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PLAINDEALER MCHENRY VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ILLINOIS •fLAYPGTB'E INSANE. BRUTALITY CHICAGO HOSPITAL, s. ;:1v (Totted Ihndlti Riddle afTrahi with Bol • let> -- Death Decides a Domestic Dte agreement at • Ball -- McKane Le»nu { the Sine Sins Lock-Step. w -- Sickening Cruelty. f "AFPAH® at the Detention Hospital In Chicago were conducted in an inhu­ man and shamsfully disgraceful man- - «ier during a part if not all cf 1891," •'{ i tflec'ar>?8 a committee of the Board if Cook County (Illinois) Commis- ^lonerF. This conmittee, ecn>ist- &" " five commissioners, has been f, ^ art, work investigating affairs at the -*! . Detention Hospital since Jan. 4, and has jbut recently completed its labcr3. The &»V.- - <*"' • Commissioners were lei to make this jnves .igation through letters from the "V" - fjhysieian^ at. the Kankakee Insane \; Jvsylum, saying that many patients ar- 1 fj flv jd bearing numerous marks of inal- '/«• ^rV'atment, and that some even died %'f- .. > apparently from the effect of these *<»*•' „ Injuries. The disclosures in the *fv < * import to the Beard are horrifying, -v' ,fiPatients, the committee says, have ..Jjeen strapped down and beaten and ' their wounds neglected s-o a^ to result -|n blood poisoning and death. Others ire sent on to Kankakea w'th the t!. Jnarks <jjf narrow straps upon their «)odies, showing that 'they had teen St rapt ed down tight'y for long perit ds, and yet the phys'c ans at Kankakee jfeave found no occasion for restraint in '.jfce cases of these sums patients Rafter theiq^ arrival there. A strange " feature of the revolting case is that a large number of the barbarites were practiced by the fsmale attendant* upon patients of their own sex. The male attendants, though, were cruel enough. No regard appears to have been paid to the decencies of life. Male attendants, it is said, were called in frequently to disrobe cr assist in : lisrobing female patients, and other female patients who dared to prote-t were threatened with punishment if they did not keep silence. St. Joe Train Robbers Fail Tht« Time. FIVE men attempted to hold up the east-bouncl Bock Island passenger train t three miles east of St. Joseph, Mo., Friday- evening at 7:25. Torpedoes Irene placed on the track and one of fhe robbers industriously ' swung a 4anger' signal red light. Engineer Jpatrick McKinnej' at once divined the Surpose of robbery and put on a full ead of steam. He and his firelnan Crouched doWn to the floor of the t ab and not a minute too soon, for when the robbers taw the move they fired a •Volley into the engine and cab, but luckily hurt no one. The train dashed through amid a shower of bullets, the ' -bandits wild with rage firing into the floaches as they passed and creating Consternation among the passengers, irho crawled down under th ? seats and fetid their valuables. When the train peached Stockbridge it was found over 10() bullet- had hit it. The robbers •re undoubtedly the same gang that ifeas twice successfully held up trains. ^ Officers are after the "gang. McKut'i First Day in Prison. J , WHEN the convicts in Sing Sing ,f, prison were marched from their cells * to the lower dock on Friday morning, •'the last man on the line was John Y. McKane. His hands rested on the ' shoulders of a horse-thief from New York. McKare. with his companion, filed into the large breakfast-room and eat down on a rude wooden stool. In ^Ifront of him was a tin cup filled with a bint of black coffee, made of lurned bread crusts, and two slices of unbut- tered bread. This was McKane'sNirst breakfast in prison. McKane ate his breakfast. As eoon as breakfast was over McKane wa3 marched to the clothing shop, where he was placed in the hands of the instructor for his first lesson in cutting trousers. Dead Men at a Dance. WHU-E a dance was. in progress in Madison County, North Carolina, Geo. Hensley told his wife it was time to go home. W. R. Shelton, Jr., told her to stay as long as she liked. Both men took hold of her. Hens'.ey shot, Shel­ ton through the heart, tut despite his wound Shelton shot Hensley three times and then fell lifeless, with his pistol ready for the fourth shot. Hens­ ley fled to the woods an.I is supposed to have died. fe'1* Blown to Atoms. SA , A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in |L « Jf » rJ the waste separating the building of |5:5^V;;g^||ji.ithe Repauno Chemical Company at i' " . Gibbstown, N. J. The force of the f" Vr1- \ shock was so great that it was felt in | - A f ' ; towns fifteen miles away. Levi Evins, C X- <me of the workman, wae blown to jatoms. The separating buHding was ;; ^destroyed and the surrounding struct-j-r-r" j od. M': "IS ^ : fjrl ; pleaded <«ot guilty to the indictments against him. He immediately left the court-room, his bail of $25,000 teing continued. No date was set for the trial. CAPE ANN, a quaint old Massachu­ setts fishing town, is in mourning for the loss of fourteen sturdy fishermen, who sailed in the schooner Henrietta last November for Newfoundland's banks, and for four others of the crew of the schooner Resolute. Repc rts of the two disaster j have iu*t been re­ ceived, and ai is tho custom with the simple folk of Cape Ann the occasion was made one cf universal lamentation and mourning. THE four New York witnesses in tho trial of Dr. Howard, at" Jackson, Tenn.. who pleaded guilty to the charge of perjury, were each fined $1( 0 and sen­ tenced to three years' imprisonment in the Columbus Penitentiary by Judge Hammond. The names of the four witnesses are: E. H. Brock .v ay, Wra. J. Gleason, EdgarE. Smith andGeor.e H. Heatley. They testified at the trial of Dr. Howard as to the manner in which his business was conducted in New York and London. • ««»•<»«» warp daman-, IP;" n , f % . "vf 5 r 1 S* t.1 ' - ^' V - BREVITIES, ' ' . / •- ^ ' 1' " " -' , ski X- - . * IT is authoritatively denied running behind at the rate of 56,000,- 000 a month. THE President has sent the following ncminations to the Senate: Treasury-- Augustus Healy of New York, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Dis­ trict of New York. State---Charles Jones of Wisconsin, Consul General at St. Petersburg; Albert Fowler of Mary­ land, Consul at Stratford, Ont.; George Truesdell, Commissioner of th? District of Columbia. COMMISSIONER MILLER, of the In­ ternal Revenue Bureau, has decided to issue a new series of internal revenue stamps to tike the plac«- of those now •in use. The new stamps will be smaller in size, more artistic in finish, and different in color from the old ones. The vignette; will be changed and psrtraits of modern statesmen, chiefly Secretaries of the Treasury, will take the place now occupied by state^mon of the past. FOREIGN. 1 GENERAL ™TTASQUEZ, the fugitive President of Honduras, has been given an asylum in Salvador. NEWS comes from Rcme that Rev. Dr. Burtsell has won his case and cant' return to his old charge, the Church of the Epiphany, at New York. A TERRIBLE boiler explosion oo«i curred at the big iron-works at Alex- anierovsk, Russia. Twenty-five mett' were killed and ten were seriously in-; jured. • THE French chamber of deputies, by a vote of 465 to 2, has invalidated the election to that body of Daniel Wilson, ex-President Grevy s son-in-law. Wil­ son was charged with electoral corrup­ tion. IN Pisa during a performance of "Othello" at the Theater Nuovo a pe­ tard was thrown into the auditorium through a window in the rear of the stage. The explosive missile burst witn a loud report and created the greatest excitment, but did not injure anybody and did not damage the thea­ ter. A SENSATIONAL story is current in military circles at Moscow that a fight has taken place on tlt^- Russo-German frontier between a detachment of Rus­ sian dragoens and a number of Prus­ sian Uhlans. Several are reported to have been killed'on,.tooth Bides. The iracai arose out of Jffg) fact, it is claim 3d, that Prussian Uhlans were using the Russian eagle fixed to a frontier post as a target. The aggres­ sors, it is said, were the Russians, who, after making ai request that the Prus­ sians select some other emblem, a re­ quest that the Prussians ignored, charged upon them. A brisk and san­ guinary engagement followed, in which several men were killed on each side. The Russians fought with fury and the Prussians were finally forged. to retreat. IN GENERAL CONGRESSMAN WILSON is reported to be much improved and his friends believe he will recover. DANIEL SLAUGHTER, who killed two of the guests at a wedding in North Carolina, was taken from the Sparta jail by a mob and hanged. FLINT bottle manufacturers are re­ stricting production owing to wage changes contingent on the passage of the Wilson bill. Eight factories have closed down during the last two weeks. THE Mexican revolutionist, Gen. Juan M. Corlina, whose escapades alohg the Texas border twenty years a^o are a part of history, is dying at his home in the suburbs of the City of Mexico GRAND MASTER WORKMAN SOVER­ EIGN, in a public speech at Des Moines, la., Sunday afternoon declared he would violate the injunction placed upon him by Judge Jenkins at Milwau­ kee in regard to the employes of the Northern Pacific road It was at a meeting of railway men called for the purpose of organizing a branch of the American Railway Union. Several hundred men were present. George Howard, Vice President of the union, made a speech about two hours long, and then organized a union of 175 members. At the conclusion of this Gen. J. B. Weaver made a Bhort speech. He said: "I recognize in the American people three classes-- the producer, manufacturer, and distributor. You are of the last class and you are doing right to organ­ ize. In order to get your rierhts you must combine, just as do the men with whom you are associated. I am glad to see all movements of this sort and wish you every success." General Master Workman J. R. Sovereign at at the closing of his speech said: "I shall speak to the employes of the arrived Armstrong was there and gave Northern Pacific as I have the right himself up. The arrest was made so to, and as sure as there is a God in quietly that not a single person about ' heaven I will violate the injunction of ESTERN. DAVIS BROS.' Golden Rule Bazaar at San Francisco, Wias burned. Loss, $200,000. " AN important meeting of the West­ ern Union of Insurance Managers was held in St.Louis at the Planters'Hotel. The vexed question of commissions was discussed at length, and the managers of several companies who are charged with blocking the low commission move came in for some sharp Criticism. :• UNKNOWN,, burglars at an early hour Wednesday morning entered the j farmhouse of Henry Gierman, near Schofield, Mich., shot his wife dead, fatally beat Gierman, who made a he­ roic defense of his home, and then stole $701) that wa> hidden in the bed, and escaped. Gierman was treasurer of Exeter township, and had just col­ lected a large amount of taxes, which he had secreted in his bad. The sur­ rounding country is being scoured by citizens, and it is not thought the murderers can escape. CAPT. C. B. GRAHAM, an English­ man, distinguished for his military record, died at Whatcom, Wyo.", Fri­ day afternoon, having been long in ill- health, as a result of wdunds ar.d hard­ ships. He was a member of the famous •Light Brigade, immortalized by Ten­ nyson, ana one of the survivors of tho six hundred wh ) rode into the "valley of death" in the great chaQKe of Bal- aklava. He was a prominent Mason and Odd Fellow. He leave? a wife, to whom he was married three years ago. AT St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. J. G. Chap­ ter and Mrs. Annie Guerrin, a widow, have been at outs for some tiiAe, the former alleging that the widow was endeavoring to supplant her in her husband's aifections. Friday afternoon Mrs. Chapler sneaked into Mrs. Guer- rin's house and, meeting the widow in the hall, dashed a handful of cayenne aepper in her eyes with the remark: Now you can't tell a gocd-looking man from a bad-looking one." While Mrs. Guerrin's eyes were badly in­ jured, her eyesight will te saved. IT is rumored that a paper haj been circulated in the vicinity of George­ town, Colo., favoring the secession of the silver States from the Union. It is thought that the idea is being ad­ vanced by cranks who advocate a peaceful retirement of the silver States lor the purpose of annexing them to Mexico. Rebellion is not threatened if the Government rejects such a prop­ osition. The petition has been circu­ lated in a number of mining camps, and one has also been sent to Denver. It is said that Mayor Parker, of Georgetown, is at the head cf the movement, but denials of the state­ ment have been made. Conservative people of the State look upon the prop­ osition with no favor whatsoever, CAL ARMSTRONG, escaped convict and defaulting Deputy Treasurer of Tipton County, Ind., was quietly ar­ rested at the Palmer House, Chicago, Monday by an officer from Kokomo, Ind., and taken to the penitentiary at Michigan City, Ind., where he will serve a sentence of three years. A rm- | strong was a preacher, then got into ; politics, became Deputy Ccunty Treas- j urer under his father, commenced j playing the races and patronizing pool j rooms, stole $6),<.00 county money, was [ arrested as a defaulter, tried, sentenced to State's prison for three years, broke jail at Kokjuio, and came to Chicago. He expected friends to furnish him 1 money with which to reach Mexico, but j they failed him. As a result he tele-! graphed Sheriff Simmons of Tipton ' County to come and get him, saying he : could be found at the Palmer House. 1 The Sheriff sent an officer. When he the hotel, not even Detective Carthy, knew anything about it. SOUTHERN." MC- F- Y J W *• FT." :• KJ ' is authoritatively denied that |., ̂ President Carnot has demanded the ' irecall ot Ambassador Dufferin. ) "ILL MILES FINLEN won $35,000 in a game |p>f dice at Helena, Mont., Tuesday. Re- ently Gen. C. S. Warren secured an ption on a mining claim for $15,000. inlen offered him *10,000 for his bar- ain, or $25.00ii for the mine. Warren emanded $50,000. Finlen proposed a game of dice whether he take the op­ tion off Warren's hands at $15,000 or pay Warren $50,000. Warren agreed. He threw a pair of fives. Finlen threw three deuces and won $35,000. MRS. SHROEDER, on trial at Mani­ towoc, Wis., for murdering her Ijtus- band, confessed to giving him poison. RETURNS from Brazil indicate the election of Senhor Prudente de Moraea. for president, and Senhor Victorius for vide'president. RickARb CROKER, the Tammany chief, and Gov. Hogg and party were -U^Btertained at Houston, Tex., by the L«l[t-Handed Fishing Club. After the banquet the Croker party proceeded to a-, ? - EASTERN. Two MEN have died and a dozen others are dangerously ill from eating food cooked in a copper kettle at a public sale at Somerset. Pa. The dead men were Jeremiah Ringler and Alex­ ander Rhodes. FLOYD J. CARR of Bushville, N. Y., a young farmer residing near the home of the aged couple who were murdered Thursday night, is suspected of having committed the crime and was accord­ ingly arrested. ERASTUS WIMAN appeared in part 1, Ganer*i Session*, at iJew York, aad CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.... HOGS--Shipping Grades SHEEP--Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. J OATS--No. 2 RYE--NO. T BUTTEH--Choice Creamery. GEORGE S. ROBERTS died suddenly at Baltimore, Md. His wife, who was with him when he expired, and who has, owing to a bronchial trouble, not spoken for nine years, gave a loud shriek and recovered her voice. THE Center ville ( Ala.) Female Sem­ inary burned down on Thursday night. The loss iis $15,000, with no insurance. A party of young people returning from a ball gave the alarm in time to avert great loss of life. As it was, sixty girls escaped in their night gar­ ments, and buffered intensely from the cold. "" A BLOODY riot occurred Wednesday I in the Kanawha coal region in which i POTATOES--Per_bu.. at least one man was killed, three fatal­ ly injured, and many others hurt. The trouble was at Eagle, W. Va., a mining town on the Chesapeake and Ohio Road. A crowd of striking miners at­ tacked those at work, and in an instant the trouble grew far beyond the power of the looal officers t> control. The Sheriff telegraphed Gov. McCorkle, and three companies of State troops were at once dispatched to the scene. WILL SMITH, Ben Oakes, Jack Hol- comb and Frank Cassells were prevent­ ed from burning and looting the town of Gadsden, Ala., by being arrested and placed in jail. Their plot was to cut ! off the water supply, set fire to several stores simultaneously, and, taking ad- i vantage of the confusion, make a gen­ eral sack of the city. The arrested men are leaders of a notorious gang , which has terrorized Etowah County for several years. A female confede­ rate disclosed their plot and aided in their capture. WASHINGTON. SENATOR HILL is reported to have said he would fight the Wilson tariff bill at every stage. THE official statement of treasury re­ ceipts and expenses shows that for the eight months of the pre-ent fiscal year the expenses of the Government have exceeded the receipts by $48,000,000, the aggregates standing: Receipts, «199,6JO.OOO; expends, $247,500,000. Tkls shows that the Government is Judge Jenkins and defy him to im­ pose on me a fine of $500 or six BLonths in iail. The injunction he issued is the most infamous document against workingmen ever recorded, and he would be a poor laboring man indeed who did not have the backbone to go against it. It is a disgrace to our mod­ ern civilization and deserves the se­ verest condemnation. I fear no courts. If there is a United States Marshal here now let him serve his process." MARKET REPORTS. $3 00 4 00 8 35 67 84 29 46 30 18 60 & 6 25 & 6 60 & 3 76 (ft 68 s 00 INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping 3 00 Ho'is--Cholc'? Li sent 8 00 SHBEP--Common t<Prime..;:.- a 00 WHEAT--No. 2 l<ed .J, CORN--No. 2 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE... Ho«s 8 00 WHEAT--No. a Bed CORN--No. a OATS--No. a BAKLETC--Minnesota. CINCINNATI. CATTLE HOGS SHEEP WHEAT-NO. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. a Mixed Rrs--No. a. DETROIT. CATTLE HOGH v.->. SHEEP 34)4 80 48 27 1» 60 63 34X>@ 81 & 6 00 & 3 60 ® 63}(t 86 % 8J & & too 8 00 © 6 25 M & 85 Si & 33 » 0 SO 47 & S3 8 re & 4 75 3 00 e# 6 00 a 00 *5 4 00 67 68 87V m at* S3 0 32* »1 & 63 WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--NO. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Red COEN--No. 2 OATB--No. a White B*K--No. 3. BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard. COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White RTE--No. % MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. a Sptlng.... CORN--N0.8 OATS--No.2 White. BYE--No. l BARLEY--No. a.. FOBK--Mesa. NEW YORK. CATTLE HOGS.... SHEEP WHEAT--No. a Red... CORK- NO. a OATS--WUte Weetera......... BUTTER--Choice Pow--Meu 8 00 8 00 2 00 63 86 SO 67 & & 4 75 Ld) 6 26 <& 3 60 TO .*£> 40 7s- •» 68 67 83 & $ 0 1 ANOTHER 1'AIE (3f Y. CALIFORNIA'S INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. Some Trpleal Settnrw ef Ik* Karljr Hie fcorle Life ot the State--Some of the Old Gambling Dens Baprodneed -- Small-Pox vHiemii Alarming. , In the 8an«et CltjT. The California Midwinter Interna­ tional Exposition, at San F rancisco, is proving a great success. Tho Expose tion has awakened alt the energies of the people of the State and there is now on exhibition such a variety of products of the soil--agricultural, hor­ ticultural, vitienltural and mineral--as was never before seen on the Pacific slope. Eastern and foreign exhibitors are well represented in their choicest and rarest wares. The most interesting features of the exposition, perhaps, are the reproduc­ tion of old California architecture--ob­ ject lessons of the early historic life , of the State. Many \ of the mining cab- l i n s h a v e b e e n brought from the $7 mountains and set u p in the grounds. These have a his­ toric value from their associations with men who have s i n c e a c q u i r e d wealth and fame. Among th6 o 1 d miners' cabins, one of the shabbiest is IUF W. Mackay £ lived for several years at Allegheny, S i e r r a C o u n t y , LIBERAL AETS BUILD* where he made his INO s first strike, which furnished the means for his further work in quartz-mining. Another eq dally interesting cabin is that which once belonged to Hon. George H. Per­ kins, now United States Senator from California, and ranking as one of the millionaires of the State. Another cabin was occupied at one time by Mark 4 la THE ORIENTAL VILLAGE, MAIN STREET! CAIRO. Twain, when he was working as a miner. One of the mining camDS has all the frambling accessories which character-zed the old camps, keno and faro out­ fits, a roulette wheel, etc., »nd the games are called by Mexican women who have presided over similar games in the roughest camps of California, Arizona and Nevada, and who have witnessed more fiarhts than they could jount on their jingling bracelets, made out of gold coins contributed by • 'ad­ mirers." There is also a dancing hall, the inevitable saloon, the counter of which is formed by two planks laid on barrels, and a hotel, which is an exact APPROACH TO THE FINE ARTS BUILDING. reproduction of the pion er hostelry There is also a museum which is stocked with relics of the ;49 period. In one corner of the grounds is a model placer mining camp. Here are flume, sluices, rockers, long-toms, riffles, and other devices for catching gold. Several old miners show the v i s i t o r s e x a c t l y h o w t h e g o l d w a s d u g out in '49. The ground has been "salted" with go'.d dust and small nuggets, giving the spectacle the full air of realism. The large buildings on the ground are splendid in appearance and con- 4* @ 13 00 S-J 9 76 300 A3 37 82 67)6 86 SO* 61 70)6 41 86 66 157)4 34 80)4 46 & 60 «$12 90 & 6 00 ® 6 00 & I 60 ® 63 " 13)4 43 36 36 43K<3t si i » Hu .Mr v _.rrr- REPRODUCTIONS OR THE OLD MIKING CAMPS OR UNITED STATES SENATOR PERKINS AND JOHN W. MACKAT. stitute another World s Fair City on a smaller scale. Of several sceuea on the grounds we print illustrations SMALLPOX HOSPITAL. Dr. M. R. Trumbower, State Veter- inarian of Illinois, was nome time ago rejuefcted by Dr. J. W. Scott, Seo3s- tary of tho Slate Board of Wealth, to proceed to Lombard, Dupage County, and make an inspection of the cattle that are used there for cultivating vaccine virus. He did so, and has sul> mitted his report. After giving the character of the cattle selected from the Union Stockyards at Chicago, he tell 4 how they a e cared for on the vaccine farm, and concludes his report as fellows: Tills buiihoss has beAd carried 00 for the past seven years, anil at present from twelve to fourteen cattle are used weekly, about 35.003 points are produced fron\ twelve cattle. So far as I can see. every­ thing U conducted la a proper manner; no diseased or Improper cattle are used, and the product; ou^ht to be reliable and be­ yond suspicion. The State prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., has been placed underdose quar­ antine because several of the convicts engaged in securing jags have been seized with smallpox. LEAGUE OF WHEELMEN. Charles IX. Lnssomb of Brooklyn Is tile New President. At the annual meeting of the League Of American Wheelmen held at Louis- ville, Ky.,Charles v . 1 J* jL H. Luscomb of Brooklyn was elccted President. Mr. Luscomb is a graduate of the C o l l e g e o f t h e City of New York a n d C o l u m b i a Law School and is a well-known and s u c c e s s f u l N e w York lawyer. He became identified CHAS. II. 1/nseoMB. with wheeling in­ terests in the summer of 1883, and shortly became captain of the Brook­ lyn Club, holding that position three years. In 1^88 he was elected Presi­ dent of the League of -American Wheelmen, a position which he filled with great credit. The present membership of the League is .'!<!,95!\ an increase of 2,646 the pa it reason. Massachusetts, Penn­ sylvania and New York rank in the order named in the I eague member­ ship at the present time. There ha?( been a decrease in the membership of' women during the pest season, the membership of the fair sex being now 915. The Auditing Committee of the League has taken care of over $100,000 in the past yoar. ROAD-MAKING IN THE COUNTRY Efforts of the Agricultural Department Meeting with Success. The inquiry being made by the Agri­ cultural Department into the systam of road management and road-making methods in the United States is meet­ ing with favorable results. Among otner things the co-operation of prac­ tically all of the principal railrcads in reducing freight rates on road mate­ rials has been secured. The edition, 3,0W copies, of bulletin No. I on "Re­ cent Road Laws of the Various States" has been exhausted and a reprint, has been ordered. Information is being gathered for further publications for which many applications are now on file. Concerning some of the results leached, General Roy Stone, who is in charge of the investigation, said: "it appears that while many short sections of good highways are being built in various ] arts of 'the country, with a gratifying general cheapness in cost and freedom from burdensome taxation, yet in some of the States a serious setback to the movement has occur red through the failui'e of legis­ lation intended to ltdvance it and relied upon for general result*. The optional country road laws pa^e 1 in 1893 have nowhere proved acceptable to the county boards, except with two counties in Michigan. It is clear, therefore, that these laws are either in advance of public education or at variance with the public iudgment in the States con­ cerned, and that a new departure must be taken to insure anv prompt and general advance in highway construc­ tion in those States. "Fortunately it has been able to point to tfte remarkable success of the State aid and local option law of New Jersey, and to commend it with certain modifications to the consideration of other States. That law proceeds upon the theory that while the country as a whole may be unwilling to embark in road building, those smaller communi­ ties which are themselves willing to contribute fairly toward the improve­ ment of their highways may justly de­ mand county and State aid in carrying on such improvements." MR. WILSON MUCH BETTER. Chicago Thinks It May Be Necessary to Quarantine Patients at Home. The Chicago Health Department is in a quandary as to what is to be done with smallpox patients if the disease does not rapidly abate. The hospital is becoming so crowded that it will soon be impossible to accommodate any more within its walls. Tuesday there were 160 cases under treatment theie, and nearly all the available space in the budding and in the new wing was occupied. Cots were placed in the cor­ ridors in the upper part of the build­ ing and the drying-room had been con­ verted into a ward. Dr. Potter said to a press correspondent that the outcome of the crowded condition of affairs will probably bo that the city will abandon the policy of removing all pa­ tients to the hospital, "It will proba­ bly be nec e ssary," said he, to quaran­ tine the patients in their homes. This was done during the epidemic of 18S2, and it can easily b i dena now." There wore fifteen new cases found Tuesday and the sufferers were removed to the hospital. An Indianapolis dispatch -says that Indiana authorities may ask that all passengers tv> or through Indiana be subjected to inspection by the Illinois officials, and if this be refused quaran­ tine stations will be established along the Indiana line and the trains out of Chicago will be held for inspection and examination. The officials believe that less inconvenience would be occasioned the traveling public by ap­ plying the remedy in Chicago, but if this cannot be done the Indiana authorities will act on their own soiL ' 'L x ' Bats with BelHh Atole.-n Nutritions Dish, Prepared^by Indinn Women. A late bulletin from Dr. Underwood, who is nursing Congressman Wilson at Guadalajara, is very encouraging. His pulse is steady, his temperature fairly normal, and his appetiie good. The Mexican physician has prescribed atole as diet. Atole i#ti very nutritious dish. Corn is ground by hand by Indian women, and the meal is then parched and sift?d into boiling hot water or milk in the same manner as used in mush in the United States. It is, how­ ever, much more appetizing than mush when freshly ground and cooked. Con­ gressman Tarsney has the best Indian woman obtainable cooking it fresh at all hours of the day, as Mr. Wilson eats it with relish, but can take only a few spoonfuls at a time. Consul Gen­ eral C rittenden received a message from Mr. Tarsney Faying Mr. Wilson is improving, that the climate is splen­ did, and he thinks the patient will pull through. Mr. Wilson is much pros­ trated,but it is balioved that the crisis is past. GEN. MILES LEAVES CHICAGO. Ho Will Succeed Oen. Howard In the De­ partment of the East. Gen. Miles will soon be transferred fro.11 Chicago to New York to fill the place caused by the retirement of O.O. Howard. Gen. Miles will go East at the beginning of the new ti- cal year. It is expected that Gen. Miles will re­ main at this new station until Septem­ ber, 1895, when he will be p omoted to succeed Gen. Schofield as commander of the United States army. Newsy Paragraphs. THE story that-Gov. McKinley is tc try as successor to Calvin S. Brioe in tho Senate is denied. THE lumber output of the Pacific Ncrthwest has decreased during the last year 700,000,000 feet. A CYCLONE near Homer, La., de­ stroyed several buildings and killed a white child and a negro girl. TELEGRAPHIC reports from many points in Coloralo and New Mexico disprove the reports that range stock isdving off by thousands on account of severe weather. ANDY WENTWORTH, a foreman of he fire department of Columbus, Ind., has brought suit against the city for $5,U00 for injuries received by being thrown from a hose reel that had up­ set in a ditch. All the glaciers in the Alps would not equal one of tfee largest la ctur ter­ ritory of Alaska. SENATE COMMITTEE INOORSE8 HIS ACTS IN HAWAII. Ifojarptr Report o*> Htimll Mm the President to Task -- Senator Morgan's Finding Not Indorsed by Messrs. 8her- ^n&an. Trja, Doipb and Davla. •• ^ Minority Blames Blow The Senate's Hawaii Committee submitted its reports--800 printed pages--Monday. The majority finding. Written by Mr. Morgan, justifies Mri Stsvens' actions except in proclaiming a protectorate, and finds nothing ir­ regular in the appointment of Mr. Blount, but in effect t ays the evidence taken by the committee under more favorable circumstances leads the 00m- mittee to different conclusions than those which he formed. . This report is concurred in as to all its essential findings by the majority, the Republican members of the com­ mittee--Senators Sherman, Frye, Dolph and Davis. They condemn the appointment of Commissioner Blount as unconstitutional; say the executive orders placing the navy in the harbor of Honolulu under the orders of Mr. Blount or Mr. Willis were without au­ thority of law; that the order of Blount to Admiral Skerrett to lower the flag was unlawful and susceptible of being construed as unfriendly to the provis­ ional government, and regard the in­ tercourse of Mr. Blount and Mr. Willis with the deposed Queen as violative of international law and unwarranted. They consider the President had no right to reopen the predetermined le­ gality of the provisional government, and regard any /discussion of tho "per­ sonal intentions" or "good faith of either Mr. Blount or Mr, Willis as im­ material. The report of Senators Butler, Tur- pie, Daniel, and Gray dissents from that portion which declares: The only substantial irregularity in the conduct of Mr. Stevens, the late Minister, was his declaration of a protectorate byi tho United 8tate3 over Hawaii While exempting from censure Capt. Wiltze of the Boston and his officers, they add: We can not avoid the conviction that the inopportune zeal ot Minister Stevens In the project of annexation caused him to ex­ ceed the proper limits of his official duty. 131s conduct was directly conducive to bringing about the condition of affairs which resulted in the overthrow of the Queen, the oirff&nizatlon of the provisional government, the landing of the United States troopa, and the attempted scheme of annexation; and upon this conclusion his conduct is seriously reprehen3ible and de­ serving of public censura Senators Butler and Turpie file a supplemental report, in which they say they are heartily in favor of the acoui-ition of these islands by the United States in a proper manner, but not by taking advantage of internal dissensions, for which they believe the United States in some manner respon­ sible. The conclusion of the Morgan report --to which Messrs. Sherman, Frye, Dolph,^and Davis, the majority, dis­ sent--is as follows: Therefore your committee concludes to' report that the President of the United States has not, in this particular, in anyt wise been a party to any lrre^ul^rlty on any impropriety of conduct in his high of-i Bee. The committee also finds nothing worthy of criticism in the negotiation of the treaty of annexation with the provis-' ional government of Hawaii. In the opinion of the committee, based upon the evidence which accompanies1 this report, the only substantial irregu­ larity that existed in the conduct o7 any officer of the United States, or agent of the President, during or since the time of the revolution of 1893, was that of Minister Stevens in declarlne a protectorate of the United States over Hawaii, and in placing; the flag of our country upon the govern­ ment building of Honolulu No actual harm resulted from this unauthorized act, but as a precedent, it is not to be consid­ ered as being justified. The committee has not considered it necessary to present any resolutions stating the conclusions indicated in the report, and asks that it be discharged from the further consideration of the resolutions under which this report is m a d e . . ^ \ ' y r A GIGANTIC SCHEMf! fo Cons tract a Canal from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie. A stupendous canal scheme which if | carried out will entirely revolutionize the traffic of the great lakes, is said to be in contemplation by a number of capitalists in Chicago, New York, Bos- \ ton and London. The proposed canal : is designed to immensely facilitate the ! passage of vessels from Chicago, Mil­ waukee and other northwestern points J to the East, and to render entirely un- | necessary the present long route i through the Straits of Mackinaw, j Lake Huron, St. Clair River and lake j and thence down the Detroit River to j Lake Erie. The plan now said to be under se­ rious contemplation is to construct a canal directly across the State of Mich- j igaa from tne eastern s-hore of Lake Michigan to either Detrt it or Toledo, Ohio. Should either of these plans prove to be feasible, it will result in one of the most gigantic enterprises of j the century. A number of capitalists • from Chicago, New York, and Boston j are said to stand ready to back the project to the extent of ->'50,€00,000, and , it is also said that the English capital- ' ists who are interested in the Canadian Pacific Road have also shown a decided disposition to render material financial aid in perfecting this great work. At present those most intimately connecte.1 with the scheme are unwill­ ing to divulge their plans, or to allow the use of their names, but it is £tated on reliable autho ity that preliminary surveys of several proposed routes for this contemplated canal have already been made, and the feasibility of the project have already been vouched for by eminent engineers. _ One of the Elans under consideration is to tap iake Michigan at a point hear Michi­ gan City or New Buffalo, and to run the canal dircctly eastward to Toledo. Another plan, which also has a num­ ber of influential supporters, is to st rike Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor and tbence run in a northeasterly direction tp Detroit. Either of these canals would be about 180 miles long, THREE DEAD IN A BLIZZARD. Heavy Snowstorm in Texas. Arkansas, and at Other Points. Reports from sections of Texas and Arkansas indicate that a severe snow­ storm has prevailed there. A t Temple, Sherman, Denison, and Fort Worth tho snowfall is the heaviest known in over a decade. Several inches of snow have fallen in Arkansas and in some of the adjoining States, and in Indian Territory the cold is intense. Trains in Texas have been delayed in conse­ quence of the 6torm and some appre­ hension is felt by the cattlemen, who fear th^ storm may result disastrously to their herds. In the Seminole In­ dian reservation the bodies of Joseph Add, a negro, and two half-breed In­ dians have been found in the woods, frozen stiff. They were hunting, and, being caught in the blizzard of several weeks ago, perished. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPH& SENTATIVE3. Oar National Law-Makers aad WtuU The® Are Dotaff for the Good of the Country-- Varloos Measures Proposed, Dlscuaaedk :«•* Aeted Upon. - ^ ̂ , Doings of ceoarw, 1 •*¥• f- The proceedings in the House ooltbn<r' day were full of excitin? incidents ore* the Bland seigniorage bill There was a good attendance both on the floor and in the galleries. Immediately afler the read* Ing of the journal, Mr. Hatch. Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, stated that his committee claimed jurisdiction over the antf~o itlons bill, which had beep re­ ferred by the Breaker to tho Way® jand Means Committee, and he moved that It be referred to the Agricultural Committee, Mr. Hatch's motion was carried. Mr. Bou» telle, as a privileged question, then had read a long resolution expressing it as the sense of tho House that Mr. Willis should be recalled from Hawaii The battle over the silver bill was then resumed. Af­ ter speeches by Representatives Pence. Patterson, Flthlan. Tracey, Bland, aad Nelll came a row between Mr. Pence and several gentlemen whom lie attacked. Mr. Pence was called to order and the language excepted to was iead.after which he was al­ lowed to explain. His expianation did not satisfy, and the House voted by 60 to S& not to permit him to proceed. The Fenate held a short session. Mr. Morjran, Chair­ man of the Committee on Forelsn Rela­ tions, presented thereporton the Hawaiian investigation, and Mr. Frye gave notice that he would address the Senate on that subject. T he Senator passed the joint resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to the Antwerp Interna­ tional Exposition, and at 12:37 went into executive session. At 1:20 the Benate adjourned. Resolutions were presented in the House Tuesday afternoon by Congressman Vom­ ers, of Wisconsin, to investigate the ac­ tion of several United States Judges who have Issued Injunctions in railroad cases, most prominent among them JuBtlce Brewer, of the Supreme Court, They include also United States Judge Taft, Judge Ricks, of Ohio ; Judze Pardee, of Texas; Judge Beatty, of Idaho, jand Judge Dundy, of Nebraska. These cases all Involve the rights of labor­ ing men to strike and the decisions which are called in question extend over a term of years. Mr. Bryan, of Ne­ braska, Introduced In the Hoase a' bill to amend the Revised Statutes so as to permit in civil cases the verdict of three- fourths of the jurors constituting the jury to stand as the verdict of the Jury and such a verdict to have the same force and effect as a unanimous verdict Said Mr. Bryan: "Disagreements are usually caused by one or two members of the jury and-a three-fourths verdict would settle most cases, making; a great saving of costs." The Senate held another brief,4^- sion in which nothing of importance was . accomplished, and at. 1:20 o'clock ad­ journed. after an executive session of half an hour. In order that the caucus might be continued. After two weelcs ot obstruction Repre­ sentative Bland on Wednesday finally se­ cured the adoption of his motion to limit debate on the selgnloraze bill. A quorum having been secured. Mr. Outhwaite, from the Committee on Rules, reported a special order to dischar.ro the committee of the whole from further consideration of the pending bill and providing that after two hours" consideration in the House the previous question should be con­ sidered as ordered on the bill and pending amendments no Intervening motion to be In order. He demanded the previous question. The speaker had his name called on the demand of the previous question on the adoption of the special or­ der and it was sustained 170 to 10 one more than a quorum. rl he vote was then taken on the adoption of the special order. The quorum was lost on the vote on the adoption of the special order--165 to 11. three short of a quorum. Mr. Outhwaite. statin? that this question would come up as soon as the house convened again moved an adjournment. It was carried. The senate held a two hours' session the whole of which was given to a speech by Senator Frye in opposition to President Cleve­ land's Hawaiian policy. After a%port ex­ ecutive session the senate adjourned. The Bland bill for the coinage of the sil­ ver seigniorage and the stiver bullion in the Treasury passed the House Thursday by a vote of 167 to 130. The bill as passed was In the nature of a substitute for the original text of the measure, but the changes do not affect the material features of the bill. An analysis ot the vote ehows that 140 Democrats. 1ft Republicans, and 8 Populists (total 167) voted for it. and 79 Republicans and 51 Democrats (total 130', voted against it The bill for the rescue of the armament of tho wrecked Kearsarge passed just, before ad­ journment An unimportant session of the Senate took place, confirmation ot the fol­ lowing nominations being the only feature: Granville Stuart of Mon­ tana. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Paraguay and Uruguay; collector of customs, Martin J. Russell, Chi­ cago. Collectors of Internal Revenue-- James W. Hunter, Fifth District of 1111- J nols. Iowa: Bert J. Wellman at Manches­ ter. Illinois: Thomas A. Mcllvaine at Tuscola, Thomas K Garner at Paris. , Charles CL Chain at Bushnell. Julian J. Beall at Mattoon, Christian W. Barnhart at Wilmington. The Senate adjoined to meet next Monday. The House Friday entered upon the con­ sideration of appropriation hilia The for­ tification bill, carrying something over &2,000,000, was passed In twenty-five min­ utes and then the pensioo appropriation bill was taken upi An altercation occurred between Mr. Meredith of Vlreinia and Mr. Funk of Illinois over tho former's attempt to prove that there were many fraudu­ lent pensions on the rolls which al­ most resulted In a personal collision. Mr. Meredith, who waa the aggressor, rushed over .to the place where Mr. Funk was standing and shook his list in the latter's faca Hot words were spoken, but friends Interfered, and the Speaker re­ stored order before any blows were struck. Mr. Bankhead, Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings. ofTered a resolution for the appointment of a subcommittee to go to Chicago and investigate the Post- office Building there, with a view to deter­ mining the question ot its safety, etc. Mr- Bankhead explained the pressing necessity for examination. The amount involved 1 was large and the committees were unwill­ ing to make a recommendation without a | personal investigation. The rescgutlpn carried an appropriation of $1,500. It was | passed. The Coldest "Winter Known. The coldest winter on record was I that of 1709, in which rivers and lakes were frozen and even the ocean several! miles from shore. In Europe fro tj penetrated three yards into tho ground, f and people perished by the hundred in j their homes. Besides Those In New York. A list of the millionaires in thel United States shows that th«ire are iC in Alabama, 6 in Arkansas, 162 in Call ifornia, 17 in Colorado, 79 in Connecti-j cut, 1(5 in Delaware, 31 in the District of Columbia, 6 in -Florida, 11 in Georj gia. 3 in Idaho, 340 in Illinois, and 3T in Indiana. How the Chinese Woman Makes Tei In China a cup of tea is made by first pouring boiling water into the cup and then dropping the leaves in and allow-] ing them to soak a few moments. Slok-Boom Don't* DON'T appear anxious,, however grea^ your anxiety. DON'T let stale flowers remain in sick chamber. DON'T jar the bed by leaning or sit ting upon it. This is unpleasant one ill and nervous. DON'T ask a convalescent if he woultj like this or that to drink, but pretax the delicacies and present them in tempting way. DON'T be unmindful of yourself you are in the responsible position nurse. To do faithful work you mus| hare proper focd and stated hours rest.