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? J. VMt SLYKE MeHSKRY, Editor a* MMitktr. ILLINOIS DE LESSEE SAD FALL. TM* EMINENT FRENCHMAN HR1SON FOR FRAUD. IN Wmpi C*"t« Her First Installment of Co- ta^Mtn < "oln -Ton vlo K'll of Murder After ' IwiBtwn Year*-- Plreworfca " «l Imnl Polats. •' «»_• • <• De Lntepn I* 111 J*ll. U. CHARGES AIME T>E LESSSPP, M. Varies FUenne Fontaine, nnd M. San- Leroy have been arrested In Pari9 by direction of the Minister or Justice, M. Bourgeois, for their alleged connection with the Pana ra Canal frauds. M. Henri lou;s J-eiix Cottu, for whose ar­ rest an order was also issue J. has fled *0 Vienna. San-Leroy is charged with ha ving accepted a bribe ea a member of the Cha -uber of Deputies. The charges' against the oncers of the company, on which summonses were previously served and on wh'ch they have n .w been arrested, are that they have jointly made use of fraudulent in aginary credit that they have dissipated capital - *®t*\isted t > .hem for a spe itic purpa-e, Kt, ' 1™ and t at they have s windied others out > " « ^ Sa: * or t'^cir incans of living on jtv, , t ' ' their foeffrues. Ih se o.Yense; come ' ai-'- ^e reach o! se* en articles of the f-'i..-f- m - penal code. The accomplice is liable to . * * §| the ssrne penalties. Besides making s the arrests the authorities have (^V* .?'• ; searched the. result nee- of De Los- . b. seps, Fofltaine, Cottu aaJ San-Leroy , T,i^ and seisted a irass of documents thro.v- |T« g- * in? l ew and impcrtr.nt light on the w. ^nanaa frauds gal corruptjoa. IJi® Zj^i. *jMTests fcave caused $.v4jA txelte- IvV"-Taunt and th? Fi.nana scandal is the only topic of e<nversavio;i in political |r"-- fv* *. and social circle?. \v hat the ou'/o:Be f,'* will te no one is able to .\r; d ct, bul it ' car be sriiithat tV.o~e ttv.c have the best Ulie.ests of ilie ic^;iblie at heart are .^eppiy grieved at ,.e*"alit>" self- S"flahr ><«« ilknVvwl Viv i« and that much of the stcknsss <he latter has been traced 60 this *• A eft»«f *eTt«p>i9^ed-Vf the Carnegie Company at Hampstead has confessed that he was employed to put poison in the teal served to the non-union men. He says he was bribed by Robert Beatty, viw to now under arrest ' • * 1 --^ -- \ -v-^, ; • 'Y . WESTRRK. '<-4 THE Denver & Bio Grande round* house and seventeen locomotives were burned at Salida, Colo., causing a loss of $400,€00. " ' MARION ETEDSPETB, the Clendale train robber, was arraigned at St. Charles, Mo., but the case was con­ tinued until March. JAMES ROBINSON, a farmer of Lima, Ohio, killed his nephew, Arthur Bobln- son, aged 16, because the latter insisted on removing some hay from the farm. OMAHA saw something Wednesday that it has never seen before--a mid­ week Sabbath, a day given up to God and His worship. The occasion was a mass meeting conducted by Evangelist B. Fav Mills. It. was the Result of an appeal rcftde Sunday in all local churches to see how man5" busi­ ness houses would be closed. " It wa3 in the midst of the holiday trade, but merchants closed their doors and turned the keys in the locks, marshaled their clerks, and went with them to Exposi­ tion Hall to listen to the words of the evangelist. Lawyers left their offices and bankers their desks. The doctor left his patients in the care of Provi­ dence for a few moments, and even sa­ loonkeepers caught the infection, and manv gf them closed their doors tighter than they do Sunday even when the law says they mu§t, and TBEN took their way to church. Every dry goods store and every department store was closed rivfel Remol , R*t| si Hot < Prld rs PROPOSED flDTOTHE iONFERENCE. | of 811 w with a Variable DpOMd-AlIWd ; According to Market ,j CrrtlflotM. riK wltii SUwr. Conference Committee, orted on various sohemes n intrt>duced to advance i® first plan, that of Tiot- rk, consisted in the crea- nation;il silver currency balwPHMK variable mercantile value of metai in international intercourse, but with unlimited paying power for the respective countries coining it. Sir William Houldsworth's plan proposed the erntion of an interna'ional silver currenfy in the form of certificates of depots as a le^al tender in the states whicrltfould issue them, but not re- deenm^le in gold. The adoption of these cert ill ates would meet the objections raised against bimetallism on the ground of the in:onvenieaoe which re- _ the devilish wori^iMtn. «|>ries are told, most gfeaMfilly believed Is that each MEt««d to the mountain and" low ier sign* of the agency, leaving Swan In esmp in a elomp of trees. When they left, Parker returned and struck the old man a blow on the head with a hatchet and killed the others as they came In. | Bell, it seems, was bent on murder, ! and had about made up his mind that ! some one had to die to save the others. He returned to camp and Par­ ker assaulted him. A fight took place and Bell suc:umbed. All that winter Parker, ghoulish-I ke, remained with the dead and subsisted on the choice cutP from their bodios. The tale is a fearful one. Ho was ar­ rested at the agency, but escaped and was not again captured until 1883, in Cheyenne. In lSisti he was sentenced on Ave counts to oight years each, each sentence to commence when the other expired. He is an ex-Union soldier.' : 35 NO PRIZES WERE GIVEN. Victim* of Btoffui Lottery Ticket* In This Ceaptry and Canada. According to the statements of Chi- , „ .. , , ; cago detectives who have been engaged in case of yar.Ji- ; for over four month8 in huBtin| the 18 PROUD OF THE XYO»« OfOWBtary : iifcwla--iiitn* A. '"' 8eof«stary Tfacy fit his report President si arts out with * list 6f ves« eels in the navy, and points with pride to the work accomplished during the present administration. He says: "On the 4th of March, 1889, the fleet of the United States navy, apart from a few old ships long since obsolete and fast going to decay, consisted of threo modern steel vessels, of an aggregate tonnage cf 7,863 tons, and mounting thirteen 6-inch and four 8-inch guns, the forgings for which last, as well as the shafting for the vessels, bad been purchased from abroad, as they could not be made in this countiy. During this administration the following ves­ sels will have been added to the navy: Name of vessel. Chicago... Vorktown Petrel Charleston,"... Baltimore...;. Gushing VesusiuB Philadelphia.. " ~ I SCO, tion in value of the m« tal gauged by a gold standard. In order to attain th's jj end Sir William Houldsworth proposed a preliminary formation of a bimetallic j union, or, if this could not b$ brought about, at lefist free s'lver co'nage in one sufficiently siring couutry. 1 Of the third plan it vas considered | that M. AHard, 0! Belgisi n, who had I drawn it up on the litej of the Windom 1 bili, with an international character added, wished to create an inte: national silver note not possessing the character of legal tender, but ropuyable to the ! bearer in weight of silver variable ae- j cording to the fluctuafons of the mar- I ket. but always representing the noml- j nal value expressed in gold. The until noon. The banks, the drug stores, > t0 and every other kind of store pulled • bear -ommon an> P°"8ib e l0^8 ,1.-;.• ./ishn"«s disp'nyed \»y me V- tiorw ma:iy o' f wVoui c sworn to pre- 0^ France. The papers "h* '"'-'i serve the h^no eon'a n Utile o* interest to Parisians except matter t earing up n the scandal. | Thc F're R^^rd. AT St Paul, iLnn., Bife c -used $100,- fNK) loss to occupants of the John Mann Block. The Huggins Crqcker Company of Kansas City, owned by the Ameri­ can Biscuit Manufacturing Associa­ tion, burned with a loss of $35,000 on machinery and fixtures and $65,000 on sto.'k. The Michigan Lumber Company's mill on False Creek, Vancouver, was destroyed by fire. The loas on the mill, lumber, and machinery Is about $75,000; insurance, $10,COO. The newly completed mans oa of vraa- cis S. Giiaon. "Elmwood." ne»r C'harles- town, N. H., was burneX The loss is estimated at $40,00.i; vart'.ally covered by insurance. The family escaped by ladders. Fire at Indianapolis damaged the When cloth'ng store to the amount fully insured. down their curtains and did no^usT- • |ultin« {f0?. on.i a ok..4 depreciation in £ l?tr. nn-8 In case ro­ of a ness, and the railroad offices shut up. Several saloons bore cards Inscribed: "Closed to Go to Church." * W?;: - ' <*•'. > J : > ' Z 1 € O T A » AT * Oat. first r 0,000 of the "new Columbian souvenir l a'.f-dollors arrived in Chicago. Immediately upon the'.r arrival they were turned over to Treasurer See- berger, of the World's Fair Directory, who at once began distributing them among the different banks of the city. One thing is greatly puzzling Mr. See- berger, and that is how he is going to make 50,000 coins go around the banks of thn city, as.almost twice that num­ ber have been subscribed for. It Was first thought that to divide the coins equally wouli be a gooi idea, but aftei consultation with President Higln- botham it was conclu led that the old rule of "first come, first served," would be-ths best under the circumstances. K-, ConTtcte<l of Mnrder. Alpena, Mich., August Grossman Was found guilty of mur<1er in the first degree, in having cause 1 the death of Albert Moliter, the Pre?que Isle County lumber man, seventeen year; ago. There are twelve o'hers charged with the same crime and their trials will fol­ low shortly. BREVITIES. INDUSTRIAL, THE United Green Glass Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada have decided to make a fight against non-unio% glass manufacturers of South Jersey, and decided to call ail union men out of the Cumberland Glass Company's works. THE twelfth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor was called to order at Philadelphia Monday morning in the Common Council cham­ bers, Independence Hall, by President Gompers. Seventy-iive delegates, rep­ resenting 400,000 tradesmen of all kinds, were in attendance. H. L. Mini s of Phil­ adelphia Typographical Union, No. 2, in­ troduced George L. Chance, president of the union, who delivered the address of welcome. In his remarks he depre­ cated the condition of the workingmen in Pennsylvania by reason of the low wages paid, and said the laws of the nation and S>tate are partly responsible. According to a judge of the Supreme Court trades unions are tyrannies, while the treasonable act of the Car- neaie comoration in making war upon the State was perfectly justifiable. It is possible that through the b!ood of the men who died on the banks of the Monongahela last July may come a realization of the true condition of affairs and that the leg'slation of the future will be in tavor of the masses rather than for the aggrandizement of the few. He called upon the delegates to point out the way to better this con­ dition. His address was warmly ap­ plauded. FOREIGN. GLADSTONE has summoned the Eng- glish Cabinet to a special meeting to discuss the home-rule bill. THE steamer Peru, just arrived at San Francisco, brings news of a fire at To- kio on November 11, whit-h destroyed 700 houses. A TCBKISH torpedo-boat, which left Kiel on Nov. 18, has not been heard of shice. It is supposed to have been loBt in the Atlantic. A LARGE bomb exploded near the dwellings of the workmen in the great Iron works of Erupp's nephew at Berng- dorf. Much damage was caused to property. ' the fourth l^an, which M. de IWlle, the FreticL ue.c^ato, desired to encour­ age, was tho practice of dej ositing sil­ ver bullion in mints and banks of issue, with certificates of deposit and commer­ cial warrants negotiable without a le­ gal rate or a guarantee of value on the part of government. Kaffaelovltch, of Bussia. proposed to cive the certificates an international character by establish­ ing a system of wan ants enabling the bearers thereof to obtain, on delivery of their receipts, an equal quan'ity of sil­ ver at all institutions which adhered to the plan and having a stock of silver at disposal. Kepresontatlves of the silver-produc­ ing countries objected to this proposal as lying outside the program of the con­ ference. the duty of which was to study the means of exten Hng the monetary employment of tilver. The fifth plan, introduced by Salno- tellet'.e, of Belgium, and supported by Mr. Montefiore, propoit d to create re­ ceipts of deposits of gold aud, silver, bearing such conditions that a certain quantity of gold should be always ac­ companied by a certain quantity of silver, the proportion of which should be determined periodically by an inter­ national commission, which twin de­ posits would be effected in order to be represented by certificates, the market {»rice of silver to be taken into account n fixing these proportions, that an international character might be given to the certificates. The rep >rt proceeds to reproduce the arguments for and against these plans and asked whether the marriage of the two metals would not be an artificial one, and whether the conventional sys­ tem would meet those requirements of commerce, which de&ired, above all things, the simplest possible solution of the problem. On the other hand, it i$ urged that variations in the price of sil­ ver would be lessened, if not altogether stopped, by the coexistence of the two metals in deposits represented by cer­ tificates and the relative fixity of value of the twin deposits. READING COAL COMBINE. •»«* - ' 'mm' NAPHTHA barges were burned at As­ trakhan. Bussia. THE Florida Toba^oo-Growers' as­ sociation has been organized. THE Malone Boot and Shoe Company, of Birmingham, Ala., has assignei. The liabilities are $18,000. THE Am rican delegates to the inter­ national monetary conference will sail from Southampton for New York soon. TWENTY-FIVE New York Central cars loaded with coal were smashed into kindling wood by spreading rails near Herkimer, N. Y. TpE Paris Figaro says that the re- call of M. Wa ldington. French Embas­ sador to the Court of St. James, has been decided upon. A PACIFIC coast steamship company's steamer from San Francisco is quaran­ tined at Port Townsend with a ca6e of small-pox on board. THE oTu-ial vote of South Carolina in the re'ent election for President is: Cleveland, 54,698; Harrison, 13,384; Weaver, 2,410; Bidwell, none. AYSCIATE JrsTicE LAMAB, of the Uni­ ted States Supreme Court, is seriously ill o! Bright's disease. Hi? friends are alarmed over his condition, and fears are expressed that he may not recover. F. EDWIN ELWELL, the sculptor, has been awarded 1 he contract for an eques­ trian statue of Gen.Winlield Scott Han­ cock, to be erected ou the battle-field of Gettysburg, for which he will receive $22,000. A SEVERE cyclone passed over the town of Orel, I ussia Several of the suburbs were devastated, houses being l>lown down and trees uprooted. The damage was particularly severe at Tanzer, where nany. ptrsons were eaught under the falling building* and killed. THE Mason Foard Company of Louis­ ville, Ky,, announces that it will not isnew its lease on the Frankfort Prison, mfferences with the Sinking Fund Com­ missioners. is said to be the cause. The company has had the lease for many psfc/ EASTERN. THE In man coal mine, at the foot of *42vmberland Mountain, near Jasper, the seene of a horrible disaster, entire side of the mountain caved itting off the only entrance to the Two. convict guardB, who are are supposed to be buried in ie rains, A STORY comes from Pittsburgh giv­ ing the particulars of an alleged plot on t|ke part of the locked-out men to mur- the non-union workers at Home- etead. It is said that men were, em IN GENERAL PBOF. HENBY P. SMITH has been found guilty of heresy by the Cincin­ nati Presbytery after a long and tedious trial. THE stockholders of the Canadian Anthracite Coal Company have re­ leased their Northwestern mines at Anthracite, N. W. T., to the H. W. Mc­ Neill Company, limited, for ten years. IT is during the winter months that advertisers insert small ads. in the newspapers seeking the services in various ways of those who are employed only in the summer. Many farmers' boys, and daughters as well, often find pleasant and remunerative employment by opening a correspondence with this class of advertisers. It will pay you to peruse the small advertisements in this paper. ployed to put poison in the food of the N ' .£ 4 *• { , MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime (3.3! HOGS--Shipping Grades JJ.M SHEEP--Fair to Choioe 8.01 Wheat--No. 2 Spring; 7: COBN---No. 2 4' Oats--No. 2 RYE--No. 2 * BUTTER--Choice Creamery 2i EGOS--Fresh % POTATOES--New, per bu O. INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping 8.2 HOGS--Choice Light s.& Sheep--Common to Prime 8.0 Wheat--No. 2 lied ,e COHK--No. 2 White 4 OATS--No. 2 White .3 ST. LOUIS. . CATTLE z.v Hoob 4.0 Wheat--No. 2 Red. 6 Coen--No. 2 .a Oats--No. 2.., j Rte--No. 2 4 CINCINNATL " CATTLE. 8.00 ® HOGS 3.00 Sheep t aoo Wheat-No. 2 Red to 1 COBN--NO. 2 MI M OATS--No. 2Mixed. .ITT'AA# Eye-No. 2 .-rr.......:.. DETROIT. CATTLX 8.0c ® HOGS. #.00 <G sheep 8.00 ® WHEAT--No. 2 Red 73H® Coek--No. 2 yellow 43 OATS--No. 2 White m « TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 .74 <a Corn--No. 2 White 48 @ Oats--No. 2 White m .60 & BUFFALO. CATTLE--Common to Prime... 8.00 a HOGB-Best Grades 4.00 <§ WHEAT--No. 1 Hard Cobs--No. 2. a7)4® w „ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring. <57 <3 COBK--No. 8..... .|8M Oats-No. 2 White .34 @ Rye--No. 1 50 <a BABLEY--No. 2 64 <A POBK--Mesa 16.00 at NEW YORK. Cattle 8.50 0 g0(J* 8.00 & Sheep. . . . 8 . 0 0 < a WHBAT--No. 2 Bed.... .7« a CORN--No. 2 52 <| OATS--Mixed WcHtem..' 37 (& BUTTEB--Elgin- 20 G POKE--New Mess 14.26 A Continuation of the Investigation bjr the House Committee. The House committee appointed to investigate the Beading Railroad an­ thracite coal combination resumed Thursday morning in the Commerce Committee room the lnqufry it conduct­ ed into this subject during the recess in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere. 'William H. Joyce, general freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was ex­ amined. He offered in evidence a letter dated April 18 last, addressed by him to E. R. Holden, chairman of the anthra­ cite rate committee, New York, calling attention to the fact that during the last year the Lehigh' Velley Railroad Company, through its coal company, bad made with individual operators con­ tracts for the purchase of their coal upon a percentage of the prices realised at tide-water. The Reading Company, the latter added, had made similar agreements with a number of miners and shippers, anjji it was therefore necessary for the Pennsylvania Eailway to do likewise if it were to secure the product of collier­ ies that had heretofore shipped over its lines. These contracts gave ship­ pers for their coal 60 per cent, of the prices obtained at tide-water. The let­ ter stated that the Pennsylvania Com­ pany would therefore reduce its price for carrying coal to tide-water. Wit­ ness said that the price over their road was determined by the law of supply and domand. manufacturers of counterfeit lottery tickets, a stupendous scheme for de­ frauding lottery ticket purchasers has been discoveied. In every city, town and village in Canada, Michigan, Indi­ ana, Illinois and the Northwest the members of a gang have operated their clever swindle for about a year and have come out of the game heavy win­ ners. In all of these places persons live who think themselves born under a constellation of lucky stars and several comets, and at every change of the moon they have maae investments in lottery tickets. It was to accommodate these persons that the men who are claimed to constitute an unlawful gang , have been working. But the tickcts I they soli "were lor drawings that never 1 ioOa. place. 1 The end of the business came when a , plant for the manufacture of lottery j tickets was discovered at 281 and 283 j Clark street, and Jacob B. Stanger, the J proprietor, was arrested and charged j with forgery. The arrest is the outcome I of the work of four months by the de­ fectives, who took up the < ase after W. T. Henderson, of Baltimore, attorney for the Louisina Lottery company, had done some work in the hope of detect­ ing the defrauders. It is believed by officers of the Louisiana company the ftrst issue of counterfeit tickets wa,s made a year ago, and since then and up to the issue of A<ugust last the northern tier of States, the West, and Canada have been flooded with these tickets. The market having been kept well sup­ plied, their sale at $1 each has netted the counterfeiters a neat sum. The men interested in this s'cheme have not confined their talents to the Louisiana company, but have issued tickets, it is claimed, on a number of companies that do not exist. The de­ tectives confiscated at the Stanger shop a fine lithographic press, about 16,000 Mantanza tickets, December issue; 40,- 000 Vera Cruz tickets of December and January issue, several large sheets of Louisiana tickets without the numbers and twenty engraving stones and sev­ eral numbering machines. The plant is valued at $5,000. Tha Vera Cruz tickets were sold largely in the northwestern part of Chicago, the Mantanza tickets over bars in the country towns of Michi­ gan, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, while the Louisiana tickets went into Canada, Michigan, Illinois, and the Northwest. - -- - COUNT NEW SENATOR*. /T Democratic Claims to "Nebraska, Kansas, and North Dakota Vigorously Disputed. The Republican Senatorial caucus met in Washington and further discussed the programme to be followed by the party in rogard to the prospective sen­ atorial contests In several of tho West­ ern States. A resolution offered by Senator Hawley (Conn.) was adopted authorizing the chairman (Senator Sher­ man) to appoint a committee of five Senators to take into consideration the wisdom and propriety of senatorial in­ terference in these contests. The consensus of opinion expressed was that while the Senators did not de­ sire nor intend to interfere with the States in carrying out the will of the people, it was the duty of the Republi­ can Senators to resent strenuously the assertions of the Democrats, who are now, as they charge, trying to pervert public sentiment. It was shown to the satisfaction of the caucus, so a dispatch says, that the Democratic "steering committee" had no ground upon which to stand when it gave out the authorized interview in New York, and in corroboration of this some figures were produced. In Nebras­ ka it was said by the speakers that the Democrats had but four members In the entire Legislature, and in Kan­ sas but seventeen. In North Dakota .the Bepublicans had a clear majority of nine in both branches, and In Wyo­ ming five. In California and Montana the vote 1§ close, with the Populists holding the balauce of power. One of the active members of the caucus said it was not the intention of the Repub­ licans to appoint any so-called "steer­ ing committee," for the reason that the only purpose of such a committee would be to exercise an improper in­ fluence upon the Legislatures in the States in question. MR. FEFFER 18 ALARMED. Displace­ ment. Tons. .4,500 ...til.../.. .1,700 sw 4,(ho ...I.vj."...;. 4,600 <^..^.4,824 4,033 • .4,083, ....I.........1,700 .1,700 i., .1,080 ....4,138 8,180 ....2,000 ...,2.000 • Comml»-' sioned. April 17, 188!) April 2:), 1889 Dec. 10, 188» Dec. 20,188!) Jan. 7, 1890 April 22, 1890 June 7, i8;»o July 28, 1890 Nov. 15, 1890 Feb. 2,1891 Feb. 14,1891 June 20,1891 Oct. 27, 1891 Deo. 20,1892 Jan. 10,1893 Jan. 10,1893 Jan. »i, 1893 Jan. 31, 1893 Feb. 28. 18J3 San Franc! Newark Concord Bennintftoik.... Miantonomah.. Bancroft........ Machias ;.. I» Monterey............. New York ....?. Detroit Montgomery "This makes a total of nineteen ves­ sels of the new navy put in commission during this administration, of an aggre­ gate tonnage of 54,833 tons, mounting altogether two 12-inch, six 10-inch, six­ teen 8-inch, aud etghty-lwo 6-inch guns, all of which, with the exception of five of the earliest, have been manufactured In this country, Thr«e new steel tugs have also been constructed and put in service during this period. - Vessels Under Construction. "There are also under construetton- J following vessels, on which rapid progress is Being made: Name of Displace- VesseL ment. Tons. Oregon lo,2to Indiana !0,20i> Massachusetts... .10,2(0 Columbia 7,350 Minneapolis.7,350 Maine ..'6,648 Texaa c.soo Puritan G.oeo Olvmpla 6,500 Name of Vessel. Displace­ ment. Tons. Amphitrite Mcnidnock... Terror Cincinnati... Raleigh Ram Marbleheaa.. Castine Torpelo Boat No.2 3,99F 3,'J: 0 3,98(J 3,183 3,183 2,183 2,000 1,050 120 s> DARES TO SEEK LIBERTY. The Colorado Cannibal Anxious to Breathe Free Air. Alfred Parker, the man-eater, the man who killed and devoured his compan­ ions and who took delight in telling the horrible story, has applied for a release from the penitentiary at Canyon City, Colo. Parker without doubt is the most fiendish and ghoulish man who ever es­ caped the hangman's noose. His record Is a gruesome one. In his tline it is known that he has killed and eaten five men. In January, 1874, A1 Parker in com­ pany with five others left Dry Creek, San Juan County, for the Los Pinos Agency, and in March of the same year he appeared at his destination, wild- eyed, haggard and alone. He told con­ flicting stories about his companions, finally stating that they had died on the trip. Parker leit Bingham, Utah, in the fail of 1873. Whttr found his party of twehty-one snowed up at Dry Creek rith Chief Oura;, the famous Uncom- fahgro Ute. Aft«?r camping with the ndian a few weeks he proposed that a few of them pu^on to the agency. In company with Swan, Miller, Bell. Noon and Humphrey they bundled up blankets, cooking utensils and a gun, ! and with a horse started over the range in the coldest part of the winter. Food was scarce, and soon the horse was turned loose tq die. Three days later the provisions gave out and the party became desperate. It was bitterly cold and the snow fell fast. The men took turns breaking the trail, those follow­ ing carrying the camp utensils. Starv­ ing, the men chewed their moccasins, and cut up their blankets to serve as shoes. When the matches gave out fire was car­ ried in a coffee pot by Swan, who was old and feeble Sometimes the men found frozen rosebuds and leaves and ate them ravenously. Swan gave out when «iaar th<» Ion, of tha nnnHrmnttl He See* Danger in the Proposed Change In tho Interstate Commerce L»v. The Fopullsts in Congress have taken alarm at certain measures aimed at the Interstate Commerce Act and are fear­ ful that determined effort is to be made to destroy that most beneficent piece of legislation, as they regard it. Senator Peffer (Kansas) is the lirst to see the workings of the plan. He said that he wished to call attention to some signifi­ cant facts in connection with the pend­ ing Cullom bill to amend the act. This bill, he said, was marked "Introduced by request," and he intimated that it was done at the request of the railway people. It was introduced Tuesday and not printed until Wednesday morning; yet a meeting of the committee was held to hear the railway people almost before the bill was off the press. Looking at the bill itself. Senator Pe.Ter said it was framed to achieve the very thing that the interstate act was intended to prevent, which was pooling. Under its terms the peopie would surrender the control they now had over the roads, and the latter would once more be au­ thorized to make and maintain any rates th«^' choose to fix. Then tho amend­ ment to section 10 of the act would re- nove the penalty clause so that there would be practically no punishment for violation of the very essence of the act. Altogether, Senator Peffer regards the bill as a most dangerous measure, and announces his purpose to fight It at all points, INFOHMATION has been received from Conshatta, 0. T., of the death of Gen Henry Graf, qne of the few surviving Confederate Congress in oral of t^e Confed- n is under arrest at for murdering her two- ,nd then serving it nds at a quilting party is probable that she i.'ysf.f ,.v ^ ' ' j *2?" - ' ' • - f X' •" mem erate Making eighteen vessels in process of construction and certain to be com­ pleted, should their armor-be delivered within the aest year, of an aggregate tonnage of. 93,407 tons, and mounting altogether twelve 13-inch, sii 12-inch, sixteen 10-inch, thirty 8-inch, thirty- two 6-inch, thirty-eight 5-inch, and thirty-four 4-inch guns, all of which have been or are to be manufactured in this country. During this period twenty- five vessels will have been launched, thirteen of them, including the three tugs, during the current year, and of all the new ships the construction of which has been begun during the present ad­ ministration only two will remain on the stocks on the 4th of March next." The Secretary speaks with much sat­ isfaction of the act to "encourage Amer­ ican ship-building," under which the City of Paris and City of New York are admitted to American registry. The Secretary also renews a recommenda­ tion previously made for the building of torpedo boats and submits a table show­ ing a vast increase of such eraft in the service of other nations. We should have at least thirty such boats con­ structed in the Immediate future. The aggressive policy of foreign nations continues, and this country, whether it will or not, will soon be force! into a po­ sition where it cannot disregard meas­ ures which form a standing menace to its prosperity and security. Interesting statistics are given as lo the growth of the movement toward establishing naval militia, the creation of which is char­ acterized as one of the most important steps in our recent naval progress. The estimates in the report for the fis­ cal year ending June 30, 18SJ4, for navy and marine corps, including those for public works and Increased na.vy, are $24,471,49d, being $2,713,141 less than those for the last fiscal year. CRISP TO PROFIT BY IT. -Opponents of the Speaker Out oi Sympathy Will Now Support Him. Washington special: The action of the Reform Club of New York, in omit- ing the Speaker of the House of Repre­ sentatives from its list of banquet ora­ tors, although he was present as a guest, Btill continues to be a subject of pretty lively comment among the members. The explanation of E. Ellery Anderson. President of the club, that no slight was Intended toward Mr. Crisp, and that he would have been called upon if it had been known that he had prepared an address, is not accepted as satisfactory, The fact is that Mr. Crisp was informed by Congressman John DeWitt Warner, of New York, one of the members of the club, that he (Crisp) among other prominent guests would be expected to speak, and this, following his invitation and coupled with the announcement made in the New York papers that he would be one of the orators, led Mr. Crisp to prepare a speech. A press rep­ resentative who secured a copy of the various speeches in advance called upon Mr. Crisp and the address was furnished without question. President Anderson was informed of this fact by the press representative before the dinner took place, so that his plea of Ignorance of the circumstance is hardly truthful. The feeling extends even to members of what has been termed the anti-Crisp faction, and they do not hesitate to say that any gathering of so-called Demo­ crats that would invite as a guest the present highest Democratic official of the government and then not ask. him to speak, although other less conspicu­ ous members of the House were among the orators, should be considered loBt to all sense of propriety. When Mr. Crisp entered Representa­ tive Hall Monday morning he was loud­ ly applauded. He was given , a perfect ovation, the purpose of the demon­ strative members being to show their disapproval of Saturday nigtit's snub­ bing. The manifestation of resent­ ment toward the Deform Club was quite plain, and if the managers of the New York banquet intended to render Mr. Crisp so unpopular with the members of the House as to kiil him o!T as a possi­ bility for re-election, they have appar­ ently failed. Democrats who visited Mr. Cleveland came away and said that he was very much annoyed over the In­ cident, especially as it was through him that the Reform Ciub had issued the in­ vitation to Speaker Crisp to attend the dinner. Beef and Hog Exports. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports to the Treasury Department that the total values of the exports of domestic beef and hog products from the United States during the month of November, 1892, as compared with sim­ ilar exports during the corresponding fteriod of the previous year were as fol-ows: November, 1892, $10,448,524; November, 1891, $9,040,584. The values of the exports of dairy Products were: November, 1892, $646,-26; 1891, $401,384. Sev^n months ended Nov. 30, 1892, $7,577,146; 1891, $7,432,685. The value of the exports of beef and hog products from New York during the month of October, 189 J, were, $6,236,921; Boston, $2,907,574; £hiladel- ?hia, $518,551; Baltimore, $614,714. 'or October, 1891: New York, $4,896,- 681; Boston, $2,543,586; Philadelphia, ' Balflmnro 1AQ MS , : J v T* , ^ * * /,^ ' 0 ,r*f ' -*-•1 * '4*. /" • L .. 'vV** ACTED TIL At «w, JtatJon*s Done by Matters Disg Sldered. sbta* •se--Old 1 Con- Tb» 1^2 , ® "F^WIBHUTLESA It wai with dliflcally Imjuoruro could be roused to vat* mA It was BY A bare mar- S X V M*" IHATL THE printing bill was passed. Mr. Catching (Miss.), from the committee on rules, repotted a resolution amending the rules SO as to provide that business coming over as unfinished from one lesion of Centres* may be considered Immediately at the meeting of a subse- qaent session of the same CONGRESS Adopt- ed. The call of committees for re- ports was unproductive. THE conslder- tlon of the Senate bill (with House amendments) ^RELATIW to the public printing anAJdndlnar was then resumed. Jlr. HolmaaMpnd.) withdrew hfs motion, which WAS pending , to recommit the bill and, by unanimous consent, the vote by which tho bill WS ordered to a third read­ ing having been reconsidered. Mr. Holman moved to strike out those clauses of the measure which relate to the office of Superintendent of Public Documents. The amendment was agreed to. after half an hour being consumed in drumming up a quorum, and the bill as amended was passed. Mr. Andrew (Mass.) presented the petition of Phillips Brooks and others asking for the repeal of the Geary Chinese act Ordered printed. The House then adjourned until Monday. The anti-option bill made its appearance twice in the Senate Tuesday , but without decisive action being taken . Numerous petitions and remonstrances for and against the passage of the bill were presented and referred to tho Committee on Agriculture. Petitions were also presented for the clos­ ing of the World 's Fair on Sundays, nnd In favor of the construction of the Nicaragua canal by the Government of the United States, and a bill wa* Introduced to encourage the Con­ struction of the proposed electric raiload between Chicago and Bt. Louis. Mr. Vest's joint resolution for the appointmnet of a commission to have an agreement made with the five civilized tribes OF Indians for the taking of land in severalty and for the opening of the remainder of the lands to white settlement occupied the remainder of the day's session. In the House Mr. Davis (Kansas) reported a bill to prohibit the employment of convict labor on public works. Mr. Cummlngs (New York) offered for reference a resolution that the Commit­ tee on Postofflces and Post Roads be di­ rected to investigate certain Irregularities charged to the Postoffice Dermrtment. Bills were passed to create an additional land district In New Mexico and to dis­ pose of certain abandoned military reser­ vations in Wyoming. The House opened Tuesday with a sharp contest between the Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees as to which should conduct the investigation of the Treasury under the operations of the MC- Klnley law. but It was brief and decisive and resulted in a victory for the former committee. WThe Investigation will- be made by the full committee In open tes- sion.'* said Mr. Springer, "and not dele­ gated to a sub-committee." The remainder of the session was consumed in the consid­ eration of unimportant measures. In the Senate, among the bills iutroduced and re­ ferred were the following: By Mr. Gallln- ger--For the suspension of lmmieration under certain circumstances. By Mr. Peffer--To facilitate promotion in the navy. By Mr. Mitchell--To provide for national encampment of the militia at the World's Columbian Exposition. By Mr. Cullom-- To amend the Interstate commerce law. By Mr. Vest--To extend the jurisdiction of the courts In Oklahoma Terri tory and of the United States Court in Indian Terri­ tory. Mr. George addressed the Senate in support of the an ti-option bill, but without finishing HIS argument he called a motion for an executive session, and soon after­ ward the Senate adjourned. The House Wednesday, after one hour's debate, passed the army appropriation bill pract i ca l ly w i t h o u t a m e n d m e n t ; T h i s hends the procession of the appropriation bills of the second session of the Llld Con­ gress The publication of 10.000 copies of the President's annual message was or­ dered. The famous McGarrahan claim oc­ cupied the attention of the Senate up to 2 o'clock, but finally went over till Thursday without action. The anti-option bill was taken up and Mr. George resumed his speech in favor of it Mr. George spoke for over two hours, but had not finished when he yielded for other business. The anti-option bill went over without action. The resolution offered by Mr. Daniel call­ ing for information on the subject of the civil service wa« taken up and agreed to A very strong presentation in favor of the claimant in the famous McGarrahan case was made In the Senate Thursday by Mr. Hunton (Va.). The morning hour ex­ pired, before the argument was concluded and the bill went over, without action. Mr. George brought to a close his three-day speech In favor of the anti-optiop bill, aud Mr. Washburn made a determined but fruitless effort to have a day ftxed for a vote upon it The Senate adjourned until Monday. The HOUS3 ' agreed to a resolutlou for a holiday recess from Thursday before Christmas until Wednesday after New Year 'FT A bill relative to bills of lading was passed. A bill was passed to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Klcka- poo Indians In Oklahoma Territory. The House adjourned untll Saturday. The Wizard ot Wall street. A master of finance.---Detroit Jour­ nal. His career cannot be deemed a suc­ cess.--Toledo Blade. The greatest financial genius of the age.--Buffalo Inquirer. The deceased financier was a bold and, indeed, a desperate operator.--New York World. He was an animated antithesis,* the like of wnom the world may never see again.--Cincinnati Times-Star. For more than twenty years the most potent figure in the world's financial af­ fairs.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Jay Gould is dead, but there are plenty of others to shear the lamb for the untempered wind.--buffalo Express. The greatest money-maker ever known was the least known money­ maker that ever lived or died.--Brook-, lyn Eagle. It may be that the world has never done justice to him who is now, mate­ rially. poor as the poorest--Washing­ ton Star. So long as he is remembered it will be only as the sharpest and most suc­ cessful "speculator" of the century.-- Philadelphia Bulletin. His will was indomitable; his courage was illimitable; his energy was tireless; his knowledge of human nature was perfect.--Rochester Union. From first to last the business career of Jay Gould was an unparalleled story of successfully and wonderfully en­ dowed avarice.--Cleveland Leader. Mr. Gould's death simply removes a disturbing element in the financial world--an element whose influence wae far-reaehing, powerful, and always used selfishly.--Wheeling Register. We say that the late Mr. Gould can­ not be entirely condemned for becom­ ing rich. If his fault needs explanation it can be given by the balance In favor of the prosperity his railroad improve­ ments created.---Columbus Dispatch. A ROBBEBV that equals in boldness anything of the year occurred at the Burlington grade camp, four miles from the town of Sheridan. Wyo. Two men were killed and three wounded, and sev- eral hundrod dollars and some watches and goods carried away. The raid was made on A. J. Case's saloon by three masked men. A BTTBOiiAB who attempted to rob the banking house of Harkness, Wyman & Russell, at Kansas City, secured noth­ ing but an overcoat, and the next morn­ ing the body of a man clad in the over­ coat was found in the railway yards, He i8 *)>• , K Cw * ' • ' .4" .• ;,:*3 ... V f Vi i*ri v $6 |Pfn Bullion founds of the Fnncemt ' der Consumed Ijut Tear!, ' It seems surprising to learn the fr*et« that twenty years ago 4,000,000' pounds of snuff per annum were con­ sumed in this conntry. Much mor» astonishing is the circumstance thai, during the fiscal year ending July 1, 1892. 10,000,000 pounds of snuff were used in the United States. Yefchow rarely is it that one sees a plQch- tsf snuff taken. The mystery was «x- plained recently to a Commercial-Ga­ zette man by the New York agent for a great snuff manufacturing cdacern. He said: . "Nearly al j Italian a ad German music teachers use snuff. Likewise the Roman Catholic clergy,1 The priests say that they get into the habit during long sessions in the con­ fessional. where they must sit' for hours together, and take- gnuff in order to occupy themselves and keep awake, avoiding sneezing: The true snuff-taker does not sneeze. Old- fashioned Germans, who came to this ; country a long time ag©, almost in- 'In­ variably take snuff. In beer saloons * where people of their race congregate 5' you will commonly see on the conn- 1: ter a box of snuff for general use. It is of black snuff that I have spoken i thus far--highly scented with rose, berg a mot and pungent, flowers, # '•But the snuff that is chiefly used and manufactured in this country,i&. T/' of the yellow or brown kind, frvome of it is salted and some plain, but $ very little of it is scented. It is used •" i to an immense extent in the south by negroes and poor whites for 'dipping.'" '.. j The snuff-dipper moistens a 1 ittle stick < 5 in water or alcohol, dips it in the T J snuff, makes a little ball, and puts it between the lips and the teeth. The | habit is an unpleasant one, but . :| practiced in the South by women as '; commonly as men. In fact, the con- sumption of snuff in this country is ,« chiefly by dipping, and the*bulk of. ^ the tobacco manufactured in this shape is consumed below Mason and . Dixon's line. Yellow snuff is used , ?| largely by the Canadian-French girls, , i who compose a majority of the eiu- ployes in the cotton mills all over the M United States, particularly In New England. > y) "Snuff should be made from the Mti leaf-stalks of the tobacco plant only, /fj though much inferior material is mixed with the cheaper kind. Ha- V| vana and Sumatra tobaccos are pre- ;-i ferred. The flavorings employed are vi kept strictly secret Much care < has to be taken in the process of 'com- | pounding, inasmuch as no class of tobacco consumers are so fastidious as | snuff-takers. The Scotch are great users of snuff. It was a Scotchman ^ who once asked a big-nosed stranger "J* | if be took snuff and receiving a nega- * | tive reply, remarked: 'What a pity; you have such a grand accomoda- tion.;" 4 Shooting at Icebergg. ' ^ It has been suggested that meii-or- J war of the great navies should lie em- ^ ployed in the destruction ol the ice- 3 bergs of thg North Atlantic. Accord- ^ ing to this plan the borgs are Ut be bombacjled with great shells, which, 1 penetrating deep into the great ice ; and exploding there, will shatter them to pipces. There Is no doubt ' that this would be a far more profit­ able expenditure of ammunition than the uses for which it is designed, says Scribner's Magazine, for any target is better than the dear bought frame of man or the products of his skill of hand and mind, but it is more than doubtful if the end could be obtained in this way. In the first place, to accomplish the desired result it would be necessary for the men-of-war to watch the exit of Baffin's Bay in the springtime, and break up the bei&s into relatively small bits, so. that they would no longer float with their bases in the deep southward settijog cur­ rent, but would drift with the floe ice. To do this with several hun­ dred great masses, averaging; prob­ ably at least 1,000 feet in cube, would require an enormous expendi­ ture of money. Iqcluding the wear and tear of guns, the shells fijim the great modern ordnance can pot be fired at a less cost than $500 tor each shell, and it would probably require many hundred rounds of ammunition to break up a single berg. It; would not at all serve the purpose to read ice to pieces in the midatlantic dis­ trict for there the fragments wou]^ float about and multiply the dajwjers, of navigation. Such work, if^done, would make that region ne^ny im­ passable for a portion of ^the year, / though frOm the readier f melting op v & the ice the trouble so long. On th ing project doei kv not endure his. iatete^tr,. ©ractl&b§fe.v;: w ted that L /fhii t iclu- cuoiu- if the 06 the mi* 1 '.lAujiS*', Are At It was long ag< the earth is a gn the sun is also a sion indicated by lated by modern sciel sun is a magnet, stars also magnets, aid them may surpass the tude almost as much as passes the earth? So we find that there is ahaosu no- limit to the enormous size that a magnet may possess. But lately the question has been raised whether the same truth does not extend in the opposfte direction. We certainly cannot divide a magnet into pieces so small that any one of them will cease- to be a magnet, and it is suggested; that this division miirht go on down to the original atoms of which mat­ ter is composed, without loss of the- masnetic property. Indeed, there are factsj^ilch seen* to show that a.l atoms idB be mag­ nets, and that their magnetic rela­ tions to one another may account for certain chemical effects. So the infinitely great and the finitely little lead to similar sions. ... Names or Children In Chta*. ' -» In the event of the birth of a chiUfr in China, the name that is given to^ it is determined oftentimes by the most trivial circumstances If a child is born at midnight, his name- is possibly called "Midnight," or, on the anniversary day of a grandparent's birth, his name may be called "Sixty- five" or "Seventy" If the little one comes into the world at sunrise,-- he may be called "Sunrise," or, if at sunset, he may be called And so on in other ways • . . v ? M r 'uM in- 4^ :4'"n i ,-5 "Sunset." the same- -.-J M <vT • " H V ' i - V ' s£Vt- y *' '4