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THE PLAI?s DEALER j. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY. ILLINOIS THREE AT THE GATE. TERRITORIES WOULD COME IN­ TO THE UNION. Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico the Latest Applicants--The Euro­ pean Situation--Debauch in a Massa­ chusetts Town Results Fatally. Want to Be States. The three territorial delegates---Messrs. Fiynn of,Oklahoma, Murphy of Arizona and Catron of New Mexico--are waging a vigorous campaign in Congress • to se­ cure favorable action upon their bills for the admission of the territories represent­ ed by them to statehood. Each delegate considers the achievement of statehood the: chief mission of his congressional ca­ rreer and his energies are bent upon se- . c!B^ngltu.v.^e;y'.are\:anxious to have the balls before the., territories committee re­ ported to the House and disposed of;in aotrie way,' arid having made a canvass-of the -committee, believe, that more than ' two-thirds of its members will vote for fa­ vorable reports. ' The bills for the admis- reion of Arizona and -New Mexico before /this Congress tirO enabling acts, modeied- npon the act by which Utah was elevated to.'statehood,.' with "certain modifications • demanded by local 'conditions.. Arizona's bill stipulates for immediate stateho^a on a constitution which has already been formed by the people, but there is doubt concerning the legal standing of the con­ vention. Mr. piynn's new Oklahoma bill differs from the former one in giving au­ thority to Congress to attach any or all of the Indian territory to Oklahoma when the lands have been allotted and made subject to taxation. Ex-Go v. Murphy, of Arizbna, who is now the territorial dele­ gate. says he finds a strong sentiment for the abolition of the territorial sys­ tem, but there is much opposition to the admission of Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma, on fihe part of Western mem­ bers who object to increasing the free- eilver strength of the Senate. Result of a Drunk. In Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Lamoire, aged 53 years, was burned to death in her home, and her daughter-in-law, Annie Lamoire, • aged 28, was so terribly burned that she is lying at the point of death at the hospital. After the fire was put out the father and eon were found in a closet connected with the house, naked and almost unconscious from intoxication. Both were considera­ bly burned, but not dangerously so. The police say that a lamp was upset during some kind of a fracas, and that the in­ mates of the house were too drunk to put out the fire. : Conflicting War Rumors. Pres,s dispatches Saturday'bore strange­ ly contradictory news. One from Lon­ don was to the effect that England was determined upon war; that the Transvaal prisoners were to be held by the Boers as ihngt-nges; nnrl f|vat Parliament was iQ-he. summoned to declare war." Another from London asserts that the Queen is in re­ ceipt of an autograph letter from the Ger­ man Emperor, who declares he has no wish nor intention to engage in war. ate • criminal as some people make him out to be. «"fie would be more successful if hewouldleave drink alone, but it al­ ways "downs him," said the big detective, "'.the story of his forcing a bank cashier in Denver, Colo., to sign and then cash i a check for $10,000 is all bosh." Jones stole. $500 in silver from John West in the'West Hotel, Minneapolis, a few years ago, with "Kid" Harris for a helper. Tn August, 1S70, Jones was with the ("Jim­ my" Carroll gang that robbed the Farm­ ers' and Mechanics' Bank of Galesburg of $120,000: Carroll was captured by the sheriff, but the gang waylaid the sheriff at East St. Louis, and after giving him a terrible beating rescued Carroll .Tones or. Oct. 2. 1891, was arrested with four other well-known bank sneaks for robbin; a bank in St. Louis. He had escaped to Kansas City and'was arrested there,. Lie has served, seven years, in the prison at KniRstpcL^jOnf.. for a job-done in St. Thomas, and he has also beeji confined in St. Paul. .. _• " ' WESTERN. i V. United States Senator Caj.viii S. Brice has been renominated by the Ohio Demo­ cratic legislative caucus. The report, of, the expert submitted to the Omaha ^ty /Council shows that ex- City Treasurer , Hejiry Bolln's shortage exceeds $115;000; •. A warrant has been issued for the jar* rest of .Tames Parker, aged IS, a sou: of the Tate Thomas Parker, ex^Mayof of Lebanon, Ind., :'for alleged abduction'of Or a, the' pretty 12-year-old daughter -of Barton Goldsburr. Charles Webbs a resident of "Chicago since 1853, and a" lineal descendant of Robert 'Emmet, the Irish patriot, died Sunday .night. -, lli$ four daughters .and, two married sons wer£ at his bedside uUl>l each', received a parting word before the* pioneec.left this world. His wife died four years ago. ' An agent of W. S.- Stratton.v.of^&ipple Creek, arrived in Denver, Colo., with the object of disclosing a plan for cornering the Western gold product a yd compelling the Government to pay a premium to pro­ ducers, instead of giving the extra money to bond -buyers. Stratton thinks his scheme can be carried out if the produc­ ers unite and pool their output with a common agent in New York, with orders to sell to the highest bidder. The pro­ ject is still iu skeleton form, and needs a good deal of embellishment before sub­ mission to a syndicate of gold kings. If tli*e details are regarded as feasible the scheme will go through, for there is no doubt of it meeting with public approval. At 11 o'clock Saturday night two freight trains stood on a switch at Schooley's Station, seven miles east of Chillicothe, O. The first train pulled out, and the con­ ductor, thinking that the segond one would follow, left the switch open. Fifteen minutes later the east-bound express came along at forty miles an hour, and, run­ ning on to the switch, collided with the train standing there. Both trains were badly wrecked. The dead are: George Addis, lireman freight train; J. H. Cox, lireiuan express train; Jesse King, brake- man; Thomas Michaels, engineer of ex­ press train; Leon Mathers, fireman. The injured: J. E. Edigton, postal clerk; ---- Fitzsimmons, engineer; .T. D. Murphy, postal clerk. ( ouductor^Totn Brown of the express had to walk two miles to tel­ ephone the news to the city. Conductor Hendershot of the freight is responsible for the wreck, as he left the switch open. The passengers-in t)v» cypress worf-bft-dfy- at his majority, his father being only eh- "RAXm f! AT,T, Tft TSSTTRT) titled to the income, of- the capital sum. Will/ VAiJlJ IP XOp-U Xil/. Berlin dispatch: At a special audience" * !_.• \vhich Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of ' State of the Transvjnhi, had with Em~-1 LONG-EXPECTED ACTION TAKEN peror William Tuesday his majesty de­ clared that he would, not recognize arty claim of suzerainty over the Transvaal. Great Britain by the treaty of 1&S4 claims suzerainty over the Transvaal Republic. A semi-official denial was-issued of the statement from Cape Town, contained in a dispatch from* the Times, of London, that Dr. W% J. Leyds, the Secretary- of State for the Transvaal,-with- a seejwf n .•% i LSm 1... ,1 i] /s .. i'M.l ift'/irtllnVn'n BY CARLISLE. Sealed Bids to Be Received at Hig Office Feb. B--Interest Fixed at 4 per Cent. --New Securities to Beai- the Date »f-Feb. I, 1395. tiers into the Transvaal. Alnount^s $100,000,000. Speculation concerning the amount and '* • character of the new bond issue was set at rest when Secretary Carlisle made "The Spanish authorities confess1 a circular on the subject. The loan grave conflitian of affairs by proclaiming a . 5 one> ancl the eircular martial law for the provinces of Havana iVlv1* , ̂ e' ^nvermnent w .and. Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Maximo Go- - j Bel! $100,000,000 thirty-year 4 per cent- mez has decla-ied his purpose to- pene- or registered bonds dated Feb. 1, U-'/ite into the province of Pinar deb Rio. . ' , ' *v"iph purchasers will be re- Although his forces have not. reached the ^uirea to pay in gold coin or gold certifi borders ofthat province, the action of the i dltes.^ This is the first issue by the pres- authorlties-is -understood to indicate they , °at administration of such a large amount have no ifiopes of preveutiug him from j bonifs at one time, all the previous Js- carrying out his threat. The insurgents sites having been for $50,000,000 each, are apparently making a swift advance ! The circular also contains an intimation directly upon Havana. The advance guard , a possible further issue of bonds should of their cavalry, undj?.r Gen.-Lacret, was ' the issue or. safe of an additional or. dif- a,t. latest .accounts at Lapaste. which is Jferent form of bond for the maintenance only eigiiTciyi milesiftom Guanaliacba,' the f>f the'gold reserve be authorized by the latter being but a suburb.of Havana'. j law-before Feb. 5. The circular is'.as fol- • 'That the bitter anti-American uttor- ! lovirs: •; . • - .••••••..• ; ' '• ances- of .the Londori Times , and other "Treasury Department., Office of ' the; hewspajjersv'of ,that city in connection j Secretary, Washington. D. G-s^-Notice is. with the Yeft&fcUeTan complication, which j hereby given that sealed proposals will.be have been sojavishiy. cabled to this coun- ' i-received at the office: of the Secretary of tr.Vi 'do not-represent the teal senHtnents hthe Treasury, at" Washington, D. C./until ie wa|e ..Wow&tsf • 12 o'clock m. .on Wednesday,-the 5th dav UT^H IS NOW A STATE. Elaborate1 tcrcmonies Celebratinc Ad» .mission to th<j Union. . . After years of trials and tribulations of various kinds, Utah emerges from her swaddling clothes and becomes a nejv member of the great gtllkxy of "the States in the Union, to be represented by a forty- fifth' star upon the national flag. The formal celebration of the event and the inauguration of .the State officers took place Monday in Salt Lake City. On re­ ceipt of the news that the President's proclamation had been issued, guns were fired and the citizens gave themselves over to a season of jollification. Monday was a /jfiicral holiday. iyid thousands of peo­ ple from all over the new State joined with the citizens of Salt Lake in celebrat­ ing the close of Utah's forty years of probation. . . The inaugural exercises proper began at 8 o'clock, when the cannon at Fort Doug, lass, the guns of the First Regiment, Of the grb'at mass of. the arid toiiej's of t li e mot her. cou n f, Missouri Bank Robbed. Eight masked men dynamited the safe of the Farmers' Bank at Verona, Mo., and escaped with §9,000 in cash, all it contained. The robbers are supposed to ^be professionals. They entered the city on horseback, secured Night Watchman Hoover and bound him to a tree across the street. They then easily forced the frowt doors of the bank and in a short time ineraliy -blew the vault and safe to pieces with dynamite. < /-:.-,,New Gold Fields. Great, excitement prevails at Boulder, Colo., over the new gold fields situated between South Boulder creek and Mag- faolia, and there are rumors of riches be­ ing uncovered J»y. prospectors in holes not over five feet deep; One strike is alleged tO:be worth $100,000. and an offer of this amount is said to have been made and re­ fused. NEWS NUGGETS.' The pension bill reported to Congress carries an appropriation of $141,325,820. A large unknown steamship,.•is- ashore on the Drumhead rocks, near Canso, N. S. Secretary Lamont has practically decid- ed to locate the, P.uget Sound army post authorized by the last Congress at Mag­ nolia Bluffs, near Seattle. - Joseph We, Eritze, aged 32 years, elec­ trician for the Francis Wilson Company, playing in Philadelphia, committed sui­ cide by shooting himself through the heart. * The British tank steamer, with a crew of thirty men, which sailed from Philadel­ phia on Dec. 11, with 1,173,026 gallons of oil, for Rouen, France, is'believed to have blown up or foundered at sea. . At New York, Judge. La combe granted a motion to dismiss the suit brought by the Prescott and A.rizona Central Rail­ road against the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for $8,250,000 daiu- ages. The' Fayette, O., Bank was entered Tuesday night by burglars and $43,700 in money and about $4,000 in bonds talc en. There is no clew to the perpetrators. The bank was insured in the Bankers' Fidelity and Casualty Company, New iYork, A letter from Caracas. Venezuela, to the London Times savs it is evident that it is the present intention of President Crespo not to give any satisfaction for the jUruan incident, and that he is determined to combine the I'ruan arid frontier ques­ tions, regarding them as one dispute. , Thomas Parkinson, who cut his wife's throat in Chicago on Nov. 1. gave himself up to the police at Detroit. He has become a convert and joined the Salvation army. The liabilities of De. Neufvill & Co., brokers, who recently failed at New York, "are placed at $737,000. The face value of the assets is $1,329,995, but the mar­ ket quotations reduce them to $332,447. New Yorkers have subscribed $43,750 to secure the national Democratic con­ vention. " Little Rock municipal authorities refuse to allow Col. Ingerspll to lecture in that city on Sunday. shaken up, but none were seriously in­ jured . The statehood convention opened at Oklahoma City. O. T.. Wednesday morn­ ing. more largely attended than any of its predecessors. An influential committee was appointed to open headquarters in Washington for the purpose of securing an enabling act during the present session of the Fifty-fourth Congress. The com­ mittee was instructed to use every possi­ ble effort to that end, on the,ground that unless action is taken at the present ses­ sion it may be at least three years before the people of Oklahoma can enjoy the great boon of statehood. A draft of the memorial to Congress, which was sub­ mitted to the convention, contains, anaong others, the following arguments: "We have a population of nearly thro*! hun­ dred thousand people. We have wealth sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of a State government. We are an intelli­ gent, industrious, progressive, patriotic people. We have better homes, a better system of public schools and in many oth­ er respects arc far iu advance, of many of the ,States that were admitted into this Union more' than a score of years ago. We have reduced the l'eipile aVres of Ok­ lahoma from the state of nature to a high state of'civilization. We have laid o\it and constructed highways. We have buildeil cities and towns, school houses and churches. .That we have accomplish­ ed all, this in spite of the wrong-doings and numberless privations which because of unfriendly legislation we have been forced to undergo proves beyond question our capacity for self-government." d'antly demonstrated by, 'editorial, 'utter­ ances of the weekly press in line with- that element. In England,,as in no other country:, the working-dass organs reflect rather than :di'ctate the views and ideas ofrtixeir constituencies, and hence their expressions of opinion may be accepted as those pf the great army of wage work­ ers" into whose homes- they enter. Rey­ nolds' Newspaper, the great radical organ, which goes every Saturday and Sunday into more than a million families, says: "We are bound to say that, in insisting on arbitration in this case. President Cleveland is right: and in objecting to it Lord Salisbury vis wrong. It is not the question whether the Venezuelan govern­ ment did or did not decline certain arbi­ trations about other territories in the past; it is a question of what: is right and poli­ tic now. We should' not refuse arbitra­ tion with Germany, or the United States itself. Why pouncefon this weak and helpless state and hold up, so to speak, a revolver .at her. throatV If numbers of Englishmen, jts we are tohl. have'settled on disputed territory, that is their affair, not ours. They went, with their eyes open, for gold, and it is not our business to protect every marauding Englishman who wants to line his pockets and bring his gold and his vulgarity with him to London. We say again, let this matter be submit­ ted to arbitration, and if the territory is really British it will be awarded to Great Britain. And we further say that heavy will be the responsibility of the British prime minister if he declines to arbitrate. England is unpopular enough, we might almost say detested enough, in most^parts of the world as it is.- We have not an ally in Europe, save bankrupt Italy, and our press still chooses to treat France and Itussia, as hostile. If. whi'r our hands are so full in the East, we deliberately stir up .animosity in the West also, we shall be . encircled by an army of powerful foes and find ourselves check­ mated everywhere. Is this the object for which the British electors put Lord Salis­ bury in power last July'.-" •is'abittirf.of Eebruary,'„1890, for; the; purchase one hundred;million dollars ($100,000,000) or United States 4 fier,cont coupon 01; reg- istered bpnds • in denominations of • fifty dollars ($50). and multiples of that sum, as may be desired by bidders. "The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. "The bonds will be dated on the 1st day of February, 1895, and be payable in coin thirty years after that date, and will bear interest at 4 per centum per annum, pay­ able quarterly in coin, but all'eoupons ma­ turing oh and before the 1st day of Feb- THE GREAT .TAfifeBlJ'* Utah National'.Guard, every whistle in the State and ail the other instruments, of noise #vailabl?' .heralded the beginnirig of the "day's festivities. " The parade form­ ed at II o'clock, ledby the Sixteenth Reg­ iment-, United States Infantry,"500-strong, and its bands. Following .came the Car­ riages containing the State officials and invited guests, with the Utah National Guard, the Grand Army veterans and all the civic societies of the city as an escort. The Exercises at the tabernacle were j very simple. They opened with music by the band from Fort Douglass, then a prayer by Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church; "The Star-Span- HIS IS A SOFT SNAP. HOW THE AVERAGE MEMBER OF CONGRESS KILLS TIME. A Pen Picture of His Dnily, Life in - Washington--Tells Stories, and Xs an All-Around "Goo:l Fellow"'--•His , Secretary Works. -•-- J»"'_ BATTLEFIELD OF BULL RUN. it E-OUIt THE HISTORIC GROUND SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE. EASTERN. The employes of W. J. Rainey, the Scottdale, Pa., coke operator, met at New Haven, and adopted resolutions de­ manding an advance in wages equal to that recently given by the Friek Coke Company, and threatening to strike if tb^ir demands are refused. The foreign workmen are eager for a .strike, but the English-speaking workmen are more,.con­ servative. ' Watt Jones, alias Robert Montague, alias Stetson, alias Comstock," a well- known bank thief, was arrested Monday in New York city. William Pinkerton, of Chicago, says that Jones is not so desper- WASHINGTON. - Speculation concerning the amount and character of the new bond issue was set at rest Monday when Secretary Carlisle made public a circular.on the subject. The loan will be a "popular" one, and the circular gives notice that the Government will sell, $'100,000,000 thirty-year 4 pet- cent coupon or registered bonds dated Feb. 1. 1S95. for which purchasers will be required to pay in gold coin or gold certifi­ cates. The President on Saturday issued his proclamation in conformity with the act of Congress, stating that the people of Utah have complied with all of the re­ quirements of the law providing for the admission of Utah to the Union, and de­ claring that the territory has passed out of existence and that Utah is admitted to the family of States. The people of Utah showed an intense interest in every step made at Washington, and Private Secre­ tary Tluirber _was importuned to tele­ graph immediately to Salt Lake the fi-'st news of the signing of the proclamation, and to preserve as a valuable historical relic the pen with which President Cleve­ land affixed his signature to the document. Congressman Fletcher (Minnesota) intro­ duced a resolution to recognize the bel­ ligerency of the Cuban insurgents and Congressman Woodman oi Illinois intro­ duced in the House the following: "Whereas, The republic of Cuba has, by its enterprise and ability in statesman­ ship and arms, secured the control of the greater portion of the territory of the island; and, Whereas, The armies of the republic of Cuba are now within .sight of the capital city, the former government of the island and the.great majority of the entire population do accord allegiance to the newly formed republic; therefoFe,~be it Resolved, That the Committee on For­ eign Affairs be requested to make an early report on resolutions heretofore referred to said committee touching on the affairs of the Cuban republic and its proposed or existing rights as a civilized nation." FOREIGN, In view of the numerous misstatements which have been rnide with reference to the improvements a?. Blenheim Castle, the home of the Duke -?f Marlborough, the duke-authorizes the publication of the re­ port ..of-the chartered accountant, show­ ing that the entire improvements were paid o,ut of the proce?ds of the sale of,the Sunderland library, snd the portion of the Blenheim pictures, enamels and china, to which the present duke became entitled IN GENERAL It. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The commercial failures during the complete year 1S!)5 number K5,H>7. against 1M.SS5 in 1S04, but the aggregate of liabilities is slightly greater, $17o,i00.000, against $172,092,850, so •that the average per failure is $13,121, against $l£i45S in 1804. The bright prom­ ise offered by a large decrease in the first quarter was followed by a small increase in the second and third quarters and a large increase iu the last quarter of the year.' In that quarter also the deferred liabilities to each firm in business increas-,. ed. and also .the proportion of deferred liabilities to payments through clearing houses." Gen. Duffield, chief of the coast and geodetic survey, does not hesitate to ex­ press the opinion that there can be no seri­ ous dispute between the United States and Canada over the Alaskan boundary. He saidt "The line is as plain from the treaty as if it had bcen recorded by deed and map." Geo. Duffield is confident that the British can find no grqunds upon which to base a claim to the gold fields of the Yukon river, since a British en­ gineer. Ogleby, in 1803, after careful ob­ servations. marked the banks of the Yu­ kon and Forty-Mile Creek where these streams are crossed by the 141st meri­ dian and his marks were verified by the United States survey. The only possi­ ble ground for contention which Gen. Duffield foresees is furnished by that phrase of the Russian-British treaty that at no point shall the boundary be more than ten marine leagues from the shore. The United States Government interprets this to mean continental leagues, while Great Britain might .contend that ten leagues from the island short® was con­ templated. M A R K E T R E P O R T S . Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to.choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 58c; corn. No. 2, 2tie to '27c; oats. No. 2, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2. 34c to 35c; butter, choice creamery. 23c to 25c: eg^s, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, $20 to $45 per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis--Uattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common'to prime. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. (J3c to 04c; corn. No. 1 white, 2Ge to 27<-; oats, No. 2 wliite, 20 to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle. !?.">.00 to $5.00: hoes. $3.00 to $4.0(1; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 07c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white. 10c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 32c to 34c. * Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to S4.00-. wheat, No. 2, 07c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20'c to 21c; rye. No. 2, ,30c to 40c. r Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep.' $2.00 to '$3.75: wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 07c; Corn, No. 2 yellow. 28c to <X)c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 236; rye, 37c to 38c.' Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 20c; oats, Noj 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 37c to 30c; • clover seed, $4.40 to $4.50; Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 3, 25c to 2?c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 1, 30c to 37c; pork, mess, $0.25 to $9.75. Buffalo^--Cattle, $2.50 tS $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red,1 71c jo -73c; corn, No. 2 yellow,'33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, •$3.00 to $4.50;, sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 White, 24c-to 25c; •butter, efemiery, 17c to 26c; eggs, West­ ern, 22c to 26c. • The historic Yorkshire estate, situated on Bull Run, ,the first battlefield of the war, was recently sold at public auction at Fairfax, court house, Virginia. Six hundred acres in all, situated on both sides of Bull Run, in Prince William and Fairfax Counties, were sold. The land lying on the Prince William side brought on an average $6 an acre, the other about $3. The prict'S ranged from $3 to $25. The part of the battlefield on the Prince William side was sold to Dr. C. M. Ben­ nett, of Washington. .His name does not appear in the Washington ..directory and he is not known to real estate men. The remainder of the estate was sold to differ­ ent individuals. Nobody has any idea for what purpose it w;p bought. The land has been in litigation for many years, and this sale was made by- order of the court. Three years ago there was a spasmodic attempt to buy it for purposes of a park. The Dai'y Grinds Washington conespondence: .• UiE work of the av­ erage member of •Congress is very light this session- Only the leaders have the slightest, prospect' of hard work before them. Most of the commit­ tees will/have noth­ ing to do'. The Gom- .mittee on Ways and Means, which is us­ ually hard worked, has' finished its fa-' bors, as far. as any f Mone can see, raid can i| II i. look eompiaeeii.tiy upon the .future; The committees on elections have a great deal to do, .but the work is divided tq>,: and; it ,is expeete'd that -all .will be soon oVer with. The Appropriations.•.-Committee""'.tfaa .its usual work, and those other cpmuTittc'.vs 'having, appropriation bills cannot, enjoy immunity from labor, but beyond that there is hardly any work in sight that- the committee will have to do.., unless, to get campaign' material, they take up investi­ gations, Bills are "numerous enough, but very few-of them demand attention, or a're likely to receive any. Upon two or three •members on the Democratic side and half a dozen or so on the Republican side will fall the labor of looking out for party politics. The average member of the House has ample time to think over his own affairs, or to study and prepare himself for a career, or to devote to theater going and pleasure. He does not have to get to the Capitol much before 12 o'clock, unless he happens to have been assigned to one of the few working committees, and lie" does not always have to go to the Capitol at aid. The average man breakfasts about 9 o'clock. Half an hour before this his morning's, mail is brought around. It will consist of maybe half a dozen news­ papers, a lot of pamphlets, tracts and ad­ vertisements, and from ten to twenty-five letters. - All the newspapers except the local paper of his own home goes into flae. waste basket promptly. These are followed by the pamphlets and advertise­ ments, and finally by some of the fetters. Vlost of the latter have to be answered. iiSorne of them require something to be ••ooked up at the departments or else­ where, and involve work before they can •»e answered. Generally the reply can be made at once in a line and all of the writ­ ing is done by the Congressman's stenog- yapher, provided at Government expense. J^fter the letters are se.en to, the mem­ ber reads his home paper and looks over the principal features of one of the Wash­ ington papers, and then sets out for the ^lay. If he has a committee meeting at ^t&e-OapitoI, all this morning-uoik vv ill be Shortened and much of it postponed until later iu the day. If there is no meeting of this sort demanding his attention, the ijour of his arrival at the Capitol is regu­ lated largely by his fondness for being ii?en in his seat, or for" mingling in the gossip ante-session assemblage. inent he. either gets another ma;! at the postofiice or it is delivered at his lodg­ ings,; and this again demands his atten­ tion. All told, he, may have a uozdn let­ ters during the day, or.he jnay have fifty. The lighter mail of the afternoon he may Jispose ,of before dinner or he may let it gif' over until morning. Afterrl!iitier .IFis~ a call, the theater, visitors, an evening in the parlor with the ladies, a loaf in the hotel corridors, or a hunt through, volumes in preparation of a speech held in contem­ plation, to be delivered at sonic time* ac­ cording- to sentiment., and circumstances. The theaters and the hotel lobbies are the- OKTTIXG TJIE MAI1., most common places of resort pi tiuveVen- ing". . ••, •• " - ••'• ••••: >. : . THE G. A. R.. CITY. ' Veterans of the War Founding Town 1j^.Southern Georgia;, Many veterans of the (irand.-.V ;;uy of the Republic are again "marching -f) rough Georgia," says an Atlanta corre.<q-.judent. This time they are coining on a ^aceful mission, and are coming to stay. They have started in to build a city in the southern part of-the State. Thy.y-tive thousand acres of tine rolling la-, 1 have been purchased and Options havr been secured 'on 65,000 more. The .(* .-opera­ tive colony, for su'^h it 11 be, U located in Irwin County, oii-*groinvi made historic by the capture of Jeffirsi. i Davis after tlie fall of Richmond. Tb"> colony now has a population of 3,000 w^c-ii it is believed will increase to 25,00. i.efore the close of the year. A town site has been laid off 1,000 acres. The streets are be ed, sewers put in, and a water being provided by a system of wells. It was not intended fot tiers to go in until after the iiiv; 'o'f tlie year or along toward spring, jut the "sooners" could HOt be'held bacl . How­ ever, upon their arrival they cor­ ralled in one corner of the reservation and given permission to put up any t,.T*p<>rary buildings they pleased. Hur, -i-vds of shacks made of rough pitit- boa. in; have been nailed together, and the iu; are roughing it. But they ar< tented and believe thoroughly i j lure of their experiment. The idea of a Grand Army copay was started by Philip Fitzgerald, ,i j^ension attorney and capitalist of Indi-.napolis. He says that he found the olo vsoldiers complaining of tiie cold in .vint .r, TI19 exposure of their campaigns is t iling on hem in their old age and tiiev c:mrmf- ;over,tjg grad- ypply is jrfesian die set- i igrants Ij'i coil- vile fu- ruary, 1896, will be detached and pur­ chasers will be required to pay in Uii'ted State" gold coin or gold certificates for the bonds awarded them, and all interest accrued thereon after the 1st day of Feb­ ruary, 1806, up to the time of application ror delivery. Payments for the bonds must be made at the treasury of the United States at W&'shingtori, D. O.-, or at the United States sub-treasuries'at New York, Bos­ ton^ Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Sf. Louis or New Orleans, or they may be made at San Francisco, with^ exchange on New York, and all bids must £tate what denominations of bonds are desired, and whether coupon or registered, md at what place they will be paid for. ' "Payments may be made by install­ ments, as follows: Twenty per cent upon receipt of notice of acceptance of bids and 20 per cent at the end of each ten days thereafter; but all accepted bid­ ders may pay the whole amount at the late of the first installment and all those who have paid all installments previousl maturing may pay the whole amount of their bids at any time, not later than t, maturity of the last installment. "The bonds will be ready for delivery on or before the 15th day of Februa 1896. "Notice is further hereby given that if the issue and sale of an additional or dif­ ferent form of bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve shall be authorized by law before the 5th day oi' February, 1896, sealed proposals for the purchase of such bonds will also be received at the same time and place, and up to the same date, and upon the same terms anj conditions herein set forth, aijd such bids will be con­ sidered as well as the bids for the 4 per cent bonds herein mentioned. ".T. G. CARLISLE, "Secretary of the Treasury." CORTE.GE CUT IN TWO. gled Banner" by the tabernacle choir, the reading of the President's proclamation, administration of the oath of office, Gov. Wells' inaugural address, "America" by the audience and the benediction. The Legislature was called in special Session at 2 p. ra. to fix a time for the regular session, the constitution failing to provide the time for convening regu- larlv. CUBANS IN CONTROL. St. Paul lixpresa Train Runs Down a Funeral Carriage in Chicago. Without a signal of warning, an express train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road cut through a funeral proces­ sion at the Paulina street crossing in Chicago. Five persons were buried un­ der the ruins of a mourning carriage, and two women were so badly injured that they may die. The occupants of two oth­ er carriages narrowly craped the same fate, the horses being pulled up within a few feet of the outbound train. Part of the funeral procession went on, the mourners being unconscious of the fact that some of their number had been near­ ly killed. Whether the flagman or the engineer of the passenger train was to blame was not learned. The flagman de-* dares he flagged the train, but the wit­ nesses of the accident tell another story. The engineer, the police say, was at. fault in not slowing up in response to the flag­ man's signal. Dr. Leonard Tucket, one of the oldest citizens of Elgin and a former resident of Chicago, who died at Elgin at the age of 76 years, possessed the press on which the first legal printing was done in Chicago. Its frame is 9x11. The press was brought from the East by the late Mr. Castle, of Elgin, who first took it to .Michigan City, Ind., then to Chicago, and afterward to St. Charles. A San Francisco' paper says the <Jov- ernmeht is preparing to prosecyte the conspirators who perjured themselves to aid .Tames Addison Peralta-Reavis in his mythical claim to 13,000,000 acres of land in New Mexico worth $75,000,000. Nearly every witness who testified in the ease- will be indicted. ' c Whole Island, Excepting the City of Havana, Is in Their Hands. In effect, the whole island of Cuba, out­ side of the city of Havana, is now in the hands of the insurgents. They have not annihilated tlie Spanish forces, nor have they routed the whole 'army in any single pitched, battle. Yet the situation is com­ pletely in their hands, and so completely have they outgeneraled the Spanish that, to all appearances, Martinez de Campos' army might as well be iu Spain for any -check it: puts upon the movements to and fro of Maximo Gomez's army. The bet­ ter's progress has been accompanied with continual accessions to his forces by vol­ unteers, and he has captured enough horses, rifles, and artillery to add im­ mensely to tlit effective strength of his men. He has practically carried his base of operation with him, and lias usually countermarched over a wholly different route from that of his advance, appar­ ently counting with confidence upon Irv­ ing upriti the country as he went. There is little doubt really felt in Ha­ vana that he will get as much or'more sympathy in Pinar del Rio than he did in Santa Clara and Matanzas, and the gen­ eral fear is now that, after sweeping over Pinar del Rio, he will, come upon Havana from the west, co-operating in an attack With the forces *of the insurgents which have been east of Havana for sev­ eral days past. The advance of Gomez beyond Batabano has cut the line of tele­ graph and cable* communication with the eastern part of . the island upon which Campos principally relied for directing his forces in Santiago de Cuba, Puerto Prin­ cipe and Santa Clara. Many hundreds of non-combatant in­ habitants of the island have gone to Ha­ vana to await the passing of the storm. Still more have sent their wives. and.fam- ilics there as, a safe refuge. This class of the population is in a 'state of utter consternation and dismay, and spreads .an infectious spirit of -panic through all other circles. The authorities no louger make the slightest concealment of the serious view they take of the situation, and there are some who do not hesitate to rail at the Spanish generals and the troops anjtoiake bitter orificialis of them. There hrtrPboon great, fear that the ligh^rand water sup­ ply of the city would be cut off by a suit- den raid of the insurgent forces. The idea of the city being left in total dark­ ness for the unseen working of plots and seditions is itself enough to work a panic in the nervous condition of the public mind. All possible recruits have been en­ listed for the defense of the city, and the available ground about, t no-city has been filled with batteries df artillery, whicn are manned night and day. At the Capitol. Whatever time he has to spare between Jiis arrival and the hour of prayer is de­ voted to gossip with his colleagues. Near i'lie elevator, by the basement entrance principally used, 'is the House postofiice. flere the member stops on his way to the ball of the 'House and gets his second morning mail; He may get from two to half a dozen Tetters. These he usually reads during the session of the Hoirse. If h^ did not have a clerk, he would have to answer them as he read them, but, as it now is, a notfe on the back will remind him of their contents, and he puts them away until he can get hold of his stenog­ rapher. If the member has any bills -he has been asked to introduce, or which he has ?iad liifj stenographer prepare for®Jiim, he hands them to one of the clerks at the desk or nuts them in the receptacle desic­ cated for bills at some time during the day. If. he has a bill or resolution he wants unanimous consent to have consid- KII.LIXG TIME IX TIIE CORtitDOIt. As the relatives were Viewing the re­ mains of Mrs. Andrew Merry, who was buried,, at ̂ Greenville, 111.,' her mother, Mrs; Daniel.Neyitiger, just after gazing upon her for the last time, stepped back and. sank "down iu a chair dead. There is very little, lyre that is worth the price pai(l for it. ^ . .. ored during the morning hour, he endea­ vors to see the speaker before the House meets, to arrange for recognition, and if he does not succeed in this he takes his place in the semi-circular spacg in front of the speaker's desk immediately after prayer, and, with bill held in the air, awaits the speaker's recognition, mean­ while making frantic efforts to catch that evasive orb, the speaker's eye. When the, recognition has been arranged beforehand, lie has but to stand in his place on the floor and address the speaker. During the session, after the morning hour, the mem­ ber seldom pays any attention 10 the reg­ ular proceedings unlpss they personally interest him. His time is then demanded between reading letters or the newspapers, look­ ing over the Congressional Record, dis­ cussing some question or exchanging gossip and stories with some of his col­ leagues, at his seat, in the cloak room or in the speaker's lobby ; receiving, visitors iy the lobbies, going to lunch arid making an occasional visit to »the,' other wing of the Capitol to stSe his Senator. If he is easily entertained. Land not given to talk­ ing, he may lean back in his chair most of the day, with his bauds folded, and lis­ ten in an abstracted, inattentive sort of way to what is going 011 about Sim, with­ out participating in it or fully realizing what it is. Sometimes, seized with a fit of industry or with the view of having his evening free,» hecmay retire to the speaker's-lobby or to a committee room, with his clerk, and finish off liis corre­ spondence. An occasional tr:p to the restaurant may. relieve, the monotony, or lie may saunter through the corridors, see­ ing the crowd and being seen, or he may sit for awhile with a visitor in .<vne of tho gallertesr Usually as much time is occu­ pied in going to the corridors i*j response to cards as in any other way. It is sel­ dom that" lie pays aiiy attention to the business of tj.ie House, except on Some special occasion, or when he his a direct interest in what is Up. After-adjoura- tanri what they once could in th» way of now and ice. There was a ver; preva­ lent wish among the .veterans foi"' home amid congenial neighbors in a iiild cli­ mate. So a co-operative colony \-.«s pro- j feted. Thus far the members of the cob^y rep­ resent a population of 54.000, iL.e most of which is expected to migrate south­ ward and .settle at and around Fitzgerald. It is a thoroughly organized movement, and has a great deal of significance not only for the South, but also for tho West. Many mechanics from Pullman, 111., have Joined the movement. They come for work and a home which they can get for very little money. The land costs only $3.50 an acre, and it is good land, too, covered with the long-leaf pine and the best fruit soil in the South: Sparks from the Wires. In the Church of Our Lady, Bruoklyn, there has been enthroned a sacred relic of St. Stephen, who was stoned to death on the day following the crucifixion. A. IT. Brownley, of London, Canada, was held up 011 the beach at Santa Moni­ ca, Cal„ and at the point of ,1 pistol forced to sign ten American Express Company's checks for $50 each. At Chicago executions aggregating $27,- 041 in favor of S. D. Kiinbark, thf Iro­ quois Furnace Company and J. .T. Park- hurst. were levied on the property of tiie Chicago Skein and Axle Compauy. Assistant Attorney General Newell of Illinois, in reply to the query, "Can a young man 20 years of age or utnier be"ox- aniined for and appointed a mine man­ ager'/" holds that he cannot. All such candidates must be legal citizens. There was a largely attended meeting, of Irish Nationalists at Wexford. .John Redmond addressed the meeting. Refer­ ence which he made to the British inva­ sion of the Transvaal brought forth foud and continued cheers for the Boers. James Newman aiid wife, aged between 60 and 70 years, were found in their homes near St. Paul, asphyxiated from coal gas. Both were dead. 'They had 110 children, but a brother of Mr. Newman is said to live in New York city and is wealthy. Comptroller Eckels will, in line with the policy pursued at Philadelphia and else­ where, when there' are two insolvent banks without conflicting interest's, ou Feb. 1, consolidate the receiverships of the Columbia and Chemical National Banks of Chicago. It has just been discovered that adul­ terated phenacetiue in the form of acet- anilid, which is a cheap drug worth 40 cents a pound, while phenacetiue is worth $1 an ounce,' has been brought into this country through the port of Niagara in large quantities. Resolutions have been cabled to New York as follows: "That the.Council of the London Chamber of Commerce heartily appreciates the pacific spirit of the New York Chamber of Commerce in the inter­ ests of peace, good will and trade, between kindred peoples." Custodian Clarke of the soldiers' monu­ ment at Indianapolis has resigned and it is reported that his retirement is due to his criticism of the recent work on the monument. It ,is said that Clarke declar­ ed that there were sand holes and'cracks in the bronze, and that these were filled with putty. Deputy Constable R. W. Barnett was cut twice in the abdomen and had his pantaloons slashed into ribbons by Prof. ,7. L. Green of the public schools at I-^e- dalia. Mo., during a quarrel over the expelling of- the 13-year-ohl son of the former for alleged cigarette smoking: A11 important order for the expedition of the mails across the Mexican border .has been issued by Assistant Postmaster General- Neilsou, providing for the first exchange of the mails of railway post- offices of the United States and Mexico. This does away w:ith the stopping of the mails at the postofiice of both'countries along the linte and effects a saving oLtwen* ty-four hours and more in some instilnces. The mail allowed to pass without inter­ ference is restricted to unregistered let­ ters; postal cards and periodical publica­ tions.