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tUI tlYft, Itife aad PublUltr. IT, ILLmOI8. CHICAGO'S SENSATION. HKREOODLERSTO BE BROUGHT , , TO BOOK. MMUN ta VmemaUi »»4 ,WtHIk* fNpiMiMn In Bntll fttul AiftnUne- »M« Methods of «• Spotting" -Killed Himself, While ftSf tfco purpoae - • . Tfce Lawmakers. T« the S-snate, on the 18th. on notion of fc Allison, the bill establishing a port of iteltverjr at Des Moines, Iowa, was taken the raieuder and passed. Several rcrc n;»dr, sp«clHi orders for next to come In after the West Virginia direct tax bill. In the House, VR McMillin, of Tennessee, from tin Committee on Rules, reported m resolution calling on the Secretary Of Mm Treasury for information as to what MM of requisitions for pttj iiii-uiuudor con- tHMN» otherwise for the various branches of tfce public service, were presented between (IN Sd and 29th of February, for which war- its or drafts were not issued for payment to March 1, 1892. Adopted. The iger free wool bill was then taken A controversy sprung rip between Williams ana w&iker, oi Mass&ehu- relatlvo &•> a personal attack of the former on the lattor contained in a sp9?ch printed In the journal, but never delivered fa the House. The matter was finally dis­ posed of by referring the subject to the Omimlttfs on Printing for Ja vesication, nt the House procooded to the considera­ tion of the private calendar. fir tri»i hrtng conci THESE is a movement on foot looking to the formation of societies all over the State of Maine pledged to agitate for a resubmission of the prohibitory law to the voters for reconsideration, A docu­ ment now in circulation state* that the Erohibitcry law is detrimental to the usiness, social and moral interests of the State, and calls for its repeal, while expressing a strong interest for the cause of temperance, which is retarded, not helped, by the operations of the present n.ra'li'ii}. FRANK AND LEWIS MOOKB, of Cro­ sier* 8 Mill, Chester, Pa., died from poi­ soning. It is supposed tha'; the lads stole and ate the lunch of some other boy that was dosed with arsenic. It is known that Frank and Lewis were both taken ill immediately after eating dinner at the mill. Suspicion points to a terrible method of discovering the pil­ ferers of the lunch baskets. This meth­ od, it is thought, was to dose a cake or a piece of pie with arsenic. An elder brother of the boys made no conceal­ ment of the fact that it was a customary thing among the spinning-room boys to steal each other's lunches. Foreman j Benjamin Clark also said that numerous , complaints had been made about this boyish habit, but that it was impossible : to detect the pilferers. All the boys in the spinning-room have been arrested in order to learn who is responsible for the deailiSWSi:; • „ .liM* .. , o commerce of the tfnit«4 St*** Venocaela and Colombia to la any otter Pan-American eoimtrtM; all and Cufea jpceepted. All efforts made by the United States to induce the gov­ ernments of those countries to enter into relations have failed .-y, ,, <- CONGRESSMEN VIOL ATE OR AM- MAR AND ITS RULES. POLITICAL. 4 ' |H®W SUM 'Speeches Are Corrected--AT- NWatwr of Letters Received Dally by » MMftfcer of the House--Rush of th* WBSTSKtK. IS-'- Iv'V Alter Hoo<tl« Aldermen. ! r*m Grand Jury of Cook Countj, Illi­ nois, is investigating the alleged * boodle" methods of certain members of the Chicago City Council. State's At­ torney Longenecker claims to be in possession of evidence whioh will se- the indictment of a number of Al­ ien for accepting money for their in favor of two or three valuable franchises lately given to local cor- ; potations. This evidence, it is asserted, will show the existence ot an organized "gang" in the Coun­ cil, which has opposed the passage Off all ordinances for which the promot­ ers were not willing to pay, and which bas supported all for whioh the cash was forthcoming. An attempt will be made to prove that the applicants for frail- T±ir..~G have beeu referred to an attorney and told plainly that they must first ar­ range the terms of passage with him. Tide attorney, so the story goes, has, in • number of instances, fixed the price , aad collected the money for the adop- 1 tfton of desired legislation, and made a <Uvision of the plunder with the gang of AWergian after their votes were re- 4 "^Onductom iNd Not Tip Uie Conpufj ELEVEN conductors on the "Wisconsin division of the Chicago and North­ western railroad were discharged for failing to make proper returns of casta collected on the trains. The evidence against all of them is eaid to have been furnished by "a female "spotter" employed by the company. By representing herself as a distressed she is said to have worked on the sympathy of the conductors in se­ curing reduced fares from various points n the line between Chicago and Green" Bay, and such conductors as failed to . nake returns of the short fares were dismissed. Among the discharged are aoreral old employes of the company. Unw in Veaeiuela. ?HZ opposition to President Palacois lias, as it has been feared it would for some time, resulted in a resort to arms at last, and a bloody engagement has been fought between, a body of revo- > lutionists and Government troops near Caracas, Venezuela. The advantage ves^a with the government, but the fear la generally expressed that this is but the beginning of a long and desperate flKht for the control of the country which may result in the loss of many Ihres and again plunge the republic into i chaos from which it was jviat : to emerge. Argentine Analag ftse|& ' . _ AT Buenos Ayres, there were received by the government forty-eight Krupp Held pieces with 5,000 projectiles. It Is expected that eight batteries of mountain guns will ^3 received tlilw Wileonville,, Neb., a Tattling Neb. mill Cook place between two rivals for the favor of a gushing woman, aged about thirty-five years, and a grass widow at that. The men werw about u!ti«ken years of age, and named Ware- hime and Bower. Bower had Warehime whipped in the first round. THESE is an unconfirmed report at Springfield, Mo., that the Sheriff's posse in search of the murderers of Deputy Sheriff Bright had a pitched battle with an organized force of lynchers in the southern part of Taney County. The report states that over fifty shots were exchanged and several on both sides were wounded. Owing to the lack of telegraphic communication the report cannot be verified. AT tierre, S. D., in the action of AT Dee Moines, at the Republican State Conventlon a delegation wap se­ lected to represent the State at the Na- tiffin! TIAftrlv1 nf is for the renomiuationof the Prosldent, and all of which it is confidently be­ lieved will vote for him. EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was seen at his home at Lake wood, N. J., and asked If there was any truth in the story published in New York that he had writ­ ten a letter declining to be renominated for the Presidency which he was about to make public, when friends, whom Mrs. Cleveland informed of her hus­ band's lntentirapi, dissuaded him from his purpose. Mr. Cleveland denied the story in toto, and, .said it was made out of the whole cloth. | "I'D sooner practice law in Ohio than j bo Vice President," said ex-Governor Jamed G. Campbell, of Ohio, the other day. "The Vico Presidency doesn't count for much nowadays, and the Vice President Jpn't heard of often. But I don't believe, however, I would take to •'the woods at the first note of alarm that .might, round in my (Jireotien for the Presidential nomination. No, sir; I wouldn't refuse it, but then I'm not a candidate. In one sense I'm a Cleve­ land man, because I think the sentiment of the people of the country is largely for him. He is, I think, the best r«?>re- sf»nt*fcjve of the reforms the Dcmoeratia party is demanding and contending for. The Ohio delegation will be largely for Cleveland, but it probably will not be a solid Cleveland delegation. We elect delegates by districts, you know, and of course it may be that some other candi­ date--Hill, for example--will have a few of the delegates. But Cleveland will have the great majority, of tte Ohio delegates." ? HU*. ! - FOREIGN, P J3118IAN police are stirred up and vow vengeance on the anarchists. THE liabilities of Guenaberg, the Bus- t Frank B»rchard to recover money paid 3;an banker, are estimated at between city officials in monthly fines for the violation of the prohibitory law, a ver­ dict was rendered in full for Burchard. The case is a test casal^ind it will prob­ ably be followed by cithers over the State where saloons havo been allowed to operate through fines. Burchard alleged extortion, false pretense, and threats of prosecution. ' EDWARD MAI.TI;:I;_,XE, from Green County, Ind., a schoolmaster who has wielded the birch at the Shady Nook schoolhouse t^his wibter, won the heart of pretty Alice ScAggs, his bright­ est scholar, and, the/.wadding day was set. All arrangements were made, when Edward informed Alicene must go home and would be obliged to postpone the event. A letter was received from St. Louis containing the single sentence, see you l?.tT." TALALA, I. T., dispatch: A soverei storm struck this section of the coun a few days ago: The mercury has bee and still is below freeeing-point, wit: no signs of the storm abating. Hun dreds of cattle are dying everywhere Estimates on one man's loss are placed at 1,000 during the last two days. Train loads 0/ cattle are being unloaded by the 'Frisco lioad from the South and many of them will die. AN O'Neill, ??eb., dispatch st$s: A gang of 120 men, headed by J. H. Stew­ art, a real estate dealer of Pierce, Neb., and Sioux City, Iowa, reached here shortly after midnight, and this morning endeavored to file on 120 quarter sec­ tions of land, the titles to which Stewart claims are defective. As the land is oc-» cupifd by settlers, is highly improved, and is as good farmiug soil as there is in the State, trouble and bloodshed are expected if the United States Land Of­ fice officials allow the gang to file eon- testa. 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 roubles. THE Senate of the University of St. Andrews, the oldest in Scotland, has de­ cided to open to women the university's departments of theology, arts, and sciences. THE London "World ascribes the re­ cent fierce utterances of Emperor Wil­ liam to a renewal of his ear troubles, from which grave results have- been often predicted. MARQUIS DE MORES, who had an ad­ venturous career in the Northwest, fought a duel with'-M. Isaacs, subJpre- fect of Fourmies, France, and seriously wounded his antagonist. DeMores is a Royal Socialist in French politics. Grammar la the Boos*. • /TVUR Washington _ f 1 correspondent says: G r a m m a t i c a l l y t h e House is not a failure; that is to say, the grammar of t h e F i f t y - s e c o n d Congress is not as bad as might be ex­ pected. The House, as a rule, is a curi­ ous constructor of false syntax, and it is only a question of degree as to how far the rules of of grammar are to be violated and all r i . j o r d e r a n d p r e c e - l ' dents shattered. But in the matter of diction, to the surprise of all mankind, the present House is far in advance of its immedi­ ate predecessor. Strangers in the gal­ leries have watched with wonder tho lightning-like speed** of the stenograph­ ers taking down speeches which are being made for the benefit of the con­ stituents of Buncombe County. They have listened to member? whose words lap like shingles on a roof and whose sentences are telescoped worse than a railroad collision, and have marveled at tho skill of the stenographers who make such a speech appear verbatim in the Record of the following morning. But all this is as nothing compared with the skill, diplomacy, and discretion which has to be exercised by those same stenographers to get these speeches ar­ ranged in grammatical form. The sup­ position the country around may be that Congress, as it furnishes the laws and the precedents in all parliamentary matters, might be accepted ad authority on grammatical construction, and that the standard diction as well as the law of the nation might bo found in the Ecasc; but «,5 a matter of fact civil Service reform, sound currency and ethics of statesmanship (as badly treat­ ed as they are) are not as grossly as­ saulted as is the English language--the eurrenoyof speech. Every dialect that the nation knows exemplified in some member of this assemblage of states­ men. As a general rule the intelligence of a Congress might be estimated by its speech. If this test were to be applied to the present Congress, I have the word of the stenographers for it, this is far above the average. Some of our ablest statesmen, however, have been very rugged in speech, and therefore It will not do in every case to let a Con­ gress be judged by Its grammar. The stenographers tell me that the Fifty- first Congress was conspicuous for poor grammar. Freely translated, the short- hislltas speeches j hand reports of the Fifty-first Congress lc, . T>- * , J ., „ .would be a literary curiosity. It may t/Santos, RJO J&nlero, and other Brazilian • be that this Congress has not gone far ports, has arrived and been ordered into ( enough yet for a lair comparison, but up quarantine at Genoa, Italy. There were ; to the present point a very fair record on board the vessel forty-four cases of j has been produced in the construction yello^ fever, and fifteen of those who . of Fngl1'?^. senten?rs. The gift of gab 1 has b^en bestowed freely upon the gen­ tlemen in whose hands or Upon who* were attacked have <fled. * A IAxdox dispatch sa^s: ^The Span-iJtoDOX dispatch says: The Span- I tiemen m whose hands or upon whose st*W Navarro, which left Boston j rests the fate of this great and •^1: SOUTHERN. a#*' v ffe' BREVITIES. tlien deposits of zinc are alleged to kave been discovered at Delphi, Ind. THE National Guard in Bio de Janeiro have been armed with new Comblam rifles. THE President has appointed Charles Jg. Aldrich,* of Illinois, to be Solicitor General. I THE floods In Spain continue.1 Over ! cue hundred houses in Villaverde have keen destroyc/l. THE first execution that has occurred ft* Switzerland since 1868 took place, Friday, at Lucerne. MAX STRAKOSCH,, the famous operatic Manager, died in the home for Incur­ ables, at Fordham, N. Y. AxiZi the Appellate Justices appointed tho President, including Judge Woods, of Indiana, have been confirmed. BABU TEACT, of Crawfordsville, Ind., who is nearly 97 years old, has taken neither food nor medicine for seven weeks. CHABGES are made that State Auditor Mennann, of Minnesota, corruptly used Us office to aid speculators in Mesaba iron lands. KEAB Morris, Minn., David Light shot himself at the residence of his employer, Howard Clark. Light was a somnam- fcmiist, and it is thought that hi* act was 4oae in f-ieep. No other cause can be assigned. SEKOBE. HANSEN. Under Financial Secretary of Buenos Ayres, has accept­ ed the portfolio of the Ministry of Fi- •aace. JACQUES FBANCE, the sculptor, made an attempt to kill Binot Devillers, arbi­ trator of the Tribunal of Commerce in Yoria. » A* Bosebnrg, Oregon, dtrring a quar­ rel, A. Hansbrough, a brother of Sena­ tor Hansbrough, of North Dakota, w&a •tabbed and killed by Nicholas Jones. The latter gave himself up, and is now ta Jail. . ish st 1 Feb. i f for London, has arrived at Gravesend. On the first night out four­ teen cattlemen went to, bed in the fore­ castle after having lighted a fire in the stove, and the next morning seven were discovered to have been suffocated. The seven men who lost their lives were buried at eea. The other seven men had nearly been killed by the gas from the stove, and it was days before they recovered* ^ K FT* GENERAL A,? Yaxoo, Miss., J. Mcssingilia and his 17-year-old son were murdered by unknown parties. They had been killed by blows on the head with some hard Weapon, probably a hatchet. AT a meeting of the lottery venders doing business with the Frankfort (Ky.) Lottery, it was decided to keep their piaces of business closed until Ken­ tucky's new anti-lottery law could be definitely tested in the courts. N. G. Boos, a traveling salesman, was arrested at Atlanta for embezzle­ ment, the money having been lost on the recent Fitzsimmons-Mahef fight. Bather than be taken to New Orleans for trial, he shot himself through the head. A COLORED servant girl, aged 15 years, working for JAe Helmer family on the Grenwell plantation near^Bay- ville,La., was hanged by a mob of masked men. The girl had conceived a dislike , for a colored hostler, and determined I to poison him. To this end. she poisoned the coffee which the family had prepared. ! All the coffee served in the house was made in one large receptacle, ttad drawn alike for the family and servants. The entire family and^ several servants were taken ill, but none died. The girl con­ fessed. Her action was reported about the country, and the lynching followed. THE startling news comes from Whitesburg, Ky., that a pitched battle took place between four persons. J. L. Asher and Mr. Polly had a fight, but neither was seriously Injured. The skirmish did not quiet the matter, as Asiier called to his aid Combs and Polly called on Dick Williams. The four started frcm their homes toward the same spot. Forty shots were exchanged, a ball from the gun of Williams finally getting home. It struck Asher in the left breast and penetrated his body. He died instantly Polly and his partner were captured. Much excitement pre­ vails. WASHINGTON. • -- v SXXATOB MOBBII.1, is reported to be dangerously ill of pneumonia. He is in his 82d year. RUSSELL B. HABBISOX, son of the President, has made forirtal application for admission to the rights and privi­ leges of the reporters' galleries of Con­ gress. CANADIAN statesmen discuss the Behring Sea dispute, the Liberals favor­ ing a renewal of the modus vivendi. THE capital of the Canadian Mills Company, or milling trust, has been in­ creased from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. ALL the details in the compromise of the Hopkins-Searles will contest have been finally arranged and the court pro­ ceedings of dissatisfied relatives dis­ missed. THE report comes from the City of Mexico that Jay Gould, who is now there, has offered $T,000,000 for Chepul- tepee Castle, which he is alleged to covet for a winter residence. THE anti-trust laws of different States have alarmed the match trust, and it has notified its customers that in future all its contracts are off. It has been con­ ducting business under the namo of the Diamond Match Company. THERE is great complaint among the manufacturers of bottles over the de­ pression in the glass trade. The Pot­ tery and Glassware Reporter in summing u p t h e s i t u a t i o n s a y s : " B o t t l e s a n d . prescriptions in flint and green glass aro duller at present than for years past. During the last two weeks the Atlanta Glass Company, Atlanta, Ga.; the Cali­ fornia Glass Company, California, Pa.; and the Washington Glass Company, Washington, Pa., have gone into the hands of a receiver." MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. r>Trr,F--Common to Prime.... © 5.23 Bogs--Shipping tirade* s.5j ^ 6.U0 FEHKEP -- tajr to Choice 4.00 (<* 6.25 WHEAT--No. t lted M @ .85 Ccnx--N°.2..... 88 <& ,31t SiT8~^,0»2 ^8 ® .a» IITK-- No. 2 81 m .88 £UTTTIS-- Choice Creamety -.28 «£ Cf.Ku&Kr--Full Cream, flata .U>4<& .13U Egcjh--Frotfh lau POTA i oi^rCar-load*, per bu" * * | INDIAN AFOJUISU I F ATTLE-Shipping j HUGH--Choice Light, | SHEEP--Common to Prime...... ; WHEIT-- N o . i Ked CCJ'.N--No. 1 Wblto I OATS--No.. 8 While ST. LOUIS. ATTL» ......... BOOK VV HE A R NO. 1 BED CO.IN--No. 2 OATH--No. 8 BAHLEY--Mluneaot* • CINCINNATI. CATTLB Boos '.II"."." bblEP.,,, gloncus country temporarily. Yet ; should a report of one day's proceedings | in Congress be printed in the very lan­ guage of the House It would make cu­ rious and very interesting reading. I Comparatively few even of the most learned and intelligent men 1n Congress follow a perfect diction in debate. The stenographers make a report of every • word and almost every sound that oc­ curs upon the floor, though a great deal of editing is done before that copy is sent to the printer. If in the morning's Beeord the grammatical construction is accurate, it is due tj their careful f uper- vision, and it is curious what tact and diplomacy nas to be exercised to bring this about. The report of a speech K generally submitted to the member de­ livering it for revision, if he desires, Lut corrections of grammatical construction are seldom made by members them­ selves, and often it would be impossible to get the consent of a member for a correction of an obvious error. Usually the stenographer makes these correc­ tions in transcribing his notes, and it is not infrequent for a member to notice tho correction and take exceptions to It, insisting upon being correctly report- tfceireafr: men of lhe Alllafeee party,. **ry aooarate and attMUg writers. Davla in particular pfridfee himself upon his ary attainine&to, yet in their they both fly off the track entirely and shatter ayntax in every sentenoe. This Congress has produeedaome very rapid speakers, but the most remark­ able in this particular is Johnson, of In­ diana, who almost made the stenogra­ pher's hair rise during his speech on the Craig-Stewart contested election rr J ^f>Tnr lnrinr An that oar;* he spoke at an average rate of 280. words a minute. His words ran in­ to sentences with merely an undulation of sound, so that each sentence was ut» tered 'vylth almost the quickness of a single word, and the ear was almost in­ capable of detecting any pause even between the paragraphs. Yet the report appeared with sufficient accuracy to defy detection of error. The only other man in the present House who can any­ where approach Johnson in rapidity of speech is Catchings, of Mississippi, whose usual rate is about 22ft to 230 words a minute. 1 A CongrMiman'ii Mall. One day's mail of a Congressman, if well selected, would furnish material for a romance. One mijtht naturally con­ clude that the thousands of letters dis­ tributed among members each day dealt only with claims against the Govern­ ment--pension cases and the dry details of legislation, with here and there a pathetic appeal from poverty for assist­ ance, but there is a great deal more than this in a Congressman's mail. An aver­ age of about eighty thousand letters per month pass through the House Postofiice into the hands of the Repijpsentatives to be rend «nd answered. During iast month 77,770 letters were received, and nearly as many sent out. One could hardly imagine the curious subjects with relation to which people write to their Beprfsentatives in Con­ gress and the confidence which is shown in these letters. A member from the South showed letter the other day written to him by a woman living in the country, the simplicity of which proves its sincerity, and the object of which was to seek his aid and advice in a mat­ ter of virtue and morality personal to the writer. It is not an uncommon thing for parents "who cauiioli upon a suitable name for their young offspring to refer the matter to their member for auviutj. Some of the West Virginia members get a good many letters of this sort. One member 'got a letter the other day from the mother of a presumably buzom and beautiful country laes just IroniNG Tint SEED £EA;-0:ST. II ACS. I> a Ktter He Beta Aside An)' Do«M» MS to His Intentions--Missouri I,ynch- •m Murder m Brave Guard -- Senator Mowtn at Death's Door. ; Mr. Cleveland's *. ? A letter is published from (Jrover Cleveland which is construed as being a :r-jtii.-rii -(-nYaion rr.r„t ho is a candi­ date the JDomo- (ratic nomination for president. The let- tervwae addressed to Gen. E. S. Bragg, the oommander of the famous old "Iron- brigade, who wrote to the ex-President, un­ der date of March®5, GROVER CLEVELAND, from Fond du Lac, Wis., asking Cleveland to state whether or not he was a candidate. Mr. Cleveland's letter was written from Lakewood, N. J.. on Marteh 9, and sets at rest the rumors that he intended to announce that he was not a candidate. The letter is as follows: LAKEWOOD, N. J., March 9. 1893. Tbe Hon. Edward & Bragg: Mr DEAR SIB--Your letter of the 5 h Inst, ia received. I have thought until now that I might continue silent on the sub­ jects which, under ttie high sanction of your position as my "fellow-Democrat a»d ifiliuVv citiiuii," uiiu iu your rctutiurn a3 » triie and trusted friend, you present to me. _ If, In answering your question, I might only consider my personal desires and >uy Individual ease and comfort, my response would bo promptly made and without ti 0 least reservation or Unt it yon are right in euppcsing that the subjedt i» related to a duty I owe to tho country and to my party, a condition exists which makes such private and personal consider­ ations entirely irrelevant I cannot, how­ ever, refrain from declaring to you that my experience In the great oidce of President of the Unit9d States IHIH SO impressed me with tbe solemnity of tbe trust and its aw­ ful responsibilities that I cannot bring my­ self to regard a candidacy for the place as something to be won by personal strife and active self-assertion. I have also an idea that the Presidency is pre-eminently the people's officer and I have been sincere in my constant advocacy of the effective participation in political U.flfnJrs on thfl nnrt of nil our flMrann rnn. sequentlv I teliove the people should be heard lit the choice of their party candi­ dates, and that they themselves should make nominations, as directly as Is con­ sistent with open, fair and full |karty or- ganteM'op and methods, I speak of those things solely for the purpose of advising you that my concep­ tion of tho nature of the Presidential office, and my conviction that the voters of our party should be free in the selection of their candidates, preclude the possibility of my leading and pushing a self-seeking canvass for the Presidential nomination, even if I had a desire to be again a candidate. Believing that the complete supremacy of Democratic principles means increased national prosperity and the Increased hap­ piness of our people, I am earnestly anx­ ious for the success of my party. I am confident that success 1* still within our reach, but I believe this is a time for Dem­ ocratic thoughtfulness and deliberation, not only as to candidates, but concerning party action upon questions of immense in­ terest to the patriotic and intelligent voters of the land, who watch for an assurance of safety as the price of their confidenco and support. * Yours very truly. t OROVKR Cleveland. SKNATOB MOB1ULL CRITICALLY IU- •SMATB AND HOUiE OP • ® E NT ATI VB8. Om ItaW--1 Lawmaker* a»4 the G«s4 sfjlis C -- . •ariMM Wntsiirei aadAetedCnoa. Doings '^fCVn|R&, ,.9"th® among the paper* presented IT* *2? Snnnta "* Tfrl ' tT , test hy the flfUtlmoro Conference of^tbi Methodist Episcopal Church against tha enactment of further oppressive legist*^, tion against the Chinese people as tending to criopie missionary work in Chin* through retaliatory measures. Tha. senate Joint resolution authorizing the Librarian of Congress to exhibit at the1 1 World's Columbian Exposition sucli books, papers, documents and other articles froni, the libi ary of Congress as may relate to ' Christopher Columbus and the discovery?, w andearly history of America, was reported; ? PettJgrew fronfihe Committee oifc : theQnadiicentennial. and was passed. Ben-*!, ate bill to authorize the construction of 4 "? combined railroad, wagon, and foot pas-ifte senger bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, 8. D., was taken from tbe calen-t dar and passed. The Senate resumed ihdf ; consideration of the Postofflce Buildinrt ?. bill. It finally passed--yeas, 24 nays. It The Speaker laid belS 'ore the House a message from, the President transmitting a communle*-, r tion from the Secretary at the Interior ? Sllhmllt.inff tlftO airPOOtnanf 1.. J_ J i_ _ ;~V submitting the agreement concluded be£ tho ITniU'cf -• He and budding opinion all< SUATTKHINO BTITAX. into womanhcod asking his as to the advisability of lowing tj*e young lady to marry a yOftng man who was paying court to her, and giving a full description Of the young man's character and prospects in order to enable the member the more r e a d i l y t o c o m e t o a c o n c l u s i o n . A n ­ other letter came from a young lady whose true love course was running the uBual rugged way and who sought the member's wisdom for tho solution of problems which she and her lover could not settle. These are but examples of a great many such letters which are re­ ceived by members who represent re­ mote districts, where the simplicity of uncultured naturo prevails. Some of th« questions propounded by these sim­ ple people would puzzle a Solomon, and a member experiences no little embar­ rassment in answering them, though he who has the wisdom to 6peak like a Delphic oracle is in a fair way to make himself solid with his people, getting credit for it where his advice proves good and not running much risk of censure in any event. The number of letters received by members in the House vary from five or ten a day, which is about the extent of the mail of Mr. Geissenheimer of New Jersey, to 250 teach day, which is about the average number of letters received each day by Mr. Harter of Ohio. Mr. Harter having sent anti-silver circulars all over the country, is receiving replies which swell his daily; mails to tho high­ est notch. But about one other member of the House, equals him. That other member is O'Donnell of Michigan, who being an avowed candidate for the nom­ ination as Governor of Michigan, is writing to and receiving letters from people throughout the State. who is laying his wires to succeed Mr. Quay in the Senate, receives an average of about 200 letters a day. Representa­ tives Huff and Enochs have been get­ ting about 200 letters a day during the session. Lodge of Massachusetts has a steady run during each session of Congress of about 160 every day, while a Is Suffering from Pneumonia Strong Fears Are Kntertalned. Washington special: Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont' is critically ill with pneumonia at his residence on Thomas Circle. His physi­ c i a n s t a t e d t h a t there was little im­ mediate danger of death, but he holds f/ out scant hope of re- w covery. Senator Mor­ rill will be 82 years | old April 10. At each succeeding session of Congress he has found it necessary to remain away at times because SENATOR HORRTZ.I. of illness, yet there are probably not a dozen Senators whose absence aggre­ gates so little as his. This session he has been away more than usual, but it was because of th#illness of Mrs. Morrill. Last Friday Senator Morrill was at the Capitol. He complained of a cold, but did not look upon it as serious. Satur­ day morning he remained in bed. Dr. Bussy was sent for and he at onco dis­ covered that pneumonia had set In. Throughout the day everything possible was done to relieve the sufferer and re­ move danger. The Senator is now some­ what easier, but there is no marked im­ provement in his condition. His con­ stitution, it is feared, is not sufficiently robust to permit anything like a pro­ tracted struggle with pneumonia. LYNCHERS MURDER A GUARD. Taney Coxinty, Missouri, Wild with Excite­ ment Over a Tragedy. Seventy armed and masked men rode into the little town of Fqpsythe, Mo., wont to the jail and, demanded the body of John Bright, the' man who murdered Dalzell I his wife in Taney County. All of the tween the Commissioners of snd the Cherokee Ns^'cn for cession of the Cherokee outlet, and fstntesjf ^ 1 that it would be referred to tbe Comniltiea - V. on Indian Affairs. A bill was p:ts*eJ to tablish a port of delivery at Council Biu<bji lows* ' _ the EcSSf, iStu, Gii luGbluli Oi Durborow, the Senate Joint resolution wai '1 passed authorizing tho Librarian of Ton .J, ' ' gress to exlbit certain documeut„4l y at the World's Fair. The HouSe then., ,' went Into committee of the whole (JMrJc % Blount, of Georgia, in the chair) oaf-v.: the free wool bill. Mr. Coombs (NeW> York) concluded his speech In favor of bill Others took parr in tho debate. Inp^fe the Senate, Senator Morgan introduced ai' ' bill to Increase the facilities of the Post-;! office Department for obtaining the use of(wt:#i buildings for postofflce purposes. It pro-/ 5 posed to interest, private capital and enter-'! v prise in the construction of p istofHca build- " ings on long terms of lease and to hav« fixed a maximum rate of rental. It referred to the Postofflce Committee. Mr.i> TJ- Peffer introduced a bill which was referred^ t to the Finance Cdmmittoo, to regulate thev value of certain coins and pieces of money ! . •na io liivc tali suns Oi curraiiv the legal tender quality and to prohibit;^ and prevent disctimhj&tion in iavoi.|' : of gold coin or bullion as monoy. Mr. Hale presented the conference report-' on the urgent deficiency bill, and it was: agreed to. Tho Senate then proceeded to* the consideration of the Military Academy? appropriation bill. It was passed, and the^'S Senate went into executive session. When the doors reopened the Senate adjourned. In the House on the 16th, on 'motion o: Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, a concurren resolution was agreed to for the printing of 45,000 additional copies of the special report on the diseases of the horse. Mr. j Joseph of New Mexico, from the Committee, on Territories, reported a bill for the ad-' mission of New Mexico as a State of the' V Union. Placod on tho House calendar. Mr.! Smith of Arizona, from the same com-'p mittee, reported a bill for the admission of Arizona Same order. In the Senate' Hou-e bill ratifying the act of the Arizona' Legislature appropriating $30,000 in aid of; the exhibition at tho World's Columbian' Exposition was F6>j©ct"(! n,r>d passed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill * Cor the construction (by contract) of three battle ships of from 7,500 to 10,-. 000 tons displacement, two armored coast defense vessels, five gunboats- of 800 to 1,200 tons displacement, and eight first-class torpedo boats. Referred. Mr. Peffer ltnroduced (by request) a bill with the following comprehensive title: "Creat­ ing a fund for the payment of pensions and for setting our army of idle laborers at work on extensive public Improve­ ments, for the removal of the strongest in­ centive to crime among tbe poor and to vice among the rich, for protecting the American from the influx of undue alien competition; and for other purposes." The fund contemplated in the bill is to be furn­ ished by a graduated tax on Incomes and real estate. Referred. The tariff debaters In the House had a large gallery audience up to adjournment the 17th. Tho debute thrashed over old, straw and was on the whole uninteresting. Payne, of New York; Rayner, of Maryland, and Ellis, of Kentucky, were the speak­ ers. In the Senate Mr. Fry re­ ported the Senate bill making Council Bluffs, Iowa, a port of delivery, and it was passed. Mr. HliVley reported a bill to , amend the statute relative to certificates . A of merit to enlisted men of the army- ** * (tbe umendment being to change the , word "privates" into the words «en- *5 listed men"), and it was passed. Mr. Peffer introduced a bill establishing an electric experimental station for the purpose of investigating and determining whether electricity can be profitably used and applied as i^motlve power in the pro­ pulsion of farm machinery*. Reforred to Committee on Agriculture. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of ex­ ecutive business, and soon adjournod. guards ran except James Williams, a deputy sheriff, who refused to let them come near the jail, and said he would kill thb first man that made any at­ tempt to take his prisoner out. One man from behind Williams drew his pis­ tol and shot Williams through the head, killing him instantly. At the firing of Wilson of Kentucky, Peel of Arkansas, j the shot the rest of tho mob came run- Ti ji.i m tir Am XTi ! ninrr nrwl fmmnKnrr AirA« WlllInvMr.) .SO & .40 B.S5 @ 4.75 5.80 (» 8 00 8.W) tft: 5.30 .01 ® .S2 .4!! 0 .43 .S3 0 M .Si®'-£»•<. '7'& ' v»i.. BASTBKK. • -••V*'- J 'VttJhSB more officials of ftfl&ghany Otty have been arrested for alleged em- twazlement, blackmail and conspiracy. They are John B. Murphy, Chief of'the Department of Public Safety; Assistant Superintendent John Glenn, and De taetive Donaldson. THE Hatlonal League of Mualelana, is •Qiavention at New York, has adopted a jrpeolutlon protesting against the grant- tpg of leave of absence to aaaater and members of l>wl| who are about to eta •.uo s.0.1 No. xRsd '|m UObH-- No. a ,4t OATS--*0. 2 Mixed DKTHOIT. CAT TLX...... Ho KHKKP WHEAT-Na S Bed C.iSK--Ho. 2 Ttllow..-..........,; OATS-NO. 2 White Oveb 100 Congressmen, embracing WHEAT-New .T^.KU?' ... practically the entire delegation of TILL- COU.N-NO. * Yellow nois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mirnw- !**•.*** sota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and „ BUKFAU)"" Wisconsin, have petitioned the River and LIVITHOWS^*'.". Harbor Coin mittee to recommend an ini- WHEAT-- NO! I'I'M&.YJI'.'. tial appropriation for the proposed twen- j Co*>i--No. 2. ty-one-foot channel from the lakea tol ._ v _ MILWAUKKB. the Ati&utic. ] PLTKBIDEST HJUHUSOM HU iMIted HI, | HI.* - U*. promised proclamation reimposing the ' ""-- * old duties on sugars, molasses, coffees, and hides coming to this country from Venezuela, Colombia, and Haytl. This proclamation is issued because of the neglect of the governments of those countries to reduce their tariffs on agri­ cultural products, implements, and other ed as to his very language. In order to get good language into the report the stenographers 6ften have to make a plea of inaccuracy on their part and take the blame for omissions and changes which they are compelled to make. There have been cases where members have corrected proof and restored their own inaccurate expressions for the corrected manuscript of the reporters, and it has been necessary to lose this revised proof and receive some slight censure for It in order to preserve the respect­ ability of the Record. During this Congress the reporters have had comparatively little difficulty upon this score. The new members who have been doing a considerable amount of talking have proven them-" selves not only epcakersof considerable capacity in force and effectiveness, but to be finished and capable constructors of English sentences. Bailey, the long­ haired young Texan, has astonished the stenographers by the delivery of free, off-hand speeches, which, while deliv­ ered with great rapidity, havo been 6mooth and well balanced and almost entirely free ffomerrors In c onstruction. The ^ a:ne may be considered of Bryan of Nebraska, who came in with the nn- 1 Pendleton of West Virginia, and Houk of Tennessee run close up to him in their average. As a rule members rep­ resenting city districts receive less mail than any others in Congress and alto­ gether are very much less troubled by their correspondence. The seed season is just now beginning and the members from rural districts are overwhelmed with letters from con­ stituents asking for seeds, which are I given out by the Agricultural Depart-j ment, a certain proportion to each dis- 1 trict. Each member has about 8,800 i packages of seed and 800 agricultural ' reports to distribute, and mcst of > ning and, trampling over Williams' dead body, went to tho jail with a sledge hammer, broke the doors down, and took Bright out. They threw a rope around his neck, placed him on a horse, and started out of town with him. A half mile from Forsythe they hanged him to a tree, and rode off at once, leav­ ing him dangling until daylight, when ho was cut down and taken baok to For- sythc. Taney County is wild with excitement over the killing of Williams. A large posse of men started out o* Ozark, under the guidance of Sheriff Cook tc arrest the men who were identified in the country members have already al- ! the mob. It is believed that when some, exhausted their stock. Meredith, of ' of*he mob ®re captured a regular waj Virginia, whose constituents appear to be breaking a great deal of ground for the spring planting, has for several weeks been getting an average of fifty requests each for seed, and Holmnn has already responded to letters exhausting Ms full 8,800 packages. Besides all the letters which members of the House receive, each gets daily a copy of five pfiperB, which are sent free by the publishers, will take plaoe, such as never has bees known In southwest Missouri. and an average of fifty country weeklies | t WorW*« Fai* are received by each member whose 1 ®a district lies outside of the large cities. Clieap Unman Lift. IT is a lonesome day in Chicago when a street car is not rrn down by a rail­ road train.--Buffalo Commercial. COLLISIONS between street cars and railroad trains are getting to be in the nature of an every-day occurrence In c i t y . -- I t o i n e a M or Nebraska, who came In with the up- ""r" ; . ; . ", heaval which threw the Farmers' A 111- 1 „ (?orre9l>°l '(lonce BIUKT No. C POUK-UHI »KW YOBK. FATITL*. tloos..... Shi-bp WHXA*--NO. IBed. Coun--No. I O.n--Mixed WcttoRt BwuHjCwywrjr......... & @.60 *« ft.VS ance into Congress. Hls speeches have been printed in the very language of their delivery without viola­ tion of the canons of good taste. Watson, of Georgia, who was the Farmers' Alliance candidate for Speaker, is not an educated rnah, though an ex­ ceedingly fiuent talker, yet his speeches require very little editing. The young members from Massachusetts write bet­ ter than they speak, but the English language docs not suffer distortion upon their tongues even while they are er- 'barrassed in their speech before 'jwls new of the members have been raised ance up to manhood and have their Information in later yea: *urlous how their earlier laok of training exhibits i lies in the fact that those men vho get tho most letters are usually the' repre­ sentatives of a class of people 'who in­ sist that replies must be wrltteii by the members themselves and toot by the sec­ retaries. AN exchange dcscribgfr, marriage as a fme sy: where in an<i at the sa vibrsif A sing and blend the turns, the aspirations, the id i . . , . . f t h e t i s t e s o f t w o b c i n c r s w h f assed in their speech before ! completed the one by the other and august assemblage. A r.*umber . RnnnHc ouier, e members have been raised iln ianor- I . > but It does tiot St: as throwing light on the hi problem, or to determine i whose sphere is included th making the kitchen fire. A STEKET ear filled with passenger < was. run down In Chicago the other day and several more victims adde l to tho list of those who have fallen 011 th« grade crossing. The grade crossing must go.--Kansas City Journal. _ CHICAGO does well to get up a World'B Fair for the purpose of attracting peo-1 pie from outside in 1893. If railway j trains keep crashing into her street ears ) at the present rate iter population will be pretty sadly thinned out by that time and wili need recruiting.--Milwaukee Wisconsin. 1 IK Chicago, a horse car, a red-hot '• stove and thirteen passengers were struck by an engic<*. The car wa« re­ duced to kindling-wood and took fire, but not a passenger was killed. And yet people will go right on insisting that thirteen is an unlucky number. field Monitor. 8un<lay Newspaper*. JOSEPH COOK complains that Sunday newspapers are published to make tooney. Horse and horse! That is what tho high and mighty Joseph lectures on Monday for.--Kansas City Journal. THE Rev. Joseph Cook has enunciated . the belief that Sunday papers are pub­ lished to make money. He is to lecture in St. Paul in a few weeks, and there is no intimation that he will refuse to be paid. In fact, It is suspected that he lectures to make money.--St. Paul Globe. MB. JOSEPH COOK should straightway submit a bill to the General Court, mak­ ing it a finable offense for a man or woman to be seen with a Sunday news­ paper in hand, with a proviso, of course, for the Imprisonment of publishers and newsvenders who dare to imagine that . the Puritanic Sabbath of old church and state times long sin^B passed Into in­ nocuous desuetude.--5Joston Globe. THE clergymen made quite a demon­ stration against the Sunday newspapers up at the State House y sterday; but • the Sunday newsuapers will not recipro­ cate in kind. On the contrary, they welcome the aid of the ministers of the gospel in the work of enlightening and regenerating mankind. The Sunday ; p newspapers will continue to do their share of labor in the vineyard, and they beseech the pulpit to lend its valuable ^ ' co-operation as hitherto.--Boston Her-""" aid. I The Ills Oil Trust. THK Standard Oil Trust can afford to . dissolve now, if the law really insists. But supposing it had to return the mill-,,.: l ions it has made by its monopoly!--Buf- A ; falo Express. STANDARD OIL by any other name r will smell just as sweet, its revenues be , just as enormous, the methods of its , manipulators just as odious.--New York Commercial Advertiser. THE decease of the Standard Oil Trust". , f Is announced to occur March 21. But those oil men are slippery fellows, and the trust's death may be something Hlu» »»v that of the lottery.--Boston News. '•* 1 THE level-headed public knows very well that even though the Standard • Trust should be dissolved the methods . 1 of the Standard monopolists would en- dure. Who can fight $90,000,000 of eani- ' , tal?--Philadelphia Record. - "V IT is Bald that the bigt Standard' Oil%Qli Trust is to go, but the dear public may-̂ p rest assured that something will corne d to take its place. The Standard monop- „ kolists are not going to throw up a goo4 " - for nothing.--Rome Sentinel.