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SfcVSS • • • "-.f.-f HoHENRYV n v V*' ,\&v: **- fiv^r i "* 5* 1 w*^ ^ *? *k'. • •" liisps^^iltss JUTITES ILLINOIS. Sti a THE BLAST OF DR.VTH, , *> A tCRRIBLE TRAGEDY IN TEN- V,*-'- > - »• • WESSEfL^ *<;;; y^. „ . ^ . -*•*- /» M* £*! " >; » 4'-«•§' s';-, MT--onfl FMUO Train Robbers Despoil •- *"• Bmi the Porter--Santa Fe, Most Eiten- iln System In the Vsfld, la Hbm H>idt of Receivers. •;. '<• - . Itwmlll Workers Blown to Pieces. A BOILER at Whittle's sawmill, near Knoxville, Tenn., exploded. The plant dieo{ 'their injuri^. MANAGER KNOX,* of the Shenango irlijil <ft>rks, Newcastle, Pa., has an- nounoed that fires are lighted. Em­ ployment will be given to 900 men. GBOSS irregularities amounting to millions of dollars are reported to have been discovered in connection with to­ bacco refunds in the New York Custom House. A RAILROAD accident occurred at the Hollis statioft of the Worcester and Nashua division of the Boston and Maine Road. Three persons were killed instantly on a grade crossing. The party was out sleighing. Two MEN were killed and thirty per­ sons injured by a collision on the Bal­ timore and Ohio Railroad near Brad- dock, Pa. The dead ar^: Jas. Moran, MoKeesport; Michael Dougherty. Robt. Heinz, of Bessemer, and Kate Mc- Shane, of McKeesport, will probably even was completely demolished and four men were instantly killed. All of the men leave families who are dependent on them for support. Five more were Injured. So great was the force of the exposion that a cylinder head from the sngine was thrown a hundred feet away with such force that it struck and knocked out a support from under the THE doors of the St. Nicholas Bank, New York, were closed Thursday morn­ ing by C. M. Preston, Superintendent of the State Banking Department, be­ cause of impairment of capital. The bank is a State institution. Although rumors affecting the solvency of this bank have been in the air for" months. Marietta and North Georgia Railroad j y®t the stoppage of the bank was a complete surprise to everybody, with the exception of two Or three members of the Clearing-house Committee. Even the officers of the bank had no bridge. Thorough Work ©t Train :8; THE southbound passenger train No. 32, on the Iron Mountain division of the Missouri Pacific, was held up and thoroughly robbed on Saturday eveh- ing by five masked men at Semin­ ole Station, Indian Territory, five . miles south of Coffeyville. The j engineer, James Harris, was care-1 fully guarded by one of the men • with % Winchester, while the rest; proceed?d to rob the mail, express car and every passenger on the train, from the smoker to the sleeper. They even took everything the porter had. The leader was a > tall man, who went through the cars and reUeved the frightened passengers of their money and valuables, while the party kept up a fusillade with their Winchesters '-A and revolvers. They secured a largo amount of booty, it is thoughtfully $8,000. knowledge of what was goinar to hap­ pen, and the president of the bank, Arthur B. Graves, and the cashier, William J. Gardner, were the most surprised men in Wall street when they came down-town at 10 o'clock in the morning and found the following notice on the closed doors: "This bank is closed pending examination. CHARLES M. PRESKJN, Supt." GEORGE C. MAGOUN, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, died at New York at 9:15 o'clock Wednesday evening. Mr. Magoun became ill seven weeks ago. He was suffering from stomach trouble. Three weeks ago Drs. McBurney and Alexander performed an operation for tumor of the stomach. Since that time he has been failing rapidly. For the last two weeks he had been dying slow­ ly. He was unconscious when death Mr. Magoun was 52 years old. His wife is a confirmed invalid. Frank and Kingsley Magoun are the other members of the firm of Baring, Mar goun & Oo. Mr, Magoun was a mem- r of the old house of Kidder, Santa Fe In Court. THE expected in the railroad world j has happened. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and St. Loui * and San Francisco Railroads and branches, com- f f prising the Santa Fe system proper, have been placed in the Viands of three ««« luuWi. receivers. The application was made ; Peabody & Co., the representatives of by the Union Trust Co.of New York. Al-: the Barings in America. As a re- / though the press of the country hasW- j suit of the Baring failure in November, ijV' J, ticipated the result for some time past, ! 1890, this firm separated into two houses not until the death of Chairman George j in March, 1891, upon an amicable basis, . I C. Magoun at New York, was any im- j Mr. Magoun remaining with the New 'mediate action contemplated. The • York house as second partner therein, Santa Fe has over 9,COO miles of track, j Thomas Baring being the senior mom- and was the most extensive system in j ber of the firm. In both the old and the world. The directors make a state­ ment giving the cause for the action as the sudden failure of the pending negotiations for relief from thaiiiiMr- ciu stringency. ̂ I new houses he was the Stock Exchange member and looked after that branch of the business. Mr. Magoun was a pron^ifte^t club man. WESTERN. Throat Catting "War. INJUNCTIONS failing to rid the Edi- «m General Electric Company of the r ̂numerous competitors in the electric j business men to disiniss Fire Chief Gal- lighting business at Chicago, the big; trust has determined to run them out of the field by cutting prices below all I competitors. A sweeping reduction of j 25 per cent, on every grade of lamp it manufactures has been made, and cir*' torea. culars announcing Ihe cut are being tent throughout the land. OMAHA'S board of fire and police commissioners have been petitioned by ligan. WAR between the sheepmen and cat­ tlemen has brokenout afresh in Colo- rada Many sheep have been slaugh- MEWS NUGGETSL ' DR. METER, alleged poisoner at New York, will eecure a new trial through the insanity ot Juror Lowe. ELWOOD, Ind., is *to have another THE United German Society of Ham­ ilton, Ohio, assigned to Christen Ben- ninghofen. Assets and liabilities, $18,- 000 each. Mas. SUTHBRLAND, the divorced wife of R. J. Sutherland, committed suicide at Albuquerque, & by cut­ ting her throat. REMAINS of five Aztec towns which ulation of from fif - "»*» «¥ " ' A H tin plate mill, such an ente rprise hav- formerly kad a ing been incorporated with 8300,000' teen to twenty tuousand have been capital. NOTWITHSTANDING efforts at ooro- promise, Director Pierce was one of seven indicted for bank wrecking at Tmltiniapnlbi, AT St. Loots, Theodore G. Case, o! Chicago, secured a judgment against the St Louis and Hannibal Railway for $3,500 for legal service. Mtas. MAGUIRE, wife of a laborer living in Niagara Falls, N. Y., has been informed that she is the heir to i discovered near Eddy, N. M. i KLEI^ET TIMBERMAK & Ca, whole sak dealers in woolen goods at Cincin­ nati, have assigned, with liabilities of ' 1125,000 and^aseets $100,000. DAVID STOUT, a farmer living near Indianapolis, who mistrusted banks, i was robbed last night of $10,000 in gold j wideh he had buried in his cellar, j JEFFERSON lectured at Detroit the other night and announced that he would next month retire from the an estate in Engkuad which Will give temporarily for the lecture platform, ber M,360,000 and a life lnton in the | iuoGHEVs barik failure at Indian- Molesworth estate. DAVID JL HOW, proprietor and eash- of the First National Bank ol 6hak,ope3, Minm, shst himself. De­ spondency and domestic and financial troubles are assigned as the cause. He had $55,000 insurance cn his life. J^HN; RUSH, who keeps a hotel a1 Odells Lake, Ohio, recently saved the life of a lad who had broken through the ice while skating. The boy was nearly frozen, and Rush gave him a drink of whisky, which made the boy drunk. His father had Rush arrested and fined $10 for giving whisky to a minor. apolis has caused a dissolution of the Street Railway Brotherhood, the strongest union organization in that city. PHILIP M. SCHEIO, the embezzling teller of the Bank of Minneapolis, has been sentenced to seven years and six months at hard labor in the State prison. FIRE in one of the ̂ executive vaults at the State House, Des Moines, Iowa, destroyed records of former adminis­ trations, of interest but of no great im­ portance. J. HARVEY SMITH and family, who SHOPPERS in John Wanamaker'g wo*-® tewibly injured in the railroad Philadelphia store were startled by ' wreck at Battle Creek, Mich., are said the attempt of a young girl to commit! ^av® received $80,000 in settlement suicide by taking laudanum. Her life j °' cl®*111®* was saved with difficulty. The girl \ A PROMINENT society woman of gave her name as Marion Carlisle, and | Sioux City, Mrs. S. R. Ruv.ell, has said her home is m Frankfort, Ky. She j commenced suit for $10,COD damages for arrived in the city the previous even- j breach of promise against Charles T. ing, and, baing a stranger without j Fitts, a prominent hardware merchant, money, walked the streets all night, j CouN8EL ha8 ^ retained at THOMY LAI'OR, the New Orleans I Youngs town, Ohio, by employes who millionaire colored real estate owner, I were poisoned at Homestead during *%r died at the age of 82 years. He wag a native ol New Orleans, but was edu­ cated abroad^ being fluent in English, French, and Spanish. This year he built a colored orphan asylum and bome for colore! aged and infirm. Lafor owned houst s In every section of the city. His wealth is estimated at $800,000. THjf-barn of J. L. Shallcross, a stock­ man at Anchorage, Ky., was burned, together with thirty horses and 100 head of cattle. The loss is $45,000. The Bay View Lumber Company at West Norfolk. Va., was destroyed by fire. Lois, about $50,000; insurance unknown. AT Baltimore, Md., S. H. Hart, who was the President of the Slate Bank of Buckley, Wash., was arrested on the the labor troubles to commence suit for damages aggregating $1,000,030 against the Carnegie company. MINE NO. . 1, of the Union -Pacific Coal Company, near Evanston, Wy.f caught flte from spontaneous combu tion, and all efforts t} extinguish it have been unavailing. The mine is in close proximity to another which has been on fire for more than ten years. MICHAEL MCGILL, an employe of the Cleveland Stone Company at North Amherst, Ohio, while suffering from an attack of delirium, took off part of his clothing and crept around town on his hands and knees in the snow in search of a place to go to bed. He was found in the read under a railroad bridge frozen to death. THE "Black Crook" is winning an-cbarge of embezzling $30,000 of the , .. .. , . - . funds of that bank. The authorities of: ®*ber big sucoes3 at McVicker.s Chi- Buckley offered a reward of $1,000 for cft£° Theater. It only seems yester Hart's arrest. day since this spectacle of uncommon the Crook." Its •ad _ hey were The applause the opening night was great. Pretty Louise Montrose and tnmWinf Tom wore out again and again, m was t-ho "Bowery" ballet, and the wonders this time of the production, "The Heras." The Heras are a family of acrobats who perform in full evening dress, two women and five men, the women wear­ ing dresses. They are indeed remark­ able. THE other evening a man and woman, well dressed and of good appearance, entered C. D. Peacock's jewelry store at State and Washington streets, Chi­ cago, and asked to be shown tome dia- mgfe&fings. After overhauling forty tt^ggybf rings an inexpensive solitaire was^eleeted and a deposit ma4e. The coiiple promised to return the next morning and pay the rest of the money and get the ring. They left the store and a few minutes later the clerk, in counting his trays, found but thirty-nine. On overhauling the stock, he found that one of the most valuable trays was missing. The po­ lice were notified, but the well-dressed couple had apparently succeeded in making their escape. The value of the goods taken is, h^rd to determine. Mr. Peacock baicj' Wiiit the trays each contained from $5,000 to $£0,00(5 worth of diamonds, and that the tray taken was one of the most valuable he had. FOUR Chicago men twisted the tiger's tail into a triple spiral, and tied a big hard knot in it early Tuesday morning. Then the four took $1,000 apiece and disappeared. No. 14 Quincy street is a gambling-house with a $20,000 bank roll and a rooted objection to parting with any part of it. , Only em­ ployes were in the roopi at an early hour Tuesday morning when four visitors walked up the stairs. Their entrance attracted little attention until the sharp command of "Hands upl" caused the cash handlers to stop. Then they saw one man stand­ ing, revolver in hand, with his back against the door, while three others similarly armed were free to attend to any who might resist. When the gamblers were ordered to line up they did it with alacrity. One man was left to guard them, and the others looted the place. Into their pockets they swept the spoils of the tiger in gold and silver and bills. Then they searched the open safe. Probably the four men will be sorry to hear they missed $20,000 which was in it. But they escaped and took tt SOUTHERN. DR. ROBERT HOGG, of Bramwell, W. Va.f shot himself through the head. CRAZED by the burning of her two children, a colored woman cast herself into the Cumberland at Burkesvilie, rwo MORE bodies of victims of the the Louisville bridge wreck have been recovered. Search for the dead is be­ ing pushed. LOUISIANA'S Supreme Court has up­ held the New Orleans police commis­ sioners in their conflict of authority with the Mayor. FOUR train robbers arrested in Texas confessed, and were* sentenced to thirty-five years each in the peni­ tentiary, within a ^eek after their crime. THE damage suit brought by Mrs. E. S. Randall against J. G. Randle at Dal­ las, Texas, for killing her husband last Christmas, has been compromised for $10,000. THE Seaboard Air Line has secured a controlling interest in the Macon and Northern and the Georgia South­ ern and Florida Railroads, which gives it a through lin* to Florida. NORTH CAROLINA people are worked up over a curious display in the heav­ ens the other night. To some persons it looked like a star with a brilliant tail, while to others if resembled a fiery serpent. One colored astronomer dis­ tinctly saw the letters "W. W. W.," while another traced the word, "Pre- P<we.* . vy ' - : -- WA8H1N GTONN THE House of Representatives has passed the urgency deficiency bill, with the amendment (making a pension a vested right in the grantee. DELIA SLOANE, daughter of John Skoane, Treasurer of the United States under President Taylor, died after hav­ ing for nearly forty years held clerical positions at Washington. ALFRED E. PARKINSON, of Wiscon­ sin, has been appointed reading clerk of the Senate at Washington, to suc­ ceed G. W. Porth, who has been ap­ pointed Podtrnasjer at Milwaukee. THE President Tuesday sent to the Senate the nomination of Wayne Mac- Veagh, of Pennsylvania, to be Embas­ sador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Italy. THE tariff report of the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Com­ mittee was submitted to the full com­ mittee Tuesday. It wa3 written by Chairman Wilson and has already re­ ceived the approval of his Democratic associates. A PLOT to kidnap Ruth Cleveland, in expectation of a large ransom, was dis­ covered by the Abilene (Kas. ) police in letters written from Washington to a crank. Two women are implicated in the scheme. The kidnaping was to have been done in January. Steps have been taken to arrest the gang. -- THE annual report of the Hon. Jj&n G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, was transmitted to Congress Wednes­ day. The Secretary estimates the rev­ enues of the Government for the fiscal year, which will end the 30th of next June, at $430,121,000, and the expendi­ tures for the same period at $458,121,- 000, leaving a deficit of $26,000,000 o« the year. THE minority report of the Wajv and Means Committee, embodying the views of the Republican members on the proposed tariff legislation, was given out Thursday night. From their point of view the Mirprising feature of the Wilson bill is tnat it will lower the revenue $74,CO?,000 belc .• the revenue of 1893 and this while th«. A.reas- I ury is already depleted. The L-ll is :ts :iDiiSei:oal. ositioa uigaA frojp specific ohanffe duties.' a dissertation The report closes with on tho effect of'tho bill «... labor. AcuoiaaNG to a Washington corres­ pondent the special examination ser»t vice of the Pension Btlrefeii has been seriously crippled by the lack of Con­ gressional appropriations for the work, and it is possible that all field work will be abandoned within two The appropriation for the present fiscal yoar is $200,000. At th© time this was made there were 5,000 cases pend­ ing special examination. Since then the number has increased to 13.200. HOLDING COURT IN A CON OEMNED BUILDING* , , i ft* VAFTTOUS SUBJECTS FOR L£OI8^ GF^TTVE MINDS. «>«« '•ltd J!tnrrtr»ifc gflt JTigfct to ifae Beatii--JtlorrUt Heath ot Fourteen Workmen - MQI Vcylit* to Saw a ChCM. /' ^ \ Kerrow ^l»c«pe. AT New York Friday morning a po­ liceman while standing in front of the Fourth District Civil Court, an Iron frame structure five stories high on Second avenue, noticed the outer walls of the building vibrate. He Imme- This increase is due largely to "the i ??£^y 0^**1d insi?e and i,l1SS®d employment, up to several months 0 ago, of the entire office force in the °me adjudication of office claims under the w? ^TaVhe act of June 27, 1890. Examiners have £^ S? /"dge quietly informed the not been able to handle old war cases Q^ion of lairea the safety of the building and they all departed quietly, and court was ad­ journed to the Thirl District Civil Court on Sixth avenue. The building has been condemn&l several tinges. Twenty-four Killed In Bsttto A DISPATCH from Cerrillos, N. M., says: MA race war has broken out' at Laguna del Gallo, Lincoln County. A dispute arose between Mexicans and ! Americans over the ownership of a herd of sheep. In a battle that fol- i lowed five Americans apd nineteen Mexicans were killed." duriflg the past few years, and claims of this class have been accumulating on the files. The work of the examiners is at least a year in arrears. There, are 246 examiners in the field and the expenses per month average $30,000. At this rate the funds are expected to be exhausted in the beginning of Feb­ ruary. Unless the appropriation is in- creased the entire field force will be called into the office, and the dismissal of all of them, numbering 246, will be recommended by Captain Fritts, the chief of the division. Of the total number of cases now being investigat­ ed by examiners, there are 3,000 lii which fraud is alleged. POLITICAL. *,1 •; 2 • rginia Legislature fias elected Gen. Eppa Hupton, United States Sen­ ator, for the short term, and Thomas S. Martin, United States Senator, for the long term. ; THE Mayoraly contest at Chicago re­ sulted in the election of the following ticket: John P. Hop" ins. Dam ...'...,....,...112,897 George B. few ft, Rep 111,486 Michael V. Britzias, Boo 2,073 Ebenezer Wakeley, Lab.-Bilver 636( In a total vote exceeding 225,000John P. Hopkins was cn Tuesday elected Mayor of Chicago to fill out tne unex­ pired term of the late Carter H. Har­ rison by a plurality of 1,461. The cam­ paign, though short, had been one of the fiercest ever known in the city, and the political managers who had ex­ pected a large vote were not disap­ pointed. . The total poll is the largest ever recorded at a muncipal election in Chicago. It is* about 15,000 greater. than at the election of last spring, when Mr. Harrison was chosen mayor. •V •• « FOREIGN. BISMARCK has written Crispi, his old friend, congratulating him upon his return to power in Italy. AT London, the Court of Queen's Bench rendered judgment in favor of defendants in the suit of the Republic of Chili against the Royal Mail Steam­ ship Company and the London and River Platte Bank regarding the pos­ session of 338 silver bars valued at $650,090, conveyed from Chili to the Montevideo branch of the River Platte Bank by the British warship Espiegle at the request of President Balmaceda. -5 • £ Vii. IN GENERAL | ' FRAZER, of the Court of New Brunswick, has been ap­ pointed Lieutenant Governor of that province. SENATOR WOLOOTT, of Colorado, now under treatment at Paris, will, it .is s&id, be restored to health ̂ after a few weeks of rest. COMMANDER WHITING, late of the U. S. S. Alliance, who married Miss Atta Afong, daughter of the million­ aire Chinese merchant of Hawaii, left San Francisco with his bride for the East. A. S. TANNER and Ralph Grant quar­ reled about escorting Miss Virginia Gleason from church at Selma, Ala. Grant was killed and Tanner is in jail. -The girl was crazed by fright and has 5not recovered her mind. ? THE Baltimore and Ohio Finance Committee has authorize#! the payment of the customary dividend of 3 per cent, on the preferred stock on the business for the six months ending Dec. 31. The net earnings of the en­ tire system for November show a net increase of $96,957i MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTXE--Common to Prim®.. HOGS--Shipping Grades SHEEP--Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. A Bed COBN"~N(X $««............ OATS--No. a RXE--No. 2 ..*... BUTTER--Choice Crewnery..... EGGS--Fresh 1P0TATOS8--P«r bu, INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping. HOOB--ChoiceLight............. SHEEP--Common to Prime.... WHEAT--No. A Red COBN--No. * White OATS--No A White............... ST. LOUI& CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. A Bed COBN--No. A OAT8--No. 2... i*r ( ATTLI HOGS /...... SHEEP WHEAT--No. 3 Bed.. €OSN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed RYE--No. t DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS f"^eat-NoV 2Red ! If". COBN--No. 3 Yellow. OATS-&o.3WWt^i.i;is^.« WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. COBN--No. 9 Yellow OATS--No. 3 White.... RYE--No. 8 BUFFALO"* BEEF CATTLE--Good to Prime. HOGS--Mixed Packers WH*AT--No. 1 Hard N°' 2 MILWAUKEE." WHEAI--NO. 2 Spring COBN--NO. 3 OATS--No. 2 White BY*--No. 1.. BABLEY--NO. S «... POBE--Mess....... NEW YOBK. CATTLE HOGS. SHEEP..... WH*A*-NO. 3 Red COSH--No. 3 OATS--White Western BtrrrEB--Choice POM--New Mess. 5 33 §4 00 <3 S3* A S 75 (3 5 00 & • CO- @ 4 00 & tt* @ 3S?a I '« 49 &8B0 #600 <<« 4 75 Fourteen Killed at Homestead, ffc. In a cave-in at Carnegie's new mill at Homestead, Pa., early Friday mean­ ing fourteen workmen wer| killed apfl four badly hurt. BREVITIES, s: ; 4 C V .• « . • THE Mason flats at Duluth were burned, causing a loss of $100,000. COAL of good quality has been found twelve miles north of Sioux City, Iowa. SCHWARTZ & GRAFF, wholesale car­ pet dealers of Philadelphia, have as­ signed. ALLEN COUSANS was hanged at Knoxville, Tenn., for the murder of his wife in May last. H. K. VAN METER, a Ravenna, Ohio, business man, is likely to die from an assault by footpads. GERMAN papers think the fate of the Russian commercial treaty in the Reichstag is that of failure. WATER from ah old mine broke into an adjoining shaft at Delaware, Pa., and. three men were drowned. MRS. MALONEY, of North Argentine, Kan., chased fifteen railway workmen off her land with a big pistol. THE upper two stories of the Masonic Temple at Adrian, Mich., were de­ stroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. Two workmen at Elizabeth, N. J., were horribly burned by a companion throwing oil on a fire near them. M. REYNAL, French Minister of the Interior, has advised police prefects to watch meetings of Socialists. WHOLESALE grocers 7K Indiana met at Terre Haute to form an association for the maintenance of sugar prices. ART SIMS and louis Grether, Akt3>n, Ohio, high-school boys, fought six bloody rounds to a draw for a wager. C. W. COCKERILL, of Glasgow, Ma, Clerk of the House District of Colum­ bia Conynittee, died at Washington. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., flouring mills ground 131,090 barrels for the last week, against 140,985 the week before. MR. WILSON'S tariff bill will be taken up immediately upon the assem­ bling of the House after the Widay recess. THR^E new States are likely to !$e admitted by the present Congress. They are Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. FRANK GORDON, of Chieago4 was murdered for his money by Mexicans in Pres&o County, near the Rio Grapde. # THE" anti-Tajnmany Democrats of New York have perfected an organiza­ tion with ex-Secretary Fairchild as Chairman. CULBERTSON THOMPSON, SOn of tho late Judge J. C. Thompson, killed him­ self at Quincy. He had been Buffering from the grip. ONE hundred and ninety-seven plans 105 the Washington $1,000,000 State Capitol at Olympia hm e bepn placed in competition. MISS ANNIE D. HALLOCK, school teacher in Bridgeport, Conn., saved one boy and three men from drowning at the risk of her own life. GEORGE C. MAGOUN, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe railroad, died at his residence in New York. Miss DR. MARY J. HENDERSON, con­ victed of oriminal malpractice in Bos­ ton, Mass., was sentenced to eight years in the House of Correction. THE Revs. W. B. Sutherland and James Smith, Supervisors of Dickinson County, have been committed to jail at Clintwood, Va., far contempt of court. Two WOMEN named Williamson and Alexander were drowned in the Tom- bigbee River at McCary's Ferry, Ala., while attempting to rescue the child of the latter. SEVEN HUNDRED men started out from Minneapolis, Minn., on a wolf hunt. They returned without a scalp. ALFRED H. LITTLEFJELD, Governor of Rhode Island, died at his home in Lincoln on Thursday of a complication of lung diseases. GEORGE F. JAMES has resigned the Secretaryship of the American Society at Philadelphia. AT South Haven, Mich., Jobp Mo- Neil, father of Ambrose McNeil, an ar­ tist of Chicago, died, aged 75 years. L. L. KANN alias S. H. Hart, who ab­ sconded from Buckley, Wash., with $30,0C0 funds of the Buckley State Bank, has been arrested in Baltimore. TRANSSHIPMENTS of grain at the ports of Kingston and Portsmouth, Ont., amount to 15,009,000 bushels. tf. ,i!": W J« I'iret- IFWRJR Suggestive Proposition -- Pefter Would Scatter Silver Dollars--The Nloar*gW Canal--South Dakota's Bosnian '/"f 4 . . . . . . . F o r F n t a r e C o n s i d e r a t i o n . Waahlncton correspondence •^CdlTGRESSMEBP . may spend Hif/holiday vi studi' one member of W It is practi the . shape it ultimately wear ' when offered to- theHouee. The ^Atiw and Means CoaSnitte© • are receiving re- - quests for modi- ̂ ficaticn of the bill ™ from var toua 1 sources, each ap- 1 tlicant represent- ng that he is in- | jured by thek I measure . Says > committee: "It is pi ett/ well understood that our peo-^ pie are opposed to any further tinker* ing with the bill in the interest of any particular interests and districts. There is no valid reason for any further- delay, and we ought to get something definite in the way of information into the House." It is from the Eastern manufacturers that the greatest pro­ test comes. There is a growing suspicion that Jerry Simpson is -going to commence wearing socks. He has introduced a> bill to repeal the duties upon woolen yarns and manufactured woolen goods. He says if foreign wool is to come in untaxed, and the American farmer has to compete with that, he can see no good reason why the same farmer should not have the benefit of compe- 1 tition between American and foreign manufacturers of woolen goods. . Senator Peffer's benevolent appear­ ance is not belied by his latest act, for he has launched a scheme at once phil­ anthropic and shrewdly calculated to further his well-known views regard­ ing silver. He introduces a bill to re­ lieve want and distress by distributing t*> the poor and needy $6,300,000 in standard silver dollars. The morals of the people in the Dis­ trict of Columbia are evidentally get­ ting a little questionable; for M#. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, asks, in a bill, that horeeracing in the District be pro­ hibited. Mr. Morgan insists that. this govern­ ment should declare its intention con* cerningthe Nicaragua canal, in justice to all concerned. Mr. Hansbrough, of North Dakota, has a scheme to exter­ minate the Russian thistle in this country. He wants $1,000,000 appro- Sriated for the purpose. He says that lie Canadian thistfe is a blessing com­ pared with this new pest. It was in­ troduced by Russian immigrants in South Dakota about fourteen years ago, and has overrun fifty counties. He says it is absolutely worthless, and eventually chokes out every other form of vegetation. Even where it has not gained complete mastery, he says, it is necessary to put leather boots on horses while filling the soil. And be wants the nuisance eradicated. All these and several ether minor mat­ ters will be energetically pushed in the t near future. Routine Business. President Cleveland's message transmit* ting the papers In relation to Hawaii brought on a warm discussion In both houses An attack on the President's pol­ icy as to pensions irns msde by General Blckles In a spcech In the House* In the Senate Mr. P< Iph t*)lred on the tariff aad Mr. Hansbrouirh pleaded for $1,000,000 to exterminate the Bositaa thistle. A resolution to loan, the Colum­ bus caravels to the Fed Cross Society for exhibition purposes was presented lffthe 6enkta Brazilian cable, federal election* ana public relief*1 were the measures that vera discussed la the Senate Tuesday. Presi­ dent Cleveland sent the name of Wayne MacVesgh to the Senate for confirmation at ambassador to Italy, and a big hatch of - Presidential appointment* were taken up and confirmed. Chairman Wilson, of the Committee on Wpys and Means, formally introduced the new tariff hill -in the House. After filibustering which delated matters. tU? House ras^d the urgency deficiency bill. • • . •* * Eenfctcrs cn Wednesday discussed the need of gocd roads and passed the urgency, deficiency bill without amendment. Htv Hoar attacked the legality at Blount's ap­ pointment as Commissioner to Hawaii. Nominations of msny Illinois postmas­ ters were sent in. Wavne MacVeach was confirmed a«» ambassador to Italv. The New York and New Jersey br1d«e bill, aa amended In conference, was passed by both houses. Secretary Carlisle's report Sis submitted to Con?resa He recom-ends an Issue ot bonds to Increase the treasurv's resources ^ The House of Representatives did noth­ ing Thursday, a spirit ot opposition de­ veloping to everything presented. Ifo Wilson's tariff bill xiill be taken up imme­ diately upon the assembl.'njr of the Home after the holiday recess. In the SeiAte, Senator Cullom made objections to the confirmation of two Illinois postmasters who are not wanted by his colleague. Pal­ mer. Eight commanders of merchantmen In Brazilian waters submitted an appeal for protection against alleged interference of insurgents. Both hou-es adjourned to reconvene Jan. 3. 1894 Tillly's P»t>nheoy. Lilly, tbe great English astrologer, annually published a litt'e leaflet under tbe title of "Astrological Pre­ dictions." In the one for 1648 occurs tbe following: "In the year 1665 the apiielium of Mars wili be in Virgo, and all kinds and sorts of disasters to the commonwealth, monarchy and kingdom of England may be expected in that and the two following years.* It is needless to add that 1665 brought the "great plague," which carried away 68,556 people and 1666 was the year of the "great Are" in which IS,* 200 houses were destroyed. ••••0 4 $ % > b -A' /-./'V. ~r V:. Telegraphic Clicks. JOSEPH LYDE was mortally wounded at Selma, Ala., by a shot fired by an unknown man. THE Chesterfield, 111., ooal mines were sold to the Bremen Coal Mining Company "for $13,000. Louis HILTZ, propretor of a drug store in Brooklyn, N. Y., was killed by a motor at Norwalk, O. «J. W. DAVIDSON, deputy clerk if court, dropped dead at Find lay, O., during a term of court -:'f .f. ' i'" - • ';