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p.iiUsmouth Journal C. "V. KIIKKUAX. Publisher. rL Al TS JIOUTII. : J.FBRASITJL The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Regular Session. Senator Quay said fa a speech on the tariff bill in the senate on the 14th that it was framed la tfce interest of foreign pauper labor. Sever al amendments to the rules intended to prevent Mibustvrtng were offered by Senator Hill.... After a vain attempt to approve the journal the l.ouse adjourned. The new quorum counting rule would be reported immediately. KtrxEiiAt. services over the remains of the late Senator Vance, of Georgia, were held In tiie senate chamber on the ltlth. No business was transacted.. .In the house a rule which Vrovides for counting a quorum and for fining ubsent members was reported. The Indian appropriation bill ia,4?.a,f0) was reported. It abolishes the office of superintendent of la di:ta schools, reduces the special agents from five to three and the inspectors from five to to. In the senate on the 17th a motion that all petitions protesting against the ratification of tr.e Chinese treaty might be presented in open session was agreed to. The tariff bill was dis cussed. A favorable report was made on the bill for the suppression of the lottery trade and a bill w as reported to set apart 1,C0O,OjO acres f or each of the arid land states and territories to be reclaimed in small tracts by means of ir rigation.... In the house the Quorum-counting rule was adopted by a vote of 212 to 47. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was ui.icussed and a large number of committee re ports was presented. A bill, was introduced by Senator Palmer (la. in the senate on the 18th repealing the state bank rax but prohibiting the Issuing of money by state banking institutions or by any other corporations or persons except national lanlcs. Senator Morrill (Vt ) spoke in opposi tion to the tariff bill, while Senator Turpie dad.) defended the measure.... In the bouse the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill was further discussed and the debate touched a wide variety of subjects and was full of per sonalities. The time in the senate on the 19th was al most entirely consumed by a speech against the pending tariff bill by Senator Perkins, of California.... In the boue the time was occu pied in discussing the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. DOMESTIC Col. Oliver Latiikop Sheperd, D. S. A., died in Xew York of heart failure. Joseph Kay, the oldest odd fellow in Indiana, died at his home in Westville, aged J'. years. fej. W. Watkixs, a well-to-do farmer living' near Hiawatha, Kan., fatally shot his wife and then committed sui cide by taking- poison. Domestic trouble was the cause. Operators threatened to put ne groes ut work in the Blue Creek (Ala.) coal mines, and a race war was likely to follow. During the year ended March 1 the city of New York expended over 515, 000,000 upon its needy population. The schooner Jennie Carter went ashore at Salisbury Beach, Mass., and the captain and his niece and six sail ors were drowned. TwEXir-Foiu buildings in the heart of Santa Cruz, CaL. were destroyed by an incendiary blaze, the loss being $255,000. At a conference of representatives of women's organizations in Washington resolutions asking congress to consider the Breckinridge case were adopted. Xew York society leaders are active ly at work to secure an equal suffrage amendment of the state constitution. Seymour Xewlaxd (colored) was handed by a mob at Rushsylvania, O., for assaulting Mrs. Jane Knowles, a re spectable white woman bl years of age. Jack Crews, the murderer of four persons at Gainesville, Tex., was lynched by a mob. The jury in the case of ex-Secretary of State Joachim, of Michigan, charged with falsifjing public records, was un able to agree and was discharged. The residence of August Krinkie near Janesville, Minn., was burned and three of his daughters, aged respect ively 10, 6 and C years, perished in the flames. Many houses were washed away and much stock drowned by a cloudburst at Troy, Tex. Madeline Pollard was awarded $15 000 in her damage suit in Washington against Congressman W. G I. Breckin ridtre. Charlie Radbourn, the widely known baseball pitcher, formerly of the Boston club, had the misfortune to lose an eye while hunting near Bloorn ington, 11L Official figures obtained at the treasury show that for nine months and a half of the present fiscal year the government expenditures have exceed ed the receipts by $03,000,000. Nearly 9,000 miners were on a strike in Alabama. Perry Baker and Miss Rail Conklin were killed by the cars near Muncie, Ind. The young people were soon to be married. The West End Land company at Nashville, Ten a., owning about 500 .acres of suburban property, failed for $150,000. J itdge Nott, of the court of claims in Washington, decided that the presi dent could lawfully approve a bill after the adjournment of congress. Gov. Waite was upheld by the Colo rado supreme court in his contest with the Denver police board. Charles C. Stevens, a wealthy mem ber of the New lork cotton exchange, was found dead in his berth on the Hock Island road at Wichita. Kan. A lone highwayman robbed the tage near Milton, CaL, of the Wells Fargo treasure box containing $".',000. A folLKR exploded in a sawmill near Bainbridge, )., killing two men and injuring four others. Alex. Johnson, a Richmond (Va.) negro, was whipped by white caps until be was almost dead. The ookers' strike in the Connelis ille (Pa.) region was said to be prac tically ended. Seven hundred young- chickens were burned to .death on Joseph Farley's place at Ox ford. O. A disastrous cyclone swept over a portion of Pottawatomie and Lincoln counties in Oklahoma and two persons were killed, several injured, and a dozen or fifteen residences 6 wept away, betides much other damage. r The law placing a tax on Inherit ances was declared unconstitutional by the Michigan supreme court. In the law office of ex-President Har rison at Indianapolis W. M. Copeland shot W. II. Bruning.his brother-in-law, with whom he had a lawsuit, and A. C Harris, an attorney. The shots would not prove fatal. Massachusetts will pay off the last of its war loan of $3,102,143 May 1, W. L. Corbin, who left Aenia, O., a few days ago penniless was being sought by relatives who want to give him 5300,000 left him by an uncle who died in the East Indies. John Duncan s three children were burned to death in a cabin near Pine- ville, Ky. Madeline Pollakd declares she will not go on the stage, but will live in Washington and write for a livelihood. The exports of general merchandise in March were $4,750,000 in excess of imports, and for nine months the ex cess was 223.OOO,000i A commercial alliance between the west and south was urged in speeches before the national grain congress at Wichita, Kan. Many counterfeit two-dollar bills were in circulation in St, Louis, and the work on them is so good that no one but an expert can detect them. At Mount Vernon barracks, near Mobile, Ala., Hugh Seeltoe, an Apache soldier, in a fit of jealousy fatally wounded another Indian soldier named Nahtoahghun and a female Apache prisoner and then killed himself. John Benhabt and wife, an aged couple residing at Rosedale, Md., agreed to die together and with a razor he severed the arteries of her wrists and she did thesame for him. IIenict Montgomery, a notorious negro, was hanged by unknown parties near Lewisburg. Tenn. J. W. Donigan, a prominent attor ney at Joliet, I1L , fell dead while walk ing from his home to his office. The Logan iron and steel works near Lewiston, Pa., were almost totally de stroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. Mary Ann McDoolin, aged 102 years, was divorced at Tacoma, Wash., from William McDoolin. She claimed that McDoolin deserted her. Z. F. Mekrill, assessor and collector of El Paso, Tex., was missing and a shortage of $23,000 had been discovered. At Mount Pulaski, I1L, Supervisor James Anderson and his brother were killed by lightning. Agricultural implement dealers formed a national association in Chi cago to defeat obnoxious legislation. CoL A. L. Conger was elected president. Striking dyers and weavers in Pat erson, N. J., attacked the men who had taken their places and one was said to have been killed. In a collision between sheriff's of ficers and striking laborers near De troit, Mich., two of the latter were killed and at least fifteen persons were wounded, some fatally. At Oskaloosa, la., George Croft shot his wife, from whom he had just been divorced, and then ended his own life. Lloyd Rodabaugh, a prosperous farmer living on Yellow lake in Cal houn county. W. Va., hanged his two children, aged 2 and 6 years, respective ly, and then took his own life. No cause was known. W. II. Thomas Jfc Son, whisky dealers and distillers at Louisville, Ky., failed for $500,000. The entire electric plant of the Cap itol Gas company at Sacramento, CaL, was burned, the loss being $300,000. By the explosion of a portable boiler at Keokuk, la., three men were killed and another fatally injured. The New York publishing firm of Charles L. Webster & Co., of which Mark Twain is a member, made an as signment, with liabilities of about $150,000. During a fire in the Merchants' hotel at Bangor, Me., many of the guests jumped from the windows and nine were injured. Andrew Spence, aged 73, and wife Hannah, aged 60, were found dead in bed at their home in Boston, having been suffocated by gas. Mr. Mary Harxing. 95 years old, was killed by falling off a foot bridge while walking in her sleep at Marl boro, O. At Nashville, Tenn., Saloonkeeper Tom Ramsev shot and killed Rilev Forman and Tom Fagin, who had as saulted his bartender. For paying too much attention to a woman not his wife Georsre Keim. of Deshler, O., was nearly hanged by a mob. while the obnoxious female was drenched with water and driven out of town. Mrs. Mary Cleary, a widow, and her sister, Mrs. William Doyle, of Me nominee, Mich., started a fire with kerosene and were burned to death. A receiver was appointed for the West Superior Iron &. Steel company of Milwaukee. The company's authorized capital was $2,500,000. A match falling into a keg of pow der caused an explosion which wrecked a country store near Sullivan, Ind., and injured three persons. The opening trames of the national league ball clubs resulted as follows: Baltimore 8. New York 3; Boston 13, Brooklyn 2; St. Louis 11, Pittsburgh 3; Washington 4, Philadelphia 2. Dock Bi6hop and Frank Latham were lynched by the settlers living near Watonga, O. T., for horse stealing. Patriots' day, created to commem orate the battle of Lexington, was en thusiastically celebrated in Massachu setts towns. Ik a cyclone which swept over Sum merville, Tex., V. M. Keel's house was blown down and his wife and three children were killed. A dkcl-ion which practically annuls the South Carolina dispensary law was rendered by the supreme court of the state. Robert Mitchell, a wealthy farmer of Mahaska county, la., was bunkoed out of $5,000 by three-card monte men. Richard Huert, a miner, met a hor rible death at Mountain View mine near Butte, Mont. He fell 1,000 feet down the shaft. The bill to abolish days of grace on notes was passed by thij New York legislature The annual convention of the Na tional Society of Sons of the Revolution commenced at Annapolis, Md., in the senate chamber where Gen. Washing ton resigned his commission as general of the army and delivered his farewell address. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Tire republicans of the Second dis trict of Indiana nominated CoL A. M. Hardy, of Daviess county, for congress. The democratic state convention of Pennsylvania will be held at Harris burg June 27. Carson Lake, the former well-known political writer, died in the state hos pital for the insane at Middletown, N. Y. Gen. W. H. Slocum was buried at New York with military honors. Three thousand men were in the procession which followed the remains. G. J. Harden, who made a tour of the world, died at his home in StroDg City, Kan. He measured exactly 7 feet 8 inches in height. Henry S. Ives, of New York, known as the "Napoleon of finance," died near Asheville, N. C, from consumption. He was 29 years old, Ernest J. Knabe, senior member of the well-known firm of piano manufac turers, died in Baltimore from heart disease, aged 57 years. The Wisconsin republicans will hold their state convention at Madison on July 25. Mrs. George II. Williams, aged 62, wife of the ex-United States attorney general, whose religious idiosyncrasies had brought her notoriety, died at Portland, Ore., after a fast of seventy days. W. R. Calloway was nominated for governor of Washington at the demo cratic convention in Astoria. Case Broderick was renominated for congress by the First district Kan sas republicans. The republican state convention of Vermont has been called for Montpel ier June 20. The governor of North Carolina ap pointed ex-Gov. J. T. Jarvis as United States senator to succeed the late Sen ator Vance, FOREIGN. Ms. Gladstone's sight had grown so dim that he was unable to recognize friends. Complete collapse of the ex preraier was predicted. Admiral de Meli.o surrendered his troops to the Uruguayan authorities and the rebellion in Brazil was at an end. The Belgian steamer DeRuyter, which sailed from Brighton March 12 for Bos ton, was reported lost. She carried a crew of twenty -eight The German reiehstag adopted a mo tion to repeal the anti-Jesuit laws, which forbid residence in that country. At Honolulu Admiral Irwin trans ferred the command of the vessels on the station to Admiral John Walker, taking his own place on the retired list of the navy. The Australian government has de cided to loan money to needy farmers from the savings bank balances. In a fire that destroyed a quarter of a mile of property in Yokohama two American sailors named Moore and Wood and four Japanese women were burned to death. Princess Victoria and Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse were married at Co burg in the presence of an assem blage which included Emperor William and Queen Victoria. A fire at Huntsville. Ont, destroyed thirty-four business places, several dwelling houses, a hotel, one church and the post office, the total loss beinj $130,000. LATER. In the United States senate on the 20th Senators Gallinsrer and Dolph spoke against the tariff bill. In the house a bill was introduced for a sur vey of a ship canal route, connecting L,ake Erie and the Ohio river, bv way of the Ohio canal and Muskingum river. I he rest of the day was spent m the fruitless discussion of the bill to settle some Tennessee war claims against the government amounting to $22,003. The evening session was de voted to pension business. Otto Siianamon and Thomas Powell were killed at North Industry, O., by a caving brickyard walL There were 219 business failures in the United States In the seven days ended on the 20th, against 21 S the week previous and ISO in the corresponding time in 1S'.3. The works of the Crown Linseed Oil company at St. Louis were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $150,000. Mas. Emma Rkdi'atii, of Wisconsin, revealed a plot whereby an innocent man was sent to prison for life for murder. At Roekport, Ind., it was discovered that unknown persons had been robbing graves. Dispatches from Ingalls, O. T., con firm the reported battle between the Dal tons and officers. Three of the former were fatally wounded and two officers were killed. Auguste Lareau was guillotined at Dijon, France, for the murder of his mother, his wife and his mistress. The scores of national league ball games on the 20th were: Cincinnati 10, Chicago 0; Baltimore 12, New York 6; Philadelphia 9, Washington 8; Louis ville 10, Cleveland 3. United States marshals arrested strikers at St. Cloud, Minn., for inter fering with mail trains and Gov. Nelson threatened to use the militia to sup press further violence. Patrick J.. Sullivan was hanged at San Quentin, CaL, for wife murder. John Mason and J. J. Morgan, mer chants of Harris, Ark., 'vhose .business rivalry led to personal enmity, settled their difficulties in a street battle with revolvers in which both were killed. G. S. N. Morton, acting governor of the state of Wyoming, died at Chey enne. The exchanges at the leading clear ing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggre gated $909,889,815, against $890,709,077 the previous week. The decrease, com pared with the corresponding week in 1S93, wa 2a 0. THE TARIFF BILL. Merits of the Measure Discussed by the Senators. On the 13th Mr. PelTer concluded his long tariff speech in the senate making It clear what the attitude of one of the populists Is. He will not vote for the tariff bill as It now stands, notwithstanding It contains the income tax provision. His chief objection Is to the provisions of the revised Wilson bill as to wool and sugar. Mr. Peffer thinks that the sugar-beet Industry of his section should be pro tected, if the refiners are to be protected, and he cannot understand why wool should be made free and duties be retained on woolen manu factures. There are a great many who share Mr. Peffer's views. Mr. Allen, another popu list, has privately Indicated that he would be compelled to vote against the bill for the rca sous indicated by Mr. Peffer. Mr. Peffer, In fact, maintains that the pending bill discrimi nates against the farming Interests. On the 14th Senator Quay (rep.. Pa.) said that it had been hoped, and with apparent rea son for the hope, that when this bill entered the senate It would be broadened out of Its sec tionalism, divorced from Its narrow partisan ship, and from the mysterious recesses of the retort of the so-called subcommittees of the superheated furnace of a party caucus and from the seething caldron of the full responsi ble majority of the committee on finance It would at last emerge purified of its dross and so freed from all defects and dangers an to stand before us a measure which could be adopted with practical unanimity, because It would give the business Interests of this coun try tranquillity by taking for at least an appre ciable period the tariff out of politics. The senator said that that would be an ideal solution of this great question, which would In augurate an era of peace and herald the turn Of prolonged prosperity. He said that these In ternecine raids upon domestic industries, which were so closely associated with political changes, have cost this country more than all the military wars for which every generation since the revolution has paid so dearly. He characterized the measure as sectional, parti san, bluudering. discriminating and unjust; the inevitable result the paralysis of business, the halting of trade, the suspension of pur chases, the stoppage of production, the depriva tion to thousands of their usual means of livelihood and an incredible shrinkage of valuew "The McKinley act," he said, "was not a principle; it was an experimental application of a theory. The McKinley bill was designed as an exemplification of the republican 1 de a o what fostering encouragement was due to American capital and American labor. It was not perfect nor considered by Its authors to te perfect." Mr. Quay continued at length, re viewing the history of tariff legislation in the country and showing the effects of high tariffs and low tariffs on the Industries of the country. He spoke with emphasis on the ruin which the passage of the Wilson bill would bring to the industries of his state. On the 17th Senator McLaurln, of Missis sippi, made his maiden speech in the senate, supporting the tariff bill. Senator Smith, of New Jersey, followed In a speech devoted en tirely to an attack on the Income tax. Ho touched upon the charge of treason by Minne sota democrats, when he said: "Party ties grow weak when they make disregard of one's own convictions and disloyalty to one's own people the test of fealty. And I do not hesitate to add that even the misrule of the republican party is to be preferred to the communism of the populists and socialists. If that be treason then self-appointed censors of Minnesota do right to lay the charge at my door." On the lath Senator Morrill (rep., Vt) ex pressed his regret that the financial and Indus trial crisis had to be continued by a vainglori ous and clumsy attempt to carry out the demo cratic platform. He made some rather biting references to the trouble in which the demo crats found themselves over the bill, and pointed out some of the items in which he thought they bud compromised with their principles and provided for a protective tariff on such articles as would win votes for the bill. "Concerning the rates of duties reported la the tariff bill, " he said, "It Is no violation of the confidential relations of the senate commit tee on finance to state how they were all fixed and determined without the votes of the repub lican members and against even the voles of any hesitating or divergent minority of the democratic members. It us many of the most Important questions may have been determined by the small fraction of three or four of a com mittee of eleven. Hut while the process of evolution was a great novelty It will not be con troverted that all the rates of duty are of the purest democratic origin. Tariffs "for revenue only' prove to be only political tariffs, valid only after the next election." He pointed out in detail what he considered the special evils of the bill, the first teing the obsolete ad valorem system. The purpose of toe bill, he thought, was especially destructive toward the production of the farmer. Reci procity arrangements which benefit the farmer are to be abrogated. The income tax be called an unusual blunder for even a democratic ad ministration to make. Senator Turpie (dim, Ind.) spoke in support of the tariff bill. He discussed the effect of a high tariff bill on the agricultural Interests, In troducing the topic by the assertion that agri culture was America's natural monopoly from the cheapness of the land, and it was from those engaged in agriculture that the demand for the repeal of the existing law was loudest "The opponents of the pending bill opposed the .putting of wool oo the free list on the plea that It would check the development of high grades of sheep, but prefer that the people of the country should have cheap blankets and cheap clothing than that they should have fine South down mutton to eat It is not to be forgotten that tbe bill now before the senate Is the official act and deed of the democratic party, and as such Is entitled to the support of every mem ber of the party. Justice may be delayed, baf fled, even betrayed and wounded by the way, but it will arrive at last" Senator Cameron (rep., Pa.) took the floor la opposition to the bllL Following Senator Cam eron, his colleague. Senator Quay, delivered a second Installment of his speech, discussing the production of iron. On the 19th Senator Perkins (rep., CaL) made a speech against the pending tariff bill, mainly devoted to a discussion of the articles which directly affected California wool, fruits, quick silver, beet sugar, etc., although he considered other features In the bill la which his state was not interested, but which were opposed to re publican principles and which he accordingly arraigned. 6chock Will Race Any Man Six Days on a lilcyole for 8S.SOO m Side. Chicago, April IS. Albert Schock, of Chicago, the long-distance bicycle champion of the world and winner of the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square garden, has issued a challenge to ride any man in England, France or America six days, or 144 hours, for f2,500 a side, half the gate money and the championship of the world. lie will agree upon the Paris edition of the New York Herald being final stake holder if the race takes place in France, the Sporting Life, London, if In England, or the Police Gazette if the race is decided in America. Richard K. Fox had Schock's challenge cabled to England and FraDce. WORTH YOUR WHILE TO READ. Coax, is dearer in South Africa than any other part of the world; it is cheapest in China. A Gaxadiax court has defined tha word "boodler" to mean "the very meanest class of thieves." The only source of the groat lakes is rain that falls within their basin, which averages forty inches per year. Pbof. Bell, the inventor of the tele phone, has been grappling with aerial locomotion in Nova Scotia, and, like all other experimenters in that science, J he is very hopeful of success. RUMORS OF A FIGHT. Unconfirmed Report of the Killing of SIX Members of the Daltoa. Gang. Pzrky, O. T., April 21. A dust-cov-ored and worn out courier arrived here Thursday with the report that a battle to the death had occurred between United States marshals and six mem bers of the famous Dalton gang, headed by Bill Dalton. The fight is reported to have taken place 68 miles southeast of here near a town called Ingalls, near the line dividing the Creek Indian 'res ervation from Oklahoma. Bill Dalton, Bill Doolan, "Bitter Creek Kid," "Three-Finger Jack" Boon, and two unknown allies constituted the out lawed gang and a posse of eight United States deputy marshals were the opposing parties. Kansas City, Ma, April 21. The Associated Press is unable to verify the story of a fight between United States deputy marshals and the so-called Dal ton gang of outlaws. The following was received from Perry: "Basing his opinion upon reports as they come in the sheriff of this county says there Is not a word of truth in the report of a fight with the Daltons." Wichita, Kan., April 2L The story of a fight with Daltons is discredited here and in Oklahoma. A fight did occur Tuesday morning, when a body of men supposed to be vigilantes surrounded the ranch of Bruce Miller in the Creek country, some 20 miles northwest of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and when A. L. Miller, his brother Bruce and a hired hand named Dutch Jim appeared in answer to their summons all three were fired at Dutch Jim was killed and the others wounded. A ball which entered the house also wounded a little child. The Millers quickly reentered the house and for two days they were besieged by the alleged vigilauts. The inmates finally managed to escape under cover of darkness Wednes day night and the invaders Thursday morning burned down all the ranch buildings and destroyed all the proper ty they could find. The Millers are said to be bad characters and to have been ordered to leave the country. Both are dangerously wounded. DEBS BIDS FOR PEACE. (iood Chance for Amicable Settlement of the Greut Northern Strike. St. Pall, Minn., April 21. The indi cations are that the strike on the Great Northern will be amicably adjusted unless a few of the hot-headed em ployes precipitate a strike in St I'aul and Minneapolis. On Thursday President Debs, of the American Iiailway union, addressed a letter to President J. J. Hill, ask ing for a conference between Mr. Hill and a committee representing the order. Mr. Hill replied at once, stating that he would meet the committee Sat urday. This is regarded as favorable to a termination of the fight Reports from all along the line say that every thing is quiet with the exception of SU Cloud, where the men are inclined to be unruly. No injunctions have as yet been filed j with Lnited States courts in Montana or Washington. It is the company's policy to get the complications clear at this end of the line first and then to advance with no trouble to fear in the rear. As soon as the road is clear through Xorth Dakota ! an injunction will be filed in Mon- tana, and the toughest part of the ! contest will probably begin. In the j majority of instances all local Great ' Northern employes seen expressed j themselves as willing to obey the i court's order. No freight train has ! moved for the last twenty-four hours, I and the only work being done ia the j Great Northern yards is foreign busi ness. Assistant United States District At torney Stryker returned to St Paul from St Cloud at 10 p. m. Thursday and at once proceeded to the chambers of the United States circuit court and issued warrants for the arrest of the strikers at St Cloud who during the afternoon cut cars apart with ham- j mers and chisels. United States dep uty marshals will attempt the arrests j this morning. If there is serious re- j sistance a company of United States regulars will be dispatched to St Cloud from Fort Snelling. JARVIS IS TO SUCCEED VANCE. El-Governor of North Carolina Appointed to a Place in the Senate. Raleigh, N. G, April 21. Hon. T. J. Jarvis has been appointed and has ac cepted the United States scnatorship to succeed Senator Vance. Thomas Jordan Jarvis was l orn In Currituck county, K. C, January 18. 182(1 He entered Randolph-Macon college and complete! his course there. In June, 1SG1, he enlisted for the war. At Drury's Bluff he received a wound that disabled him. and since then his right arm has hung useless at his right side. When pence came he turned to mercantile pursuits and opened a store in Tyrrell county. In the fall cf ISco he was elected to the state convention from Currituck. In lWfc he was elected as a democrat to the legislature from Tyrrell and In the fall made uu extensive can vass as an elector on the Seymour and liialr ticket. When the new assembly met -CapU Jarvis was tendered the speaker's chair. The democratic conservative party was then in a formative state and tbe speaker exercised a (treat influence in welding the discordant fragments into a solid or ganization. In 172 be returned to the law, but canvassed tbe state as an elector on.the Greeley ticket Tnree years later he was a member of the constitutional conven tion. In 1879 Gov. Vance was nominated for governor and Capt Jarvis was placed on tha ticket with him. Two years later he succeeded Gov. Vance, and on the expiration of that term be was chosen governor for a full term. On bl retirement from the executive office he was ap pointed by President Cleveland United States minister to Brazil. Erf?SONAL PARTICULARS. Prof. Ernst LTaeckel, the "German Darwin," is sixty years of age, and has been connected with the University of Jena thirty-three years. Sejtatob Colquitt died a poor man, notwithstanding all the golden op portunities presented by his long membership in the millionaires' club. Joseph James Cheesemax, the presi dent of Liberia, was born in that country. His parents were sent cut to Liberia by the American Colonlslation Bociety and were among it early founders. CONFIRMED. The Story of a Battle with the Daltons Appears to lie True. GCTHRrE, O. T., April 23. The report received of a battle between the Dalton gang and deputy marshals near Ingalls, 55 miles from this city, is con firmed. The fijrht occurred at the house of Bruce Miller, one of the out laws. The officers surrounded the house, all of them armed with rifles, just before daylight. The Dalton bandits were inside. No shots were fired until one of the desperadoes came out just about daylight to feed the horses. lie was held up and told to take a look around the grounds and then return to the house, tell the bandits to come out one at a time unarmed and surrenderor hostilities would be commenced. After looking over the field and finding in hooting distance of the house twenty well-armed men the outlaw returned to his companions. A half hour's con sultation was held by the bandits. Then the officers in command of tha party ordered the men to begin firing. The caged bandits poured a rattling fire back through the windows and crevices of the house. At 10 o'clock Mrs. Miller, who had been wounded, crawled to where one of the marshals was located behind a tree. She had received a flesh wound and begged that she might be permitted to ride to Ingalls for a doctor to attend herself, her baby and a hired man, all being wounded. She would not state how many outlaws were killed, but admitted that Bill Dalton and Bill Doolan had been seriously if not fatally wounded. After nightfall the bandits made a break and fled, pursued by the deputies. They went in the direction of the Creek Indian country. Tha messengers who brought this news did not learn whether or not Dalton and Doolan had been killed, but was told that three fatally wound ed were left in Miller's house after their companions had broken through the line of oCicers. lie states that two of the officers' posse were killed and three wounded. Another posse has started out on the chase. IN TRADE CIRCLES. Mnch Cneatinoss Felt Over Strikes and Tariff Uncertainty. New York, April 23. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly report says: "New orders for future distribution are still materially restricted by uncertainty about action at Washington and about the extent and outcome of labor difficulties. Most of the recovery realized in business baa been made possible by the consent of workers to accept lower wages for a time, and if they in sist on restoration of wag?s before consump tion has restored prices many works must stop. The great strike threatened by bitu minous coal miners, and strikes of associated employes on some railroads, make the future less hopeful Exports of gold had some in fluence, and continuing loss in earnings some. "The failures of the last week have beea somewhat more important than usual and were 219 in the United States, against lfc6 last year, and 45 in Canada, against 22 last year. For tha Erst half of April liabilities reported have been I4.1C&418. of which ti,082,55J were of manufao turing and 11,904,337 of trading concerns." Bradstreet's says: "With the exception of prospect for a still further extension of strikes and other labor disturbances, no plainly retarding influence Is manifesting itself. So far as learned there are about twenty-three additional strikes, in volving 21.00J people. This brings the total number of those now on strike or idle because of strikes up to 60,000. The week also furnishes eleven shut-downs of important Industrial es tablishments, more than offset by resumptions at thirty-two others, which furnish employ ment to 5.090 operatives, although seven impor tant establishments announced reduction of wages. The heralded announcement that 200,. 0U0 ooal miners will strike has occasioned un easiness among manufacturers at many central and western cities owimr to the prospective scarcity of fuel. Cities along the line of the Great Northern railroad, which road is now at a standstill because of a strike of employes, are finding their reduced volumes of businesj still further curtailed, and at Chicago labor troubles seriously affect the buildlne trades. "Cincinnati, Louisville, Duluth, Minneapolij and St Paul report hardly as favorable trada conditions as in the preceding week. The first two announce that business is duller, while in the northwest the railway strike and wet weather are In part responsible. On the other hand, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and Kan sas City announce considerable improve ment in the jobbing demand and in several Instances among. manufacturing indus tries. At Omaha trade i. checked, due to the revival of farm work following the good rains throughout Nebraska, which was to be ex pected. No material change is reported from Chicago or from St- Louis, the volume of busi ness in staple lines being about an average. A fair summer's trade is anticipated." KILLED BY A CAVE-IN. Workmen Near Canton, O., Crashed to Ueath Coder Mass of Shale. Caston, O., April 23. In the clay bank of the Uolloway brick company, several miles south of this city, two men met instant death Friday after noon. They were Thomas Powell, of North Industry, and Otto Shoneraan, of Massillon. both single oien. They were working in the shale bank under a ledge when a heavy mass hanging above them became loose ned and fell, crushing both men beneath several tons of mud and shale. They were dug out by other workmen, but both men were dead, having been killed intantly. A SERIOUS CHARGE. A Mlrhtg-aa Woman Held for I'fiisonlng Her Husband. Rooeks Crrr, Mich., April 2S. Fran cis Crawford, one of the best-known business men in Presque Isle county, is dead, and his wife is under arrest charged with playing Lucretia Borgia They lived at Crawford's Quarry, where the dead man owned most of the town, including the dock. He died Monday with every symtom of narcotic poison ing, and the coroner's jury has brought in a verdict charging his wife with having caused his death. Are the ISest Ships Afloat. Wabhingtox, April 23. The naval stability board has submitted to Secre tary Herbert a report of thorough tests of the three great battleships Indi ana, Massachusetts and Oregon to de termine their stability. The result of these tests was entirely satisfactory and is held to show that these ships are su perior to any warships afloat of corre sponding size. A Good Thine for the Farmers. Raxdolph, Wis., April 2 a Farmers near here are securing fancy prices for their lands on a report that gold has been fouid in the vicinity. T