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CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings 01 tle Second Session.
Thb Fifty-third congress commenced Its
second session on the 3d. In the senate after
organization and listening to the president's
message several resolutions were ofTeretl,
among them being one by Senator Peffer for an
investigation into the legality of the issuance
of bonds. ...In the bouse the secretary of the
treasury's estimate of appropriations required
for the service for the fiscal year ending June
80.1896. aggreg-vtlng $-l!0.435,07. was received.
Mr. Hartman. ef Montana, iatroduced a bill
providing for tr-e free coinage of silver. The
president's message was read.
IN the senate on the 4tU a resolution was
adopted callicg for the official letters of Ad
miral Walker while in command of United
United States naval vessels at Hawaii. There
was the usual deluge of bills and petitions in
cident to the opening days of a session, none
of them, however, being of public Importance.
In the house a bill for the establishment
of a national park on the site of the battle of
Shiloh was passed.
Mb. Peffer's resolution calling for informa
tion regarding the issuance of bonds wis
adopted In the United States senate on the 5th.
Bills were Introduced for the free coinage of
silver, making the silver dollar to consist of
41J!4 grains of standard fineness; to form the
state of Indlanola out of portions of the In
dian territory, and for an amendment to the
sugar clause In the present tariff law striking
out all the provisions except that to remove
the one-eighth differential on sugar... .In the
house a resolution was introduced repealing
section 3 of the act providing for the resumption
of specie payment, which authorizes the secre
tary of the treasury to sell bonds.
On the eth Senator Turple spoke in the sen
ate in favor of the election of United States
senators by direct vote of (he people. Bills
were passed exempting from duty foreign ex
hibits at the Portland (Ore.) exposition and
for the national dedication of the Chickamau-
pa and Chattanooga national park on Septem
ber 10 and 2J. 1SV5. Adjourned to the 10th....
In the house a joint resolution was introduced
proposing an amendment to the constitution
making the president Ineligible to a second
term. The bill making appropriations for for
tifications and other works of defense fwr tie
fiscal year l8Ss-'V6 ($7,357.71)3) was reported.
DOMESTIC
The Wisconsin legislature 'will be
asked to pass a law compelling' saloons
to be closed on Memorial day.
John Burns, the English labor lead
er, reached New York, and was wel
comed by trade-unionists.
Fra.sk Waller, of Chicago, won the
twenty-four-hour professional bicycle
race at New York, making 434 miles.
An earthquake shock, which was ac
companied by a rumbling sound, was
felt at Pittsfield, 111.
The first rain for four months fell in
Arkansas, putting out the forest fires
which had done great damage.
The eleventh annual report of the
United States civil service commission
shows that from Ju'y 1, 1893, to June
20, 1894, 4,372 appointments were made
in the classified service, an increase of
eighty-three over the previous year.
Two ilES and two women who had
been engaged in smuggling Turkish
embroideries were arrested at Detroit.
The coinage at the mints of the
United States during the month of
November was as fellows: Gold, 32,
040,000; 6ilver, $1,073,000; minor coins,
S94.900; total. $2,207,900.
The Great Western Electrical Supply
Manufacturing company of Chicago
failed with liabilities of $300,000 and
assets of 1700,000.
Henry Stunkle, probably the
wealthiest farmer near Wichita.
Kan., was swindled out of 5,000 by
the three-card raonte and tin box
swindles.
Br the burning of a dwelling in
Philadelphia Mrs. Ella R. Smith and
Miss Cullenden lost their lives.
Corrected treasury figures show the
receipts from all sources during the
month of November to have been S19,
411,403, disbursements, 28,477,183,
which leaves the deficit for the month
9,065,785 and for the five months of
the present fiscal year 822,295,152.
In his annual report Comptroller
Eckle-s advises a change from a bond
to a safety fund security as a basis for
bank circulation.
Four men who robbed the post office
at Ticonderoga, N. Y., were captured
by a sheriff s posse after a desperate
fight.
A statement prepared at the inter
nal revenue bureau shows that the re
ceipts for the four months ended Octo
ber 551 were 04,740,529, an increase of
$10,324,325 over the previous four
months.
Secretary Gresham declared untrue
the report that Minister Denbv had
cabled that the legation at Peking
was in danger.
Another cut of one-eighth of a cent
per pound was made in sugar, bring
ing it to the lowest price on record.
Tiie public debt statement issued on
the 3d showed that the debt, owing to
the receipt of gold for bonds, decreased
31,744,552 during the month of Novem
ber. The cash balance in the treasury
was144,507,tt03. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to SS79.582.919.
Thomas Johnson, of Odin, who had
been searching for his father for
twenty-three years, found him in the
i?t- Clair county poor house at Mas
eoutab. 111.
J. S. Zerb, a New York electrician
and inventor, brought suit for 400,000
against the Westtnghouse company
for infringement of patent.
East-bound shipments from Chicago
were at a lower ebb than at any cor
responding period for fifteen years. '
One of the finest buildings in Utica,
N. Y.. occupied by Comstock Bros.,
wholesale druggists, was burned, the
loss being 125.000.
At Galliopolis, O.. Oliver Anderson
was murdered by Elswick Boster and
Ilarry Martin was shot by Boster's son.
Joe Mitcheld's house attManlstique,
Mich., was burned, and two boys, aged
and 5 years, perished. Mrs. Mitchell
left her children locked in the house
while she called on a neighbor.
The business portion of Tingley, la.,
was destroyed b fire.
The North Platte (Neb.) national
bank closed its doors with liabilities of
75,000.
The Tacoma (Wash.) national bank
closed its doors with liabilities of 212,
000. In his message to congress the pres
ident argues for free coal and iron,
adoption of the "Baltimore plan" for a
more elastic currency and removal of
the differential duty on sugar.
Justice Harlan has made a ruling
practically deciding that where a
party is indicted for the sale of oleo
margarine if he can prove that he had
no knowledge of the ingredients he
must be acquitted.
Great damage had been caused by
prairie fires in northern Indiana.
Nearly 2,000 tons of hay were de
stroyed near Wilder's.
In his annual report Attorney Gen
eral Olney commends the supreme
court for its promptitude in deciding
cases and explains his course during
the strike.
Mrs. , Louis Alberti, of Galveston,
Tex., in a fit of dementia poisoned her
five children, two of whom died and
the others were in a critical condition.
While digging a sewer at Hunting
ton, Ind., a workman struck a dyna
mite cartridge and it exploded, injur
ing five men, two fatally.
The annual report of the secretary
of the treasury shows that the rev
enues of the government from all
sources for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1894, were 372,802,498 and the ex
penditures 442,605,758, which shows a
deficit of 09,803,260. As compared
with the fiscal year 1893 the receipts
for ISM fell oil 38.914,063.
Edoar Gebo and Chris Wicks, Michi
gan fisherman, were drowned from a
fishboat near Torch Lake in Grand
Traverse bay.
The big coal-breaker of the Lafiin
Coal company at Lafiin, Pa., was
burned, the loss being 100,000.
The city council of Jacksonville,
Fla., unanimously repealed the ordi
nance permitting prize fighting.
Exposition hall and the First Bap
tist church in Omaha were destroyed
by fire, the total loss being 175.000.
Mrs. Julius Goodrich was granted
a divorce at Milwaukee and within
two hours was married to S. Marshall
Conger.
A fire in the New York dry goods
district did 250,000 damage and seventy-five
girls had a narrow escape.
At Minneapolis August A. Hanson
broke the 100-mile road record for bi
cyclists by riding 100,' miles in 5:03.
This is twenty-four minutes less than
Weining's Buffalo record.
The interstate commerce commis
sion in its eighth annual report says
that on June 30, 1S94, there were 174.
461.07 miles of railway line in the
United States, being an increase dur
ing the year of 4.SSV.55 miles, the capi
talization being 10,500,235,420. The
gross earnings were 1,220,751,674, the
operating expenses S27, 912,299, leav
ing net earnings of 392,830,575.
The national department of agricul
ture returns this year's clip at bli
pounds of wool per head, or 240,000,000
pounds.
Harry Goodloe, a student in the
Central university at Richmond, Ky.,
died of injuries sustained while play
ing football.
Jebe Matthews, ex-county clerk at
Lincoln, Neb., took morphine with
suicidal intent and died, leaving a
shortage of 19.000.
A cave-in in the Center Creek mine
at Webb City, Mo., killed John Lar
son, Dan Trexil and Walter Cole.
Further evidence of shocking police
brutality and corruption was brought
out by the Lexow committee in New
York.
The schooner Clara E. Simpson was
run into and sunk off the Connecticut
coast and fhree sailors were drowned.
A bill to punish usurpers of state
offices was passed by the Alabama leg
islature by a party vote.
A St. Louis southern trade journal
estimates the year's cotton crop at
9.000.000 bales.
The governor of Utah was alarmed
at the threatened Indian invasion and
had furnished arms to citizens.
Surgeons in the employ of the Big
Four road met at Indianapolis and ar
ranged to establish a chain of hospi
tals for employes.
Kelly was said to be organizing an
other Coxey army in Sacramento, Cal.,
to move on Washington and to urge
congress to provide work for unem
ployed American citizens
Officials of the post office depart
partment were negotiating for street
railway mail service in Cleveland, O.
The Tremont house, the oldest hotel
in Boston, is to give way to a big office
building.
Members of the National Editorial
association met in Chicago and de
cided to hold their next meeting in
Florida.
Burglars blew open the vault of
the First national bank at Marceline,
Mo., and secured 0,000.
The old Jefferson Davis mansion at
Richmond, Va., formerly the white
house of the confederacy, will be con
verted into a museum of confederate
relics.
The J. W. Fowler Car company of
Elizabeth, N. J., failed for 130,000.
John Hoffman, 75 years old, who
says he has stolen 500 horses, was ar
rested at Crown Point, Ind., while
making away with a team.
Financial embarrassment caused
Robert Huston, ex-sheriff of Will coun
ty and a widely-known man, to com
mit suicide at the Grand Pacific hotel
in Chicago.
Provision has been made by the
post office department for a five-cent
postal rate on letters to nearly every
foreign country, effective January 1.
Thirty-five of the forty-two chil
dren in the Ay er home for young worn'
en and children at Lowell, Mass., have
scarlet fever.
Thoms James, of Kentucky, be
trayed a young woman named Fultz
and killed three of her relatives who
attempted to force a settlement.
Robrer8 held up a Texas & Pacific
train near Fort Worth, Tex., and
stole 140,000 from the express car
safes.
The navy department has accepted
the cruiser Minneapolis and ordered
the payment of $416,600, the premium
she earned.
Miss Josephine Brand, of Lawrence
burg, Ind., was robbed of 10,500 on
the streets of Cincinnati, O.
Paul Fierbacher, a German boy of
Guthrie, O. T., has invented a railroad
tie for which he has been offered $50,
000. Ross Kenton, his wife and their 3-year-old
daughter were fatally burned
by gasoline at their home near Lowell,
Mich.
The Exchange bank at Goodland,
Kan., closed its doors with liabilities
of over 30,000.
Fires in the Texas panhandle swept
northwesterly and southeasterly until
about 25,000 square miles of land were
burned over.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
Leon Abbett, four times elected gov
ernor of New Jersey, died at his resi
dence in Jersey City from diabetes,
aged 58 years.
Oden Bowie, ex-governor of Mary
land and a prominent figure in war
times, died at his home in Bowie.
EX-CONGRESSMAN DANIEL W. CON-
kelly died at his home in Scranton,
Pa., after a brief illness.
John Gaby Evans was inaugurated
governor of South Carolina.
Kolb, who claims to be governor of
Alabama, issued an address to his fol
lowers in which he urges them to re
fuse the payment of taxes.
David Joyce, the Clinton (la.) lum
ber king, died in Minneapolis from
paralysis, aged 69 years.
By the official compilation of the
vote in Illinois Wulff, for treasurer, is
shown to have a plurality of 133,427.
The official count in Tennessee gives
Evans (rep.), for governor 841 plural
ity. E. II. Stroble. minister to Ecuador,
was nominated by the president for
the Chilean mission, made vacant by
J. D. Porter's resignation.
Miss Annie Grace Lippincott, daugh
ter of "Grace Greenwood," the author,
and Herbert Hall Winslow, the dram
atist, were married in Washington.
Andrew J. Campbell, congressman
elect of the Tenth New York district,
died at his home in New York city of
Brighfs disease, aged 66 years.
Capt. John Pridgeon, the million
aire capitalist and vessel owner, died
at his home in Detroit, aged 66 years.
Mark Robert Harrison, the cele-!
brated artist who painted "The Death
of Abel," died at his home in Fond du
Lac, Wis., aged 76.
FOREIGN.
Japan was said to be willing to ac
cept an indemnity of 400.000,000 yen,
but would increase the sum if the war
was prolonged.
The American ship Richard Parsons
was wrecked on the coast of Mindora
and six of the crew were drowned.
King Humbert opened the Italian
parliament and expressed confidence
in the maintenance of peace.
Twenty Armenian refugees who
reached Athens confirmed published j
reports of the atrocities committed by J
the Kurds.
Japan notified China that she would
not entertain further peace proposals
j' . . . j . ib " . j ac
credited ambassador.
At Hull, Quebec, four men and a boy
were killed and several other persons
injured by an explosion of dynamite.
Victoria Yokes, the last member of
the famous Vokes family of actors and
actresses, died in London.
Consular reports indicate that the
production of wheat in the Argentine
Republic is enormous and will keep
prices down.
China has decided to send a repre
sentative direct to Japan to arrange
the terms of peace.
LATER,
The United States senate was not
in session on the 7th. In the house
the greater portion of the session was
devoted to a continuation of the dis
cussion on the bill to so amend the
interstate commerce act as to permit
railroad companies to pool their earn
ings. Five men were fatally and one seri
ously injured at Boston, Mass., by the
explosion of a dynamite cartridge.
There were 3S5 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 7th, against 289 the
week previous and 385 in the corre
sponding time in 1893.
Charles F. Howard was hanged at
Rawlins. Wyo., for murdering Charles
Horn last New Year's eve at Dixon
during a quarrel about a dissolute
woman.
Shelby & Soaper, proprietors of the
Henderson (Ky.) hominy mill, failed
for 100, 000.
The official canvass of the vote in
Wisconsin shows that it was 375,449,
the largest ever cast in the state by
S,S68 ballots. Upham (rep.) has a plu
rality for governor of 53,900, and a ma
jority over all the other candidates of
17,056.
Ambassador Runyon states that
Americans sojourning in Germany
must exhibit passports in order to re
main there.
Ferdinand de Lf.sseps, the famous
French engineer and builder of the
Suez canal, died at the Lachenaie,
near Vatane, in the department of
L'Indre, France, aged 84 years.
The Roman Catholics in Archbishop
Ireland's diocese were being permitted
to join any secret society excepting
the free masons.
Claub Spreckels has purchased 40,
000 acres of sugar land and a town and
railroad in southern California.
President Cleveland cabled the
American delegate at Constantinople
directing him to investigate the Ar
menian outrages.
Forged American school bonds to a
large extent were found to have been
floated in England and Ireland.
The annual report of the national
home for disabled soldiers states that
mare veterans applied for admission
during the year than could be accom
modated. The aggregate average num
ber kept was 70,102, and the whole
number cared for during the year was
85,564. The annual cost of the main
tenance of each man was 127.45, a
decrease from the previous year of
13.50; the deaths were 1,050, an in
crease of 2a
THE GAVEL FALLS.
Opening of the Short Session of
the Fifty-Third Congress.
Crisp Call the Lower House to Ordar Tiie
1'rrsMent's Message Keoeivel Vlce
President Stevenson Calls to
Order the Senate.
Washington, Dec 5. The opening
of the second session of the Fifty
third congress made the capitol build
ing a center of interest Monday. At
just the hour of noon Speaker Crisp
entered and the fall of his gavel was
the signal that congress was in ses
sion. Prayer was offered by Rev.
Hagby, chaplain of the house. The
roll call developed the presence of 216
members. Several members elected
to fill vacancies caused by death or
resignation were sworn in.
Upon motion of Mr. Wilson (dem.,
W. Va.) a committee, consisting of
himself, Mr. Holman and Mr. Reed,
was appointed to join a similar com
mittee from the senate and inform
the president that a quorum of both
houses was present and congress was
ready to receive any communication he
desired to make. Several other reso
lutions, fixing the hour of meeting,
etc.. were adopted.
At 12:30 the house took a recess until
1 p. m., to await the president's mes
sage. Iloase Hear the Message.
It was 1:37 before the rotund figure
and solemn face of Maj. Pruden, the
president's assistant secretary, ap
peared as evidence that the annual
message had arrived.
The reading of the president's mes
sage was concluded at 3:15 p. m.
The death of Mr. M. B. Wright, of
Pennsylvania, was announced, and the
house thereupon, at 3:13 p. m., ad
journed. Proceedings la the Senate.
Promptly at 12 o'clock Vice Presi
dent Stevenson called the senate
to order and Chaplain Milburn,
in eloquent terms, offered the open
ing prayer.
Mr. Harris (dem., Tenn.) offered the
customary resolution asking that a
committee be named for the noti
fication of the president that the
senate was in session and ready
to receive such communications as he
might wish to make. On the adoption
of the resolution the presiding officer
named Messrs. Harris (dem., Tenn.)
and Manderson (rep., Neb.) as the
committee.
At the close of the second recess a
report was made b3 Mr. Harris, from
the committee to wait on the presi
dent, and iramediatoly thereafter Mr.
Pruden, one of the president's sec
taries, delivered the president's
annual message, which was there
upon read by Mr. Cox, secretary of the
senate.
After the reading of the message
resolutions were offered on various
subjects, including the alleged Ar
menian outrage, the surrender of two
Japanese citizens to the Chinese au
thorities, and the election of United
States senators by the people. The
senate adjourned at 4 p. m. Seventy
senators were present.
PEACE PREVAILED.
Gov.
Oates. of Alabama, Seat et -Kolb-
Threats Not Carried Out.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec 4. Gov.
Oates was inaugurated in a peaceful
manner on Saturday. Kolb's threats
of going to the capitol, taking the
oath and delivering an inaugural
address, which gave rise to fears
of trouble, perhaps bloodshed, were
not carried cut. Kolb took the
oath before a justice of the peace
at his down-town office and pro
ceeded with about fifty followers
to the capitol, the approaches to which
were guarded by militia and police.
He was permitted to enter the grounds,
but was denied admission to the build
ing. Kolb called on Gov. Jones, and
was informed that no one bat Gov.
elect Oates would be allowed to enter
the capitol or to speak; that
if he (Kolb) undertook to deliver an
inaugural address he would be
arrested. Kolb with his adher
ents withdrew to the street
where he spoke briefly from a wagon,
counseling moderation and the re
fraining from any violent actions.
Half an hour later Gov.-elect Oates
took the oath of office, administered
by Chief Justice Birkell, and delivered
bis inaugural address, in which he
stated that he believed he had been
honestly elected, or he would not have
accepted the office.
MONEY TO RUN GOVERNMENT.
becrevary Carlisle He ores Out That SJ410,
435. 07t Will lit) Required.
Washington, Dec 5. The secretary
of the treasury has sent to the house
of representatives his estimates of ap
propriations required for the service
of the fiscal year ending June SO, 1S96,
which aggregate 5410,435.079, as
against 8411.879,041 estimated for the
present fiscal year. Following is a re
capitulation of the estimates by de
partments for 1890. with comparisons
with the appropriations for 1895, cents
omitted:
I.'itimafei Appropria
ie. horn lr.ts.
legislative l8.Mfl.74'J (10.337 017
Executive - 1P9.W0 1VH.024
State 1 .7M0..SS8 2,0118. Sis
Treasury 13H.-H7.il 133.735.36i
War NV.2MI.320
Navy 3l.P9H.8sa 26.720.754
Interior 16ft.92V.s7S 173.82ft 7l
Post office 6 ft32.lt.ri 2.40 .9X1
Agriculture 2 4.0.33U 3.227.'-(
Labor 1H.470 170.011
Justice 0.724.960 7.730.3W
Grand totals. ...... ..(410.4.15.079 tJ15.700.S43
AIMED AT KOLB.
BUI to I'unlih Usurpers Introduced la the
Alabama House.
Montoomkky, Ala., Dec 5. A bill
was introduced in the house Uy Repre
sentative Knight, of Hale, which is
intended to prevent all possible dan
ger of a dual government. The bill
makes it a crime punishable by fine
and imprisonment for any person to
take the oath of office and attempt to
discharge the duties of such office
without first having been declared
elected thereto by the person or body
having authority to so declare the re
suit. A heavy penalty is attached.
NO CHANGE IN TRADE.
-Irmporary Activity Caused by Holiday
Traflic Future IIopefuL
New York, Dec. 8. R. G. Dun &Co.'
weekly review of trade says:
It Is difficult to detect any change In cur
rent business. Prospects for business after
January 1 are quite generally considered more
hopeful In some branches. There are larger
orders and the west-bound shipments of mer
chandise are larger. Hut the working force
Is naturally diminished near the end of the
year, and the holiday traflle brings just now a
temporary activity which is not of much
general significance. The meeting of con
gress and the announcement of the new
currency plan and of various bills
proposed have not affected the situation
perceptibly. Payments for bonds have
been completed without disturbance, but did
not prevent the shipment of some gold to Eu
rope Friday. On the whole, agricultural
products are scarcely stronger, and ' wages of
labor do not advance, but there Is reason to
expect the employment of a somewhat larger
working force after the holidays.
"The expected government report on feeding
of wheat to cattle and hogs has scarcely in
fluenced the market. It is doubted whether
the estimate Is more reliable than the esti
mates of yield of wheat and cotton, which are
not regarded seriously. The receipts of wheat
are larger than a year ago. and the exports
smaller, but foreign accounts, particularly as
to the Argentine crop, have helped an ad
vance of IVi cents. Estimates of the winter
wheat acreage Indicate an Increase of 1.9 per
cent, with a condition somewhat better than
last year.
"Although corn receipts have been much
larger than a year ago. and exports not one
sixth as large, the price has changed but
little.
"Cotton has fallen again to 6i cents, very
close to the lowest point for many years, and
actual receipts from plantations are larger to
date than in 1H9I. when the crop was over
W.UOJ.oOJ bales. Neither abroad nor here are
there indications as yet of more than an av
erage consumption.
The iron industry seems to have distinctly
brighter prospects at Chicago, where pig IroD
Is llrmer and bar In larger demand because of
orders for freight cars. Hut Bessemer iron has
sold at 1 10 25 at Pittsburgh, steel rails have
been reduced to t" there, and wire rods and
nails are weaker. Comparison of prices there
and at the east show the lowest average yet
recorded, taking prices of October. ltttO. as 1U0.
quotations have fallen to 55.7. and are so far
shaded that substantially half the price has
been cut off within four years.
"Heavy sales of shoes during the past two
months at prices said to be 5 to 7' J cents lower
than recent prices of leather warrant, cause a
general effort for aa advance, and some Job
bers have conceded 2'i cents on women's grain
and bufT shoes: but others protest that no ad
vance is possible, and cut down 'or withdraw
their orders. The orders for next season are
quite encouraging us to quantity, but it is
claimed that few can be filled at a profit.
"The wool manufacture. Judging from sales
at the three chief markets since September 1,
has been doing 3 per cent, more than last year,
but 31 per cent, less thau in 1892. and the av
erage of HM qualities of wool quoted by Coates
Bros, is 13.7yc, the lowest ever known. 14
per cent, lower than last year and 3U per cent,
lower than in 1KV-J.
"The liabilities in failures for the last week
of November were S2.038.-J07. against K.0C4.47O
for the same week last year, but the decrease
was wholly in manufacturing liabilities,
(4-J7.S41. against Sl.C73.OS7 last year, while trad
ing liabilities were tl.WJ7.3JH, against S1.20.44!
last year. For the four weeks of November
the aggregate was I10.osl.873, against 820.M1.
6U1 last year. The failures this week have
been 35 in the United States, against 335 last
year, and 40 in Canada, against 42 last year."
ARMENIAN OUTRAGES.
Terms I'pon Which the I'nited States Will
Aid an Investigation.
Constantinople, Dec 8. The Sultan
on Thursday dispatched an invitation
to the president of the United
States to participate through a
representative in a mixed com
mission of the powers to visit
Armenia and investigate condi
tions there. President Cleveland
declined the invitation but intimated
a willingness to permit an American
representative to accompany the proposed-
commission in an independent
capacity. The sultan thereupon cabled
to the president inviting the appoint
ment of such a representative and has
learned that the United States would
accept the modified invitation.
London, Dec 8. The Daily News
says that Milo A. Jewett, United States
consul in Sivas, has been instructed
from Washington to attend the com
mission of inquiry in Armenia, while
maintaining a strictly independent at
titude toward representatives of Euro
pean powers.
BIG VOTE IN WISCONSIN.
Cpham's Plurality, 53,900 The Total Vote
Mas 375.440.
Madison. Wis., Dec 8. A remark
able fact in connection with the re
cent election, as developed by the of
ficial canvass of the votes, is that there
were no stay-at-home voters in Wis
consin, the aggregate vote polled
being larger than ever before in the
history of the state. The total vote is
375,443, or 3,808 greater than at the
presidential election two years ago.
Upham's plurality for governor is 5S,
900 and his majority over all the other
candidates 17,050. The people's party on
the vote for governor gained 15,904 over
the vote two years ago, getting 25,604
this year. The prohibitionists, with
11,240 this year, lost 2,025 from their
vote two years ago.
MISS GING'S MURDER.
One f the Hayward Brothers (Said to
Have Confessed More Arrests.
Chicago, Dec 8. A late dispatch
from Minneapolis says that Adry Hay
ward has confessed that his brother
approached him at various times and
broached the scheme of killing Miss
Ging to him. Adry said he attempted
to prevent it, and had told L. M. Stew
art. Stewart wrote to the offi
cials. Being confronted with this
letter, Adry confessed. Claus A.
Bixby, engineer at the Ozark
apartment house, of which Harry
T. Hayward was manager and where
Miss Ging boarded, and Ole Erickson,
a hanger-on around the place, are un
der arrest charged with complicity In
the murder. It is now believed all the
principals and accessories to the crime
are in jail.
Death of a Noted Sura-eon.
Washington, Dec. 8. Medical Direc
tor John Mills Browne, United States
navy, retired, died at his apartments
at the Portland hotel in this city
Friday night." He was stricken with
paralysis Wednesday morning and
never rallied. Dr. Browne attained
the grade of surgeon general
of the navy with the relative rank of
commodore, but he is best known aa
the surgeon of the Kearsarge in her
victorious battle with the confederate
ram Alabama. He wrote the account
of the battle for the Century maga
aine's war series. He was 73 years old.
OLNEY'S REPORT.
Tbe Attorney Ueneral Telia of the Opera
tions of Ills Department.
Washington, Dec. a The topics the Pull
man strike, the commonwealers and the Su
preme Court claim particular attention
in the annual report of Attorney General
Olney. "It Is not germane to this report,"
he says, "to consider the origin or the merits
of the labor disturbance which has passed into
history under the name of the 'Pullman strike.
The relation to It of the department of justica
was Indirect and arose only when the railroads
of the country became Involved and the pas
sage of the United States mails and the move
xaa&ts a! Interstate commerce were Interfered
Vlth."
The attorney general then tells how Informa
tion concerning interference with the mails at
various points and requests for Immediate ac
tion by his department for the relief of the
mail service and punishment of all engaged In
its obstruction, were presented to him by the
pott office department. He also details his
Instructions to United States attorneys to use
all legal means to prevent obstruo
tlon to the carrying of tbe mails,
to Issue warrants or other processes
against persons engaged in such obstructions,
and commanding the United States marshals
to execute the same, employing such deputy
marshals or such posse as might be necessary.
Chicago being the center of the trouble, tha
loss of the very necessaries of life threatened,
the most vigorous use of legal weapons at th
command of the government won, the report
ays, justified. "Accordingly the United
States attorneys at Chicago were directed to
at once begin proceedings in equity in the
United States court against Debs and
his associates and all others promoting
and participating in the strike, and it
possible to procure injunctions against the
defendants restraining them from all inter
ference with trains carrying the United Stales
mails or engaged In Interstate commerce He
follows the strike la Us several phases, tbe
presence of troops to enforce the order of the
courts and concludes:
"The strike at Chicago, so far as It involved
the obstruction of United States malls and the
paralysis of Interstate commerce, was prac
tically broken when the United States troops
reached that city, and, being broken at Chica
go, was in reality broken everywhere else. It
was at once realized that it necessarily antag
onized the laws of tbe United States, and
therefore must fail unless the power behind it
was stronger than the whole power of the fed
eral government."
It is not usually considered fortunate for
property to be in the hands of receivers, but
that fact made it easier for the United States
government to deal with the "commonweal
ers of Christ." "This department." says the
attorney general, "became Involved because
the railroad properties seized were la the
hands of receivers appointed by the fed
eral courts, and because the courts
at once Issued decrees for the pro
tection of the receivers and their
property and directed the United States mar
shals to execute them In very many in
stances the marshals found themselves unablo
to execute such orders by any force of kpecial
deputies or any posse at their command. This
inability was due to various causes to the
large numbers of lawbreakers, to the local
sympathy with them, to the sparsely settled
communities traversed by the railroad lines
implicated, and to the absence of any organ
ized state militia.
"Upon evidence of such Inability IWng fur
nished, the matter was called to the attention
of the president, with the request that the
orders and processes of the court might be en
forced by such military force as was neces
sary. The request was Invariably seceded to,
the troops being used in each case not as a
posse comltatus under the command of the
marshal, but as an independent instrumental
ity, acting under tbe Immediate direction of
the president through the army officer per
sonally In command.
"By this means tbe penis of a g--ave situa
tion were averted, widespread lawlessness
was checked in its initial stage i. great destruc
tion of p"opcrty was prevented and large num
bers of persons offenders not so much troia
vicious Intent as from actual and threatened
want and suffering were saved the conse
quences of serious crimes and escaped with
only moderate penalties."
The business methods and arduous labors of
tbe members of the supreme court come In for
a well merited compliment, the attorney gen
eral stating that at the close of its term for the
year I MX) the court had 1.800 cases on its docket,
of which 1.177 w-rs cases previously docketed,
while CSI had been docketed at that term. At
the close of its term for the year 1803. on the
other hand, the cases on Its docket numbered
1.214. of which 034 were cases previously dock
eted, while only 280 were docketed during that
term.
DEADLY DYNAMITE.
Its Explosion, at Various I'laeos
Cauaea
Several Deaths.
HrNTiNOTON, Ind., Dec 5. The sec
ond terrible dynamite explosion in less
than a month happened in the Flint
creek sewer here Tuesday morning.
Two men were fatally injured while
three others were so badly hurt they
will not recover for some time. The
fatally injured are Henry Bain and
Fred Stalder. Seriously hurt: John
Freeh&fer, Thomas Jones and Emmet
First.
The employes on the new sewer had
jnst gone to work. Hum and Stalder
were picking out 6tone in the bottom
of the ditch when one of their picks
struck a dynamite cartridge that had
not exploded when the blasting was
done. When the pick struck the cap
the dynamite exploded.
Bain's eyes were blown out, his face
torn to pieces and two large holes made
in his bkulL Stalder was not so badly
mutilated. John Freehafer was work
ing 6 reet from the blast and was dashed
against the Bide of the sewer and badly
cut about the face and arms. Thomas
Jones, engineer, was standing directly
above tbe blast, but miraculously es
caped with several bad cuts. Emmet
First also had his face cut but not
seriously. Bain and Stalder were car
ried into neighboring houses and
a number of surgeons attended them,
but they cannot recover. Stalder
has a large family. The disaster oc
cured about one square from the scene
of the explosion three weeks ago,
where three men were killed. It was
in the same sewer, the contractors
being Henry Keefer, of this cit3 and
Henry S. Hall wood, of Columbus, O.
Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 5. A dynamite
explosion occurred at Hull, Que., near
Ottawa, Tuesday. Three men and a
boy were killed and several wer
wounded. The dead are: N. Martin,
aged 80; Henry Lamarche, aged 42; T.
S. Eguin, aged SS; C. Barbeau, 10 years
old.
FOOD FOR FLAMES.
lire Sweeps Through the Kankakea
Marshes Much Destruction.
La Forte, Ind., Dec 5. The Kanka
kee marshes, extending over miles of
territory, are on fire and the loss to
farmers will be many thousands of
dollars. The flames are sweeping
across La Porte anil Porter counties,
destroying everything in their path.
Only the utmost watchfulness and des
perate fighting have saved several vil
lages from destruction. Hay is stacked
in immense quantities in the Kanka
kee region and the loss is beyond estimate.