H
ARGUMENT UPON ARGUMENT.
H " Ml Brought About by the Workings of the
"H Sew Railroad Late.
H Washington dispatch : A telegram has
JB been received by tlio intor-Htato cotnmerco
ill conuniHBion , from tho manager of tlio
y quicksilver inino at San Jo mo , Ciil. , regardVl
Hf ing present transcontinental ratcii , shutr
HI ting out their products from New York
Hj tnnrkols entirely , which will have a disas-
H trouH effect on this industry. Several tolo-
H | -grams luivo been received from Pacific
H [ conBt fruit interests , Betting forth disafli
H ters threatened by now transcontinental
M rak'H.
H Charles IL Tweed , of New York , ada
dressed the commission thin morning in
behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad
\S company , for Busponsion of the fourth Bee-
) tion or tho inter-Btate commerco law. The
I 5 " ? Northern Pacific will file a like petition this
' J afternoon. A. T. Britton addressed the
[ J tornniiHS on on behalf of the Atchison , Toll
pokn fc Santa Fe Itailrond company.
, * C. M. Wicker , representing tho board of
I fcrnde and merchants of Chicago , telo-
I M graphed nsking tho commission to withll
M hold ith decision until argument can bo
m submitted in favor of tho long and short
haul chuiBO on tho Pacific const traffic ,
H provided rates from the great lakes and
B MissiBaippi valley be mado proportion-
K ntely less than from tho Atlanticseabo' ,
M na has been tho case in the past.
M Telegrams signed by W. T. Garrett , pres-
> ident of the Manufacturers' Association of
9 California , and a committee of San FranP
H cisco merchants , wore received , saying
jH memorials have been mailed containing a
SJ potent argument against tho super-
K vinion of the fourth section of tho
J net. Tho chamber of commerce of San
H Francisco telegraphed favoring tlio excep-
Hj lions from tho operation of section 4 in
H special cases requiring rapid transit.
HJ A petition against the fourth section was
H presented in nn address by tho attorney of
Hj 1he Atchison , Topekiwfc Santa Fo railroad ;
B nlso by General William Belknap , repreP
H wonting the St. Louis and San Francisco
H roads. The eompelition or steamship
B • tonics was tho principal occasion of these
B petitions. Mr. Tweed gave notice that
B Judge Dilloii , representing tho Union PaciV
B fie , would be hero to-morrow.
B George Gray , attorney for tho Northern
fl Pacific railroad , addressed the commission.
B lie Baid that in an examination of tho
B "fourth section he had reached tho conclu-
B sion that railroads should not take it upf
fl on themselves .to determine what constic
I Luted "similar circumstances and comli-
fl tions , * * and filed a petition substantially
fiimdnr in purport to those presented by
the Southern Pacific.
J. E. Scarlcs. of New York , representing
tho sugar refiners of tho East , including St.
v Louis refiners , entered a protest against
_ • " the granting of the Sun Francisco refiners'
petition.
Mr. Toft , representing the Clipper line of
Sutton it Co. , said the railway companies
were now engaged in trying to havothe law
suspended. If they knew that the law
would not bo suspended , they would bo en
gaged in carrying out its provisions in a
way to make them successful. lie asked
that the law be not suspended in the genj
cral way asked for , but that roads be made
-to fix fair rates , and he would like the priv
ilege of examining witnesses to show what
-would bo fair rates.
Further hearing upon the Pacific linos'
• petitions was then postponed until to-mor-
TOW.
HERE AND THERE.
A New York dispatch reports the death of
t Alexander Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell was borr
\ in Aberdeen , Scotland , in 181S. He came tc
/ this country and settled in Milwaukee in 1S39.
Ho at once became identified with the Wis
cousin the , marine and insurance bank , ol
which he was president. In lS 'J he became
connected with railroading and later was made
picaidcut of tho Chicago , Milwaukee and Sf
1'aul railroad.
Mr. Parnell , from his seat in the house ol
-commons , intends to deny that hewiote thi
> * * letter charged to him in relation to the Phoenix
J3 park murders , which has created intense ex
j < atcnient throughout Great Britain. It if
B stated that the editor of The Times will be
B summoned to the bar of the liouse to explah.
B the authorship of the letter. Mr. 1'aruell has
B notet decided to prosecute the paper.
ii The leading shoe manufacturers of New
I York city have formed an association for the
j iiettcr protection of their business and to re
! sist unjust demands from their employes.
A Boston dispatch reports the death of John
Loid Hayes , LL. D. , secretary of the National
Association of Wool Manufacturers.
The strike at the Union steel works , Chi
• cago , 111. , has been settled in a victory for "the
men.
J The lower house of the Delaware lcgisla-
lure has passed a bill grading liquor license
Srom § 4iX ) to S203 , and limiting drug stores to
sales by prescriptions only.
General Lucius Fairchild , commander of the
G. A. R. , has instructed posts not to complv
with any request for their opinions as a post
on any subject
I The machinists in all the tube works of
Pennsylvania have made a un ited demand foi
.50 per cent , increase in wages for night worli
, after May 1.
The strike against the St Louis stove pat
terns in thejthird district has thrown 15,000 men
out of work. They arc now being sent to New
York and New England.
' General Master Workman Powderly has
warned the Detroit stove moulders to remain
at work for the present as he hopes for settlet
meet of the present dispute.
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L AnSOKBED IX JUS JiOOICS.
Coluairus (0. ( ) dispatch : A dispatch
from this city to a New York paper quoting
-Judge Thiirinan as gaying that he would
accept the democratic nomination for ge > v-
ernor of Ohio if the convention made it
unanimous , was shown the Old Roman
this morning by a reporter. To him , tho
' -ex-senator unbosomed himself as follows :
"To say that I would accept the nomina
tion for governor at the hands of the Ohio
' -democracy at the forthcoming convention
would be equivalent to becoming a catidi-
elate , which most positively 1 will not. I
-appreciate the fact that the new generation
of men men now on the stage of politics are
equal to all emergencies. Among our
younger chieftains in Ohio , J recognize many
men of proven courage , splendid attaina
. -meats ami who possess the confidence of
> \ the people. Under the leaelership of such
men the party in Ohio will have a future of
# "which we may all feel proud. I am now
engaged in my books and in writing letters
in behalf of ambitious young democrats , ,
II "who seek to advance themselves , all of
1 _ which affords me pleasure. A tranquil life s
will afford me more satisfaction than any
. I -office , however great the honor or emolu-
I - ' - meuts. This a8 a matter of course should V
I J be sacrificed for the good of one's country
l * . - • * or for fhe good oT the citizei-s in a case of .
' great emergency ; but that emergency does \
! J- . not in my opinion exist so far as is applis
* j. * - cable to myself. "
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I- " In the Dominion parliament , Mr. Weldon
Sj'v said the Canadians relied not upon their mlll-
| a - tary strength for a settlement of the fishery I
| | / dispute , but upon the good judgment of the c
ifr people of the United States. Mr. Blake , leader
If- • of the oppositioncensured the government for
| . keepingthe country iu the dark as to negotia- *
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t iCIEW RAILROADS INVESTIGATION.
The , Commission Soon to Mert and Map Out
Tlielr Plan of Action.
Chicago dispatch : Tho Hon. D. T. Lit-
tier , of BpringfioJd , one of the members of
U10 \ newly appointed commission to inH
vestigato tho affairB of tho Pacific rail *
roads , was in tho city to-day and left for
Washington this afternoon.
"When does your commission expect to
begin | ( investigation ? " naked a reporter.
"I hardly know yet. Tucaday I expect
to meet Pattiaon and Anderson , the other
members of tho commission in Washing-
ton. when we will call on tho president and
map out our plan of action. "
"WillyoureHinneyourlegislativoduties ? "
"If possible I will , but must be governed
by , the president's wishes and action of tho
commission. Tho Sangamon county peo-
pie aro opposed to my resigning my legisla-
Uve duties , and under the law ftis unnecest
s ' ry. and if I did so there would hardly b
time for a new election before tho adjournj
inent. I took tho oath of office as a mem
ber J of the commission on Friday , and
before J doing so satisfied myself by consulta-
tion with prominent lawyers that thero
was nothing to prevent mo holding both
ofiices. "
"How long do you expect it to take the
pommisHiou. ' to complete tho investigaj
tion ! ? "
"Tho bill under which we aro appointed
directK nn iiivcstigation on so many points
that it hardly seems possible to completeit
by December , yet tho bill requires ua to ro-
port by the time Congress meets. I prejj
* mine we can get an extension of time , and
it appears to me that we will have to make
Kl uch a recpiest. Congress certainly desires
a thorough investigation ; still , the demo-
era tie members or the commission will have
to ' decide that point. The investigation
ought certainly to be thorough. I am in
favor of having every man before us that
has ever pretended toknownnythingnboiit
1 ho management of the Pacific railroad af-
fairs. ' No one ought to be able to com-
plain when we get throughthat he was not
given an opportunity to be heard. Promjc
inent YBishington newspaper men that
have ' ' investigated the Pacific railroad af
fairs ought to be examined first. They ap
pear to have given the matter considerable
research , and ought to be able to give us
important clues. I think it will be neces
sary to employ an expert accountant to
help us go through the books. A consider
able clerical force will certainly be required.ll
f suppose we will elect Governor Pattison
chairman. Ho is the beat known to the
country at large. We will defer , of course ,
to the president's wishos in the matter. "
FLA SUES RY THE TELEGRAPH.
Fifty West Virginia families lost their all
in tho cyclone.
Biigadier GeneralWTiIcox has been placed *
on the retired list.
A number of those implicated in the Pan
Handle robbery cases made voluntary conI
fcssions.
General Bragg denies that the clerks ol
the inter-stato commerce commission are
to be selected under the civil service rules ,
Alexander R. Lawton , of Georgia , has
been appointed envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Austria-Hun-
gary.
Charles F. Renne , - the Chicago defaulter ,
confessed that he forged checks to the
amount of $3,000. He was held to the
grand jury.
. The English government ordered the cus-
toms officials to keep a strict watch over
all vessels arriving from American and
European ports for dynamiters.
Th' governor of Colorado issued a quar-
antine proclamation against the importa-
tion of cattle of Illinois , Kentucky. Dela'j
ware , New Jersey and New York.
Generals Miles and Crook are both np-
plicants for the position of commander of
J
the department of the Missouri , made va-
cant by the retirement of General Wilcox.
The autopsy on the body of Chief Jus-
tice Cartler , of the District of Columbia
supreme court , was performed by Dr.
Lamb. It showed that death was du ? to
cancer of the stomach.
Captain Sclfridge of the United States
steamer Omaha , had an interview with
Secretary Whitney to-day , regarding the
disaster caused by the explosion of a shell
fired from his vessel at the Japanese is-
innel of Ikeshima. The matter has been
referred to the Judge Advocate General of
.
the navy department for examination and
upon ] his report will depend the action of
.
the secretary.
The long and vexatious war of steerage
rates to and from continental points haa
been settled by the reorganization of the
continental steamship conference. The
low ' rates for steerage passengers , which
have ] encouraged large immigration , have
been advanced 25 per cent. All of tho
English lines are also to aelvance steerago
and intermediate rates , while the Star line
lias taken the lead and advanced the rates
55.
a mtrxKEXor. .
Macox , Mo. , April 19. Several hundred
men at work at LaPlata , north of here , on
the new Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fc
branch , were paid off j-esterday , and there
were many drunken rows among them , and
the constable and his assistants could do
nothing as the men prevented them from ar
resting any of their number , and shooting
and cutting scrapes were quite frequent.
At length the larecst citizen who could b2
found was deputized to arrest two laborers
who had been making much trouble. With a
big 1 hickory club he marched into the crowd ,
but soon beat his retreat and was followed
down the street by twenty or thirty of the
crowd.
Three officers succeded in securing the two
parties who were wanted and locked them up
iu the calaboose , but they were released withi
in an hour by their comrades , who broke
down the door.
Between 11 and 12 o'clock last night a gen
eral row took place and twelve pistol shots were
fired , rocks were thrown and knives used , but
no one , so far as known , was killed , though
several are thought to have been badly hurt
and it is known that many sustained slight
injuries. The authorities have no control
whatever.
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A FATAL CYCLONE.
Suffolk , Va. , April 19. Last night a cy-
clone visited this section with fatal and dc- '
structive effects. Its tract was about a bunI
dred vards wide.
The house of John Wricht six miles north j- (
of here , was completely demolished. Mr. "
Wright and his wife and young sister and c
James Luke were in the house at the time ,
and , Mrs. Wright and Mr. Luke were killed ; 1
the young girl fatally injured , and Wright E
seriouslyhurt
Much other damage was done to property
along the path of the cyclone.
Several Soudan Arab tribes have revolted
from the Mahdi's authority , and proclaimed
one of their sliiekhs sultan. u
ur
The cz&rhas abandoned his projected Tialt p
10 the Cossack capital , Nova Tcherkask , own
lug to reports of Cossack disaffection. '
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TUB PARNELL LETTER.
Tlte Times Claims to have Proof of Its Genus
incurs * .
London cablegram : In | the lobby of the
house of commons this morning prominent
liberal members had an informal meeting
on the affair of the Pamell forged letter.Cl
The government having reconsidered the
intention to summon the editor of tho
Times to tho bar of the house to substan *
tiate the authenticity of the letter , it was
resolved to invite Mr. Parnell to move the
summons or havo the entire matter sub-
mil : ted to a committee of the hoiiHe ns he
might elect. Mr. Parncli being absent at
the timo leading members of the national
ist party wero consulted. After a brief disc
cussion these rejected the proposal. The
Times repeats that it has procured speci-
mens or Mr. Parnell' * signature , written
about the time of the letter , in.nddition to
those ! previously mentioned , and again
challenges \ Mr. Parnell to an investigation
in j tiie law courts or elsewhere.
Lord Salisbury speech delivered in Al
bert j palate to-day has aroused 'tho indig-
nation of the Parnellites , some of whom
tallcBtrongly or bringing his remarks to
the \ notice of the liouse of commons. It is
reported that as a result of the reiteration
of its charges by tho Times , an effort will
be j made to bring the editor and publisher
of the paper before the bar of t lie house
of commons and require them to prove the
truth , of their accusations.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt , speaking
at East London this evening , confirmed
the recent assertion of Earl Spencer that
there \ existed no evidence that the Par-
nellitea were ever associated with criminals
or countenanred crime. In view of the
fact , he said that Mr. Parnell had denied
the accusations , it. remained for his ac
cusers , to substantiate their charges.
Managers of the Press associations as-
Bert ( Jhat they havo seen signatures written
by j Parnell inlSTJl , and others in 1883 ,
showing Borne of the characteristics notice
ablein , the Times.but all differing from one
another somewhat , so that a definite opin-
ion cannot bo formed from comparison
of them.
IT IS DEA li A XI ) B URJED.
. the t Red Flag a Thing of the Pasiin the
Garden City.
Chicago , III. , April 19. The Daily Kewx
to-morrow will say : "An event which a year
ago would have been considered of startling
importance happened in Chicago a few days
ago when the formidable organization which
filled the history of Chicago for the year 1830
with terror and e'xeitement drew its last
breath and was buried the anarchists groups
of the International working people's associa-
tion disbanded. There was no particular ex-
citement about this occurrence. None of the
once influential and powerful leaders attended
the funeral.
"The burial of the International working
people's , association took place at No. C3
Emma street in the presence of about fifty
men who still remained in the various groups.
They were members of the northwest , south1
west and south side groups of the Interna-
tional working people's association of the
general committee , the Central body of the
Internationalists and of the Lehr and Wehr
vercin.
"Jacob Gruneberg , who was chosen chair
man . , in a lengthy speech announced the ob
ject of the meeting. "It was called to consider
the advisability of disbanding our organiza
tion , ' he saia. 'Many stories have been cir
culated , as we are to' .el that spies were in our
midst and that 'agents provocateurs' hud been
instructed i to incite us to miscnievous deeds.
Although I persouallv take no stock in these 1
ghost stories' 1 would suggest that we give
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, 'iir conservative fiieud' opportun.ty to
i-ju-ak. '
, " 'J he conservative friend to whom Mr.
Gruneberg alluded was one of the leaders of
the central labor union. His speech , which i
was muck the same tenor as the chairman's ,
but more lengthy and impissioucd , made
quite an impression on the scared crowd.
The3 * looked \ \ ith suspicion at each other , as j
if ' trying to discover spies , and for a few
moments nobody dared to open his mouth.
The silence was finally broken by a man
uameil Mcnzel , who moved that the organiza
tion lie disbanded.
"Several speakers made a faint attempt to
oppose the motion. The conservative friend
again made au earnest appeal. 'You have no
oigan , ' the speaker coneiudjel. 'Yonr name
is mentioned with horror anil contempt even
by workmen. If the lives of the eight con-
jictcd men now in the count\-jail are dear to
\wi , disband , and let all experience bs for-
gotten forever. '
The motion was finally submitted fo a vote :
and was carried without a dissenting voice.
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DESI'EltAI/OES CAPTURED.
Indianapolis special : Michael Hammer
and James Fox , late Kentucky despera-
Iocs and counterfeiters , were captured b } '
United * Slates officers to-day. Yesterday
Capt. Bower , of the secret service depart-
ment , arrived in the city , and to-day , ac-
• ompanied by a force of deputy marshals ,
the house at 129 Patterson street was 1
! mrrounded and entered , both from the
front and rear. Fox elaslied past the ofli-
• ers , but was captured after a desperate i
struggle. Hammer was taken by surprise
md 1 8ecurel3r held before he could use a
• ouple of revolvers which lie elrew from his
oat pockets. This afternoon they were
iotli taken to a photograph gallery , where
mother struggle ensued. Hammer man-
ged to kick over the camera and break it
o pieces. Tho picture was finally taken
.vith a deputy marshal on either side hold1
ng him in the chair. The picture of Fox
was taken with an officer standing by hold-
ng a cocked revolver to his head. Both
nen are desperate characters , and are
mder indictment at Cleveland , O. , for
counterfeiting.
Washington dispatch : It is said at tli
interior 1 Department that the order of th
ecretary directing the commissioner of th
eneral land office to approve of contract.
> f one Green for the survey of a portion e >
he I utile mountain Indian reservation , i
ound to be regular , and to order its per
ormance , practically settle the questiono
he risht of settlers to about 1.000,00 <
icres of valuable land , now claimed by tin
'hippewas. This band now numbers lest
i ban 300. Secretary Lamar is of the opin
urn that the claim of this band is too vagm
to warrant the ousting of the 20,000 hel
lers who have located thereon ; that il
they have a valid claim , congress should
be called upon to settle it.
LEA Till WANTS DAM A GES.
Chicago dwp-itch IIe--m-ii
: : Levy , gener
ally called Harry Loa\itt , who turned in
former at the Haddock murder trial at
Sioux City , began a $30,000 suit for libel
in the superior court here to-day against
Frank Hattcm , Clinton A. Snowden , Jas.
J. West and Jno. Flynn , publishers of the
Chicago Mail , on account of an article
Tueselay commenting on Arensdorf's ac-
quittal , and describing Levy ns a disreput
able person , blackleg , confidence man ,
loafer and thier . Leavitt claims that he is
a reputable theatrical manager at Chicago.
A DEADLY COMBAT.
Chattanooga , TgnnApril 20. .John Ray
and William Carson , near neighbors , living in
lames county , were on very friendly terms
until yesterday afternoon , when they quar
reled about a piece of land , when both elrew
pistols and fired simultaneously , and both
were instantly killed , Carson being shot in the
temple ' and Ray receiving a bullet in his heart
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A DEATH. DBA LING TORNADO.
Several Towns in Mlsnaurl and Kansas Suffer
in Loss of Life and Property.
IN MIHSOUlCI.
A dispatch from Nevada , Mo. , aays : A
terrific ' eyclono swept over this ( Vernon )
county last night about 8 o'clock. The
clouds wore plainly visible here , passing
only about eight miles from this city ,
Tho cyclone seomed to como down MarinaU
ton river from tho Kansas line , dealing
deatli and destruction wherever it struck.
So far as can be learned tho first place ib
touched was in Metz townBhip , passing
through Metz , Osage and Bluo Mound
townships. Fences , houses , barns and
everything in tho lino of the storm , which
was about a half a mile wido , were picked
up , rent into splinters and cast down bun-
dred * of yards away. Trees wero torn up
by tho roots. Over thirty houses were do-
stroyed and about fifteen persons killed.
Only a partial list of the dead bus as yet
been obtained as follows :
Mrs. K. Shrout. Miss Shrout. daughter of
Mrs. Shrout , May Stover , J. C. Hawk ,
John Miller , Mrs. John Miller.
There were five members or the Miller
family , lour of whom were killed.
A baby aged two years was playing in
the yard , and was found unhurt this morn.1
ing.
Parts of the Miller house and furniture
were found Btrewn over the fields one mile
from j , where the house formerly Htood.
Reliable news lino only been received
from | Osage township , and it is thought
the death roll will be swelled to over
twenty-five. A heavy gale passed eiver
this city , damaging tlte Methodist church
and otln-r buildings , but none were seriI
ously injured.
IN KINSAS.
Ft. Scoltdispatch : The Monitor's special
from Prescott. this county , reports a ter
rible cyclone Thursday evening at about
0:30 o'clock. There were seventeen killed
at different points throughout the county ,
unci an incalculable damage was done to
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all kinds of property. Prescott was liter-
ally . wiped out of existence , not a singlo
building being left standing to mark tlio
site of a once prosperous and thriving
place. j The following list or the casualties
from the cyclone aro given : The killed as
reported arc fifteen , namely : Constable
Jake ] Stephen. Will McCale. Mrs. Sarah
Crone , P. Flynn and three children , Jacob
Biocach anil wife. Mrs. Richard Harkness ,
Mrs. Douglass Walter and infant , an in-
fant 01 S. P. Denning , one of .loo Duncan's
children ! j and the 0-year-old child of Will
McCale.
IN ARKANSAS.
Little Rock dispatch : About 3 o'clock
this , morning a tornado originating in tho
Indian territory and moving almost due
east p issed through tho country four miles
north and along the line of the Little Rock
& ( Ft. Smith railroad. Further east , near
J :
Coal , Hill and Clarksville , Johnson county ,
the damage was very serious and many
persons • wero injured. Four miles from
Clarksville this afternoon Turner , John
Reed's child , G. D. Roby's daughter , and
the child of Mr. Petty were killed. The
loss I to farmers in buildings , fences , stocks
and growing cropB is very heavy , but it
cannot now be estimated.
FOUR YEARS OF 1IORKAXD WORRY.
This is Enough for Cleveland and He Will
Not Seel : a Renominalion.
St. Louis ( Mo. ) dispatch : A special from
Washington to the St. Louis Republican
gives the startling information , based upon
President J Cleveland's declaration tondem-
ocratic senator from the west , that he
neither j wishes nor will accept a renoinina-
,
tion. The senator in question is on terms
of < especial intimacy at tho white house , and
the | president is represented as making this
declaration with so much deliberate earnl
estness and studied emphasis that the sen
ator is certain that there is no reason to
question his perfect and entire sincerity.
The president said he had notgiven any in-
timation I of his feelings to representatives
of , the press , for the simple reason that he
felt j nothing he might say about not wish-
ing j to take a second team would be believed.
The president said : "Everything I do ,
every appointment I make , they think it is
to secure re-election. On the contrary I
am counting the days that remain until
my ' release from office just as if I
wero a pr'soner in confinement. "
Apparently , to make it plain that
ho 1 had taken no half-hearted resolution ,
the presdent proceeded to speak of the ex-
acting and laborious duties which fall to
the ] incumbent of the presidential office ,
when thfunctions of the presidency are
administered with scrupulous and minifte
faithfulness. ' No man , he said , could endure
the . severe strain of such labor at once physr
icnl and mental for a longer period than
four | years without risk of permanent injury
to 1 his health. For this reason he could
not 1 think of a continuance of his term be-
yonel : the four years he has now half com-
pleted. ] Nothing , lie said to his senatorial
visitor , would persuade him to alter I113
resolution ' , which he had deliberately
formed. I The senator , who has repeated
this < significant conversation to his friends ,
snys j that while the president was not talk-
ing i for the purpose of getting bis views
about re-election before the public , there
was no intimation that he desired his
words to be regarded as confidential. Tho
senator 1 has spoken freely of the interview
to 1 personal friends , without any injunction
to secrecy , and it is not unlikely this pri
vate discussion of the matter will eventu-
ally i provoke some formal and public ut
terance by the president.
NOT SO WARLIKE.
I'n TH , April 21. At a meeting of the cabi
net today , Emperor Joseph presiding , it was
resolved { not to claim the unexpended balance
amounting to 2S.000.030 florins of the extra
militan' , credits aggregating . .OJI.OOO florins
which the delegation voted last winter for the
purpose 1 of enabling the government to put
the country in what was deemed a necessary
state of defense. The rrsolntion declares that
j the adoption of the extreme measure then
thought j advisable" is no longer necessary , ow
ing j to the peaceful aspect affairs have assum
ed. The nrnisterial action is regarded as an
important i svinptoni provided that the inter
national 1 question has improved , as in Februa
ry , during the discussion on the extra credit ,
Count < Bvlandt-Rheydt , the imperial minister
of war , declared that the government contem
plated 1 expending the whole credit.
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Lancaster ( Pa. ) special : Ambrose Single-
ton and his brother keep a store at Me- j
' • hanics Grove , and the building is infested
with rats. "They have heretofore been
looked j upon only as a disagreeable pest
but now a war of extermination is being
waged because one of the rodents at- I
tacked I and nearly killed a two-months- j.
old child. It forced its head into the
c
child's mouth , thus preventing its crying , c
• md eat away its flesh from the roof of the
nouth and thelower jaw. The physicians r
have 1 some hripn of " - ivImthe child's life. t
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MRS. HOWE SAFE IX CANADA. v
St. John , N. B. April 19. Mrs. Sarah Ilowe 1
who fled from Boston in the early jwrt of last j
week after swindling her lady depositors out 1
of ' $50,000 , had been living here for several t
days. On Saturday she engaged a fashionable f
residence l , adjoining the house of President a
McLellan of the suspended Maritime bank , j
whose furniture and effects she proposed to
purchase. Her identity being discovered ,
however , she was seized with fear , and took -j
last night's train for Caaadfc I s
T
. JOINED TIIE GANG IN CANADA.
Montreal special : Tho boodlo colony
,
hero ' has been reinforced by tlio distinguished
presence or ox-Alderman Sayles , of Now
York city , whoso sudden flight to Europe
after tho Broadway surface railway Hteal
wub unearthed , will be remembered. Sayles
arrived hero a few days ago , and , unlike
hia brother boodlcrs , Keonnn , Denipseyand
Delncy , who luxuriate at the Windsor to
the tuno of SG a dny. has taken up modest
quarters 1 at tho Richelieu hotel , away
among tho French people iu then stand.
Sayles lias come to Montrual to stay. Ho
and Dempsey are now negotiating to pur-
chnwe \ tho "Niche , " a fatuous restaurant
ami resort for crooks , gamblers and ward
politicians. Sayles , Hinco his advent here ,
lias been drinking and gambling heavily ,
and it is an open secret that his boodlo is
almost exhausted. Dempsey has been bor-
rowing , money from brokers and shavers
on tho local Wall Htreet hero on notes in-
domed by Keenan. and so has Mnlonoy ,
who hitH been staying at the St. Lawrence ,
recently allowed his bill to run up to$000.
llogau , tlio proprietor , told him he niiist
pity , tip or git. Moloney pleaded for time.
Mine host was inexorable. 'and gave him
three days to settlo the bill. Ultimately a
check from New York was received for the
amount , signed , it is said , by a crony of
Jake Sharp. All the boodleis excepting
Keenan are hard up. and unless something
turns up there is iioing to be trouble.
CORRIGAX'S WARNING.
New York dispatch : The Mail and Ex-
press says : "Archbishop Corrigan has
launched { another bolt at the friends and
supporters of Dr. McGlynn. Tho Catholic
Herald has been a staunch supporter or
Dr. McGlynn and has directed some fierce
assaults , upon tho archbishop ami Mon-
siguor Preston. Now the archbishop has
struck back. He has addressed a letter to
the editor of the Herald in which ho calls
attention to the fact that as the Herald
assumes to be a Catholic paper it must
obey the injunction which the third ple
nary council placed on all Catholic writers
J to refrain from attacking in public the
nianncr in whicii any bishop inay rule his
diocese. He concludes his letter in the fol-
j lowing significant clauce : 'For some time
{ past the utterances of the Catholic Herald
havo been shockingly scandalous.As this
paper 1 is published in this diocese I hereby
warn you that if you continue in this
course of conduct it will be at your peril. * "
. If this warning is not obeyed the journal
in question will be publicly denounced
J from every Catholic pulpit in the city. Aa
this is the lir.st time for many years that
any American Catholic journal has been
condemned this case will cause wide com
ment.
A REPENTBNT REBEL.
Chicago dispatch : Joseph Grucnliut , who
established _ a wido notoriety by reason or ;
his connection with socialism , tendered his 1
resignation as tenement inspector today.
He accompanied his resignation with a long
statement to the effect titat " 'ho party
who elects its ticket has a right to fill the s
ollices. " When the health inspector sub-
milted Mr. Gruenhut's letter to Mayor
Roche ] the latter remarked : "Tell Mr.
Gruenhut that ho can consider his resigna
tion ( as going into effect from this day. "
. -l.V IXFERXAl. MACHINE.
Kent , O. , April 20. A small box was left
In j the hallway of the residence of Prof. Thom
as Sandford of this place to-day. It was pe
culiarly constructed , with a knob at one end
with which to open 1 small drawer. Being
suspicious , he shook the box and a few grains
of gunpowder fell out , and upon closer ex
amination discovered several matche * so ar
ranged as to be ignil 'd whea the drawer wa- >
opened. H < * threw the box into the yard ,
v \ lieu an explosion occurred which shattered
the widdows of an adjacent ho i e. There is
no known motive for the diabolical deed.
Fair's Sarrow Escape.
A number of years ago , when Senator Fair
was engaged in actively superintending one
f his mining properties , he directed the boss
in , one of his mines to have a wrought-iron
crank made at a certain angle. Mr. Fair then
> vent into the works at the mouth of the mine ,
)
put on a workman's apron and cap , and began
he work of making the crank himself at the
ingle ( at which he had described. The fore-
nan in that room , comingaiound , saw a work-
nan , as he supposed , disobeying orders in
casting property in trying to make what had
already been declared to be an impossibility ,
fie i picked up a piece of iron and knocked the
unateur 1 workman down just as he was com
pleting f the piece of work which his foreman
liad I said was impossible * . The blow fractured
Fair's I skull. His life was saved only through
treplanning. Mr. Fair to day has a small sil
ver plate in the top of his head. After he had
recovered he felt very uncomfortable. He felt
-ymptoms of a brain trouble. After a time he
went J back to the surgeon and said : "lam
certain that that job was not well done ; there
, s a splinter leit in that wound I can feel the
prick ( of it. " The surgeon at first would not
listen | to Mr. Fair , but he insisted upon having
t done over again. The surgeon then di-cov-
rcd that there was a splinter , and if the sen
ator himself had not discovered the cau e of
his 1 trouble his brain would have been affected
in i a short time beyond the hope of recovery.
Cor. < Detroit T > ibune.
How lug-alls Won His Wife.
A Washington corespondent of Tht
Providence Star writes : When Ingalls first ;
went to Kansas he was supposed to be
in ( irreclaimable bachelor. He paid I
. 10 attention to the girls of the fron-
'ier , and the pretty maidens of the West cast
heir eyes at him in vain. He met , however ,
it , a reception one night the daughter of a
N'ew York merchant , who had ju t come to 1
Uchison. Her name was Mis3 Anna Checse-
Mirough and she was very fair to look upon.
le talked to her and found her conversation
ts ' bright as her eyes , and he rode back to
umnerfull of ; > ossibilitie3 which his soul had
mt dreamed of heretofore. Shortly after this
me of his friends was married and Ingalls
as asked to be his best man. To his delight
ie found Miss Anna ( Jheeseborough was one
f the bridesmaids. After tiiis the courting
cut on rapidly and his marriage was the re
ult. The Mrs Ingalls of to-day is the Miss
Vnna Cheeseb > rough of the past She Is one
f the brightest women of Washington society
s well as one of the best looking. She lias
ad a large family , but the cares of maternity
10 not weigh u * ou her , and she enters a s
ullv into Senator Ingall's political career as
hough she had no domestic matters to bother
* r.
President Harrison and. the Farmer.
Gen. Harrison , during his month's sojourn
at the white house , made. himself very popu
lar. He arose every morning with the sun ,
took a long walk , often returning through the
market On one of these occasions he pur
chased a new milch cow from a neighboring
farmer and requested him to drive it to the
president's house. The general was there to
attend ' to the.animal , and invited the farmer
in to take some refreshment , procured a bowl
of hot coffee , h.im and eggs , and continued
conversation with him about farming.
The farmer , having finished his breakfast ,
remarked to the general : "You have bought
my ; cow and given me § 2 more than I asked ,
and a good breakfast besides ; but if it
wouldn't be too mticn trouble I would like to
have a look of the president before I go. " "I
am ! the president. " replied the general. The
farmer at first looked incredulous , having
taken his hospitable friend for the steward ;
but , convinced of his mistake , with much
frankness observed : "Well , general , 1 voted
against you at the election , but 1 didn't know
you then. " lien : Derley 1'oore.
.Nine socialists ol rosen , Germany , have
been convicted of belonging to illegal secret
societies.
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A TURKISH PALACE.
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Charming and Klcxiuit Decoratlontt
A Jfcmttirui tliUh Kooui ?
Our American tnini.sttir .inlly obtain
ed v. "linnan" from-thu govurnmutiL tc : i
allow a part } ' of ns to visit tiiu pahicus
treasury , ott . . writes a Constantinople
correspondent of 'The Sua ranctect J
Chronicle. He also guvo tid tho use ol |
his ] steam launch , and sent his cuvuss |
and nid-de-cemp of tlio snlitan's to
guide I and guard n.s properly. Wo met ;
in i the early morning in front of the \
largest ] palace on the llosportis , "Dolma
Batehe ] , " and entered by the wator
gate. I It opens into a garden , not very j
large j , and consisting mostly of shrub- :
bery. I But we had seen gardens b-jfore , ]
and not pahicus , so we hurried on to \
ascend j the marble steps. After a little |
vestibule , wo found ourselves at once ?
in . a largo reception-room. The high- 1
ly ' polished iloor.s of diU'erunS woods i
were as smooth as glass , and strips ol i
Turkish carpets wero laid for us to walk
upon. 1 Man } ' apparently strong mar
ble ] pillars supported the lofty ceiling.
Marble , wo thought , but upon examina- f
tion , we found them to be only the |
best of imitation. The walls , too , had |
disigus ( in the same material. Each cor- '
net ] * was ornamented with catullestitcka
of , about thirty candles , with cut-glass
retleclors ] that .showed forth bril
liant ] lights. All • th-rest of the room
seemed i grand in its emptiness. OH * it
aro i small reception-rooms , whose walls
are : hung with line * pa ntuigs and tapes
try work. One wall is entirely taken
up 1 with a piettuv of a pilgrimage to
Mecca. ] Each detail is wonderfully
brought | out nn I wo can imagine our
selves , in the coiisrr. ihre : represented ,
r.iltng one of iIiomi.h - h camels , or in
the * train ofvor. . - > h u. . . . . . 'following some
notable ' s carriage. Beautiful tables
of 1 inlaid work , ami mosaics are in theae
rooms ; indeed even thing is the perfec
tion of elcg.inee. From the large cen
tral hall laid those renowned stairs
whose balustrades are of glass , and
whose flights wind around each other
in so graceful a manner. Looking up , as
we near the top , we see a room brilliant
again with the reflectors of numerous
caudles. This is very similar to the
large room below it , but oil * from it the
rooms are larger and furnished as par
lors or.drawingrooms. .
We were surprised to find no bed-
rooms , but it seems that the Turks bc-
lieve in getting along without all that
furniture , and so they simply have their
bedding brought in and placed upon
a divan for the night. The more intel-
ligent people are getting now to use
bedsteads , and probably when the Miltar
occupied th s palace they were used ;
but now , since it is shown to the pub
lic , the * effect is supposed to be better
without them. Of cour.-c , these rooms *
appear much alike , yet all differ in the
richness of the silken hangings , heavy
curtains , and handsoinely-nplioistercd
chairs and divans. Many of the fire
places are of the most exquisite marble ,
and some are even of gla- . Yet more
wonderful in workmanship are the *
mosaics , flowers matched so perfectly
as to look like natural one ? , and figures
as to appear like natural ones , ami fig
ures so plain as to appear liie fine
paintingWe passed through a long
corridor containing over one hundred
oil paintings most of them represent
ing battle scenes , laudscajies , and an ' -
inals , and some of them are quite line.
This lon < > ' hall leads into the harem ,
but that wo were not permitted to en
ter , and were guided up a short flight
of stairs into the sultan's room. Tit is
is richer I ban any other in its furnish
ings and opens into what was once a
conservatory that overlooked tiie whole
garden. It is now entirely uncared for /
and looks desolate enough. From
here was v sited the thorne-room. that
mu t be the entire width of the build
ing and tho whole heiirht as well. The
dome seems so far. far up ; and how t
the figures 111 the paintings stood out |
as thev looked down upon us. From J
every part of that large room it looked \
the same. At one end is a space for \
the : tliron" , that is placed there onlv
when needed. The room is seldom
used except on certain fete days or tc
receive some noted visitor. What
wealth is displayed in the heavy silver
candlesticks that stand fully ten feet
from the iloor. They are solid , and
their peculiar tinge siiows the pur.ty of
tho material.
Not far from th s room is the irem of
all bathrooms for it s of pun * Egyp
tian alabaster. The walls and ceiling
are beautifully carved , while the floor
and basins seemed the purer for their
s niplicitv. As tiie sun shone through
the skylight and showed th-j pink
transparency of the stone , it eemed
like a precious stone indeed. We vi ? 1
ited more drawing-rooms , and might '
hare continued to do so for hours , but
our guide hurried us on. *
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The Dear , Innocent Creature.
"S.ill van made a great deal of mou-
ey by Irs slugging match. * ' remarked *
Mr. Svnd cate , as he laid down the 1
morning paper which he had been read- "
ing at tiie breakfast table.
"How is that ? " inquired Mrs. Syndi
cate ' , wiio is not well posted about
sporting ' matters.
"I was reading about Sullivan's slug
ging , match. "
'
-Who is Match ? * '
"Pshaw ! I mean his boxing match
es ' , " replied the impetuous Mr. Syndi
cate. 1
"Boxing matches , is he ? Well , I am
glad to hear that he has at last gone
into some respectable business. " 1'cz -
as 'tiijling-i. „
About Salt.
A morning hand bath in cold salt
water is delightfully invigorating.
Warm salt water inhaled through the
nostr Is will cure catarrh.
A pinch of salt taken frequently will
stop a cough or throat irritation.
A glass of salt water , warm or cold ,
taken on ris ng in the morning will
cure constipation.
Bathing the eyes when tired or weak
in warm salt water will soothe and
strengthen them.
Salt , plentifully sprinkled on the icy *
doorstep will have a bettpr and clean
er effect than ashes. Good Housekeep
ing.