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V " v :v2E#®?vw. „,., < < ^ <•:* & *< ^,K? *•-, ' *-K t & "BLTL- A.Iu.^,»'.^ <*_.J*&,-.. < iief ; • i PLA1NDEALER J. VAK SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY. ILLINOIS. WAR ON MIDDLEMEN. (LOUISIANA HORTICULTURISTS' =%-"• • #|NE PLAN,: Bland'* Bill Carried--Rockford*s War Oo«l to Hit Reward--Wild Swans i-bo«ind«-Brown, tl •mUt, at Liberty. £*. k : To Auction Fruit. *>T§TRAWBERRY-GROWERS in Loulsi- CDa have entered into a combination to auction off directly from the cars all strawberries entering Chicago from Louisiana. On the face of it the plan seems innocent enough, but it has a concealed significance of unex­ pected breadth. Ii the Louisiana peo­ ple are successful with their strawber­ ries growers in Missippi and Tennessee stand reafiy to adopt the same meth­ ods. Illinois and Michigan would in all probability fall in line. Further than this, if "the plan succeeds with email fruits it will likely be pursued with vegetables, and in fact with almost all kinds of (arm produce sold on South Water street. The occupation of commission merchants on ihat street, so far as col­ lecting a commission for receiving and •selling goods is concerned, would be Eone. The auction house can do the usiness for a commission of 5 per cent., and even at 2* per cent., while South Water street ct mmission houses VMRtally receive 10 par cent. Vote on Bland's Bill. THE seigniorage bill passed the Sen­ ate by & vote of 44 to 31, the following being tne result in detail, the Demo­ crats being printed in roman, the Re­ publicans in italics and the Populists in SMALL CAPS: £• TEAS# AlASK, Bansbrough, Harris, Hon ton, Irby, Jones (Ark.), KYLE, Lindsay. McLaurln, Martin, "Ills. Lias, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulkner, Georire, Gordon, Ml Mitchell (Ore.), Test. Pettiarevs, Tower, Pttvh, Quay, Ransom, Roach, ijkoup, Stewart, Teller. . Turpie, * Aldrich, Allison, Brim, Caff cry, J&r. Oullorn, J)arir, Dolph, SHF--'•Sen-- Morgan, Voorhees, Pasco, White, PEFFER, Wolcott--4t Perkins, NATS. Gibson, Morrill, Gorman, Murphy, Hale, Palmer, Haicley, Piatt. HidO Proctor, Lodge, Smith. McMillan, Stockbridge, McPheraon, Vilas. Manderson, WasM>un, Mitchell (Wis.). Wilson-Si. Gal' The pairs were: Camden for, with Gray against: Hill for, with Dixon against; Jones, of Nevada, for, With Hoar against; Vance for, with Sherman against. Senators Squire and Cameron did not vote. The last day of the debate attracted a large crowd to the Senate and the galleries were woll filled. < f(f< John Hart Hanged. | JOHN HART, who murdered HIE,.TWO sisters last fall, was hanged in Rock- ford, I1L, at 11:04 Friday morning. The crime for which Hart was executed was a most atrocious one On Sept. 5, 1893, Hart was alone on the farm 6ix miles west of Rockford, with his mother and two sisters, Mary and Nel­ lie. During the afternoon the mother left the house for a short time. Hart called his sister Nellie to the barn, tell­ ing her that the granary floor had sprung a leak and was letting oats into the basement below. When the un­ suspecting girl hed reached the bot­ tom of the ba-emant steps Hart turned on her. and after choking her severe­ ly forced her to drink paris green out of a bottle. He then struck her on the head with a hammer and shot her in the stomach, leaving her on the floor for dead. Going to the front yard to his elder sister Mary Hart shot her fojr times after a struggle that left the porch besmeared with blood. When the victims were found Mary was de;.d. but Nellie recovered sufficiently to dictate a dying statement which Wtis admitted a; evidence in the trial and doubtless convicted the niur- derer. Aftir completing his work Hart changed his blood-stained clothes, and mounting a swift horse rode to Rockford, where he was arrested. :s.v now somewhat faded beauty Mrs. Lily •Xaagfc'y, has bodoiuoa bduadict. Xto marriage with Miss Louise H. Morris of Baltimore took place Tuesday. WHEN the White Star steamship Britannic left New York Wednesday she had on board the organizers of the Wellman north polar expedition. They were: Walter Wellman,the leader and chief organizer: Professor Owen B. French, of the United States ,Coast and Geodetic Survey, who will act as as­ tronomical observer; Dr. Thomas B. Mohun, Washington, D. CI?. medical of­ ficer of the expedition; and Charles C. Dodge of the bureau cf Construction and Repair Division of the Navy De­ partment, artist and photographer. The party will go to Liverpool first and thence to Tromsoe in the far north of Norway, from which point the route proper of the exploring party begins. Air. Wellman is quite sanguine of the success of the expedition in solving the polar problem. "After leaving Nor­ way," Mr. Wellman said, "we will pro­ ceed directly to the north-west corner of Spitzbergen, latitude 80 degrees, where we will establish our headquar­ ters. As nearly as I can now reckon, about the loth of May our steamer will take us to the southern edge of the ice bank of the frozen sea. Wher­ ever this shall be, we shall disembark with fourteen men. tbre * boats, and five aluminum sledges, making a total weight, exclusive of ourselves and ani­ mals, of <>,500 pounds. The march will then begin toward the north. We carry instruments from the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey at Washington, and wish to glean im­ portant and new facts in regard to meteorology, the magnetics, tides, and all those point5 of scientific research." ^ttee^athewmretke from public J Ulffife life at the close ol his present term. CONGRESSMAN HOUR ha* been f no wed under in the Republican pri­ maries in the Second Tennessee Dis­ trict, Henry J. Gibson receiving the nomination. EX-SENATOR JOHN J. INGALLS inti­ mates that he Will be a candidate for his old seat the coming fall, when the Kansas Legislature will elect a suc­ cessor to Senator Martin. FORBIQN. BREVITIES. CHARLES THOMPSON and his wife jrere killed by lightning at Damascus, Ala. J. A. GUNN and John Hill had a duel at Calera, Ala., Gunn teing fatally hurt. THREE Poles were killed in"No. 4 Wine of the Kingston Coal Company at Bdwa^dsville, Pa., by a runaway car. TWELVE masked men attacked four non-union sailors at San Pedro, CaL An Italian named D^zacre was killed. ? A FLOCK of twenty-eight swans ^caught in a storm in Irondale, near Alliance, Ohio, after vainly trying to pursue their course, were forced to earth, exhausted by the weight of hail and snow on their feathers. Citizens gave chase and succeeded in capturing whole flock alive. The bird* are valued at $400. . IT is reported that Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt has bought a wonderful crown which once adorned the brow of the Empress Eugenie. It is described as a marvel of workmanship, which cost Mrs. Vanderbilt $300,000. It con- taines stones, finely mounted in old silver, lined with gold. The crown is made in imitation of violet leaves sur­ rounding a bunch of violets. It meas­ ures twelve inches in circumference, JAMES WELLINGTON BROWN, a' po­ lygamic with the phenomenal record of twenty-six wives in the State of Michigan alone, and with other wives heard from at times in ether being % parts of the United States, has just been released from the Jackson, Mich., prison. x At Minneapolis, Louis and IVank Floyd were sentenced to five years each «• Pen^entiary for complicity in j,-," the defalcation of Phil M. Scheie th« |f7 ".ex-teller of the Bank of M?nnea^Us! *efvmg * ^even-year sentence at 'Stillwater. ^ - EASTERN.' |/ , 4 THE employes <?f the Merrimack mint f % Tat Dracut, Mass.. struck; 2,000 peopla lp' .are directly affected. "(/JACOB^YOME, an Oxford (Pa.) mil- '*' • lionaire, has cause to believe in the ,^honesty of the world. He left a pack- |jage containing $6,000 on the seat of a railway car, and recovered it after a . party of amateur actors had used it to play balL FREDDY GEBHARDT, the wealthy and celebrated New York club man and whilom friend of that once famed but WESTERN. No TRACE has been discovered of the murderer of Stephen Geer at Jefferson- viile, Ind. His daughter has found in the house a barglar sack made of ducking. * JAMES A. KERR, a wealthy merchant of Cardonia, Ind., has brought suit for $15,000 against Benjamin Simpson, charging him with alienating hiswife's affections. " * PUEBLO, Colo., and the town of Ees- semer held elections and decided by a large majority to consolidate. The city of Highlands decided against an­ nexation t) Denver. BANKER BEACH, on-trial at Terre Haute, Ind., for embszzlement, filed a plea in abatement because the Grand Jury based indictments on data ob­ tained from the bank's books. GREENWOOD, Ind., citizens have adopted a unique plan to rid the town of an obnoxious saloon. They refuse to sell the proprietor bread or meat and boycotted th6 house where he secured board. THE Midwinter Fair concessions are conducted on a realistic plan. A stage coach belonging to the '49 Mining Camp was upset while going around a corner at full speed, and fourteen per­ sons were injured. PARTICULARS have been received of a disastrous storm which devastated a section of country in the Cherokee strip. The cyclone blew terribly for about ten minutes, leveling everything before it. Sixteen houses were wrecked and a large number of barns and other buildings were destroyed. A REGIMENT of 800 unemployed men is organized at Los Angeles, under command of Gen. Frye, with the avow­ ed intention of getting 2,999,200 re­ cruits, and then the entire body will march to Washington. Notice has been sent to the Secretary of War, and that official has been asked to provide rations. IT is learned that Philip D. Armour will give $5X),000 to the San Francisco public schools for the establishment of a manual training school for boys. This generous endowment of a trade school is intended by Mr. Armour to serve as a memorial of his success in California in the pioneer days when he made money, which served as the nucleus of his fortune. PROFESSOR OTTO LUGGER, in charge of the Minnesota Experimental Sta­ tion at St. Anthony Park, has dis­ covered what is likely to prove a valu­ able test for tuberculosis in cattle. Numerous experiments show that if the animal is healthy no rise in tem­ perature will follow the injection of !ioch's lymph, while if afflicted with tubercu'osis, even in its incipient stages, there is an instant rise in tem­ perature. WASHINGTON. EDWARD D. WHITE took his seat as Justice of th-3 Supreme Court, the usual ceremonies being observed. RELATIVE merits of cable and elec­ tric systems were considered by Con­ gress in debating a bill concerning a District rofd. SENATOR CULLOM will endeavor to prevent Phelps' confirmation as Sub- Treasurer at Chicago until Tanner's term has expired. ^ SECRETARY GRESHAM and British Ambassador Pauncefote are trying to come to an understanding on the Behr- ing Sea fisheries case. EXCITING incidents in the Pollard- Breckinridae breach of promise case reached a fitting final when, as court adjourned at Washington Tuesday af­ ternoon, Lawyer Shelby, one of Con­ gressman Breckinridge's counsel, struck Lawyer Johnson, attorney for Miss Pollard, a blow in the face. The combatants were separated before fur­ ther damage was done. Judge Brad­ ley will give them an opportunity to show cause why he should not fine them for contempt. THE grand jury at Scottsboro, Ala., has reported a bill recommending the impeachment of Judge M. B. Talley, of the Ninth Alabama Circuit, accus­ ing him of aiding and abetting the Skelton boys in murdering Banker R. C. Ross on Feb. 4. When the Skeltons started in pursuit of Ross Judge Talley telegraphed to the operator at Steven­ son, for which point Ross was destined, not to let Ross get away, and when the Skeltons had killfed Ross they wired Talley that "Ross is dead; none of us hurt." Ross' friends had wired him from Scott sboro that his life was in danger and Talley endeavored to inter­ cept the message. Failing in this he sent his dispatch. Two SONS of ex-President Balz, of San Domingo, are said to have been shot by orders of President Henreaux. IN an address to his party Premier Rosebery said the battle for Irish home rule would go forward with unabated VifOT. ENGLISH troops have taken posses­ sion of Bluefields, Nicaragua. The native troops have withdrawn. Col­ lisions have occurred. SIR JAMES FITZJAMES STEPHEN, the eminent jtirist and judge of the ex­ chequer division of the high court of justice, is dead at London. He was born in London on March 3, 1829, and had written many legal works, includ­ ing "Digest of the Criminal Law" and "A History of the Criminal Law of England." The death of Sir James Stephen is a serious loss to the legal profession, in which he ranked among the highest, but he was chiefly inter­ esting from a popular standpoint as the judge who practically forced the jury which tried Mrs. Maybrick to bring in a verdict of guilty and then sentenced her to death: a sentence which was afterward commuted by the home secretary t > imprisonment for life. There is strong evidence that Sir Jame> was mentally unbalanced at the time of the trial, and this, added to a natural bias against the defendant in all criminal cases which were tried before him, has furnished one of the strongest grounds upon which Mrs. Maybrick's friends and sympathizers have based their efforts to secure her release. . LONDON dispatch: The opening of Parliament Monday was accompanied by a declaration from Lord Rosebery which sets at rest all suspicion of his attitude towaid home rule and the House of Lords. At a meeting of Lib­ erals in the foreign office at noon the premier outlined in terms of great earn­ estness and directness a policy with re­ gard to Ireland which will satisfy the most exacting homerruler, while his characterization of the House of Lords was sufficiently hostile to disabuse the minds of that chamber of all hope of a reconciliation between Commons and Peers. The declaration is received on all sides among the Liberals with un­ bounded enthu-siksm. The fear that Lord Roseberrv wo"uld lay aside the home rule bill and make terms with the Peers was not confined to the Rad­ icals. No allusion was made to the home rule bill in the speech from the throne, but the omission was, more than atoned for by the address in the foreign office. Lord Rose­ bery was wildly applauded. His opening remarks were in reverential allusion to Mr. Gladstone. He declared that no assertion of policy was needed. "We stand where we aid," he said. The Liberal party was bound to home rule by ties of honor and affection. The policy would be definitely pursued. As for the lords, he was becoming con­ vinced that "with the democratic suf­ frage which we now enjoy, a second chamber constituted like the House of Lords is an anomaly." It has become a "great Tory organization at the beok ana call of a* single party leader." IN GENERAX, FREDDIE GEBHARD'S last present to Miss Louise Morris, whom he is soon to wed, was a solid silver bathtub. THAT east-bound freight rates are being freely cut is proved by last week's shipments, wh\ch aggregate 86,955 tons. Louis CYR, of Montreal, has issued a challenge to strong men, especially Sandow,^and is willing to compete for $5,000 a side. BODIES of the thirteen men entomb­ ed in the Gaylord iqine Feb. 13 were reached by rescuers, but were beyond identification. THE Montreal express, north bound, and the Quebec express met in a head- on collision at Capleton, near Sher- brooke, Qu?. The engineer on one of the trains and a train-hand, who was in the cab with him, were killed. None of the passengers was seriously in­ jured, and none of the cars left the track. R. G. DUN & Co. '8 Weekly Review of Trade says: -v.iibiiiies of present improvement in business multiply, but confidence In future Improvement does not seem to Increase. There 1* more buslne93 and a larger pro­ duction by industries, for the Beaaon has arrived when greater activity Is necessary If dealers' stocks are to be replenished, and those who cannot make calculations beyond a few months are the more anxious to crowd as much trade as they safely can Into these months. Undertakings reach­ ing beyond a short time are not made with greater freedom and. In spite of a larger present demand, prices of manufactured goods tend downward. . MARKET REPORTS, POLITICAL. MAJOR GENERAL HOWARD .is said to contemplate becoming a candidate for Congress on leaving the army. EACH house of the Ohio Legislature passed the l>ienn!al session resolution after more than two months' fig'ting. W. c. OWENS began his campaign at Lexington, Ky., for the seat in Con­ gress held by W. C. P. Breckinridge. NEW YORK'S Senate passed a bill making minor grades of hazing mis- j Hoos^f.V. demeanors and the infliction of physi- " cal injuries felonious. SENATOR RICHARD COKE, of Texas, has notified the Democratic State Com- CHICAGQ. CATTLE--Common to Prime (8 to HOGH--Shipping Grades #4 00 SHEEP--Fair to Cholee 3 25 WHEAT--No. 2 Red 66 Cobn--No. 2 i OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery. EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--Per bra INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping Hons--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime..... WHEAT--No. a lied. COBN--No. i White OATS--No. 1 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. 3 Red COBS--No. a OATS--NA % BYE--No. 2. CINCINNATL CATTLE HOGS SHEEP WHEAT^NOI J Red CoB«--No. 2, OATS--Mixed....... BTE--No. fciJ.V.'.li.. DETROIT. „ CATTLE HOGS 4 A SHEEP WHEAT--No. 1 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 Mixed TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 White ; BYE--No, 2 ; BUFFALO. ! WHEAT--No. L Hard 1 COB*--NO. 2 Yellow. ;.... OATS--No.2 White.., RYE--No. 2 MILWAUKEE. ) WHEAT--No. 2 Spring . COB:.--No. 3 j OATS--No. 2 White , BYE-NO. X I HAKLEY--No. 2 ; POBK--Mess NEW YOBK. SI & ptUitUIAN WAR HAS OOMI TO . %V:7 AN END. t - Almost a Fsarfol Tr^dy at I&;".CIose- 8tru|« Aetlon of President PeUoto-- Admiral Mello Was a Qsma. Surrender Without a Shot* The Brazilian rebellion is crushed, and in its stead there bids fair for a time to be inaugurated a carnival of slaughter and butchery. Seeing the hopelessness of continuing the strug­ gle, deserted by Admiral Mello, who with the warship Aquidiban was in parts unknown, Admiral Da Gama of the insurgent forces first sought the servic3s of the Portuguese charge d'af- fairs in negotiating with the govern­ ment for peace; but that official, acting under orders from the home govern­ ment, assumed a neutral attitude. Da Gama then, in direct communication with President Peixoto, offered uncon­ ditional surrender of all the warships and forts and garrisons with Rio har­ bor, accepting for himself and officers expatriation and sentence of exile to a foreign land, on condition of amnesty to his soldiers and sailors. When this news became known the government fleet entered the harbor quietly. As the vessels made their way up the bay they were saluted by the various government batteries. The greatest excitement had pre­ vailed in the city. The streets were crowded with people, and all the avail­ able trucks and hand carts had been busy carrying household goods and PEIXOTO, PRESIDENT. 00 75 4 00 67 36 @ 87 31 (9 82 46 & 47 21VM 22 H 13 65 8 00 8 00 2 00 56 35 82 3 00 S 00 63 M 81 47 8 00 3 00 2 00 6tt 38 33 62 3 00 8 00 68 87 32 67 87 <9 4 75 (0} 6 00 <9 8 2# & 66 @ 86 & , 88 & 5 00 @ 4 75 <9 64 86 9 4 B0 (DT » 25 & 4 00 67 & 38* & 34 & 64 & i to & 6 00 m 3 as & 69 49 <9 71 41 87 68 69 35 82 47 62 11 25 88 83 68 88 825$ 61 7156 42 88 65 69*& 36 38 48 54 @11 75 SHEEP. WHEAT--No. 2 Red COJSN--No. 2 OATB-White Western Burr £S--Choice .. Pou-lleu 8 00 3 75 2 30 & 4 75 @6 75 «« 4 00 6 1 H « 6 > » 44 & 45 88 & 4* 22 UW 8 » 2 LLED OUT BV 0OV. WAIT? ' WAITE. JBntir* Police and Fire Department, Ald«4 bjr Deputy Sheriffs, Refnse to Surrender --Neither Side Dsn* to Ikoot-Bevolt A grains t an Injunction. GOV. WAIT®. personal effects out of the city. The people had fully expected a shelling of the city by the insurgent forces, and it was generally believed that a ter­ rific naval battle was about to be fought in the liio harbor. Da Gama's offer of surrender changed every­ thing, c and everywhere could be heard shouts of " Viva Peixoto!" and general acc[uiesenc9 to the requests of the insurgent admiral. There had been much sutTering in the city. All business houses had been closed and it had been very difficult to get food. The whole available police force was on duty constantly. Probably 100,000 persons left the city. Railroad trans­ portation to the suburbs was free, and the government was feeding the poor. Naturally the populace cheered the news which they believed heralded the close of the long and stubbornly con- tosted insurrection. But joy was changed to oonsternation by tne announcement that the govern­ ment had refused the terms of Da Gama, and would open lire upon the insurgent vessels and forts at noon Tuesday. The exodus from Rio again commenced, and at 12 o'clock pteci-ely the bar fortress opened fire on Fort Villegaignon. In a short time the Government forces at Fort Armacao and Fort Gragoata joined in the bom­ bardment. The fire was not returned by the insurgents. The bombardment was continued until 3 o'clock, when it ceased. Castello, San Benito, Saude, Curvello and all the city batteries then opened a furious fire upon Fort Ville­ gaignon and the insurgent warship Tamandre. The fire was also directed upon the insurgent works at Cobras Island and at other places. The forces at Enchadas lowered the hospital flag and hoisted the insurgent ensign. The garrison at Governador Island also took part in the attack on Fort Villegaig­ non, which was badly hammered by the Government guns. The works on Cobras Island took fire, but the flames were socn extinguished. The firing of the batteries lasted for an hour. No great damage was done. The insurgents did not fire a shot. At 4 o'clock the Government fleet steamed slowly to close action, the tor­ pedo boat Aurora leading. The other vessels in the fleet were the Nictheroy, America, Itaipu, Bahian, Tiradentes and Parahyba, and two steamers and five torpedo boats. Immediately the rebels hauled down the white ensign from one of the ships which was lying at Enchadas and hoisted a signal, which was answered from ashore. A launch containing an officer then went from one insurgent ship to another, and each vessel lowered the white flag. Two boats from the Government fleet out­ side then entered tne bay. One of them went to Fort Villegaignon, and it was shortly followed by the launch from the rebel ship. A few minutes later the white ensign came down from the fort, and at 5:45 the Government fleet steame l up the bay. The insurgent war ship Aquidiban was not in this harbor. Admiral de Mello has proved false to the em­ peror and to President Fonseca and President Peixoto. His last act was treachery to Admiral da Gama. The officers of the insurgent fleet took refuge on board French and Portuguese war ships. One French vessel put to sea with many of the rebel officers on board. It is said that Admiral da Gama is on board the British war ship Sirius. Peixoto's action in not acceding to Da Gama's offer created the greatest surprise, abroad as well as at W ashing- ton. Such conditi; ns were freely ac corded in any honorable warfare in civilized lands, yet to the surprise of our administration they had been re­ fused by Peixoto. In spite of its best euorts to be exactly fair and neutral, yet in the contest in Brazil our govern­ ment, in its desire to protect American interests, has given color to the belief that its moral sympathy lay with the Peixoto government. So the news that civilized warfare had been disregarded and that bravo but defeated insurgents, hemmed in on all sides were to be refused the chance to surrender on hon­ orable terms and forced to throw them- selves upon the mercy of the govern­ ment without any guarantee of their lives fell with dii-agreeable force uoon every official in the government hero who has had to do with tho troublo in any capacity. Undoubtedly tho moral sympathy of the United States has ijeea a valuable aid to the Brazilian Government over since 1892, when the first symptoms of the rebellion were manifested in the southern provinces, but if P«ixoto had 1 ersisted in main­ taining t.n unrelenting and vindictive attitude, that measure of support was certain be withdrawn Surround the City Hall. Thursday was an exciting day in Denver. From 2 o'clock in the after­ noon until 9 o'clock in the evening the First Regiment, Colorado National Guards, the Chaffee Light Artillery, »nd the Signal Corps were drawn up in front of the City Hall. A big brass "Napoleon" and two Gatling guns were trained upon the building, and the or­ der to fire was momentarily expected. The people of Denver awoke Thurs­ day morning to find therr selves under martial law. The Governor of Colo­ rado had late Wednesday evening sum­ moned the State troops mentioned above to assemble at their armory, Twenty-sixth and Curtis streets, at 10 Q'clock a. m. Thursday. The Governor's orders did not, of course, specify what the troops were wanted for, and the venerable, but pug- ^ nacious, executive r e f u s e d f l a t l y t o talk, but of course the vi^hole town knew. This critical s i t u a t i o n w a s brought about by the determination of Gov. Waite to oust the two mem­ bers of the fire and police board, Jack­ son Orr and D. J. Martin, whom he re­ moved for protecting gambling houses, and place in office their successors, S. D. Barnes and Dennis Mullins. Messrs. Orr and Martin, having obtained from the District Gourt an injunction re­ straining Gov. Waile from forcibly re­ moving them, were determined to re­ sist to the utmost Prepare lor Battle. The order for the troops to move was given at 2 o'clock. All the men were attired in fatigue uniform, and the artillerymen looked especially war­ like in their slouch hats and tightly fitting suits. There was an average of twenty men to a gun, and each of these weapons of death had four horses at­ tached to it. At the city hall the whole police department was rapidly collected and prepared to defend the old fire and police board. In addition several hundred of the toughest citizens, many of whom have records as man killers, were sworn in as depu­ ties by Sheriff Burchinall and placed in the city hall as a re-enforcement of the police department. Each deputy was armed with two six-shooters and instructed to use them in case of ne­ cessity. The police were armed with shotguns in addition to their clubs and revolvers. Chief Pearse of the fire department made early arrangements to assist in the battle, and hij mode of warfare, while of a peculiar nature, was decided upon as the first method of action for the defense of the city hall. Lines of hose were arranged throughout the building ready to be attached to the fire hydrants in order to greet the advance guard of the op­ posing forces with streams of water, to be given additional force by the use of the steam engines in the central station. Should the streams of water prove unavailing in protecting the hall from the invading forces the men were so stationed as to open fire from behind the walls of the city building. The militia weie drawn up in line of battle. The Gatling gurs were turned on the city hall. The police force was drawn up on the main floor of the city hall, armed with rifles and shotguns, ready for action. Gen. Brooks, com­ manding officer, delivered to Police Lieutenant Clay, in command outside of the city hall, a message to the effect that if the removed police commis­ sioners did not vacate within half an hour the office wou d be taken by force. Orr and Martin refused to surrender. Then a long series of fruitless parley­ ing began between the attorneys for the opposing factions. The Governor remained closeted in his private rooms at Douglas place all day, guarded by fourteen trusty militiamen. A Trace Arranged. The Chamber of Commerce took a hand in the overtures for peace and made Beveral propositions to the Gov­ ernor and the rival Police Board. Finally the Governor agreed to with­ draw the troops and jeave the old board in possession for a few days, if they would agree to submit the case at once to the Supreme Court on its mer­ its. This proposition was promptly refused by Messrs. Orr and Martin, the de facto board. Bloodshed now seemed inevitable. The American flag was at this point displayed out of the window of the Board of Trade. The crowd outside cheered wildly. They won't dare fire on the flag," somebody shouted. More cheering. Suddenly an order from the Governor came, stopping all hostilities for two hours. The reason soon became plain. Gov. Waite had been communicating with the War Department at Washing­ ton, and had secured orders for the regulars at Fort Logan to proceed to Denver end assist in keeping the peace. They arrived by special train at 8:15 p. m., and went into camp 600 strong on the Union depot platform, awaiting orders from Brig. Gen. Mc- Cook, commanding the Department of the Colorado. Gen. McC'ook had a conference with the Governor, and then, about 9 p m., the force of State militia that had been stationed around the City Hall received marching or­ ders, went to the armory, and there disbanded, subject to call, the men go­ ing to their homes. The Governor was afraid that if firing was begun in the darkness eome non-combatants might be shot and a general fiot be precipitated. RESTORATION or FHttAMOER HYDE FROM PARALYSIS. It Was a Biff Gold Year. The world's production of gold for 1893 was perhaps $148,(XX),000, divided as follows: United States, $35,000,000; Australia, $35,000,000: South Africa, $30,000,000; Russia, $25,<i0(>,000; India, $4,000,000; China, 000.000; and other countries $16,000,00J. This is an in­ crease of more than $17,000,000 over the figures of the director of the mint, and $10,000,OX) over our figures for 1892. The probabilities are that even this estimate is too low, as a much larger increase is expected in the United States and Australia; and from a semi-official source we learn that the bureau of the mint estimates the pro­ duction <51 gold for 1893 at $150,000,000. Russia's Women Physicians. It is reported that there are 700 women practicin-Ir medicine in the Russian empire, an I a new school of medicine has just been started in St. Petersburg, with a four years course of study. To the support of this school the state contributes annually 15,000 rubles, and from one to three years' service in the hospitals for women and children is expected of the students before they present themselves for ex­ amination. fielplees and Bed-Rld4ea--His Recovery from. This Pitiable Condition--A Re­ markable Narrative. /" [From the Syifc:u«e EtandardJ -' During the past few monthly tbtirfe have appeared in the columns of the Standard the particulars of a number of cures so remarkable as to justify the term miraculous. These cases were in­ vestigated and vouched for by tne Albany Journal, the Detroit News, Al­ bany Exptess, and other papers whose reputation is a guara.itee that the facts were as stated. Different schools of medicine and some of the brightest lights in the proles non had treated these cases, unsuccessiully; and their recovery later on, thereiore, and its means, have created a profound sensa­ tion througnout the country. The Standards has published the above accounts for what tuey were worth, and are happily able to supple­ ment same to-day by an equally strik­ ing case noar home. The case is over in Madison County, at Solsville, and the subject is Mr. fnilander Hyde,who told the reporter the lollowing: "I will be 70 in September. I was born in Brookfield. Madison County, where all my life was spent until re­ cently, wnen, becoming helpless, I came to live with my daughter here. My life occupation has been that of a farmer. I was always well and rugged until two years ago last winter, when I had the grip. When it left me I had a sensation of numbness in my legs, which gradually grew to be stiff at tne joint and very painful. I felt the stiff­ ness in my feet first, and the pain and the stillness extended to my knees and to my hip joints, and to the bowels and stomach, and prevented digestion. To move the bowels 1 was compelled to take great quantities of castor oil. "While I was in this condition, cold feelings would begin in my feet and streak up my legs to my back and would follow the whole length of my back bone. I could not sleep, I had no appetite, I became helpless. When in this condition I was treated by a num­ ber of prominent physicians. They did me no good. I toon became per­ fectly helpless and lost ail power of motion even in my bed." "The . physicians consulted pro­ nounced father s case creeping paraly­ sis," said Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, "and when we brought him home be had to be carried all the way in a bed. The doctors said they could only relieve the pain, and for the purpose he took a pint of whisky a day for three months, and morpnine in great quan­ tities. When ne began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills xor Pale Peo­ ple we stopped giving him morphine or any other medicine, ani cut off all stimulants. In ten days after father began taking the pills, he could get cut of bed and walk without assistance, and has continued to improve until now he walks about $he house and the streets by the aid of a cane only." Ye V said Mr. Hyde, "and the pain ha; gone out of my back and the numb­ ness out of my legs. I have no more chills, my digestion is good, and I have an excellent appetite." And then, after a pause, "But, ah, me, I am an old man; I have seen my be^t days, and cannot hope to recover my old vigor as a younger man might, but I am so thank­ ful to have the use of my limbs and to be relieved of those dreadful pains." Others in Solsville are taking Pink Pills, notably the mother of Abel Curtis, who is using them with satis­ factory effect for rheumatism, and Mrs. Lippitt, wife of ex-Senator Lippitt, is using them with mucb benefit for nervous debility. \ Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People contain in a condensed form all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, and that tired feeling re­ sulting from nervous prostration; all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in tne blood, sucb as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a spe­ cific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schnectady, N. Y,, and are sold onlv in boxes bearing the firm's trade-mark and wrapper at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and are never sold in bulk or by the dozen or hundred. Aluminum Used in Dressmaking. The French couturieros are some­ what in advance of the American dress­ maker in making aluminum perform its duty in the modern gown. They place in the bottom of the skirt, about two inches above the hem, a hoop of that metal, perfectly supple, ana, of course, extremely light. It is con­ cealed by a ribbon matching the color ->f the lining to the dress. It is the best material made up in this manner to use for the purpose of making the skirt hang well and gracefully, and its adoption is a tribute to the shrewdness of the foreign dressmaker.--New York Advertiser. Demanded Gold for His Cotton. A few days ago Mr. Cole Nail was asked by a big farmer in this county to go out and buy his cotton, which he nad not sold for three years. Mr. Nail went out, weighed and classified the cotton, which amounted to $14,000. Mr. Nail was about to write a check for that amount when the farmer said he would not accept anything but five- dollar gold pieces. Mr. Nail went to • the New South Savings Bank and got 2,800 five-dollar pieces and carried them to him, whereupon the farmer got out a jug and counted them into it for burial purposes.--Barnesville (Ga.) Journal. The Rhubarbs. The growing fashion of naming pri­ vate residences oalls to mind the story told by Kirk Munroe of a witty woman who lived in an old-fashioned, quiet New England town. She wrote a note in response to an invitation to tea, dated at "TJie Elms," or some such name, newly given by newcomers to the old' homestead they had just ac­ quired, and dated her reply from "The Rhubarbs." "For," as she said, "it would never do not to call our place by some distinctive name, and there's more rhubarb than anything else in our back yard."--Independent. Dark. There is a singular Story told of the year's production of pictures by the artists of Paris, doubtless by w'av of eatire of the way in which certain painters puil the wool over the eyes of the public. One artist, it is said, has covered a canvas with nothing whatever but a thick cloud of black paint, in which nothing whatever is distinguishable, and he proposes to exhibit the canvas under this title: "Night attack of negroes on our black troops in Dahomey!" % SENATE AND HOUSE 0P ItCPR* SENTATIVES* „* *" "• -V •<? Oar National law-Kaken and Wfeat-Tl»e) •'*.'» Are Doing for the Good of the Country-- Various Measures Propose*, WwiinO Acted Upon. Ill Dotage of Congress. Tbe Honte completed the consideration* o#"' the District of Columbia appropriation bill ... Saturday, and parsed it after defeating the final effort of Mr. de Armond to re­ duce tbe share of expenses of thef District to be . borne by the gene-^.--^ eral government The debate was devoid of all general Interest After anf unsuccessful effort on the part of Mr. f Payers, chairman of the appropriation committee, to reach an agreement as toi^^ the limit of the general debate on the sun­ dry civil appropriation bill, the House - adjourned. Tuesday In the House was devoted en- -* tirely to the consideration of a bill retat-*- V Ing to the extension or the time for allow-1 , , ing a street railroad company In Washing-' " ton to change Its syfetem of motive power.? The debate rapidly drifted iuto a discus* -* sioa of the merits of the cable and the underground electric system, and it; was boldly charged that the General Eiec- ' • trie and Westinghotue Companies, which held stock In almost all tbe overhead trolley lines, bad retained all the prom­ inent electric engineers iu the country and would not spare money to prevent a prac- :' tlcal demonstration of the feasibility of the -' underground electric road now in operation at Buda Pesth and for a short distance on the outskirts of Washington. To prevent this Mr. Wall proposed to restrict the motive system to be used by the Metro politan Road to underground electric. No ' -J conclusion was reached. In the Senate i-| Senator Gallinger presented an amend-* t ment Intended to be proposed by him to the tariff bill provid­ ing that the set shall become operative, so far as Importations from Canada are concerned, only by proclama­ tion of the President The proclamation in­ to be issued upon' conditions specified. Senator Peffer Introduced an independent tariff bill iu the Pen ate amending the Mc« Einley law In various particulars. His- j resolution for an Investigation as ttff"" whether Senators had been speculating io> Wall street was defeated in the Senate. The proceedings in the Senate Tuesday • were cf an extremely uninteresting char­ acter. Without the Intervention of any morning business, except the presentation of a few petitions and the introduction o|;? !i|| some unimportant bills, the Senate toolj ^ up the discussion of the seigniorage bill. ;|| Senators Stewart and Lindsay spoke in favor and Mr. Dolph sDoke In op+ /- position to it, holding that Its passazti/ -1 would destroy the existing equality be- tween gold and silver. Mr. Stewart wa& i unwilling to have the bill amended, for h<p," believed that to return It to the Hous4, ^ would be fatal to it Mr. Stewart delivered - $ a silver speech along the line of his well- known theories. No definite action war taken. The House began the considera­ tion of the bill making appropriations foi the sundry civil expenses of the Govern­ ment, and fair progress was made Only three amendments of any importance, were adopted, one appropriating $43,504 . ; for lighting Hay Lake Channel, an- other of 164.000 for the public] building at Buffalo, and another ol 8H0.000 for repairing the postoffice at Nen York. The latter was fought by the Ap­ propriation Committee. The only othei amendment of importance was one made by Morse (Rep, Mass.) to cut off the ap- propriatlon for the Interstate Commerce Commission. This amendment was over­ whelmingly defeated. Tho Senatd spent considerable time on the seigniorage bill Wednesday, and In executive session confirmed the nomlna* T:j tlon of J. Marshull Wrlglit as naval office? ";| at Philadelphia, but reserve 1 the right to joa reconsider if found desirable. Tn tbe House fortv pages of the sundry civil bill | •were dlsnosed. of. making in all eighty** J| three in two days, aud ldftving only sixteen pages more, exclusive of two paragraphs, | those relating to the coast and geodetic- | surveys and tho Missouri River Comrnist 1 sion. which were passed over temporarily!; '-{M No amendments of importance were adopt- ed, although the Northwestern members ^ made a vigorous effort to increase the J amount for the survey of public lards*' a The appropriation for the geological sur» vev, which usually encounters bitter oppo* l sitlon. passed unchallensed, the amount ' ; ̂ appropriated being S414.000. • The selgnorage bill passed the Senate : l Thursday by a vote of 45 to 31, after Interesting debate. The Senate then took v| up nnd passed the bill to amend an act au- , Jj tliorlzlng the construction of a high wagon - i bridge over the Missouri River at Sioux City, g A charter was also granted the Iowa and 3 Nebraska Pontoon Brldgfe Company au- thorizlng it to build .-i bridge across the Missouri River near Sioux City. After an - " executive session of thirty- Ifore minute# the Senate Dassed a bill granting to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company * a right of way through the Chip­ pewa and While Earth Indian res» ervatlons In Minnesota. Bills to ex­ tend the time for completing a bridge across the Missouri River between Kansas City and the town of Sibley. Ma, and granting right of way to the Duluth and! Manitoba Railway Company across the Fort Pembina reservation in North Dakota^, were passed. Ip tho House the bill to- ratify the reservation of certain lands ii| Oklahoma for the Agricultural College passed. Consideration of the sundry civil. bill was resumed. Iu the House Friday morning after the passage of a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the 'J reasury for Information as to measures taken by him for local supervision and inspection of pah- 11c buildings the House went Into committee of the whole and re­ sumed consideration of the sundry civil bllL An amendment offered by Mr. Loud, directing the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to survey San Fran­ cisco harbor and approaches thereto, was adopted. To the paragraph appropriating $750,000 for expenditure by the Missouri River Commission Mr. Broderick offered an^amendment setting aside $75,000 of the appropriation to strengthen and improve the river bank* at Atehison and Leaven­ worth. Mr. Mercer offered a substitute for the amendment, belnst to set aside $150,000 of the appropriation for the Missouri River, providing that it should be used for the construction, repair. and main­ tenance of revetments between the mouth of the Platte River and Sioux City. He insisted that the commission should be made to understand that there was some- thin? besides the sixteen-mije reach at Jefferson City which needed attention. Tbe river between Omnlia and Council Bluffs should be looked after. Trucks. A scheme is broached in Germany of employing electricity to move heavy trucks and drays. This is merely a development of the electric carriage idea, which has been successfully used in that country for several years, . . Facts. %"t CO-OPERATIVE agriculture thrives in France. MANCHESTER, Va., uses tramps in chain gangs. SYRACUSE students have human bone cane handles. OVER 90 per cent, of Tennessee labor is native born. GALVESTON handles every year <00,- 000 bales of cotton. THE city of Caracas, Venezuela, had a population of 50,000 in 1810 and 70,000 in 1891. THE Philadelphia Board of Health has refused to declare consumption a contagious disease. SINCE 1840 the world's production of meat has increased 57 per cent, that of grain 420 per cent. IN China the edible dogs are known by their bluish-black tongues. They never bark, and are very taciturn. Four millions and a half are slaugh­ tered annually. To ASCERRAIN roughly the length of the day and night at any time ot the year, double the time of the sun's ris­ ing, which gives the length of the i night, and double the time of setting, which gives the length of the cb^.' iM