• 'J VAN tlYKE Eiftt«r R«t* PBMMN* ILLINOIS. 11T A FLEECY MANTLE. f«CW YORK FLOUNDERS ABOUT IN GIGANTIC DRIFTS. fcdth Dakota Famine* Going to the Da- •nlnl-wi--Mextoan Doodlen Arrested-- f^Hnooy Mmt Be titrcn Whea Ke- %air jd-CaudlM 8'iipplns Decreases. feX.~ i," BlUwrd at <ioth«m. NOT since the terrible fall of SNOW Jfere years ago has New York experi enced a storm that so nearly res?mbles • regular l akot i blizzard ai that which lifts been blowing here since early last night, sayB a dispa< h. Traffic on Broadway has been almost suspended, While on to ne of the le.*s prominent thoroughfares the blockade is eotn- jplete Tn some places the snow has drifted until it is lour or five feet deep. & began to grow colder toward UM? middle of the > fternoon, and the leaden-colored clouds a-sumed a troubled, threatening look. The wind was uneasy and blew in fierce gusts, ©wring the early evening the snow- flakes, which hai been st aggling down all afternoon, began to Jail last and fu rious. The snow became fine as dust as It increase 3 in volume, The wind blew bard, whirling the dust-like snow through the streets until one could scarcely see the electric lamps a block away. The elevated trains rolled along at half their usual speed, while at times the surface cars were blocked several minutes by the rapidly forming drifts. y' Ncb?iwk*'( Ddaiilnrk It-oken. ^ TEE deadlock in the Nebraska Senate Iris broken/by the electio n of Correll (Step.) l'res'dent of the Senate. £our Democrats out of live gave him their MBWS NUGGETS, Pittsburg caused a loss of 'D quality j'V. FIRE in $338.00 a. FOUR of the Chicago firemen burned by natural gas on Wednesday will prob ably die. SENATOR WILLIAM 6. BATE has tseen renominated by the Do jocrats at Xashvi.le. SENATOR COCKIIBTJTJ, oT Missouri. has been renominated by the Demo.rats at JefTer.-on City. THE New England Insurance Ex- ebange celebrated its tenth anniversary by a banquet in Boston. STEPHEN M. WAN® has fce?n nom inated for United States Senator by the Democrats at Sacra r.ento, Cal. SENATOR STOCKBRIDGE has been fulminated for the United States Senate the Rej wblieans at Lansing, Mich. 4 ^ KRW opal flald is reported to have bg«jn discovered in Garfield County, Jfash'.nsk,n, wh'cn r'vals Utc.1 of McecoTT. Gilbert Pii»i/SBrBT, ens of the last Of the old-time abolitionists, and an UjS?lc of th? Attorney (Hncral of*M»ssa- 'ennsttis, is d^ad, age£ 7t*. i f xl'alBEB of arrests have been uiaoo 111: the City of Mexico in connection with the defalcations in the State of Pueblo. The amount involved is known to be f 3»r ^OO.O^O. C.i2<Ai>lAr tugar refine.s announce an advance of $ cent per pound t n all re fined and white sugars. The principal reason given for the advance is the re duction in Licht's estimate feft- the beet •agar crop. THE Privy Council of Canada will bear the petitions from Roman Catholics of Manitoba, asking for the interference of the Federal Executive in tbe matter of the Catholic school system by pro vincial legislation. , W. A. WEBSTER, Canadian Gov- • ttfnment Immigration Agent, has ar rived in Ottawa, Ont. He reports that BOO families have migrated from South Dakota to the Canadi< n northwest dur ing the fast year. £ ACCORDING to dispatches Kansas Re publicans have woa a victory over the Populists and the mandamus cases are at an end, the courts declaring that they had oo power to reconvene the Slate ro .rd of Canvasser?. t I THE cold weather in France continues unabated. Two persons hava been frozen to death aft Toulouse and one at Bordeaux. The river Rhone, is frozen ever at Tarascon, the Garjnne at Tou louse and the canal at Marseilles. THE suit brought by William H. Beers, ex-President of the New York Life In surance Company, for payment at the late or $37,001) a year, has been with drawn, owing, it is 6aid, to a compro mise at the rate of $25,0)0 a year ANGRY depositors in the defuuet bank i$t Fairfax, Minn., attempted the lives :'£t President Gray and Cashier Beard, Who wer.i in the Redwood Falls jail. Accordingly the two men have been r - moved to come unknown place of safety. ,' t THE shipping of themar'time provin:c§, of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and { jorsesj Prince Edward's Is'andshowman alarm ing decrease. From tables just com piled, it is learned that during the last tiine years th ? total tonnage has de- •' creased 260,110 tons, from 8(J0,400 tons te 1^84 to 630,tons in 1*92. . k. A Biiiii remedying the oefccts in the interstate commerce law caused by the Counselman decision "has been passed by the Sena e. It provides that Bo person shall be excused from testi fying on the ground that his testimony Slight tend to criminate himsejf. Such testimony, however, cannot be used to aonvict the person giving it of the of- ^ Jfeense admitted. ^ • AT Austin. Texas, State Attorney t General Culbertson and Assistant At- v foiney General Edgar Allen, of Wash ington, have commenced taking testi mony beforo Vnited States Commis- . aioner Hart in the Greer < ounty ,. Ijoundary dispute between the United State and Texas. ;1 W. C. VAN HORNF, General Manager ^ #4»f the Canadian Pacific Railway, der |»ies thai the eteamers Empress of In- ilia, Empress of China, and the Emjress **f Japan will be transferred to th<> At- lantlc and constitute a ast line hetween burg, was found in his house so badly frozen that he jrill die. He lived alone and was discovered only by chance. ! * jilppPFBX GrENEBAI* BOSENDALR, of NPew York, has rendered an opinion that Erie County is under obligations to re imburse the State for the expenses of the national auard used during the switchmen's strike at Buffalo. The amount Is I180JWW. A BILL, has been introduced Ih the New York State Senate, providing that in New York City the wages of day la borers employed by the city shall not be less than $2 a day, and of other employ es not less than 25 cents per hour. Preference shall be given to citizens of that State on such work. THE last testimony was given at New York before the subcommittee of the House of Representatives Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, which is probing the Beading coal "com bine. " The man who gave this evidence, for which the committee had long sought in vain, was John C. Haddook, an lnde- dendent coal miner and producer. Ho told the committee that the coal roads were regulating the supply and through that the prices by restricting the nnm- bcr of cars. ^WESTEFEN. • THE first stage to and from the San Juan gold fields has roturned to Do lores, Col. Two stage passengers re ported 7,000 men there, and that the rnsh continues at the rate of < 00 daily. They are scattered over a territory laO miles in extent. THURSDAY morning at 10 o'clock the strike of telegraph operators on the Rock Island was declared off. The road will not be put under the non-union ban, so that the strikers who have not found positions elsewhere can return to the keys which they quitted if the manage ment of the company so desires. SINCE the Bank of Fairfax, Minn., closed its doors rumors have been flying around the city concerning the liabili ties of the bank, but (he assignee would not give out any information, and it is felt that they are larger- than at first supposed. A sensation was caused When the Sheriff of Renville County ar rested J. A. Beard. President of the bank, and F. A. Gray, Cashier. AT Lincoln, Neb., Lieut. Gov. Majors, who is making an active canvass for the United States Senatorship, had a personal encounter with Dan Custer, an Independent politician, mistaking one of the iatters jokes for an insinua tion that Majors was implicated in the alleged State institution corruption. He struck Custer a severe blow in the face, but the latter did not respond in kind. A reconciliation followed soon after. THE aro lamp department and arma ture winding-rooms of the Fort Wayne Electric Works in Fort Wayne, Ind., occupying a three-story brick building, were almost totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night, causing a loss of about $150,000. One hundred and fifty em ployes, mostly men with families, are thrown out of employment. The compa ny, however,will,rebuild this department as soon as the work can be done. The greatest one of the machine shops, a Jmilding "200 feet long, was saved, and altftf fhe office building, the foundry, the storehouses, 300 feet in length, and other departments. P. T, Mo£cZ13'd, President of the company, faas in ^Jetf York, but he wired his intention to re- i build ci once, T^e insurance on the plant is $592,LOO. M ABIE W AIKWBIQST and her own com pany will soon commence an engage ment of two weeks' duration at McVick- er's Theater, Chicago, presenting the most famous of all old comedies, "The School for Scandal." Of "The School for Scandal," one of the most charm ing satires on social life ever put on the stage, it might will be said that Ago cannot witjigr her, nor custom stale tier infinite variety. In this play Marie Wainwright and her excellent company need have no hesi tancy in inviting comparison with some of an earlier day who have made them- Belves famous in it. "The School for Scandal" is one of the oldest of comedies, and when finely played, before a nighly appreciative audi ence, it is one of the most attract ive. The play is just 115 years old, and probably no year has passed since its birth in Drury Lane Theater, London, in 1777, that has not witnessed its per formance in different parts of the wcrld. Opie Read's "A Kentucky Colonel" will also soon be presented at this theater In Chicago. Mr. Read has gained quite i reputation as a writer, and, judging 'rom what the papers say, his play will pake him an enviable one as a drama- i 1st. THIBTY-OXE men were burned and njured Wednesday afternoon, by re peated explosions of natural gae in the raults of the Donohue & Henneberry Building on Dearborn street, Chicago. It least one of the injured men will trobably die. The force of the explo- ilon shattered hundreds of plate-glass vindows and shook the great eight-story >uilding to its foundations. It lifted he huge flagstones of the sidewalk ike an earthquake and twisted the iron j md glass vault-covers into tangled i inots. Huge jets of flame through the broken vaults, and firemen ind employes were caught and terribly mrned. Outside the building thou- lands of people crowded, and with jach e*plo3ion fought for escape, while frightened at the nose, >lunged frantically into the crowds. Within, hundreds of emplbves were >t work. Three hundred girls n the bindery on the seventh ind eighth floors were brought in safety lown a single narrow stairway, while >eneath explosion after explosion found- »d, and from without came the yells of ihe excited crowd and the roaring of foe working engines. Mr. Donohue of foe firm estimated the total loss at$20,- 100. "By the Superintendent of the in surance patrol, however, it Is fixed at lot more than one-tenth of that amount. never been seen. Hudspeth ' rested on suspicion of murder. Mrs, Watklns was afterward incarcerated, charged with being an accessory to the taking off of her husband. She was taken fatally ill, but before dying con fessed that Hudspeth killed her hus band to get him out of the way so he could many her. AT Memphis, Tenn., fire destroyed the following property Tuesday night: Matthews Hardware Company, loss and stock $70,000, insurance $.50,00j; I. Ge- dell & Bro., stock $30,( 00. loss $15,000, insurance $18,000; S. Levy & Co., trunk company, stock $18,000, loss $18,000, In surance $10,00); I. Goldsmith & Bro., clothing (by water), stock $90,000, loss $40,000, insurance $80,000; Dean &. Car roll, paints, stock $17,000, loss $13,000, insurance $10,000. Total stocks, $225,- 100; total loss, $156,030; total insur ance, $168,000. The four buildings owned by Sirs. Kate Hamilton, valued at $40,0(0 and insured for $20,000, were damaged $20,000. The property is lo cated on Main and Union streets. A DESPERATE battle has taken place between Sheriff Moomaw's deputies SIXTY MEN ARE KILLED! BLOODY FIGHT BETWEEN Ml OB AND A POSSJS. «t a WierUTs tfflbr* «* Save HU Prl»«»«r from a Iijmchlnt-Oflicbdi powered, the Jail Entered, and Prisoner BrnMl; Murdered. 1 Terrible 8eene of Carnage. A Sob of 500 masked men entered the Jail at Bakersville, N. C., and took Cal vin Snip?s, who haa murdered Ieaao OaborAe, a promipt nt citizen of Mitchell county, to a dense forest about half a mile distant and lynched him. Eleven of the sheriff's posse were killed in their efforts to defend the prisoner. About twenty^ftve of the mob "were killed, and among the dead and wounded were some of the must prominent men in tbe county. The jail is a frame building and little calculated to withstand an assault. But Sheriff Moomaw had it garrisoned with about seventy-five determined men, who declared ? n r°b °! ly°ch®r8 ^ ,Bf 6™yflle' 1 «pheFd Tr* dle.^ThTatlaK6 was ex* Mitchell County, N. C. Calvin Swipes pected. A formal demand was made f11 ^^t8°n8 have been Sheriff Moomaw for Swipes by a* lynched, but the vengeance of the messenger from the mob, who ap- mob cost at least thirty more lives, proached the jail under a flag of true?. The men lynched were moonshiners _ .-1 «t.ri law, 1. All persons physically capable and over 12 years of iige who cannot read ja>nd Wrtte with reasonable facility their own language; except that an aged person not •o able to read and write who is the parent or grand parent of an udtuls-ihlo immigraiit may aceymp&iiy or be sent for by such im migrant. 2. All persons not provided. In addition to means of reaching their final destination with sufficient money of their own or of the beads of their familial for their comfort* pble support for two months after their arrival, the amount t> be required not to exceed $100 for each single person or bead of a family and §25 for each member of a family accompanyinx or sent for by sacb heud of a family. 3. Persons blind or crippled, or otherwise physlcaliy imperfec1. so that they are wholly or partially disabled frqm manual labor, unless it is affirmatively and satis factorily shown on special inquiry that such persons are sure ct an abundant sup port and not likely fc* become a public charge. s * 4. Persons belonging to societies which favor or justify the unlawful und er!in itial destruction of property or life. SENATOR ALLISON ON SltVER. who had murdered Isaac Osborne, who reported the illicit distillery to the revenue officials last summer. The Sheriff ha1! kept the prisoners under heavy guard, and- three attempts have been made to wreak vengeance upon them. The stern determination of both the avengers and the officers? is shown by the terrific slaughter when the last and successful attempt was made. While some of the crowd were of lawless nature, it is stated the most of them were the best citizens of the county, who had become tired and sick at the way things had been done as regarded criminals. William Osborne, brother of the murdered man, led the mob. John Osborne, another brother, was also among the number,: them fell in the battle.^ FOREIGN. V MANY parents in Vienna hava report ed to the police in the last four days the loss of their daughters between 8 and 12 years of age. It is feared that the children are the victims of a criminal conspiracy. ' THE weather in and about London has been very wintry for several .days past, and muoh ice has formed in the Thames. Traffic above and below London bridge is seriously impeded by pack ice. The upper reaches of the river are frozen over, and further obstruction in naviga- gation is expected when the ioe breaks up and floats down the river. A DISPATCH from Cairo, Egypt, says: The body of dervishes which recently attacked Gemai, near Wady- Haifa, was overtaken near Ambigol Monday Jt>y a detachment of Egyptians, and a fierce battle ensued. The dervishes, who greatly outnumbered the Egyptians, made several furious onslaughts on the Government troops, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Many dervishes were slain. Capt. Pyn, of the British staff, and forty-five Egyptians, including an officor, were killed and many others wounded. Further re-enforcements have been sent to the scene of the conflict. ^ IN GENERAL. THE newly electel officers of the Standard Oil Company are: President*, William Rockefeller; Vice President, John P. Archbold; Treasurer, William T. Wardwell; Secretary, L. D. Clarke. R. G. DUN & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: . Tbe most prosperous year ever known in business bas just closed with strongly fa vorable conditions for the future. From nearly all points comes th© report that the holiday trade was the largest ever known, and, while wholesale trade is not usually active at this season of stock taking, it now exceptionally largo. Foreign trade has been smaller than last year in the vol ume of exports, at New York |7,800,000 less in value for the last four weeks, and at cotton points about 910,000,000 less, but Imports at New York have been larger, and the month still shows a great excess of ex ports. For the year the excess of merchan dise exports has been not far from S70,- 000.000, with the largest total of exports and imports ever known In any year. ADVICES received from St. Michaels report a number of vessels at that port in a damaged condition. The British To this the garr.son responded: "WRF will die first." Then they knew there would be a fight. Winchesters were , loaded and the wait for the llnal strug- • gle began. At least live hundred armed men marched up the road and then with a howl broke on a run for the jail. The garrison was ready for them. "Halt, or I'll give the order to fire," rang out Sheriff Moomaw's voice. No attention .was paid to the warning. i Fought Llki; l'fmons, "Fire!" rang out the order, and seven ty-five rifles poured a direct and flank ing hail of bullets into the determined lynchers. They wavered a moment aS a score of them wert down, but with the steadiness of veterans closed ifp and both of the*r ranIta and rushed forward again ' under tha leadership of a gigantic moun taineer who urged them forward. Again the rifles of the besieged rang out, and this time the)- were answered £y, a concentrated fire from the mob. The aim was deadly and a dozen depu ties fell wounded and killed. Their bodies hampered those who were un harmed, and only a few could close up to the windows and return the volley before the mob was upon them. There was a short struggle. What were sev enty-five men against 500? A few re volver shots, 100 clubbed rifles and all was over. The deputies, with their leader. Sheriff Moomaw, mortally wounded, were in the hands of the mob. There was no hope in further resistance, and the fate of the murderer was sealed. Without waiting to pick up the dead or care for the wounded, the mob made a rush at the door of the jail, and it went down before the shoulders of a score of stalwart men. The prisoner, half dead with fear, was dragged out into the open air, where a rope was p'a^cd around his neck. * Lyjciied at Awful Cost. He was dragged over the Ice-covered rooks to a piece of woo Hand half a mile away. Behind followed the remainder of the mab, firing at the prostrate [form at eve^ step. The victim was un doubtedly dead before he had been dragged twenty yards, and it was the mere semblance of human form that was strung up when the wood? were reached. Then the mob returned to |ook for the dead and wounded. In the little lnclosure and on- -the roadbed in iront of the jail twenty-five bodies were found and in the three buildings ' eight more were rigid in death. About thirty others were wounded, some of them fatally, qmong these being gallant Sheriff Moomaw, who was shot twice through the chest and three times through tne abdomen. Bakersville is miles away from a tele graph office and all news must go to Johnson City, in Tennessee, by carrier. Since the first rows was received fouj more of the Sheria's posse are reported dead and five more of the mob. Twenty-tive More Killed. Later advices from Bakersville say that the mob, instead of dispersing, as was expected, remained upon the ground, and tbe scattered handful of the Sheriff's posse also remained under arms, and they are being rapidly re-en forced. All through the following day they continue 1 to receive accessions to their ranks, which Increased to 600. Feeling ran high, and after a few speeches 1 he posse resolved to avenge Sheriff Moomaw's death. Another bat tle took place shortly after noon, in which at least twenty-five more were steamer Ambrltz, Capt. Barclay, from _ _ _ West Point, Va., Dec. 12, for Liverpool, i killed, and the flringls tftifl #foing"onT put in to St. Michaels after a most tem pestuous voyage. Its decks had been swept of everything movable and its forepeak was full of water. Its boats were swept away, its deck house stove, and its cabin deck and hatches damaged. The British steamer North Gate had a similar experience. The Italian bark Pellagra Madre, Capt. Olivari, from Philadelphia Dec. 5 for j Naples, put into St. Michaels damaged j and short-handed. Two of its crew ; fell from aloft while the bark was in a I seaway and drowned. The Norwegian | bark Solon, Capt. Pederson, from Old | Harbor for Bowling, lost four of its crew on its passage. The German . - . i Araealla, for Hamburg, put into St amon ! Michaels with its boats gone and bul warks stove. Its position was eo pre carious at one time that a portion of its cargo was jettisoned. SOUTHERN. §U' ,• Canada ani the I lilted Kingdom. 17 EASTERN. IP:. > THIBTEEN new cases of typhus fever |p > «rere reported at New York. ANDBEW PABSETTI, an Italian, in res cuing two children at Pittsburg, Pa., from in front of a train, sustained in juries from Which he is expected to die. THE Traction Company of Philadel phia has won its trolley suits in the Supreme Court. This decision means that all the lines in the city can use the trolley. : SAMUEL TBICE, a demented man liv- DVBINO the absence of Dr. B. W. tfssery, one of tlie wealthiest men in Ciarksville, Tenn,, his residence was burned for the purpose of robbery, so it is thought, as in his room a drawer contained $10,000 in money. All the money found after the fire was a lot of molten sliver dollars. WABDEN NOBMAN at the Frankfort, Ky., prison, discovered and foiled a plan for an outbreak of prisoners. A hole had been cut through a workshop bench and led under the fioor to the mouth of a tunnel that had been dug "fifty feet in length and to within ten feet of a big sewer just outside the prison wall. The men, who climbed through a window into the shop and did their work Sun days. were evidently working toward the big sewer. This, once reached, fifty men could have walked single file down to the river bank, half a mile below the town. A. J. HUDSPETH was executed at Harrieon, Ark., for the murder of J George Watkins in 1887. Hudspeth was j hanged for the murder of a man whose body was never found. The murderer worked lor Watkins on a farm in Marion County. One morning in the spring of 1887 Hudspeth and Watkins went to town, Since thai mgr^ing Watkins ims * MARKET REPORT8, CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.. HOOB--Shipping Grades SHEEP--Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. A Spring COBN--No. 2... OATS--NO. 2 Kxe--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery EGGS--Fresh POTATOES--New, per bn INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping HOGS--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2 VWiite :... OATS--No. 2 white; ST. LOU18. CATTLE.... HOGS I WHEAT--No. 2 Red ' COBN--No. 2 '. OATS--No. 2 RXE--NO. 2 CINCINNATI. CATTLE HOGS SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. t :..... OATS--No. 2 Mixed..... EYE--No. 2 DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS SHEEP : WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2.. COBN--No. 2 white OATS--No. 2 White •RYE BUFFALO. CATTLE--Common to Prime Hoos-- Best Grades WHEAT--No. l Hard COBN--No. 2 Yellow MILWAUKEE. .WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. 3 OATS--No. 2 White RTE--No. l HABLEY--NO. 2 I'OBK--Mess Sew YORK. CATTLE HOGB....4 SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--No. 2... OATH--Mixed Wcatem BUTTER--Factory POKE--New JUeas .30^® ® 5.26 <9 7.25 ® 4.75 .38H® 34}£& What will be the result no one can tell. Troops are expected. " Story of ihe Murder. The facts which led up to the terrible affray were as follows: Aaron Wiseman and Calvin Snipes were partners In an ; Illicit distillery in Mitchell County, i North Carolina, and had told William ; Osborne and Isaac Osborne, brothers, where the distillery was situated. Wil- ) liam Osborne reported the distillery to ' the officials at Bakersville, N. C., and helped them to destioy it. Wiseman and Snipes suspected Isaa? Osborne of being the informer. On the night of Aug. 27, 1892, Snipes and Wiseman, armed with Winchester rifles, went to the house of Isaae Osborne and called him up. Mr. Osborne came to the door, and the moonshiners opened fire, almost riddling him with bullets. Wiseman and Snipes were arrested, but sufficient evidence could not be obtained against Wiseman and he was released. Snipes was bound to the Superior Court on purely circumstantial evidence. He tvas placed In jail, a^d after being confined about two weeks confessed to the kill ing in the manner above related. AS IF FROM THE GRAVE. 8.00 @ 5.2S 4.00 ® 7.00 .«75$<S> .68& ,40%<3 .34 ® He Believes the Nations Will ReAeb tat Agreement at Brussels. According to a Washington corre- spjndent Senator Allison enters an emphatic denial of the intimation that his intended resigna tion from the chairman ship of the United States international monetaiy conferrees indicated an abandonment of the conference or was, in 'J\ fact, to te taken as an f p^indication that th e I commissioners o f our c o u n t r y b e l i e v e t h e work of the conference SENATOR ALLISON. ^ avail nothing. "It is my intention to send in my resignation, not precipitately, but after awhile, before the time of reconvening the conference, simply because I think that the Democratic party i§ entitled to the chairmanship of our comm'siion," said Senator Allison to the correspondent, "While it is probably true that Mr. Cleve'and does not hold views upen the silver quostion which are espec'ally different from those of President Harrison, and while it is also true that the commissioners selected by President Harrison were named with re gard to familiarity with the subject and not on political line3, it is due to Mr. Cleveland that the head of our commis sioners should be a man in sympathy with him, politically and otherwise. I shall not go back to Brussels under any circumstances." "Do you believe the repeal of the Sher man law requiring the monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of bullion would help t) precipitate action at the hands of the international conference?" "Yes, I believe it would actually pre cipitate final action, and probably such as we are trying to get. But I do ndt believe Congress will repeal the law. The House would have to take the initi ative. It is not likely that it would do so under present conditions, when a large majority is pledged to free silver, or what approximates free silver. Then a free-for-all discussion of the proposi tion to repeal the law might oreate an impression upon the mind of Euiope that wouid.be to our advantage, in that It would show the division of the senti ment existing In this country. If we could take up the bill to repeal the Sherman law and push it through with out debate tt would no doubt have the desired result. Europe would see that w© were not inclined to bull the silver market. Now she is more or less in different, and yet I believe we will suc ceed in reaohing an agreement. All European nations agree with us that something must be done upon the silver question. It cannot run along as at present. We will ultimately suffer from it." • , ROBBERS' PLUNDER FOUND. The Police of Erie Make an Important Discovery. Erie, Pa., special: The only develop ment to-day In the car robbery cases was the finding of forty yards of Brus sels carpet and a quantity of silverware hammered out of Its original shape and ready for melting. An important arrest at Buffalo by the detectives engaged on the case was that of Mrs. Bose Moore, on the charge of receiving stolen goods and harboring members of the car-rob bing gangs. Her disappearance from Erie Christmas eve was simultaneous with that of "Bull" Trainor, Frank Kupps, "Lawrence" Bed, and "Scran- ton" Bed, all wanted as principals. De tectives have followed them East and their early arrest is probable. John Morrison, well -known as a ball-player, was also arrested, making three of the profession Involved. Twenty-two ar rests have been made up to date and upward of sixty search warrants, exe cuted. MAY EXPLAIN HUGE THEFTS. Arrest of tbe Heaths at Kansas City for Depredations on the Ranges. Two arrests made at Kansas City, Mo., are expected to clear up tne mys tery of huge cattle thefts in the Creek Nation. W. M. Heath and his son, G. W. Heath, were arrested on a warrant charging them with stealing thirty-one head of cattle from the range near Checotah and shipping them there. Last week Deputy United States Marshal Grant Jobnson, of Eufaula, I. T., arrived with a Tnited States warrant sworn out by T. W. Turk, a well-known ranchman, and says that eight other arrests are to follow. Turk says that the Heaths have been at the head of the gang which had engaged in running cattle off the ranges .34 @17.00 & .13 &16.U After Twenty-three Years* Absence James 8amuels Is Found. Dubuque special: James Snmuelp, brother of Giles Samuels, of this city, was for twenty-three years considered dead. He has been found in the sol diers' home in Grant Ooanty, Indiana. He was a member of .the famous fili bustering expedition against Cuba in 1873, and received a wound in the head which dethroned his reason. He was reported among the dead, but finally re covered, having escaped the masacre of the crew of the Virginins, which fol lowed its capture. For over twenty years he has wandered about in a dazed condition, and it was only by an ac cident that his whereabouts were dis covered. He will be brought to Du buque and cared for by friends. CLASSES TO EXCLUDED. Senator Chandler's Bill to Restrict Unde sirable Immigration. Senator Chandler has Introduced a second bill restrictive of immigration designed to supplement or supplant the first bill. The features of the new meas ure are the designation of four new classes of excluded persons, a require ment for a declaration by every immi grant of name, place of departure, for mer residence, and other information, the issue of certificates by United States consuls upon Voluntary application of Immigrants, a requirement of more cu bic space for immigrants aboard ves sels and better ventilation, and, lastly, a new naturalization clause requiring sixty days' notice or the application be fore trlai. The excluded classes are additional to A Natural Luxury. An Eastern man, while traveling in the Northwest, stopped for a time with a family In North Dakota. It was in July, and clear, cold water--a luxury he did not often find--was most acceptable. The water on the table was so sweet and so very cold that he was led to remark on its ex cellence. "Yes, our well has always satisfied us, and we think we have a good ttiing when we can draw ice water in midsummer. We will show you our refrigerator after dinner." After dinner out they went, and the New England man was asked to look down. It was a round small trick shaft, much like the old wells seen hereabouts, and went down to an extraordinary depth. But there was °a beautiful sight at the bottom. It was, sure enough, a natural ice-water tank. Pieces of clear ice flQated in the water, and a close look showed a 4hick coating of ice all around the sides for quite a distance above it. The explanation was simple enough. When the bucket is drawn up a little of the water always falls or drips, and often strikes the sides of the well as 4t fall9. In the winter-*-and Dakota winters are cold--this water at once freezes, and soan the entire length of the shaft is lined with lee. This thickens at an increasing rate, and it is frequently necessary to cut it away with an ax to make room in which the bucket can slide up aiid down. In the spring this begins to melt, and the ice falls to the The farther down, the slow© .groccss of meltiag. . S ; ^ . - SHAFT. Y.«>1 I. MM Overdue C«m»rde* Beaches New York After an Eventful Voyage-She Had Been Disabled by mn Aealtfanft to Her *n on Board AM The blg Canard steamer fTmWfn, «o long the subject of anxious inquiry, Is safe. So much was ascertained shortly after midnight Friday, when her lights were first sighted off Fire Island. The news of her arrival was commu nicated at once to the New York office of the company, and Vernon T» TTRNWN the local agent, accompanied by a num ber of newspaper men, koarded the company's harbor tug and set out to in tercept the steamer. The ride out occupied an hoar, says a New York dispatch. At 1:20 the tug drew up alongside the gangway and the party filed over the side. Every pas senger on the steamer old enough to be allowed out at that hour was up and ready to welcome the visitors--the first tangible evidence that they were ap proaching the homes so many of them feared in days past they would never reach. After days of anxiety, and when many were ready to believe that the big Cu- iarder with all on board had gone to the bottom of the Atlantic, the steam ship Manhansett came into port and reported that- when out - eleven days from Swansea, and pounding along in a heavy gale, wfth the wind raislna angry seas, she had sighted the Umbria !J trough of the sea and drifting before the gale. The first mate -v.fc .. c. , r«• >*-! « ^ -j d *: , > tr j "k ^ sOftu. » unit, f.»k .< .i* was in charge of the Manhansett at the time and his practiced eye made out that all was not well. The vessel lay to the north of the Manhansett,about two miles out of her course, but in a moment all hands wera ordered on de^k. Capt. Dyclr and Second Mate Ellis came on deck immediately. The Manhansett went hurrying over the five-mile course at its best speed. Soon the Manhan sett came near enough to her to see that the Umbria was not badiy hurt. The captain and the second mate got out the signal book, and th4 ships began to talk to each other. "Who are you?" a&ked the Manhan sett. ! The Umbria told him, and said he was out from Liverpool for New York, and in reply to further questions stated that the shaft was broken and was un dergoing repairs, and would"be ready to-morrowi I The Manhansett asked if any assist ance was required and the Cubarder re- ?iied: "No. Beport me to my owners." 'hen the Manhansett bade > farewell. At that time the Cunarder >fras about 765 miles east of Sandy Hoor, so that she had drifted consideiably before the northwest gale that was blowing. Cunard Agent Vernon H. iBrown in speaking of the Umbria, said that Capt. McKay had been criticised because of his refusal to accent all proffered aid, but he certainly showed wonderful sa gacity in declining all the assistance that was offered to him. "Suppose, for instance, that he had accepted assist ance from either the Galileo, Moravia, or Manhansett; suppose also that either of these vessels, with the Umbria in tow, the gale which has been blowing from the northwest for the last week shifted to the east it would not be anything unusual if the towhawser parted. Her machinery would be dis abled. She would be on a lee shore ih a gale of wind, and nothing in the world could save her from destruction and her passengers from death. Instead of that, however, Captain McKay refuses assistance, lies to 800 miles from shore, where he can drift and drift without getting into danger, and repairs his machinery, so that when he goes near the shore he will have his ship under full control. That is what I consider good seamanship. The Um bria had the whole Atlantic to drift in, and if the storm got too strong for her she could take in her sea-anchors, hoist sail, turn her stern to the wind, and run before the storm. I was thoroughly convinced that the Umbria was all right, and would come into this port in perfect safety. Capt. McKay has shown himself to be a man of great caution and ability. ACQUITTAL OF PR. BRIGGS. New" York Presbytery Refuses to ^ft l̂a Any of the Charges. After one of the most tedious trials in the history of the Presbyterian Church, Dr. Briggs, ac cused of her esy, has been acquitted by the New York Presbytery. ^ Professor N. Briggs was arraigned on s i x specific charges. The vot!.ng on the first c h a r g e w a s begun at 4 DB. BRIGGS. o'clock, and the vote on the sixth charge Was com pleted and the Presbytery adjourned shortly before six o'clock. The result of the several ballots was then an nounced. Ihe result was a great sur prise, for on all the six counts the vote n$s adverse to sustaining the charges. On the first charge, accusing Prof. Briggs with teaching that the reason is a source of divine authority, tho vote was as follows: To sustain the charge, 60; against sustaining the charge, 68. On the second charge which accuses Prof. Briggs with teaching that the church is a source of divine authority, there were 5ft votes cast in favor of Sus taining the charge and 71 against. The closest vote was on the third charge, that Prof. Briggs taught that the Scriptures contained errors of his tory and fact. On this charge the vote was as follows: To sustain the charge, 61; against, £8. After this vote had been taken two or three of the anti-Briggs men left the court, and others refrained from voting on the last three charges. On the fourth charge, accusing Prof. Briggs with teaching that Moses was not the author of the Pentateuch, the result was: To sustain the charge, 53; against, 72. The vote on the fifth charge, accusing Prof. Briggs with teaching that Ieaiah did not write many of the chapters in the book bearing his name, was: In favor of sustaining the charge, 49; against, 70, The vote on the sixth charge, accusing Prof. Briggs of teaching that sanctiflca- tion is progressive after dopth, was: To sustain the charge, 57; agaiast, 69. The friends of Dr. Briggs were greatly pleased with the result. Thfey had cal culated on a majority ranging from faur to six MEASURES OQftSIQmftfe AMD .J » ACTED UPON.-,,.,: At the Nation's Capital--Wh»t Is Mif "'Xt Done by the Senate and BOOM--Old ,. Matters Diapoaed Of and Osei ClHk» • 1 "3 THE UMBRIA. M A m WBI'J isfcsftl • •' Th* tent* m* Boms* The Senate resumed business at diosS*- i I. ef its holiday recess with a a fair show ot Industry and an attendance of a few more ' than a quorum. Mr. Allison (Rep.), Imva., "f made his first appearance this session, hav ing been absent hitherto as a delegate to* . fi the international monetary conference,' ,, ; and had an opportunity of adding to his' knowledge on tbe subject of gold »nd SIIT*-- by listening to a speech of Mr. Stewart,! ' ^ (Rep), Nevada, In opposition to the bill in-' ' *, troduced by Mr. McPherson (Demi), New' .t" > Jersey, to suspend the purchase of silver A bullion under the Sherman bill. The> Sen-! : ate took up the anti-option bill as the un~! finished business. An amendment was of-! ' rfll fered by Mr. Wflsbburn (Itopi), ot Minnesota, and agreed to, inserting** in section 2 the words so as to make 1 the proviso read: "That such contractor' ^li agreement shall not be made, settled for . delivery or settlement of difference, or by1 "Y'y; any other mode of performance ot, settle-! • *-"<C ment in or upon any Board of Trade, etc.n t ^ Mr. White (Dem.), of Louisiana, moved to1 Insert in section 3 the word "flour" as one -'"S3: of the articles referred to Mr. White's v amendment was agreed to. The vote was taken, after further discussion, and: resulted: Yeas, 12; nays. 30. As a quorum1 did not vote the roll of Senators , was called. Forty-four Senators, just a quo- rum, answered to their names. But with-1 . out further action on Mr. White s amend- ment the Senate went into executive ses- slcn and seen adjourned. Ji: The feature of Thursday's session of tbe ',' % Senate was tho speech delivered by Mr., . f'i Vilas (Wis.) against the aati-option bilL , Senate hill permitting M. P. Deady, United States Judge for the District of Oregon, to' resign On and after March 4 next, and thereupon to be entitled to draw his salary' as judge during his life, was passed.' Senate bill concerning the testimony in criminal ca3es or proceedings growing out of the interstate commerce law was on. motion of Mr. Wilson (Iowa) taken from the calendar and passed. (It provides that no person shall be excused from tes tifying tn the giound that his testimony might tend to criminate himself.) The Senate after a short executive session adjourned. The second general appropria te.0 n Pass lbe House this session was the fortiflca'lon appropriation bill, and it went through without amendment or the ^e^a*e- The bill appropriates el.735,0.)5. The consideration of private pension bills was removed, and a few of the measures were passed without opposi tion. Then, as there was no quorum, the House adjourned. Notes from the Capital. CONFIRMATIONS--Charles W. Dow, of Massachussetts, United States Con sul at Zanzibar; John B. Herod, of In- diapa, Second Secretary of Legation to Japan, George Crelghton Webb, of New York, Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg. MB. OUTHWAITE of Ohio has inter ested himself in the attacks upon Bep- resentative Lodge, and introduced in the House a resolution directing the Committee on Library to inquire into the use and control of certain documents in the State Department. MR. OTTS, Populist, of Kansas, offerod in the House a bill creating a depart ment of transportation and providing for the construction of a Nicaraguan ship canal. The department is to have general supervision of the carrying trade of the entire country and to exer cise all the powers of an interstate commerce commission, which is abol ished. PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a proclamation granting full amnesty and pardon to all persons in Utah liable to penalties by reason of unlawful cohab itation under the color of polygamous or plural marriage who have, since Nov. 1, 1890, abstained from such unlawful cohabitation, but upon the express con dition that they shall In the future faith fully obey the laws of the United States. CONGRESSMAN OWEN SCOTT, of Illi nois, introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information regarding the progress of public buildings in various parts of. the country for which appropriations were made in 1890. Mr. Scott said that a building at his home in Bloomington, 111., was authorized and an appropria tion for the eamfe made about two yeare and a half ago; tut nothing has been done toward the erection of the build ing. Upon investigation and inquiry of the Surpervising Architect of the Treas ury Mr. Scott finds that of seventyrfive buildings, improvemonts and extensions for which appropriations were made in 1890 the contracts for the erection h&y« , been let for only fifteen. Telegraphic Brovttie*. THE St. Louis street railways have passed into the New York syndicate that purchased the system some „tlm« ago. REPUBLICANS and Populists com* blued and organized the Montana As sembly, electing Matthews, a Populist, Speaker. THE first officer of the steamer Glen- goil was swept overboard and drowned on the voyage between Newport News and Liverpool. * ANOTHER, decision has been rendered at New Orleans against the petition foi the probating of the will of Myra Clark Gaines. THE residence ot Dr. Bussery, ai Ciarksville, Tenn.. was robbed of $10,- 000 and burned. The building and con tents were worth $15,000. MRS, BATES, who was divorced at De Smet, S. D„ on . New Year's Eve, w/is married the day following to ex-Mayei Ames, of Minneapolis. . IT has been found that the towline between the Umbria and Bohemia, by which the latter attempted to tow the Cunarder to New York, was cut. A DISPATCH from St. Paul imputing1 to the committee of inve^Mttpn of th«: Northern Pacific Bailroa^^^BIre to ef fect a change in the Pi^BRncy o£ th« j company has been repudiated by mem bers of the committee. THE Decatur, Chesapeake & New Or leans liailrottd has been sold under i decree of the Federal courts, Judgt Granville Haws, of New York, on be half of the reorganization 'committee, bid the road in for $100,000. Gov. BARBER, of Wyoming, relin quished the executive office to John E * Osborne, who took the office somt. months ago, and the State which has hi two governors for six weeks, haa no> only the customary number. DIRECTORS of the Masonic Saving^ Bank at Louisville, which failed. haVfl been sued by the Germanla Safety Vati and Trust Company for $76,000, aile^ ing gross neeligence on the part of th^ directors in managing the'bank. A. E. HUMPHREYS, George E. Milli> gan, and George J. Atkins, all of Du*'ta luth. have secured control of what if; claimed to be the greatest gold deposi t in the country, the Ophlr, locate I nea; the famous Bruce mines in Ontario TtPHUS is raging jn several of ti interior cities of Mexico. The mort« ity is 25 to 30 per cent. In Zacatew and Guanajuato the epidemic is at I? worst, more than 500 cases being ru"* ported at present at the former placf As FATHER LAWLER was celebratin? mass at St. Thomas Aquinas' Church at Pittsburg, Thomas Quinlan attempt ed to commit a murderous assault upoj him. Quinlan used a hatchet, He ̂ r^t overpowered before the priest was in jurei. - - • • m 'V"%v J.