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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.
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