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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1884)
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Two special agents, appointed bj the Interior Department to investigate the rival claims of Spiechee and Perry man to the Chiefship of the Creek Na tion, have reported in favor of Perry man. A jewelry store in Fulton street, Brooklyn, was entered by burglars the other day in broad daylight, the safe opened and four thousand dollars1 worth of goods carried off, and that, too, while the street was crowded with people and the police supposed to be doing their duty. A similar robber' had taken place in Maiden Lane, New York City, a few days previous, and goods to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars stolen. The year started out well in the way of disasters. First came the Belleville, CM.) disaster and its twenty-six vic tims; next the City of Columbus horror, with its ninety-seven human beings: then the Crested Butte (Colo.) mine ex plosion added fifty-seven more to the list, and later a steamer was reported wrecked in the British Channel and twenty lives lost, to say nothing of the usual run of minor casualties that are thrown in for good measure. Mrs. Augusta Tabor, the divorced wife of Colorado's millionaire, was re cently in New Orleans, on her way to Cuba, as she stated. In regard to the story of her elopement with a man named Artman, she said: "When I do get married I will do so openly and above board, and let my friends know. If I do marry you can be certain it will not be Mr. Artman. I will not marry a man whom I will have to support, but will expect my husband to support me." Mrs. Tabor did not like the idea ol Artman borrowing money upon the rep utation of marrying her. Hexry S. Potter, of Rochester, N. Y., died recently and left an estate ol about two millions. His oldest son some time ago married a highly edu cated and refined lady against the father's consent. Potter stipulated in his will that this son should have an equal part, one-sixth, of the estate, pro vided the "said son shall not live with or at any time contribute in any mannct to the support or maintenance of his present wife." The son very sensibly stuck to the wife of his choice, but pro poses to contest his father's will upon the grounds that it had a tendency to encourage immorality. The Governor of New Jersey recently sent a special message to the Legisla ture, reciting the refusal of the Hacken sack Cemetery Company to allow the burial of a colored man. The Governor said thatit ought not to be tolerated in that State. That a corporation whose existence depends upon the Legisla ture's will, and whose property is ex empt from taxation, because of its re ligious uses, should not be permitted to make any distinction between a white and a black man. The Governor closes by requesting the passage of a law Which shall make such refusal, based on color a criminal offense, with such a penalty as shall prevent the recur rence of such act. Another insult to the American flag by the Spanish authorities in Cuba has been reported. It consisted in thSforci ble seizure of a citizen of Philadelphia, while he was on board an American schooner. The man who was arrested is Colonel Emili Nunez, a tobacco im porter, who was formerly a Cuban "patriot, and served in the army during the recent revolution on the island. He escaped to this country when the war ceased, and has since been in business in Philadelphia. A year or more ago bis father died, leaving a large estate, comprising an extensive sugar planta tion in Cuba. Colonel Nunez recently attempted to visit his aged mother and settle the estate, intending, however, to remain on board while the vessel was in Spanish waters. He had received his brother and mother on board the vessel as it lay is the harbor. This became known to Spanish authorities, and a de mand was Hade on the Captain ol the schooner Ux the surrender of the Colo Bel. This ma refused when the Spanish commander sent a boat's crew from his nan-of-wat ted seized Colonel Nunez ad carried fcim to the war-ship, where 3m was held s prisoner. THE WORLD'S DOING'S A Summit of the Dally News. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Ik the Senate, the 2Stb, Messrs. Sherman and Pendleton each presented a resolution of wool growers of Ohio, praying- tho restoration of the former duty on wooL Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported the original bill relating to the enforcement of law in Utah. He said he did not himself see a clause of the bill which requires the exclusion of women from suffrage in that Territory; The Senate adjourned upon the announcement of the death of Representative Mackey..... Im mediately after the reading of the journal in the House the death of Mr. Mackey, of South Carolina, was announced and the House ad journed. In- the Senate, the 29th, Mr. Vest, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported fa vorably the bill repealing the Timber Culture laws. Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, introduced a bill to establish the Territory of North Dakota. Mr. Sherman's resolutions on the Virginia and Missirsippi elections were taken up, and, after debate, adopted. The Senate passed the House bills making ap propriation of $3,750,000 for the rebate of tax on tobacco, and 21,965 for the expenses of the Legislature of New Mexico In the House. bills wore introduced, when Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, rising to a question of privi lege offered a preamble and resolutions which set forth that Hon. J. W. Keifer. member of the House, had charged H. V. Boynton, tho Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette, now holding a seat in the press gallery under the rules of the House, with having approached the Speaker of the House during the closing days of the lust session of Congress with cor rupt propositions intended to influ ence his official action and as such act was a gross breach of the privileges of the House, therefore a committee of five be ap pointed to investigate and report to the House, Mr. Keifer then addressed the House, in which ho introduced some correspondence between himself and Boynton. The resolu tion was amended so us to include any other correspondent who may have abused his privileges, and then adopted. In tho Senate, the 30th, a petition was presented signed by four thousand citizens of the District of Columbia and several other petitions signed by a large number of citizens of tho Territories of Washington, Dakota and Idaho, all praying the enactment of a law to prohibit the manufacture and salo of alcoholic liquors in the District and Terri tories. The Senate then proceeded inn body tothehallof the House to attend the funeral ceremonies of the late Representative Mackey. In the House standing committees reported, when at the appointed hour the funeral cere monies of Mr. Mackey, of South Carolina, took place, and the House adjourned. In the Senate, the 31st, floods of petitions were presented from a dozen or more States praying for prohibitory liquor laws in the District of Columbia and Territories. The con ference report on the Greeley relief bill was taken up and the Senate refused to concur with committees of conference, and resolved to appoint a new committee. The Senate resumed consideration of the bill pro viding for a method of settling incomplete titles to lands acquired by the United States from the Republic of Mexico In the House Standing Committees reported. The bill de claring forfeited certain land grants in South ern States were then taken up and passed. The next bill on the calendar was that declar ing a forfeiture of lands granted the Texas Pacific Railway Company under the act of Congress approved March 3, 1671, and acts snp plemental thereto. This bill passed without one dissenting vote. The Senate was not in session the 1st. ....In the House tho conference asked by the Senate on the Greeley Relief bill was agreed to. The House then went into Committee of tho Whole on the Fritz John Porter bill. The debate continued during the day, when the bill was reported to the House and passed, 184 yeas, 78 nays. Adjourned until Monday. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL. The New Jersey Legislature has defeated a resolution asking Congress for a National Postal Telegraph law. The charges against Governor Murray, of Utah, respecting irregularities in his office while United States Marshal in Ken tucky, were considered recently by the House committee investigating cxpendi tures in tho Department of Justice. George K. Chase, the predecessor of Brewster Cameron, testified that the reports to the Department of Justice sustained the charges. Governor Murray was to have an opportunity of testifying. The Legislature of Iowa in Joint Con vention on the 30th formally proclaimed the election of Senator Allison as United States Senator. A. W. Shelde.v, Associate Justice of Arizona, died suddenly at San Francisco the other day. Post-office Inspector Lanier, on duty in the South, has been removed for frauds upon postmasters he visited. Lanier fled to South America. MISCELLANEOUS. J. M. Rtford, a merchant of Moriab, Vt., with his wife and two daughters started for Warder, Vt., several weeks ago to visit his father. He drove a team of horses, and as they had not been heard from it was feared that they either broke through the ice on Lake Champlnin or were frozen to death in the Green Moun tains. A young man named Carver employed in the post-office at Detroit, Mich., was recently arrested charged with stealing letters. Upon being confronted with proofs of his crime, he confessed to having rifled three thousand letters within the past six months, having carried on his depre dations systematically. The object, he said, was to accumulate sufficient money to marry a girl with whom he had fallen in love. A recent explosion ofc the Canadian Pacific Railroad, near Fort Arthur, Mani toba, caused by dynamite cartridges left on a stove, killed five men. Three of the Howard County, Ark., rioters, who were under sentence of death, were recently granted an appeal, and the Judges who granted the appeal were hung in effigy by some lawless parties. The de cision of the Judges was generally sus tained by the people. Anson Linsheter was recently arrested at St. Louis and taken back to Germany, where he, as postmaster, had forged many post-office orders and led to this country. Several Leadville (Colo.) banks have collapsed lately, the last being the Mer chants' and Mechanics'. Only one bank is left in the city. Baker Pasha, was reported as having defeated several of the False Prophet's Chiefs, and was marching on Khartoum. Harbv Lex, the Cincinnati forger, was recently arrested in Canada. At Pittsburgh, Pa., the other day, as three men were engaged in loading pieces of steel plates on cars, and were standing on the platform on which there was from fifty to seventy-five tons of the iron, the platform gave way and the men fell to the ground with the metal on top of them. John Butler and Thomas Liney were killed instantly, and John Roach fatally injured. By the recent breaking ap of the ice at St. Louis a number of boats were injured. The steamer Salvo No. 2 was wrecked and sunk. The steamer Minneapolis had a large hole stove in her hull and several barges were badly damaged. Ir is reported that the law governing non-citizens and intruders in ,the Indiaa Territory is being vigorously enforced. Thirty-eight persona in the Creek Nation have been declared non-citizens and noTt fied to leave. Seventeen houses in Musko gee and vicinity, the residences of parties who could not prove up their citizenship, have been seized by tho National Inspector and sold as public property of the Nation. Much excitement prevailed at Dubuque, Iowa, over the sudden disappearance of Laura Rowland, a highly accomplished and educated girl of fifteen. The House Committee on Territories re cently ordered a favorable report on the bill providing that hereafter no Territory shall form a Constitution or apply for ad mission as a State until it 'shall contain a population equal to that required in a Con gressional district in order to entitle it to representation in the House of Representa tives. The safe in the post-office at Blue Island, a suburb of Chicago, was blown open the other night and stamps, money and othei valuables to the amount of $15,000 stolen. The House Committee on Banking and Currency at a recent meeting discussed the resolutions offered by Representative Hunt, which declares that the public wel fare'demands that the benefits of the na tional banking system be substantially preserved and continued for the time be ing, provided that the resolution be not construed to be a declaration in favor of the perpetuation of the public debt, and agreed to it by a vote of nine to four. The annual report of the operations of ihe Patent-office' for the calendar year showed an increase of seventeen per cent, in the number of patents, trade-marks and labels issued over tho preceding year. The cash receipts increased $137,000; excess of receipts over expenditures, S300.000; cosh on hand, $2,(577,470. A difficulty occurred recently in Henry County, Ala., between John Boatright and Rev. J. W. Malone, Baptist minister, in which the latter was fatally cut with a knife. An old fued led to the trouble. Both were represented to bo men past the prime of life, of steady habits and respecta bility. Public debt statement for January: Cash in Treasury, $9,498,3G0; debt, less cash in Treasury, $1,486,083,719; decreaso for January, $11,958,003; decrease since June 30, 1883, $65,007,487. The south-bound accommodation train on the Indianapolis & Chicago Railroad while crossing a truss bridge at Broad Ripple, seven miles from Indianapolis, Ind., the other night, broke through and the wreck immediately took fire. John Brewer, engineer; J. E. Ricketts, baggage master; George Lowry,brakeman; Thomas Parr, bridge foreman; Abel T. Smith, American Express messenger, and a pas senger named John Bray, were killed, and about fifteen injured, several fatally. The breaking up of the Allegheny and other rivers in Pennsylvania did a great amount of damage. Bottom lands were flooded and families had to seek safety in flight. The town of Freeport was at one time iadanger of destruction, the ice being piled thirty feet high. The other afternoon a terrible gasoline explosion took place in the business center of Alliance, O., originating in the store of F. M. Orr. Three brick blocks wero wrecked and the ruins took fire. F. M. Orr, his son Elmer, Mrs. Homer Highland and daughter, Mrs. Frank Evans and two children were ettner Killed outright or burned to death, and many injured. A Committee, composed of members of different labor organizations with head quarters at Pittsburgh, Pa., recently went to Washington to urge the passage of a bill restricting the importation of foreign labor under the contract system. Robert W. Leonard committed suicide on a sleeping car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, at Cincinnati, the other night. Bots recently discovered the mutilated body of a man on the prarie, near Gum Island, Tex. Both legs were cut off and his neck broken. No clew to tho perpretra tors of the deed. The business portion of Belmont, Wis., burned recently. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. At Lancaster, Tex., the other day, John Nash, an old gentleman, was fatally stabbed by a maniac brother. He had been caring for the demented relative and kept him in a room at his homo for a number of years in preference to sending him to an asylum. On the morning of the tragedy the maniac escaped, got hold of a knife and inflicted several frightful wounds upon bis brother before he could be se cured. The Hamburg American Packet Com pany recently telegraphed the Secretary of the Navy, offering to transport to New York without charge the bodies of Captain DeLong and party, expected to arrive at Hamburg shortly. Attornet General Brewster recently placed at the disposal of the House Com mittee on expenditures in the Department of Justice, the entire force of the Examiner's Department, to be sent alone or with sub committees, to investigate the alleged ir regularities in the offices of United States officials. It was said the committee would probably go to New York City for a short time and investigate the office of John I. Davenport, Supervisor of Elections. The Senate Committee on Judiciary re cently ordered the Lowell Bankruptcy bill to be favorably reported, with amendments It preserves State exemptions, and author izes involuntary proceedings only against persons whose debts amount to mora than one "thousand dollars and only against traders. It diminishes the number of Com missioners in Bankruptcy. Srxrr-TWO new pupils recently entered the Indian Training School at Carlisle,' Pa. MrLLERSBURG, O., was recently shaken up by an earthquake. Thomas Collter and his wife, residing on Long island, a. x., were recently posioned by pepper used in the household. John Cowley and his brother-in-law, were arrested on suspicion of having poisoned tho pepper. Annie Cowley, a siBter to John, was also arrested. The only motive known for the crime was that they wanted to get possession of their father's property which amounted to about $1,500. The father died'mysteriously some time ago. Fowler Brothers, the pork packers, re cently entered suit at Chicago against the members of the late firm of McGeoch, Everington & Co., for half a million dol lars damages owing to assertions made by that firm against the purity of lard the plaintiffs were putting upon the market just prior to the collapse of McGeoch. Wendell Phillips died at Boston, Mass., the 2d, in the seventy-third year of his age. Eleven men were recently arrested in Robinson and Brown Counties, Tex., by the Sheriffs of those counties and lodged in jail at Jewett, for whipping a negro man. A THIEF AT BAY. A Desperate Negro Thief's Determined " light and Kucape from His Pursuers The Booty .Recovered. Cairo, III, Feb. 1. Wednesday last a negro named Chas. Allen robbed a trunk belonging to his part ner, Luce Adams, of fseveniy-five dollars, and sloped. Yesterday morning officers Sheehan and Hogan wero placed in charge of the case and were not long in locating the whereabouts of the thief, and at nine a. m., yesterday, well mounted, started up the track of the Cairo & St. Louis Railroad in pursuit. Seven miles out trace of the fugitive was found where he had rested at a Methodist Church, tak ing a short cut from there toward the Cache River. As they came in sight of the bouse of a colored man named Henderson the scamp was seen to enter the back door. Riding up a call was made for him to come out, which he did after a short interval, but in such shape as indicated business. He carried a double-barreled shotgun in one hand, a revolver in the other, and another large revolver in his jacket pocket. Upon a demand being made to surrender he drew a bead on the officers with his gun, firing both barrels in rapid sucession, but without effect, the Officers returning the fire. Ho then brought one revolver into use, emptying five loads at his pursuers, missing them en tirely. Both sides shot about a dozen times, all remaining unhurt. Suddenly Allen broke into a rapid run, leaping ditches and fences, rushing through sloughs, swamps and ice, hotly pursued by the officers whose horses at times sank into the swamp and water to their bodies. The fugitive finally reached a dense cane-brake into which he disappeared. The officers deemed it im prudent to follow further, as they were short of ammunition, while the negro had one weapon yet unused. Henderson's wife was tound by the officers upon the floor in a fit, frothing at the mouth and giving alarming demonstrations of approaching dissolution, occasioned bv the excitement during tho shooting. She was finally brought to her senses and delivered $73 of the money, which the thief had left for safe keeping. AN AGENT OF DEATH. Seven Lives Lout, a Many Wore Person! Injured and Four Buildings Demolished by au Explosion of Gasoline nt Alliance, Ohio. Alliance, O., Feb. 1. Tho most dreadful disaster that ever oc curred in the city of Alliance befell us about four o'clock this afternoon. At that hour a terrific explosion of gasoline took place in the store of F. M. Orr, the result of which was the entire demolition of the On block, together with the Miller building or the west side and two frame buildings on the east side. But great as was the loss of property, it is as nothing compared to the loss of life which resulted from the explo sion. The following are the names of those known to have lost their lives: F. M. Orr, proprietor of the store and block. Elmer Orr, his son. Mrs. Homer Highland, his daughter. A two-year-old son of Mrs. Homer High land. Mrs. Frank Evans. Two small children of Mrs. Frank Evans, aged respectively two years and four months. Besides those above named there were two or three others in the store at the time of the explosion, whose names have not been learned, but who were spoken with beneath the ruins before life had been crushed or burned out of them. At present all those positively known to have per ished have been extricated from the de bris. Some of these are charred and man gled beyond recognition. The work, how ever, of clearing away the rubbish and searching for bodies is being vigorous ly pushed forward by the aid of such light as is afforded by the moon and a bonfire in the street. Besides those who perished the following Sersons were more or less injured: Robert oyce, Jerry Miller, Frank Evans, Maggie Miller, Mrs. Frease, Mr. Baker, J. D. Lew is, John Curry, Charles Hayden. The twe last named are of the minstrel troupe of Duprez & Benedict. Some escaped, as it seemed, almost by a miracle. The grocery store of Mr. McCon nel, adjoining, had some seven or eight per sons in it, but all of them were dragged out not severely hurt. The scenes immediately following tho disaster were well calculated to affect the most indifferent. The buildings were an indescribable mass of ruins. Men and women were rusuing about franticallv be seeching that something might be done. Mr. Homer Highland, whose wife and child perished, was almost beside himelf with grief and horror, as was also Mr. Frank Evans, whose wife and two children likewise perished. Mrs. Orr was com pletely prostrated by the shock. The only person in the bnilding known to have escaped save some employes engaged in the workshop attached to tho rear, was Mr. Frank Evans. The great loss of life resulted from the fact that the second and third stories were used as dwellings. The persons within were not all killed outright, as could be too plainly told by their audible but unavailing cries for help. Ere ything was done that could be to res cue the victimsbut the rapid spread of the flames, notwithstanding the heroic efforts of tee lire company, soon drove the res cuers back. The explosion was cansed by the fumes from the gasoline. A child of Mr. Orr turned the faucet in a barrel and the fluid ran out on the floor. Mr. Orr was mopping it up which gas arising therefrom ignited from a gas light. John Curry and Charles H. Hayden ol Duprez & Benedict's minstrels were blown out of Git's store through a plate glass window and carried clear across the street-, where they were picked up badlv injured. They wero carried to a hotel, They will recover. The Orr block, one of the finest in the city and completed only last fall, is a total wreck, as are the Miller block and the building occupied by Mr. Fullerton as a leather store and by Miss Stanly as a mil linery establishment. A reasonable esti mate of the value of the property destroyed would be $5U,0J0, a very small part of which was covered by insurance. The explosion was of such force that it was felt and heard for a distance of two miles. Those in the immediate vicinity thought for a moment that there had been an earthquake. Some idea of its force may be gl-aued from the fact that a team of horses standing in the street in front were thrust against the walls of the build ing on the opposite side of the street. All the window-glass on either side of the street for & di.s-ance considerably more than a block was smashed. It will take $2,0(10 or $3,000 to replace the glass broken. The Mo"non Route Disaster. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 1. The coroner this afternoon began an In quiry over the remains of five bodies that were recovered from the wreck yesterday an the Air Line Railway at Broad Ripple, rhe testimony shows that the bridge was bailt of good material and properly con structed. The workmen were repairing the bridge and had removed permanent sup porting rods, supplying their place with tem porary rods, which were claimed to be strong enough to support the structure. It is generally thought the accideii wtu caused by the weakening of the brid -c, the result of removinz the perman nt rods. The body of Parr, bridge loremuu, hus not yet been recovered. THE MORMON QUESTION. Ik Provision. t the Bill Reported to ths United States Seaate by Senator Hoar, from the Jadlclary Ceaimittee fer th appreactoa of Polygamy. Washington, D. CU Jan. 9S. Senator Hoar reported to-day from tht Committee on Judiciary an anti-polygamy bill, which embraces the principal features, of the Edmunds bill introduced at the pres ent session, and adds other provisions orig inating with the committee. The first section provides, in 'any prose cution for bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabitation, under any statute of the United States, the lawful husband or wife of th person accused shall be a competent wit ness, and may be called and compelled t testify in such proceedings. The second section provides in any such prosecution an attachment may be issued for any witness and his or her immediate attendance compelled without previous subpoena when there is reasonable ground for believing he or she will unlawfully fail to obey the subpoena issued in the usual course. The third section provides that prosecu tion for bigamy, polygamy or unlawful co habitation may be commenced at any time within five years after commission of the offense. This provision however, does nol apply to any offense already barred by the statute of limitations, Section 4 provides for tho certification of marriages in the Territories and penalties for the violation of its provisions. Section 5 provides that the records of marriages or anything in the nature ol marriago ceremony of any kind, mnde or kept by any officer, clergyman, priest or person performing civil or ecclesiastical functions, whether lawful or not, in any Territory of the United States, shall be subject to inspection at all reasonable times by any judge, magistrate or officer of jus tice appointed under the authority of the United States, under penalty not to exceed $1,000, and imprisonment not to exceed two years, or both such fine and imprisonment. Section 7 provides for the annulment ol all laws providing for or allowing registra tion or voting by females in the Territory of Utah, and makes it unlawful for any fe male to vote at any election hereafter held in the Territory of Utah for any publicpur pose whatever. Sections 8. 9 and 10 provide for the an nulment of all laws of the Territory of Utah which provide for tho identification of vo ters at elections and for recognition of th capacity of illegitimate children to inherit and which confer jurisdiction on Probata Courts, except in respect to deceased per sons and the guardianship of infants and insane persons. Section 11 provides for the annulment oi all laws which provide that such prosecu tions may hereafter be instituted in the same way as prosecutions for other crimes. Section 12 provides that all laws incor porating. continuing or providing for the corporation known as the Mormon Churci as far as the same may preclude the ap pointment of certain trustees of said con poration, as hereinafter provided, shall b annuled. It also directs the President, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint fourteen trustees, who shall exercise the functions prescribed for such corporations, and shall hold office two years, and shall report annually to the Secretary of the In terior as to the property, business affair and operations of said corporation. Section 13 provides that it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States to institute and prosecute proceed ings, to forfeit and escheat to the United States oroDertv of corporations obtained or held in violation of section 3 of the act of Congress, approved the 1st of July, 1882. All property so forfeited to be disposed ol by the Secretary of tho Interior, and the proceeds applied to the use and benefit o! the common schools in the Territory ir which such property may be. Section 14 provides that in all proceed ings for the enforcement of the law against a corporation holding property in excess of the amount limited by law the court shall have power to compel the production of books and papers from persons manag ing the property in which such corpora tions have any rights or interests. Section 15 providos for the annulment oi all laws creating or continuing the associ ation or corporation called the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. Section 10 directs the Attorney-General of the United States to take steps to dis solve that corporation and provide that the assets in excess of the debts shall escheat to the United States and be invested by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the common schools of Utah. Section 17 provides for the abolishment of the existing election districts and ap portionment of representation concerning members of the Legislative Assembly oi the Territory of Utah, and it shall be the duty of the Governor, Territorial Secreta ry and United States Judges of said Ter ritory to redistrict the Territory and ap portion the representation so as to assure equal representation to citizens of the United States according to numbers in said Legislative Assembly, such establishment of districts and representation to continue until Congress shall otherwise provide. Section 18 provides that all registration and election offices of every description in ihe Territory of Utah shall upon the enact ment of the bill into a law be declared va cant; that all duties relating to registra tion of voters, conduct of elections, receiv ing or rejection of votes, canvassing and returning the same and issuing certificates or other evidence of election in said Terri tory shall for the present be performed un der the existing law of the Territory and the United States by persons who shall be selected to perform that duty by the board specially provided for by this bill. It pro vides this board shall consist of five per sons, to do almoin tea Dy mo President with the advic and consent of the Senate, not more than three of them to be members of oie political party and each to receive a salary of $3,000 per annum; that this board shall continue in office until the Legislative Assembly of the Territory shall make a provision for fillingthe registry and election offices in the Territory, and' that the Secre tary of the Territory shall be Secretary ol the board, keep a journal of the proceed ings and attest its action. It provides for a canvass of all returns of elections by this board and the issuance by it of all certifi cates of election of members of the Assem bly, such certificate tobe the only evidence of the right of such persons to sit in such Assembly. It provides, however, that the board shall not exclude from the polls or refuse to count the vote of any person oth erwise eligible to vote on account of any opinion such person may entertain on the subject of bigamyjor polygamy. The Xew Code of Seaatn Kales. Washingon, D. (X, Jan. 38. The new code of Senate rules creates twa aew standing committees and enlarge leveral old ones. A committee of the Sem ite Republican caucus is engaged in mak ing selections for membership on the new committees and filling new places upoa sldones. It is understood that Senator Lapbam has been selected as Chairman of the Committee on Fisheries, aad Senator Wilson Chairman of Committee oa Expen iitures of Public Moneys. Senators Har rison, Plumb and Piatt have been, selected rw Republican members of this committee. Senator Wilson is bow Chairman of tha Committee on Mines and Minis, and Sen itor Lapbatn of that on Woman Suffrage, raeir acceptance of the Chairmanshipa teaves their present positions vacant. SeH tor Bowen has been selected for tha rnairmanship of Mines and Miaiag. Ho election as yet has been made for the phairmanship of the Coaaaitte oa Wobm Suffrage. . DOTOl WITH THE TIDE. The Merchants' aad Mechanics' Bank c! LieadTiUe, Colorado, Unable to Stand thi Pressure of a Determined Run, Clone it, Doors uaiy une Banic Lett Serious KaU ares Anticipated. Lkadvtlle, Col., Jan. 30 Another financial trouble engrosses tit city. At two o'clock this afternoon the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank, hereto-" fore considered an exceptionally stronc in- stitution, closed its doors, being unable tc withstand a run made upon it. Theme was started last evening, just before the bank11 closed. The officials were wholly taken by surprise, mt paid all demands un til the close of banking hours. The Direc tAwi YAn linfrl a vtfkiinn s .K.M. ' I l.Vi kUBU UClltO Ull-l.Ufe IU UCtlUB UpOt what course to ioilow. it was pretty posi tive that tho run would be continued in the morning, and tho officials well knew- tha: the bank could not stand it. They endear ored to effect a loan of 550,000 from the First National Bank in Denver. Tho mrney was placed in the express office in Denver. so it is said, but before the tra.n left the officials changed their numl. and had the gold returned to the$ vaults. This morning when the bank opened for business a heavv run waj commenced, which continued until the Iat dollar was paid out over the coun'c r. Tie doors were then closed. Th- ile; n is who were then clamoring for their i-i nv wero informed that as soon as tlu- fcvjtb Park train arrived from Denver tin tank would open again and pay off all tlim.s. As the expected aid from Denver is no lortucomiug 11. u uei lum iuub me l.u.k wIJ never open. The bank was officered as follows: Pre--t dent. L. M. Smith: Vice-Ireulin. J. Smith; Cashier, S. Ay res. Tho Iut.k1.a3 been in business four years. Its nu r ized capital stock was .W,000, win -a w-. subscribed and paid in wLen tLe I hu opened its doors. According to 'he last Uliuuiu siatciucub, uiiiue a iikjiii.ii ;i,p, mtu I average deposits wei e 3250.uo. It w i aitif to have a surplus fund of .,.iW; undivi led profits, $2,000 ; real estate to the value t $17,000, and paid average dividends o. eih teen per cent, annually. It is not thought that over S1C0,000 were drawn out after the run began, and that the unpaid dt-po-it ' now amount to S150.00J. This amount the officials claim the assets of the bank will fully pay. The failure of tho Merchants' nnd Me- chanics' Sank will have more of a disas-, trous effect upon the business o. Leadville than that produced bv the collapse of the r irst iiauonai xaiu eignt nays ago. nh the Merchants' and Mechanic-.' Bank the largest business institutions curried their deposits. The failure of the First National was not wholly unannounced, and many ol the business men having been forewarned withdrew, their deposits and placed them in the Merchants and JIv chanics' before the collajxo. They supposed they were making a good move, but it proves not to have benefited them much. The commercial agencies pre dict a wholesale number of business tail ores in the immediate future an account of the collapse of the Merchants' and Mechan ics' Bank. It is not thought the depositors in the bank will lose much money. The loss will fall upon the stockholders, who compose some of the best known business aien in the State. There is now only one bank left in Lead ville, and its strength will be tested to the limit to-day, as a disastrous run is ex pected to be made upon it. It is a new bank, with great wealth at its back, and it is thought it will withstand the attacks made on it by scared creditors. A great ' deal of money was placed in its vaults this evening and 30,003 was started from Den ver last evening. The history of the banking business in Leadville for the past few years has prob ably never before been equaled in any city in the country. Only two weeks ago the city had four banks, and all of them were considered in good standing. Two months previous the Bunk of Leadville had failed, but this was considered to be only the result of bad management, not that to business of Leadville was in such a de pressed state that any or all of the banks were liable to go under on the slightest squeeze. Two weeks ago the City Bank of Leadville made an assignment. It was found that the affairs of this bank were perfectly straight and that the depositors were paid dollar for dollar. The assignment was made, it is al leged, owing to tho fact that the bank was not paying. A week ago came the announce ment that the FirstNational was in a shaky eondition, and a run then made caued that Institution to go under. The loss of SJO.ttrO to the depositors, the flight of President Dewault, the reported stealings, etc., are still fresh in tho minds of the public. Now comes the collapse of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank. This institution, it was said at the time of the other failures. wa- on an exceptionally good financial basis. and that there need be rto fears that it would go under, and it was amply able to meet any run or demands that might be made upon it, and so it was generally con iidered. The first intimation of a break was on Tuesday afternoon just before tho bank's closing hour, when a small horde of creditors made their appearance at the bank and demanded their deposits. A ROCK OX THE RAIL Causes a Serious Wreck nd the Seieiv la jury of Two Men. Sedalia, Mo., Jan. 3). The passenger train which leftSt.Lom at 9:20 this morning encountered a large rock one mile east of the Gasconade nver and did not reach here until 12:45. Theer 'gine, tender, baggage car and mail ca were wrecked, and the engineer, known a' Stonewall Jackson, and the fireman. Jarae Brooks, scalded and otherwise serioulj injured. Wm. Roberts, postal clerk, whe was on the wrecked train, made the follow ing statement: "The train was on time The first thing I noticed was that the car J was in received a severe jolt and a canti:? forward. I looked out and the mail car was standing crosswise of the track and -the locomotive down the bank about thirty feet and very near the ice in the river. The engineer, Stonewall Jackson, was in th cab fast, with his hand-on the throttle anc lever reversed. The steam was coming oaf in such a volume that I was unable to se the fireman, Jim Brooks, who was fast un der the cab. Jackson was soon gotten out and found to be badly scalded, and it L feared that he inhaled the steam. Brook was not so badly scalded, but had many bruises; but it is quite probable that he ha no bones broken. Brooks refused to re ceive any stimulants, and he also refused morphine. Jackson told me he saw the rock coming down the hill, but he w as pow erless to get either one wav or the other to miss it. The rock was about five or six feet in diameter. Jackson and Brooks re side in St. Louis. The trains transferred at the wreck and proceeded on their way. The wounded were taken to St. Louis. Fatal Fewder-XlU Explosion. Portland, 3Ie., Jan. 30. A. terrible explosion demolished the powder-mill at Gambo Station, Windham, this forenoon. Reuben D. Kennedy was at work lathe mill at the time mixing "cake," and it waa supposed he would be found terribly Baaagled. Search was made, in the ruins of the building without success, and the un fortunate man was found on the ice M 300 feet from the mill. He lived about fa hour. He was badly burned, and sus tained Internal in juries by the shock. Ho talked almost to the last moment of hj Ine, and said that grit must have got iA the "cake," and caused the explo.ion. FM tunately, most, of the men employed in fe mill were away at dinner wl.eu the mil was blown to. atom. B ;-. if r - t'v -3-1 . felj.v' wM"fs.i:-jf. WE&&t$&sM& && tM 5 rfi" w-jrw - -sssssssssswar- -stti - r -" --j -"- 'iraLS! M'-. .j&jisVfettva: fcn-t I -. JUJH fey. ... av&fc-t.sr.. S f .-. ?.!; r-ss.-- .1 y vs rstb $ - ft ?--