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mltted suicide in the company room m the armory building in Pit^burg, Thursday night. He loaded a musket, stood it on the floor, and with a stick, on which a nail had been fixed pulled the trigger. As he did so he leaned over the gun. The bullet entered his breast and passed out between the shoulder blades. He fell dead just as the members of the company broke into the room. The suicide left orders about the disposal of his body, but gave no hint as to the cause of the deed. A special cable dispatch from London to the New York Sun says that the d^d- lock, which has been known in Europe as the concert of powers, is broken and the Turk is to be coerced. The Sultan is to be reduced in fact if not actually in name to the vassalage. His fate will be made known jto him at once. Russia. France and Great Britain have decreed it. Should he resist or fail to bow at once to tlte inevitable, then the combined fleets of those three powers v^jll enforce their behest. Such, in brief, is/"the in­ finite!^ welcoriie news which ^\\\ bring relief and a sense of restored ^elf-respect to the whole Christian world/ the Secretary's report and they declare that It is a gross violation of the courte­ sies between the executive and legislative branches of the government. While many of the members of. Congress admit that the seed business is in some cases ridicu­ lous arid generally only a political man­ euver, tbey say it is not becoming in an executive officer to fill up his report with arguments for or against any law, but that on the contrary his whole duty is to execute the laws as he finds them, leav­ ing to Congress to assume the responsi­ bility for the enactment of the statutes. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S HOME AT PRINCETON, N. J CONGRESS IN ACTION J. YAH SLYKE, Editor and Pub. BOTH HOUSES CONVENE, WITH THE GALLERIES PACKED. ILLINOIS. [cHENRY. INHERITS A MILLION. Diplomatic Representatives of Othet Nations Among Those Who Attend the Opening Ceremonies--Reading of President's Message. GRAND FORTUNE OF A HANNI BAL, MO., MAN. 8olons Reassemble. Washington correspondence: The reassembling of Congress for the closing session of the Fifty-fourth Con­ gress was an occasion of unusual bril­ liancy and interest. The opening day is always a gala affair, marking as it-does the official inauguration of the sodal as well as the political season in Washington, but Monday it was all the more interest­ ing because Of the long and hard fought political battle that had been waged dur­ ing the recess. Proceedings of the Senate. The Senate began the second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress with crowded galleries and with that accompaniment of activity and of greeting that usually attends the reassembling of Congress. But the upper branch of Congress never puts aside its dignity, arid the meeting developed no demonstrations of dramatic incidents. The reading of the President's message was the feature of the proceedings, aud beyond this no attempt was made to enter upon the business of the session. To inn.ay of the foreign representatives occu­ pying the diplomatic gallery the paessage had special interest and significance,.ow­ ing to the part they had taken in the con­ spicuous foreign events to Which the Pres­ ident referred. Sir Julian PaUncefote, the British ambassador, and the new Turkish minister, Mous.tapha Bey, were present. Senor Dupuy De Lome, the Spanish minister, was not in attendance during the day, but two of the secretaries of the Spanish legation carefully noted the references to the Cuban conflict. Min­ ister Hatch of Hawaii and Mr. Cooper, the Hawaiian minister of foreign affairs, were listeners, although the jnessage con­ tained no reference to the Hawaiian isl­ ands. The diplomatic gallery was vacated as soon as the foreign questions referred to in the message had been read. On the floor of the'Senate printed copies of the message were distributed and these gave the Senators opportunity to read the salient features instead of listening to them. As a result there was scant atten­ tion after the reading had proceeded be­ yond the first half hour. The reading of the message covered one hour and fifty minutes and at its conclusion the Senate adjourned. , Proceedings of the House. While the scenes attending the opening of the House were both brilliant and in­ teresting in the crowds that thronged the galleries and the conspicuous personages present, the proceedings themselves were dull arid spiritless, being distinctively routine. The House met, the chaplain invoked the divine blessing on the work of the session, the roll was called, a com­ mittee consisting of Mr. Cannon of Illi­ nois, Mr. Payne of New York and Mr. Turner of Georgia was appointed to wait on the President and the latter's annual communication was read. -^Before the Tuesday- session closed the House had passed three bills and the first of the Regular supply bills--that for pen­ sions;' . One of the bills provided for the use of private mailing cards of the same general size and character as the present postal cards, when 1 cent stamps are :affixed, Another provided for limited in­ demnity' of $10 for the loss of registered mail matter and the third provided that on the application of twenty persons re­ ceiving their mail at the same office the postmaster shall appoint such persons as are willing to undertake the collection and delivery of mails at the charge not to exceed 1 cent for each'letter, and that the charge shall be paid by the bene­ ficiaries. The pension bill carries $141,- 203,880, about $75,000 less than the law for the current year. The notice of the opening of a Cuban discussion was about the only feature of interest developed at the brief session of the Senate. In the Senate Wednesday the prayer of Rev. Dr. Milburn made PlOfltiie,^t..x%fer- 2fcfcjBK>r- You will never find it. by w booms. Experience proves tliet face, combined with sufficient !he enough to irsure strength and jhriiVg'it within the reach ot ali^0f [successful Heating Stove. he The French cabinet favors decorating Sarah Bernhardt with the insignia of the Legion of Honor. The report that Colombia is -about to seize Corn Island is still persistently circulated. The press of Bogota urges the government to proceed not only with the occupation of Corn Island, but to follow this action by the seizure of the whole Mosquito territory. Colombia has long claimed this territory as her own. Delegate Palma.at New York received a letter, dated Nov. 8, from Gen. Calixto Garcia, confirming the news of the death of Maj. Winchester D. Osgood, the Cor­ nell student. Special correspondence of the New York Herald gives the following details: Osgood commanded a Cuban battery during the recent siege of thie town of Guaimaro. On the second "day of the siege, while Maj. Osgood, under heavy fire from the Spaniards, was train­ ing one of his pieces on the forts, a Mauser bullet- struck him in the fore­ head. He uttered the word, "Well," and, bending forward on his cannon, hugged it aud breathed his last in behalf of Cuban liberty. The news of his death deeply impressed President Cisneros and the commanding officers, all Of whom had great regard for the American officer. Young Osgood was the son of a United, S.tates army officer, who was until re­ cently stationed at St. Louis, Mo. Os­ good entered Cornell in the fall of 188S and became a star .oarsmen, foot-baal player, and all~arouiijj| athlete. The Havana, Cuba, correspondents of Madrid journals are indignant at the re­ fusal of Gen. Weyler'-s press censor to allow them to cable the facts to Madrid, and they say if Gen. Weyler continues his present efforts to conceal the truth from the people of Spain, who are mak­ ing so many sacrifices to supply the nec­ essary sinews'of war, lie is doomed to early recall and personal disgrace. The representatives of the Liberal ancl the Heraldo of Madrid find themselves com­ pelled, owing to the ridiculously rigid censorship at Havana, to send the bulk of their dispatches to Key West for transmission therefrom. The Lucha, in a significant editorial, makes between the lines a most vigorous protest, warning Gen. Weyler that neither politicians nor generals who would be popular and suc­ cessful must forget that the press is often mightier than the sword and cannot be trampled upon or snubbed with impunity, that the whole world respects it, and that no hand, however despotic or arbitrary, can absolutely control it. Unwritten vic­ tories add little luster even to a soldier's glory. The Estates Are ^Located in'England-- . Providence,, Rochester and Denver Report Large and Disastrous Fail* ores--Canada Wants Independence. Minnie Williams, alias Jennie Web­ ster, alias Mollie Scott, a notorious Chi­ cago pickpocket, shoplifter, and all around crook, is under arrest at Louisville, Ivy. She is held to answer for robbing Sher­ iff Craycroft of $1(55 while caressing hini on the street-. There are other charges. The owners of the American schooner James G, Swan have lost their case be­ fore the United States District 'Court at Seattle, Wash., and will be compelled to forfeit the vessel for violating the se sl­ ing laWfe. The, case is already a rioted one, as it is the first time an American schoqper lias been forfeited for illegal sealing by an American court. The Indiana Supreme Court in the c«sc of William A. Harrison, for the heirs, against Arr.brcse P. Stanton, executir of the will of John Herron, affirmed tho action of th> l^wer court in dismissing the suit brought 1O contest llerrou's wUl. The will gave the bulk of an estate, val­ ued at $200.0?K; to the Ait Association of Indianapolis, with small bequests to char­ ities and to intimate friends. Two more important inventions have been scored by Grant Brambel, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., who soldv patent rights for his rotary engine for $1,000,000. One is an automatic air-brake coupler, a sim­ ple piece of mechanism, which is said to do away with the rubber coupling be- tweeeu cars. The other is his arcodescent electric system, which permits, it is claim­ ed, two separate currents from one arma­ ture and commutator. E. C. Potter, of Chicago, and A. H. Butler, the promoters of the proposed new steamship line to the Orient, met a number of the influential citizens of San Diego, Cal., when Potter gave an outline of their plans. He proposed to organize a company with a capital of from $3,000,- 000 to $8,000,000 to build fast steamers of the most modern type to ply between San Diego and Yokohama and Hong- Kong, via Honolulu. A committee be­ gan to get subscriptions to stock and met with extraordinary success. Announcement is made at Kansas City, Mo., of a, land deal involving 400,000 acres in Hali, Briscoe and Donley Coun­ ties, Texas, on the line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. The purchas­ ers are Snider and Zimmerman, Kansas Uity men, whcTare prominent on the Live Stock Exchange, and the deal is said to represent about half a millior. dollars. The laud is known as the "Shoe-Bar" ranch. Included in the purchase are 20,000 head 'of cattle. A tract of 100,000 acres is purchased outright and the re­ maining 360,000 acres secured by lease, subject to purchase. A disastrous wreck occurred Monday morning near Storr's station on the Bal­ timore and Ohio Southwestern Railway, in which two persons were killed and a number injured. 4 The trains which col­ lided were an accommodation from Coch­ ran, Ind., and a special made up of a pas­ senger coach and two private cars, carry­ ing the general officers of the road, who were starting out to make an inspection of the line. The engineer and conductor of a special had orders to follow fifteen minutes behind a preceding regular train and to keep out of the way of the accom­ modation, which had the right of way. The special stopped at Storr's, where it should have waited, but the engineer and conductor both forgot their orders aud pulled out. When three-quarters of a mile west of Storr's the trains came to­ gether. There was a fog which prevented seeing clearly, so neither engineer sus­ pected collision until the Chock. The killed are Engineer John Price, Firemau Homer Dixon, and L. Zepernich. WASHINGTON. STATISTICS OF THE MINT. service, to utilize our naval militia, to enlist still other men and to purchase supplies that may be needed. Until Congress shall legislate upon this subject and give such au­ thority as that herein Indicated, it cannot be said thkt our Government Is in condition, as it should be at all times, to meet emer­ gencies as they may arise. , Dircetor Preston Gives Facts About the Precious Metals. The report of R. E. Preston, the Di­ rector of the Mint, shows the operations of the mints and assay offices during the fiscal year 1S90. ^ • The original gold bullion deposited at the mints and assay offices during the year was valued at $08,709,383. The original silver bullion deposited repre­ sented a coinage value of $11,672,077. The purchases of silver bullion for sub­ sidiary coinage was 184,578 fine ounces, costing $122,429. The coinage executed at the mints dur­ ing the fiscal year was as follows: Gold, $58,878,490; silver dollars, 7,500,882; sub­ sidiary silver, $3,939,819; minor coins, $869,337; total, $71,188,52S. There was a Jotal cOiuage under the act of July 14, 1890, up to Nov. 1, 1896, of $5\J,306,876, with a seigniorage of $13,304,034; leaving on liund at the mints a balance of 125,- 001.262 fine ounces, costing $112,865,625. ', The average London price of silver bul­ lion during the fiscal year was equivalent to $0.68005; the New York price was $0.68491t and the average price at the par of exchange was $0.67588. The high­ est quotation during the year was equiv­ alent to $0.70204, the lowest quotation $0.66081. The commercial ratio of gold to silver was 1 to 30.58 and the bullion value of a United States silver dollar at the yearly average price was $0.52262. The employment of precious metals in the industrial arts in the United States during the calendar year 1895 was: Gold, $13,429,085; silver, $12,277,024. The metallic stock in the United States on Julv 1, 1896, was: Gold, $599,597,- 954; silver. $628,728,071; a total of $1,- 228,326,035. The estimated production of the precious metals in the United States during the calendar year 1S95 was: Fine Commercial Coining Metals. ounces. value. value. Gold 2,254.709 §46,610,000 $46,610,000 Silver 55,727,000 •' 36,445,000 72,051,000 The estimated production of gold and silver in the world for the calendar year 1895 was as follows: Fine Commercial Coining Metals. ounces. value. value. Gold ... 0,604,640 $200,400,000 $200,406,000 Silver ..168,308,353 110,073.700 217,540,800 The total coinage of gold and silver by the various countries of the world was as follows: Gold, $231,087,438; silver, $121,610,- 219; total, $352,697,657. The total metallic stock and uncovered paper in the world was estimated on Jan. 1, 1896, to be as follows: Gold, $4,143,- 700,000; full legal-tender silver, $3,616,- 700,000; limited-tender silver, $620,200,- 000; total metallic stock. $8,3SO,600,000; uncovered paper, $2.558,000,000; grand total, $10,938,600,000. REPORT ON PENSION AFFAIRS. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reviews the Work. The report of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds for the present year shows the policy pursued in the adminis­ tration of pension affairs. The Assistant Secretary says: "The liberal and gen­ erous spirit which prompted the enact­ ment of the pension laws has been the guide of the department in their "construc­ tion. Former adjudications have not, been disturbed, save when fraud, error in law or mistake was apparent." • Figures are cited to show the^significant; reduction of pending cases and to dem­ onstrate that, for the first time in eight years, the work of the office during the last year was devoted to considering cur­ rent appeals. The action of the Commis­ sioner of Pensions was reversed in 2,066, of the cases ruled. Suggestion is again made as to the advisability of such legislation as will lodge in the Federal Courts the right of any one, on behalf ol the Governirient, to ask better protection to the pension fund of those laboring under legal disa­ bilities. It is suggested that justice demands the universal application of the common-law rule in proof of marriage. State laws govern, and lead to denial of title in cases which are equally meritorious. It is claimed pensionable rights of minor children, whose claims come under the act of June 27, 1890, should be defined with more certainty where the soldier dies leaving no widow surviving. The act of Aug. 5, 1892, relates to Py^j sionable title of those women who serl §• as nurses 'during the war of the rill i lion. Title is confined to those v I f served in regimental, post, camp or s M eral hospital. The refusal of the V | r Department to recognize those as pr [ J erly employed who served in the fi | j three classes mentioned tends to def | ( their title and renders this portion of 1 act nugatory. Attention is invited to ti < in order that proper legislation may | , enacted to relieve any deserving clai E 1 ants of an unjust aud unintentional c| J crimination. a | All danger from flood Is believed to be past at Chippewa Falls, Wis. Key West, Fla., passengers by steamer from Havana say a train with 500 wound­ ed Spanish soldiers arrived there Friday, It wiis said that most of them came from the vicinity of San Christobal and Can- delaria. Postmaster General Wilson has check­ ed the operations of an enterprise that has been sending insulting and threaten­ ing letters broadcast by issuing a fraud order against the Western Letter Broker­ age Company, of 27 24th place, Chicago. The concern claims to possess a host of compromising medical letters and isa lieu of the demanded €ee threatens to d« liver the letters to scheming blackmailer*. The famous Topolobampo commufiistic colony in Sinaloa, Mexico, must be num­ bered among the socialistic failures. For nearly eight years &e colony has been struggling for existence, and now the Mexican Government has struck a blow which will end the great experiment. It has revoked one of the most important concessions given to Albert R. Owen, for­ merly of New Jersey, the founder of the colony, and the early dissolution of the community must result. The annual report of R. E. Preston, the Director of the Mint, states there is no doubt that the silver coins of the United States are now being counterfeited, ex­ actly similar to the genuine in size, weight, and devices. Some of these coins cannot be distinguished from the genuine even by experts. A dnngerous counter­ feit silver half dollar has made its ap­ pearance in the East and West, the weight of which is 192 grains, with a fineness of .867%, while the weight of the genuine.is 192.9 grains of tho fineness of .900. The profit to the counterfeiter is now about 100 per cent. So far the best known protection against the counter­ feiting of coins has been found to be the lettering placed on the edges, similar to that on the first coinage of the United States or the 5-franc pieces of France. The Director recommends that authority be given the Secretary of the Treasury to have experiments made to determine the best means of preventing the counter­ feiting, or at least minimizing the danger. Eight hundred deaths from the plague are reported in the Bombay district of India. At Keswick, Cal., an explosion of gas­ oline resulted in the burning of twelve men. Father J. J. Harty, of St. Louis, is be­ ing urged for Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile. .< C. D. Perrine, of Lick Observatory, has discovered a new comet in the constella­ tion of Pisces. DeWitt E. West, wanted in Chicago on a charge of embezzlement, has been arrested at San Antonio, Tex. Advices from Chili announce the death of Yincente Davil Lorrain, a noted poli­ tician and former minister. The treasury of Bolivia is said to be in a lamentable condition, and the Bolivian Congress has authorized the government to raise the import duties 24 per cent. It? is said that public sentiment in Venezuela strongly, opposes the accept­ ance of the boundary treaty, because of the fifty-year occupation clause. It is possible that the whole work of Secre­ tary Olney will be futile. The Independence Club of Canada, which has been in existence in Montreal for some five months and whose object is the attainment of Canadian independ­ ence, is gaining in strength, and a con­ vention will probably be held next March with a view to federating all the groups and clubs having a like object. Members eay the movement is rapidly gaining ground, especially in the rural districts. Israel D. Higgins has been arrested on the charge of falsifying the records of a •national bank at Ponca, Neb., in 1893, land isvheld at Nevada, Mo., pending the issuance of an order of removal. Higgins filled the position of assistant cashier, ;and when the bank failed was indicted Bor falsifying his account. He left the •State and was only recently located in iTerico, where he had lived with his iwife. The German and Dutch consulates at ;Lorenzo Marques, Portuguese South Af­ rica, have been attacked and a British •flag was torn to shreds. The Dutch con- Bui was wounded. Germany has, in con­ sequence, demanded satisfaction of Por­ tugal. The German warship Condor is on her way from Port Natal to Lorenzo Marques. I . The Superintendent of the New York Building Department reports that 3,200 buildings in that city are unsafe, and de- Aares that every day he expects "to hear of some awful .calamity caused by the falling of buildings." Spain has either weakened on Cuba or else is playing the old game of promises * so strong as .to deceive President Cleve- ' land into keeping his hands off. It is " given out at Washington from what ap- ! pear to be Spanish sources that not only ' is it true that Secretary Olney has fixed j a specific date for the pacification of the island, but that Spain has already agreed , to accept the mediation of the United i States if the war is not substantially ] ended by that time. Secretary Carlisle Monday transmitted 1 to the Speaker of the House of Repre­ sentatives the estimates of appropriations required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. They are recapitulated by titles as follows, cents being omitted: Legislative establishment $4,379,820 Executive establishment 19,865,052* Judicial establishment 907,120 Foreign intercourse 2,082,728 Military establishment 24,292,636 Naval establishment 32,434,773 Indian affairs 7,279,525 Pensions 141,328,580 Public works 31,437,061 Postal service 1,288,334 Miscellaneous 36,344,210 Permanent annual appropriations' 120,078,220 Total $421,718,970 The estimates for the present fiscal year amounted to $418,091,073, and the appropriations, including deficiencies and miscellaneous amounted to $432,421,605. The second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress was called to order at noon Monday, the Senate by Vice President Stevenson and the House by Speaker Reed. Exactly at noon the Vice Presi­ dent entered the chamber, and, going to the desk of the presiding officer, gave a tap, which brought the Senate to order, while the blind chaplain, Rev. Dr.' Mil- burn, delivered an impressive invocation. The roll call showed seventy Senators present. In the House, amid all the hurry and bustle, there was an air of sad­ ness air-members glanced at the black pall which covered the conspicuous desk of the late ex-Speaker Crisp, tho Demo­ cratic leader. On it were some cut flow­ ers. His portrait in the lobbylin the rear of the House was also wreathed with calla lilies. After the President's mes­ sage had been read, adjournment was had. Secretary Morton has again thrown down the gauntlet to the members of Con­ gress over the seed question. He ihas in­ corporated in his report a special com­ munication of how Congressmen dispose of the seeds which are allotted to them aud he lias even gone so far as to mention them by name. Most of them have dis-, tributed their seeds around among coin- try newspapers, agricultural societies. Grand Army posts, public officials, and chairmen pf local political committees. The members of Congress are much wrought up over this curious additibn to Represents the true and logicaof 1 have a larger assortment ithan ever before, and respecj™" them. It is no trouble to air. themselves. lion Now if you are contemplative ptove, R uge or Heater, don't^b] buying an inferior stove. Th|Ver. item now to all, and 1 can savfead Respectfully;;"111 MAY SUCCEED WEYLER. SAYS NAVY IS INSUFFICIENT. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 t# $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 30c to 40c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes, per bushel,• 20c to 30c; broom corn, common green to fine brush, 2%c to 5%c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2;00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 89c to 91c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 43c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, 38c to,40c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 96c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c t(£ 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 39c to 40c; clover seed, $5.25 to $5.35. * Milwaukee-Tr-Wheat, No. 2 spring, 78c to 80c; corn, No; 3, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley, No. 2, 30c to 34c; rye, No. 1, 40c to 42c; pork, mess, $6.50 to $7.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 97c to 98c; corn; No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 87c to 89c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 15c to 25c; eggs. West­ ern, 20c to 25c. * IiIEUT.-GEJf. PAJJDO. of the Cuban rebellion was an easy task. He predicted that Campos would sup­ press it, and when Campos failed he as­ cribed the failure not to his own bad judgment, but to lack of soldierly quali­ ties in the baffled captain general. Gen. Pando is apparently quite friendly to the .United States. He says there is not now and never lias been danger of the Ameri­ can annexation of Cuba. He favors Cuba's paying tribute, commercially, to this country. Cuba's natural market, he says, is the United States, and he be­ lieves in making new treaties of reciproc­ ity to encourage increased commerce.