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- is jft* •fV'. :^//f : ; •$f '>% VA * ^ •/xte$-X- -•<:•- IE PLATKDEALER VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. KrIIFNHY. ILL! NO BOYCOTTS ARE LEGAL •AYS PENNSYLVANIA'S SU- PREME COUq £'• _ ^rf-rtthit* for lite *|M(t •Of the FI»oa! Year- l ively Fire at Red Brjr, In'!.--St. Joseph Alderman Killed-- 5^>iTMtoKdtfa. Editor. yr *5! &<•' -- JF f up. m: A\rw DeMM. A DECISION directly at variance with th« principle upon which the Ann Arbor railroad strikers and boycotters were adjudged conspirators at Toledo was rendered by Justice Dean, of the Penn­ sylvania Supreme Court, in Philadel­ phia. Tuesday. It was the case of George M. Coteagainst Hugh Murphy and others, being an ap­ peal from the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County. The Supreme Court declares by this decision that boy cotts are legal. In general terms the decision is that when trtdi asso­ ciations boycott contractors and deal­ ers who encourage the supplanters of strikers and when such associations extend such a boycott amcng disinter­ ested dealers such a boycott is legal. {Receipt* and Expenditures. THE official statement <*f the re­ ceipts and expenditure; of the United States for the first half of the fiscal year was issued at the Treasury De­ partment. It makes the net expendi­ tures of the Government for the last six months exceed the receipts by $38,000,000, or at the rate of more than $15,090,0(30 a month. As cam- pared with the corresponding six months of 1892 the receipts are $43,- 000.000 less and the expenditures$1,000,- ' 000 less. The statement shows a fall­ ing off of $7,000,00 ) on account of pen­ sions as compared with the correspond­ ing six months of 1892 and a decline of $30,000,000 in customs receipts. Indiana Town Has a 653,000 Bias*. EARLY Tuesday morning fire broke 4Wt in Sink & Ha "ding's grocery at Bed Key, Ind., and burned an entire "block before it; course was staid. The following is a list of the losses: Smith & Nixon, $4,000: George H. Horn, $4,00): Sink & Harding, $4,500: Hale <& Geisler, $1,000: John Fowler, $2,000: Clawson & Co., $1,000; Charles Walker, $4,000: Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythian Hall, $(>,f»iX>: John Hall, $1,200: George Edgar, $1,GC0, Emerson McGriff, $4,500: Nelson & Behmyer, $2,C00. W hole damage, $50,- 000: insurance, $2~>.000. Cowhide the Editor of the "B'lSOi" J. WEST GOODWIN, editor of the Se- dalia (Mo.) Bazoo, was cowhided in his office by two female members of a bur­ lesque company. The company played an engagement at Sedalia. and Good­ win criticised it adversely. The two women resented the allusions to thdm- oompromise has been made with Zella Nicolaus and that the ease will be fought to the end. THE New York and New England Railway is is the hands of Thomas C. Piatt, receiver. It is said President McLeod repeated his tactics in the Heading deal, and enriched himself at the expense of wrecking- the road. THE Mahoning Rolling-Mill Compa­ ny, whose plant is at Danville, Pa., is in the hands of reeetVors, with liabili­ ties of $.'140,000, This failure is another in the lino of the Crane and other companiesthat have recently gone into liquidation. Iron and steel manu­ facturers in the West'and South have gradually undermined the Pennsylva­ nia concerns. NELSON J. ABMOTT, a man of 60, agent for the Massachusetts Life Insur­ ance Company at Buffalo, N. Y., had a pretty typewriter, and upon her prom­ ising to marry him bought her dia­ monds and other jewelry and gave her large sums of money. Then, when he found her eloping with a young man, he caused her an est. Judge King or­ dered the young woman discharged, telling the aged complainant that he should have learned wisdom with his declining years. > . ̂ WESTERN.- I% OLUDINO the naval section, the militia of Illinois has a grand total of 5,036 men. AN explosion at the . Procter & Gamble soap wdfks, near Cincinnati, I killed two men. A DIGESTER in a glycerine works at Cincinnati blew up and two employes were torn to pieces. INDIANA temperance workers pro­ pose to begin a crusade to force saloons out of residence sections. THE receivership for the Santa Fe will not affect the building of the fine railway hospital at Topeka. MME. ALICE DE STELLINA was buried at Milwaukee Wednesday. She went there ten year.-: ago and began giving instructions in singing. Prior to that time she was connected with the Hess and other companies, and for many years sang in - grand opera, ap­ pearing for several years as a star. She is said to have received as high as $300 a night for her services on the lyric stage, but in Milwaukee onl^r suc­ ceeded in making a bare livelihood. After her death it was found that she did not have a cent left and kind j friends, who admired her talents as a singer, raised sufficient means to give her Christian burial. j ANNA WAGNER, whose trial at In- dirnapolis has been going on for nearly a month and who was charered with , the murder of thiee children and the wife of Charles Koester, because she was in love with Koester, was acquit­ ted. The verdict was greeted with up­ roarious applause and Anna Wagner, | after hearing the words that tet her j free, gasped and fell to the floor un­ conscious and remained in that condi­ tion for twenty-five minutes. -Anna t Wagner was the domestic in the Koes­ ter family and the method employed by her for causing the death of the j Koesters, as alleged by the prosecu- tion, was slow poison. ] DEATH is the penalty decreed against selves by calling at his office and cow- ! " . , " lue against hiding him. They were afterward ar- Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast inritVn ' : < i for the murder of Carter H. Harrison. NEWS NUGGE^i£ WM. S. LLOYD, a Philadelphia mer­ chant, c :>mmitted suicide. AT Broadway, Va., a negro named IMward Williams was publicly given 100 lashes. RICHARD SPRUCE, botanist and trav­ eler. died at Malton, England. He was , S&jears old. THE Woman's Auxiliary to Midwin­ ter Fair at San Francisco has reserved the first week in May for a Woman's Congress. ^ THE body of Lucy Stone, the re­ nowned advocate of woman's rights, i was cremated--the first to undergo this process in Massachusetts. THE United States mail was robbed at McAle3ter, I. T. The sack was found lying on the platform truck* sut open and all contents gone. v . WILLIAM KING-NOEL, first Earl of Lovelace, died at H<frsloy Towers. Eas : . Surrey,' England, one of his country places. He was 88 years old. THE notorious outlaws, John Boone *and Frank McDowell, were arretted %ear Augusta. Ky., and taken to Cov­ ington jail to prevent a lynching. AT Louisburg, Tf. C., a skeleton has been found disclosing the murder of a Jew peddler in July, 1892. Four per­ sons are implicated, of whom one has confessed. PRAYER BOOK CROSS, erected in Golden Gate Park by Geo. W. Childs, of Philadelphia, to commemorate the landing of £ir Francis Drake on Cali­ fornia soil, was unveiled. BURGLARS entered two stores at Montezuma, Ind., and sto'e two valises, "..several cloaks, and scm^ watcher They did not touch the safes, though ^OI»e with watches and jewelry in it was f unlocked. WHILE Aid. S F. Pendleton was at­ tempting to drive across the Burling- . ten tracks at St Joseph, Mo., he was , struck by a switch engine and fatally injured. ' Only a short time ago his father and mother were struck by a Diagonal train in the north part of the - «4ty and both instantly killed. AT the municipal election* held throughout Ontario, January 1, a vote was taken which shows a majority of 10,050 in favor of the total prohibition >'01 the manufacture and sale of intoxi­ cating liquor in that province; and it is expected the Ontario Legislature till pass an act in accordance with le vote. THE Denver, Col.. Savings Bank re­ opened. The People's Savings Bank V declared a dividend. HARRY LUCAS, late Grand Chancel­ lor of the New Mexico Knights of Vpythias at Silver City, has been miss- - lug for several weaks. , SUIT was commenced in the Circuit bonds, and some of them have cost the T> PPHPT Northern Pacific Company millions to I v/Xtx maintain. The petition avers that the stockholders represented by the board ; of directors have a cause of action against the late directors, including Oakes and Ralston, for the various transactions sot forth. HAWAII. MINORITY CHARGES VIOLATION •OF THE CONSTITUTION. SOUTHERN. " MITCHELL and JattiestJor- bett were arrested to test the law of i Florida in reference to glove fighting, j Gov. RUSSELL, of Massachusetts, ' declined an invitation to address the Watterson Democratic Club at Louis- | ville, Ky. MRS. THOMAS RANSDALL, near Har- rodsburg, Ky., was burned to death with her three children, together with the house. f CONGRESSMAN BRECKENRIDGE, of Kentucky, is understood to have set­ tled with Miss Pollard by payment of $2,000 in cash and a small annuity: Republican Members of the Foreign . Affairs Committee Say President Cleve­ land Overstepped ma Powerj) -r Xar 1 <1 Will Precede Other Legislation. " •' WASHINGTON. j Unworthy the Nation. Washington correspondence: j • The minority report en the resolu­ tions presented by Chairman McCreary j on the day Congress adjourned as a i substitute for the Hitt resolutions has j been finished. It wa* prepared by Mr. ; Storer of Ohio, and is signed by Messrs. I Hitt, Harmer,'Blair, Drarer, and Van Vorhis of New York. It is very volum­ inous, and goes in detail inta the whole history of Mr. Blount's appointment as commissioner paramount and the course of the administration. It reads in part: When President Cleveland was inaugurated, March 4, lss>8, the Hawaiian* were under the control of a republican government recognized, not only Dy the United States but by every Civilized UHtion. This government was in BEHIND closed doors the Senate Com­ mittee on Foreign Relations began its investigation into the Hawaiian im­ broglio. THE commissioner of patents pro­ poses making public the names of rights that have lived their seventeen years of monopoly. "BLIND TOM, " the musical prodigy, . hociriaa hoi no- ib A nnl#> annnnrt nf Mrs 1 «t»ted, though as yet not officially known, that oesiaes Deing tne sole support OI MIS. 1 jame6 M Blount started from Washington Bothune, in whose family he was born March 7 on A mission to the Hawaiian Inlands o olavn \a nn fa na.\r o nlftim 1 with verbal secret instructions from the Pre* , n.i? called on to pay a claim ,,dent If thlH be true his HUbf,CQUent writtei of $3,340 on account of a deceased -- Washington lawyer who undertook to break the decree'of court which made Mrs. Bethune his legal guardlail. < name provisional, bnt was, in fact, to remain In existence for an indefinite period, until the time when terms of union with the United States shou'd have been agreed upon. The Minister Plenipotentiary of the Un ted States w Hawaii was in person at his post and the Fenate of the United States was in 'session. The President sent to the Senate the name of Mr. GreSham as 8ecrctarv of State, and that body, March 5, confirmed the ap­ point •< ent. It W68 at that lime publicly FOREIGN. * SICILIAN unrest is spreading to the mainland of Italy and Naples is thieat- ened with street riots. IN a riot in Sicily growing out of the anti-tax agitation four persons were written Instructions, not made public until November last, must have been forwarded to Mr. Blount after his departure from Washington, as they bear date March II. The treaty sent to the Senate by the outdoing administration Feb. 14, was withdrawn bv the President March U, between the time of Mr. Blount's depanture and the date of his writt n instructions. Then follow copies of the instructions to Mr. Blount, with Mr. Cleveland s greeting to President Dole. The nar­ rative then proceeds to relate Mr. Blount's acticn in hauling down the American flag and the investigation which he made. It then discusses at killed and many wounded. . . ..XI.T- . - II. - J. v , length the Presidents power to ap- PARISIAN police are taking extra-. | point a diplomatic officer armei with powers given to Mr. Blount without The report j The last word of accusation ;vas uttered by A, S. Trude at noon Friday; an ' hour later the Judge charged the jury, and sixiy-two minutes I after Prendergast's fare wa* commit­ ted to twelve of his peers a verdict 'was returned, which read : "We, the < jury, find the defendant, Patrick Eu- ' gene Prendergast, guilty of murier, in the manner and form charged in the indictment: and we fix his pun­ ishment at death." The assassin did ' not falter at the announcement of his doom: ho bent his head slightly, and, touching his forehead with the • tips of the Angel's of his right hand, I then his breast, next his left, and lastly his right shoulder--making the "sign of the cro s"--he mumbled the words, "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." Later, ' however, he collapsed completely, and in his cell was overcome by the* most abject terror. WOMEN held their breath and looked at each other with trepidation while such stinging and plain words as they had never heard before outside of whispers were uttered by William E. Stead. And when he i-aid that women of riches and talents who wielded them not in behalf of their less for­ tunate sisters were more disrepu­ table in the eye.-s of God than the worst woman of scarlet in Chicago's vilest street, the startling audacity of the statement evoked such a medley of hisses, applause and startling evidences- of amaze­ ment that for two hours after he left the hall the women were constrained to talk in secret at what he had said. While the dazed condition into which the London editor-b bluntness had thrown the thrcngV still existed Mr. Stead went out. It was said said then that if he had not gone just when he did he would have been asked to go, but a little later the wom­ en began to inquire if there were not, perhaps, a little something in what he had said after all. "I do not know how he can be reached, but a man who would wantonly insult the best and purest element of Chicago soeiety as he has done should be com­ pelled to leave the city." This was the ccmipent of Mrs. W. J. Chalmers in speaking of the address. It was before the representatives of women's clubs that Mr. Stead appeared in Recital Hall, where women were gathered at the behest of the Chicago Woman's Club to confer as to plans to aid the suffering poor women and 3hildren of the city. The hall was filled. Dr. Sarph Haekett Stevenson presided. SILAS W. PETTIT, of Philadelphia, General Counsel of the Northern Pa­ cific Railway Company, has filed before Judge Jenicins. in the United States Court in Milwaukee, a petition for thq removal of Thomas F. Oakes. Henry C. Payne and Henry C. Rouse, the re­ ceivers of the road, alleging that they are parties to a conspiracy to iefraud the company, and 1 hat there­ fore their places should be declared vacant and other persons sub­ stituted for them. In support of his ordinary precautions to prevent threats of anarchists being put in execution. REGULATIONS for the yearly calling under arms of men completing their twentieth year ire to be enforced in Italy. NEWS that Great Britain has deter­ mined to seize the Gilbert Islands was brought to San Francisco^ by a calling vessel. A HEAVY decrease in British trade is shown by the yearly leview of a London paper. Imports fell off £17,- 5CO.OOO. AN engagement between insurgent and Brazilian Government ships is re­ ported to have taken place off Rio de Janeiro. COUNT BISMARCK, youngest son of the Prince, has received a letter threatening to blow up his house with dynamite. VICTOR PROSPER CONSIDERANT, a French legislator and author of Social­ istic works, died at Paris. He was born in 1898. , Two AMERICAN seamen were shot and dangerously wounded by San Do­ mingo soldiers. Other outragev on Americans are reported. A DISPATCH from Cape Town states that native runners have arrived at Fort Salisbury bringing confirmation of the reports of the annihilation by Matabeles of ('apt. Wilsop and the force commanded by him. The run­ ners f-tate that Capt. Wilson was sur­ rounded by the Matabeles, and that not a single man of the British force escaped. IN GENERAL THIRTEEN animals suffering from tuberculosis weve killed at Guelph, Ont. NORTHERN PACIFIC employes are in­ dignant at the restraining order issued by Judge Caldwell. EMPLOYES of the Northern Pacific are consulting attorneys with a view to preventing the proposed reduction in salaries. AMERICAN MINISTER THOMPSON is reported from Buenos Ayres to have recognize 1 the Brazilian insurgents as belligerents. GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN SOV­ EREIGN, of the Knights of Labor, be­ fore he left Philadelphia for his hoihe in Des Moines issued an address to the Knights throughout the country appaaling to them to protest against the proposed $200,000,-000 government bond issue. In closing his address Mr. Sovereign says: "I am in receipt of letters from the cotton regions of the South and from agricultural districts in the Went, declaring that the issuing of interest-bearing bonds by the Na­ tional Government will be considered sufficient provocation to justify a call to arms. The issuing of bonds is an outrage upon a liberty-loving people and should brand with eternal infamy every name connected with the dis­ reputable transaction." MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO* CATTLE--Common to Prime.... 13 SO • ^4'S Court at Fort Wayne, Ind.'. by Spencer t petition Mr. Pettit presents detailed &, Aiken as attorneys for Elizabeth statements of the way in which he de- Schafer against Eva Henderson for t c'ar9s Northern Pacific Railway $10,000 for slander. The defendant had accused the plaintiff of stealing two •ilk dresses. JEASTERN ARS looted five stations on fihe line of the Pennsylvania's New ZL York division, securing money and tickets. I/ , INDICTMENTS* against Drs. House ;. and Ferguson for dissecting Mind ' : Reader Bishop's body were dismissed , ; |a New York. ;* ' THE cruiser New York sailed from Brooklyn for Rio de Janeiro, where the will probably be joined by the Miantonomah. GEORGE GOULD'S attorney asserts no HofiS--Shipping Grades 4 00 SHEEP--Fair to Choice it 25 WHEAT--No. 2 Red CO Coax--No. 2 34 OATS--No. 2 > RYE--No. 2 45 BUTTER--Choice Creamery EGOB--Fresh 22 & POTATOES--Pet bu 60 & INDIANAPOLIS. CATTI,E--Shipping A OO Hons--Choice Llirht STOO 8HEXP--Common to Prune 9 < o WHEAT--No 2 Hed 56 COBN-NO. 1 White... 38 OATS--NO. 2 White 81 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE 8 ( 0 HOGS GUO WHEAT--No. 2 Red •. 67 CORN--NO. 2 34 OATS--No. 2 18 POBK--Mess » 2i CINCINNATI. CATTLE S oo HOGS g »i 8HEBP......... ......... 5*0,.... a 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Red.... •. COBN--No. 2 CATS--No. •„* Mixed K*E--No, 2 DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS Sheep WHEAT--No. 2 Red...... & 6 00 @ 5 SO m 3 76 «i & iff 81 35 30 ^ ' 40 2754 23 CO ft a 25 & S 30 & 3 23 & 67 <3 30 & 32 & 5 00 & 5 SS ® 08 & 34!A <$ 29 ©13 75 6S^@ 30 62 & 6 00 <3 6 fO & 3 75 '6»5fc 37 V <<$ 31 <3 64 •u the has been robbed and its directors en­ riched which throw into the shade any i fw-oZvn- ^ whlfJ"" of the achievements of the famous Fisk i * TOLEDQ." *" and Gould manipulation of the Erie WHEAT--No. 2 Red Road. Mr. Pettit shows how the di- « wlfiPJ* rectors of the road, who were all evi-1 RYE--No.'2 '.."."T... dently close students of the "Mikado" j BUPFAlio, took upon themselves the role I BKSF CATTLE--Good to Prime of "Pooh Bah," and that as di­ rectors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, they bought from themselves miles of branch lines of railway that were absolutely worthless to the Northern Pacific, at a Krofit to themselves of millions of dol-ir6. Within one year from the time these directors obtained control of the company they had saddled upon it branch lines of road and increased its bonded obligations over $60,000,000. Not one of the properties so acquired has ever earned the interest upon its 1 00 8 CO 2 00 eo 38 & 4 75 (9 fi fiO & 3 60 Qt CI & 3# to $7,590,100. Money continues to flow to this center in* an unabated stream, the increase in cash being $4,774,900, of which $1,785,700 was in specie and •2,979,2C0 in legal tende rs. Loans were expanded $1,319,900 and the circulation was contracted $144,600. It is quite probable that. Conprws will authorise a bond issue in the near future, and there is no doubt that the New Yovk , banks will take a large portion of the j issue. The averages, as exhibited in • the statement, compared with the same time last year, are as follows: : , Dec. 30, l>m. Deo. 91,1892. Loans... ..... .$417,C«tfi(<>0U $437,722,000 Specie... 1CO.31C.400 76,968,300 Leirals.. 101. IOH, a<:o 42,018,600 Deposits. 600,437,800 444,68!!,400 Circulation 18,111,030 r»,M4,c.oo Total reserve ^07,424,000 $117,936,900 Reserve required lie.,con,460 111,147,850 Excess of reserve 80.815,160 0,839,650 GLOBE THEATER BURNS. CONDEMNED DIE. THf M-AYER OF CARTER '""ineON MUST HANG. $ 31'S<£ 32 HOGS--Mixed Packers WHEAT--No. 1 Hard No.'» Red MILWAUKEE." WHEAT--No. 2 Spring., COBN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 WHITE RYE--No. L BARLEY--No. 2 POBK--Mess HEW YORK. CATTLE Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red. COBK--No. 2. OATS--White Western B WTTEB--Choice POSK--Kew Ueus 00 @ 30 (3 : s» <a <w & 3 60 & 4 CO (I 71 & 62 68 & H4 & , » @ mm 49 ® 12 25 @12 75 3 00 @ Q 60 » 7 > (<9 b 0Q £ 23 @ 3 25 6Tft 43 & 44 36 @ 40 H 0 » 18*6 ®14 50 « 37 6ih 5 25 5 AO 72 035* 69 24H 30 . 48* 60 the consent of the Senate .goes on: This covers all that is needed to show how the President ignored the plain language of the constitntlon. He has assumed to appoint Of his own volition, without the advice or the senate, a diplomatic officer with paramount powers. To try to argue that Mr. Blount was not a diplomatic officer of the United States, but only "my repres utative. is Idle." There is no ground of debate now whether the present Hawaiian Government was rightly or wrongly established nearly tw. lve months •go. The i»8uc is directly before the House whether to aj>i rove and commend the course of the present administration as dli-closed by himself. If a President, without the consent of the Senate, can H< nrl a paramount diplo­ matic officer t > supersede a minister, leaving the latter only routine duties, he may do it in Great Britain or in Germany as well as In the Hawaiian Islands. That officer, according to t£e President's apologists, is only the "President's commissioner" and not an officer in the diplomatic services of the United Sta es. The sa-> e right asserted here to appoint an ambassador under the name of a commissioner would allow the President to appoint any agent of hio own without conference with sny other branch of the government to exercise judicial functions paramount to judges already in office by and with the Senate's const nt. After a review and consideration of the course of this administra­ tion as appears from its own records, the mi­ nority of your committee have no hesitation in recommending the adoption of the following substitute l or the resolution reported by the majority: WHKHEAS, Executive complications to Congress disclose that the executive depart­ ment has been fuinifthlng to a Minister 1'lenl- potf ntary ot the United States secret instruc­ tions to conspire with the representatives and agent s of a deposed and discarded monarchy for the overthrow of a friendly republican f overnment, duly recognized by all the civil-zed nations to which said minister wa* ac­ credited, and to which his public instructions pledged the good faith and sympathy of the President, the Government and the people of the United states: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this House that such intervention by the executive of the United States, its civil or military representa­ tives or officers, without authority of Congress. Is adflngerors and unwarranted invasion of the rights and dlenitie-i of tho Conuress of tije United htate*. and a violation of the law of nations, and further "Resolved. That the manner of such at­ tempted intervention by the executive and methods UBed are unworthy of the executive department of the United States, while the confessed intent of such intervention is con­ trary to the policy and tradition of thedlepub- lio and the spirit of the constitution." TARIFF WILL PRECEDE. .Other Legislation Will Await the faesig-e of the \Vl!son BUI. A Washington dispatch says that it is generally agreed among Lemocratic Senators that the liffeincial question will be allowed to remain untouche t in the Congress until thetaiiff bill shall be disposed cf. henat r \oorheea re­ plied to a question concerning his sil­ ver bill that no effort whatever would be made to press it until the tariff bill should be out of the way. Then, he said, the bill would receive attention and he thought it would prove the solution of the problem. He said he felt confident that after Senators and members had an opportunity to examine it they would see its merits and put it through both hcu-.es before adjourn­ ing. Represf n ative Bland has also saul recently that he did not expect to try to got up hid free coinage bill in the House until after the disposal of the tariff There is more or less talk of Secre­ tary Carlisle's suggestion favorable to 'the issuance of bonds 'to pro­ vide for the Government deficit, but that with other financial questions will probably go over tint 1 after the tariff question shall be settled There is a general feeling that primarily the tariff is of greater importancj than any other que tion at present, and the belief is gaining ground that there will be a great effort to provide for the deficit in connection with the tariff bill in some way without issuing bonds. It is known that the silver men who approve bonds have practically ap­ pealed their cases from Congress to the country, and they will be prepared to use a vote for bonds against any man who does not favor silver, and to make the war all the fiercer on account of bonds. MILLIONS OF IDLE MONEY. New York Associated Banks Still Accumu­ lating Cash. The New York Financier says that the surplus reserve of the associated banks of New York has now reached the enormous sum of $80,815,150. The official report of the clearing-house shows an increase in the reserve of $2,877,375 fcr the five business days ending Dec. 30. The actual cash on hand, compose ! of $106,31 (>,400 in specie and $101,708,200 in legal tenders, amounts to $207,424,600. To an ordi­ nary mind this sum is almost incon­ ceivable, but it becomes plainer when it is known that if it was all in gold eagles and if one man was to attempt to count it, he would bo more than three years and six months going through the operation, if he counted one gold piece a second and worked for five consecutive hours each day. What to do with the surplus cash has become a problem which isThore intricate than the famous fifteen puzzle. The banks are making no money, and it is more than probable that at least one bank will shortly go into liquida­ tion on account of the unprofitable business which it is forced to carry. The aggregate deposits of the clear­ ing-house banks is over $500,000,000, and the gain for the pa?t week amounts Boston's Famous Flay-Hous® a Prey to names for the Second Time. Fire at Boston originating In the Globe Theater, Monday night, caused the destruction of the theater and nearly all the other buildings in the square bonnded by Washington and Essex streets, Hayward place and Har­ rison avenue. The total damage is not known, but will reach into the millions. The fire was discovered in the coat- room of the theater, and in fifteen minutes the entire building was in flames. The building is so loca' ed that it was impossible for the firemen to enter it, or to reach the flames except cn one side, and in the rear was an old erection filled with old buildings which would go very quickly if once ignited. Across tho" street Irom the theater are three large hotels, and almost a panic existed among the guests, fcr at this point Washington street il not more than forty feet wide, abd the heat from the' thea­ ter fire was intense. Fifty fire engine* Eoured water upon the flames, but so ard was the fire to get at that no per­ ceptible effect could be 6een. At 2:10 there were five explosions of consider1-, able force, which scattared the embers of the fire sky ward and threw down the wall between the theater and the store next south toward E-jsex street. The whole block seemed doomed, and in five minutes the square bounded by Hayward place, Essex street, and Ha& rison avenue was a solid mass til flame?. The theater building covers 15,510 square feet of land. In this square there are fifteen buildings besides the Globe Theater on Washington street. The explosions were caused by the calcium tanks in the theater. At 3 o'olock the fire was put under control by the falling of a great party wall which served to smother the furnace within the square. There was still the danger of the explosions, but j anxiety wa* soon allayed in that respect. | There is not a building of the dozen or 1 more in the square that is unin­ jured and with only three or four ex-1 ceptions not even the walls will be saved. Among the largest losers by j the fire are the Bryant & Stratton . Business College: R. T. Almy & Co., j retail clothing; Thomas White & Co., j Flinn & Mahoney, European agents; S. C. Chase & Co., rubber goods; Hotel , Pierpont; Burleigh's trunk store; A. ! T. Regan, shoes; Leache's sewing ma­ chine parlors,Willcox & Gibbs, sewing ' machines: A. F. Robinson &Co., ana others. The Globe Theater is the sec­ ond theater of that name on the same site TOOK A FIRM STAND. Prendergast Is Found Gulltjr of Murder as Charged--After One Hoar's De­ liberation Decides Hte la 8«ae--Bfake* the Sign of the Cross. Death the Penalty. The Prendergast trial ended in Chi« ^ago on Friday, and death is the pen­ alty decreed against the slayer of Car­ ter H. Harrison. The last word of awful accusation was uttered by At­ torney A. S. Trude at noon; an hour later the Judge charged the jury, and sixty-two minutes after Prendergast's fate was committed to twelve of his peers a verdidt was returned, which read; "We, the jury, find the defendant Patrick Eugene Joseph Preddergast, guilty of murder, in the manner and and form as charged in the indictment, and fix his punishment at death." The assassin did not falter at the an­ nouncement of his doom; he bent his head slightly, and. touching his fore­ head with the tips of the fingers of his right hand, then bis breast, next his left and lastly his right shoulder-- making the "sign of the cross"--he mumbled the words, "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." The trial was begun Dec. 6 and occupied just twenty court AB8A88IK piiHoiwun United States Action as to Brazil Prevent­ ed European Interference. What might have been a serious in­ ternational complication growing out of the Brazilian troubles is now re­ garded as having been practically set­ tled by the firm attitude of the United States in the matter. The sharp re­ buke administered to Admiral Stanton for saluting the insurgent flag and the ma-sing of armored Cruisers off the Brazilian coast have cer­ tainly had a more important pur­ pose than the mere desire to maintain an indifferent neutrality between Mello and the republican government of Pre ident Peixoto or the protection of the private interests of American citizens. A Washington dispatch says that Secretary Gresham was advised some weeks ago that there was some­ thing more behind the., plans of Ad­ miral Mello than the disci n ent of a few naval officers, and that 'unless shrewd diplomacy were u-ed the United States might. become involved in hostile relations with seme of the great European powers. It is well recognized by tho friends of the Brazilian Republic in this coun­ try that Admiral Mello stands for the monarchical element in Brazil and that he has baen endeavoring to secure the support of some of the great powers in overturning the republic. Mon­ archist circles in Paris and some of the other European capitals have been in a flutter of expectancy regarding Mel- lo's movements, and it is declared they have been looking to the young son of Count d'Eu, who is the grandson of Dom Pedro, to bacomo the head of the restored empire. THE IND+AN TERRITORY. Governor Fishback Thinks It a Nursery of Crime and Lawlessness. Gov. Fishb^pk, of Arkansas, has pub­ lished an open letter to President Cleveland relative to the condition of affairs in the ] ndian Territory. The Governor believes they are such as to cause the gravest alarm, and that they may result disastrously to all the States in the Mississippi valley. He believes the Territory to be a very hot-bed of crime and lawlessness and the rallying place for all the desperadoes in the country. He says "a very large per­ centage of the bank and train robber­ ies which take place in the West are organized or originate in the Indian Territory. * * * During the past twelve months there have issued from the States of Arkansas, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma Territory sixty-oqp requisitions upon Indian Territory au­ thorities for fugitives." Another evil which Gov. Fishback thinks is due to the evil doers who flock to the Territory is the demorali­ zation of the Indians. Associating with criminals, they themselves, in a short time, become wholly corrupted and ready for any lawless act. Finally Mr. Fishback says this state of things "suggests the very terious one-tion whether the time has not arrived for the Federal Government to assert it9 light of eminent domain over this portion of the naticnal territory." FIFTY MILLIONS STARVING* days. Two months ajo and a day from the time Patrick Eugene Prendergast committed his crime the death watch was set at his call to remain with un­ remitting vigilance until he is led to the scaffold. There was an impressive silence in the court-room when the verdict was brought in. Few of those who were in the court-room when Judge Brentano gave his instructions to the jury had left, for there was a general feeling that the jurors would not be long in arriving at a verdict. It took the Judge twenty-five minut s to read his instructions, the jurors stand­ ing while they were being given. The instructions concluded with forms of verdicts to fit every possible con­ clusion at which the jury could arrive. These, together with all the letters and papers which had been introduced in evidence, were handed to Bailiff Busse, who led the jury to one of the jury rooms adjoining the court room. At the same time iha prisoner was taken back to the jail to await the de­ liberations of the twelve men who held his fate in their hards. Judge Bren­ tano retired to his chambers, and the lawyers and visitors at the trial, among whom were a large number of ladies, remained in their places or gathered in groups to discuss the outcome. An hour after the iury retired Bailiff Busse was informed by the jury that they were ready to appear in court. He immediately notified the judge and passed out through the covered pas­ sageway leading to the jail to notify the officials there to bring the prisoner into court. Those in the court room knew when they saw the bailiff pass to the jail that a verdict had been reached. At once all conversation ceased. The jurors with grave fa :es filed in and took their accustomed seats. The judge took his place on the bench. The prisoner, pale and anxious, was brought in by Jail Clerk Price. "Have you agreed upon a verdict?" inquired the judge. Most of the jurors boweu assent: some of them answered audi­ bly. "Hand your verdict to the clerk to be read." and Juror Sutter, who had been chcsen foreman, handed the folded document to Clerk Fitzgerald. While the clerk in measured tones read the verdict every ear was atten­ tive to catch its fateful words. Scarcely was the reading concluded when Clerk Price and Bailiff Busse, who stood on either side of the prison­ er, started with him toward the jail. They had-nearly reached the exit from the court-room when the Judge called them back that the prisoner might be present when the jury was pol ed. To each juror the clerk put the question: "Was this and is this now your ver­ dict?" and each, as his name was called, rose and answered, "It was and is." When the last arfswer was given the prisoner, supported by the two officials, was taken back to jail. "You, gentle­ men of the jury, are discharged from further duty," said the Judge. Mr. Wade made the usual motion for a new trial, which the Court directed to be entered, and the Prendergast trial was at an end. National Congress at Lahore Asks the Gov­ ernment to Succor Them. The resolutions adopted by the Na­ ticnal Ind an Congress declare that 50,00l',000 of people are on the verge of starvation, and urge the Government to take immediate steps to succor them. The resolutions adopted by the Congress also recorded the deep regret- of the members at the hasty enactment closing the mints, which it was claimed further burdened the people with tax­ ation and disconcerted important trades and industries, notably the cotton-spinning industry. In addition the Congress emphatically protested against the exchange of compensation to undomiciled European or Eurasian employes and banks. The next Con­ gress will meefe&t Madras. TO FIGHT A THISTLE PLAGUE. A Bill Introduced In Congress Appropri­ ating si.ooo.ooo. A bill ha^ been introduced in Con­ gress for the apprjpriation of $1,000,-' 000 to be expended in the extirpation of the Russian thistle, which is de­ scribed as "the most pernicious mem­ ber of the vegetable kingdom." The Russian thi&t.e was carried to North Dakota by some Muscovite immigrants in the seed of grains and plants which they imported. It has spread over both Dakotas, in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin. Whenever a brisk autumn wind blows from the northwest or west its seed is wafted across vast belts of territory on the downy growth which it produces. It scatters everywhere, and is a uni­ versal nuisance and pest. The descriptions of the plant are al­ most sensational. From the main stalks new offshoots p.o.'ect in all di­ rections, and from these off? hoots, as they ripen, further, steins extend, like the cactus growths,1 until a single this­ tle is as big as a scd cabin. It is a more destructive pest of agriculture than all other plants and all insects combined. It covers the ground, shad­ ing the young crops and absorbing, with superior suctional force, the moisture and all the sources of nutri­ tion in the soil. Men and animals are compelled to wear sheetiron bootlegs in passing through the thistle fields in order to protect themselves from its pricks, which are not only painful but as poisonous as the sting of a wasp. In Siberia the thistle has driven farmers entirely away from many hundred square miles of fertile territory, has choked up the irrigating canals, and has made the highways impassable for man or beast. Si "'M? ;- CHICAGO'S WOMEN. VrntmrnOtm U aa ttreat as *ft*t «t the Mem Though much MA been written about " * the destitution of Chicago worknsMHL *' comparatively little has iMenjaidatoKit ^ the condition of the women of that city, • v. and yet- their sufloi-iiig ami. ciosire to get work are quite an great. Huuuieuo ^50,-5.^ besiege every shop looking for posi- tions as clerks; as many more answer the few advertisements which appear s for domestic tyelp. AH of them, when questioned, have most pitiful sto­ ries to tell. One woman spoke to a reporter as follows: "My hus­ band is a laboring man, and we have five small children. We have lived for some time^ in the basement at No. 323 West Chicago avenue, where we paid $4 a month for very poor quar­ ters. When my husband got out of work the landlord b3came afraid we could not pay the rent, but we have done so for four months. Now my husband goes out every day looking for work. He don't find any and the landlord asked us to move out, fearing we could not pay him. But we raised the money and offered it to him. In­ stead of taking it the landlord sent a man to the house, who put me and the five children out of the house, and then threw our furniture upon the ' j.,, sidewalk while my husband was away. . Speaking of the situation a leading Vy Chicago merchant said the other day: ' ;. "There is no question about it, the women breadwinners of Chicago are '"^3 infinitely worsa off than the men. In spite of the large sign I have posted on < my office saying that no help is wanted, i1-vJ I have every day at least 200 women who beg for something to do. They are for the most part inexperienced in v* ,,V any line of business, but they come to * > . the retail stares ir. hope of finding po- ; ̂ sitions. Not a day passes that I do not" assist some of these applicants to tide over some of their necessi ties of the moment, for many of them confess to f . ; me that they are responsible for the S, livelih od of their families, and some * • ' of them a e in extreme destitution.*, , •'<; On behalf of the many unemployed, men, women and boys in the city the Protective Agency, 828 Opera House 1 v Building, has issued an urgent appeal V to farmers and others who may need help about their premises to give em- '" f- ployment to the worthy one? among these people. Many of them will gladly work for their board, as hundreds of them are now sweeping Chicago's streats in return for a soup-houte tick­ et. Inquiries made to the agency at address given will be promptly an­ swered. -me. M : • WHEAT AND STOGK. The Condition of Both Is Reported mm Generally Good. Reports have been received by the Farmers' Review from its corresw>r\d- ents in twelve States, on the condition of winter wheat and farm stock. Winter Wheat--In Illinois the crop seems to be In fair condition. In some counties It Is ?et email, having made little growth |Q the all. on account of the exceptionally dry weather. It Is, however, wol) rooted and healthy as far as can be ascertained. Unless some disaster overtakes it, the crop as a whole will be a good one. • In Indiana the general outlook is coed, in spite of the fact that in some sections the sround has been freez­ ing and thawing, and the snow covering has been insufficient. In Ohio the general con­ dition is good, though in many counties it is small on account of late sewing. In Michigan- % ion^ a large part of the crop is covered with sn< and its condition can only be guessed at. I supposed to ire in from fair to good conditio In Missouri the crop looks well considering the very dry fall and winter. In Nebraska rain is needed. The condition is variously reported as fair and good. Iowa reports little winter wheat sown. Where it has been put in it is 1 quite generally reported as good. Snow cov­ ers it in some counties, so that its condition c nnot be certainly told. In Wisconsin the - crop Is in fair to good condition, and has been _• well protected by snow through i.'ost- of the f severe weather. It is still covered with snow > to such au extent that little danger exists. Farm Stock--In Illinois farm stock is look­ ing well. Among the hogs cholera is prevail­ ing in some counties In Indiana feed is re­ ported as plentllul and stock in good condi­ tion. In Ohio the general condition is reported good. Stock in Michigan looks well in spits of tho poor condition of the fall pastures. . Stock in Missouri is reported In exceptionally fine condition, and those animals being fat­ tened for market aie making rapid gains. • Iowa reports feed plentiful and stock doing well Fodder is plentiful in Wisconsin and . stock, as a rule, looks tine. The general con­ dition is good. Minneso;a report* stock as ; good and healthy. The same condition exists ^ 1 the Dakotas. k Notes of Current ETettt*. : '4 THERE are 100 cases of grippe at Weatherly, Pa., a town of 3,000 inhab­ itants. CHARLES COLLINS, wanted for mur­ der and robbery, was arrested at Free- port, Pa. W. J. FOUST, assistant postmaster of Thornton, Texa3, Was arrested for em­ bezzling $750. RICHARD FITTENREINER, an electric light lineman, was killed by a falling pole at St.*Loui8. JOHN C. ALTON, found'dead at Osce­ ola, Iowa, is supposed to have been killed by tramps. MARTIN FINN, a fa- mer, was way- layed and murdered while going home from Falmouth, Ky. ROY SHUBERT, a Belmont, La., boy, was blown to pieces by the explosion of a box of dynamite. THE village of Brantford, Ont., is under water, owing to a sudden flood in the Grand River. FIVE whites and nineteen Mexicans have been killed in a race war near - Cherrillos, Mexico. POPULIST members of the House will urge the adoption of a graduated tax upon all big estates. WILLIAM HAWLEY, a burglar, com­ mitted suicide in the New Jersey peni­ tentiary at Trenton. FOUR men were probably fatally hurt at Derringer, Pa., ip a fight between Austrians and Poles. FARMER PIRA, who killed two confi­ dence men at Sioux City, Iowa, waa", wildly cheered on acquittal. - ' CLARK FRANCIS, aged 16, of Beat­ rice, Neb., broke through the ice in Blue River and was drowned. JAMES COLLINS, of Covington, Ky., kicked a Newfoundland dog, and was ,1 so badly bitten that he will die. 1 GEORGE ASTLEY, of Springfield, Mo., was shot and killed at Wichita by ; John Keefe,'a farmer, who surren­ dered. AT meetings of the railway employes of the Lehigh Valley system, report# of another strike were emphatically denied. CHAUNCEY H. ANDREWS, the million­ aire railroad, coal, and iron operator, died at Youngstown, Ohio, after a long- sickness. EIGHT convicted White Caps at Jack­ son, Miss'., were pardoned by Governor Stone, who urged them to become good citizens. C. K. CARSON, collector of the Oregon Improvement Company, was arrested at San Francisco, accused of embez­ zling <$4, COO. ISRAEL MCLISH, a prominent Choc­ taw, Was shot and fatally wounded by three assassins near White Chimney Mountain, I. T. WILL ARD P. HOLMES, Kansas City, Mo., president of a suspended banic, was arrested on a" warraat charging him with fraud. FARMEX. GOTTHOLTZ, near New Castle, Pa., essayed to come down the chimney as Santa Clams. It took a&, hour to dig him out.