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ealet litXI, tdftsr«*PukBeher il«u>M ay HGnEH&I, ILLINOIS. DOINGS. 5v( * KnttlU R^peilafs la Erery Hm> bfttere, as Traasmittftir Telegraph. i - r FHItiral. Social, Financial, Commercial, IodafitxiaL Criminal and Other «! Sews. ,, - ri, » ' . 1 h "'sM *f Hit* T- ' LATEST DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON NEWS. ~ - \ A P u b l i c B u i l d i n g i n E v e r y ( S l y . 'TNHE Senate Committee on Pnblio A. Buildinqs and Grounds has had under consideration for some time and has final- hp agreed to report favorably a bill intro- osoed early in the session by Mr. Pad* dook, of Nebraska, providing for the erection of a postoffice building in every city and town where the population brings to the Government a revenue of $10,000 a year. An appropriation of $2,000,000 from the ampins revenues of the Postoffice Department and $3,000,000 from the -Public Treasury is made by the bilL The Pacific Railroad Bills. THS House Committee on Pacific Bail- roads is hard aft work preparing a bill for ^funding the indebtedness to the Govern­ ment of the Union Pacific Railroad. Reorgantilng tlr-v Signal Corps. THE bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. : Farwell to reorganize the Signal Corps pro­ vides that only such officers shall be re­ tained as are found fully competent for : their duties. The nnmber of officers will be reduced from twenty-one to fourteen. Such redactions have been made in the force as to result in a net annual saving of .$120,0001 Financial. DUKIKG February theie was a net de­ crease of $11,043,783 in the circulation and 5sa net increase of $9,033,743 in the money and bullion in the treasury. The decrease in the circulation was principally in gold certificates and United States notes and tfce increase in the treasury cash was prin­ cipally in standard silver doliam and United States notes. Interstate Telegraph lines. THE sob-committee of the House Com­ mittee on Commerce, to which was refer­ red the Glover bill to vest in the Inter­ state Commission jurisdiction over inter­ state telegraph lines, has made a report to ' tiie full committee recommending the es­ tablishment of a new commission to have authority to regulate the telegraphs. THE BURLINGTON STRIKE. . Baflroad Managers Said to Be Growing Xe? vous Over the Prospect. The strike on the Chicago, Burlington ted Quincy Boad showed ho change on Saturday. The road was sending out a law passenger trains, but was making no •Bail to handlejreight. A Chicago tele­ gram says: Western railroad managers are growinr ner- r?%- $664,066, and ibe wests are placadat $1,260,641. Chicago, Milwaukee, and De­ troit bank* and various firms are inter­ ested. There seems to be no reason why the company should not pay its indebted­ ness in full. MRS, LANGTRY is in a peck of trouble just now, says a Chicago telegram. A week ago her dear old French cook indisoreetly bottled some soup in champaigno bottles, which a reporter looked upon, and forth­ with connected the bottles and the ac­ tress' indisposition, and now Manager McVicker has arisen in his wrath and Wants damages for having had to disappoint the patrons of the nouse. Indeed, Mrs, Langtry has more than on© suit on hand for failure to keep her contracts. In the main one Manager McVicker wants $10,000 damages. Attachments were issued on the •mailer claims, and the sanctity of Mc- Vicker's Theater invaded by a Deputy Sheriff for dresses, scenery, trunks, ana Other belongings of the fair defend­ ant. These were duly seized and held un­ til bonda were given to fully secure the claims. A CHICAGO telegram gives the following particulars of a horrible murder in that city: A •hocking tragedy took place in the dta#7 two-story frame building at Ma 1319 Btats street. When pretty 15-year-old Maggie Gaugh&n went to work early in the morning she was admitted to the shop by-tbe negro fore­ man, a young mulatto named Zeph Davis; There waa no one else in the place at the time. The brute seized the opportunity, and drag­ ging her to the rear of the building attempted to assault her. She resisted and he dragged her into a little closet under the stairway, and choking her to the floor in the corner completed his brutish work. She still struggled, and the fiend seized a small ha to he t end chopped her about the face and head. Gripping one hand around her throat, he hacked away at the writhing and dying girl. After crushing her skull the murderer went On with his butchery. He slashed away at the Cheeks, he tried to out out the staring eyes. The features were not recognizable when the body was discovered hours later. The negro crowded the dead form into the furthest corner of the closet and piled sack after sack of leather findings upon it. The closet door waa Closed and his crime hidden for a while. It was evidently his intention to wait till night and then devise some means for carrying away and burying the body. During the day the blaok fiend disappeared, but the following morning 'was arrested at Forreston, I'l., sixty miles south of Chicago. Be confessed to the awfnl crime. Some hours after he had fled the dead body of the little girl was discovered in the oloset. Her parents were almost crazed with grief when apprised of the terrible fate that had befallen their child. IK the United States Court at Chicago, on Thursday, Judge Gresham denied the application of Coy and Bernhamer, of In­ dianapolis, for release on a writ of habeas corpus. This compels them to remain in confinement pending a hearing fes ihe United States Supreme Court - PIP SOUTH. A TRAIN on the St Louis, Arkansas and Tens Railroad was looted by three bold highwaymen at Kingslond, Ark., on Thurs­ day last Bob Law, the engineer of the train, describes the robbery as follows: 'I had just put on the air brakes for Kings- land when a fellow came crawling over the tender toward me. and in an instant had his revolver pressing against the side of my head. He said, "Pull out quick and I did it, you bet. After we had run about a wile and a half he told me to shut her ofl, and as soon as we Stopped two other fellows showed up from be­ hind the tender and ordered me and my fire­ man to 'Comeoff that.' Haekett, my fireman, crawled down; but I told them that I wouldn't leave my machine. In about a second there were six revolvers pointed at me, and I concluded it was too warm in my engine any­ way, so I got down, too. Then they told us to uncouple the mail and express car from tbe rest of the train, but we pretended not to be able to do it, and as Messenger Tom Calvin re- t fused to open up they commenced shooting in lively shape. Then they got a can of ell from [ the engine and a lot of waste, piled it against the car door, and set fire to it." Calvin began Benadioft ot Burlington, Vt, declining to be a delegate to the ooming National Be- puhtieaa Convention. Rosooa COUPLING has written a letter to a Pittsburg Republican Club bearing his name, telling tbem he is not a candi­ date for the Presidency. THE New Jer%ey Prohibition Convention met at Trenton and appointed four dele* gates-aUlftrge to the National Prohibition Convention at Indianapolis. Gefi. Clinton B. Fisk, who heads the delegation, is re­ nominated as the candidate for President. GOVERNOR GREEN, of New Jersey, sent to the Legislature, on Tuesday, his long- expected message vetoing the local option high-license bill. THE EH ode Island Democratic Commit­ tee has called a convention for the nomina­ tion of a State ticket and delegates to St Louis for March 19. The State election occurs April 4. WiLiiiAM B. MORRISON, in reply to a direct inquiry upon the subject, has writ­ ten a letter in which he says that under certain circumstances he might be consid­ ered a candidate tor the Vice Presidency before the Democratic National Conven­ tion. He thinks, however, tne claims of Indiana ought to be considered first. CHIEF ARTHUR has played his trump card, and the great Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad strike is on with re­ newed force after a fruitless attempt to compromise, says a Chicago telegram of Friday. Mr. Arthur, Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and F. P. Sargent, Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Locomo­ tive Firemen, have called ofl the members of their brotherhood who took the places of the Knights of Labor engineers aud firemen who went on strike on the Philadelphia and Bead­ ing Dec. 24 last. In return, they received the pledge that all Heading men would abandon their work on the Burlington and refuse to ac­ cept any positions as soon as it was ascertained that the Brotherhood men had left the Reading. There is little change in the condition of things along the line of the Chicago, Burling­ ton and Qnincy Road. Yesterday there was more regularity in tbe movement of passenger trains on some of the lines, and in several in­ stances freight trains were run. The tie-up was most effectual on the Kansas City Lino and in St. Louis. There have been no acts of violence whatever, and the reports from all points agree that the strikers remain away from the tracks and stations, preserving perfect order. No Instanoes are reported of strikers resuming work, and they are said to be confi­ dent of victory. FOREIGN. to beg vous over the strike troubles. So long as the ri Tina Itmrtfin aHatnitta rnthino To nra than tha : then, not and to tola them if they would hurt him he would attempts nothing more than the opsrattOE ef its passenger service it is com- yatiwly easy to observe the strict neutrality which the strikers demand as the one con- titton nasi which the fight will be kept where It la. Baanlrt the Burlington attempt to re- '•asw tta freight business before any settle- i other roads will be placed US a ••HBIIIS aeeKton. Under the law they ace iwqatrsd to haul Burlington cars over their Hnws, but should this be done there is •vesy reason to expect that Chief Arthur will "enter a strike oc all roads violating the neu­ trality compact. Evidence teat sucn is the in­ tention of the Brotherhood is lound in the fact thst the chiefs of divisions on all the Western roads have been summoned to a conference in Chicago. Should the connecting roads decline i „„„ . .. ***_- to take tbe risk of hauling Burlington freight, t Clinton, ny. Price, one of the P f that line would be powerless to do more tlian a merely local freight traffic, while in the event that the ether railroads decide to disregard • "the threats of the Brotherhood and restore i * the Burlington its rights and privileges over "their tracks a strike of gigantic proportions would probably follow, witn the result of a 'y I complete suspension of freight and passenger traffic throughout the West for an indefinite open up. They told him to come ahead, and he threw open the door and jumped down to the ground. The robbers then helped them­ selves. I don't believe they uot a great deal, as about nine-tenths of the money was Hidden by the messenger. It was the easiest thing done I ever saw. We stood there for about forty minutes and not a single man showed up out o°f the cars except a nigger Who stood on tbe plat­ form and cursed ti e robbers all the time they were at work. They just laughed at him, though, and went right on." CAPT. JOHN COX, of Ballard County ̂ Kentucky, reports a remarkable incident in connection with the double lynching at one of the men hanged, was not dead when the mob left the scene, bnt after being cut down by the County Judge became conscious and talked to those about him. Word was sent to the leaders of the mob, who returned about daylight and completed the job by again hanging the victim--two men at the same time hanging upon each of his feet and finally breaking his neck. The negro died almost immediately after,being hauled up to the limb. FOB the third time in three years the wife of James McElmore, living at Texar- kana, Texas, has given birth to triplets. All are alive and doing well. Though married' but three years, Mrs. McElmore is the mother of nine healthy child** WASHINGTON. J A BHIL has been introduced and favor­ ably reported by the House Committee on Postoffice to provide for a Fourth Assist­ ant Postmaster General, says a Washing­ ton dispatch. Tbe investigation which preceded the reporting of this bill fur­ nishes a very interesting exhibit of the growth of the country since 1&36, when a similar bill to relieve the First Assistant Postmaster General was passed by cre­ ating the office of Third Assistant Post­ master General. In that period the num­ ber of postoffices bas increased from ll,- 000 to 55,000; the extent of post routes from 118,264 miles to 473,142 miles; the revenue of the department from $3,408,323 to $48,837,609; the expenditure of the de­ partment from $3,841,765 to $53,006,194; the amount of salaries to Postmasters from $812,803 to $11,929,481; the amount paid for transportation of mails from $1,638,052 to $29,606,508. THE Presidential party arrived in Wash­ ington at an early hour Sunday morning clerks at $2,000. with allowances ot S.'J per day ^om tiieir to Florida and the South, for expenses while actually traveling, was fa- j Owing to the unseasonable hour of their vorably sported totfa. House of^epresenW • ^ there wefe no ^ stati<m passed the "omnibus bill," which provides for ®XCCP4 'he railway employes and a few tlM payment of thirty odd claims lor supplies drowsy travelers awaiting the departure of used for the army during the war. The House their trains. The memb - - Cyclone in Kansas. A CTCIOHE struck Newton, KanW Fri­ day evening. The north wing of the car- riage works was unroofed and William J. Lacey, in attempting to run from the building, was caught by the falling roof and instantly killed. A cluster of Ulna dwellings in the southeast part of the city was struck by the storm and seven of them totally destroyed. Mrs. Smith and Miss Hobbell were caught in the wreck of one of these houses, and wis re seriously injured, while the latter was ; struck On the head and is still unconscious. Reports from the adjoining oountry say that several houses were destroyed. These ware all the serious casualties. The loss Is estimated at $50,000. The Crown Prince's Days Numbered. A DISPATCH from San Remo says that ; "persons who have seen the Crown Prince ; say that he looks many years older than ha did when he left Berlin. His beard is white and he has become very thin, weigh­ ing now hardly 154 pounds. His hand­ writing, however, is as firm and clear as ever. He bas written his will and a politi­ cal testament for bis son, Prince William. Dr. Bergmann has asked Dr. Lauer to pre­ pare Emperor William for the worst" The House Wor«* While the Senate Rests. A bill creating the oXce of Assistant Super­ intendent of the railway mail service, with a salary of $3,000 per annum, and fifty-four chief adopted a resolution providing for an evening session every Friday for the consideration of private pension and political disability bills. A bill granting right of way to the Aberdeen, Bis­ marck and Northwestern Uailway Companv through the Sioux reservation in Dakota was placed on the calendar. The Senate waa not in session. IK: £&T- iSl BAST. TJnion Square Theater* ft lew Todc, was totally destroyed by fire Tuea- £y? the Morton House, adjoining, was damaged. Six firemen were severely SJi!? i>nrned* The loss is estimated &• flOU|UOv» JAT GOULD and Russell Sage will not fca triad for their alleged larceny of the fMOQ,000 worth of Denver Pacific Rail- *oad bands, the grand jury having refused Co ted uty indictment against them. OBCAB P. BECK WITH was hanged at Hudson, N. Y.. for the murder of Simon •anderooak, his partner in a gold-mining Mhama, in Columbia County, Jan. 10, 18K> Beckwith had been tried twice, sen- tesoed six times, had his case reviewed before twenty different judges, the last •Sort in his behalf being a fruitless appeal to the Governor for clemency. THE new furniture factory of Portier, Stymua A Co. and the adjoining cigar laatory of Powell, Wenigman & Smith, in Jtorty-seoond street, New York, have been destroyed by fire. The losses (Marly •1,000,000.9 ^ w WBSIV^ • TBS Manistee Salt and Lumber Com­ pany* of Manistee, Mich., has made ah The Hifbiliti-- art figured at DB. KRSBMACII has sent by telegraph to Bismarck a special report on the Crown Prince's case, says a Berlin dispatch. The doctor takes an unfavorable view of the patient's condition. The Emperor has been informed. Some of tbe matter ex­ pectorated by the Prince has been sent to Prof. Waldeyer of Berlin for examination. Special service or prayer in behalf of the Prince was held at the palace. The Em­ peror and all the members of the royal family now in Berlin attended. A CABLE; dispatch from London says: "The village of Valtorta, in the north of Italy, has been half buried by an avalanche. Many houses were wrecked and their occu- Cts buried in the ruins. TroopB from garno have arrived to aid in disinterring tbe buried. Twenty-three corpses have been recovered. Several persons have been extricated alive, though more or less injured." A CABLE dispatch from Berlin says: "Prince William has left Carlsruhe, where he went to attend the funeral of Prince Lottie of Baden, for San Remo. Tbe Em­ peror has commanded Dr. * Bergmann to remain at San Remo until Prince William arrives. All the doctors have been forbid­ den to give information to reporters. The newspapers complain bitterly of this re­ striction, holding that it will give rise to exaggerated reports, which will disturb the public mind more than the truth would." Ex-PRESIDENT GBEVY'S bad son-in- law, M. Wilson, has at last come to grief. His complicity in the sale of Legion of Honor decorations was whitewashed by the French Chamber's investigation out of re­ spect for the then President of the Repub­ lic. but in a court of justice he fared no better than any common scalawag. He is to be imprisoned two years, pay a fine of 3,000 francs, and be deprived of his civil rights for five years. GENERAL. J. P. DONALDSON & Co., ship chandlers, Detroit. Gustav Ranger & Co., cotton merchants of New York and Galveston; liabilities, $150,000. Jobn A. Dusbane k Co., paper dealers, Baltimore; liabilities. $200,000; assets, $100,000. Church <fc Graves, sash, doors and blinds, Minneap­ olis; liabilities, $75,000; assets, $00,000. IN an interview Mr. Andrew Carnegie says that notwithstanding the natural facilities of Pittsburgh, the iron and steel manufacturers were unable to compete with Chicago and tbe Northwest. The cause of this was the advantage of lower freight rates, which made it possible for the Western manu­ facturers to come to Pittsburgh's doors and take its trade. The steel-rail trade, he said, was unusually dull. Last year the consumption was 2,2*25,000 tons. From the present outlook it will not reach half that amount this year. There is not a steel-rail mill in the country with enough orders to run it for sixty days, and many cannot continue in operation a month. MARKET REPORTS. NEW YORE. CATTL* §5.00 @*.75 Hoos 5.25 - 6.00 SHXSKF 5.50 (<17 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring .87 ̂ '.88 Ko. 1 Hsd .83V4 COBN--No. % 59 <$ .60 OATS--White 40 0 .45 POBK--New Mess 15.00 <315.60 CHICA6O. CATTLX--Choice to Prime Steers 6.25 <9.6.75 members of tbe party immediately entered the carriages whicu were in waiting, and were driven to tbeir homes. They are all well and in good spirits, but are naturally quite fatigued from their journey, and spent the dav in­ doors enjoying much needed rest." The reception given to the President and Mrs. Cleveland and the party, both on their journey to and through the land of flowers and on their return home, wan hearty and enthusiastic. They were delighted with their trip. THE Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, on the 1st inst., submitted to the full committee the tariff bill upon wbich the Democratic members have been at work for several months. The free-list section is to take effect July 1, 1888. A t Washington dispatch says the Republicans j and Randallites are dissatisfied with the bill, and that the Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee will frame anotherone. POLITICS. FOLLOWERS of Gov. Hill in the Empire State, according to a New York dispatch, say he will go to the National Democratic i Convention in St. Louis June 5, and will lead the New York delegation there in the interest of Grover Cleveland, and that he will also make tbe nominating speech, after which Mr. Cleveland is expected to be renominated unanimously. It is further asserted that under no circumstances will Hill accept a nomination for Governor, but when his term expires he will retire, During the next four vears he will quietly lay pipes" and carefullv groom himself . for a Presidential nomination in 1802. 8SKAVOB EDMCHDB has written CoL Good.. 4.50 <£ 5.00 Common to Fair.'.'.".*".* 8.75 & 4.50 Hoos--Shipping Grades.... SHEEP WHKAT--No. 2 Bed COKN--No. 2. OATS--No. it BARLEY--NO. 'J..'. BUTTEB--Choice CreatueCy Fine Dairy CHFEBK--Full Cream, flat EGGS--iresh POTATOKS--Chdloe, per bn POM--Moss , . TOLEDO;" WHKAT--Cash Cons-Cash OATB--Cash CIX»VEB SUKD KAN HAS Cll'V. CATTUE Hoos ' WHEAT--No. A COBK--NO. 1 OATS--No. | DETROIT. CATTLE Hoos ..I.... HHEKP WHEAT--No. 2 Red... COBM--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash COKN--No. 8. ' * OATS--NO. 8 White IX. RYE--No. l.. BABLET--No. 8. POKE--Mess.% ST. LOUIFIL WHEAT--No. 2 Rod COUN--Mixed OATS--Cash RYE BABLET " POBK--Mesa. BUFFALO. 5.00 » 6.7- 4.75 <$ i.BO .8) .Si . 4 . 4 9 .39 & " .78 a .25 *s 21 <» .80 .&> .27 .24 .11!* <• .12 18.50 114 01 .84 # .81 .50% •-* .51 32^ i .33^ 8.80 & 8.93 4.21 0 5.00 4.75 0 *.50 .78*69 .7»>6 .42 * .48 .» (j» .29!* 4.00 0 5.25 4.50 5.&0 4.50 & 6.0J .843* L .8 .51 & .85 U .51 ma .76 0 .40 0 .82)* 9 .57 .<• •7«J*9 CATTLE.... HOOS SHE BP COBN--No. 2 Yellow EAST LIBERTY. CATTL*--Prime. . Fair ...*.J.' •, Common............... Hoes S n a a * . . „ .7FTV& 47 .83 ** .58 .77 18.75 ID 14.25 .81 0 .82 >* .45)* <9 .40 .80 0 .30>* .59 0 .CI .80 (<« .90 14.00 014.50 4.75 0 5.50 5.00 0 6.00 5.00 9 6.00 .55 0 .56 4.75 0 5.25 400 0 4.75 8.75 0 4 25 «JO « IN 5.50 SMI «.0D • •« 'S ftPiiwttliA national House ofl nmiiUlea After a Spirited Debate. CwirMSMU Weaver Bays fW Government Money Is im na­ tional Banks. , {Washington special,! * ti •'#!-' House of RepresefH^eSiT ittfi Wednesday, the bill authorizing the Secre­ tary of the Treasury to purchase bonds with the surplus revenue was the subject of a lively debate. Mr. MoKinley contended that under existing laws the President might purchase or redeem bonds, and charged that his failure to do so was due to a desire to pile up tbe surplus in order to scare the country and break down the Erotective tariff. The President had based is refusal to apply the surplus to the re­ demption of bonds on the fact that the law was an independent section of an appro- ?nation hill. On the same ground# the resident could characterize as suspicious at least one-half the public statutes. Every­ body knew that there would be a surplus revenue, but the President had declined to call an extra session of Congress, and thereby assumed the responsibility of man­ aging the surplus revenue so as to do the least harm to the country. He (Mr. McKinley) thought some friend of the administration should explain why it bad not paid out the surplus upon tho debts of the Government and thus stop the interest charge which rested so heavily on the people. Instead of doing that the administration preferred to use the banks as a means of putting the money in circu­ lation, and tully $5(.',00t),000 that ought to be in the Treasury to-day was out among the banks without drawing interest. He charged here to-day that the President and his administration were solely responsible for whatever congested condition was found in tbe Treasury and the finances of the Government. [Applause on the Re­ publican side.J The President might lec­ ture the Democratic side as much as he de­ sired, but there was some little responsi­ bility resting upon him. Mr. Weaver Paid the country was in the .hands of a gigantic, coid-blood money trust There were a score of banks in the country that had been literally stuffed with government money for the last quarter of a century. The Hamilton bank of Fort Wayne was presided over by ex-Secretary McCulIoch, and he had to-day the use of $1,000,000 of the people's money. The Chase National Bank of New York, presid­ ed over by Mr. Cannon, late Comptroller of the Currency, had $1,100,000 ot govern­ ment funds. The same was true of the First National Bank of New York, the National Bank of the Bepublic of New York, presided over by Mr. Knox, and the National Bank of the liepublic of Wash­ ington, presided over by Mr. Cresswell. The Western National Bank of New York, organized by three prominent treasury officials, was using $1,100,000 of govern­ ment funds without interest, and the Third National Bank of Buffalo--the Standard oil bank--had $105,000. Granted that this money had been placed in the banks to avoid a panic and a financial stringency, if this bill should have the effect to recall that money it would bring far greater stringency than had existed in October last. Mr. Breckinridge (Ky.) said the differ­ ence between the or 3 per cent, at which the Government could borrow its money, and the or 4 pqr cent, it was paying on its bonds was the precise sum that the American people.were annually paying for the glorious privilege of having had Mr. John Sherman as Secretary of the Treas­ ury. [Applause on the Democratic side.] The President had delivered a message which had by its very uniqueness been taken out of the mere dull sequence of official documents and caused a discussion from one end "of America to the other which would not cease until this protective in­ iquity had been reformed. [Applause on the Democratic side.] Now, tbe lesson of the President and the labors of the Demo­ cratic members of the Ways and Means Committee were united for the purpose of giving manufacturers their fair protection, but doing it with just and equal law to the tax-payer who was to use the manufac­ tured article. While the majority of the committee might not be very wise, while gentlemen might laugh at them for not taking their Republican col­ leagues into consideration, he as­ sured the . gentleman that if he would just wait he would have as much of a tariff bill as he was able to consider, and far more than he would be able to defeat. [Applause on Democratic side.] A tariff bill that would gather to its support every Democrat on the floor of this House, and every Representative who was hot given over to a strong delusion, a tariff bill that would gather to ite support all fair-minded manufacturers who only wanted what was just, and which, when it came into the House--modified it might be by the wise suggestions of the Bepuhlican members of the committee, and by Democrats who did not agree with all of its provisions--framed, not by dickers and barter, but with a stroucr desire to make the public good the first ob- jeot of its legislation--when that bill came into the House it would be passed, and it would relieve the President, whether he was Mr. Cleveland or some one else, of the necessity of finding a disposition for the surplus by leaving the surplus in the pock­ et of tne man who made the money. [Ap­ plause on the Democratic side, j QMr. Reed of Maine, after saying that the Secretary should have expended the sur­ plus in the purchase of bonds, continued: Why has not this been done? Because men have pursued the empty vision of a free-trade policy, to be accomplished, not by virtue of its merits, but by virtue of out­ side pressure, by fear of panic, and by means to mislead the reason, to control the feelings, and not to affect the judgment. I believe the present financial condition of the country is a part of the conspiracy against protection. I believe that this sur­ plus in the Treasury has been accumu­ lated with reference to its effect upon the people of the United States, so that they might, without investigating, without quite understanding, clamor for something to be done, they cared not what, which would lead to the impracticable condition into which Chairman after Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means had endeavored in vain to lead the House. When we came here what spectacle met us? The President with a message which neglected every interest of the vast empire, which placed to one side every question except that of a tariff bill that was pressing upon us--that and the sur­ plus--and we must act, act instantly. And what have we done? Three months have rolled by, and the subject has never been mentioned in the committee-room of tbe Committee of Ways and Means in full committee assembled. (Applause on the Republican side.] A special message de­ claring that there was only one thing on earth which demanded tbe attention of the Congress of the United States, and that subject utterly unmentioned for three long months in the committee to which that unique message was conveyed, and they call that business. Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, offered the following amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Mills: "Provided, That the bonds so purchased or redeemed shall constitute no part of the sinking fund, but shall be canceled by the Secretary of the Treas­ ury." The bill was then passed. A XJFE CONVICT AT THIRTEEN. Johnnie Beal, of Ohio, Bnglna His Term tor Brutally Murdering His Mother. [Columbus (Ohio) apaoial.] John A. Beal, a boJKfaged only 13 years, was received at the penitentiary on Wednes­ day, his sentence being for life. About eight months ago the Doy's mother, who lived in Prehle County, was found mur- dered, and her body irightfully mangled. I The boy was suspected* but his ooolness The boy was finally lockad up. H«wa» visited by clergymen and finally to the murder. ly confessed 6RAND ARMY PENSIOH «IU| Senator Vest Opposed to Increasing the Number of Bene- *• ' notaries; - ' 1*1 limb and Teller the Position of the Deme< crats. leiile . - jiWaahlngton •pM*al.] fc.u',t • The Grand Army pension bill was up for consideration iu the Senate on Wednes­ day, and gave rise to a warm debate. Mr. Plumb, of Kansas, led off in a speech favoring the measure. He adverted to the fact that when the war closed me army could have placed one of its leaders at tue heed of the Government and could have dictated its own terms, but had asked nothing except to be permitted to disband and return to peaceful avocations. He did not believe that any patriotic man, auy man who looked with patriotic fervor on that portion of the country's history when 2,000,000 men sprung to arms to maintain the Government would ever be willing to op­ pose the enactment of any law whereby any of the men should be drawn from the ban of poverty, and given at least a decent livelihood. The bill as it came from the committee WBB not what it ought to be, and he had sought to make it better. There was to be, he Baid, no insinuation in the Senate or elsewhere that the Uniou soldiers were to be the beneficiaries under the bill in the sense of being supplicants or unworthy persons. He did not think that partisanship would go that far, and if it did he believed the main principle would refute it. Less than the pending bill proposed would not be just; more was not asked for. Mr. Vest attacked the pending measure. Why, he asked, this talk that Congress had not done enough for the Union soldiers, when tne country had paid out .Bince 186* $883,000,000 for pensions--a liberality un­ paralleled in the history of the world? The report of the Commissioner of Pensions shows that when the arrears of pensions act of 187'.) was passed there were some 30,000 applications for pensions pending. The very next year the number of applica­ tions jumped to 110,000. The claims agents invented tbpt law and put a limitation on it, and the number of applications for pensions jumped in one year from 30,000 to 110,000, and the amount of disbursements from $30,000,000 to $57,000,000. Mr. Vest went on to say that of the 2,300,000 men enrolled as soldiers during the four years of the war there were applications from 1,200,000 for pensions on account of disa­ bility. Such military execution, he said, had never been known in the history of the whole world. The doors of tLe Republican party were now open and Presidential can­ didates were coming to the front without limit as to quantity or locality. The Senate had been engaged for some days past in a political auction for the soldiers' vote. First had come his friend from Nebraska (Man- derson), backed by the Grand Army, and even that Senator's flings at the President of the United States had not detracted from the general merit of his bid for the soldier vote. That was the object of all the de­ bate--bidding for the soldier vote of the country in the coming contest. When the Senator from Nebraska had taken his seat he (Vest) had thought that the bid was in his favor. But the present occupant of the chair, the Senator from Maine (Frve). had "caught the eye of the auctioneer --the Grand Army of the Re­ public--and "had gone one better." That Senator was prepared to tote a pension to every man who had served a aay in tbe Gederal army. He (Vest) was about to knock down the prize to the Senator from Maine, when his friend from Kausas (Plumbf came to the front and outbid tha Senator from Maine by an amendment to the bill which would increase the expenditure under it $50,000,- 000 or $75,000,000. He (Vest) had then been strongly of ,the opinion that the auc­ tion should close and the prize be given to the Senator from Kansas, but then the Senator from Illinois (Cullom) had come to the front and made a bid from that great Prairie State which staggered his (Vest's) conviction as to the propriety of closing the sale. Since that time he has been in a condition of anxiety waiting to hear from other bidders in the great "na­ tional auction. The Senate had not yet heard from his dulcet-tongued friend from Iowa (Allison), nor from the distinguished Senator from Ohio (Sherman), nor from the presiding officer (Ingalls), who had been nominated by the District of Columbia, and every one knew that the District of Columbia only acted from the most disinterested and un­ selfish motives. Mr. Teller replied to Mr. Vest. If there was some little diversity of opinion, ho said, among the Republicans as to who was to be their standard-bearer, his Dem­ ocratic friends were not in that position. Their standard-bearer was seleoted for them, whether they willed it or not. It was even said that arrangements had been made in the same interest for the nomination of the Governor of a cer­ tain State for Vioe President. The Re­ publicans were not disturbed by conflicting opinions and conflicting interests, even if they bad a large number of prominent men who would make good Presidents; but the Democratic party was compelled to admit that it had but ono man--of nil the great body of men who bad assembled at its last National Convention--who was a suitable and available candidate. Mr. Piatt here read an extract from Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance in 1884 against the policy of a second Presidential term, and intimated that it must be a mis­ take to consider Mr. Cleveland a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Teller repeated that the great Demo­ cratic party had to-day no other man whom it would dare to put in nomination, nnd said that it went without saying that the Democratic convention would simply meet to ratify what had already been declared. The general horde of office-seekers had made themselves heard and the mugwumps brought up tbe rear. The Democrats had surrendered the liberty of choice. Mr. Plumb Raid the Senator from Mis­ souri was welcome to the positi&n he had assumed. He had enlarged the scope of the debate, not for the special purpose of ridiculing Senators who were supposed to be Presidential candidates, but for the purpose of arguing against the whole idea of pensions to Union soldiers, whether disabled or otherwise. THE LIQUOR TRADE SMASHES BOTH 8IDEB B1B0LUTE. No Compromise Botween the Burlington and Its Striking CmnlAuM "t.fe-4 » Employes, y ffaspension of lence by Strikers in He< mm braska.; 10" • , su­ its Illinois.. \ " \!r [Chicago apodal.] : No arrangement tending to a settlement of difficulties has been made by the Chi­ cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and its striking engineers and firemen. Both ;jsides are confident of victory, and each adopts a tone of defiance towards the other. The Chicago, Burlington and Quin­ cy officials expressed satisfaction with the status of affairs as existing. They claim to be fully competent to handie their suburban passenger traffic, and think from the way new men were coming in that m a week or ten days the whole system will be working with its old-time smoothness and pre­ cision. No through passenger trains were moving, and but few suburban trains were going; out or coming in. The Brotherhood Bhows no sign of yielding. Every member is drawing his pay the same as if he were at work. An old member of the order asserted that the Brotherhood could pay every striker his wages for a year without assessing its members a dollar. "If the strike is still on then," he con­ tinued, "there isn't an engineer who has a job that won't respond to a call of $5 to $50. It's a war of capital. We have as much money to spend in this fight as the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road. The company hasn't a lot of men to fight who are liable to weaken because they are hungry." The committees continued to hire as many of the competent men as they could get. Six hundred men are out of work in the Burlington freight houseB and Beveral thousand men are idle in the lum­ ber district. The number of engineers and firemen ory strike in Chicago is precisely 17(5. In the lumber yards everything is at a standstill. [Peoria special. 1 Postmaster Dowdall, with'United States Marshal Berry, demanded of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy officials that mail trains run out, and also notified the de­ partment that mail agents' lives are jeopardized by inefficient engineers. Quincy special.] The strike situation in this city is vir­ tually unchanged. Not a pound of freight has been moved, and the indications are now that none will be for some time to come. St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern passenger trains are running with reason­ able regularity, with master mechanics.in the cabs. Passenger trains on other branch­ es aie running. In Iowa. [Burlington special.] lPS»*trilce has stopped all freight c on the Burlington Railroad in Iowa,.and delayed passenger business. The officials here say they are getting plenty of good men, and will soon have them at work. Dispatches from other, points in the State show a similar condition of things. In Ulwonrl, very nixie was done m the yards here yesterday, but the passenger trains were run out on time. The officials say they have had many applications from en­ gineers and will have no more trouble in filling the places of the strikers: This the men deny. [Kansas City special.] The tie-up on the Burlington system is complete _ here. The company has succeeded in sending out passenger trains manned with green hands, but they have all been more or less delayed in de­ parting. No freight is moved. Specials from other points in tbe State show that few trains are being run on the road. •A In Nebraska^ j. [Omaha special] Whisky Dealers of gloux City Vtealljr Sur­ render to the Law. !Sioux City (Iowa) special.] Verdicts were reached Wednesday upon the seizure of the stocks of the wholesale liquor stores of £. J. liessigien and William Leich. The jury in the liessigien case brought in a verdict of guilty of making illegal sales. The verdict of guilty carries with it tho confiscation of the entire stock, which is valued at over $20,000. An agree­ ment was reached with the Law and Order League by which Ressigien and Leich are allowed to remove their stoc • from the State. The Arensdorf brewery is closed finally. < THE will of the late W. W. Corcoran has been probated at Washington. The estate is valued at $3,000,000, and the greater portion is bequeathed to his three gra d- children, George P., Louise M., and Will­ iam C. Eustis. AT New Britain, Conn.,'the Noitb A Jndd sKddleiy hardware factoiy, JFJML burned. Loss, #30,000. - - Few runuing oh roe Q. road in Nebraska. The engine tif a train was dis- nbled by some one throwing a coupling-pin into the guide. A special policeman found a dynamite cartridge and two torpedoes under the Burlington track not far from the depot. The members of the brother­ hood denied all knowledge of these out­ rages. A non-union engineer was roughly- handled by a mob at McCook, Neb. He was working a locomotive in the yards and was asked by tbe brotherhood men to get off and desist from work. He refused, and a rush was made for him. He was dragged off the locomotive by the mob and was beaten almost to death. He was left in­ sensible, and the strikers then took the engine and ran it away about a mile and killed it. Specials from other points in $Wbilt|skaahow that few trains aranu^aing. ' " «Q" Stocks Vail Off. ' " : '?V fNew York special.] Although disturbed very little at first, the strike was reflected very decidedly on Wednesday in the New York stock market. C., B. & Q. was made the object of a bharp dash by the bears and the price was beaten down to 124£. Friday the stock sold at 127 J. A sympathetic weakness ex­ tended to the other stocks on the list, es­ pecially the grangers. ' Powdoriy Speaks. • . "H*? . W*ranton (Pa) spsolal.] ... Mr. Powderly has given his opinion of the "Q." strike. He said the brotherhood engineers were fighting for a just princi­ ple, and he would have only contempt for the men who should take their places. The brotherhood had often worked against the Knights of Labor, and in the South­ west railroad strike had Btabbed them in the back. They had taken tbe places of the Reading men in the recent strike, and had often acted in a mean and dastardly spirit toward the Knights of Labor, but this, he said, would not justify the Knights in taking their places in the present strike on the Burlington road. He said that he would advise all Knights not to interfere, but let the strike go on and let the Brotherhood demonstrate its power to stand alone without "entan­ gling alliances with those of other trades." In conclusion he said: "Knights of Labor, from Maine to California, stand firm; keep your hands off; let the law of retaliation be disregarded, and let the men of the Chica­ go, Burlington & Quincy Railroad win this Strike if they can." Hiring New Men. ,<>/ • [Philadelphia special.] -*'+*• '•> R. D. Ward, of Philadelphia, Wta hns been in this city for the last few days, has examined and engaged forty-seven engi­ neers and eighty firemen to go to Chicago for service on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Boad. IKew York special.] Locomotive engineers to take the place of strikers on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad are still being engaged at Mo. tt Broadway. Over 100 men were secured yesterday. Ho Was a "Civil" Engineer. A serious wreck occurred at the crossing of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroads, at Clinton, 111., the C., B. and Q. train, run by Civil Engineer Pearce, of Aurora, acting as engineer in plaoe of a striker, running his train into the mail and express car of the other train. No lives were lost, but eight trainmen were injured. The Government End. ' 2.- [Chicago special.1 United States Marshal Marsh ssys no official notification has yet reached him calling upon him to take any measures whatever in relation to the strike on the C., B. ds Q. Road. So far there has been no interruption beyond a trivial and in­ direct delay to the transmission of the United States mail, and no ol this direction is apprehendad. NATIONAL LAW-MKER& WW I* Debt DMM t>, tbe MkC ttosal LegMatMs. ~ THB bill to incorporate the Hart time Canal Company of Nicaragua paused the Senate Ctt the 27th ult„ by a vote ot 38 to 15. All the Sam atom voting in the negative hail from the Southern States. The Senate considered at length the bill granting pension* to ex-aoldlem and sailors who are incapacitated toe the per­ formance ot -naaual labor and to de­ pendent relatives ot deoeaaed soldiers sailors. In the House o( Repre­ sentatives, Mr. Matson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported adversely a resolu­ tion reciting tee "100-day circular' issued bv Gen. Black, Commissioner of l ensions, and di­ recting the committee to inquire whether any pension claims have been rejected through non-compliance with the requests contained therein. Mr. Matson said that euch a circular had been issued, and that its effect had been salutary. The resolution was tabled by US yeas to 9!) nays. Mr. Long, at the request of the Hnme Market Club of Boston, introduced a bill reducing tho tariff on sugar. There ia a bounty clause in the bill allowing a bounty of 41 for every ton of beets or sugar cane raised and manufactured into sugar in the Lnited States, and for every lOu pounds ef Ju8ar or molasses produced from the uapte tree. The taxes on domestic manufactured tobacco are to bo reduced 50 per tout., as are also special tazoa on retail dealers in tbe same commodity. Provision is in ado for the with- tex from bohded warehouses o(f distilled spirits or alcohol tp bo used for eclen- V i?. m,«»utaoturing purposes or in the arts. A bill for tbe admission of Wyoming waa - trod need by Delegate Carey. THE Senate resumea consideration of t)M grand army pension bill on the 28th nit., the ouostiou being on Mr. Call's amendment Ttfc- lng the bill apply also to those who served In tho war with Mexico or (for thirty days) in any of the Indian wars. The amendment was agreed to after quite a protracted partisan debate. Senator Sherman introduced a bill authorising the Comptroller of the Treasury to issue to national banks circulating notes to the amount of lt)0 per ceut. of the par value of the bonds deposited with tbe Treasurer of the United States to secure the payment of circulating notes up->n the bank making proper application therefor; but. at no time shall tho total lumount of notes so issued to any such bank exceed the amount at the timo actually paid in of its capital stock. The House passed the following public-build­ ing measures • Appropriating Siou.o H) ueduoed from ».'i00,0(>0) for a publi-building site at Omaha; for a i>ublie building at Bar Harbor. Jio.. JS»5,00() (reduced from $5J,000); New York ;i4s a 1 (Appraiser s building nud site), 81 ,A00,0t);>; Tex- arKaua (intorstato buildiugi, 810>.000; Indian- r' o'is (additional grouudl, U-25,00); Bay CitV. M i ll., Jfl.i'i.iK U; Milwaukee. Wis , $4.10,000. - \ WHEN the Senate resumed consideration |J| the Grand Army pension bill, on the •i'Jth ' Mr. Wilson (Iowa) moved to insert the words "from the in&rmities of age," so as to pension all ex-soldiors tu toring "Irom the infirmities of age or from montal or physical disability," A long debate ensuea, which was par­ ticipated in by Messrs. Wilson ot Iowa. West, Plumb, Piatt, Teller, and Wilson ot Maryland. Mr. Sherman, from the Foreign Relations Committee, reported favorably tbe bill to amend tue Chinese restriction acts. Mr. Sherman also reported a resolution request­ ing the President to negotiate a treaty with Ciiina containing a provision that no Chinese laborers shall enter the United Slates. Tho bill for the compulsory education of children and tire bill to establish a nationul art commis­ sion passed the Senate. In the House there was a warm debate on the bill authorizing tbe Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonda with tho surplus revenue, in the course of which Messrs. McKinley and Weaver tacKed aud Mr. Breckinridge, of KewP tucky, defended the policy of the ad­ ministration. Tne bill was finally passed. 'J ho House also passed the bill dividing the State of Minnesota into two collection uia- tricts, and making Sc. Paul a port of entry and St. Viuoent a sub-port. Kuio^ius on the lata hetli C. Moffat of Michigan were delivered by Mebsrs. Cutcheon, lord. Gates, O'Donnell, Whiting, Canuon, Hayes, Allen, Wade, Os­ borne, Chipman, Oallinger, and Conger. Reso­ lutions reciting the past services and worth 01 the deceased were adopted upon motion of Mr. Burrows, and as a further mark of respect tha Bouse adjourned. THK resolution reported from the Foreign Affairs Committee requesting the President to negotiate a treaty with the Emperor of China containing a provision that no Chinese laborer shall enter the United States, was adopted by the Senate on the 1st inst. The Senate resumeaX consideration of the Or and Army pension bill* the pending question being on Mr. Wilson's (Iowa) amendment to add tne words "from tha Infirmities of age." Mr, Beck delivered a sot speech against the bill, and without reaching a vote the Senate adjourned to the 5th inst. The House of Reprecentativea passed the joint resolution, reported from tha .foreign Affairs Committee, accepting the invi­ tation to tako part in the international exhibi­ tion to be held in Paris in 18o9. The House also passed the joint resolution authorizing the President to arrange a conference to be held in Washington in 18sj for the purpose of promot­ ing arbitration and encouraging reciprocal com­ mercial relations between the United States aud republics of Central and South America and the empire of Brazil. 4 A Hindoo Jeweler. One of my companions, having made a bargain with the smith, banded him three English florins which he desired to have manufactured into one bangle of the choicest East Indian design and workmanship. The coolie man heated the coins, out them into narrow pieces, of which he welded the ends together, using hammer and anvil, thus making a bar four or five inches long, and. as I remember, two or three lines in width and thickness. Covering one end of the strip of metal with damp clay, to protect his fingers from the heat, the bangle-maker stuck the silver into the diminutive charcoal fire, whioh lie set aglow by blowing through a tube similar in appearance to a glass- blower's pipe. When the metal was at a dull red heat he beat it soundly, forging it round and smooth to the di­ ameter of telegraph wire; then, care­ fully bending it in a circle, joined the. two ends, welding them together neat­ ly and with dispatch. This done, and the joint having been covered with a rough mass of hot silver fashioned into a ball of the size of a small cherry, the Hindoo held out the halt-finished trin­ ket for onr inspection and approval, He next smoothed and polished the surface of the ball by hammering; then he graved and stamped it with various dies, cutting simple, conventional pat­ terns of irregular design. Next, having selected a small silver serpent from an assortment of ready-made devices and charms which he kept in a cocoannt shell, he plunged it into the fire and blew through his blow-pipe until the cobra became blood-hot. Pinching the reptile's tail between two bits of moist clay, the Hindoo drew it from the fire, and before it lost its angry hue, deftly corkscrewed the emblem of immortali­ ty around the wire of the bangle in four complete coils, all the time tap­ ping the snake here and there gently with his mallet, in this way fastening it securely in ite place. Plunging the ornament into a calabash of cocoannt oil, he waited till the serpent ceased hissing and the Indian bracelet waa then ready to be clasped on the wrist of whoever the gallant gentleman had in his mind when he found it in his heart to give the order for it.--DOIOII the Islands. Cruel, Bnt Appropriate. Omaha Girl--Oh, I should so lifc» ft* visit England. Traveled Female--England ? Of all places! Never go to that barbarous country. "Barbarous?" ^ "Absolutely brutal. What doy<|il suppose they do over there when 'a woman dies?* -A ' ; "I'm sure I don't know.* • K "The sexton tolls her age World. - A BAILBOAD station agent at Dun­ kirk, N. Y., in his leisure timo haa whittled out of 280 pieces of wood a perfect model of a locomotive and ten* * der. He was five months at the job. ̂ 1 •-- II II • : ^ ,/Sf. • PETRIFIED fish about ITHnchee long and six inches thick was found recently on the Oregon mountain 3,000 feet above the sea level. THK oldest tombstone in tho Gee- man empire ia one at Worms. Whioh bears the date A. D. 900. J A A-:,! j-*! •--Omairn ;;; It I * y • ( • .