have faiied to attract the attention of newspaper readers but for the fact that certain clergymen, who visited the doctor at his office, felt impelled to send to the Chicago Interior and other re­ ligious papers some accounts of the as­ tonishing things they had witnessed. Talijow, which has been Christian for two centuries, they massacred nine Chi­ nese sisters, nuns, and burned the or­ phanage, which contained sixty little in­ mates. Th'e piercing of the bodies of captives with heatet^ bayonets and spears, the gouging out of eyes, the dis­ emboweling or burying alive of victims, were among tho atrocities practiced by the'reb Is. One band is said to have been led by a huge amazon, who rode astride her horse like a man. It was re­ ported among her followers that she drank the blood of victims in order to maintain her courage. The suppression of the revolt is not entirely due to the (fforts of the-Chinese Government. It was really the extreme cold that had the most to do with it. The robbers could not stand the cam­ paigning in the winter weathor, and "hey retired to their strongholds in the hills. STATE EXHIBITS. X. A. BORTON, M. I> MAKERS, Proceedings or the Senate and House of Sepresentatlve. - Important Measure. Discussed and Acted (Tpon-Gist or the BniilltH. ' The War IH Over. Italy to Chili: "I told you you would have to give in."--St. Louis Globe- Democrat. It is now of no consequence whether the Capitan Prat sails or not.--Louis­ ville Courier-J ournal. Chill's back-down appeared simultane­ ously with the President's back-up.--• Memphis Avalanche. Chili will come down, but she evident­ ly prefers the installment plan to the dull thud.--Washington Post. Chill takes to her dish of crow with great alacrity. She might as well make the best of it.^--Kalamazoo Telegraph. As soon as Chili discovered that Uncle Samuel was in dead earnest she fluttered gracefully from her perch.--Minneapolis Tribune. That Chili now has a pair of blactt eyes is admitted by those who perverse­ ly omit the lastdotlet in spelling.--Bal­ timore American. The Chilian war tt^lk and its ending have demonstrated that while Mr. Har­ rison has tho loudest mouth Mr. Blaine possesses tho heaviest feet.--Milwaukee Journal. Tho war is over. Chili takes it all back. Apology, reparation, and good feeling will follow, and Chill will have an exhibit at the World's Fair at Chica­ go.--Pittsburgh Gazette. Chili's respect for the American flag and uniform seems to have been of sud­ den birth. Perhaps our naval prepara­ tions had a good deal to do with it.--In- (panapolis Journal. Chill came to time in Sliprt order when it was found that this government was not playing a game of bluff. Doubtless the discipline will be go^cr for her health, --Lincoln Journal. The Incident has been worth all it has cost in demonstrating to the world that on all questions touching the nation's dignity and its duty to its citizens there is but one party m the United States.-- Utica Herald. / With an honorable settlement of the troubles, the United States will be as friendly as ever to the little South Amer­ ican Bepublic, and ready to give her one of the best seats in the great Columbian Fair.--Burlington Hawkeye. Rival Exhibitors at the World's Fair Must I Make a Special Application. The Eastern headquarters of the Chi­ cago World's Fair, which has been es­ tablished in New York for nine months, issues the information that no competi­ tive exhibits will be allowed in the State buildings; that all applications for space for such exhibits must go to the Director General, and that applications for spe­ cial commissions and privileges should also be sent to him, to be passed upon by the Ways and Means Committee. Proper blanks and all information about the fair can ^e secured by those who intend to make exhibits, and by the consuls or other representatives of foreign governments. Lithographs of the grounds and buildings may be ob­ tained by busin'fjiss houses of standing on application in person or by letter. Spurgeon. In the death of Spurgeon the world loses one of its greatest preachers.-- New York World. His was a life spent in doing good and his record will be his most enduring monument^-*Buffalo Enquirer. The death of the great divine, Mr. Spurgeon, is a loss to tho Christian world.--Memphis Appeal-Avalanche. In the death of Mr. Spurgeon one of the great theological lights of the world i has gone out, and London humanity has j lost a friend.--St. Paul,Globe. Less brilliant, according to popular , judgment, we believe, than Beecher, his influence and popularity were even more widely extended.--Buffalo News. He possessed^ those elements which are loosely grouped under tho na^ne of a "popular preacher." These consist in frank, direct statement, rich .imagery and eloquent delivery.--Boston Journal. His pulpit, however, will scarcely bo filled. Like Bcecher's pulpit, that will remain forever silent. Spurgeon will live in the institutions which he has built.--Detroit News. During his forty-odd years of service in tho pulpitjgtie was tho earnost advo­ cate for every work for the advance­ ment of mankind and the amelioration of the masses.--Pittsburg Dispatch. His gospel, though it may not havo been as liberal as many of - our modern theologians would have had it, was popular because his force, his moral character and his evident good purpose made it so.--Columbus Post. The place of such a man Is not easily j to be filled. Som,e man will stand in his | pulpit, but he will havo no successor, j The poor of England mayTwell mourn his loss. Manning and theV Spurgeon! These two will be missed.--Kansas City Times. He was the pillar in the "orthodox" church and the commanding figure among the great army of English dis­ senters. His life was one of varied use­ fulness, and his death will be deplored in all Christian lands.--Indianapolis Sentlnal. Dr. Borton says of the ctiFe" that its discovery is the result of a long and pa­ tient study of the^henomena presented^ by the drinking habit, made for no other^ purpose than to find relief for certain noble and afflicted fellow-citizens of Plymouth, Ind., where he had practiced his profession for thirty-two years before removing to Warsaw. Among the earliest treated was a Plymouth butcher, whose shop was in a basement under a saloon. This man is a jolly German who drank for social reasons until the disease of alcoholism had mastered him. He has been com­ pletely and permanently cured to the as­ tonishment and delight of his family and -Mends. Just around the corner from the butcher is" a shoemaker, who had regu­ larly spent his hard earnings over the bar until his family was in sore distress. He had promised reformation again and again but as often had fallen. He came to Dr. Borton many months ago and soon the old desire for liquor was supplanted by a detestation that ho eloquently ex­ presses to all who will cross'; tho street from the Plymouth Postofflce and enter his neat and busy workshop. A brilliant telegraph operator had lost his place through drinking and had be­ come almost a tramp. He was cured and last week he visited Warsaw with his happy bride, proud to show to her the man who had redeemed him. These cases had been multiplied into scores before Dr. Borton was willing to permit the use of his name in connection with tho cure. He wanted first to sat­ isfy himself that he could, with an abiding confidence, announce to fallen men that there was relief at last at hand that would be effectual in all stages of the drinking habit. His general practice was large and very renumerative but victims of intemperance soon presented themselves in such number that he could not fail to extend to them all the Chris­ tian sympathy and medical aid that would surely lift them out of bondage into a life of hope and joy. The story is almost told. Since the beginning of tho present year ho has consented to devote all of his time^all of his skill, ail of his effort to this heart- work of rescuing fallen men. What will be his reward he cannot say, but if tho abandonment of his general practice will enable him to enlarge the usefulness of his cure, if many more shall b& led from paths that take hold on death to take their places again among their fellow men, their appetite for iiquor gone and full of the ambition of their youth, an ample reward will como in the blessings of re­ deemed men, in the joy of families re­ stored to happiness and in the love of children whose fathers have been new­ born into lives of affection. No man's monument will be higher, none more^ejn^ during. Tho citizens of Warsaw have known of Dr. Borton'and his work for a long time, and they are in hearty sympathy with him. The best homes In the city are thrown open for the reception of his patients and every effort is made to sur­ round them with influences of the right sort. They come to him in various con­ ditions and if they are nervous ho sup­ plies them with pure Bourbon whisky without the least fear of prolonging their sprees, for the appetite for liquor never outlasts the second or third day of treatment. It yields and for the first time in years the drinking man finds, to his great joy, that he cares for liquor no more. After that his stay at Warsaw becomes a pleasant relaxation from business cares. He presents himself to Dr. Borton four times a day for treatment and spends tho reSt of his time in the charm­ ing parKs, on the beautiful streets or on the three lakes'which almost touch tho city. In summer he is welcomed in tho pretty cottages by the lakes, ho may Skim over the waters in one of the grace­ ful steamers; bend his back in rowing or while away the lazy hours in fishing. In whatever relaxation he may engage he is sure to go to his home with pleasant meipories of tho pretty, hospitable lako- city, and of the Christian gentleman who presides at tho Plymouth Institute, as Dr. Borton calls his sanitarium. It should be added that Warsaw is situated at the crossing of the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne and Chicago railway, and the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan rail­ road. It is 108 miles east of Chicago, forty miles west of Fort Wayne, and 125 miles north of Indianapolis. ThaMttMonalSolontt* • ' '? When the House assemble# W'flie 1st. debate upon the report of the Committee on rulea was immediately resumed, but no final action was taken. Mr. Pickler, of Soath Dakota, was persistent la preseuting an .amendment not in or­ der, and the- Speaker called upon. ' the Sergeant-at-arms to either quiet him. • - - • or remove him. In the midst ot the de-- 5'Vc St bate, Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, announced that the Superior Court had decided the • gubernatorial question in his State in favor of Boyd, and for a time the House was yi an uproar. No work was dune in executive session, and adjournment was taken. The Senate was not in session. In the Senate, the 2d, Mouse.bill to amend the act for the coustruction of a railroad and wagon bridge across the Mississippi :j River at South St. Paul, Minn., was ' ? reported and passed. It extends the time and changes the location *about one mile. The Committee on Privileges and Selections made a report in the case of the Claggett-DuboM contest for a seat in the Senate from the Stateof Idaho, in favor of Mr. Dubois. The report and resolutions He on the table and will be taken up at an early day. Mr. Palmer introduced a joint resolution to amend the Constitution so as to have United States Senators elected T>y popular. * vote, and gave notice that he would on some convenient occasion address the Sen­ ate on the subject The following bills were then passed: Appropriating 8100.000 for a public building in Grand Forks. N. D. To increase the endowment of the Loulsi-^ ana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Southern Uni­ versity of Louisiana. (Grantins? S2.160 acres of the public lands in Louisiana.) The Senate then went into execu'ive ses­ sion, in which some nominations were re­ ferred to committees, and adjourned. The House is still discussing rules. • The House Bpent another monotonous day in the discussion of the rules on tho 3d inst., but it was marked by the adoption of an amendment which provides that all Senate amendments to House bills, othe" than appropriation hills, s-hall be considered as soon as laid before the Hoitse by the Speaker. In the Senate the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United Btates relating to marriage and divorce was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate bill for the creation of a fourth judicial district in the Territory of Utah was passed. The bill appropriating ?350,000 for an extension of the public building at Los Angeles, Cal., was passed, also tho bill to pay the -'"'••"•I. State of West Virginia the sum due it un- r3er the direct tax law. The bill for post­ offlce buildings in towns where postoffico receipts are $3,000 a year wasi discussed and went over without action. The public printing bill then came up and was amended by adding the words. «but the provisions of the eight-hour law shall ap­ ply." Without disposing of the bill the Senate adjourned. In the Senate, the 4 th. Mr. Brice intro­ duced a bill for the erection of a monument at Put-in Bay, Ohio, to commemorate the battle of Lake Erie In 1813. Referred. Mr. Peffer offered a resolution, which was agreed to, changing the day for holding special services in mem­ ory of the late Senator Plumb to Thursday, Feb. 18. \ The report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the case of the Flor­ ida Senators (declaring Mr. Call en­ titled to the seat) was taken up for action, and the report was read, closing with the sentence: "The ap­ pointment of Mr. Davidson was an act of mere irrelevancy, which It is not necessary further to notice." After a long debate the resolution was agreed to without a division. The Senate then adjourned till the 8th. ' The House agreed to the code of rules. Mr. Dlckerson, of Kentucky, offered a resolution directing the Committee on Ju­ diciary to make an investigation and report whether Congress has the constitutional au­ thority to appropriate money for the^N, World's Columbian Exposition. Adopted." / On motion of Mr. Goodnight, of Kentucky,!/ a Senate bill was passed to provide for their creation of a Fourth Judicial District in/ the Territory of Utah. # A Horse's Weight. Many people, even among those who frequently make use of horses, have little idea what an ordinary horse weighs, and would have hard work to guess whether a given animal, standing be­ fore their eyes, weighed five hundred or fifteen hundred pounds. Yet they would have no such difficulty with a man, and would probably be able to guess, especially if they were good Yankees, within ten or twenty pounds of his weight. The governments of Europe have long been purchasing and weighing horses for the military service, and transferring them from carriage or draught employment to the various branches of the cavalry and artillery. The animals are ordinarily assigned ac­ cording to weight. The French military authorities find that an ordinary light carriage or riding horse, such as in the United States would be called a "good little buggy horse," weighs from ,380 to 400 kilo­ grammes--say from 850 to 900 pounds, Such horses as these are assigned to the light cavalry corps. The next grade above, which in civil life passes as a "coupe horse," or car­ riage horse of medium weight, ranges in weight up to 480 kilogrammes, about 1,050 pounds. This horse goes to mount the cavalry of the line. Next comes the fashionable "coach horse" of persons of luxury, which weighs from 500 to 58(1 kilogrammes, or from 1,100 to nearly 1,300 pounds. These horses go to serve the purposes of drill for the cavalry belonging to the reserve military forces. Above these there are still two grau©s of heavy horses. The first are those used for ordinary draught purposes and are commonly found drawing the omni­ buses of Paris. These weigh from 500 to 700 kilogrammes--1,100 to nearly 1,500 pounds. The heaviest horses are the Clydes­ dales and Percherons, which are oxen "fasize and strength, and which weigh frotn 600 to 800, and sometimes even up to 900 kilogrammes; that is, from 1,300 up to nearly '2,000 pounds. • None of these Percherons of the heaviest weight are employed in the military service; but some of the lighter ones are used for draught and artillery purposes^ About Men and Women. WITHOUT noble desires no man can lead a noblo life. THE Earl ©WDudley has W life in­ sured for $6,000,wOO. A NEW HAVEX man has worn the same coat for thirty-five years. THE Austrian Emperor receives a yearly salary of $3,750,000. No MAN is so ignorant that you can­ not learn something from him. HABKY W. WOOD, of Lansing, Mich., dislocated his shoulder while stretching himself. OTHEII people are least satisfied with those women who are best satisfied with themselves. SiiiVEU articles are called "plate" from tho Spanish word plata, Which means silver. A CotiOKADO cat viciously attacked a burglar and forcod him to withdraw seriously wounded. IF an old man only knew as much as a young one thinks he does, how this old globe would whirl. DORA--Why do you call Jake a 'cork­ er?* Cora--Because every time I draw him out a little he 'pops.' THE richest of the new Senators is Felton, of California, who is said to have one million to Stanford's three.

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