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ftttg fprnniralr; 1. VAN tiVKE, Editor Md Publish*. & MCHENRY, 'H1'1" 1 Lf'ii ILLINOIS- BY WIREi Tht Latest Newt by Telegraph v * Jfreavt All Parte of Hi* '• ^ " World. fmtical (iosslp, Railroad Notes, Per­ sonal Mention, and Occurrences -r,I, P""'" " of Lesser Hole. s-H1: tiTEST DISPATCfftS. STRIKERS FIRED UPON. A Mob of Them Attack the Heading Com­ pany's Police--Seven Persons Hurt. SHENANDOAH CITT was the seen® of a terrible riot which resulted in the shooting of seven men. While employes of the' Shenandoah City Colliery, which is owned by the Heading Company, were on their way home they were met by a lot of boys who hooted and jeered at them. _ The men kept on and paid no attention to the boys until tbey became so rough that the coal and iron policemen were compelled to interfere. A few minutes later a mob of 500 strikers pounced upon the men who had assailed the boy6, and the officers opened lire on the crowd. John Cathers, Mike Hefiera, Patrick Brennan, John Brown, two Hungarians, and one of the coal and iron police were wounded, one probably fatally. Four of the strikers were arrested, taken to a justice office, and held to bail. Later the strikers made a rash on the Magistrate's office, broke the windows, and almost tore out the front. BUSINESS. Bradstieet Hakes an Encouraging Statement of the Condition of Trade. BRADBTREET'S, in its review of the trade outlook, has these encouraging words: The movement of merchandise at Boston, Sew York, Pittsburg, Louisville, Memphis, Chi­ cago, St. Paul, Burlington, Kansas City, St. Jo­ seph, St. Louis, aud New Orleans has generally tended to increase, the snow blockade having been raised, and the progress ot trade being toward Increased activity. From all directions word come* that the out­ look for spring business was never better, and that the volume of goods distributed during January exceeded the like total in 1887. An examination of railroad earnings per mile for four years shows that seventy companies earned an average of $5,538 per mile in 1887, against S5,159 in 1886, $5,191 in 1885, and $5,232 in lt&i. The outlook is uncertain for the coal- miners' strike in the near future. Within a month twdnty-three iron furnaces have banked tbeir fires, owin i mainly to increased cost of coal, rendering 2/200 employes idle. The re­ ports of business failures number 280 In the United States this week, against 2» last week, and 242 this woek last year. THE CIVIL-SERVICE. Ownce in the Rules Affecting Uncle Sam's Servants. A WASHINGTON dispatch states that "the President has approved and promul­ gated a revision of the civil-service rales, which makes several very important changes in the system of appointments upon tests of fitness applied to applicants for places in the departments at Washing­ ton and in the classified customs offices and postoffices. The commission has also revised the civil-service regulations to conform to the new rules. These re­ visions have been under consideration by the commission during the greater part of a year, and both have received careful consideration by President Cleveland. He read them at length several times, and mads changes and modifications both of matter and phraseology. Not one of the old rules or regulations remains in its original form." Minnesota Republican Conference. THE Minnesota liepublican League had * two days' conference at Minneapolis. Candidates and platforms were not dis- L the ItWkCPM voltes U- «Moit the " it* IR VteaStaai. Y, Searles1 of St, Cloud was elMbtt** Per­ manent chairman of the Leagwr. resolu­ tions were passed pledging the Stale to the liepublican party, extending sympathy to Ireland, and scoring the Democratic party for not admitting Dakota. A protection resolution was voted down. ing, the vibrations being severe onough to Tattle windows and dishes. TEN prisoners escaped from the County Jail at Uniontown, Pa., by breaking through the rotten floor of an unused cell into the cellar, and, making a hole in the wall, crawled through. ^'*'R WEST. . • Court of tMmtv in ' rendering a decision sustaining the validity . of the high-license law of that State, se­ verely criticises the parties responsible for J the loose drafting of the measure, the effect of their clumsy work being to make j it appear that some of its provisions are inconsistent The law will not apply to dealers who sell liquor in quantities of five ^gallons or upwards to be used off the remises where it U procured. INGHAM and Otsego Counties, Michigan, I iroted for prohibition, making sixteen "dry" counties in the State. THE great ico gorge broke loose at St. Louis on Tuesday, and smashed things dreadfully. Damage to the amount of $100,000 was done to shipping. A number of boats wore sank ana others were in­ jured. AT Lognnsport, Ind., John Stumbnngh pleajled guilty of burglary and was sen­ tenced by Judge Winfield to five years in the penitentiary. Stumbaugh was enraged at the length of the sentence and .swore copiously at the Judge, who immediately added nine years to the sentence. IN the District Court at Sionx City, Judge Wakefield rendered an important decision construing the Iowa prohibitory law. The decision is in a case where liquor was illegally sold in a billiard hall, and where the violation was not by the owner of the hall, tables and fixtures, but by another party, who had leased them. The tables and fixtures were confiscated, and the court holds that the confiscation is legal. THE oonvicted tally-sheet forgers at Indianapolis have moved for a new trial on the ground of numerous alleged ir­ regularities in the trial just closed. AT Barnesville, Ohio, the ^boiler of a portable saw-mill on Lafayette Bolan's farm exploded, killing John Arnold and Charles Sullivan, and dangerously injuring Benjamin Travis, Samuel Stubb, Joseph Stubb, and Frank Warwick. THE Michigan Supreme Court has'de- cidedthe Palms will case, reversing the decision of the court below. The result is that the children will receive the income ot the estate, upward of $200,000 yearly, and the grandchildren will get the estate. SOUTH. JOHN HOESCH, aged 28, was declared to be a lunatic in court at Louisville, Ky., caused by excessive smoking of cigarettes. AN Internal Revenue Agent, Dr. Joe B. McGee, 6hot and killed Ed Hickman at Bardstown, Ky. FIRE on the Union Wharf at Charleston, S. C., destroyed 2,000 bales of cotton, causing a loss of about $200,000, fully cov­ ered by insurance. CYRDS S. OBERLY, of the Galveston News, and a news purveyor for several in­ fluential journals in the North, has just died at die age of 49 years. Ho was a brother of Hon. John H. Oberly. Two SOUTH CAROLINA preaehers came to blows in a church quarrel, and the con­ gregation took sides and engaged in a gen­ eral fight; and it was not a colored church, either. WASHINGTON. THE following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued by the United States Treasnrer on the 1st inst.: 380,544,000 732. «7. UU0 TNTEREST-BKABLNO DEBT, Bands at per cent. ..$ onds at 4 per »nt lAing certiroaftas at 4 par con] t«n«top tuad at 3 per c«{»t •aite MtttnoaA^oBds at 0 pe: cipaL ^ terest Total. »1.0#8,600,fct9 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CBAJTED MNCE MATURITY. Principal. $ 8,914.365 Interest 176,331 14.UUU.OOJ M. 023,312 ,041,763,062 6,837,237 are going into the campaign on the aggres­ sive: that the le«der» realize that it would be *an evidence of weakness to play a waiting game until the Republicans have made their nominations, and they have mado up their minds to put their tic.Ytfc first in the field with Cleveland audr in afi likelihood. Gov. Gray of Indiana, upon it. Bein,' the party iu power, they hiive got tftr take the initiative." Mr. Goudy, who is on Jot mate terms with the President, says Mr. Cleveland has indicated no preference for any city, and is indifferent as to whers the convention meets. EX-LAND COMMTSSIONEB BFARKS Will be a candidate for Congress from (he Nine­ teenth Illinois Distiict against Mr. Town- shend, the present incumbent. SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, it ia pre­ dicted, will in a few weeks be out for the Presidency on a peace-and-good-will plat­ form between the North and South. THE executive committee of the Massa­ chusetts Democratic Committee adopted a resolution Saturday indorsing President Cleveland's recent message to Congress and calling upon Democrats to support it. THE Police Commissioners of Evans- ville, Ind., having appointed Frederick Douglass Morton, a negro, Secretary of the board, the polioe threaten to resign. FREDERICK B. DODOE of Michigan has been appointed Division Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, vtith headquar­ ters at Cleveland, vice John M. Baker, re­ signed. LABOR THE Riverside Steel Works at Benwood, W. Va., have signed last year's scale. AFTER two weeks' shut-down of the So­ lar Iron Works at Pittsburg, on account of trouble with the Amalgamated Association in regard to the two-job system, a com­ promise was effected with the bOO striking workmen, and work has been resumed. SINCE the beginning of the Reading strike nineteen of the forty-three furnaces in the district have gone out of blast, and others will close down this week. AT Potts ville. Pa., a number of dis­ obedient Knights of Labor went to work in a colliery, and when they emerged from the mine they were met by an angry inob of women, two gray-haired beldames bear­ ing rusty muskets in their hands. A young lass made an impassioned appeal to the recreant workmen, and ended by Hinging a loaf of bread among them. This was fol­ lowed by a bread bombardment from the rest of the excited women, and nothing but the rapid departure of a train of cars in which the non-striking miners took refuge prevented a scene of bloodshed. DAYS Of AWFUL AGONY FOREIGN. IN response to the visit of the Irish clergy and pilgrims who went to Bome to signify their devotion to the Holy See, the Pope expressed his desire for a peaceful settle­ ment of the Irish question. EIOHT persons have been convicted at Kanturk of attending meetings of supf pressed branches of the National League and sentenced to two months' imprison* ment at hard labor, says a Dublin dispatch. There have been five arrests in Donegal for offenses under the crimes act, and more are expected. Mr. Cox, M. P., in prison at Limerick, put on the jail dress without protest, and went to work in the Jtrison yard chopping wood and doing other aborsof ordinary criminals cheerfully. LATE advices from China are to the effect that the city of Naiyen, north of Ningpo,' which was submerged about a thousand years ago, has recently been partly exposed to view, and a number of vases, plates and other utensils of the Sough dynasty have been recovered by the natives. GENERAL. Berahamer and Coy llnst Go to Prison. JUDGE WOODS, in the Federal Court at Indianapolis, on Friday, overruled the motions for a new trial in the cases of Coy and Bernhamer, the convicted tally-sheet conspirators, Coy was then sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen months and to pay a fine of $100; Bernhamer to go for A year and pay a fine of $1,000. Minor Telegrams. TWUTTY-ONE furnaces are oat el blast to the Lehigh Valley. CiiABKE A Co.'s Solar Iran Works, at Pittsburg, have resumed operations with aon-union men. AT Port Biakely, W. T., opposite Seattle, two saw-mills, the largest on Paget Sound, were burned, at a loss of $250,000, with no insurance. THE American and California Sugar Re­ fining Companies at San Francisco ate fighting each other and prices have been ent li cents a pound, with prospects of a still greater reduction. Gov. LESIIXE, of Montana, has issued a ~ proclamation raising the cattle quarantine against Vermont and Virginia, and all of Illinois except that part of Cook County quarantined against by Gov. Oglesby July 9,1887. lia. DOCXKBT reported a bill to the Hoase of Bepreeentativea, on the 3d inst,, authorising the Appointment of eleven division superintend­ ent* of the railway mail service. A bill was reported for the relief of tbe sufferer* from the wreck of the Tallapoosa. Mr. Nutting of New York, offered a resolution calling on the Secre­ tary the Treasury for information in regard to the refusal of tlie Canadian authorities to •llow American wrecking vessels and ma­ chinery to assist American vessels while In dis­ tress in Canadian waters, and as to whether Canadian wrecking vessels and ni&chinery are permitted to operate in American waters. The amendments were cauucrred > in to the Hoase bill te punish crime in the Indian Territory. Tlx Senate was not in session. ,5 ^ ^ , <1 BAST. ' A fPHftHiB at New Bedford, Mass., ni MM hondted yards in a nude condition With the thermometer at six below aero, mad all he not for it was * wager of $19, PBOF. ASA P GRAY, the eminent botan­ ist, died at bis residence in Cambridge, Mass., after an illness of several weeks. Prof. Gray was the author of the text- Imoks on botany so widely nsed in Canad­ ian and American schools, whence his name is familiar in every household. A FIBE in the heavy wholesale dry-goods •district of New York in the vicinity of Broadway and Prince street destroyed swoperty amounting to $1,400,000. The lees wae amply covered by insurance. THE remains of Dr. Frank Wetzel, of Chicago, were cremated at Pittsburg in the presence of his widow. FIFTEEN car-loads of cattle and hogs -were frozen to death near Palmyra, N„ Y., and several car-loads of slock perished at ether points. FLAMES destroyed the great dry goods «stablishment of Barnes, Hwgerer A. Co., esi Main street, Buffalo, N. Y.» causing a total loss of $1,200,000. AT many points in New England shocks jit sarthquake were felt Wednesday morn J * '-t i' „ n'f .i v - Total. $ 3,091,340 DKBT BKABINO MO INTKBE8T. Old demand and bBgal-tender notes.8 346.737,930 Certificates of deposit lU,tt*5,UO0 Gold certificates 104,853,971 Silver certificates 179,1121,053 Fractional currency llass $8,375,834 estimated as lost ot destroyed).. 6,941,825 Principal. TOTAL DKBT. Principal .......... Interest Total i.„ fl,700,191,451 Less cash items available tor re­ duction of the debt $ 304,749,624 Less reserve held for redemption ot U. B. notes 100,000.030 .li 648,499,809 Total.; .8 404,719,624 Total debt less available cash items$l,£tt,4il,827 Net easn in the Treasury 86,230,7W Debt less cash in Treasury Feb. 1, 1888 91,210.211.081 Debt less cash in Treasury Jan. 1, 1888 11,225,598,401 Decrease of debt during month .$ I5t:;8<\320 Decrease of debt since June 80,1897 69,217,055 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE . FOB THE REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DKBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu­ ally outstanding f 101,853,971 Silver bold for silver certificates actually outstanding 179,322,053 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 10,045,000 Cash held for matured debt and in­ terest unpaid 9,088,584 Fractional currency 1,015 Total available for reduction of debt 9 901,749,623 RKBERVB FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts J an, 14* 1875, and July IS, 18H2 SlOO,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt-- A NATIONAL trades council of coke work­ ers has been organized., | JIRE destroyed the MoiU Ok^mbfr of ^oTJjjbaercfc, entailing a loss of $200,000. Thqr destruction by fire of a business block in Pittsburg caused a loss of $300,000, and Malone, N. Y., suffered a loss of $200,000 by a similar disaster. The printing es­ tablishment of ii. W. Kokker, State printer at Springfield, 111., was burned, and valuable documents and manuscripts destroyed. The loss is estimated at $100,- 000. The Chappell block at Eau Claire, Wis., was destroyed; loss, $G0,000. The Chemical Paper Company's mill at South Holyoke, Mass.; lose, $75,000. And the Western Theological Seminary, Bidge av­ enue, Allegheny City, was damaged to the extent of $15,000, while many stu­ dents lose their books and clothing. IT is said that Josef Hofmaun, the boy pianist, is showing symptoms of facial paralysis, brought on by overwork impair- ng his health and nervous system. A PITTSBURGH dispatch says that a natural-gas expert has returned to that city from Chicago with some bottled sam­ ples of the new fuel as found there. An analysis shows it to be natural gas, but of that quality known as surface ga<i. It in totally useless as a fuel because of lack of quantity, and has no more pressure than is to be found at the mouth of an illuminat­ ing or artiticial gas-burner. ThiB expert says that if Chicago wants to use natural gas as a fuel she must pipe it for a longer distance than has yet been done even in the natural-gas regions of Pennsylvania, lie says it will have to be piped from sec­ tions of Indiana and Ohio. >23,0:9,973 113,B17 (25,133,590 35,b7«,727 83,23U,7JJ Fractional silver coin. Minor coin : Total Certificates held as cash Hetcash on band Total cash in Treasury, as shown by the Treasurer's gen'l account. $550,992,686 THE Washington correspondent of the Chicago Morning New telegraphs that journal as follows: From a Democratic member of the Waya and Means Committee I have learned that tbo ma­ jority expect to have the turifi bill ready for | presentation to the full committee on Feb. 16. It Is not the present purpose of Mr, Mills and his associates to introduce their measure in the House, but as soon as completed to lay it before the full committee an t at once pro- j ceed with its formal consideration. The majority have gone over their work sev­ eral times, but there stili remain a number 1 of questions that have not been fully de- : termiued upon. The greatest difficulties are presented by the wool and iron schedules. While no final adjustment of the wool sched­ ule has been maae, it is understood that all raw wool is to be transferred to the free lint and a corresponding reduction made in the rates on I manufactures of wool. Manufactures of I worsted are to be advanced to meet the de- <' mands of the manufacturers of that claos of goods. No changes whatever have thus far been made on the existing rates on liquors, to- , baoco, books, silk goods, KU 1 manufacture)* of cotton, nor has anything definite been decided ; upon in relation to sugar or internal-re venue j taxes. In going over the bill the majority have I passed over those schedules and individual ar- : tides that involve the greatest amount ot con­ troversy. POLITICS. MB. W. C. GOUDY, a member of the National Democratic Committee, who has just returned to his home in Chicago after a week's sojourn in Washington, reports that the National Democratic Convention svill in all probability be held at Chicago «erly in June, or about two weeks ahead of the Republican convention. In an in­ terview with a Tribune representative he '• Wpprted as saying that "the Democrats MARKET REPORTS. NEW YORK CATTLE Hoos SHKKP WHEAT--No. 2 Spring No. 1 Bed. COKM--No. 2 OATS--White 1'OBX--New Mess. CHICAGO. CATTI>B--Choice to l'ri'me Steers Good Common to Fair HOGS--Shipping Grades SHEEP... WHEAT--No. 2 Red Winter COKN--No. % OATS--No. 2. I BABI.ET--No. 2 BUTTKR-- Cboice Creamery. Vine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, new KGGS--Fresh POTATOES--Choiee, per bu PORK--Mess TOLEDO. WHUAT--Cash CORN--Cash OATS--No. 2 White. CLOVER SKXD.. KANSAS OITY WHEAT--No. 2. CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash CORN--No. 3. . 1...* OATS--No. 2 Whit#"".* ItVK--No. 1 ItARLUT-NO. 2. "II....!"" PORK--Mess """ ST. LOUIS. ' WHKAT-- NO. 2 Red CORN--Mixed "* OATS--Cash * K YE IJAUI.ET *. PORK--Mess BUFFALO. CATTLB Hoos. BHKBP CORN--No. 2 Yellow...'...'.".'.'" * . EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Prime Fair Common Hoos KHKEP L**BS OtfA&A. CATTLE--Prime Common Hoos--Choice Mixed ftpaar--Prime Fair $5.00 5.25 6.0) .90 .93 .60 .41 14.75 6.00 4.25 8.50 5.00 4.50 .HO .47!i9 .78 0 .so a .23 «• .12 9 .20 .80 14.00 Bow a Tfllcher and Hi* Fnpila XMad of Starvation Dnr-i ,v. log the Blizzard. ^ ri li tbo Adven^nre of a Nebraska Young Without Food. ^ " ' ' "'A, - ^ • V . ' ffco •drofeun of a Teacher Wka Tried to Save Three Little Ones fym* Death. 4 ^• Stories of Actual Experience that the 0urio8itiea t)f Airy Fiotioni [Dnbaque (Iowa) One of the ghastly incidents of the fecent furious blizzard in Dakota has jast been made public. Mrs. Patrick, a widow, who resides in the little town of Peosta, about fourteen miles east of Dubuque, last night received the shocking intelligence that her son had been frozen to deata in the storm. George Patrick was a school teacher in an isolated district about forty miles north of Mandan, D. T. His school consisted of five pupils. On the day the blizzard began raging, rather than brave its fnry he concluded to remain over night in the school-hou^e, expecting that the storm would cease before morning. But the following day it raged fiercer than ever and the little school-house standing all unprotected upon the wide prairie was wrapped in the icy folds of the arctic hurricane and shaken to its very foundations. The horrors endured by that' doomed man and his liHle compan­ ions, the wails and sobs of the hungry and horrified children, must be left to the imagination of the reader. None of them were left to tell the story. Three days later they were all found stretched upon the floor of. the schoolhouse, frozen stiff, their features distorted by the pains of cold and hunger, and their forms huddled to­ gether as if in a desperate effort to prolong life as long as possible. The herois^ and self-sacrifice of the dead school-teacher will be an enduring monument to his mem­ ory. He had stripped himself of his outer garments and wrapped them about the children. He had broken the desks to EieceB and torn up the floor of the school-ouse to provide fuel, and when everything combustible that could be spared was gone, tortured by hunger and by cold, he had laid down with his pupils and with them died. The scene presented when the grief- stricken parents and friends entered the schoolhouse was one they will never for­ get. This is the most ghastly and painful record yet given of the ravages of tljat awful Btorm by which so many lost their lives. The remains of Mr. Patrick are ex­ pected to reach Peosta. He was reared in this county, and was a young man of fine promise and generally esteemed. Miss Royee's lerribke Exp**rien«Sk f (Lincoln (Neb.) special.] ^ Stories of heroism and terrible suffering during the great blizzard are coming in, and some of them more than rival the cu­ riosities of fiction. The wise and cour­ ageous act of the young lady teacher who strung her thirteen pupils together, tied them to herself, and led them to a house over a half-mile distant, is familiar to ev­ erybody. But the case of a young lady teacher named Louise Boyce surpasses any other instance, both in the splendid cour­ age displayed and in the protracted agony endured. • • > - Miss Boyce was teaching eight miles northeast of Plainview. On that fatal day she had three pupils--two little boys and one little girl--all very young. When the storm set in she started for the nearest house, twenty rods distant, with the chil­ dren, facing the sweeping, blinding, bitter blast--a very arctic gale. The childien soon caused her to become bewildered and lose \bol anlpinngltr iuse and schoolhouse. & 5.75 & G.00 •» 6.50 & .90H <9 .94 <<* .61 .4ft <515.25 O 5.50 i<» 4.75 *» 4.23 & 5.75 0 5.50 81 .48* .84 .B2 .30 .2) • li* .21 .83 .51 .33 4.00 .79 .43 .30 .70 .47 .34 .82 .77 14.00 .81 .47 .80 .64 .90 14,75 4.75 6.2» 5.00 «• 10 .88 014.50 0 .80 0 .51)4 0 .SI 4» 4.10 .80 .43* .32 .77 .47* .35 .83 .79 & 9 «• 0 <114.50 0 .81* 0 .47* 3 i£* a .95 •15.95 9 5.50 & 6.00 & 5.75 .55*0 .50 ^A<ter\waiiVfrijig kround trying to find Bhel- "ter the _children .refused to move, in fact were chilled and exhausted. She crouched in the snow in an oDen field, with her back to the Btorm, nestled the children under her wraps, pressed them close to her, and eheered and warmed them as best she could. The fury of the storm increased con- stantly. She called for help, but could not be heard ten rods away. For six ter- I rible hours she fought desperately with ! death. She clasped the freezing hands and feet of the children. She spoke words of ; comfort, tried to ward off the keen arrows i of death from the north, did everything j possible to keep the little ones alive through that terrible ordeal. But it could not be done. At about 9 o'clock at night one little boy fell asleep--forever--and was laid up- i on the snow. Then began the battle for the other children. Her own hands and feet.froze stiff. Chilled and almost ready to fall with exhaustion, she kept them alive nntii about 7 a. m., when the other little boy was overpowered by the cold and was stretched upon the snow. In three hours more the little girl also passed away and was placed beside the little boys. j The storm was then somewhat abated, and Miss Boyce was able to see the house, about thirty rods distant, and, by sum- t moning all her courage and strength, was able to drag herself to the door and will probably suavive, though both feet must be amputated. Miss 8 hat tuck's Three Days' Fast. lEmmet (Neb.)letter.) Many thrilling incidents and manv hair­ breadth escapes might be related," but I will mention only one, and that briefly: Miss Ettie Sbattuck, caught in the storm near a dwelling house, became blinded and bewildered, and couldn't find the house. Realizing she was lost, she fell on her knees and prayed God to lead her to a haystack and protect her through the Storm. Bising and stumbling forward she soon ran up against a stack on the prairie and dug into it with her hands and cov­ ered herself with hay, aud ihe snow drifted over her to such an extent that she was imprisoned there from Thursday noon until Sunday night (when she was found and rescued) without food or drink, a period of seventy-eight hours. A hungry wolf howled around her frequently, and a friendly mouse nibbled her hand. She was badly frozen, but is in good spirits and. slowly recovering. Story of Two Little Girts. [From the Minneapolis Tribune.1 It is related of two little girls of 11 and 13 years of age that they were late in going to school, and when about half way the storm arose and they turned back. After wandering about for a time they came to a straw stack. The older girl dug out the straw as f ir as she could. She then put her sister in ahead of her and crowded in after her. She took off their shoes, and when their feet grew cold she would rub them briskly. The younger girl fell asleep, but the elder kept awake and continued the rubbing process when necessary. The parents gave up their children as lost, but early Friday morning, afier the storm had subsided, the girls, none the worse for their experience, made their way home, and it is needless to say that there was great joy and rejoicing in that house. A wise head is sometimes found on very young shoulders. WINTER WHEAT. CONGRESSIONAL 4,75 4.00 8.60 6.00 4.75 *.50 8.75 8.00 5.00 4.(0 &7i 8.08 9 5.00 & 4.50 9 4.00 0 6.75 <9 6.50 0 6.25 0 4.25 & 4.00 (3 5.50 9 6.35 0 4.25 0 8.60 0 Ml AWPtTPWTFnT nnTffTTMOnp ilii L V Ln xx UJU wxi xuuii Covered with Snow and Therefore la Good Condition. The winter wheat summary printed in the Chicago Farmers' Review this week contains the following: "The winter wheat crop is at present mainly covered with snow, so that when this is the case its con­ dition may be correctly stated to be safe and unchanged as to its per osax. of, eaar dition girsn in our last repoi^* ^ « | ,'• 5 •' WgS'fr'-.Pl.. i /' • ' • • . I Work of the Senate and the of Repreaentathroa. MR. PLVHB oflerca A resolution in the Sen­ ate on tho 33th ult. icstiuotin# the poatctfBee committee to inquire into tbo causes o( the in- * efficient mail servict especially In the West and South. utU jir<«s«uteU newspaper extracts ana letters to kiuw iii« "i'tu.utrthMd" couii- tion ot thaservice iu uaui»ae, tuu result ot a stupid attenii't to mate* a record of eouuomy. The .-enate i.oatoitics cuiunutea rapcr til a«i- \ernely ou a } roposit.ou tu reUuce lettei-pos- tuge to imo eent. Mr. Moivau made his tu.rd speech iu the Sen at u iu oyi>ositiou to tlie luair education bill. Tiu henaut puused the Houhe bill umkfug an appropriation td eturv into effect the law eataojusmut! experiment statiuux at ugricu.tural colleges. Air. (J.ii.oui iim-oauotxi the bill introduced in tho ilouoe by Mr. Hender­ son tor tho construction of the Henuepiu Cauul, and appropriating » mt. OO. In the liuuse of l(ep- resentativeH. Mr. Cutcheou of Michigan intro­ duced a resolution declaring it to ue the seuse of tlie House tliat in any proposed revision of the tariff the principle of protection to Auieri- cau industry and tne uiaiuteiuarce of the wage* of American workmen at the American standard ou«ht to be d.otiuctly recognized and tlrmly adhered to; that dut es oua^ht not to be imposed tor revenue only, but tho production of those articles which the United htutes has abundant raw material aud lai>or to produce ouijht to be protected sufficiently to enable American prouueurs to main ain free competition in the American market, and that articles on the iree list should be selected from among such necessaries of life as are not produced in adequate quantities in this country. 'Ihe Speaker pro tem. laid be­ fore the House a letter irum the 1'ublio Printer, justifying ditcbar^os made by him, and denying the charge that the Congressional work of the oftiee is largely in arrears. After considerable denute the House adopted a resolution ordering an investigation of the administration ot the printing ollice during the incumbency of the present l ublio Printer and that of his prede­ cessor. Tho following bills and resolutions were introduced in the HOUSJ and referred: By Mr. Townshend, to place salt on the free list; by Mr. Lawler, atolisbin^ the tax on oleo­ margarine ; by Mr. Tarsney, for the orection in Washington of a statue to Gen. Custer; by Mr. Bland, for the farther coinage of sil­ ver and for tha redemption of nut.onal- bank notes; by Mr. C'hlpuian, prohibiting aliens from becoming officers oi c.>rporatiunH or ac­ cepting employment on ateaui or street rail­ roads, on any G veminent cr State contract work, or on any vessel wholly engaged in n vi- gatiue United htates waters ; by Mr. Owen, au­ thorizing a survey for the purpose of making and mnlutainiug a continuous waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. Ma. PLUMB'S resolution directing the Post- office Committee to( inquire into the causo of inefficient mail service, especially in the Sonth end West, was discussed in the Senate on the 31st ult. Messrs. Manderson, Morgan and Stewart favored the investigation,^while Messrs. Beck, Saulsbury and Keagan opposed it. Mr. Evans addressed the Senate in support of the Blair bill. The Senate passed Mr. Hoar's joint resolution for a con«titutional amendment changing the time f<;r the meeting of Congress and for the inauguration of tbe President. The Kenate passed the bill for a public building at Omaha, Neb., to cost, including site, S1,'2 ai,u0i>. Mr. Stewart introduced a bill providing thi.t, after ninety days from its passage, Chinese laborers shall not have the right to enter the United States on the ground of previous resi­ dence. The House Commerce Committee made two reports on the resolution providing for a Congressional investigation into the Beading Railroad troubles. The majority re­ port, wnich was adopted br the committee by a vote of 7 to 6, recommended the refer­ ence of the whole matter to the Inter­ state Commerce Commission. The minor­ ity report, signed by Messrs. Kavner (Md.), Anderson (Kan.), Tarsney (Mich.), Anderson (Iowa), and Logan (La.), recommend­ ed the appointment of a special commissioner. The House Committee on Banking and Cur­ rency reported favorably Mr. Dingley'a bill, au­ thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to invest the money deposited by national banks for the retirement of their circulation in the purchase of United States bonds at current market rates. The House passed a bill authorizing the con­ struction of a bridge over the Missouri Kiver at Jefferson, Mo. Bills were also passed by the House providing for the erection of pnblio buildings at Springfield, Mo , to cost £100,000, and at Portsmouth, Ohio, to cost S60.000. AFTER a sharp debate the House of Repre­ sentatives, on the 1st inst., adopted a resolution to the effect that *A special committee of five members be appointed to investigate forthwith the extent, causes and effect upon interstate commerce of the continued failure by the Beading Railroad Company to transport such commerce, and to report to the House, by bill or otherwise, for consideration at* any time, such legislation as is necessary to secure to the public the regular and complete execution by a railroad company of its obligations to serve as a common carrier of interstate commerce." Mr. Kvarts, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported favorably to the Senate the bill providing for the inspection of meats for exportation. Mr. Cameron introduced the bill providing for tbe payment of a service pension of 1 cent for eaoh day's service to all Union soldiers and sailors of tne rebellion. Mr. Paliuer introduced a bill appropriating $4,000,000 for continuing the im­ provement of St. Mary's hiver, Michigan, and *200,000 for the Hay Lake Channel, Mlohigan. THE bill to increase the pension of the totally helpless to 972 per month passed the Senate on the 2d inst. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill per­ mitting officers who have served in one grade for twenty-one years to draw the pay of the next higher grade, or be retired on the pay al­ lowed to retired officers of the next grade. Mr. Kenna addressed the-Henate on the President's tariff message and in reply to Mr. Sherman's speeoh on the same subject. Mr. Sherman replied to Mr. Kenna, and Mr. Keagan spoke briefly in defense of the administration tariff policy. Mr. Plumb addressed the Senate in favor of his resolution regarding inefficient mail service in tbe South and West. Mr. Ingalla announced the appointment of the fol­ lowing special committee on tbe Pacific Bail- road funding bills and the President's message and commission reports: Messrs. irye, ; Dawes, Hiscoak, Davis, Morgan, But- ; ler and Hearst In the House of Bepre- : sentatives, Mr. Crain, of Texas, from the j Committee on Presidential Elections, etc., ; reported a joint resolution proposing a consti­ tutional amendment providing that Congress shall hold its annual meetings the first Mon- , day in January. Mr. Ford, of Michigan, in­ troduced a bill for the organization of the Ter­ ritory of Alaska. After considerable debate the bill to prevent the t ansmission through the mails as second-class matter of cheap liters- ! ture, and requiring it to be transmitted as third-class matter, was passed. Yeas, 14S; ; nays, 116. f ' 1 : Fortune Made. *"That land I bought of yon the other day," said an Easterner to a Missouri man, "disappoints me." i "How so? "Why you misrepresented it. You said that it was valuable, but, instead of that, it is unsightly and covered with stumps." "With stumps, eli?" ^ "Yes, and most of them are hollow and are full of water, showing that the land is damp." - "Stumps full of water ?" "Yes." "Then your fortune is made.* •How so?" "Why, bdttle the water, and sell it for bitters. Let's see, your name is J o h n s o n ? " : • » , -Yes." M $ , • "Carpenter by tradeI", ; •Yes." 5 * "My dear Dr. Johnson, I congratu­ late you."--Arkansaw Traveler. IN the large plains called "Llan* des," in southwest France, the people use stilts as a matter of course. These plains are generally flooded, though not to a sufficient depth to enable people to get about m boats. The stilts are not held in the hands, like those we are accustomed to see, but are firmly strapped to the side of^ the leg. The person wearing them carries a long pole to balance himself, and aid him in walking. ,-JThis pole has usually a cross-piece at one end, so that, by put­ ting it at a slant on the ground behind him, the person on stilts can Bit down on it and rest. It is a common occur­ rence in that country to see men and women sitting and knitting in this ex­ ited position, while the sheep they are tending wander about the plain. They wear their stilts all day long, putting them on when they go out in ihe morning, and taking them off only when they return home at night. SURVEYORS going over the line be­ tween Washington and Green counties, iPa., found one house so situated that the husband eats his meals in Wash­ ington while the wife eats hers iu Green, and they sleep with their heads in one county and their feet in the wWjt Nathaniel P. Banks' Election as Speaker of the House Oomf memorated. Beunion of the Surviving Bepublioan , . Who Took ^jn tfia . --Slrvggki.T ^ [Washingt on special.] Thirty-two years ago Nathaniel P. Banks was eleoled Speaker of tbe House of Rep­ resentatives, after the most memorable struggle for that position ever known. Wednesday night, at the club-house of the liepublican National League, the surviving supporters of General Banks held a re­ union. Just before the eleventh l allot on that day the leaders of the various factions had gathered together in onff of the cloak­ rooms and agreed to a resolution that who­ ever should receive the highest vote on that ballot should be declared Speaker. Gen­ eral Banks had 103, and his nearest com­ petitor 100, bat three votes made .Mr. Banks Speaker. Of the 283 Representa­ tives and G2 Senators whdwpened tbe ses­ sion of that fateiul Congress on the 3d of December in 1855, only two men yet - re­ main under the dome of the Capilol. They are John Sherman and Justin 8. Morrill, of Vermont, who were both members of the Hoase. Of the 103 men who voted for Gen. Banks only twenty-two are known to survive. This Congress contained Joshua R. Giddings, Schuyler Colfax, Anson Burlingame. Mason W. Tappan, Elihu B. Washburne, John Sherman, Justin S. Morrill, and Galusha A. Grow; but of these only Sherman, Mor­ rill, and Grow remain. The other nineteen who survive are Sidney Dean, of Connecti­ cut; William Cumback, of Indiana; John J. Perry, of Maine; Calvin C. Chaffee, Lin- neus B. Comins, Chauncey L. Knapp, Tim­ othy Davis, and Mark Trafton. of Massa­ chusetts; Aaron H. Cragin and James Pike, of iiiew Hampshire; O. B. Matteson, Guy R. Pel ton, Russell Sage, Francis E. Spin­ ner, James S. T. Stranahau, and Edward Dodd, of New York; John X. Bingham, of Ohio; James H. Campbell and John J. Pierce, of Pennsylvania. Nearly all of these gentlemen were present, and Gen. Banks presided. The programme of the reunion included a dinner and afterward a reeeption to Gen. BankB at the Union League club-house. THE C0LBATH FAMILY? Death of the Only Brother of the Fam- Ni Vice President, Heni^ | Wilson. ' [Vassar (Mich.) special.] irop Colbath, a brother of the late Vice-*President Henry Wilson, was buried here on Wednesday. Mr. Colbath came to Tuscola County iu 1869, and was engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits un­ til 1884, when he removed to East Sag­ inaw, where he died Saturday. He was a thoughtful, earnest man, of fine native talents, but he lacked the benefit of an early education. The story of the Colbaths, as related by Winthrop and substantiated by the history of tbe late Vice-President Wilson, was a romantic one. The mother, daughter of an English aristocrat, fell in love with and married Thomas Colbath, a servant in her father's family, and the couple fied to America, followed by the anathema of the blue-blooded Briton. They settled in Ni­ agara County, New York, but subsequently removed to New Hampshire, where Jere­ miah, the eldest son, was born. When he was five years old a Massachusetts shoe­ maker named Wilson became acquainted with the family, and persuaded them to place "Jernr" in his chaige. The lad was taken to Massachusetts, instructed in the mysteries of shoemaking, but given a mod­ erate education withal, and finally was le­ gally adopted by his benefactor, who give, him the name, Henry Wilson. A ROMANCE OF THE BLIZZAR& The Happy Thought of a Farmer to Himself from ; Storm. [Sioux City (Iowa) special.'] The biggest authenticated blizzard story of the season comes from Aurora County, Iowa. When the great storm of Jan. 12 swept over that county, Eric Johnson, a farmer, was watering his cattle some dis- tance from his buildings. He used his ut­ most exertions to drive the cattle home, bat without avail, as very shortly they, as well as himself, were exhausted. Among the drove of cattle was a very large ox, which soon became bewil­ dered and lay down to die close to where Johnson was floundering in the snow. At this moment Johnson, who was making frantic efforts to save himself was seized with an inspiration which impelled him quickly to kill the ox, disembowel him, and erawl inside. After drawing the sides of the stomach together he was completely sheltered from the ter­ rific storm by the warm carcass of the ox, and passed the night in safety and com- Earative comfort. Whenmorming dawned, owever, and he endeavored to crawl out of his peculiar habitation, he discovered to his horror that the ox was frozen solid, his knife outside, and himself a secure prisoner. He kept up a shouting at inter­ vals until 2 o'clock, when his cries were heard bv parlies who were searching for his frozen body, and he was helped out of his hole none the worse for his peculiar experience. THE NATIONAL GAME. Base-Ball Managers and Players A* tivaly Preparing for the San­ son ef 1888. Th) League Teams as Now Orgamasd the 8troigest Ever Plaoed in " . the Raid.;"? " VESSEL TRAFFIC ON THE LAKES. Citizens of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Min­ nesota Ask » I»iir Appropriation. A big delegation of prominent business tnen from points in isconsia. Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, New York, and other States whose citizens are interested in the vessel traffic of the great lakes invaded Washington last week and had a hearing before the Honse Committee on Hi vers and Harbors. They ask for liberal apprpria- tions for improvements in the line of the great water route to the Northwest. The particular measure which the party of solid business men urge Congress to favor is the one introduced recently by Repre- r utative Farquhnr, appropriating in a lump some §7,U00,0()0 tor the completion of improvements already begun at differ­ ent points between Buffalo and Duluth. The most important works for whieh this vast sum is asked nre the strengthen­ ing and deepening of the channel of the Detroit River, the dredging of the lakes between St Clair and Huron, the dredging of Hog Lake Channel in the St. Mary's River connecting Lakes Huron and St. Clair,and the enlargement of the locks at the great ship canal at Sault Ste. Marie. According to a recent report by the War Department, more vessels pass through this canal in a given month during the season of navigation than enter the port of Liverpool. LIFE 15 IRELAND. . .. .j. ft-"* ,» Sullivan Ready to Undergo further Im­ prisonment. [Cable dispatch from Dublin.] Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan was greeted by a large crowd pn his release from Tulla- more jail, and various delegations pre­ sented him with addresses. Mr. Sullivan, in a speech, said that he onoe desired a greater measure of independence for Ire­ land, but now he thought that Mr. Glad­ stone's proposals were a fair compromise, and would unite the two nations in peace and good-fellowship. He urged the peo­ ple to join the National League, and to meet secretly if they could not meet i openly. Mr. Sullivan said he was ready to uq|̂ |go further imprisonment for Ire­land. r [CHICAGO COBBESPONDENCE.] February is here at last, and but a montb more of reliable winter weather remains during which the winter pastimes of ice-skating, tobogganing, sleighing, curl> ing. etc., can be enjoyed by the yooth of the Northwest. March will this year, as in seasons past, probably usher in the- winds and siush of the spring break-up. With the break-up will come preparations for all of those out-door sports in whioh our American youths are becoming the most expert of any nation on the globe. Foot-ball, cricket, paper-chases, bicycling, 'cross-country runs, and the great n atio game of the Americans--base-ball--will occupy the attention of every man from Maine to California who is a lover of ath­ letic contests. As the season approaches, there is a noticeable increase of activity in all of the great cities which boast a pro- fessional ball team. Players who have not signed contracts for the season of 1888 are anxiously looking out for the best terms they can make, while managers are equally anxious to perfect their organizations to the end of entering in the championship races the very best aggregations their per­ sonal efforts and money can secure. One thing may be depended upon by the public, and that is that the National League, at least, will possess some of the greatest Halt teams this year that have ever trod the base runs in the history of the game. They will lot only possess the best talent the coun­ try affords, but at least five of them will be so evenly matched that the race will in all probability be one of the tightest upon record until the laBt scheduled games de­ cide the right of title to the championship. The summary of news and gossip from the different league cities is about as follows: AT NEW YOBK. The players are not Bigning especially fast at present, but nearly all the Giants Will have l igned contract's before four more weeks come around. The ink on Gore's contract has been dry for some time and that on Titcomb's contract dried last Tues- Jday. Titcomb talked three minutes and ^President Day six and a half, and, as every­ thing was lovely, the player was secured. His salary will be--entirely satisfactory to himself, and consequently the figures con­ cern nobody else. Occasionally one of the older players who have not yet signed will pop up in the city, hold a confab with John B. Day, ask for a mortgage oil the bridge, a Blice of Coney Island, tbe»city below Canal street, and then get mad and ge home. Mr. Day can, of course, give each player a piece of New York, but as he has not purchased Coney Island he can­ not supply the demaud in that direction as yet. One or two players have insinuated that their services would be better appre­ ciated in some lesB populous town than New York, but the less nourishing cities will not appreciate these players exeept as visitors. AT OHICAOO. The biggest event that has occurred dur­ ing the week in Chicago has been the sign­ ing of a Chicago contract by Fred Pfeffer, the club's crack second baseman. Freddy held out a long while, but finally came to time just as many predicted he would. The Chicago infield will now be the same as it was last season, with old Anse at first, Pfeffer at second, Williamson at short, and Tommy Burns at third. Clarkson has not yet signed a contract, and persists in saying that he will not do so. The clnb can probably get along without the Saginaw twiner's services, however, if it iB com­ pelled to do so. Speaking of the proba­ bility of Clarkson's holding out in his re­ fusal to aign with Chicago this yaar, a lover of the game in the Windy City the other day remarked: "I am in­ clined to think, as the season ap­ proaches, that it would break nobody's heart out this way if John were to sign a contract with Boston to-morrow. Why? Well, for tbe past month or two the eyes of our local lovers of the game have been turned toward George Van Haltren, as a result of the very creditable work he has been doing on the Pacific Slope, aud tbe manner in which he has started in out there to prove his style and effectiveness in the box. Mark my words. If Clark- son does not play here next season. Van Haltren will be the star pitcher, not only of the Chicago Club but of the country." * AT WASA1N6TON. By degrees the League staff of um­ pires is being organized. The latest addi­ tion is Charles F. Daniels, whose contract was promulgated this week by President Young. During the coming season the League proposes to supply its umpires with a regulation uniform, which is to con­ sist of a light gray flannel suit with cap to match. Last season Doescher was the only member of the League staff who umpired eveiy game in uniform, and bis neat and comfortable appearance was always favor­ ably commented upon. It is rumored that the Washington man­ agement is negotiating for a third baseman, and tbat big Jim Davis, of last season's Baltimores, is the player they are after. Among base-ball authorities here and else­ where Davis is not legarded as a rich find. His work in Baltimore last year was so unsatisfactory that not one word of regret comes from the Monumental City at the proposition to release him. He has made overtures to several clubs, but none of the latter seem disposed to make a grand rush for him. Davis is a fair hitter, but he cannot in any other sense be regarded as the superior of Donnelly, who played third base for the Senators laBt season. AT I'LTTSBRILG. "We are through looking for new talent, for we think that we have now got a team together that will be a credit to Pittsburg this season." This is the announcement made by the Pittsburg Club directory. After a long fight for plavers, beginning with the fruitless chase m the Northwest, President Nimick thinks it about time to ouit. He bus left the scene of action in the hand-i of lieutenants and gone West. Maybe this Western trip is like the one la<3t spring, when he captured the great Van Haltren. He says "no," but it may be a denial for "business purposes." President Nimick was compelled to de­ part without having the pleasure of capt­ uring Pitcher Galvin as the balance of the strikers. A final effort Mas made on Jim last week, but he declined the offer, said to be $2,800. It begins to look more like victory for the boys eveiy. day. The man­ agement is responsible for tins state of af­ fairs, and should not complain* Presi­ dent Nimick denies that McCormick re­ ceived £4,000 last year, but this does not matter, Dunlap draws tnat and more this season. If every man gets his price, the salary list will reach $40,1100. No wonder there is mourning in Pittsburgh. < AT PHILADELPHIA. Judging from Han y AV right's aetion at the meeting of tbe Schedule Committee he must think that the Phillies are going to win the championship. The schedule he prepared closed the season very early, which would fcivo him lots of time to ar­ range a world's championship series, which would pay better than nny other kind of exhibition games he could play. The Philadelphia management are will­ ing to relieve the Pittsburg Club of the di­ lemma they are in over Miller s refusal to sign with them by signing the little catcher for the Phillies. They only have two catch­ ers that they know muoh about, viz., Clements and McGuire, and they are ex­ tremely anxious to get a third one.' Miller about fills the bill, and it is not beyond the range of possibility that Andrews may be exehanged for him.