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HftlLYKE, Editor and Pub. PfrHENRY. iff/ & 'iV ' P1v ILLINOIS ABE FOR PEIXOTO; ^CONSPIRACY TO KILL THE BRA- ZILIAN PRESIDENT; OMetals Dh«mr Ai Plot •ad Mtnjr Arrests Follow--Rtnglenders giently Tried, Contkwd and Pat to ' P«ath--l»gmlU Ii CoBTtrted. ;*3 t -- • • -- I-- }^*> ) * ' f ' Plotters Shot by SdldWmtei'i":fc 3 ADVICES have reached London from $Rio Janeiro that a plot had been dis- &fv- covered t J assassinate President Peix- 8"; ; lioto. Many persona were arrested on a charge of being concerned in the con- §ii ; HBpiracy and several of them have been Uhot. The insurgents in Rio Grande Mo Sul are reported to be approaching *- jf'orto Allegro, the capital of that state. " . Jit is declared that the decision of Presi- *3en.t Peixoto to is-ue a decree calling * . /for a Presidential election, as well as for «in election for members of Congress, iwas only reached after the President ;fiad been badly frightened by the rs, "^JiBCOvery of the plot to murder him. t Influential people, including several f? :„v%>fficers, are said to have been among the /••onspii-ators. The police arrested the jf'^ing leaders, whose trial is said to have ^ • - followed closely upen their arrest, and it i" < •$& said the prisoners were put to death. If H Jrhe bodies of the oonsoirators were has- /> ,, '.lily placed in the graves by the sol- > -jiliers composing the firing party, the •?.;v'SJarth was shoveled upon them, and the '^.^yfsoldiers were cautioned not to say a r) ; ' Word about the affair under the threat •f - ssfcf being shot if they did. The circum- ;,»>• stance; were thus kept from the ear of ' ..Ithe general public. A number of im- J plicated persons, besides those who ^ »Mwere killed, were sentenced to long ^ "'Mterms of imprisonment., and tho e who . h&d property were notified that it had •fceen confiscated for the ute of the Gov- '*£ Hsrmnen*. • . Ingtlb • Coattki * * A SPECIAL, from Nashville, J-\ ^Bays: There was a striking scene in v .. * ihe Gospel Tabernacle here Thursday ;*iight The Rev. Sam Jones, the noted vsfPl-^Georgia evangelist, is preaching there, ", and in his audience was ex-tfenator / • J john J. Ingalls, of Kansas. The ex- (|j t-t J Senator was deeply interested in Mr. J ones' remarks, and when the call was ,%* toade for those who had repented and \'i •* . wanted to lead tetter lives to come ,*! forward and shake his hand, the first Ii®- |;to respond was the ex-Senator. "Mr. 5-1;Jones," he said, "your . sermon has • 0Y . "touched me. I indorse every word you jhave said." "May God bless ycu," was % --the evangelist's response ' dramatic scene closed. and the t\f ~s New Xei'nn Railroad. }', AiFTEB eight months' labor United -.States Engineer William F. Shunk, " ; who conducted the great survey for *, the International Railway through A"-Mexico and'through the South Ameri- S >u5^can States, has completed his report > • «*= and will place it in the hands of the •••'*, :ii&Inter-Continental Commission at Wash- j -itingtoii next week. The report*will i h say that the rcheme is entirely feasi- , V« ble and that everythincr is favorable ., , <1 for the improvement. The estimated &>< cost for building road-beds and bridges * i"' is $22,000,000, and it will require ter years' work to complete the road. * • 'f;#. BREVITIES. M,: •V» V' , * DRAIN AGE-CANAI, strikers attempted " to wreck an Alton train. THE British House of Lords has ;U>:' passed the parish councils bill. THERE has been a recrudescence of cholera at Warsaw, and many deaths have occurred. RESOLUTIONS criticising Secreta-y ,,v- Morton were adopted by the National Farmers' Alliance. An address to the public va) issued. THE Philadelphia Trade League has W decided to start a popular subscription for a mcnument to George W. Childs a&d A. J. Drexel. HENBY REXKEN is paid to have em­ bezzled $15,CO) from the Farmers and Merchauts* Bank of Talmage, Neb., recently suspended. MISSISSIPPI and Louisiana were swept by a cyclone. Cna death is re­ ported at Greenville, Miss., and anoth­ er near Port Hudson, Li. LATIN placards threatening "death to rich men" were found fastened on the doors of Chauncey Eepew, As tor, Vanderbilt, and ether wealthy New. Yorkers. PROCEEDINGS have been begun against six of the largest lumber firmB of Minnesota on charges of stealing over 10.*,000,000 feet of pine from forests belonging to the State. ̂ AT Kisheneve,%the capital of Bessa­ rabia, Col. Gregorieff ha* been sen­ tenced to death by a military tribunal. Col. Gregorieff was convicted on the charge of being an Austrian spy. THE Iron Trade Review this week says: The market for soft steel has furnished further encouraging indi­ cations, the past week, and an advance of from 50 to 75 cents over the lowest prices touched has taken place. THE Alabama Kolbite Convention nominated a full State ticket as fol­ lows: Governor, Reuben F. Kolb, of Montgomery; Secretary of State, J. C. Fonvflle, of Cieashaw County; Audi­ tor, W. B. Lyneh, of Macon County; Treasurer, T. K. Jones, of Hale Coun­ ty: Superintendent of Education, J. P. Oliver, of Talapcosa County; Attorney General, Warren Reese, <*f Montgom­ ery County. - 'POUR herds of cattle in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., are foundsAo be suffering frem tuberculosis. PHILADELPHIA Grand Army posts protested against the use in the schools of Ellis' history, saying it was treason­ able in tone. : OBIIUABY : At Bloomington, ILL, Architect Henry A. Miner, aged fifty- eight. At Rome, Italy, R. M. Ballan tyne, author. At Peru, Ind., Profes­ sor Charles Hough. At Great Falls. W. H. landis, aged forty! -- . . tot the grief felt by the thOttBilfli :«rho -were in or about tw sanctuary. The ceremonies includ­ ed brief services at the house, a solemn procession on foot to the' church, where public rite* were held, and a touching eulogy delivered by the Rt. Rev. Henry B. Potter, Bishop of New York. Then came the funeral cortege to Woodlawn Cemetery, where all that was mortal of the great-heart­ ed philanthropist was laid away in the marble mausoleum of the JVexel fam­ ily, side by side with the dust of the late Anthony J. Drexel, whom he loved as one man seldom loves another. NEW YORK dispatch: After a very stormy passage the Umbria, of the Cunard Line, has arrived in port, about three days overdue in her trip from Liverpool. For a week past the weather in the transatlantic line of travel has been very rough and stormy, and high seas have ruled. All incoming ves­ sels are overdue, and some appre­ hension has been cieated. There are fourteen steamships overdue from twenty-six hours to four days. Among these are the Adriatic, of the White Star Line; la Gascogne, of the French Line: the Rhaetia, of the Hamburg- American Line: the Pennland, of the Red Star Line: the Thingvalla, of the Thingvalla Line: and the H. H. Meier, of the North German Lloyd Line. The Pennland is now seventeen days out from Antwerp. Her usual winter pas­ sage is twelve days. Every one of the fourteen belated vcssels has doubtless been caught in the storm track. WESTERN." PASTOR JONES, of a Union Grove, Ohio, negro church, was arrested for "following the vocation of prophet without a license." MUNCIE, Ind., Free Methodists stampeded through the windows of the woodshed where a revival was in prog­ ress at the cry of fire. BRIDGET RYAN, 60 years old, was found dead in a pasture near Caronde- let, Mo. She was slightly demented; and tlied from exposure. E. W. GILMER, of Warren, Ohio, was given a ver&ict of $24 against the Pullman Company for an overcoat lost during the World's Fair. JUDGE BELLINGER,- of Portland, Ore., decided that a Chinawoman, the wife of a celestial in this country, should be allowed to land. ANOTHER tinplate mill Is to be started at Summitville, Ina. It is backed by a Chicago syndicate, has a capital stock of $500,000 and will .em­ ploy 5'J0 men. AT the meeting of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union in Topeka, about forty delegates were present. Gov. Lewelling and John F. Willets delivered the addresses Of wel­ come. "Farmer" Dean, of New York, and Mann Page, of Richmond, Va.,- responded. LEVI NYE, of Nevada, Ohio, has an­ nounced his intention of beipg. buried alive for sixty days. Nye claims the power of being able to go into a trance for an indefinite period, and a coterie "of doubting citizens offered him $500 to make the burial test. He refuse^ at first, but the offer was increased and he accepted. ANOTHER such a fire as that which destroyed the Boston store and threat­ ened the business center of Omaha for a time the other evening was probably ndver fought by local firemen. At 6:45 p. m. a tiny spark was noticed falling in one of the show windows of the Boston store and at 6:50 the entire building was in a blaze. Inside the store was crowded with clerks and cus­ tomers. The third floor was occupied by a night school. There was a mad rush for the exit?. Everybody escaped alive, but a number of the girls em­ ployed in the millinery and cloak depart­ ment were badly scorched and blistered, several losing all the hair from their heads. On the west stood St. Mag4 dalena's churgh. It was quickly on fire and, like the Boston store, burned like a tar barrel. Inspector Hartman of the local Underwriters' association approximates the loss at $350,0 X). Other estimates place it as low as $275,000. SEARCHING parties are still out near Candelaria, Nev., in hopes of finding the meteor which passed over that sec­ tion on Thursday night. It is thought that it must have struck within five miles of Candelaria. The flight of the meteor was observed from nearly every city and village in Northern Califor­ nia and Nevada. At Lick observatory the passage of the fiery ball across the sky was noted, and an announcement of the fact telegraphed to Saa Franciscoa few minutes after the occurrence. Those who saw it describe it as a great ball of tire, with a comet-like tail, rushing through the air with incredible swiftness, leaving a train of sparks in its wake. Its passage produced a Bound like that made by a skyrocket when it begins its upward flight. At Candelaria it seemed to burst with a noise as if many cannons had been fired, the light disappeared, and then the earth trembled as it does in an earthquake. The pas-age through the air occupied several seconds, and the sight was a surpassingly beautiful one. Traces of its flight have be?n found near Candelaria by the searching par­ ties in the shape of broken branches of trees, shrubs, and trees torn up by the roots, and holes in the earth, made by flying pieces of the meteor as they skimmed the earth. 1st all their Iwitlt^hyv^be ' »y8 of the POLITICAL. *• . Gov. RICH notified the Michigan Board of Canvassers that they must re­ sign or submit to being removed. Gov. WAITE has triumphed over the Colorado Senators. They have agreed to consider bills tent from the House. < THE liquor bill AGREED on in the Democratic caucus was presented in both houses of the Iowa Legislature. CHAIRMAN CARTER thinks ex:Sena- tor Spooner will be , a formidable can­ didate for the(Presidential nomi«!ation. WASHINGTON. The comptroller of the currency has declared the following national batik dividends: Lloyd's National Bank df Jamestown, N. D., 15 per pent, on claims of $248,'Sl4; First Nat ional Banfc: of Brady, Texas, second dividend of 20 per cent., making in all 60 per cent, on claims of $29,952. ( THE paper currency outstanding Feb. 1 was $1,167,040,231, less $J,000,000 to be destroyed by fire. This shows an increase of $6,844,166 during the month. Outstanding Jan. 31 were: One-dollar notes, $38,249,287; $2 notes, $29,325,017; $5 notes. $243,097,079; $10 notes, $301,- 351,746: $20 notes. $238,380,620: $50 notes. $44,661,265: $1C0 notes, $84,482,170; $500 notes, $19,208,000; $1,000 notes, $80,- 496,000: $5,000notes, $14,390,000; $10,000 notes, $73,070,000. CONGRESSMAN MCGANN, of Chicago, introduced a resolution in the House directing the Judiciary Committee of House to investigate the charges made^ against Judge James G. Jenkins, of thq seventh circuit, and to report whether- they warrant the presentment of arti­ cles' of impeachment, and also report what action is necessary to prevent a recurrence of the conditions^ now laid by the injunction upon the Northern Pacific and other rail­ road employes and labor organizations.. The resolution has a long preamble< reciting the right of employs to organ­ ize and strike and Judge Jenkins' or­ der restraining the employes of thO; Northern Pacific frdm exercising this right. i FOREIGN." AT the parliamentary dinner given by Von Caprivi Emperor William urged the passage of the Russijun commer­ cial treaty. IN a conversation with Explorer Peters Emperor William said he had "long desired to gee the great Ameri­ can republic." A DISPATCH from Li: bail Fay's it is 6tat$4 on high authority that the Rothschilds are furnishing money to Admiral da Gama, the commander of the Brazilian, insurgents at Rio Ja­ neiro. A SERIOUS railroad accident is re­ ported from near Paris. The train to which the accident occurred was bound for Brussels, with a number of pa-sen- gers, and was thrown off the rails. It is announced by the railroad officials that seven people were kil'ed and twen­ ty injured by the disaster. QUEEN VICTORIA, who is temporarily sojourning at Osborne House, her resi­ dence cn the Isle of Wight, is enjoy­ ing good health. An unfounded ru­ mor in some manner gained currency and was widely di-seminated that her Majesty was dead, and from all parts of the world inquiries have been received. On Tuesday evening she gave a large dinner party at which were present Empress Frederick of Germany, the Prince and Princess of Wales ana their daughters, Pincessess "Mfctoria and Maud, and Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg. No doctor has been seen in attendance upon the Queen for some time except her household phy­ sician, Dr. James Reid, who was pres­ ent at the dinner last night. G.W. •trait* ef Paralytic L«tdi to the End of the Cantor o* the Great Philadelphia PaMhthw Henor» ttat BBs Beloved by the People. * George W. Childp, proprietor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, died at his residence from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, sustained by him two weeks previous. For some time previous to the day he was stricken Mr. Childs was overrun with work. The service at the Drexel Institute in memory of the late A. J. Drexel was to be held and Mr. Childs was particu­ larly anxious that the occasion should be in every way wor thy of his lifelong friend and companion. He busied him­ self arranging the details of the ser­ vice and as the day approached he be­ came nervous and worried. The ser­ vice was to be held Saturday, and Thursday afternoon Mr. Childs was sitting in his office at the Ledger talking with William T. Steele, his private secretary, and L F. Shepard, night editor of the paper. Suddenly Mr. Childs began to slip forward in hi-* chair and would have fallen to the floor if the two gen­ tlemen had not sprung forward and raised him up. Mr. Shepard and Mr.« Steele and Mr. Childs himself believed GSOIIOB w. CHILDS, Mdnt.f" three. WESTERN FREIGHT ASSOCIATION will be represented by five roads at the meeting to arrange a uniform system of rat3-making. A PARTY of Ch icaeo capitalists in­ spected the gold mindB at Hillsboro, N. M., and were given an informal recep­ tion by the citizens. JOHN W. MACKAY'S stepdaughter, who is Buing her husband, Prince Co- lonna, for divorce, has escaped from Paris with her three children and has sailed for America. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER is reported to have acquired complete control of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines by securing $10,0(10,000 of stock from the Merritts for $1,000,000. WHEN May wheat closed Tuesday night at 67T cents in New York it was thought that bottom had been reached. The opening price Wednesday was 67t, but inside of fifteen minutes the price fell to 67i, 674, and finally with one drep to 66?, amid the greatest ex­ citement seen in the wheat pit in years. . There was a slight reaction after the ! honest, upright, conscientious life that the attack was nothing more than vertigo. Mr. Childs lay down, and Dr. J. M. Da Costa, his family physician, was sent for. When Dr. Da Costa ar­ rived he found that Mr. Childs had had a slight stroke of paralysis, due, as the physicians have since learned, to the breaking of a ^mall blood ves­ sel in the head and the formation on the brain of a small clot of blood. Another physician was called in. The doctors at the time did not appre- prehend any fatal results, as the paralysis was slight and did not great­ ly affect his limbs, and they had a good basis to work upon in Mr. Childs' splendid constitution and orderly life. For more than a week Mr. Childs' con­ dition did not grow any worse, but on the contrary showed slight signs'of improvement. The clot of blood on the brain, however, was not absorbed, as often happans in similar cases, and after a week the g&ralvsis began to yrjeress slowly. hortly before 10 o'clock on the night of his death Mr. Childs' respiration became embarrassed and his pulse be­ gan to flag. His physicians recognized the signs of approaching dissolution, and although everything that medical science and skill could do to prolong life was done Mr. Childs sank rapidly, and at 3:01 o'clock the generous heart that beat so kindly for his fellow-men was stilled in death. Except his wife, Mr. Childs had no immediate family. Universally Liked. Few men have filled so wide a niche in modern American history as George W. Childs. He was not great in the fense that statesmen have been great; he was a follower of successful soldiers rather than their leader in the forma­ tion of public opinion. He was not a publicist in the sense that Horace Greeley was a publicist. He did not rank or pretend to rank with men like Garrison, Phillips, Everett, Lovejoy and th > old phalanx of abolitionists; and the politician's trade was wholly foreign to his nature. Mr. Childs rarely sought to lead public sentiment, and never in his career did he so dictate the pol­ icy of the Philadelphia Ledger as to make it an aggressive factor in public affairs. To profit by the accretion al­ ready gained; to build up in conserva­ tive ways and to hold on to every ele­ ment of progress and never lose a point was the chief secret of Mr. Childs' power for good. That he did a world of good nobody will deny. He ac­ quired the means to do it, and he used, it in a style of generosity peculiarly! his own. In the death of Mr. Childs Philadel­ phia loves one of the citizens of which the city was most proud and the coun­ try at large one of its best-known pri­ vate citizens. From his early boyhood Mr. Childs' life was such that it can stand as a model and example to all men for ^vhat a noble manhood and an *£MATB #<D HOUSE OF REPRFI* ' 6ENTATIVE& CHICAGO'S LOWEST RECORD BEATEN BY THE BEARS. Kanjr Dealer* Caugfet by the Macfc-Adver- tfated Ball Bald M the Grain Drop* Un­ der w Cents . for May--Stra*C People Sell Oat with Heavy JUOMMM. Took a Madden Tumble. Tuesday in 'the Chicago wheat pit was the stormiest tor a month past. The whole trade and about nine-tenths of all the people in the country are watching for wheat to take a start to­ ward $1. They saw it take a drop Tuesday. Until then the low record for May wheat in Chicago under pres­ ent trading methods was 631 cents. But the record was lowered, as horse­ men fay. There was a smash of over 1 cent in the price when it went to 62J cents and closed at 62i cents. Wall street sold wheat all day long. But Buxbaum & Co. were among the bulls reported as dumping big blocks of wheat. There was selling out by strong people, with losses ranging from 5 to 15 cents per bushel, because they saw no sign of a turn in the tide. Liv­ erpool was sick and lower, foreigners selling at New York, wheat piling up at the rate of nearly 400,OIK) bushels a day at primary markets. Contract stocks increased to nearly 19,000,000, and no demand for it, and Baltic ports shipping 3,400,000 for the week in mid­ winter. Wheatfin Chicago elevators now ex­ ceeds the great stocks drawn there by the Harpelr manipulation by over 6,000,00j bushels. Elevator people have bought the 23,000,000 bushels of wheat-there,\but speculators are car­ rying it. Commission horn co In many cases are carrying speculators. One big house gave it out that customers have wheat showing losses of 25 cents to 40 cents a bushel. The grain wa3 taken on July contracts around 75 cents early last summer. It was changed to September at about 4 cents loss, changed to Septsmber at 5 cents to 7 cents loss, changed again to December at another loss, and changed over again to May, the present specu­ lative month, making the wheat repre­ sent over $1 a bushel, whereas it is now under 61 cants. Already the changing to July next has begun. It is a dark outlock fo.* such holders, pays a Chicago correspondent. These are the things which make the recently Eublished fake about a great bull com-ination in wheat loQk vvot^etha^ri- diculous. DWIGGINS IS WANTED. To Be Taken to Fowler, Ind., on a BeqnUl- tlon. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, has is­ sued a requisition for Zimri Dwiggins, of Chicago. Dwiggins is wanted at Fowler in the proceedings there growing out of a HXBI Dwioanra legal investigation methods in Indiana. of His banking TILLMAN WILL FIGHT. final record of t6 , which is the lowest price at which May wheat has ever sold, but the market continued weak antyj^ve with unusual sales. JTARKBT REPORTS, should be. From a poor and friendless boy, beginning life as an errand boy at $2 per week, he rose through constant struggles to the position of one of the great publishers of the world and the honored and sought-for friend of emi­ nent men in all walks of life. a*;--, F H. HOWL AND, the Boston civil engineer, reported to have com- mitted suicide by jumping overboard $ from a Fall River boat, is now declared v'- N to be alive. Insurance companies charge that his disappearance was a plot to defraud them of $60,000. . THE funeral services of thej late George W. Childs. held in St. James' I Church, Philadelphia, were nojtable [ because of the extreme simplicity of, the ceremony, the presence of a host | of distinguished men from all parts of the country and the evident sincerity im: SOUTHERN. MARY VIOLA HELTON, a pretty girl 14 years old, of Charleston, W. Va., is missing. Foul play is suspected. KENTUCKIANS have purchased the Lincoln homestead, and will beau­ tify it and present it to the Govern­ ment. HARRY HILL wa* sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for forgery at At­ lanta. His?)attorneys withdrew from the case. "ALL the convicts Nira the Retrieve', plantation near Velasco, Texas, forty in number, escaped and bloodhounds are on their track. AT Savannah, Ga., the large brick block on Bay street occupied by the Savanftah Grocery Company., caught fire. It will be a total loss. A CYCLONE destroyed the Congrega­ tional Church at Gate City. Ala. Six persons were killed and fifty injured. Scarcely a building in the town escaped damage. Buildings in neighboring towns were blown down. ABOUT fifteen prisoners broke a hole in the wall of Charleston (W.~ Vrf!) jail two feet square and were prepared to crawl through it, when the jailer, Levi Jones, appeared and drove them back at the muzzle of a gun. THE carnival procession ftU New Or­ leans was unusually beautifbl and not­ ably free from accidents and violence. It waa 11 o'clock when Rex appeared. There were nineteen flo ats in the pro­ cession and probably ninety characters were necessary to assist in telling the story. The decorations were brilliant in the extreme and the costumes mo»t CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime Hoos--Shipping Grades SHEEP--Fair to Choice......... WHEAT--No. 3 Bed CORN--No. 'i OATS--ND. 2 •RYE--No. A BUTTEB--Choice Creamery Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Per bn INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping Hofis--Choice iilxht SHEEP--Common to Prime WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE.... HO«B, 0500 & 5 25 6.7 <£ 84 & 31 @U 00 w h eat-KSo." C'OBN--No. 2 ©ATS--No. 2.. 1'OB*--Meee..,.. CINCINNATI. CATTLE 3 oo & t HOGS TOO & J SHEEP...: 2 00 (ft 4 WHEAT--No. 2 Red 69 & CORN--NO. 2.... 87 «£ OATH--No. a Mixed.#1 & IiXE-No.2. ®1 & DETROIT. CATTLE..,,.... ; 8 00 Hoos.. 3 09 & t SHKSP.,,, 2 00 ® 1 WHEAT--No.4 Red fl# & CORN--No. 2 Yellow 8# OATS--No. 2 White <§ TOLEDO. WHKAT-NO. 2 Red #8 & CORN--No. 3 Yellow 86 OATS--No. 2 Wmt'e 81 0 RYE--No. 2 49 & UUF/ALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard....;........ 71 <9 COBN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No.2White ......w 88 & LIVE HOGS--Good to C hoice.... MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring '.v.ft. COKN--No.» OATS--No. 2 White RYE--No. 1 IlARLET--No. 2 PORK--Mees....... . . _ NEW YORK. - oattlb : Hoos 8 76 BBEEV.;....; 919 WHBAIW-NO. 2Red.,.. . .. , 66 Bvtrsa--Choice... »%>... 0 61 013 08 & 6 00 <0 6 25 FREDA WARD'S SLAYEl||r ' How Alice Mitchell I* Spending Her Daya In nn Aajlnm. The second anniversary of the death of Freda Ward at the hands of her girl lover. Alice Mitchell, has passed away. Just two yeai*s ago Miss Mitch* ell killed Freda near' the Custom House in Memphis, Tenn., and for this crime she was tried, but upon her in­ sanity being established she was sen­ tenced to the West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane located near Bolivar. Here the life of the prisoner haa passed uneventfully. She rises at 6:30 o'clock every morn­ ing and puts her own room in order, though ndt obliged to do it. She has breakfast--and she usually eats a hearty meal--at 7:30, aids the attend­ ants in cleaning up if she feels dis­ posed, reads a little, and talks and plays games with these of the iiatients who arc sane enough to join in such diversions. Dinner is served at 12:30, and in the afternoon, if the weather is fine, the patien'sare taken for a walk over the grounds. After the walk and on rainy afternoons Alica devotes her­ self almost exclusively to the practice of music. She is organist in the chapel, takea great interest in the hos­ pital Sunday-school, and is considered the best scholar in the Bible class. Dr. Douglass, the superintendent, says that, mentally, Alice is much im- Eroved since she entered the asylum, ut he refutes to give au opinion a3 to whether she is sane enough to bo re­ leased. In point of fact, ii is doubtful if the girl ever leaves the asylum, even though she may never evince another symptom of insanity. She has proved herself possessed of a homicidal mania, and nublio opinion will demand thai •he be kept whero a possible recur­ rence of it cannot work harm to other*. South Carolina's Governor Will Snppree* Illicit Whisky Selling. "If these people want to get up a bloody riot, I am willing: I'll give them all they want of it," said Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, talking about the dispensary trou­ bles in Charleston. I have as many constables as the ejlice force o f harleston, and if it is necessary they will be armed with Winchester rifles, and they will be backed up by the police fo: ca of the city. I want these people to understand once and for all that I propose to eee that the laws of the State are upheld, even if we have to kill a few cut-throat.s and bulldozers. I am making no threat, but I am sim­ ply warning them. I am ready to go ahead if they are. I am going to carry out the law and supprt si the sale of liquor in Charleston if I have to call out all the military. All I want to say is that no amount of bluffing and big talk and killing even will stop roe in mv efforts to enforce the law. That law will have to te obeyed. I will stop illicit whisky selling: in Charleston if it takes all the military and constables in the State to do it." FATAL GAS EXPLOSION. Arowed from Sleep wad Executed Wlthla Twenty Second*--Great Excitement la the French Capital Over tho Kxeentkm--He Showed Wonderful Nervn. VAILLANT. Hie Head In the Basket. With the cry of "Death to the bour­ geoisie! Long live anarchy ln Auguste vaillant, the anarchist who threw the bomb in the French Chamber of Depu­ ties, i aid the penalty of his crime. He was awakened by the of­ ficers at 7 o clock in the morning and told to prepare lor death. He appeared to be surprised, and began t> reiterate the the­ ories he advanced befoi o the Assize court. He declared that though it wai easy to suppress him, it was impossible to suppress anarchistic ideas. "My body is nothing," he added, "compared with the progte83 of principle3. I shall be revenged." Vaillant was perfectly calm and displayed no fear whatever. As he appeared outside the prison everybody bared their headjB and the troops presented arms. Vaillant ad­ vanced steadily. When about eighty yards outside the prison he sprang for­ ward a little to shout: "Death to the bourgeoisie;* long live anarchy." It has been customary for the execu­ tioner's assistants to push the con­ demned criminals against the plank, but as Vaillant reached it he sprang forward and placed himself against it. The plank dropped and Vaillant's neck slipped under the glistening knife, and the moment he was inposition Deibler touched the spring. There was a flash VAXLX.AHT feBADisra HIS ADDRESS JURY. GOV. TILLMAN. Bnlldlnjr Wrecked and Whole Family Meet Death at Indianapolis. At 1 o'clock Wednesday morning in Indianapolis an explosion of natural gas demolished the house at 600 Madi­ son avenue, occupied by Louis Keuhler, his wife and four children. Rosa Keuhler, a 12-year-old daughter, was killed outright and the rest were far tally injured. They are Louis Keuhler, Mrs. Keuhler, his wife, and three sons, Louis, Jr.; Julius and Charles. The house was a two-story brick and was blown to pieces. The cause of the natural gas explosion is not known. The ruins were immediately enveloped in flames. The fire department was called out. but it was an hour before the last of the injured were extricated from the wreck. Julius and Charles died soon after. The other boy and the parents cannot recover It is sup­ posed that the gas had accumulated in the cellar, and rinding its way through the floor above ignited at a "gas jet or an open fire-place. • Notes of Current Event*. FRENCHMEN are alarmed to find that there is a sharp decline in the thrift of the republic. INCANDESCENT lights started a blaze in Omaha, Neb., which did about $300,- 000 worth of damage. GOING to the defense of his mother, deaf and dumb .lamej Thompson killea his father at Columbus, Gal MR. BLAND introduced in the House a bill providing for the coinage Of sil­ ver bullion in the treasury. MHS. LOUISA R. KENT, widow of a Colonel in the war cf 1812. died at Chi­ cago. She was 94 years old. a? the heavy knife descended, and an­ archist Vaillant was dead. Between the time of Vaillant's arri­ val at the guillotine and the closing of the basket containing his remains scarcely more than twenty seconds elapsed. Daibler, the executioner, who has received many letters threatening him with death if he executed Vail­ lant, and who at one time wished to re­ sign his position rather than to put the anarchist to death, appeared paler and more nervous than Vaillant. Within two minutes after the knife fell Vail­ lant's body was taken to the Ivry cem­ etery. " ROPE IS PLACED BY A WOMAN. Mob at Lebanon, Ind., Almost Succeeds in Lynching Frank Hall. Frank Hall, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Akers at Lebanon, Ind., had a narrow escape fr^m lyrching. The mob even succeeded in securing pos­ session of him long enough to get a rope around his neck, before the offi­ cers succeeded in dragging the prisoner into the courtroom, b her iff Troutman brought Hall back to Lebanon from In­ dianapolis for a hearing. As soon as it became known that Hall was in the city, a mob led by farmers from the vicinity where the assault was com­ mitted attacked the jail, but were re­ pulsed by the Sheriff and his small posse. Prosecutor Dutch mounted the jail steps and begged of the mob to allow the law to take it? course. He said that he would vigorously prose­ cute the negro. About 1 o'clock Judge j Neal ordered Sheriff Troutman to bring the prisoner into the court. The Sheriff and passe came out the front j door of the jail and down the Bteps to the sidewalk. There Mrs. Akers and her friend, Mrs. Hattie Taylor, met them, and, assisted J>y the now furi­ ous mob, Mrs. Taylor placed the rope aronnd Hall's neck. Revolver and knives were drawn, but citizens came to the sheriff's rescue and after a twenty minutes' struggle, in which several persons were hurt, Hall was dragged into the courtroom. Judge Neal ordered the sheriff, if necessary, to deputize a thousand men. Quiet being restored the prisoner was ordered to stand up and plead. In a trembling voice be plead­ ed guilty and was sentenced to twenty- one years in Northern State s prison. Surrounded by 100 deputies, Sheriff Troutman made a rush with the pris­ oner for tho Big Four depot, and the prisoner was placed aboard the train. Accompanied by twenty of the Sher­ iff's posse, the negro then started for Michigan City. Oar National Law-Makers mad What TBM9 Are Doing for the Good of th*Coanti$& tyrtcNM Measures Midi Acted Vpmi, May Order a Big Strike. CIPHER advices from the chiefs of the Federated Northern Pacific em­ ployes at St. Paul indicate that a strike will be ordered if there is no change in the situation soon. Notes of Current Events. JAMES JONES and Tom Fry, negrce^, were both desperately wcunded in a fight near Danville, Ky. H. B. TILLINGHAST, a Toledo travel­ ing man, was stricken with paralysis on the street at Lima, Ohio. ENGLAND'S fear of war is dying out, and the public is no longer absorbed with vague rumors of conflict. SUIT was brought against ex-County Treasurer Cashman at Greeley Cen­ ter, Neb., for $39,000, his alleged shortage. LAND sharks at Duluth, Minn., are alarmed at the investigation under way by Special Inspector Swineford. MR. MATHEWS, of Stillwater, Minn., knocked down Attorney Fayette Marsh, who tried to secure some papers. AFTER Feb. 4 the Union Pacific wil;. abandon trains via the Gulf route, and will reach Denver via Cheyenne. JAMES BGAN, a laborer, was killed at a grade crossing at Massillon, Ohio. He leaves a wife and six children. EDWARD BLAKE, Canadian member of the Imperial Parl.'ament, ad&ressed a largo meeting at Boston on homt rule Doings of Congress. The federal elections repeal Mil OCCSK pled the whole of Monday in the Senator' Senator Chandler Co •eluded bis speech.! -- Which had extended through two or three1 weeks, and was followed by Senator Palmer, who argued that the law having en­ tirely fatted of its purpose and: being generally obnoxious should W repealed. An animated controversy of •be-. franchise qualifications of th» Stale constitutions of Mississippi ana Massachusetts took place between Senators Frye and Hoar on one side and Senator* Gray and Bate on the other. The Hawaiian debate occupied the attention of tbe House, a night session being held to permit speeches by thoae members who de­ sired to talk, but \fbo otherwise would not have had an opportunity to do so on account of the limited time allowed. Representative Warner (Dem.,; N. Y.) introduced a bill for *,n elastic Currency. It contains many of the provisions of the bill which was report* ed by the sub-committee on banking and currency as a measure lor repeal of the 10- per-cent, tax on State banks. Contcrem- man McGann tried to secure consideration of a resolution favoring impeachment of Judge Jenkins for issuing his famous in­ junction restraining tho employes of Northern Pacific Railroad from striking. 1 An echo of the recent act of Judge Jos­ kins' court in relation to the Northern Pa­ cific Railroad strikers was heard in tbe Senate Tuesday when Senator Allen Intro­ duced a bill having for its purpose "the prevention of the abuse of the writ of In­ junction." The bill provides that it shall be unlawful for any court of the United States, or Judge thereof, to issue a writ of injunction, mandate, or restraining order against any labor organization. Its officers or members in any manner affeOt- lng their full freedom to peacefully and quietly quit Ihe service of any person or corporation at any tluie they may see proper to do so. The Senate did not come to a vote on the Federal election' bill,, as was anticipated. Several Senators, who had not hiiherto spoken, de­ sired an opportunity to be heard on the measure, and by unanimous consent the time of general debate was extended until 3 o'clock Wednesday. The House, without the Intervention of any other business except the reference of some unimportant bills, took np the consideration of tho resolution of the foreign affairs committee censur­ ing Minister Stevens, and Mr. Ontb- waite (Dem.). of Ohio, addressed the House. The Hawaiian debate was concluded, but the McCreary resolution was not passed ^because of the failure of the Democrats to secure a quorum when a vote was taken upon it The Hitt substitute, the Blair amendment, and the motion made by Mr. Reed to recommit were In turn voted down. When the vote came to be taken upon the main question, the Democrats lacked seventeen of a quorum. After several weeks of discussion tfce Senate Wednesday finally came to a vote on the bill repealing all the Federal laws regulating the control of Oongresslona'* elections, and it passed by a vote of ft. yeas to 28 nay a. Numerous amendments were presented by the Be publicans, but they were voted down. By a vote of 178 to 57 the House adopted the resolu­ tion condemning Minister Stevens and sus­ taining the Hawaiian policy of Mr. Cleve­ land. Upon the first vote the resolution was carried, 174 to 3. and an interesting parliamentary question was raised as to whether 177 instead of 179 was not a quo­ rum, four seats being vacant on account ef deaths. The Speaker held that a majority of the members chosen and living constitu­ ted a quorum. The Boutelle resolution was defeated by a strict party vote. Mr. Blafid of Missouri then made an attempt to get up his bill for the coinage of the seigniorage in the treasury. The Eastern Democrats, led by Messrs. Tracey and Cockran. inaug. urated a filibuster, in which they were joined by the majority of the Republicans. ^ and for four hours Mr. Bland and the re- ** mainder of the Democrats were held at ' f bey. | In the Senate Thursday Senator Perkins £ of California presented memorials of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce pray- £ ing for the annexation of Hawaii, the lay- 5| Ins? of a cable from the United States to gj Hawaii, and for tho completion of tbe N!e» 1 aragua canal under government control. i; A memorial -of the wool growers against the Wilson bill was presented by Senator ^ Sherman.' Senator Wolcott presented, |i without reading several amendments to J the Wilson tariff bill. After the morning | hour the resolution of Senator Stewart de- nying the right of the Secretary of the £ Treasury to issue tbe United States bonds j and questioning their validity came up J as the regular order: The mem- ^ orlftl resolution In memory of Rep* resentatlve Mutchier. of Pennsylvania, who died at the beginning of tbe present g Congress, was then presented. Adresses | were delivered by Senators Quay of Penn- ^ sylvanla. Mitchell of Wisconsin, Haas- brough of North Dakota, and several oth- ? ers. and the Senate adjourned until Mon- * ; day. In the House the deadlock on Mr. Bland's silver seigniorage bill was broken after four hours of continuous filibustering, when, by a vote of 176 to 4, the House went into the committee of tbe whole for consideration of the bill. On the final vote sixteen Republicans and all the a populists voted aye. while twenty-two -3 Damocr.ats who were present refused to ^ vote. A bill from the joint committee on expenditures in the departments to make g uniform the methods of accounting In tbe > departments was taken up and passed. | Friday the entire day In the House was consumed in debate on the Bland all vet s seigniorage bill, the speakers being Messrs | Bland, C. W. Stone of Pennsylvania. Mc- ] Kelghan. Harter. and Kilgora After | some unimportant routine business, on motion of Mr. Bland, the House went into committee of the whole for the consider- | ation of the bill Mr. Bland explained | in a few vords that he had never agreed to i | the striking out of the second section of this $ bill, which provides for the coinage of all 4 the bullion In tbe treasury. Aside from | the question of raising revenue he re- garded the second section as more Im­ portant than the first. Mr. McKelgban | made a freo silver argument. A gold g basis and a high tariff, he said, was discriminating againat the west In the interest of the East. "If I had tbe power." he said. «I would strike down tbe § tariff that protects the East and force It into competition with the West, as tbe f East forces us Into contpetitlon. » Mr Har- ^ ter, of Ohio, then took the floor In opposl- 1 tlou to the bllL Mr. Kilgore, of Texas. % who made tbe concluding argument of the 4 afternoon, contended that if the Govern- ment wai In need of money It was betbt* . S to coin the silver seistniorage than borrow J money and pay interest upon the loan. J How She Could Please Him. .<4 Aunt--I wish to do something to please you on your birthday, Charlie, but first I want to ask your teacher | how you behave at school. ?i Charlie--If you really wish to plesso me, auntie, don't ask him. •'> An Old Odd Fellow. John Hill, of Derby, England, who Is nearly 91 years old, was initiated into Prince Edward Lodge of Odd Fel­ lows Christmas Day, 1823, and is prob­ ably the oldest living member of tho order. •' 8TATE RANKS AND PRODUCT®* MICHIGAN is first in copper, salt and lumber, second in iron, third In snectfV fifth ir^hops, sixth in wheat. GEORGIA sends out every year about 1,000,000 bales of cott n, and cuts every yeai 200-,00u,000 feet of lumber. MISSOURI is first in mules, third in hogs and corn, sixth in iron and horses, seventh in oats, ninth in sheep. MAINE ha? 20.000 square miles ot pine forests. The lumber industry, sends out 400,000,600 feet a year. NEW JERSEY is first in silk manu­ factures and zinc, fourth in. iron, sixth "-•j- ' '1^! •*: - jr.;*. fwijmim i:SaSss MmWsi