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I VAN Since, Ctfltor and PufcJUIw. lt«H*KRY, ILLINOIS. HADE IS IMPROVING. O U N T C O . REPORT A B E T T E R CONDITION. AroMa of » Bank President--Rice MtlMag* Or*anUe<l--Riotous ANaok on m Mlflmu Body--Aetloa of** ptnwoe Alliance. At Washington. Ik th« Senate on the 4th the pars food US! ni taken up. and Mr. Vent stated «t some length his position in regard to It and to such legislation in general. He appealed to the Senate to help enact the bill into law. Eulo* were delivered in respect to the memory of the lute Representative Lee, of Virginia, and the Senate adjourned till the 7th. The House Committee on Military Affairs completed consideration of the army Appropriation bill. The most important provision in the bill relates to payment for transportation over bond-aided railroads, ite total appropriation carried by the bill Is 124,2*5,049, which Is $367,8:50 less than the appropriation for the current iiscal year. ' The House Naval Affairs Committee prac- : ilcaliy completed the consideration of the naval appropriation bill. The bill in round .Svii..... nmitYtnriMjjMi S&i,000,00& A I1PW dry- 4ock at Aigiers, La., is provided for in the Mil, the ultimate cost of which will be more than $3,000,000. At the conclusion of ; the consideration of unimportant bills Greek .. met Greek in the House, and for the space ; of ivo minutes a parliamentary colloquy was Witnessed which in aptness of retort has ; isad mo precedent in the present sessio*. ; OB the flno sidfi wnc Spooto. Cr!s". atands as the sponsor of the rules of the } JPlfty-second Congress, and on the other was ei-Sj eaker Reed, who stands as the , Mender of the rules and methods ol the : fifty-first Congress. Condition of Trade. B. G. DUH & Co.'s weekly review of ; trade says: . f Domestic trade gradually improves, even the South, where much of the trouble wens to have been due to unwillingness of v holders to sell cotton at the low prices rather than to actual loss on such sales. Supplies of money are everywhere ample. , ft i* still the fact that,4 he two dark spots directly caused by overproduction. Cot- , ton receipts this week have been light. Kfforts to curtail the production this year appear to meet with some success. The only possible remedy for troubles in the Iron trade is to be applied, according to' • NSisnatches. by the closing of some tfarnaces. Current prices are called about the lowest on record. The rail combination still waits for buyers. The trouble in this industry is that too great Smu duuuvu CXpIiuSiCu W&S CXpvCivd. |> per is unchanged, tin weaker, and lead * ,"V moderately active. The coal market COP- f /», , tlcues unchanged, as the combination is "\t\ not ready to act, but agents recommeud an \output of only 2,500,000 tons in March. thirty-nine individuals and firms, eon- 1 tlary John Malpy may now be relea trolling twc-tblwls the wtlre It. Is dcveloptfl that he is not guilt of hemlock, agreed to advance the i the crime of ° ituirderlng bis young s c h e d u l e a l l a r o u n d , b u t b e f o r e t h e " - • - - . . . meeting closad a further fight ensued uid the entire project fell through. MBS. C. K. A VERS, one of the most highly connected women in Detroit, Wednesday night shot her husband in the lungs. Mrs. Ayers began suit for divorce against her husband some months ago, and, pending the re­ sult, obtained an injunction preventing the husband from visiting their home. The Supreme Court, ou the day oi', the murder, quashed the injunction, and Ayers at once went to his house to re­ move some of his more valuable belong­ ings. Mrs. Ayers met him on the door­ step, and before he could prevent her she pulled a 44-caliber revolver and fired two shots into his breast. His wifo was at once locked up, but refuses to make any statement. THE Federal Grand Jury, at Boston, has indicted all of the officers and direct­ ors of the Cattle Feeding and Distilling Company, better known as th-» Whisky Trust, for violation of the Sherman anti­ trust few, and United States Marshal Hitchcock's deputies are engaged in serving warrants for the arrest of the indicted men. Those included in the Government drag-net are as follows: Joseph B. Greenhut, of Peoria, Presi­ dent of the trust; Herbert L. Terrell, of New York, Vice President and Director; William N. Hobart, of Cincinnati, Treasurer and Director; Warren H. Corning, of Cleveland, Ohio, a Director; Julius E. French, of Cleveland, Ohio, a Director; Lewis K. Greene, of Cincin­ nati, a Director; Nelson Morris, of Chi­ cago, a Director; George J. Gibson, of Chicago, ex-Secretary and a Director; Peter J. Hennessey, of Chicago, Secre­ tary ssd mm, Mr. Blair's the leaves WESTERN. v*Sf sJL Told I n a Few Words. JBSSE FREE, of Newcastle, Wis., has saed Hank Free for $25,000 on the charge . of alienating his wife's affections. - -.BAM MiiiTOX, who killed Sheriff Duns >' !n the county seat war in Seward Coun- -ty, Kansas, has been acquitted of the C charge or murder. ^ THE Iowa State Temperance Alliance, •t its weekly meeting in Des Moines de­ nounced all attempts to substitute a lo- " cal option law for prohibition. THE entire edition of the Gazette, of Phoenix, Arizona, was thrown out of tho j mails under the anti-lottery law; it had ; given an account of a piano raffle. THE Methodist Episcopal Conference «( Kansas, by a ballot of 85 to 25, de­ cided in favor of admitting women as delegates to the general c jnference. ;'•« LI.OTD TREYIS, President of the WeUs-Fargo Company, announces his Intention of resigning next August, on ' account of press of private business. THE action of the King of Greece in dismissing the entire Delyannis Ministry proves to be very unpopular, and he has received a number of threatening letters. Two POWERFUL dynamite cartridges were placed in the doorway of the Paris police quarters Thursday night, but tailed to explode on account of the rain. THE National Bice Milling Company, Hie purpose of which is to grow, mill and > market rice in the United States, has been organized at Trenton, N. J., with a ;capital stock of $5,000,000. JOSEPH O'CONNOR, 16 years old, al- ; lowed himself to be locked Into a freight carat St. Louis bound for Jersey City. : "When the car was opened at its destina- • tion he was almost dead from starvation mnd freezing. , ' K RIOTOUS attack was made upon a ' little band of religious cranks known as Disciples of the Flying Boll, in Detroit, recently, in consequence of the attempt of J. T. Richardson to recover his child, whom Jjis wife had taken to live with the band. : A THE Congressional District Conven- ; tkm in Indiana, to choose delegates to i the Bepublican National Convention, re- >; salted in every instance in the selection of Harrison men, and that with practic- for which he was convicted. ;;:. WASHINGTON. - TUX illness of Congressman Sprlnget is regarded as serious. THE McKinley act was declared con­ stitutional and Speaker Reed's rulings upheld by the. United States Supreme Court. The court split on the tariff opinion, which wns rendered by .Tn»t4oe lint lan. The cases on which tho de­ cisions were based were 'those of Mar­ shall Field of Chicago, and of New York merchants, who protesteJ against the pay in ont of duties on certain woolen dre6s goods and other importations on the ground that the McKinley bill was not a legal and constitutional enact­ ment by reason of tho omission from the enrolled bill of tho tobacco rebate clause, agreed to in conference and con­ tained in the bill when it passed both houses. The court also holds that the reciprocity and sugar-bounty sections of the bill are constitutional. It was contended that the reciprocity section was unconstitutional because it dele­ gated legislative powers to the execu­ tive. Chief Justico Fuller and Justice Lamar dissented from the opinion of the court. The Supreme court also decided in the worsted schedule case of the United States vs. Ballin, Joseph & Co., from the Circuit Court of New York, that the law is valid. Tho decision up­ holds the power of the Speaker of the House to count a quorum under the rules of/tbeiast House. J3AMUT OP GASTRONOMY RUN BY STATESMEN. «h* BMtaonnt--lol*M Who a e l i B r e a d a n d M I ! k - l ) l a t U i g a l t h « 4 l Politicians Who Regale Themaefrrta on Turkey--The Pork and Jlean Katan. Senatorial Snacks* UT a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to ap­ petite," said Solo­ mon. Some of the people who live in this year of grace do not think the ad­ vice good. Neither suicide nor eating ' k i t h a k n i f e i s good form in these dnvs. It must be evident even to the casual visitor at the Senate restau­ rant that the wise man was not ad' Sjtates Senators. POLITICAL OKLAHOMA'S delegates to the lican National Convention were instruct- «d to vote for President Harrison. THE New York Becorder has a report from Washington- to the effect that ex- Secretary W. C. Whitney has beencom­ missioned to state to Democratic leaders that ex-President Cleveland will soon publish a letter 'withdrawing from the Presidential race. AT Columbus, Ind., tho jury in the ease against Lambert L. Goldsmith for the murder of Robert T. Skillman re­ turned a verdict of guilty of man­ slaughter and fixed the punishment at five years in the State prison. The ver­ dict was a compromise one. THE Indiana State women% prison and reform school for girls, near Indian­ apolis. burned Tuesday night. The build­ ing was entirely destrojed. The Src was of incendiary origin, three girls, Imogene Thompson, Stevens and Lydia Kinseley, it is claimed by other inmates, having formed a conspiracy to free themselves in this way, if possible, by cit-auug a stampede. The loss will ex­ ceed $300,000, with an insurance of but $52,000. ' AT Milwaukee Tuesday afternoon the W&tcFiowu local ou the Chicago, Mil­ waukee and St. Paul Boad ran into the rear end of a train loaded with em- I ployes of the road, killing seven men. I A switch had been left open by a' switching crew. Bartels, the foreman { of the crew, has given himself up to the | police. Bartels has been in the com- pany's employ for years and was always | considered a trusty, first-class man. j ADVICES have been received at Min^ | .. heapolis of an advance in the price of t children are In danger of starvation, binding twine for the Coming season of To ENCOURAGE the manufacture of from 3 to 4 cents a pound. The Journal [ eottcn goods, Russia proposes to re­ prints extracts from a recent report of , fund the import duty on raw cotton to cordage trust showing a profit of j exporters of the manufactured product. FOREIGN, A WHrrECHAPEii murderer named Mtdr was hanged In Newgate Prison, London, Tuesday. THIRTEEN men were seriously injured by the fail of a scaffold in one of the docks at Liverpool. POVERTY and Suffering among tho un­ employed working classes in Vienna are daily increasing, and the condition there is becoming serious. •THE British steamer Plato was aban­ doned in a sinking condition near the Scilly Islands; her crew were taken off by a passing steamer. EMPEROR WILLUH has received many letters from workmen assuring him of their loyalty and expressing regcet for the recent disturbances. EIGHTY-THREE married fishermen were drowned in the recent gales on the coast of Portugal, and their widows and No self-respecting Senator ever allows his knife to get within a foot of his jugu­ lar. Members of the House ro»\y, per­ haps, elevate their pork and beans £o the mouth level without the assistance of a fork, but the dieiullcd Senator never permits the glittering steel greater alti­ tude than the third button op his vegt. The day for eating with your knifefoas cut short by that happy invention--the four-pronged fork. Popular interest in Senators increases in a greater ratio than does the number of those more or less distinguished leg­ islators. The thousands of visitors who dally tramp through and around and about the Capitol delight in prying into the senatorial existence; the1}? occupy the Senate floor until remove& by the opening of the session and the energy of several employes; they survey Senators from the galleries and criticise their respective and generally respectable appearance; they peep through half- opened committee-room doors and reach the apex of the tourist's bliss when they behold a Senator engaged In the con­ sumption of food. . "He's eatin' raw oysters," said a stranger to his wife the other day. The couple had, from afar, followed one of the Senators who represent their State, to the Senate restaurant. The male tourist watched the alleged legislator commence feeding, and then reported to the waiting but equally curious female. . The Senate restaurant is an interest- big place. Business does not really commence until noon, but for half an hour thereafter there is no rush. Then Senator otthfet counter. . there are good feeders in the Sen­ ate ana the kinds of lunchepn they dallj dispose of could not be served on the counter. Perhaps the most consistently "good* are Senators McMillan, Wash­ burn, Hoar and Squire. MeMillan and Washburn generally lunch together, and they eat steaks and chops and salads and such like solid goods. Senator Squire believes in the same sort of food, Sector Hoar once excited much popular commiseration by Buulng that' oodflicta was his staple article of diet. That may be the main source of his nutriment at home, but in the Senate' his tendencies are toward tarrapin or broiled oysters; none of the waiters ever heard him mention codfish. Black­ burn's favorite dish is deviled ham. Teller manages to get along very nicely with a modicum of cold tongue or corned beef. Sawyer is devoted to custard pie and milk; he likes a liberal sprinkling of cheese with his pie. Another lover of pie is Wilson; the variety is apple, -and It must be hot. Frye believes broiled oysters to be satisfactory, but Stanford prefers lamb chops or calves' liver and baoon. Fulton is very fond of pork and beans. Sanders, like nearly all the other Northwestern Senators, consumes oysters; he likes them raw--the rawer the better. Davis lives well; 'sirloin steaks are his weakness. Manderson Is also properly fed; oysters are a spe­ cialty, and a chafing dish stew is the 8EVEN KILLED IN A COLLISION. RAILWAY the $1,400,000 the past year. The business has become so profitable that it is now likely an Irish company from Belfast will establish a large factory in Minne­ apolis. The trust has yet no effective competition, and asitholdsallthe Amer­ ican patents for twine machinery it holds the key to the situation. THE Supreme Court of Ohio, in the case of The Stato of Ohio ex rel. Attor­ ney General Watson vs. The Standard Oil Company, handed down a decision of importance concerning trusts. The decision of the Supreme Court sustains the Attorney General's demurrer to the answer of the Standard, which set up the defense that the trust agreement was entered into by individuals and not by the company as a corporation holding a franchise. While the decision does not oust the company from its franchise, it prohibits them from in any way con­ tinuing to cyry out or fulfill any pro­ vision or agreements under trust con­ tracts. WEDNESDAY night the national bank at Coldwater, Mich- was robbed. The safes were broken o^pn and $20,000 in cash taken, also a private deposit of $40,000 in Philadelphia and Beading pre­ ferred bonds. Ten thousand dollars re­ ward is offered for the arrest of the rob­ bers. The job was the boldest and most complete piece of work of the kind ever perpetrated in Western Michi­ gan, and was undoubtedly the work of exports. They blew open every safe and vault, time-lock and all, and teok every bit of cash, including bills, silver, and Eennies^ they could find. The robbery as caused a great sensation here, and the bank was visited by hundreds of citi­ zens in the morning. The vaults and safe were completely wrecked. There Is no clew to the robbers. DR. HENBY MARTIN SCFDDER, son of the old and beloved ex-pastor of Ply­ mouth Church, Chicago, is charged with the brutal murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. F. H. Dunton, slays a Chicago dis- aily no opposition. Among the delegates patch. It'is alleged that the crime Vras la Gen, Lew Wallace- committed at the Dunton home, 22 Alcline square, on the morning of Sun-J. W. COLIIIXS, President of the Cal­ ifornia National Bank of San Diego, ; which, he wrecked, committed suicide. • Collins had been under arrest for the past ten days in a charge of embezzle­ ment. He had been unable to furnish the required bonds and had, been con- _ fined to his room in the Brewster Hotel ' flu charge of a deputy.. A BiiJj has been introduce^ in the v Senate by Mr. Morgan,, of Alabama, ^ which provides tlTat the United States f shall send* a Consul General to the CqpgdTree State at a salary of $4,000 a w year, and a Vice Gfrnsul at $2,000 a year. There is now a commercial agent at Boitia, and although the salary is $5,000 the place is vacant. The climate is so unhealthy there is no demand for this ^ sinecure. A CHINAMAN, charged with assaulting m little Italian girl in New York, was roughly handled by a mob and might have been killed If the police had not in­ terfered and locked him up. | MB. WATSON, a Farmers' Alliance representative from Georgia, in the House denounced as false a newspaper article charging him with having voted with the Bepublieans in the Craig-Stew- •Tt election case for financiafconsidera- thms and the promises of money from the Republicans to aid him in his next day, Feb. 21. Dr. Shudder was quietly taken into custody Wednes­ day morning. He was found at his father's house, 3921 Grand boulevard, where he was confined to his bed. The news of his arrest was not made public until the following afternoon, when cer­ tain of his relatives and friends went before Judge Scales, of the County Court, and Dr. Doremus Scudder, his brother, represented that the accused was insane. They asked that he be taken fyom the custody of the police and placed in the Detention Hospital. By order of the Court the request was granted. Dr. Scudder is at the hospital guarded as a crazy man. THE Russian Senate is preparing a measure which will provide that no for­ eigners shall be allowed to become nat­ uralized citizens of Bussia unless they can speak the Russian language and are conversant with the organic laws of the empire. , IN GENERAL FOTTR men, in different cities, are un­ der arrest on suspicion of being the per­ petrator of the Sedalia outrage. ' OLIVER CURTIS PERRY, the New Cen­ tral express robber, is believed to be the man who killed Andy McCoy at George­ town, Mont., in 1887. EDWARD FOSTHILL, flagman on a Baltimore and Ohio engine at Yoders, shot and killed Michael Niland, a fire­ man on the same engine. THE ex-wife of young James G. Blaine has written an open letter to the elder Blaine challenging him to publish the entire letters from her from which he quoted in his recent statement to the public, the intimation being that the ex­ cerpts misrepresented her meaning. Aiiii Roman Catholics will be free te> eat meat and drink during the coming Lent. For the first time in the history of the Catholic * Church the custom of fast and abstinence, which has been al­ ways extremely strict, will bo uni­ versally done ' away with. It is by a special dispensation of the Pope, and was caused by the sickness which at present exists in this country and Eu­ rope. A DECISION by the Supremo Court, of national and international importance, s that in the Say ward case, which is known as the Behring Sea case. The decision in that case denies the writ of prohibition applied for by the govern­ ment of Greqt Britain and the govern­ ment of thd1 Dominion of Canada, and sustains the jurisdiction of the United States Court in Alaska. This is a com­ plete defeat for the government of Great Britain, and it would seem to be even'a greater defeat for tho counsel of Great Britain. _ MARKET REPORTS. MTOGTOR AIIB KYLB EAT OYSTSBS. SENATOR COKE IS "A PIS EATER, SOUTHERN. •ASTERN. S TORMS In the region about New York Wrought damage to shipping and to property along the beach at summer resorts _and prostrated telegraph wires. Aft Aiiuuiiu Highlands, N. J., the tide was the highest ever known. At Lan­ caster, Pa., a snow of worms was re­ peated. AXJi efforts to form a lumber tniK have -failed, and it is quite likely the existing rates will be seriously cut be- Ssre long. At a meeting-of lumbermen 'Heently held in Wllliamsport, Fa., IN Simpson County, Kentucky, Briggs Caldwell shot and killed Fount Justico and Charles Hancock on account of an old feud. A GENERAIJ reduction of 10 per cent. In the wages of furnace employes is being put into effect at Birmingham, Alabama. HARRY GRAY, eon of a prominent At­ lanta man, lies dying of a bullet wound received while trying-̂ o l̂yxrglarize a neighbor's house. AT Louisville, Ky., William Brand has made two attempts to kill Mrs. Laura Good because she refused to get a divorce frcm her husband and marry him. THERE is a movement among the negroes of Nashville, Tenn., to start a migration to Oklahoma next fail. About 1,000 names are already upon the list, and many more will be added. • AN explosion of a stationary boiler occurred at the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad round-house at Savan­ nah, Ga., killing four men and wound­ ing many others. The debris was scat­ tered all over the city. AFTER serving twenty years of a life the West Virginia P«o4ten ̂ CHICAGO. CATTIIE--Common to 1'rirne.. Hoos-Shippiog Grades BHEKP--i'alr to < holcc * i> EAT-- No. !i Red COHN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RY. --NO. 2 RUTTEH--Choico Creamery CHIO:8E-FUU v-ream. flats EOGB- Mfesh PJIAIOEO Car-loads, per bu...' INDIAN Al'OLIS. CATTLE--Shipping HOGS--T hoice Liight BHKKP--Common to Prime.. WHKAT--No. 2 Red » COKN-N'O. 1 White OAT:.--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. Cattle ' H os "I VVHKAT--No. 2 Red ' *" . COBN- No. 2 OAXB--No. t,. *"* RYE--No. i "" $1.50 3. JO 3.09 ,8U s» (6 .84 & .98 & •1*3* » .16 c. 3J & @ 5 2 5 0 5 0>l V G.25 .y0 .41*4 .85 .2J .13)6 «• .la @ .4J & 4.75 & 5.0) & 6.25 4* .94 m, ,42 .8 33 &63 0 4.50 & 5.1 9.25 8.54 3 03 .93 41 IKBO & 5.0J M .tn .aa>6d .37;$ .*> «a .36 CINCINNATI.'/ ^ ® *81 V CATTLE G.SI H. os S IFCEP iu)0 WHKAT No. 2 Red vt COSN-- No. 2..'. OAT»--No. 2 ilixod * jo DE'luull'. rATtt,". fcco fcO; bHHEP &00 WIIF.AT-NO. '£ Itod FJW COBN--No. 2 Yellow '40 " OAJB-- NO. 2 White JJY * TOLEDO. HE AT--New os Co un--No. 2 Yellow 1 OATS--No. 2 vvhtte j EYE I „ BUFFALO. BECF AMI liiVK Hce« *7« WHEAT--No. 1 Hard ;.. j.oi Con*-No.« A MILWAUKEE. WHPAT--No. 2Spring jgj C us--No. S .88 ̂ OAT*--No. 2 Wblt*.,*„......... .81 RYE--No. 1. EG B * N O . % J T Poai-MeM....... 11.36 YOKK. CATTMS.. 8.® Hoas.............. . . . 4 , . . . . . . . SJK BHEEP... 4.00 WHEAT-KO. 2 Red IM < OBK--No. 2... ^".49 OAT»--Mixed Western.. JS BITTTEE--Cre*m«ry 41 4. CO comes the crowd of hungry ones, and from 12:30 until after two o'clock the waiters hardly have time to perspire. Every table has its quota of occupants, and the string * f humanity that leans up against the long counter is tolerably continuous. It is a good place to find a'most any lost one, whether Senate or Senator employe, to say nothing of the liberal sprinkling of newspaper men who hurry in and out, combining the hasty pleasure of eating with the business of gathering information. To feed all these hungry ones Mr. Page has to employ about thirty people--twelve of them in the kitchen--and they all have reasonable opportunity to earn their recompense. Three dusky retainers at­ tend ta the customers at the lunch counter, transmit orders of waiters to the kitchen and hand out the tangible responses. Of these James Lewis is chief. He is invariably designated "Lewli," and he probably would not know that he was being spoken to if otherwise addressed. Hfs business-like silence is as marked as his business­ like ability. But it was not the average luncher that a Washington Star reporter be­ came interested in. He had both eyes on Senators and on the men who do their bidding in the private dining- rooms--from Head Waiter Diok Shaw, portly, suave .and eolidiy respectable, down to the latest of Mr. Page's ap- pointeoa. There is abroad in the land a vague Impression to tho effect that Senators subsist principally on terrapin and champagne. It may be necessary to state that this impression is errone­ ous. Senators eat just about as do other men whose circumstances are on about the same financial level--they seem to have in them a great deal of human nature. More democratic, broadly speaking, and more simple in his stomachic ap­ petite than any other Senator is Senator RSLTOX LIKES PO&K AND BCAJCK favorite. Hawley consumes oysters. Allison thrives on graham bread toast and a pot of tea. Hale wants a bowl of custard and a glass of milk. Gorman figures out the moves on the national chess board while disposing of cold turkey. Harris has an affection for oysters that have been broiled. Vance eats but little. He is satisfied generally wH.li a sandwhich, a \"3ass' of milk and sometimes, an apple. Faulkner devours the raw oyster; Blod$$|L the sirloin steak. Cockrell is an inf<ifqu<int visitor. He eats the simplest,fare. McPherson is very regular on baked apple dump­ ling. Dawes delights in a corned beef sandwich and a glass of milk. Dolph wants, and gets, broiled oysters and custard pie. Mitchell loves oyster stew, Proctor eats oysters. So does. Kyle. Palmer favors lamb chops. Brico leans toward oyster patties. Colquitt has three menus. Sometimes his choice is oold turkey, sometimes corned beef, sometimes a glass of milk and a bowl of custard. Ransom is of opinion that noth­ ing is so good as quail on toast. Vice President Morton strengthens the inner man with raw or broiled oysters at times; occasionally he is satisfied 1 with a piece of pie and a glass | of milk. Sherman is a pie and milk ! enthusiast, but once in a while he tries raw oysters. Hill has been absent from 1 the city most of tho time since he left' t h e g ^ e r n a t o r i a l c h a i r a t A l b a n y ; h e , has been in the restaurant, however, | and his p?eference so far seems to be j for cold turkey and a pot of coffee, j Keen-witted political prophets may do i well to note the fact that AHiwur Xnfine Oashea lnt* » Vnla Containing Bnadndi of Xllwaake* Workmen nd Many AM Mangled-- Reform School Burned. Met Sadden Death* The absent-mindedness of ft switch­ man, or the physical impossibility of his being In two places atj one time, re­ sulted In the accident on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Hallway at Milwaukee, which caused the instant death of seven men. According to a dispatch giving particu­ lars, the accident occurred at the foot of 17th street a few minutes before 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The fact that the trains were moving at a com­ paratively slow rate of speed alone pre­ vented a railway horror which would have counted its dead by the scores. All the Killed and injured were em­ ploye s of the railroad company and re­ turning from their work at the West Milwaukee shops on the shop train, which consists of seven old-fashioned ooaches. The train had just passed 19th street when the Watertown special came thundering along on a parallel track. Just before it overtook the shop train a white-faced switchman rushed out. waving his arms, and the next instant the Watertown special took the switch and plunged into the rear coaches of the shop train. Three of the shop train coatches were toppled over and ground inCo the cin- i ders uf the roadbed. Several cars on the passenger train left the rails, but were not overturned. The men in the overturned cars struggled to free them­ selves. The frightened passengers of the Watertown special recovered their senses and rushed from the cars and in­ side of two minutes 200 men were at work rescuing the men from the wrecked cars. Many were cut and bleeding, but by the time the police patrol wagon ar­ rived most of them had recovered suffi­ ciently to walk or be carried away by friends. Those who were killed suffered almost instant death. They were who at­ tempted to jump from the side doors of the old coaches and were crushed to death when the cars toppled over on them. .The bodies were all . quickly taken from the wreckage and conveyed to the morgue. The picture at the wreck was one which few people could look upon with­ out a shudder. Beneath the overturned cars, which had been raised with levers bodies of the dead, were strewn pieces of flesh, while the tracks were stained with the blood of the unfortunates. Here was a crush­ ed hat, and there a battered dinner-pail. The workmen who escaped hurriedly went to their homes or their friends, and the ground was soon abandoned to the employes of the company engaged in clearing the tracks and trying to as­ certain the exact cause of the accident. The latter proved an easy task. Will Bartels, the switchman in charge, went to Superintendent M. Kenna, asked his advice and then gave himself up to tho police, to whom he admitted that he had left three switches open in the per­ formance of his duty, his only excuse being that he forgot to close them. He was locked up pending investigation. There was great indignatiou among the neighbors of the dead, who talked about hanging the switchman responsible for the disaster. Few of the friends of the victims heard of the accident until the remains were brought to the city, and the most affecting scenes were enacted at the morgue when the work of identi­ fication was going on. A singular feature of the accident was that nobody upon tho express train was injure d. The railway officials maintained their Gorman and „ « Hill both eat cold turkey--turkey that i usual policy of refusing to give out any might properly be termed "stuffed." | information coBjD^rning the wreck, and Jones of Nevadqr swears by broiled i the agents of th^^laim department, who black bass. Berry likes broiled oysters. I have charge of the work of settling Cameron has to have the largest raw " oysters that are available; occasionally he partakes of a chafing-dish stew. Quay, like Gorman and Hill, is all right when supplied with cold trukey and cof- damage claims against the company for injuries, were upon the ground almost as soon Mthe local police officers. Bartefillhe switchman who is held re­ sponsible for the cause of the wreck, was seen at the Central Police Station. He has two men under him as assist­ ants, and the three, according to the statements of Bartels, are kept so busy •that it frequently becomes necessary for him'to rely upon his subordinates to see thai the switches are in the proper po­ sition. He admits he turned two of the switches, and may have left them opei He is twenty-nine years old. He that he is anxious to make all amends which are in his power, orwhidh the law may require of him in a criminal way. KM SCHOOL FIRED Blf GIRLS. open, says the REFORM SCHOOL F1 nmates of^an Indiana Coke of Texas. He is a regular caller at the restaurant, but when he does put in an appearance his invariable desire is for pie---piece of pie and a glass of water. He might enjoy these life sus­ tain ers in the comparative privacy of the senatorial rooms, but he prefers to stand right up against the counter and there wash down large chunks of high- grade pie with tho assistance of clear spring water. Senator Blair used to do the same thing, but he did it regularly and perhaps a little more stylishly; he. always drank milk with his pie and the pi© was either apple or custard. Many . a good news paragraph has the author and finisher of the education bill given away yhite rubbing tWiowg with a fcews- p*per correspondent it £bat restaurant ALLISON TAK.S8 Q All Ail BREAD AJFD TEA. fee. Stockbridge can get along very nicely on pie and milk, with broiled oys­ ters for a change once or so In a week. Power is an.oyster man. Higgins con­ sumes baked apples and cream. Wol- cott keeps up his avoirdupois on hot roast turkey and broiled oysters. Casey smiles through the day with the help of raw or broiled oysters. Jchilton,- too, likes raw oysters. J3houp is a firm be­ liever in the virtues of bread and milk. Dubois likes cold tongue or cold roast beef. Carlisle, who has not been around very much this session, is enamored of chops. Yoorhees is* a light eater; a sandwich is his average. White* wants a good porterhouse steak and is sup­ plied. ~ George Indulges In broiled oysters and a glass of milk. Walthall is an­ other oyster lover, and Warren and Carey are like-minded. Stewart pays Cashier Birns for a stew or a reasonable quantity of either corned beef or roast beef, cold; he drinks a pot of tea. Oyster stew is Turpie's favorite bever­ age. Paddock^devotes himself to raw oysters or to baked apples with cream. Chandler lives well; a chafing-dish stew suits his complaint most days; occasion­ ally he prefers a bowl of bread and milk. Pettigrew does not starve; he eats steak or chop3. Hiscock is hot a regular luncher; when he does go down he rarely eats anything but a bowl of bread and milk. Piatt is a regular boarder; he, too, likes bread and milk, but not always; sometimes it is a bowl of custard or a select stew. Daniel eats raw oysters. So does Perkins. Like­ wise Vest. When Vest wants raw oysters he eats them at the oyster coun­ ter. When his appetite Is not oyster struck ho goes into the private dinlngp > room and waits while a cook broils af large slice of cold roast beef. Very few of the Senators eat dessert when their luncheon is of the solid sort; very few of them have ladies to lunch with them. THK New York Express intimates that there are 14,000 girls at work in that city simply to get more expensive clothes than could otherwise be affordel, and they are taking the place of boys who would make the occupations a life-work and pursue them to support others. The girl has crowded the boy to the wal . Inmates df^an Indiana Institution Burn i It Down tp Gain Their Liberty. It is likely thai Gov. Chase may call a special session of the Indiana Legis­ lature to arrange for the rebuilding of the Women's Reform School which burned Tuesday night. The building was entirely destroyed. The fire was discovered a few minutes after 6upper in the laundry of the reform depart­ ment. The prison department wa$ the last to go, and the crashing of the iron cages as the supports gave way was heard for many a mile. The institution was situated in the center of a five-acre field on the eastern edge of Indian- ajfolie. It was a model prison and one of tho most noted in the country. From those confined in the prison de­ partment the most trouble was antici­ pated. Miss Kelly, the superintendent, went into the hallway, and in a loud tone called the attention of the prison­ ers to the fact that the building was on fire. "I am going to unlock these cells, but I want you to promise me that you will stand by me and not one attempt to escape." The women with one voice promised this, and the doors were opened. Of the inmates of this department there are eight who have been sentenced for life and a half-dozen or more for long terms. So far as known none of the prisoners made any attempt to escape, though some of the reform girls were discovered roaming about the streets of the city, and they were sent to the police station. The fire was of incendiary origin, three girls, Imogene Thompson, Mary Stevens and Lydia Kinseley, it is claimed J?y other inmates, having formed a con­ spiracy to free themselves in this way, if possible, by creating a stampede. The loss will exceed $300,000. , . if 1 "L. •, „ Keeley Most Speak. BICSIIOBIDIS OF GOLD may have done some killing, but fusol oil is still away ahead.--Pittsburg Times. . Db. KBEiiEY may be holding his se­ cret in trust for widows and orphnns, but he makes wives and children put up if they desire to indulge in the luxury of turning a drunken husband and father into a sober man.--Milwaukee Journal. THIS "Keeley cure" business is having one effect, and that is of developing a lot of confirmed inebriates for the pub­ lic edification. We hear of a number of prominent New-Englanders who are be­ ing boasted of by their friends as bene­ ficiaries of the cure, in smiling uncon­ sciousness of the indictment that they been inabristes.--Boston Beoord. MEASURES CONS1DKREE 1 ABfWO'WPOli, iTttfctftaUaa*. -- Ho** *y_&» mmwH .am M»L» QM OfMflH.,0 MOM •ItUred. ' The Senateand BOUN, ' Til Wnnurt, • ,*£•» ** J* /' -ITOtt" m Mr. Loud, of California, a bill -,vi. setting apart a tract of land for th^ee^ the Lick Observatory, University cf.Oatl-'5' - " fornla. A resolution was also pasi»d'aa> • ^ 5 thorizins the Joint Committee on • " gration to Investigate the opera km *£% the immigration lavs, the Impo tatfoe,- of contract* labor, and to Jnqnln ttcalarly into the immigration of j sisona^-~ J affected with typhus fever into the | wt of ' New York. The House Committee on Bales .-' . , agreed to report a resolution makitt the>'H silver bill the order of business forTthree'? -'i<' days beginning March 22. No dati was axed for measures concerning the tariff. v Indian sectarian schools was the subject . ? °f three hours' acrimonious discussion in " the House on the 1st. The Indian apprti-i- • priatlon bill was the measure under con- *"* <: slderatlon, and the immediate cause of the- J* diBcitftsfon waS the section making ap- %r ™ proprlation for the Carlisle Indian^' . school. The bill was passed. Mr. McMll- * < <;'CV lln, of Tennessee, reported the free wool ^ bill, which was referred to tho committee of the whole. "Mr Bryan, of Nebraska. „ .. and Mr. Turner, of Georgia, respectively. v f ; from the same commit en, rpppftAft uiu* ioi iuo hoc oiiti jr oi binding twine**" and cotton bagging and ties, which were* T rv referred to the committee of the whole,!, i t and leave was granted to Mr. Payne,* V:>!> of New York, and Mr. Dalzell of Pennsyl- *. vania, to present the views of the minority±. 'jA' on the measure. In the -Senate, -iftar the^*'^r^ transaction of routine business the Idaho * election case was taken up and Mr. San- "-.'V-; 3 dews addressed the Senate In defense of Mr. '1, Claggett's right to the seat Mr. Morgan J made a legal and. constitunal argument' - against the right of Mr. Dubois to occupyk a seat in the Senate. x In the Senate, ou the 2d Mr. Dolph pre- ' •ented petitions from bis State favoring government aid for the Nicaragua canal. Ss The Idaho election case was taken up and * Mr. George stated the reasons which would control his own action in' £ casting his vote for the ..contestant. . • Mr. Vilas argued that the sitting memberJ-^ V ' Mr. Dubois, was legally elected and en- f S titled to the seat On the suggestion of .. Mr. Or»y '•verc who desired to record their votes on the' question, the vote was postponed. - ) The proceedings of the House, were quite uninteresting and confined I strictly to the consideration of the ' District of Columbia appropriation bill. On,v-. only one occasion did party politics find a*. - .A- place in the discussion and that was when Mr. Hemphill, of the Democratic .ifcle. pro- * • posed ap amendment reducing the 811,000 . ..;£' or >12,000, salary which the Becorder of ' * Deeds of the District of Columbia receives • *>r Sn the way of fees to a fixed salary of $8,600 per annum. All fees are to be turned Into the public Treasury after de- , V d u c t i o n s f o r n e c e s s a r y c l e r k h i r e . T h e < , J Hourfb adjourned with the bill still undls- X posed of. - In the Senate, on the 3d. the debate on ^ the Idaho contested election case was closed, and the voting was begun. The question of the minority resolutions in favor of, Mr. Claggett's right to the seat Was decided In the negative--yeas, 7; nays, 55. The vote was then taken on the ma- ,5 Jorlty resolutions affirming the right of Mr. Dubois to tetaln his seat, and it was decid­ ed in "the affirmative--yeas, 55; nays, 5. The pure food bill was then taken up, but no action was taken on the bill. The House resumed consideration of the Dis­ trict of Columbia appropriation bill, also the bill allowing railroad companies to give special rates to commercial travelers. Mr. Otis, of Kansas, antagonized the measure. It was a stroke directed at the funda­ mental principle upoti which the Interstate commerce law was founded. M^. Simpson, In speaking of the bill, referred to the author of the interstate commerce act (Senator Cullom) as an "iniquitous rail­ road attorney," when be wnsj 1 romptly called to order by Mr. Llnd. of Minnesota. The bill will now go on the calendar uf ten* finished business. Metallic Ties. ^ That the wooden railroad tie.must sooner or later give place to a metallic substitute has long been admitted by engineers, and lately we are begin­ ning to see that the coming change in this respect cannot be much longer delayed. Experiments made within a year or two on a number of leading roads suffice already to show that there is a superior-economy in metal, and but for the fact of its larger first cost it would likely dis­ place wood very ̂ rapidly. It will do so gradually in spite of this, as with many railway companies the initial cost is of less importance than the ultimate economy, which is sufficient­ ly in favor of the metallic tie to de­ termine the question of its use. The result of this must be a slow decline in what is now a flourishing and profitable branch of the lumber busi­ ness, but the fact will not occasion widespread regret in the trade. The traffic in ties draws heavily upon the supply of young, partly grown timber, not yet ripe for the saw mill, that it would be good discretion to refrain from cutting, and any change in con­ sumptive requirements that would permit such trees to attain maturity will prolong the duration of the tim­ ber supply and work for the best in-j terest of the lumber trade. We can­ not help thinking that lumber menj should do all they can to help forward the change from wood td metallic ties, m^the interest of thq preservation our their own business.- Exchange. ,3 Serving Two Malted. , . -' Uncle, Billy recently developed • great deal of. interest in religious matters, and it was observed with a good deal of surprise by several boat- owners that he was no longer ready and willing to take a hand at thd work they offered him. One of thej men who had depended a good deal upon his services said: "I'm sorry that you won't work any mo^e." ! "Deed, sah, I is puffickly willin' to( wuhk, but I can't wubk in yoh boat." "Why not?" ! "Ivase she's a two-master." "Why, that's no reason at all." "Massa, of you wants to 'peril your own soul, 'tain' none ob my business,: but de good book says plain as^lay datno man kaln'tsarbetwo masters. ^ --Washington Star." -- y. 4% V ( * IttlaceUnneoiM Note** Cv, IN Alaska. 200 miles up the Yukon' River, the snow never melts, and im some placessit ii said to be fatly two miles deep. y V IN the last three j ears Annie Besant has fed no Jess than 120,000 school children in the Tower Ham­ lets division. THB chief ingredients in the com­ position of those qualities that gain, esteem and praise are 'good nature,, trutja, good sense, and good breeding.; A PHILADELPHIA paper, in de-i scribing a New York preacher, said:-, "He is like an auger; takes hold right away, cuts all the time, and qulta when he is through." It might have added that such r, jreacher never bom his bearer^ •A S- '