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2tiB, nyw aJ i I 1 S :l I I s i THE BED CLOUD CHIEF. . , A. C. HOSUER, Piblislur. BED CLOUD. NEBRASKA CURRENT COMMENT. Captain Tkaynok, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the dory City of Bath, now proposes to undertake another voyage in a small row boat. The number of postoffices in the United States March 20, is 48,993, an increase of 1,135 in less than nine months. If the same rate of increase is maintained the remainder of the fiscal year, the postoffices will number 50,000 July 1st next. A QUU2K report has been started that M. T Polk, the defaulting Tennessee Treauurer, who was reported dead re cently, is alive and in Mexico. The affidavit- of the undertaker has been published that he buried Polk unmis takably Polk. A "virulent disease resembling blind staggers has appeared among the horses of Oregon, and a large number of valu able animals have succumbed to it. Over four hundred have died in two counties. The distemper has so far baffled veterinary skill. Mr. Gladstone, on the occasion of the election of the new Speaker, re ferred to his father, Sir Robert Peel, as a man "whose follower I have been, and for whose name and character down to this late hour of my life I retain an unbroken and undiminished venera tion." J. A. F. Rockafeler, an old Cali fornia 49er, familiarly known as "Old Rocky," died recently at Salt Lake City, having taken a fatal dose of morphine. He left a paper saying he had been cheated out of his property and was desperate. He was well-known in the mining camps in the interior and on the coast, The Bombay Chamber of Commerce has submitted a memorial to the Viceroy of India urging that railway extension be prosecuted at the rate of 2,000 or 3,000 miles annually for the next ten years, at a cost of 20,000,000 per an num. They recommend that this sum be raised by sterling loans in London, at guaranteed interest of 3J per cent, in perpetuity. The greater the railroad extension in India the less risk of famine. "The Light of Asia" arrived in New York recently, on the Ininan steamship City of Chester. "The Light of Asia'' is the first white elephant that has ever come to America, He is not of the whiteness of new-fallen snow, but he is so light in color and so "Strikingly in contrast with the ordinary elephant that calling him white is not a misnomer. Ha was brought over for exhibition in Philadelphia, where he will be taken on a special car. Ox Saturday, the 15th inst., the bodv of a man was found in the Bath schute, one and a half miles north of Bath, JT. Y. From the clothing and letters and notes in his pockets the jury identified it as that of W. Woodruff, who drove into the draw of the Havana wagon bridge some months ago. Some money, two watches and other valuables were found in his pockets, showing that he was not robbed and then thrown into the river, but that he drove in. The bridge tenders are already under in dictment by the Fulton County Grand Jury for manslaughter. A shout time ago, in opposition to ibis parents'" wishes, John W. Johnson, of Staunton, Va., a member of one of the proudest families in the State, wooed and won the hand of Abbie Peters, aged nineteen, a poor girl. When the wedding day was only a few weeks off he cruelly wronged and deserted her. Her father, furious at the insult, had Johnson arrested. The court last week sen tenced him to two years in the peniten tiary. The girl tried to save her lover, and nearly cried her eyes out. Her people locked her up, but she managed to get out, and saw the prisoner, begging him to marry her. The Attorney-General promised to secure a pardon if the wedding was consum mated. Under the circumstances the Johnson family gladly acquiesced. The ceremony was celebrated, and the pris oner was released as soon as the papers were made out. Railway officials seem to have a first-rate memory for keeping record of irregularities. A few years ago the pastor of a church not far from St. Louis resigned, and for a time refused to surrender his half-fare permit issued by the Illinois Central Railroad Com pany, so that his successor might obtain & similar favor. This year the same minister is preaching in Missouri at a country town, and the agent indorsed his application, but no permit has been issued. There is a mark on the com pany's book against him. A short time ago an editor loaned an annual pass, issued by the Illinois Central people, to a clothier, who, in return for the favor, presented the newspaper man with a suit of ready-made clothing. An officer of the company found it out, and re voked the pass. Years have gone by, but that editor has never since rode on an Illinois Central pass. THE WORLD'S D01SGS A SwnmaiT of the Dally News. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Ik the Senate, on the 17th, after various petitions and bills bad been offered, Mr. Plumb's Joint resolution appropriating $25. 000 for the suppressing: of the foot and mouth disease was taken up. A Ion? debate ensued as to the constitutionality of the measure, and an effort was made to defeat it, which, how ever, failed. The joint resolution was passed by a vote of twenty to sixteen. As passed it appropriates JO.000 to be used by the Commissioner of Agriculture (with the cooperation of the authorities of States in which it may be used) for stamptnjr out the foot and mouth disease, the Govern ment not to be committed beyond the amount named In the House, after presentation of petitions and new bills, Mr. Randall, under in structions from the Committee on Appropria tions, moved to suspend the rules und pass the special Deficiency bill appropriating $1,679,000. After half an hour's debate, con fined to consideration of sums which should be trranted to families of deceased Congressmen, the motion was agreed to, 16" to 15. Mr. Buchanan, from the Committeo on Naval Affairs, reported a resolution appropriating out of the contingent fund $5,uuuto enable that committee to prosecute the investigation previously ordered concerning tho loss of the Jeannette, which was adopted. In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr. Hawley introduced a bill to authorize the Secretary of tho Navy to offer a reward of $25,000 for rescu ing or ascertaining tho fato of the Greeley Arctic expedition Mr. Hawley said such a reward might induce ships cruising in or about the Arctic seas to keep a lookout for the exploring party or to turn occasionally out of their course in order to gather infor mation about it. The bill to aid the establish ment and temporary support of common schools was taken up. It appropriates the first year 515,000,000; the second, $14, 000,000; the third $13,000,000; and so on for ten years, decreasing $1,000, 000 yearly, to be expended for common school education. The e.venditiire for each State will boon the basis of illiteracy In the House Mr. Townshend moved that the House go into Committeo on the Postoilice Appropriation bill, and declined to yield to Mr. Curt in, who wished an opportunity to sub mit the report of the Foreign Affairs Commit tee upon tho Lasker resolutions. After an acrimonious debate, the amendments agreed to in Committee of the Whole were then ndonted with the exception of that increasing by $400,000 tho appropriation for letter carrier service, which was rejected yeas, 123; nays, 137. The bill then passed yeas, 160; nays, 77. Ix the Senate, ou the'lOth, Messrs. Sher man and Pendleton presented memorials and resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce at Cincinnati, remonstrating against tho con struction of a bridge across tho Kanawha Itiver, on the ground that it will be an inter ference with commerce. The Chair laid be fore the Senate as unfinished business a bill to aid in the establishment and support of common schools. Mr. Miller, of New York, moved to lay the bill aside to take up the House Pleuro-pneumonia bill. Lost 22 to 21. A few amendments of details were made in the bill and tho Senate adjourned. The House, in the Lasker matter, after the reception of reports and resolutions from the Commit tee on Foreign Affairs, and debate thereon, adopted the following resolution: llctolctd. That the House cordially reciprocates the wishes of the Liberal Union members of the German Parliament for the closer union of the two nations, and recognizes their graceful appreciation of its sympathy with those who mourn the death of Edward Lasker. Mr. Ulackburn moved to no into Committee of the Whole on the Revenue bills. Mr.Dowd raised the question of consideration and Mr. Randall demanded the yeas and nays. The motion was agreed to yeas 130, nays 121. and the House went into Committee of tho Whole. Mr. Dor sheimerinthe chair. The first bill was the Honded Extension bill. This bill occupied the House until adjournment. Ix the Senate, on the 20tb, Mr. Hoar called up the bill increasing the salaries of United States District Judges to $5,000. The pending question was on Mr. Morgan's amend ment providing in this case it shall only apply to judges hereafter elected. The bill went over. Consideration of the Blair Education bill was resumed. After debate the consider ation of the bill was postponed till the next day. Mr. Logan then called up the re port of the Committee of Conference on the Military Academy Appropriation bill, and moved concurrence therein. Agreed to In the House, immediately after reading the journal, Mr. Turner, of Georgia, called up the Virginia contested election case of Garrison against Mayo. The report declares Contestant Garrison entitled to thereat. Mayo, the sit ting member, was heard in his own behalf. At the conclusion of his speech and after further debate, the resolution declaring Garrison en titled to the seat was unanimously adopted and that gentleman took the oath of office. On motion of Mr. Keifer, the conference re- Eort on the Military Academy Appropriation ill was taken up and agreed to. The bill as passed appropriates $314.51). The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Bonded Extension bill, and pending action the House adjourned. In the Senate, on tho 21st, Mr. Blair'odu cationbill was brought up, being unfinished business of Thursday. At the request of Mr. Allison, however, Mr. Blair gave way to per mit consideration of the Deficiency Appropri ation bill. The amendments recommended by the Senate Committee on Appropriations were agreed to and the bill passed. Messrs. Harrison, Hoar and Blair entered into a dis cussion of some length as to the precise meaning of some of the sections of the bill. ... No attempt was made to call up the Bonded Extension bill in the House, and the Speaker proceeded to call for committee reports of a private character. At the conclusion of the call Mr. Mooney, Chairman of the Committee on Postoflices and Postroads, reported the fol lowing resolution : I!eoli'cil, That the charges reliecting on Mr. EI1K Representative trom Louisiana, In connection with the Star-route trial:, recently published, are untrue. Mr. Funston appeared at the bar of the House and took the oath of office as Representative of the Second District of Kansas to succeed the late D. C. Haskell. The greater part of the day was consumed in the discussion of the bill for the retirement of William W. Averill withthe rank and pay of Colonel. Mr. Dibrill moved to recommit the Averill bill to the Committeo on Military Affairs. Lost yeas, 54; nays, 113. The bill then passed. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL. It is alleged at Berlin that Sargent has been allowed by Secretary Frelinghuysen the option of remaining nt Berlin, or be coming minister to some other country. A son of the late Vice-President Brecken ridge has been elected to the Legislature from Mariposa County, Cal. An Independent Republican State Con vention assembled at Providence, R. L, with delegates representing half the State. Hon. George H. Corless was nominated for Governor. Crown Prince Gustaf has been ap pointed Viceroy of Norway, tion agencies sending them Hungarians. Lawrence Barrett has sailed for Liver pool. The Republican State officers of Rhode Island have been re-nominated. HISCXLLANEOBB. The bill abolishing the convict contract labor system in Ohio, as contracts expire, has become a law. At Erie, Pa., a sensational elopement was frustrated, recently, the lady being Mrs. Biffin, a young married woman of good family, and the man an illiterate col ored -youth employed as a hod carrier. Two negro boys at Atlanta, Ga., aged sixteen and eighteen years, John Gordon and William Hardman, were joking one another about some girls. Gordon said, --I'm tired of this," and whipping out a pistol, fired a ball into Hard-nan's right eye, from which he died. The heaviest lot of bogs ever slaughtered in New Jersey was slaughtered recently at Wrightstown, amid the awful clangor of a brass band, the salvos of artillery and the shouts of s thousand people. The' twenty three hogs when hung up averaged 819 pounds, the lightest weighing G60 pounds, and the heaviest 1,050 pounds. Cairo dispatch says telegraphic com- munfeation beyoi id Berber is still cut oC The Bedouins are massing at points on the Nile. They have already occupied the re gion about Sabo( ka Cataract and block aded the river a t that place. The Batak heer tribes arepr sparing to attack Shendy. The attempted suicide of McFadden, Til ler's accomplice, in St. Louis, turns out to have been a trick. Chablie. Lang seiuek, well known as "Dickens' Dutchman," died recently in Philadelphia. HtJ wa seventy-five years old, and had spent fifty years of that time in prison. I The House Committee on Foreign Affairs agreed to,report favorably a bill to author ize tho return of ttae residue of th Chinese indemnity fund to China. Many important lovees between Vicks burg and Baton itougo are in imminent danger. Great efTorts are making by the Federal, State anjd parochial authotities, and the people allpng the river, to prevent further breaks! and hold the levees now standing. I The English 1W luage is to be taught in the public scho f Mexico, The ravages lc leusts at Tieul, Yucatan, are causing a bral emigration of the ha! -lai ahj people, and ha iralyzed all industries. The Maryl use of Delegates laid on the table prouiuiiiiig iub sum ui Western slaugh 1 beef in the Baltimore market, by a of sixty-six yeas to eleven nnvs. Long's tobacco warehouse at Manheim, Pn., was burned recpntly. Loss, SSo.OOO. Admiral Hewitt has withdrawn his re ward of 1,000 for O.sman Digna's head. Fkancis W. Whittakei recently se cured a verdict against the Harlem Railroad Company for $10,0 10 for the loss of his arm. The river nt Yankton, Dakota, is on a serious rise. Formers are leaving tho low lands. Serious breaks are reported in the Louisiana levees. An explosion of sulphur in the Enter prise colliery at Mount Cannel, Pa., in stantly killed Carl Yakubokoskcy, Seach nry Younger and Peter Spoloskey. The brattice work and other timber in the mine was badly shattered. Five of the officials of New York City have been indicted by the grand jury. The charges comprisa forgery, perjury, extor tion and theft. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has notified the Secretary of the Interior cf the completion of another section of the road, 242 miles in length, fiom Mohave, A. T., to the Needles, Colorado. The freight rates on grain from Chicago to New York have been further reduced, causing an immense movement in cereals. The railroads are much demoralized by re cent rate cutting, and have a dubious out look for the future. Twenty-two freight cars were destroyed on the Missouri Pacific near Kansas City, by a collision recently. Four persons were slightly injured. Judge Gardner in tho Supreme Court of Illinois decided agaiust the validity of tho Chicago ordinance requiring commis sion merchants to pay an annual license of 525. Colonel Mapleson, of Her Majesty's Opera, was found guilty nt San Francisco of violation of the city fire ordinance by blocking the aisles oi the Grand Opera House. Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick were hung at Columbia, Ky., recently, for tho brutal murder of Miller Brewster. The New York Coffee Exchange was again excited over a refusal to readmit the Brazilian firm of Wolff & Selishurg, who had suspended. A further decline took place. An effort is being made to consolidate at Dallas tho cnttlo interests of North Texas. A mass meeting has been called. Business failures last week: United States, 17)3; Canada, 37; total, 213; as against 210 last week. The failures are ex ceptionally few in the Western and Pacific States, an I in New York City. Some de creaso in Canada. A-rrio"Vt. niiATrn"r. The Kansas Legislature, on the 22d, ma.lo considerable progress nith th? vnrious bills relating to cattle diseases. A conference committee has agreed to a bill for the protection of domestic animals which will bo presented immediately to both Houses. The Democrats of Kansas City have nominated the following persons for city officers: Major, Lcander J. Talbott; Treasurer, L.'wi-s B. Eveland; Auditor, John Conlon; Citv Attorney, John J. Campbell; Recorder, Charles M. Ingraham; Supervi -orof Registration, George Selinin. Six children from the village of Valionio, Pa., went out in search of sugar water. Not finding any the boys tapped some kind of a tree with n pocket knife and all the children sipped the juice andnll were taken sick. George Custy, aged ten, died. Three others expected to die. A serious conflict of authority is threat- renc 1 at Gallipolis. O., between the United States Marshal and the State officers-. The Western Union is involved, nnd the dispute is over the right of way across a bridge. A NUMBER of important Nihilist arrests were made nt Kieff, Russia, recently. O.ie officer was mor:ally wounded while assist ing in making tho arrest. It is rumored that d'Gaeffe, the leader of tho party who murdered Suderkein, is among the pris oners. The funeral of General Godfrey Weitzel, at Spring Grove, Cincinnati, the 23rd, was vevy numerously attended. The Senate was not in session on the 22d. The House debated the Bonded Ex tension bill nud adjourned without action. The French Communists, Russian Nihil ists and Geir-ian Socialists united in ecle-bratiL-gthe thirteenth anniversary of tho Paris Commune at New York on the 23J. Hen Most and Victor Drury were the speakers. Joe Foster, the gambl-or who was wounded as the tim j King Fisher and Bt u Thompson were killed at the Vaudeville Theater in San Antonio, Tex., has died of his injuries. The New York bank statement for the week rhows an increase of nearly $2,030, 000 in the reserve. The Pension Appropriation bill reported to the House appropriates $20,134,400 out of the revenue, and reappropriates $GG',000,000 of expended pension balance. ATacoma, W. T., special i-ays fire is raging in the New Castle coal mines, the most valuable belonging to the Oregon Im provement Company. The mine has been on fire for eighteen months. Tho fact that it had obtained mastery over the manage ment has Cten concealed. It is understood that the Grand Vizier of Turkey has complained to the United State. Government 'it Minister Wallace's recent conduct. A MAX WITH a GRIEVANCE. The Sob of a Persecuted Pole Imagines He has a Misaloa to Remove Binmark He Finds Lodgement in an Insane Anylnm. New York, March 17. Mrs. Fanny Jacobs, wife of Mr. Samuel W. Jacobs, who resides at No. 319 East Fifty-seventh street, sent to the Fifty ninth Street Station House, yesterday, for assistance, saying her husband had become violently insane after reading the morning papers. She said that after looking over the World he jumped up and said, "That settles it. I'll kill him." Then he rushed wildly through the house. Foliceman Davis was called in by a servant, and took Jacobs to the station house. At the station he ap peared to be laboring under sup pressed rage, which, from the glare of his eyes, was liable to break forth at auy moment. The policemen did all they could to keep him quiet. He positively refused to go to Uellevue Hospital in an ambulance and ordered a carriage. Mr. V. L. Rolfe, of No. 702 Second avenue, followed Mr. Jacous to the station and persuaded the Iimne man to go gently to the hospital. There Mr. Jacobs said that he was 40 years old and had been born in Poland. He said he had lived in New York for thirtyycars. "Whom arc you going to kill,"" asked Doctor Willnian. "Bismarck," he replied, "the German tyrant. I have been reading all about the Lasker resolution aud his treatment of our Congress aud his insults to German Americans. I will remove him from the face of the earth. I am ready now and I intend to take the first steamer for Germany. America will hear from me soon." His family would not speak of his ravings, but a friend said that Mr. Jacobs' father had been a political refugee from Poland some thirty years ago. He tied to Germany aud was hounded almot to death because of his politics and religion. lie died in a stable licart-brokcn,his whole life having been one of strife and trouble. His wife in stilled into her sou's mind the many wrongs his father had suffered. From the time of the first Lasker resolution Jacobs took a great interest in the case, as he was a friend of Herr Laker. When he learned that Bismarck had really re turned the resolution he flew into a vio lent rage and became demented. He had arranged his business affairs and was to have sailed on the Werrafor Bremen next Wednesday, when he vas arrested. A FOOL'S FREAK. The Criminally Cnreltss Use of a. 1'istol Re. Milts In the Instant Death of tin Kstimable Yottnjj Lady at Krooklyn, ". Y. New York, March 17. A sad accident occurred yesterday after noon Avhich resulted fatally for Celia lieuncy, a young lady seventeen years of age, residing with her parents at No. 434 Prospect avenue, South Brooklyn. Miss Reiiucy, who was an intimate friend of the family of John Cassidy, residing at No. 4"J Sixth avenue, called there shortly after noon to make a brief visit. While she was eugaged in conversa tion with one of the little children, Dennis Riley, thirt- years of age, of No. 251 Fifteenth .street, South Erooklvn, entered the house. He was ac quainted with Mr. Cassidy and also with the young lady visitor. Au hour was spent iu a social manner, when Riley jok ingly asked those present if they had ever been mesmerized. "No: arc you a mes merist?" asked Miss Cassidy, daughter of the host, "res," returned Riley, "I'm a mesmerist. Shall I get you under the in fluence?" The young people thought it would be decidedly amusing, and they told him to try it upon Miss Cassidy first. Riley began laughing, and after making a few comical gestures as if in preparation, lie tlrew trom his hip pocket a four-chambered re volver of heavy pattern, carrying a thirty-two-cali'jre bullet. when the young ladies saw the revolver they became some what frightened, and asked Riley "to put it away. "No, 1 said that I was going to mesmerize you both," he replied as" he continued to laugh at their exhibitiou of terror. Miss Cassidy ran across the room, and as she stepped behind a chair she remarked that she "didn't like that kind of sleight of hand performance." Riley pointed the revolver at her, and the young lady stooped behind the back of the chair. This created not a little amusement in the house, Riley entering iuto it with much zeal, for he BI'.LIKVKD THE WEAPON WAS UNLOADED. Miss Cassidy having been forced to seek a place of safety, Riley turned to Mis Itenney and said that ft was her turn to be put under the influence of the magic touch. Everybody began to laugh as the young lady attempted to run info the ad joining room. Riley then cocked the weapon, and, pointing it at her head, pulled the trigger. A report rang out in the room, and Miss Reuuey fell to the floor with a bullet in her forehead. The shock to everybody present was so great that for a moment the stood unable to move or speak. Then the revolver dropped from Riley's hand and he exclaimed: "My God, what have I done!" He rushed to the prosprate form of the young lady, and when he saw the blood trickling "over her cheek, his strength failed him and he gave vent to expressions of deep grief. A physician was hurriedly summoned, but his services were unne cessary for death had been instantaneous. The police of the Fifth Avenue Preciuct were notified, and two otllccrs were sent at once to arrest Riley. On their arrival he was found weeping, aud he willingly accompanied them to the station. Riley informed the Sergeant that the shooting was the result of an accident. He be lieved all the chambers of the weapon were unloaded. He stated that Miss Renney was one of his particular friends, and with tearful eyes said that he had paid her attentions for some time. The four chambers of the revolver were empty when it was secured by the police. Fait Mail Service. Washisgtos, D. C., March It. Assistant Postmaster-General Hatton returned to the city. Postmaster-General Gresham stopped over in Indiana and Is expected here Wednesday. Before leav ing Chicago he ha4 a consultation with officials of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and it will probably result ia the establishment of a fast mall service from Chicago to New Orleans over, that road. Th projected new sen-ice will connect with the New York Fast Mail and leave Chicago at 4 a. in., arriving ax Haw Orle-ius- at noon the following day THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH. A BUI Agreed Upon by tho Senate Com mittee Banking- Investigation. New State. Washington, March 24. The sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Post offices and Post-roads, having several postal telegraph bills under consideratiou, formu lated and caused to be printed, as embody ing' the views of the majority of the sub jomniittee, a bill providing that the Post master General shall establish telegraph of fices at all post-otlices on telegraph circuits and all other post-oflices within ten miles of any such circuits where the salary of the postmaster is not less than 5500 per annum. The charges for the transmission of tele grams shall be prepaid by telegram stamps or by postal telegraph cards and maximum rates for telegrams of twenty words or less shall be as follows: When the distance of transmission is 1,000 miles or under, twenty cents; when over 1,000 miles or under 2,000 miles, forty cents: for all greater distances, fifty cents; for telegrams directed to be trans mitted by night under 2,000 miles, fifteen cents; for greater distances, twenty-five cents. AH words to be counted and for every five additional words or less one-fifth additional rate to he charged. Government business shall have priority in transmission without prepayment and rates shall be an nually fixed by the Postmaster General. All other telegrams shall be transmitted in the order received except night messages. The charge for the transmission of special tele grams to newspapers and commercial asso ciations for each one hundred words or less for each circuit of 1,000 miles shall not exceed fifty cents if sent at night, and one dollar during the day, but when copies of the same telegram are dropped off at one or more offices, the rate for each office shall not exceed fifty cents at night and seventy live cents during the day, and at the same pro rata rate for each word in excess. Where special telegrams are delivered at the same office for two or more newspapers ten cents additional shall be charged for eacli one hundred words, or less for mani folding for each newspaper receiving the same. HANKING INVESTIGATION. The investigation of the Pacific National Bank was begun by the House Committee on Ranking and Currency. Lincoln and Frost appeared on behalf of the stockholders of the bank and charged that the directors of the bank had been guilty of fraud towards the stockholders, and Knox, Comptroller of the Currency, and Needham, Bank Exam iner, made this jiossibk: by their dishonesty or incompetency. Mr. Knox appeared in vindication of his action, and denied having done anything to justify the accusations against him. A NEW STATE. The bill introduced in the Senate for the admission of the State of Tacoma, provides for the erection of the present Territory of Washington and part of Idaho into a State, and its admission to the Union subsequent to the formation of a State Government, and the adoption of a constitution by a conven tion of delegates representing the electors of the proposed State, to be held at Walla Walla, and the ratification of the action of the convention at a special election by electors residing within the-limits of the proposed State. It provides, however, that its admission shall not take place until after March 4, 1SS5. ABOUT BOUUS BUTTER. Iteport of the Xew York Senate Committee on Food -.diiltercttioii. Albany, X. V , March '22. The Senate Committee on Public Health which has been investigating the adulteration of food, re ported Friday. They say they have discov ered wholesale and alarming adulteration, dangerous to the consumer and depreciating the property in rural districts. The adul teration of butter is by tallow oil. bone oil aud lard oil, found in almost every town and city in the State and in amount equals half the production of natural butter. The imitation has been so disguised, that it is often only dis coverable by chemical analysis. Out of thirty samples of butter purchased by the committee in Xew York only ten were gen uine. No labels to distinguish pure from bogus butter are displayed as required by the existing law. Bogus butter is largely purchased by saloons, boarding-houses and second-class hotels. Poorer qualities of bogus butter sell for twenty to thirty cents to laboring men; better grades thirty or forty cents. The manufacturer's cost ranges from twelve to eighteen cents average fourteen cents. Several Xew York and Brooklyn concerns manufacture over IJ.OOO, 000 pounds each out of fats from the West, front France and Iudy. The bulk of tho liogus butter is manufactured in the West and sold iu Xew York to the detriment of the State's dairy interest. The dairy fanners have been driven out of business. The consequent loss to the State Is esti mated at 85.000,000 to 10,000,000 yearly. The committee estimate that 40,000,01)0 pounds of the product are sold annually in the State, and the illegitimate business is breaking up our exort butter trade. The effect of the deception in trade is deleterious to business morals. Butteriue can be sold at eighteen cents less than the natural but ter. The committee quotes extensively from the evidence to show the moral, commercial and sanitary effects of the adulteration. The use of nitric and sulphuric acid in deo dorizing adulterated butter is particularly condemned. The committee recommends the total prohibition aftera given time of the manufacture and sale of all butter adultera tions. The living cow. assert the commit tee, cannot compete with the dead hog. The committee also found '200,000 out of 500,000 quarts of milk furnished in New York daily in 1SS2 were water and kim milk. They recommend the appointment of a Shite milk inspector, and that this official be chosen to enforce anti-adulteration laws, and be se lected to represent the dairy interests. Accompanying the reiort was a bill prohibiting, under penalty of S'200 or six months' imprisonment the sale of adulterated milk keeping cows for production of milk in un healthy condition, or diluting milk with water. It provides that every manufacturer of butter shall brand his name and we weight of the butter on each package. Cans for the sale of milk shall be stamped with the name of the county where the milk is produced, unless sold exclusively in the count. A penalty of S-100 to Sl,000 and imprisonment for one year is imposed on the sale or manufacture of bogus butter or cheese. Therocahontan Mine Disaster. Pocahontas, Va., March 24. The 1,500 residents of this village, each of whom has a relative or near friend buried a half mile underground in .the blazing mine, have become intensely excited over tb action of the Company in .-.caling up the drifts in order to smother the flames. They regard this as virtually leav ing the 150 bodies to be consumed by the flames, and are beginning to make threats against the coi.-.panys officials. The culmination of this sentiment was had last night when a meeting was held in the Cnion Church for the purpose, as the call Hnnounced. of making it compulsory on the part of Superintendent IxitIiro: to open the mine and secure the bodies. TIIE MT. PULASKI TRAGEDY. Gory Evidence of the Triple Jlitsrler, Con- .cealed for Two Yearn, Brought to Light to Aid ia UiiravelinK the Mystery The Arti cles Iilentilled as Having Ilclonged to One of the Parties Now 1 n Custody. Blooming-ton. III., March 21. Dectective Press Rutler, of Bloom Ington, divulged to your correspondent d most important clew to the perpetrator of the horrible murder of McMahon, Matheny and Carlock at Mt. Pulaski in August, 18S2. Soon after the triple tragedy, a farmer, liviug not far from the scene, discovered in the hedge upon his farm a shirt and overalls of a peculiar checked pattern, which were a mass of gore. The pants were thoroughly sat- uratcd with blood from the kirecs down,, and splashed with stains in other parts, as well also as the shirt. The farmer, whose name for prudential reasons the detective will not divulge, had his attention directed "to the bloody garment by his dog, which scented the gore and nosed out the spot. The farmer took the clothing home ami laid it away, and has said nothing about, the matter, fearing to become suspected by dangerous and murderous men. Butler it was, T.-ho caused the arrest of Win. Iloaglin, now in the Lincoln jail, and who accuses that man and his brother KugetiA still uncapturcd, of the .Mt. Pulaski mur ders. At the time of the murder, Win. Iloaglin worked for a neighbor of the man who found the bloody garments, and to go home from the scene of the murder must have passed the hedge. He haA since worked for the man who made IhiJ discovery. Butler says that previous to the murders Win. Iloaglin wore a sait of overalls of the same peculiar cluck. o A PEITLATIXH I'ARSO.V. A Iv rend llni-c Iii-i-iiir Kmlciror-i to Jncr-;ise liU W.nl II j- We-tltli ly KoM.in Contidinjr IVUmmI Hit IViichaiit for Jii.V ulue Lead to Hi Detection. ' St. JnsEi'ii. Mo.. March 21. A sensation was created here yesterday by the arrest of J. B. Johnson at the in stance of Sam J. Smith & Co., wholesale druggists. Johnson was for four years connected with the house as salesman and a year or two ago went to Colorado and opened a drug store of his on u. He. has two drug stores in that State. He spends his summers in Colorado and h:.v wiuters at his home in this city. He makes the house of Smith & Co. his head quarters and sells to country mc reliant: when they come to town. He is a Christian preacher, young, very devou and apparently as spotless as a babe Owing to his good name, he was give i the privilege of the store. A few das ago they began to think that certain ar ticles of drugs, such as quinine, mor phine, and other valuable goods, were disappearing too fast. One clerk sus pected Johnson. A detective was put oi his track, and Wednesday, this detective: declares, he saw him put some quinine I his pocket and leave the store. He was followed, and went to a secluded room, where he remained a short time, afnc which he emerged and went to his hoiuiT In the morning his private room was vis ited, and over 100 worth of the firm's quinine found concealed. A memoran dum showed that he had shinned over t",000 worth of goods from that rooiiij to lus Colorado stores, lie was arrested aud offered to give the firm t',0f'0 to hush the matter up. He is at liberty and the firm is considering what to do. He acknowledges St',009. and they fear this is not the half. lie has a voting family, living in the eastern part of the citv ! style, and the familv moves in the best circles. He is superintendent of the Christian Sunday School, and no mau in the city stood higher or was more trusted. He is pretty well-to-do. The robbery has been kept as quiet as possi ble, but it has leaked out. BREAD CAST ON THE HATERS, Returning After 31 any Dnyn Cmtefnl KnnaiisSenl of tlielr Abuuilaiii'c to Tlieir Flood-Impoverished J!rctlireii of the Ohio Valley The ('rnsihonjier Train. St. I.olis. Mo.. March 2f). A freight train consisting of thirty-one cars, heavily laden with corn, the gener ous donation of Scdgewick Count, Kas., to the Ohio Hood sufferers-, reached St. Louis over the Chicago & Alton Line this afternoon, and will remain at Clark ave nue aud Eighteenth street until morning. In thelftay of a contribution this is the most novel thing seen in this country, and its progress from Wichita, Kas , lia- been marked by demonstrations all along the route, at Lawrence, Kas , there being 5,000 people out to see it pass through, while at Mexico, Mb., it was hon ored with a torchlight reception. Lack car has an immense canvas cartoon oH each side, painted iu colors, representing grasshoppers in all sizes and manners of performances, the most attractive being a pair of hoppers astride huge ear of com ou a wagon driving four! of the insects, while in front is a sign board with the inscription, -'To the Ohio . Valley." It is all illustrative of the grati tude felt bv that section of Kansas for the generosity shown by the people now suf fering from the floods, when Kansas was prostrated by the grasshopper ; scourge in 1871. This plan of recip rocating the kindness took form March 1, and by the 17th the entire traffi had been loaded: but contributions- were so numerous that the surplus , was sold for 500, and an imperative stop put to any farther donations, as they could not be handled. The train has been given free transportation over the Santa Fe, Chicago &. Alton and Ohio & Mississippi Roads, and it is expected T will reach Cincinnati Saturday night aud be delivered to the Board of Trade oi Moudav. It is thought the sale of the corn will realize about $10,000. Thosej who are attending the train are Mayor Griffenstein, of Wichita; W. S. White,- Beacou; Major . T. Jewitt, represent ing the farmers; Prof. Norvall, decorator! of the A., T. & S. F.; T. J. Shelton,! Wichita Times. A Race for a Kallroari. VI Minneapolis, Minx.. March 20. A meeting of the prominent business! men of Brainerd was held last night tc project a railroad from Brainerd to Millcj Lacs Lake. The plan is to co-operate witn tnc enterprise oi tne state mnJ from Leech Lake to Miile Lacs vi Uraiiicrci, now uuueung, using the saii right of way from here" to the LakcPni, if possible, joining with the St. Paul! Brainerd & Grand Forks system. ThJ movement Is hastened by the discover- j inu tumult; l ate, underbid tz Brown, ti r tiie same dum that a St. Louis syndicate, management ot u. Gratz secured a right of way for j pose. 4 I I fe-r ,i--i.. ItL- V 't&zkss-vS v -", J&H i5fcjfsa9eilasA&, It- - rf-. . js&ki s2-t i r 'sp-yv-; I Vw-Si i imigg W tfnifa I!HHKkF--3E X 'I -, E--!