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BELGIAN •vv;i'Frvi" sad PskNtlNW* njitNOnk HORROR. t^ytnKKB HUNDRED MINERS EN­ TOMBED IN A PIT. the Bremen steamship dock*. Two.- tng pjwhlblMi th« wtportatloa i* Trust Formed--Standard #U Aflun-ROM or > Missouri Sheriff to Avoid • LjMftchlnc--Mueh VkMk aMl #am la Farmers' Hands. '"•& ConfKMioml. ^ la Hn SOOH on the 11th. Mr. O'Neill of feMMnylvanitt presented for reference a pe­ tition of citizens of the Second Congrcssion-' •1 District of Pennsylvania urging Congress %0 pasi khw to prevent tho landing of crim- taal and pauper Immigrants, to revise the •atarali/atiou laws, and submit a constitu­ tional amendment providin? that no State •kail grant the right of suffrage to any pei- •00 not a citizen of the United States. The balance of the sossion was devoted to tariff talk. Among the bills introduced and •eferred to committees of the Senate Was one by Mr. Stewart proposing a constitutional amendment that after 1S97 mo person who has held the office of Presi­ dent shall be eligible to that office within Sssr years after the expiration of his term of office. The urgent deficiency bill was than taken *p And passed and the Senate •Ajourned till the 14th. Dan A Co. '# Business Review. K. G. Dos A Co/s weekly review of 'trade says: S>!strftnit!bn' of products is tiriqaestion- n I ' m t | | A whole larger than a year ago in spite of de- ynwslon at. the South, bolng mncli larger at the West Nor is the improvement confined to that section, though general there; it is also more distinctly felt In Eastern cities, and there are not wanting signs that trade •A the South, though still much embarrassed *>y the low price of cotton, is steadily gaining. With all the great industries active, with money abundant- in spite ef •old exports, and with speculation kept In Wholesome check, the outlook would seem %• be unusua'ly favorable, notwithstand­ ing general complaints that prices are low •ad margins of profit unusually smalL men were seeh to leave the steamship I*ahn and hurry up the docks. Tbtj were stopped and tho Inspectors found four sealed packages of jewelry in their pockets. Both are employed as oooks aboard the Lahn. The jewelry was worth about $10,000. CHARLES WALI. was hanged la the. prison yard of the Wyoming County Jail at TunkhannoCk, Pennsylvania, for the murder of his wife. In his cell Wall laughed and joked for over two hours be­ fore the execution. He indulged in pro­ fane remarks rind gave no signs what­ ever of sorrow or repentance, claiming all the time that he was innocent. He said he was sober at the time the murder was committed, but .was dazed with sickness, believing that he fy4d been poisoned before he left home, and was not responsible for what he did when he returned. x A HOHSB-WHIPPIKG incident at Brock­ ton, Mass., was all the more interesting as it was a clergyman who held the whip. He was Rev. Father McGrail, of St. Patrick's Church. The culprit had imposed upon the priest, borrowing mon­ ey ostensibly to send to his suffering family in Ireland, but in reality for the purpose of mipporting a mistress. When the priest learned of« this fact he gave the man a horsewhipping, and the latter left town. That was last April. Recently the man returned to Brockton and lived openly with the woman. Father McGrail learned of the fact Thursday, and, meeting the man near his house, administered a second horsewhipping. Entombed In the Pit. A FBlGHTFrii colliery disaster has oc- MBrred at Anderlues, Belgium. Three hundred miners are entombed in the pit, and a series of explosions has apparently cut off all access to the men. An at­ tempt has been made to reach the im­ prisoned miners, but so far without suc­ cess. The explorers have been beaten back by the foul fumes. The shafting and Ventilation are destroyed. Three of the miners have been rescued, and it •eems almost certain that all the rest an dead. Intense excitement prevails, and thousands are thronging to the place, which is one of the leading mining centers of Belgium. The scenes at the pit mouth are most pathetic, a multitude of people bewailing their relatives, sup­ posed to have perished in the mine. , i A Murderer Hid In the Belfry. AMOS AVERT, of Lamar, Mo., who was convicted of the murder of James A. Stiles and sentenced to be hanged April S8, is now in Kansas City jail, where he was placd by Sheriff Bartlett, of Bar­ ton County, for safe keeping. The citi- MD8 of Lamar decided not to wait for April 28 to see the law carried into ef­ fected, .and attempted to take Avery from the Sheriff and lynch him. Sheriff Bartlett got him away and hid him in a church belfry, and afterward took him to Kansas City. 5to*-r- |«-J - NEWS NUGGETS. ! irfver and harbor appropriation hill will call for the expenditure of over 190,000,000. A MEDICALI college in Lyons, France, has been closed in consequence of dis­ turbances by the students. GEOBGE WOOD OATE HASTINGS, mem­ ber of Parliament, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for em- heiEling £6,000. KATE SMITH, at one time the hand­ somest woman in southern Indiana, committed suicide on a railway train by taking strychnine. CASSAB PUCK, a Tennessee moon­ shiner who was wounded in the affray in which Deputy Marshal Stuart was hilled, has died from his wounds. Ax English syndicate has succeeded la forming an American type-founders' trust, which includes all the chief foun­ dries except two. The capital involved to $15,000,000. JOHN Drtiiox, the Irish member of Parliament, sustained a dislocation of the shoulder and other injuries by a fall upon an icy pavement in| London on- Wednesday. - RENEWAL of the Irrtfi&napolls street tmllway employes' spike is threatened, President Frena^f naving refused the demand for the reinstatement of dis­ charged conductors and drivers. THE Department of Agriculture re­ ports that farmers hold, of 'last year's Ctop, 171,000,000 bushels of wheat and •60,000,000 bushels of corn. 7he wheat •cperve is the largest ever reported. GEOROE W. COTTDBEY has sued George Jacob Schweinfurth, the Boekford ar.ti-. Christ, in the Circuit Court of Richland County, for $50,000, for the alienation of the affections of his wife and children. MBS. AMANDA BENTLEY, aged^O. mar- rled a young man she had /(ever seen before, at Jackson, Mich., /in order to Mcure her fortune to her crippled son, Who, on account of a clause in his dead father's will, would have been left pen­ niless otherwise. THE Standard Oil Trust Is in danger «f going to pieces. A meeting of the certificate holders has been called to "•ote on a resolution to terminate the trust agreement. The recent decision d the Ohio Supreme Court declaring the combine illegal is the cause of the •ction. ; MBS. SABAH ALTHEA HILL SHABON TEEBY has been adjudged insane and , committed to the California Insane r Asylum at Stockton. GEN. B. F. BUTLER does not approve i; {jijjf the so-called Australian ballot. He •aid to the Massachusetts Legislative Committee on Election Laws, Thursday: ••When you have tiiirty-six names on a ballot, the voter gets tired before he fin­ ishes making crosses. The result is that the candidate for Governor gets 15 per , < oeat. xu$E$~vates than by my qther sys- WESTERM. "THE OLD HOMESTEAD," which is at present being presented at Me vtckers Theater, Chicago, by Denman Thomp­ son and the entire original cast, is doing the most phenomenal business in the history of the Chicago stage. "The Old Homestead* is truly a pome of nature, therefore its wide popularity is not sur­ prising. CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, of Illinois, is slowly improving, but his physicians seem to think it is sure. He has passed one good day, his mind was clear most of the time, and he appeared a little stronger. But he is still weak. The nervous, racking cough which was so distressing has almost entirely disap­ peared,, Through the night time the patient is generally more restless. The coma and semi-delirium have not en­ tirely disappeared, though these periods are much milder. Fire broke out at the Eden Musee, a variety theater at Omaha. The place was in full blast and crowded with thou­ sands of people. The flames originated on the stage from the curtain falling against a gas jet. The exits were - very poor and many people were taken from the burning building by the firemen. Though many were crushed in their efforts to escape none were fatally injured. Several mon leaped from the first and second stories. The loss is $50,000, The company lias a branch at St. Joe. The building was gutted. I THE worst blizzard known slilce Jan. 12, 1888, set in through the Northwest. Reports thus far received are necessarily iheager, due to the prostration of tele­ graph wires throughout the territory af­ fected. but that much damage to prop­ erty has been inflicted, great suffering caused, and a considerable loss of life experienced is certain, while later and fuller reports may make the situation so much worse that its horrors will exceed that of the terrible storm of four years ago. Min­ nesota and North Dakota seem to have - been the worst sufferers from the bliz­ zard, while heavy snow, accompanied by high winds, fell in Wisconsin, and Iowa felt the effect of a severe blow. Kansas and Nebraska were also affected, but Illinois and Michigan seemed to have escaped, though there was a more pro­ voking than serious disturbance of the weather in and near Chicago. THE famous investigation of the ele­ vator and wheat ring systems of Minne­ sota was reEumed by the Legislative committees at St. Paul, and some sen­ sational testimony was taken. The charge has been made for years that the ring at Minneapolis has been fixing the price of wheat in the State, and it was charged before the committee that the railroads abetted the ring by refusing cars to track buyers. General Barrett testified, and produced a contract to prove it, that a man named Stowe, at Wadena, had been given $150 to pull off and buy no wheat in competition with the Northern Elevator Com­ pany, and that the manager of the company said the farmers at Wadena would have to pay for it. A letter from Traffic Manager Shelby, of the Great Northern Road, to the Union Store Company at Morehead, threaten­ ing to cut off their cars if they did not quit overbidding the elevators for wheat was shown. General Barrett proceeded to say that be could prove that a regular combine existed by which /the millers and elevators controlled /wheat prices aod prevented the railroads from supply­ ing cars to any but members of the ring or who paid the ring prices for wheat. The committee has decided to go thor­ oughly into this branch of the subject, and it is expected that something very sensational will develop. matic arrangements Will liave resorted to. """ * y v" . " • THIS. Behring Sea ooutruveraty is the absorbing topic of conversation at Wash­ ington. Senator Palmer, of Illinois, voices the prevailing impression of the affair as follows: "The rights of Ameri­ ca ..must and shall be protected, but there will be no war with Great Britain over the seal. It is the intention of the President to protect the seals, and he will use whatever force is necessary to do so. I do not think Lord Salisbury will offer any armed resistance. His refusal, to agree to a renewal of the modus vivendi is, I take it, a disinclination on his part to take trouble and incur the expense of po­ licing the sea. If he makes any ob­ jection to our seizing Canadian poach­ ers, he will make it through the courts, not by force of arms. Senator Sherman agrees With me in this opinion." The St. James Gazotte, London, Conserva­ tive, accuses the Washington govern­ ment of exaggerating the difficulty of arriving at a modus vivendi with Great Britain in regard to the Behring Sea seal fisheries. The paper suggests that each side go sealing as usual, each ren­ dering a fair account of its catch the party found by the arbitrators to be wrong afterward paying compensation. "POLITICAL. RtrssHM. A. ALGER has formally an­ nounced himself as a candidate for the presidency. CONGEEJTSMAN OWEN SCOTT denies that he is a candidate for the Demo­ cratic nomination afor Governor of Illi­ nois. THE Thurman Club, of Columbus, Ohio, a Cleveland organizations has voted to print and distribute an address by Dr. C. S. Carr, one of its members now resident in Elmira, N. Y., in which Senator David B. Hill is denounced as a "deformer of the body politic." FOUR of the six delegates chosen by the South Dakota Prohibition Conven­ tion to attend the national convention of that party were members of* the Farm­ ers' Alliance, and ^refused to subscribe to a declaration in the platform that prohibition is the paramount Issue be­ fore the country. THROWN AW PUBLIC OOCUMSNT8. ON FOREIGN. SECRETARY FOSTEB denied to a news­ paper interviewer in London that he was in that city to arrange for an inter­ national monetary conference. JUSTIN MCCARTHY has entered suit in a French court for possessktto of the funds >of the Irish Parliamentary party, of which Parnell was one of the trustees. ENGLISH authors have taken up the matter of erecting a monument, to James Russel Lowell, an<f have appointed a committee to raise a- private fund for. that purpose. A metal receptacle containing a fluid the nature of which has not yet been ascertained, was thrown at the Czaro- witz. It is supposed that the design was to kill the heir apparent THE Lancashire coal miners, who will suspend work March 12, have adopted a resolution that their vacation shall not exceed a week, but that they will work only five days each week hereafter. TWELVE THOUSANB loaves of bread and quantities of sausage, meat and milk J distributed amftng the Congressmen pro were distributed to the poor in Vienna rata for their constituents. S*m'a Publications Scattered to the Fonr Winds--What the Cliairmra fT th« **» Printing Committees May *on Ik*. Anb}E«T--Buak HIM » Little ROOM. ,">Wwl» In Printing. SENATOR MANDER-son, Chairman of the Senate Committee-on Printing, according to pur Washington correspondent, said the other day: Congressmen have' a right to sell the docu­ ments supplied to them if they wish to. There is no law to forbid it. The publications in question are -their ^personal property lland un'der no clr- j cumstances cl>uld I the government re­ plevin . them. If members choose to dispose of them to second-hand dealers or other persons there is nothing to prevent them flfom doing so. It is true that the books and other printed matter are given them for the purpose of dis- trihiitJoTr so thnt there is what might be called an implied trust, which they are in honor bound to fulfill; but Congress can not legislate on the question. "That these documents are recognized as being the personal property of the Senator or fteprpsentative is conclu­ sively shown by the fact that any of them which remain to the credit of a C o n g r e s s m a n a r e turned over not to his successor but to his estate. My be­ lief is that the sell­ ing of such publica­ tions by a member SENATOR VANDERSON. of the National Legislature to second­ hand dealers has been a very rare oc­ currence. Of course it is a very common thing for Congressmen to exchange such merchandise among themselves. For example, I represent an agricultural State. I havu licit; for many more agri­ cultural reports than are allotted to my share. Accordingly, I go to my friend Gen. Bingham of Philadelphia. Ho hasn't a farmer in his constituency. I say to him, 'Bingham, can you let mo have a couple of hundred agricultural repots in exchange for ttye same num­ ber 6f so and so,' mentioning some document which he requires. He readily assents, and so the matter is arranged conveniently for us both." Chairman Richardson of the House committee on printing thinks that there is plenty of room for reform in the dis­ tribution of public documents. Said he: "There are at present 1,000,000 volumes of undistributed documents in the base­ ment of. the Capitol. Many of these books, according to the statements of dealers, are worth from $15 to $25 each on account of their rarity or for other reasons. The accumulation has been made ohlefly ifom the overflow of the library of Congress and from publica­ tions dispensed with and thrown out from the committee rooms. For many yearB these volumes have been rotting away, rats lending not a little assistance to their destruction. Now they are to be on Sunday. Twenty- seven women wait­ ing to receive food fainted in the line. A PETITION with the signatures of 1,- 250,000 Englishmen, scon to be presented to Parliament, favors the arbitrating of all disputes that may arise between Great Britain and the United States* SOUTHERN. EASTERN. RICHABD SCANLAN, of New York City» threw a lighted lamp at his wife, result­ ing In her burning to death. Axii the indictments against Sheriff jplackj af New York, and his son, who lirere once convicted of conspiracy in se- Sring the elder Flack's divorce from »wife, have been dismissed, the con- Viction having been reversed and there being ao longer a reasonable hope of •gain securing a verdict against them. AT Jersey City, N. J., custom house ||^™ YG*n tawfflH.. ' " ' 1 " NEGBOES near Memphis ambushed and shot several court officials. The whites are roused, and swear to exter­ minate the blacks. THE Attorney General of Kentucky has begun suit against the Frankfort Lottery Company for violation of the statutes and constitution in continuing its business. THBEE negroes in jail at Memphis, charged with leading the assault in which four deputy sheriffs were shot Tuesday, were taken from the jail by a mob and shot to <|eath. ONE HUNDBED AND THIBTT-SIX noes to thirty-seven ayes was the vote of the Baltimore conference on the question of admitting women as delegates to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 0 CAPT. TIMOTHY MEAHEB, a venerable steambOatman, Is dead at Mobile, Ala., aged 79 years. He was many years identified with business on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers in the palmiest days of steamboating, and was noted as ah importer of the last cargo of slaves brought to the United States. This was in the spring c£ 1861. The thirty ne­ groes that fell to his share he settled in a suburb of Mobile, where, being freed shortly after their arrival, they and their descendants have remained. They have never associated with other ne­ groes, are but partially civilized, still use their native language, and are ruled by a queen of their own choosing. They enjoy a good reputation for indus­ try and honesty, and their colony is one of the curiosities most eagerly viewed IN GENERAL THEBE is a steady exodus of negroes from Arkansas to Oklahoma. THO salt market has gone to pieces as the result of the .Western New York combination. THE Dominion Government is prepar­ ing to place three new--cruisers en the great lakes for the ostensible purpose of preventing the illegal use of gill and pound nets by fishermen? EDWABD ENICKSON^and Frank Sav­ age, both of Winnipeg, Man., were in­ stantly killed at Parrywood Station by explosion of glycerine on a can in which they were carrying water. THE searching parties sent out from different parts of Trinity Bay to seek the missing seal hunters have returned. No tidings of the missing men could be learned, and it is now generally believed that they have perished. CAPT. DAVID H. STEMBBIDGE, com­ mander of the British steamer Ottoman, which arrived in Boston for Liverpool, ended his life by shooting himself. JOG previously commanded the Norseman and this was his first voyage In the Ottoman. AT Montreal, Que., there was an in­ flux of French Canadians from the United States to vote. The incoming trains were crowded, and inquiry at the depots brought out the fact that 1,800 excursion tickets had been sold at New England polntB for Canada. MARKET REPORTS. by sightseers. WASHINGTON, REPRESENTATIVE HERMAN, of Oregon, has introduced a bill in Congress di­ recting our Minister to Turkey to «nter into negotiations for the purchase from Asia Minor of between 100 and 200 pure- Jjjlooded Angora goats. The Sultan hav- CHXCAGO. 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WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORK--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Western Butteji--creamery., *8.80 ».t>0 4.0J .87 .40 & .81 <& .28 & .12^(55 .12 & .80 «» 8.25 S.5J 1.00 .91 •40)4@ .32 & 6.00 & 6.00 & M .41 .80)4 .65 .29 .18)6 & .18 «* .40 M in <a> 6.00 & 6 23 if" .92)6 .11 .83 "There are many ways in which public documents are wasted. A publication is distributed by members of the House. The same publication is distributed "by Senators. The department from which the publication emanated distributes it also. In addition, the document bureau In the Departme&t of the Interior scat­ ters it broadcast. Thus it has happened that in a single year 80,000 volumes have been returned to the document bureau by libraries which had already received copies of the same book from other sources. Of each publication the House of Representatives receives a certain number, which is divided up among the members. After each one has received his share, there is necessarily a fraction left over, which remains in the hands of the superintendent of tho folding-room. During the last year these fractions amounted to 48,000 volumes. These goto swell the useless stock on hand: A friend 8.50 8.80 .90 .87 .80 8 50 8.00 8.00 .94 .41 *32 8,01 8.00 3.00 .96 .41 0 4.75 0 6.08 0 .92 & .8* 0 .81 & .60 ® 4.50 & 6.10 (a, 6. (JO .96 .48 M § & MS S^U & 6.C0 (S» .97 «« .4i MV& .04 .95 0 .41 <31 .81 .87 & .0} .42 .8J* 4.00 8.75 l.tO .46 & 5.78 & 6.25 &HO* & .47 .85 M .39)6® •31'4<gi .85 & .68 (A 11.00 .87 .40* .32}, .60 011.50 6.05 I5'50 JrOK- 8.60 8.00 4.00 & 6.76 1.05 & 1.07 *49 0 .61 WK* .87)4 9.75 Sl&tt . , .. . "fit th»iiffltorafeliiir. UhtfW tSlreiSiSitho COStaf the »ri«<r,in$ Hon# during a lesion was not over President Jefferson departed from previous Custom by sending a message in writing to Xongfese, with aeoom- pany documemfb. When printed the message and documents" made a vol­ ume of 100 pages, and 600 copies were printed at a cost ttf ,$85ML. Mr, Bayard of Delaware thought this very extrava­ gant and insisted that' 150 copies were enough. It is interesting to note that the "message and documents" of the Fiftieth Congress made a volume of 968 pages, of which were printed 45,000 copies, at a cost of $17,000. In 1819 Congress passed a joint reso­ lution providing that a Congressional Printer should be elected by ballot. The place thus became a political plum, and the cost of the public printing im­ mediately jumped from $17,000 to $29,000 per session, where it remained for ten years. It was subsequently ascertained that the profits of the Congressional Printer under this arrangement were about 55 per cent., being secured largely by "tricks of the trade." In 1840 an in­ vestigation disclosed the fact that the profits of the printers employed during the seven previous years had been nearly $67,000 per annum. This disclosure pro­ duced a sensation. In 1852 an act was passed providing for the appointment of a Superintendent of Public Printing, who should super­ vise Uita piiutttib elected by baiiot. This made things worse than ever. Politicians without practical knowledge of printing secured the job and farmed it out to others at a percentage of the receipts. The party in power self eted phe man with a detldite understanding to the effect that he should devote specified sums out of his profits to partisan pur­ poses. In some cases sir times a fair rate was paid for certain work, given out secretly, the plunder thus secured be­ ing distributed among persons of "in- flooence." Cornelius "Wendell, who did muoh of tho public printing for a long period, contributed $100,000 for political pur­ poses in four yea#, paying besides to the elected prtnters of the Senate and House, whose contracts were sublet to him, $200,000. In 1852 a master printer contracted to do all tho post- office printing for 93 per cent, off the old price allowed, or 7 cents on the dollar. This seems hardly credible^ yet it is true. In 1867 Congress abolished the office of superintendent of public print­ ing and created the post of Congression­ al Printer, to which the title of Public Printer was attached. The Public Print­ er is appointed, by the President, with the consent of the Senate. At prosent the printing and binding of Congress alone costs about $1,100,OOQ^vearly, the department appropriations Jar similar purposes aggregating considerable over a million dollars more. Fear* Kidnapers. ' "Mrs. Grover Cleveland livos in daily fear that little Ruth will be kidnaped, said a Washington confidante of the ex- President's popular wife to me. Con­ tinuing, she said: "Mrs. Cleveland, as you-and all who are acquainted with her MBS CLEVELAND AND BUTO. TO TDE JUNK SHOP. ofmine told me that on one occasion he had seen in the cellar of a second-hand dealer 30,000 copies of government re­ ports, a large part of them in bags which had never been opened, containing the unbroken quotas of Congressmen. As an ca&iiiple of a smaii but expensive swindle I may mention the case of one man who wrote to at least a hundred Congressmen asking each one as a per­ sonal favor for a copy of the recently published book on the horse, issued by the Department of Agriculture. It i^a very costly work. Ho got forty' copies by this ingenious plan, which has doubt­ less been often tried with success. Is it surprising that Mr. Ames, Superin­ tendent of the Document Bureau, should have declared recently that any priyate business which was managed on such vicious principles as those which govern the present method of distributing pub­ lic documents would be doomed to al­ most immediate bankruptcy?" Others express opinions similar to those of the gentlemen quoteel, and it is quite evident that a reform in this par­ ticular would be acceptable. I find that one very great source of waste in public printing is found in the reckless manner of distributing Gov­ ernment publications which has pre­ vailed. They are scattered broadcast where they are not wanted, so that ^thousands upon thousands of them every year are sold to dealers in waste paper all over the country without having been taken from their wrappers. Volumes of statistics, compiled at enormous ex­ pense, excite the wonder and dismay of bucolic constituents, and learned essays on "Tertiary Insects" or other equally abstruse subject# astonish the untutored residents of city slums. The p^vate secretary of a Western Senator spoke the other day of having seen a pile of census reports five feethigh in a coun­ try barber shop not long ago. The ton- sorial artist in charge was using them for shaving paper. The method of printing tho publica­ tions of the United States Government has gone through a very Interesting pro­ cess of evolution. In the days of the Continental Congress it was all done by ths publishers of newspapers, under ui- j rection of the Secretary of that body. The first Congress under the Consti­ tution began with ordering each bill or document printed by special resolution. The method was found undesirable and know, is not of a nervous, apprehensive temperament. .On the contrary, she has a sound, well-shaped head, full of com­ mon sense. And she is as brave a young woman as I ever knew. I don't know just what reason she has to fear such an awful thing. She has never told me. But I know she must have some good reason for it or she would not fear it. She is very watchful of 'The Child of tho Democracy,' and anybody who con­ templates kidnaping her will haye to ex­ ercise a shrewdness not yet equaled by any fellow of his infamous class. The little one is seldom out of Mrs. Cleve­ land's sight. When she is, tlje most trusted oi servants'watch over her and detectives are within call." "Does Mr. Cleveland share his wife's fear?" "No; at least ho professes not to do so. But he would do that even if he feared such"an event Wore than Mrs. Cleveland, just to quiet her. He never­ theless approvesof all the extraordinary safeguards that are thrown around Ruth. He is very forid of her, and comes nearer deserving, the name of doting papa than any/ father of my acquaintance. It is hard to think that anybody would t>e so heartless as to steal Ruth. What a sen­ sation it would cause if she were kid­ naped! The whole nation would rise to chase the scoundrel down. But I don't think there will bo a cause for such a chase, although I must confers that Mrs. Cleveland's fears make me a. trifle uneasy." . » Knsb for President. Jerry Rusk for President is the latest thing in the political line in Washing- ton. Uncle Jerry doesn't know It, add has not been even consulted, but a number of the Republican Senators haVto agreed to take up the farmer states-, man from W iscon- sin at the proper time and nominate him if they can swing enough votes to do it. They are not go­ ing to boom him, riio HfcViliullto HiU- DLBD WITH BULLETS. KUKVD MEFT 0»»« POWDERED the Jtttst»Thc Victim# Wero Chsiftd with Ambushed and Shot Don Pom*Iteputy' Sheriff* Last Saturday. • . Itf« altace War. Memphis, Tenn., was in the control of a mob Wednesday morning. Three of the negro rioters arrested for shooting the Deputy Sheriffs have been lynched, it -j H i* O** NATIONAL LAWp MAKERS. - V R^-.R-R 4* tarn Scaafci !!&#&*« % Representatives -- Important Measures Discussed and Aotocl Upon--<2ist or tt# BwdMH. - _ ' v. • Che Nationsl Bolos*. Tn tbe Hon so, ibs ?tb. the time WM take*-' np by debate on tbe silver question. Th»- Biar.d blU ®SS t !j« siihjM't. On tho prnnt; ositlon to set apart three days for the dlski cus3lon of the bill, tho free silver men wo#-" two others are missing, and are supposed by a vote of 190 to 64. 1 he first half hour's to have been made way with by the riot- session of the Sena ors, and a crowd of five thousand excited negroes surrounds the. place where the bodies of the dead negroes lie, loudly crying for vengeance on their slayers, says a dispatch. At 3 o'clock in the morning a mob of about seventy-five armed citizens surrounded the County Jail and compelled Jailer O'Donnell to give up the keys to the cells where the negro rioters were confined. After securing the keys, the mob made a rtish for the cells, and placing ropes around the necks of Tom Moss, Will Stuart, and Cal Mc­ Dowell, they hurried them to the Chesa­ peake & Ohio yards. The negroes were then placed together and in less than three seconds over twenty-five rifle shots King out and the negroes foil, dying almost instantly. The mob then quickly dispersed and it was not until daylight- that the extent of the lyiicluu^ v/tkb realized. Early risers ware horrified to find the bodies of the three negroes lying on the ground riddled with bullets. Two other negro rioters are missing and the belief is that their bodies will be found later. The bodies were taken to tho office of Jack Walsh, and a crowd of negroes began to gather. It rapidly increased, and now 5,000 people surround the place where the dead bodies are. Further trouble is feared. The negroes are re­ ported to be arming at " The Curve," and a telephone message has just been seflt In that they have killed two white men. The riot and collision between blacks and whites, which has now ended in a general lynching bee, occurred Satur­ day night last in the suburbs of Mem­ phis at a place known as "The Curve." This is a locality notorious for its toughness. It is a resort for roust­ abouts and thieves, and thfc authorities have always experienced great difficulty in maintaining law and order there. The neighborhood is thickly populated by negroes, who had committed several assaults of an aggravated nature upon white citizens. Calvin McDowell, a negro who keeps a grocery and bwrpom at the cottier of Mississippi and Walker avenues, was up on Saturday before Judge DuBose on a charge of assault and battery. Having been released on ball, he returned to his place • of business, and gathering his friends, told them that the whites were getting ready to mob them. "When Mo- Powell was before him, Judge Du­ Bose said he intended to purify the district in which McDowell and his supporters flourished, and this is supposed to have given McDowell the idea that an organized assault was to be made upon the ne­ groes. Later in the day a warrant was issued for Tom Steward, one of McDow­ ell's gang, who was charged with as­ saulting a white man. As a determined resistance was anticipitated, nine dep­ uty sheriffs were sent to make the ar­ rest. These deputies were Perkins, Cole, Barnard, Richardson, Harold, Webber, Moore, Yerger, and App, and they arrived at the McDowell place about 11 o'clock Saturday night. Upon entering and inquiring for Stew­ ard they were told by the proprietor that ho was in the back room. Upon entering this room, which was dark, they were met by the flash of a number of revolvers, shotguns and rifles. Dep­ uty Sheriff Cole received a charge of shot in the face and breast, completely tearing out his left eye. A bullet which struck him in the shoulder passed com­ pletely through his body. Officer Yerger was struck by the portL n of a charge in the head, but while some of the shot lodged in his scalp most of them missed him. Deputy Harold was shot in the neck and throat and left side of the face, and is in a dangerous condition. The officers, who stood close together, made an excellent target for their assail­ ants, while they themselves were at a great disadvantage, as they were unable to locate the negroes except by the flash­ ing of their weapons. The officers re­ turned the Are as rapidly as possible, however, and then charged in a body. The negroes rushed pell-mell through the back door, many of them abandoning their weapons in their flight. White people attracted by the firing flocked to the scene, and with their assistance thirteen of the negroes were taken from various hiding places. The excitement was in­ tense, but the prisoners were kept under guard and, for the time bc^ng, safely transferred to the jail. On Sunday four­ teen more negroes were captured and locked In the room in which the tragedy oc­ curred were found six shotguns, a Win­ chester rifle and a large quantity of ammunition. This discovery, to which was added the report that the men who did the shooting belonged to a secret organization amongst he negro< s formed for the purpose of making war on the whites, roused popular excitement to a white heat and, notwithstanding the presence in the city of military organ­ izations numbering 1,100 men, tho de­ termination* to deal with the negroes in a summary manner was too strong to be checked and the lynching followed. JERRY RUSK. Globe Sights. How it worries some people to §ee other people prosper. "Other people treat me better than I treat myself."--Parson Twine. Every man knows of a good use to which some other man might put his money. When a woman has a sister, she will never buy $ hat without her as­ sistance. A critic is never comfortable. He Is forever seeing things which offend and annoy him. No matter how closely a man wears his mask, it will some day fall off, and reveal his true features. What a little time it takes for the baby in a buggy to become a woman, and wheel a baby buggy herself. Anything in toads is the latest style. If you have a toad pin, or a stuffed toad on your hat, you are all The reply was not of an the uttle things a man hides nor elect delegates for him on the brass- band principle, but they mean to take good care that the delegates under their control shall be brought into line at the critical juncture in the conventton. Many other names have been can­ vassed among the Senators, among them being McKinley, Allison, Alger and Judge Gresham. For a time tho last named was in high favor, and an effort was made to ascertain through some, of Gresham's friends if he was favorable to the plan. couraging nature, it being in substanoe that Gresham was not a candidate, and did not desire to have his name used for the office in any shape or form. % Creede's Boom. CBEEDE now claims about 4,000 peo­ ple, and business is very active there. This camp appears to be building upon, a permanent foundation --Denver Times. THE wonderful developments at Crip­ ple Creek bring oiv) peculiar satisfaction. They are of gold. A material increase in the product of gold would bo of much benefit to sliver. It would tend to stop iUo marla wlfh OA t/UO V* J TTI1IVU UOO WV»A *«A««V*V «»v.» 5V much effect that it is impracticable to fix a permanent ratio between the two metals when the product of the one is . increasing so much more *tiriT| that of the othor.--Denver Suft. ., - : ,»1 the presentation of petitions--most of tliem 9 of the stereotyped character from rellffioua avoclations for tbo ciosinjr of the World'§ „ Fair fen fcundays and from f-tnte granges OS V. various sut jects of pro osed legislation^ Among tho bills introduced and referred wap^'v one by Mr. Pawyer to authorize the eatab«o- llshnient of a postal telegraph service. I* authorizes the Postmaster General, upoa the advice and approval of the Secretary oj(|l»..: the Treasury und Attorney General. t<jf oontracfc with any person, company or .corporation owning or operating." telegraph lines for the transmisS , | sion of correspondence, press dispatcher and postal money ordeni. at such rates as may be agreed upon oy the contracting , , ' parties, not to exceed the rates now chargeS;'- for similar messages I be pure food Mlf' „ was under discussion at adjournment. ' "j In the Senate, ou the 8th. the BehritsJC Sea controversy and the pure food bill w*w*;vf subjects of discussion, though final antio^ was had upon neither. The following P-.ra»*. * ate bills were passed: To prohibit the sa)#. of fire-arms and ammunition, to In« diana residing \ipon reservations; re* ferring to the C'Ourt of Claims the "Tlcf ' Meter" claim; appropriating $iM0,000 fo|f a public buildSncr af Spokane Falls. Wash, j?^ appropriatiuff 8275.030 for the constt'uetloa ; of two United States revenue cutters foi % service on th® .Great Lakes; approjirl» , ating $50,000 for a public building at Alaf; > meda, CaL; appropriates i200.00a for i j f c ' - . public building sit Boise City. Idaho!" •' •" •*: to amend the act of Aug. 28, 1890. to re|' /; organize and establish the customs coll«cS:^Ji::'^I| tion district of Pusot found: to autiiorls|| the construction of j« ties, piers and break! waters at private expense in the Gulf of; Mexico at tho mouth t f the Ropes Pass. Tex.r authorizing the construction of a brldgft across the Kootenai River, in the town op Fry. Idaho. To establish a military pos# near Xiittle Rock, Ark. Both houses ad<i jourued upon the announcement, of tha death of Mr. Kendall, Representative froiit Kentucky. ^ In the House, the 0th, the tariff debat|f began, and will continue for some time. ,the Scv.atc. Mr. from the Naval lea* ratttee, reported back his bill to further in^ crease the naval department, with at| amendment appropriating ?5.)0,000 tat experiments in the develonment torpedoes and In the procurement of pedoes. Placed on the calendar Squire moved to reconsider the vote bjk- which tbe Senate pafs^d the bill in relation *to the collection district of Puget £oun<% • The motion was entered. Mr. Morgan lnfe. . trod need a bill in the Senate declaring * bail-.--, - - aAl laws and parts of laws are inoperative!' which exempt from tbe payment of dutlet" * all articled of commerce which arp • not on the free list, enteied in the custooi -- bouses of the United States, for transporf tation through the United States, to oil; i-j from any British possession. Among tha bills introduced and referred was one witfl > '-M the following curirtus title, presented b# Mr. <Cullom (by request): "To test an» § . try the science of spelling, and Mjp provide for establishing 100'schools for thai' purpoS3< and to establish a spelling fichoci in the World's Columbian Exposition, tip be held In Chicago In 1893." Tbe pure food bill was then taken up, and after the adop­ tion of severtl slight amendments it was passed without division. * After an execu­ tive session of nearly three hours the Sen­ ate adjourned. On the 10th. the time of tbe Housq was entirely occupied by the tariff discussion. In the Senate several bills were reported from committees and placed on the calen­ dar. The agricultural meat inspection - deficiency bill was taken up and passed. The following bills were passed: To sur­ vey and mark the boundary between tha Sates of Nebraska and South Dakota, on th*; 1 Pine Ridgo and Rosebud Igdiun reservation^-^- Making Laredo, Texas, a sub-post of en*. try. The "unfinished busine-s" was take& up. being the Senate bill to provide for thS ' erection of public ^ulldinss for postofflce* in towns and cities where the postofflce retf ceipts for three years preceding have ex­ ceeded 83,000 annually. No action was taken on the bill, and after a brief execu­ tive session the Senate adjourned. « SJ Of Paa*Lng Interest. THERE are about 10,000 bee colenfiSs in Ventura County, California. SIXTEEN tons of steel pens are ex­ ported from Birmingham weekly. A CONDUCTOR on a street railroad is Philadelphia speaks four languages. BBOOKLYK city officials took dinner in a newly finished sewer the other day. SOME watches now made are guaran­ teed to keep time to within ten seconds a month. THERE are 487 schools In Irkutsk, Si­ beria. The population of Siberia is nearly 900,000. * THE hen so common in these days originated in the Bankiva jungle, where wild chickens are still to be found. ONLT citizens who are able to read apd write have the power to vote i(| Bolivia and several other South Amerfct can republics. IN England an American diploma of medicine does not entitle its possessor to call himself M. D. If he does he may be prosecuted. ' A FUR establishment in Chicago has just completed for a feminine resident an ulster in which are 125 mink skins and 350 tails. THE remains of ancient hot air baths' and sweat houses still exist on the Isl­ and of Bathin, on the northeast coast County Antrim, Ireland. A FRENCHMAN has invented an im­ proved method of telegraphing, so that it is practicable to transmit 150 word# per minute on a single wire. The mej«^ sage when delivered froin the machinft is typewritten. IT is reported that there are persons ' living in Volusia County, Florida, who can daily hear the whistle of a locomoh tive only a few miles away, who hav§ not only not been on a railroad traixS, but have never even seen one. e PRINTER'S ink is now made from crude petroleum in Ventura County, California. It is prepared at small ex­ pense. The manufacturers are now en? gaged in experiments . to refine It. & . , they prove successful, it will supersede the ink now in use. from the world when he is young, will i appear written out on his face when he is old. I The things you laugh about to^day, j you will cry about to-morrow, but j that should not distress you. For you will laugh to-morrow at the recol­ lection of what made you-ery to-day* --Atchison Globe. This and That. FUR-TRIMMED evening dresses appear to have reached the height of popular- j ity. Ix is to be wondered what amount of , heat is derived froih those tiny laee ! muffs. j GIRLS of the period hahg their cotil­ lion favosa all around the frame of their Facta and Fancies. THERE are so .many reformets who never want to do any work at home. COTTON soaped in olive-oil and tuts* , pentine, and put in the ear, often stopf} earache of tire most painful kind. i AN old clipper ship has just made tilt ; fastest tiine on record between Japall and this country, being out but twenty- two days. THE Bank of Scotland issued one? pound notes as early as 1704, and tiiej|t issue has since been continued without interruption. x A DISTINGUISHED Egyptologist has recently unearthed, with a lot of his' mummies, a .will probably made 4,456 years ago, but, curiously, quite modern, In form. V -*-?**• IN Eastern New Mexico nearly 600,000 acres of fruit and farm lands have been reclaimed by the construction of storage reservoirs and irrigating canals during 1 the past two years. . DON'T expect a man to do anything for you on account of anything you have already done for him, but if yt*t intend doing more for him, te.l bjym and.. w%hat yon want Iji advaBee^^^H^" ~ 7 - <• J*