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•rJl-W&W • ,">1 i f j^fcgtnri) flaradcalet f i* f ; 1 MoHENBX, ^ I _ L _ : j., f I. VAN ILYKE, E«wm4 ftkWwr. n^iNoia ELECTRIC FLASHES. *V : LATEST TBLEr,RA! HIC, NEWS AXX PARTS OF THE WOKUtt, <| ]' J}-' % 'Mltfeal OoHtp. Railroad Rumblings,Pef- ; *' Mtnal Ilfeition, Conflagration ft, Acft liint*, ,y> juj« Crimea And Criminals*' i' wii V > Kltd BlfRll. « ! THE FLORIDA CASES. Jadki!al Nomination* in That Mate Occupy 111® Senate's Attention. • IN tbe Senate, on the 28th, Mr. Wilson. of Iowa, offered a resolution, which was agreed *o, calling on the Secretary of tLe "treasury for Information as to the arrival and departure of Chinese at and trt>ni the port of San Francisco. Suul as to the evasion or failure <>f tin- ant-i- j|:hinese laws. The Senate tlit-n went iiuo ex<*n- iive session to consider the Florida judicial rK^'^^i'^ioininations, and. when tlie doors were re- *'peiHd, adjourned. In executive session i '»t long and exciting debate t ok ^•;?^t|>lace upon the I- lorida t ases, but ' when a vote was called for th re was no quorum ". %>ref.t lit, and the matter went over without ac- ' ." ' '"iiou. In the House Mr. Bingham (PH.). from <h« Committee on Pohtoftk-.-H and l'osiroaJs, .•\ report<-d back a resolution calling on the Post- "fiiaster General for intormauou r 'la ive t • the M 1 "|njpl< yjnent of in-ij oct irs or special a jents in *' ' Investigating the elnitns .of coiit^ndiiig a,>pli- > ".-Saints for postinast.erships. AdwM. ll»e vTponse then went into committee of the whole • "Mbn the p. ivato calendar. Without action of unv •, /-Jctnd tho committer rose and the House took a ?...,^!|«ce8.s. and at 1hi evening session passed ^^wjnty-fiYe private pension bills,. :; ^ftoRIGlNOr THE TRACY DISASTER ' ' . ; All Old Servant Sn^pec'ed ef Setting the Fire that i osr Thro- Livs. IT is rumored thfit the mystery which has surrouude.l the fire on the 3d of Feb­ ruary last, at Secretary Tracy's residence in \Va--hingion, at which his wife and ' daughter, as well ns a Swiss maid, lost their live", is about to be cleared up. P There are well-suRtaine 1 minors that Bridget Sweeney, the trusty old servant wbo has been li'viug in the Secretary's family for fourteen years or more, has confessed that she fired the houso with kerosene. Her statement is said to be that 6he poured kerosene all over the di:-.ing-room paneling und as far up L the stairs as her stock of oil would go; that she then lit the pur or gas, set fire to the COHI oil aiound the wainscoting and ' went to church. No motive whatever is Assigned for the horrible deed, and no possible incentive except insanity can be susge'sted. Her account of the incidents . ©f the fire was that sha left the house at C 40 that morning to go to church. She -1 >' |>erceived no sign of lire at the time and V *flaelled no smoke. Yet the fire was under . J f u l l h e a d w a y a t 6 : 5 5 , f i f t e e n m i n u t e s • • after she left the house. and«a general i.-. " ydarm was turned in at 6:53. LIVES LOST IN TENNESSEE. Reports of Destruction by the Wind at Ga'- latin and Fsyettpvi'le. A MEMPHIS (Tenn.) dispatch TTJ-s: The velocity of the wind during the storm ifas eight miles an hour. Some slight damage was done to properly all over the vA'ity, consisting mainly of damtged roofs Jand broken windows. AtG^llat.n, Tenit., • Several houses weie demolished. John IHibbett. his two children, and a you: liirl were killed by falling w alls. -Mrs. bet was seriously hurt. Jas. Pattersofc Mrs. latum were badly injure^ -Is thought both* will die. Si ^ jpeople were severely inj vl>ridge over Deshler's Crei 'tanoogffi ni-d Nashville do vvu aiul ail trains have o- doiieti. Thb town of B&igin iS^ud to I pk, every house except one |>hed. A child of Postinnts^ LiUcd and a number of injured. At Fayettevill©, »ven bnildings were bl<>wn One woman was killed anl a number of persons were injured. At Sellev.ew, Ky., Jobn McKee and two Negroes were burned to death in a build - fog which blew down. WUJUfU.., XJUU IUM 1MB' af*n. One woi SCHELYJE TO UTILIZE THE PALLS lew York Capitalists to BuUd a Tttunel ' ^ Around N'agata. , PLANS hare been perfected for tniliz- * ' ing the force of Niagara Falls by means s < ®f a tunnel having its head some in les *bove the falls themselves and it® tail if;: below them. Within t'ie> last Veek the capital stock of the Ni- jn?arA Eiver Hydraulic Tunnr* Power "^'*nd Sewer Company has been Tncreased v,': from $20(1,000 to $2,00tl.000, but the offi- fJera refuse to make public an* ̂ >lans just v°w" It is said that a s^ ndicato of New -^or't capitalists, among them <."'iauncey J W- Dv'pew, the Vanderbilts, ui;d other , York Central men, Diexcl, Morgan V & Co., and other bankers, under the title of the C ilaract Construction <fDmpanv. r. .. • 'Sv P x . ' . mm W.. 'r are now buying the necessary itutU and trill build tbe tunnel. ^ THE OFFICIAL NEWS. Th* Relief Committee at Louuville I IMI A Can!. THE Relief Committee «»f the city of Louisville has issued the following of- . ficial c rd for the use of the press: To the People: The calamity that liai ovar- taken the city of Loninville by the cyclone , spread over a territory of oar city cov-rim; » space of ground some 400 yards wide and three . ttiile-in length, through tiie business and resi- ^deuce portion of our citv. The loss of l.fe is in •5the neighborhood, it is balieved, of some sev­ enty-five persons, und the loss to the city in • damage to nouses au<l goods is believed not to exceed i*2.()0j,0 0. Wihile the,calamity is a great <one, our citizens fe«l Able ito cojje with it, and are not cast down. Juut will at once proceed to ^irepairand resuu*> in the channels now irrter- •rupted. In all other pctr.tioivp of the city busi- . Hess is lesuming itc ichanjiels. Presidential Nominations. THE President has <fst <to ithe -Senate the following nominations: Andrew Hero, AsHiKtaut I'nited States Treas­ urer at New Orleans ; SaiTord B. Hauler. Melter ' ot the United States Mint at lienver. (>>llector« Of Customs--F. H. Oaks, at Haco, Maine; Geo : M. Gleason, at Oswegatc-hie. New York. 8uc^ veyor« of Customs--F. N. Tilliughast. at (freqn. port, Mow York ; J. F. Dravo, at fittuhorg. Ha • •• ». A. Miyimrd, at Grand liapids, *' Ktection Con testa Decided THE House Committee on Etectkms has passed upon the election cases of Waddell vs. Wise (Third Virginia Dis- y irict) and M<cDuffie vs. Turpin (Fourth i;-: Alabama District), and in both cases, br > a |>arty vote, decided to recommend the of the H^publican contestant. Hoboken and Brooklyn searched for Peidrick and John then threw upr positions and devoted all their time to\nn endeavor to discover the whereabouts their brother. They found him some- wher<» in the West, and the three were returning to New York when they were struck by the passenger traiu and hurled aga'nst a freight tra n which was passing and whii-h previ nted them from hearing the approach of the express, one of the fastest on the road. The bodies were korvibly mangled and death i w*<R instantaneous. "W. J. MCOKEOOK, teller of tbe Fewrtk National Bank of Pittsburgh, Is «issi«t|(, and his accounts are not straight. He was also treasurer of several secret societies, bu» it is bel'eved that their exchequers wiX not suffer. ? WiiiiiiAM SLATTEIIT and his wife, for­ merly of Akron, Ohio, have been invested at Buffalo, N. Y.. lor passing counterfeit aumey. (reatnent-of the pea^a^Ulls tookiaft to the payment of the (Government indebted­ ness «f the Union nerd Central Pacific Itaitfoad Companies. A resolution has adopted which binds the committee t <ODO bi 1 covering lx»th «EM- patiio^.in its provisions, and eabseqneat* ly another motion prevailed to take tip at the next meeting the bill reported by the Senate committee. • A gsj^wTEitiiY dividend of I par cent., each ca«e i P*y*ble April IS, has been declared by ' <AM Jliseouri Pacific dineotors. " WESTERN HAPPENINGS. THE iStandard Oil Company has pur­ chased the property of the Lima Oil Com­ pany, its strong competitor in the Ohio field. The consideration is eaid to have been $1,000,000. The Lima Company owned big blocks of territ«iy in the Ohio feld and refineries at Linaa and in Xew York. Dudley Purlin, of Albsov, N. Y., where the offices are locai-ed, ds President of the company. THE Cherokee strip is now practically deserted by the boomers. The military find little to do beyond notifying those tin the public lnnl to proceed out of the strip nod not settle on the public 1 inds. Reports from the commanding officers of the various troops received state that no colonists were encountered during the day, and that the boomers have all deserted the strip. THE village of Pioneer,'-< Williams County, Ohio, was swept by a fire which destroyed eighteen or twenty residences and a business block. BEEOHE the Golden <Sete Athletic Club at San Francisco, Cal., Billy Wil­ son, the colored light-we'ght of St. Paul, Minn., was knocked out by Joe Choynski, of San Francisco. The ao-a ch was for a purse of $2,500, of whicH goes to the loser. ARCHBISHOP MICHAFII HEISS died at La Cros«e, Wis., aged 75 years. Mother Mary Joseph O'Lenry, SuperioresG of tbe House of the Good Shepherd set Balti­ more, expired in that city. LAST week the output of the Minneap­ olis ffonr mills was ]3:i,72i), a., compared with 137,700 the week before and 94,275 the corresponding time Last year. The market is very dull, although the Pills- fcurys claim to be selling the bulk of their prodect. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. AT Arkansas City, Ark., a skiff con­ taining John Bickett, Louis William*, and Harriet Lee and her four -children, ranctn? from <? t& K> years of age, /»11 colored, capsized and tbe occupants^ vfere all drowned except Bicketts and ihe-six- year-old child, who saved th,etoselws by clinging to the ov-erturned boat. REPORT has beer, atade io -Gov. Jack­ son, of Maryland, that the State Treas­ urer, Ateven«on A re her, has misappro- securities in his possession, riotisly ill in his at Bel Air. imoM Sun makes this an- ent: "The marriage ©f Miss ret Blaine, the eldest daughter of Secretary of St te, and Walter Dam- losch of New York City, will take .place on the 17th of April. The day has 'been I slightly hastened by the fact that -emne of the most intimate friends of both the bride and groom had planned a trip to Europe a Uttie later on in the month, and_ an eurly dat-e had to be selected for the wedding so that they covld be present. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE House Committee on Elections has disposed of two contested election cases --namely, Posey va. Parret, First In­ diana District, and Bo wen we. Bnchanan, Ninth Virginia District. In both of these cases the committee will ireoommend that the sitting member be allowed to a-etain the seat, «o that in the seven .election cases passed upon bv it up to tbe present time the committee h»« favored four Re-! publicans and three Denvocrats. AMONO tbe bills introduced IN the Senate is one by Mr. Farwell, to pension; Mttry Crook, widow of the late General Crook, at the rate of $2,-000 pear annum. BILLS for tbe erection of public build­ ings have been reported t« the House 'by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds as follows: Hastings, N<eb., $75,000; Spokane Falls, Wash., -site for building, $100,000; Sioux Falls, S. D.. $150,000; Saginaw. Mich., $2061,000; Stockton, Cal., $75,000; He fiesta, Mon­ tana, $125,000. A DISPATCH from Washington says: Gen. Robert E. Scbenck, ex-l&inister to England, died at his residence in Wash­ ington of pneumonia, »fter a brief ill­ ness. He had bun sick only a.few days, and his condition wa« not considered dangerous until the day before bis death, when a change for the wojrse took place. He was conee ous until a tew moments before his death. Gen. Schenck was born at FtanUtc. Obio. Oct. 14. 18;x>. He was a member of the Thir­ tieth^ Congreaai and served almost coiitimioup. ly from 1843 to 1851. His rank and services (tar­ ing the civil war are well known, he having ais^n to the rank of Major General, which he wo*' by brilliant and heroic achievinents. He «asa,ain amemberof Fortieth and Forty-first Cong eRwe-t, and in 1870 was appointed Minister to the court of St. James. Atter the end of his ministerial tcrtn he returned t<> this city, -wh?reho has since resided. Since he has been living here he has been the recipient of many marked attentions and honors. 'i-t Flack's Successor Narard. { GENERAI, DAKIEJ^ E. SICKLES of New York Cily has been appointed Sheriff of New York County by Governor Hill to ' iflomd 3ames A. Flack, resigned. ; EASTERN OCCURRENCES, THE resignation of Sheriff Flack, of New York, has been received by Gov. Hill at Albany, N. Y., as a result of Flack's conviction for conspiracy. A SUSQUEHANNA, Pa., dispatch says that a train on the Erie Railroad killed three men at Red Rock, a small hamlet •even miles westr ot there. The victims were three brothers, named Deidrick, Jcfc- and Henry Bakesiefi, all of New York. On the *30th of last December Henry disappeared suddenly'. The police Jersey City, • J. ; V - Z ' - ' - X ' :V" j.Vi ;•'• ACROSS THE OCEAN. A -SENSATION has been cavsed in Paris by tbe disappearance of Saint-Saens, the 'oocuposefr. He failed to attend the first performance of his new opera, "Aocanio, several nights ago. an 1 has not sin e been -seen. A rumor of his dt^th is current and another report is that he has been f>laced in » mad-house. AN Aden cable says~. English agents fcave «elzed 200 rifles and a ton of powder, under the (prohibitory law, from a Ger­ man expedition led by Architect Hoffman, which was poiug to found a se.tlement at Hnlule, on the Somali coast. "BILLY THE KII>," nn American thief, ha6 been nabbed in London while at­ tempting to rob a bank clerk of $25,000. ACCORDING to tbe pastoral instruc­ tions of tbe Archbishop of Rheims, crim­ inality has 'increased threefold in France since 1870. A BGBLIN cable says:: Gen. vcm 'Schel- lendorf has been appointed to the com­ mand of tho Tenth Army Corps, made vacant by the appointment of Gen. von Caprivi to the Chancellorship. Count H'.eseler has been appointed to the com­ mand of the Sixteenth Avmy Corps and Lieut. Gen. Lentze to that of the Seven­ teenth Army t orps. ADVICES from Japan report a disas­ trous conflagration in Asakusa, Tokio, on Feb. 2(), by which more thou 1,400 houses were destroyed. The fire raged for nearly -eix hours. One person was burned to death and bfteen bflemen killed. FRESH AND NEWS*. DIRECTORS :snd others have been elected at Boston by the American Bell Telephone Company. Tbe net earnings last year were $2,068,738, an increase of $244,533, and the 'dividends aggregated $4..230,500. THE convention supplement to the tenth article of the treaty of 1842 between Great Britain :iid the tlnited State* con­ cluded at Washington, July 12, 1889, and ratified at London, fMarch 11, 18ff0, has been formally proclaimed. By tbe terms of the supplementary convention tbe provisions of tbe tenth article of the original treaty are made applicable 'tothe following additional crimes. 1. Manslaughter -when -voluntary. 2. 'Coun­ terfeiting or -akeriui:money, uttering or bring­ ing into circulation counterfeit or altered money. Embezzlement, larceny, receiving any money, valuable security, or otner property knowing the same to have bean embezzled, stolen, or fraudulently obtained. 4. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or direc­ tor, or member, or otticer of any company, made criminal by the la>vs<of both countries. 5. Per­ jury or hubornatiiu of perjury. 6. Rape, abunjtion, child ttt aling, kidnaping. 7. 3nrglary, houstj-breakmg, or shop-Ortaking. a. Piracy by the law of nations. «. Kevol. ;>r conspiracy to revolt by two or more persotra on board a ship on the high seas against the au­ thority of the master; v»rongfuily sinking or destroying a vessel.at sea or attempting to do so; assaults on board -a.ship on the high seas with inieiit to du Kcievoue boany narm. 10. Crimes and orfensen against the laws of both countries for the suppression of slavery and slave trading ; extradition is also to lake 'place for participat ion in any of the crimes mentioned in this convention or in the aforesaid tenth arti­ cle, provided such participation be punishable by .the laws Of both countries, A MONTREAL d-spatch says: A con­ ference was held at the Board of Trade between Arturo Baldnsotmvey T-opete, Spanish Consul'General for Canada, l>r. E. L. Leoprehon, Spanish Consul at Montieal, and the President, Vice Presi­ dent, and Treasurer of the Board of Trade with a view to promoting trade be­ tween Canada and Spain and her colo­ nies. The Consul -General .explained that under instructions from tte Spanish Government he was on his way to Ottawa to endeavor to induce the Dominion Government to co-operate in establishing a direct trade between Spain and Canada. IT has transpired that in the debate on the report .of the Committee on Customs Uuion in the Pan-Americm Congress the United StateB delegates, upon the author­ ity of Secretary Blaine, offered full reciprocity with the Argentine Republic, Dr. Saenz-Penn, a delegate from that country, having advocated free tTade in a minoiity iqport and in a speech in support of it. 'before the conference. No offer of reciprocity was made to any other of the South American Republics. The foreign delegates to the Pan-American conference have issued in­ vitations to a dinner to'beigiven in honor of President Harrison on the 16th of April. This is-supposed to indicate with some accuracy the probable date of ad- jourirment of thei conference. Ihe trip of the delegates through the South wild be >made after that date. THE widow of Gen. Crook has deter­ mined to make her permanent. sesidence at-Oakland, Md. THE chief of tbe secret seiwiee has is­ sued notice of the appearance ait Louis­ ville, Cincinnati, and €t. Louis of $10 counterfeits .on the Germama National Rank of New Orleans. It is etated that tbe -spurious notes are likely to .deceive easoLoss handlers of money. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. CHARLES A. CRAMPTON, of Illinois, has been appointed chemist in tbe Inter­ nal Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Department. THE Senate has confirmed thm follow­ ing nominations: John F. Selby, United ^States Attorney for the District of North Dakota; Major Thaddeus H. Stanton, Paymaster, to be Lieutenant Colonel and Deputy Paymaster General. THE President has nominated Pay Di­ rector Thomas H. Looker, of the navy, to be Chief of tbe Bureau of Provisions and Clothing and Paymaster General, with rank of Commodore. THE Senate in executive session has confirmed the following nominations: Mrector--Thomas H» Looker, to be Chief OT the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing and Paymaster General of the Navy ; Amor Smith, Jr., Surveyor of Customi at Cincinnati. RAILWAY GOSSIP. A ST. LOUIS dispatch reports that the management and control of the Wabash Western properties is once more vested in Jay Gould, and thpt he fully dictates the policy of the road. Holding 90,000 shares of common stock in his own name be has formed nn alliance with Russell Sage iind other large holders resident in New York, and has also secured extensive proxies from Europe. AFTER discussing the question for a month the Honse Committee on Pacifio Railroads has reached a decision respect­ ing the method to 4*p pnmaed in tho Ji'2<g> .42 ^ -5W <9 -50 JB .43 .21 .11 •H* .55 ULQ0 @10.75 @ .p* & .SJ* <g> .as 0 .45 m .44 910.3S .6!4'2<!S .25 es M! & .•a <& 0 4.4^ I# 4.00 <S 5.00 20 lutsEiBErom CHICAGO. CiTttJt--Trtaaa .„»4.75 @ «J0 Oood A.50 & 4,75 Common ,2.50 ffli .a.50 Hbofi--Shipping tirades.......... 3.75 ^4.50 SHKKP. 4.00 ® e.-25 WHKAT--No. A ited 79 vgi ,7»J4 COKN--N®. I " ' " OATS--No. 2 RYE-- N«L 2 BUTTKA--Choice Creamery.. Chekxk--Full Cream, flats EOG.S--Fresh POTATO lis--Choice new, per bu.... POIIK--M«MIR MILWAUKEE. WHKAT--No. 2 Spring............ .Jg CoitN--No. 3 .29 OATH--No. 2 White 24 RYK--No. 1 ........ .44 BABLKT--No. 2 .« POBK--UeM 1Q.C* DETROIT. CATTLE 300 Hoos J... 3.00 SHEEP 3 50 WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORK--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT CORN--Cash OATA--No. 2 White NEW YORK. CATTLE 400 Hoos 4.25 KHKEP 5.15 WHEAT-NO, 2 Red. 90 COBN--No. 2 .37 OATS--Mixed Western 28 POBK--New lless 11.5J ST. LOUIS. CATTLE 4.00 Boos 3.75 WHBAT--No. 2 Red .78 COKN--No. 2 23 OATS--No. 2 .22 RYE--No. 2.'. .40 INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping SteerD 8.00* Hoos--Choice Light 8.00 SHEEP--Common to Prime...... 3.03 WHEAT--No. % Red 77 COHN--No. 2 White 30} OATS--No. 2 White 23} CINCINNATI. Hoos 8.75 06 4.25 WHKAT--No. 2Red. .80 ® .80^ COKN--No. 2 82 <$ .33 OATS--No. 2 Mixed .24 .25 v RYE--No. 2 ^..WT....-.T.T..* JO & ,MlA BUFFALO. CATTLE--Good to Prime......... 4.15 & 5.03 Hoos >. 4.00 4.50 WHEAT--No. 1 Hard .04W Com--Mo. * JM # ^ .82* .81* .23* @ 5.25 <9 4.75 6.50 <& .01 & .38 <0 .32 @12.00 @ 5 0 0 & 4.25 » .78* & .25* & .23 & .41 @ 4.75 & 4.25 & 5.75 .78 .31* .24* PEOPLE WITH "CLAIMS." ransY MUSTIMIS DIE, BUT MECR8 KEEP VP THE FIGHT. I Stall Field for Enterprising Novelists-- The Foes of Sea iter Sawyer--How Sena­ tor Pct lgni Outwitted a L«ad-ShpRk-»- Otlur WMatKliiKtoii New*. [&PSCUL COSRESPONDIHCK] WASHIN«TON, D. C., April I. Probably the hardest worked and molt pestered committee in Congress is that having in charge the claims against the Government. If all tbe claims now pend­ ing before that body were allowed it would take a round $100,000.000 out of ihe Treasury, In variety and "gall" rep­ resented m some of them they would stagger the mo9t vivid imagination. Many of them have been before Congress for half a century and are still being vig- arously pushed by the grandchildren of the original claimant. The records of this committee would furnish the foundation for some very in­ teresting romances, and it is a wonder that enterpiising novelist* have not long since taken advantage of the strange tales contained in the immense mass of documents on file here. The most thrill­ ing romancer would find his creative genius f irly distanced in the "tales of woe" girdled with red tape and pigeon­ holed in this committee room. To those unfortunate .beings who may have claims'before this body it will not be a very cheering statement when t say that not more than one in every one hun­ dred appeals for relief made to Congress ever sucoeed in getting even outside of tbe committee-room, to say nothing of consideration directly from the hands of either branch of Congress Beyond this it is fair to state also that only about this proportion are entitled to considera­ tion. Tbe fact is. there are some most j'idi-culoas «s well as infamous efforts being made every m nute in the day to pick Uncle Ham's capacious pockets. Illustrations of this tact afford interest­ ing reading. During the recent war a well-known steamboat captain on the Mississippi -was plying his vocation up and down the river, and while pretending to be loyal to the Union, secretly carried provisions and arms to the Southern army. Caught in 4 be act finally, his boat and cargo were confiscated by the Government troops, at rather were destroyed in attempting to pass a Union fort. Twenty years afterward, backed up by affidavits and other proofs, ho applied to Congress for relief, and placed his damages at $100,- 001). So well supplied was he with sworn statements that went to show that he was an innocent sufteier that he enlisted the services of eminent statesmen in his be­ half, and the bill passed one branch of Congress, but failed of being reached in the other daring the session. The next Congress took thfe matter up, but in the -discussion the true status of the claim came to light, and it was ignominiously kicked out. Notwithstanding these dis­ couragements, the original claimant is still in Washington trying to get his bill through. The most persistent class of claimants who feamg about the committee-rooms are those persons who dur.ng the war lived in and around the dividing line between the North and South, and who allege to have been losers oc property on account of the war. They invariably claim to have sym­ pathized with and aided the Northern troops and consequently think the Gov­ ernment should reimburse them for losses. About as cheeky a set of claimants as have pushed to the front of late yeurs are men who have gone West and settled upon Indian lands With r full knowledge that they had no legal rights there they have gone into the Indian country and reserva­ tions, and made in many instances exten­ sive improvements. As might have been expected they were driven off, and now they are asking the Government to pay them for theix losses. Hundreds of bills of this nature have been introduced this session. A .pathetic story relating to one claim now before Congress goes far to illus­ trate how difi9eiUt .it. is to get even a mer­ itorious measure through that body. Way back in 187-0 a wealthy Illinois speculator contracted to futniBh the Government with a very large quantity of grain, and was to deliver it on the railroad some­ where in Kansas. Tbe grain was deliv­ ered, as specified in the contract, but while Btored in a warehouse along the road was burned up, together with all tbe pnpeis, and among them the way-bill. Tbe Government refused to pay for the grain without a special act of Congress, and the man undertook to get it. The loss he*sustained completely ruined him, both financially and physically. In 1873 he visited Washington and tried to lobby his bill through. But, while every one conceded his just claim, the bill failed owing to the press of other business. In the meantime the unfortu­ nate contractor's family were subjected to the pangs of abject poveity, rendered more pitiful from the fact that their former condition in life unfitted them for struggling with the world. A year or so later the .contractor died, leaving his widow.and three children, all girls, to do battle for an existence. The mother has visited Washington -soveral times to push the olaim ot! her dead husband, as yet with poor success. She hopes on, bow- ever, and should she get her duos, which, by the ,po*wers above, I hope she may, sue will JIO longer be in want and may rest in peace and comfort during the balance of her life. » * * * The Hatney Peak Tin Mining and Mill­ ing Company, with mine* in the Black Hills, Houth Dakota, through its Presi­ dent, Samuel Unteiaaeyer of New York, is pushing Congress with all its power to place a duty on b ock tin. The company claims that with sufficient protection this region wiLl soon be able to suppv^ this country with all tbe tin nocess ry in the United States. Since the agitation of this quest on remonstrances have been coming in from all parts of the country, principally from mnnnfacturers incm- ned goods. Tbe tin people ask for a duty of two ee&ts per pound. * * The National Farmers' Alliance has established headquarters in Washington. The President, Mr. Polk of North Caro­ lina, is now bere and makes a good im­ pression. He is a clear-cut, plain-spoken man and a pleasing talker. " The farmers," said Mr. Polk, "are most vitally interested in the sub-treasury plan. Of course it is nothing but an experiment, but nothing better has been suggested to relieve the money market The farmers look to thi* Congress to pass the bill and if it doesn't the nest one will in all probability. I am advised that the Secretary of Agriculture is seriously considering the bill recently introduced, as are also many members of Congress. The measure is the product of the best minds in the Alliance after pto- found consideration, and will bear the fullest investigation and discussion." Mr. Polk states that the Alliance has other important matters before Congress. The country will* very soon be treated with another long and wearisome debate on the tariff. The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee held a conference with President Harrison a few days ago. and the following day it was announced that the House Committee' was about ready to report the bill for a revision of the tariff laws. ' * The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry has agreed upon and re­ ported a bill for the encouragement of the cultivation of the sugar there­ from. The bill proposes a bounty of $1 for every ton of beets r ised in the United States, delivered to a factory and made into merchantable sugar; and a bounty of 3>i for every 100 pounds of sugar manu­ factured from beets raised in this country. It also proposes to admit free of duty for three years all machinery imported for tbo mannfactars of beet sugar. Senator Paddock in a long report aoeOoiMI|ylnf)r the bill gives a history of the me and prosperity of the beet sug tr Industry in France, Austria, Hungary and Germany, vnder a system pt protection and bounty. 'Senator Sawyer fs*a widower, and a very rich one. Thio fact, together with a very complimentary sketch of the Sena­ tor, was recently published by a corro- «pondent of a well-known metropolitan daily, and ever since that time the ladies have been making life a burden for the Wisconsin statesman. His mail has been filled with kindly offers of marriage, a large number of them accompanied by photographs. The other day Senator Sawyer tied the whole bundle of epistles together and sent them to Senator Alli­ son--Also a widower--with a request for the latter to "kindly look over tna bunch and take his pick." The wealthy widower is nothing if not generous. * A petition signed by the professors of Oberlin College has been presented to Congress, setting forth that the present American orthography, though much im­ proved within the past century, is still cumbersome, illogical, unhistorical, and misleading; that millions of dollars ^re wasted every year in writing and printing unnecessary letters, while the progress of children in their education is greatly re­ tarded by their difficulties in the way of learning how to spell. Changes in the writ­ ten language must be made by gradual steps, and modifications herein suggested have the indorsement of the highest scholarship in the land, and, if adopted, would seem as an entering wedge for tho introduction of other reforms. The pe­ titioners think these changes should be made first in the printing done for the Government, and indorse the bill intro­ duced by Congressman Lawler for th it pnrpose. Representatives of the leading educational, publishing and printing in­ stitutions appeared before the House Committee on Printing on Friday, the 28th, in support of the bill. Senator Pettigrew,*of South Dakota, is one of the sharpest m»n to drive a bargain inthe West, and is reckoned one of the shrewdest wire-pullers m tbe United States Senate. A good story is told of him, which occurred some years ago. He was under 30 years of age, ajid comparatively little known, He had in­ vested every cent he could raise in a half- section of land on which the city of Sioux Falls, S. D.,now stands. After tbe pur­ chase the title w. s found to be weak, J and a suit was brought against him. j There was a mystery attached to | the suit, for Pettigrew could not I for a long time discover in whose interest | it was really brought. If he went to trinl I he was almost sure to lose bis case. He found that the title to the property really rested in the name Of one Jones, who lived a short distance Irom Minneapolis ^nd who was not aware thit he was the %wner of any property in Dakota. Petti­ grew started for Minnesota, and with the aid of ex-Jifdge Sanders, of Minneapolis, succeeded in getting a deed for the ground. Pettigrew's enemies, guessing the cause of his visit to Minnesota, also went to the man Jones and got another deed, and the Senator Btarted home on the same train with a stranger aboard who had the Becond deed. The South Dakota Senator got an inkling of the fact, and mado up his mind to outwit him, as he knew that unless his deed was filed for record first he would lose his land. He approached the stranger and entered into conversation with him, and soon became convinced that hia sus­ picions were correct. The stranger got off the train several times to send telegrams. Knowing tbe distance of the depot at Sioux Falls from the P.scerdsr's office, Pettigrew zsade up his mind that the other chap had tele­ graphed for a conveyance to meet him upon his arrival; so he took the conductor aside and after a few minutes' confab left the passenger coach and went forward. When wi*hin about three miles of Sioux Falls the train'slacked up and soon came to a stand-still. The passengers re­ mained patiently in their seats for about fifteen minutes, thinking the engine had just gone forward on a side-track to take water. Pettigrew was on the engine, and had gone on into the city and le surely proceeded to the Recorder's office and placed his deed on record, his opponents not discovering the trick until' long after, but wondering how it was lie got there first. It cost the Senator $500 to detach that engine, but then, be is one of those game Westerners who will spend a dollar at any time to save himself from being robbed of another dollar. * * Since the defeat of his beloved educa­ tional bill Senator Blair has been very much disheartened, but is slowly recov­ ering his usual energy. He still has hopes of Letting tbe bill through the Senate, and at the first opportunity will move a reconsideration. He has it in for a num­ ber of Senators who worked against his pet measure, especially those who on former occasions were friendly to it. • JAS. C. MOODY. lie Escaped the Mob. The lawyer had been badgering the -witness for some time, and finally asked: "Was any member of your family ever hanged?" "les, sir." "Ah, ah! I thought as mnoh. Now, sir, who was it V" "Myself." "Yourself? Do you mean to say that you have been hanged and are alive to tell of it?" "Yes, sir." "Come, now, no trifling. Tell the jury what you were hanged for, and how you happen to be alive to-day." "Well, sir, a man was killed, and 1 was suspected of having committed the crime. A mob took me out, put a rope around my neck, and had just .hauled me up to the limb of a tree, when some one in the crowd shouted that the mur­ dered man had been a lawyer.' They couldn't cut me down quick enough! I was filled with the best whisky the place afforded and given a banquet, as the greatest public benefactor in the history of the town."--St. Louis Life. A Mighty Charm. A preacher was speaking to an old negro wi ;h regard to the great flood whi li made Noah a hero for all time. "Ah Jasper, think of what an awful ti no that wa=»." "Yas, sail, I reckons it wuz er putty tough time on de white folks.". "And why not on blapk people as well ?" "Wall, %ph, you see de gubermen' feeds de niggers endurin' er flool, but de white folks sorter hatter shift fur dase'fs. I knows dafc sich has been de oa*e in de floods whar I wuz. I libed down in Mississippi riber bottoms er year ur to ergo, au' long come de high water, an' putty soon er long come er steamboat loaded with meat and meal. Struck me mighty nachul I tells you, 'caze I didn't hab no meat in de house nohow. Sot er roun' dar fur tlirea v.r fo' weeks, I did, wid nuthin ter do an' wid plenty ter eat. Dat jes' suited me --hit me er way up, an' I hear dat er nudder overflow is er bout ter breck loo e down dar an' I'm sorter thinkin' o' strikin' out for dat curmunity. Meal an' haug meat got er mighty oharm fur me, sah--got er mighty charm."--Ar- kansaw Traveler. THE sanitary commission of Yienna recommended electricity instead of hanging for executions. * TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION lOtTMTltXK, KY., EWESOSNCKS AM AWFUL VISITATION. Two Hundred of Her People Killed and More than That Number «r llalldiajra Wrecked--The Storm General 7hi«ack< out Southern and Central Illinois--Seme of the hosnen. Louisville (Ky.) dispatch: A tornado has swept over this city, wrecking 200 or 300 houses a^id killing 200 people. The wind came from the southwest. Thtf Union depot at the foot of Sev­ enth street was lifted from Its founda­ tion and turned over Into the raging torrent of the Ohio river. A train of ca^s making up for the Louisville Southern road went over with the building. Falls City hall, on West Market street, was wrecked. In the hall were over 100 people, and but few of them escaped alive. Many buildings after falling caught lire and the inmates were burned. G. E. Johnston, a telegraph operator, who was an eye witness, says: . "The cyclone struck Louisville in the southwestern portion and took a north­ easterly direction. I only saw the course of it from Fourteenth and Walnut to Eleventh and Market streets. From this latter point it followed its course to Seventh street and tho river, where it left tho city and striking across the river reached .Tcffersonville at tbe foot of Spring street. "Little damage was'done In JefTerson- villo, however. In Louisville the de­ vastation is terrific and tho .loss of, life will certainly reach hundreds, if not thousands. , "In one building, at Twelfth and Mar­ ket, two lodges and a dancing school were In session, there being in the build­ ing perhaps 100 persons, not one of whom is thought to have escaped. "I stood and watched them working on this ruin and saw six or eight corpses taken out in fifteen minutes. There is scarcely anything left that would indi­ cate that this heap of rubbish had ever been a building, and if any of its in­ mates escaped it was. by nothing less than a miracle. "The path of the cyclone was about a square and a half in width. All streets are blockaded with the debris of* fallen buildings or telegraph and electric-light wires. This dispatch Is carried around the city to the bridge and sent by rail­ road wfres." t Cairo (111.) dispatch: A tornado struck Metropolis; III., at 5 o'clock in the evening, doing great damage to property. Many houses were blown down, and it is reported that several hundred people were killed and injured, but all wires are down and it is impossible to got de­ tails. Metropolis .is a town of about 4,000 in­ habitants. It is situated on the Ohio river, which at that point is a broad stream now much swollen by tne, floods which have threatened the towns along its banks. It is the county seat of Massac county, and lies directly south of the center of the county. This town has but one railroad, the Terre Haute, which, running south through the county, turns at Metropolis and follows the course of the Ohio up the river to a point opposito Paducah, Ky. There tlie road crosses to the Kentucky side and becohies tho Newport News & Missis­ sippi Valley. St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch: It is re­ ported that at Mill Creek, a small sta­ tion twenty-fh'e miles noith of Cairo, several houses were blown down and a number of people injured. Owing to tho wires being down it is impossible to get particulars. A special from Coulterville, 111., says that town was visited by adisastroua wind storm, accompanied by hail the size of hen's eggs. Davidson Elder's house was wrecked, and Mrs. John Richmond, Mr. Elder's daughter, and Messers. Mc- Crapkcn and Smith of Nashville, 111., who were in the house at the time had a miraculous escape, getting off with a few bruises and scratches. A special from Nashville, III., says the cyclone struck that place with terrific force, and that not a pane of glass is left in a window with western exposure. At Little Prairie, a fewt miles away, the storm destroyed the residence of William Rhine and Mr. Rhine was badly hurt, his leg and arm being broken. He is also internally injured and not ex­ pected to live. Two of his children were carried a quarter of a mile to the home of David Smith. They were un­ injured. Smith's honse was destroyed He rushed out with his little girl and a tree fell on them. Neither is expected to live. A special from Carbondale, 111., says a disastrous cyclone nasscd through Jack­ son county. At Grand Tower a coach of tho Grand Tower & Carbondale railroad was blown from the track. A number of houses were leveled to the ground and three lives are reported lost. Near Murphysboro Mr. Linsloy'sdwelling was literally • blown to pieces, his child killed, and his wife dangerously injured. St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch: Officers of lower Mississippi steamers arriving here report much distress in the overflowed districts south of Memphis, and the out­ look for their next crop quite discour­ aging. Should the water not drain off by the last of April it will seriously in­ terfere with their planting. Over 1,000,- 000 empty sacks have been shipped to points, between Memphis and Vicksburg and have been filled with earth and sand and used in strengthening the levees. TOOK THE CASE Two Employes of an Elevator Company Flee with the Firm's Money." Chicago dispatch: William Sulli­ van and Harry Parker, clerks employed in the offices of the Santa Fo Elevator company at La Salle and Jackson street, mysteriously disappeared fropa their homes and places of employment a few days ago. They hpd been sent to the company's elevators with about $3,00Q with which they were to pay off the employes, and It was feared at first that they had been waylaid and robbed. Tho police were notified, and the search had 110 sooner begun than it was learned that they had stolen the money and fled. Detectives learned that they had been corresponding with two young ladies who lived In a small town In Maine and that they had gone to that place for the purpose of marrying tho young women. Telegrams were for­ warded and information was received that the messages had arrived just in time, for Sullivan and Parker were ar­ rested but a short time before the wed­ dings were to have occurred. Requisition papers have been for- wUrded by Gov. Fifer • and a detective has started for Maine to bring back the alleged thieves. Newsy Paragraphs. ^ T/m colored men of Battle Cteek, have organized a protective league. CHAW.KS DKSSON, a missing grocer of La Porte, Ind., is supposed to have wan­ dered away while temporarily insane. REV. DII. D. J. BITKBETX of Minneap­ olis has declined the call extended him by the Collegiate Reform church of Now York city. EITGEXB YOTNGS and Abe Armstrong fought with knives at Montague, Mich., hile drunk, and the former received in-WBEX a man is under a cloud he an ., ,1 . . ., ..f WIIUB ui iiiiK, aim vuc lurmcr riiceivtju 111- peciates theadvantages of a ailrer iuries ttfjaJaabty i =_p#*th. ---ir*,-- 1 # THE SENATE AND HOUSE. XASXONAI. UW.JUKERH AK0 WHAY THKY ABE DOENG. f Frooeedlnjr* of tke Se&ate aad House mt Beprosentativo* -- Important Measure# Discussed and Ac tod On--Oist of Business. THE Senate, on the 24tB, ftieensaed the bin tar the suppression of trust*. Senator# Turpie, Pugh. and Teller spoke for the bill. Mr. Teller said that it *»» demanded by th® people, pecifillv by the farming community. Ho wae not satisfied with all ttie features .if tba bill, *but thought thfit a measure of this gouerM * Character ought to paBS. Senator Vest was not . satisfied with the details of the bill. He said be was willing to vote for the bill when he '-1 ought it would accomplish what the geutlemaa from Ohio <said it would. He thought tho defects of the bill were very serious and eould not be obviated by any amendment which has been proposed. Sena tor Sherman responded in favor of the bill and assorted that two-tbirda of the Senate appioved of It. Ho thought it was a business proposition and one that was favored by the people. Without acting on the bill the Senate went into executive session, and ill ft short time adjaurned. The House spent the afternoon in the discussion of the bill for an appropriation for the purchase of land outside Washington for forming anational park. Muct» opposition was developed. The House adjourned , without action. ' ' Xx the Senate on the 25th, after the trynsae- < tion of some routine business, the trust bill wa# taken up. Senator Reagan's amendment defin­ ing trusts and providing a penalty of $10,000 Una or imprisonment for violation of the law was adopted. In the House the World's Fair bill was called up by Mr. Candler immediately after the reading of the journal. After it bad beon read he offered an amendment, which was adopted, providing that, the com­ mission shall appoint a board of lady managers of such number and to perform .such duties as may be prescribed by tho commission ; and the board may appoint oiie oit njore members of ali committeen authorized to» award prizes for exhibits which may be pro­ duced m whole or in part by female labor. Also an amendment, which was adopted, provirtiaia that one of the members of the board cieatfd, to' be charged with the selection of the government exhibits, shall bo chosen by the Fish Commie; sion. Mr. Candler then opened the debate 00 the bill by assuring the House that Chicago,' which had been selected as the site for the lair, had proved herself equal to the uto- dettaking. She had satisfied the committee that she had a bona fide subscription of «5,00<k. 0J0 and had gone further than was demanded ot any competing city in agreoing that the sah- •cription should be raised to $10,000,000. Mfc Candler spoke in praise of the active and enar- getic spirit of the city, which ho said was e " guarantee of success. He then concluded his *e. marks with a strong appeal in behalf of the bill; in which he said he believed that the fair wonla be of great advantage to every section of th* country. The debate continued till 4 o'clock. The pending amendments were then adopted* - and on a vote the bill was passed by • vote of 202 yeas to 49 nays. The bill passed ie. in the form already published excapt that it provides for the dedication of the buildings Oat. ISi, 18U2, and tho opening of the fair not later than May 1, 1895, and its closing not later than Oct. 30, 1893. Also, that the Government build­ ings sbali be of such material that they can be readily taken down and sold at tie close of the fair, preference to be given to Tue city whexe _the fair is held. After some unsuccessful efforts •to take up other business the House adjourned. IK the Senate, on the !Wth, Messrs. Hawl«Y - and Gray were appoiffted by the Vice Preside^ members of the Board of Visitors to attend thi annual examination of cadets at West Point. On motion of Mr. Sherman the anti-trust bill ', was taken up aud vaiious formal amendment* were made, 'l he amendmeut offered the pre­ vious day by ME. Stewart to insert the words i "Or of the value of money by which such cost maybe advauced is reduced," was agreed to, A number of important amendments were adopted, but as tht y were added the Senate grew more dissatisfied wilh the bill, and Senator Hawlev moved that it be referred to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to prepare a new bill. This w as opposed by Senator Sherman and others. An effort was also mado to refer it back to the Finance Committee. This was rejected, as was also tho motion to refer it to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate went into executive session without action on the bill and shortly after adjourned. Tne.House spent the entire day in the discussion of the bill for the admis- . sion of Wyoming into tbe Union as a State. Mltk Carey, of Wyoming, made a strong plea for t.fee admission of the Territory which he repre­ sented. Mr. Dock; ry, of Missouri, opposed the j bill. Mr. Gates, of Alabama, opposed the measure because it proposed to give women the right to vote and made at­ tendance at schools compulsory. Mx. Dunuell, of Minnesota, said he was in­ clined to vote against ili3 bill on account of tho woman suffrage clause. Mr. Washington, of Tennessee, attacked the woman suffrage clause, and held that the people of Wyoming had vio­ lated the provisions ot the act of organization limiting suffrage to white male suffrage. Wom­ en might be sent from Wyoming to the Senate. Mr. Moiey of Ohio favored the bill, and advo­ cated the civil and legal enfranchisement ot women in all the States of the Union. Afteir further debate, the House took a recess until U - o'clock of the 27th. , t " L -AMONG the bills 'reported from commitTtefii^-- and placed on the calendar of the Senate on tpi 27th were the following: The House bill cons|l- tuttng Cairo, 111., a port of delivery ; the Senate bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River, between tie mouth of the Illinois and the mouth of the Missouri River; the House bill authorising the purchase of 2,500 tents by the Secretary of War for the use of the people driven from their homes in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana by the present floods and appropriating 325,08© for tne purpose was passed. Tho anti-trust bill was then taken uj> and the amendments to ity as reported from the committee of the wholes were brought before the Senate. Mr. Walthall moved to refer the bill and amendments to thj» Judiciary Committee, with instructions to re­ port back within twenty days. The motion wae •greed to--yeas 31, nays 28. Tho House bill te amend the census act of March 3, 1891. wae reported from the Census Committee (the effect of .it being to allo\v ape- ' cial agents $3 a day for Bulsistenoe- when traveling), and, after explanation by M*. Hale, was passed. The House bill for tbe ad­ mission of Wyoming as a State was laid before the Senate aud ordered printed. The order fixing • the daily hour of meeting at 11 a. m. from Mon­ day next wag agreed to. The House me: at 11 o'clock in continuation of the previous day^A^ session, and the Wyoming admission bill wde" : again taken up for consideration. At £ o'clock the previous question was order­ ed. • Mr. Springer offered an amendment providing for another convention, called under the authority of an act of Congress. Lost--yeas, 131; nays, 138. B4r. Springer than offered an amendment that there shall be uk election in Wyoming the Tuesday after the first- Monday in November next for a'jRiepresentative­ to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congressoa and for State and judicial officers. The Consti­ tution shall be voted upon, and if the vote ie against female suffrage that feature shall b» eliminated from the Cons.itution. This also lost--yeas, 133, nays, 139. Mr. t-pring<r then offered his last amendment, which strikoe out the clause of the Wyoming Constitution . providing for female suffrage. Defeated--veas, 132; nays, 138. Tho bill was then uassod by the ~ following vote: Yeas. 139; navs, 128. •-.j-isf.ft®. , . y , t \Y> ' ' : . 3f. * W. 11" Jt, iL Tassels Tipped With Pearls* The frog is the favorite animal im fancy jewelry, although the lizard ha® many friends. A bracelet of flexible woven gold has for its clasp a tassel of gold with long ends, each tipped with'a peart. A set of spoons in dull, lustcrless sli­ ver has handles, each of which simu­ lates the stem and blossom of some flower. F.iiiffs arft very long and formed of a row of eolored stones surrounded by diamonds, or arp circles of double clr^ ! c l e t s . ' , , A queen chain of tiny twisted links o| . i. :< gold and silver alternating terminates iif a little dead-gold bag speckled witl|^j^/^ :.' rubies. ? An exquisite little set of liquor glassejr- , consists of holders of perforated silver^ ? I r In which are set tiny tumblers oraaM v. t - monted with chasing. i. > Both men and women wear the spiral Quaker-like rings and interlaced knots in which are sunk diamonds and colored stones. - / ' Fruit knives of silver gilt have porce­ lain handles. Often these are curved to fit into the hand, and, when white have- 'gold decoration in relief. ' A rich bracelet of woven gold, deep- toned and lusterless, looks like an an- - tlque with various tinted beryls' and to4*'-"% pazes set deep in the gold meshes. ; , Ribbon knots made of diamonds form^v^ . 1 graceful ornaments. Lace pins are rarelv* > v'> seen, but in this form are pretty enough? ^ to bring back the fashion. ' 4 The esthetic stork in diamonds with bronzed legs comes in graduated sizes to supersede tho swallow flights with which Women adorn their breasts. THE insertion of a clause for deliver­ ance from earthquake in the revised litany of the Provestant Episcopal Church is testimony to tko toot ifcat tba»« , - world do mov«." --, .ft- - , .'\.k .7 V k, , .