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fplattsnvouth journal C AV. SIlI'lt.-TIAN, Publisher. riJLTTSMOUTlI. i i KEBIIASIL-V. Tlie News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Farts. CONGRESSIONAL. Troeeellnc "t the Secontl Session. In the svr.ate cn the llh Senator Hawiey (Conn.) introduced a bill tor the reorganisa tion nnd Increase of the army. Petitions pray icp for the passace of laRi i'raat forfeiture bill cr presented and the Nicaragua canal bill was discussed In the lioue the army appropriation bill, the Mil to protect forest reervtlons and fifteen pension bills were parsed. The Carlisle banking bill wi report ed and a bill appropriating fV.iXO for a statue cf Gen. Grant oa the vast front of the capllol alongside the statue of Wuh!njfton was in troduced. Tut senate a addressed by Messrs. Hill and Ttsrpie on the ISih. the former in advocacy of cloture, the latter In opposition to the Nic-ar.k-ua canal bilL A resolution looking to union with Canada s Intrvxluced by Senator vallier la the house debate on the Car lisle bankirjr bill was N-;un. Mr. Springer speakinc !n favor and Mr. Walker in opposi tion to the measure. Mr. Wand announced a substitute for the Carlisle currency bill which provides for the free colnace of silver The report of Admiral Walker on the sub ject of Haw ait was laid before the senate on the Ith. A bill wa passed to open for settle dent abandoned military reservations In vari ous states and territories. A bill was also I?M to establish a national military park at the battletle'.rl of Shiioh. The Nicaragua canal bill was further discussed la tie house the time was occupied in debating the Carlisle currency bill DOMESTIC Two corn leads of fabulous richness were struck by driller at Iowa tluleh. southwest of Lillian. Col. Key. K. M. Dillon, a Fresbyter.au preacher of lireencastle. Ind., resigned because his congregation cave a fair in an opera houe. Treasury department statistics show that Lngland suffered heavy losses in United States trade during the last ten years. Casimir Hef.ner. a Polander. aged , pounded his wife to death at Man istee, Mich., aud then committed sui cide. No cause was known. UxtTEU states oiVicers arrested laeniWrs of a gang of counterfeiters in Oklahoma aud captured much spu rious coin. The leaders of a Tennessee mob which lynched six negroes last Au gust were acquitted of the charge by a jury at Memphis. Ktr Lavii.xe. of Saginaw. Mich., knocked out Andy llowen in eighteen rounds before the Auditorium club of New Orleans. It was thought llowen would die from the pounding' he re ceived. Axir ITowex died from the injuries he received in the fi.ht with tieorgv Lavigne in New Orleans. Mr. Wis-low Shearman and her slaughter. Mrs. Clinton Davis, were murdered near Jamestown. N. Y., by unknown persons while Mr. Shearman was attending the funeral of his son and daughter-in-law, who were killed by a train. TuE Easterly Harvesting company at Minneapolis made an assignment with liabilities of $033,742; claimed as sets SiiSS.OlH. The house committee decided, bv a Tote of 9 to , to favorably refort Se retary Carlisle s plan lor currency re- fonn. The failure of the Union Uuilding and Saving's company of Des Moines caught Burlington Ia ) people for about $.200, 000. Mr. asd Mr. David Simtm. of Eilinboro, Ia., were beaten by masked burglars and robbed of 510,000. (Jexkrai. rains fell throughout Ne Lraska. the first time since July 3. Joux Hall and his wife. New York actors, were asphyxiated. Hall having1 turned the gas on while he was drunk Tex men were Injured, several fatal ly, by an explosion of gas in the Vul can mine at Newcastle, O. The Woonsocket bank at Woonsock- et, S. D., went into voluntary liquida tion. 15 navigating tbe great lakes the past season sixty sailors were lost, and thirty-eight vessels with an aggregate tonnage of tons pasjed out of existence. Jons Huntington, suspected of era bezzling from the Citizens state bank of Council LlufTs, la., wounded two inspectors fcent to examine his ac counts and killed himself. At Dubuque, la., ex-Pension Agent Van Leuvea pleaded guilty to con spiracy to defraud the government and was sentenced to two years' im prisonment. i. Mi.s. Lelle Parker, who was 6 feet high and weighed 4o- pounds, died suddenly of heart disease in Danville, HI. Alta Joh.nw)S, who pleaded guilty lo complicity in the two train rob beries near Ilofcoe, Cal.,was sentenced lo life imprison ment- Tffo yoi:xo daughters of Lev. Solo mon Leckcrman, of Cleveland, !., were burned to death In their home. It was announced that the defalca tion of Cashier McKean, of the Indian Head national bank of Nashua, N. II., tvonld reach SltX',000. Two mapkkd men held up Smyth Taylor at Greenville. Tenn.. and robbed him of $2,000 which he had just drawn from a back. Tm:".K men who pretended to be ellin washing compound rights se cured $25,000 from residents of l'ron fcon, Kan. Davii Obwio and Miss Ollie Wil hehn. of Findlay, O., resolved to quit this world Ugether, and did bo by taking1 morphine. Ax automatic telegraphic transmit ter has been invented which, it is kaid, will feend 2C0 words a minute over the wire. Ax unsuccessful attempt was made near Upper Sandusky. O., to wreck the Pennsylvania' New York and Chicago limited. I: a Iloston tenement house James Murphy fatally fehot his wife and then "Jed himself. - Matty's Soxe, an old Philadel nd rn establishment. Ambrosk Dai'GHKRTT and George Huffman fought for precedence in crossing1 a bridge near Kldon. Ia,, and both were fatally wounded. Joh.v Citoxix was hanged on an au tomatic gallows at Hartford, Conn., for the murder of Albert Skinner on October 0, The apparatus worked successfully. SAMt'Ki. C Seei.y pleaded jtiilty to robbing the New York Shoe and leath er bank of $334,000 and was remanded for sentence. Tin: Citizens stock bank of Slater, Mo., made un assignment with liabili ties of SoOO.OOO and assets of $250,000. The fuilure caused the Slater savings bank also to close its doors. Stain was notified by Secretary Greshnm that Cuban discrimination ngainst American goods must be dis continued, on pain of retaliation. John and Gene Kennedy were hanged at Jasper, Tenn., for murder ing James Lowrie, a railway agent at Shellmound, in October. lSiW. For u vessels were wrecked during a gale on the Pacific coast and over fifty sailors were drowned. William STr.ArsBAron. a maker of spurious coin, and two confederates were captured by federal officers at Tiftlu. O. At Gardiner, Me., a house occupied by Mrs. McKeady and two children was burned, all thre of the inmates perishing in the lkunes. "Smiley" Joi;i.x, a colored farm- haud, w as caught in the art of robbing a newly made grave at Mount Hope, K v.. and shot dead. John McUuim: of the United Mine Workers was elected president of the Federation of Labor at its annual meeting in Denver. Indianapolis was selected for headquarters. While talking with a friend at South IJend, Ind., IMwiu Hardman, aed V), leaned on the muzzle of his gun, which exploded and killed him. F.YAXGELisr Moony was meeting with great surcess at Lowell, Mass. Ads." in all the papers called on church members to stav awav and give the sinners u chance. The Lcxow" idea has reached San Francisco, where the clergymen are organizing a movement to purify mu nicipal morals. IIkitish army otlicers. uuvler the gttise of artists and tourists, were said to have made sketches of the territory and defenses in the vicinity of Toledo. O., and other lake ports. Ix the United States circuit court at Iloston the Kerllner telephone patent was declared void. A hill to prevent strikes on rail ways has been prepared by Carroll I). Wright and his d-s-soeiates on the labor commission. Prominent New York business men decided to test the constitutionality of the income tax in the courts. Chicago capitalists were said to have purchased all the private mines at Hock spring. Wyo., the consideration being f-O.OOO.OOO. Thovias A. F.niox has vetoed the plan to have Corbett and Fitzslmmons light lefore the kinetoscoj e in Mexico. Sami el Corn V Heo., New York shoe, dealers, failed for $400.lvJ. Ki'gf.xe V." Dr.Rj and his associate officers of the American Kail way union, concluded make no further attempt to avert their punishment. The business portion of Stone Moun tain, Ga.. was almost entirely de stroyed by fire. Twenty indictments of men charged with repeating in the recent election were handed down by the grand jury at St. Louis. Fight eloping Kentucky couples crossed the Ohio river to JcfTerson ville. Ind., and were married. A fire at Huron, O., destroyed the Reporter printing establishment. Font boys and one man were killed and three others injured by the ex plosion of a boiler in a planing mill at West Fav City, Mich. John II IiiELRY, cashier of the Cen tral national bank of Home. N. Y., confessed to being a defaulter to the amount of S2T.000. The Kentucky superior courLohas gone out of existence by limitation of the constitution. D. K. Caltwell, a Frankfort (Ind.) lumber dealer, was convicted of con spiracy to manufacture and circulate counterfeit eoin. LrcY M. Grcrer sues Roswell K. Messinger, of Toledo, )., for 573.000 damages in breach of promise to marry. William Meyers and Alexander Carr, murderers, were sentenced to be hanged at Atlanta. Ga., on February a Ix a fit of despondency Mrs. William Jones, of Dry Hollow, near Cassville, Mo., cut the throats of her J r and 7-year-old children with a razor and then committed suicide in the same man ner. A M I'Ki'H T temperance movement has been inaugurated in Salem, O., over 1,00) having already signed the pledge. Utica.N. Y..road supervisors decided to tax wheelmen three dollars a year, the money to be used in improving the highways. Owing to alleged unjust treatment by the bishop- of the diocese, the Hu man Catlwdic population of Weideri thal, in Hungary, in a body declared themselves protestants. Maskri men entered the home of John Collins near Sioux City, la., and robbed him of 84,400 in gold. C. J. Chk and his wife were fatally burned at Llyria, O., in a fire that de stroyed their home. Ix a dispute about a right of way at Cripple Creek, Col., H. It. Newell, chief engineer of the Midland Terminal road, was killed by Van Houghton. Four Hi'NDREnmen were thrown out of work and a loss of $100,000 was sus tained by a fire in the Spring Hill col lieries at Halifax. N. S. TwEXTY-riVE HuiTalo (N. Y.) lodge of Knights of Pythias seceded and formed a new order because of the abolishing of rituals in foreign lan guages. Fivi: men were injured, two prob ably fatally, by the falling of a scaf folding nt Janesyille, Wis. It was said that Congressman-eleot Johu J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was in elegible, never having been naturalized. Miss Eva Doolet, of Tloston, Ind., had both her limbs emputated at the knee because of their poisoned condi tion, resulting from wearing red stock ings. George H. llARiiorit, mourned as dead, was reunited to his father in Chicago over the corpse which had been positively identified as his own. Director General Davis' report upon the Columbian exposition will be submitted to the president within the next month. Frei W. Jon has been commissioned as consul general of Hawaii for Illi nois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and M Ichigau. Not a passenger was killed on a Michigan railroad during- the past year aud but eleven were injured. The clothing manufactory of H. S. Mark Co.. at Milwaukee, was closed by holders of mortgages aggregating1 about S tt'.0. 000. Steve Aiams was hanged at Green ville, Miss., for murdering James Iver son last May. and Judge Gilbert was hanged at Friar's Point, Miss., for killing his wife. The twetity-nlnth annual encamp ment of the Grand Army of the Repub lic will be held in Louisville, Ky., be ginning September 11, 1M.". DivKLi.o Pike, of Hurdett, N.Y.. was found dead In his buggy, his body be ing frozen stitT. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Djl John Lri, historian and lec turer, died at his home in Stamford, Conn. James . Gilfillan, chief justice of the supreme court of Minnesota 'meo 160. died at St. Paul, aged tk 3-ears. Josetii L. Shu-lev. for twenty years editor and principal owner of the Springfield (Mass.) Union, died sud denly of heart disease. Millie Jefferson- (colored) died at the home of her great-grandson in New York, aged Q'J years s months and 10 days. FitAsrrs F. I!eaiLE. the publisherof dime novels, tiled at his country home in Coopers town. N. Y., aged 74 years. TllEonoiiE HraroN, if Macomb. 111.. United States consul at Pasodol Norte. Mexico, died from consumption, aged 2 years. S.mh 11. M. Itr.liMirMAN, a veteran of two wars and the oldest employee of Pinkertoa's detective agency, died at Kwnston, 111., aged 76 years. FOREIGN. The remains of Count Ferdinand de Iesseps were interred in the Church of SL Pierre de Chaillot, just outside of Parts. HouERT Lor i Srr.VFNsox. the nove' ist. died in Samoa, where he had lued for several years, aged 4 y ears. PrRLIO executions have been atl ished in Spain by royal decree. In tho future condemned criminals will suf fer the death tenalty inside the prison walls. HoioxRr S. MrxN. one of the leading business men of New foundiand, die 1 from heart failure, brought on by financial troubles. The numWrof persons kiile l in the recent earthquake in southern Italy is ot'icially stated to be eighty-six. In addition -00 were injured. The expulsion tf Jews from territory nearer the frontier than fifty versts has Wen topj-d by order of the Rus sian minister of the interior. The Corean government announced that Chinese would be allowed to re side only in the treaty ports of Corea- Distatciies say that twenty-three Armenian villages were laid in ft-shes, eleven others pillaged and forty priest massacred by Turkish soldier. LATER. nited .Mat- senate on were reported to revive lieutenant xreneral in IX the I 20th bills grade of the the the army, to forfeit lands granted to aid in the construction of railroads, and to provide a suitable residence for the president. In the house bills were in troduced to amend the national bank ing act. authorizing the deposit of le gal tenders instead of bond t: secure circulation, the circulating bank notes to be exempt from taxation; to provide a residence for the president; and an urgency deficiency bill of fS7.".000 to complete the census. A bill was passed to pension the widow of Mnj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Hanks at the rate of UH) a month. The currency bill was further discussed. James Allen (colored) was shot to death by a mob at Hrownesvllle, Tex. He was charged with burning barns. The grand jury voted to indict twenty-six of the men charged with lawless ness at the polls on election day in Chicago. Three of the number are jo 1 icemen. ' FiRK.at Napoleonville. La., destroyed seven blocks, including most of tho business portion of the town. Loss, 812VOOO. Violent earthquake shocks in south Hungary threw down houses and drove the residents to the streets. James L. Amorn, ex-United States Fenator and former governor at Mis sissippi, died at his homo at Fagle Nest, Miss., aged 7S years. The btly of Mrs. A. D. Matson, mur dered ten da3s ago, was found at To peka, Kan. She had been criminally assaulted and robWd. The Habbitt block, a four-story struc ture at Morristowu, N. J., in which were the First national bank nnd Kelse's clothing store, was burned, the loss being $100,000. A 8HORTAOE of S'J.000 was discovered in the accounts of J. II. Henderson, late treasurer of Rureau county. III. The president has respited for tho fourth time Thomas St Clair, Ren te need to be hanged in California for murder committed on the high seas. Wisconsin courts have decided that the Illinois Order of Forrester is without legal right to do business in that state. , Charlkh Pkterhon shot his wife in New York, killing her, and then killed himself. Five young children were left orphans by the tragedy. While fooling with a gun Simeon llowen shot and killed the two little daughters of Zcke Rryant near Troy, Ala. nuvn iLMwvrc! Pro eon tod to tho Houso on tho Oarllslo Curroncy BUL The Majority Tree lta l.arly CmiaUlera tlou ml Adoption The Minority Deplore lltr nnl Want It IlrtrrreO. Washington. Dec. 13. Mr. Springer, of Illinois chairman of the banking aud currency committee, submitted on Monday his report accom panying the Carlisle bill. The committee, the report states, ia of the opinion that a security to the full amount of the" circulating notes htsued is no longer necessary for the safety of the notes. The bill, the pas sage of which is recommended by the committee, does not require the de posit of bonds of the United States or of any other interest-bearing obliga tion, but in lieu of such security pro vides as follows; L A guarantee fund eonUtlnir of treasury uotes. Including th mite Usue.l uaJer the set of conurri. arprovf 1 JuJy 14. !A. njual lo 30 per centum of tbo circulating bote spplleU for. t A afrty fund, which will omoant. when It reaehes it malm am. to 5 per cent, upon tho total amount of natloual bank note ouuUdJ leg. 1 A first lien uj-on all tho aets of the ao clatlon Issuing the utue. In case the guarantee and safety funds and the assets of a failed bank are not sufficient to redeem the notes of such bank, a pro-rata assessment upon all other banking assignations, according to the amount of their out standing circulation, is to be made by the treasury department, and the banks so assessed tdtall have a first Hen upon the assets of rach failed bank for the amount properly chargeable to such bank on account of the redemp tion of its circulation. It is believed by the committee that the funds thtw provided will be amply sufficient to secure the notes of failed bauks. The bill limits the amount of circulating notes which any bank may issue to 7i per cent, of it capital stock. During the great financial crisis of lS national bauks sus(euded payment, having a capital stock of ;0,S50.000. The re port savs- Tb fct aet forth emontrt eesciu Itelj that If tho i'ru;ss-4 t!21 tad teen In foreo tlurlcj the crt!s of if all tto laak had It ret, fro taken out circulation to the caller. urn amount allowed by law. sad If the fil.ed bask had alto takta out t&elr nittlmuai circulation, tho guarantee a&d aafety fund would hvo I a aicpl for tho rsymentof tho entire c!rcuIilo of the out-ai-axidlr.f Dote, asd would hat left a aurplua cf oer 111 0.000 atlll In tt surety fasd without tho necelty. eren la s great crltit of that klnl. of tr.a'klL any a ifitmfisi on tho resource of the other na tional ta&ka. la low of these facta j our c ora te 1 . tee are i f tho o; itloa that ahruld the pro posed bill become a law the notes which would to Ittued ucoer It would be absolutely afo under any and all j.vlM buaincaa coa litions. In conclusion the eommktee say: Tho eitraorumary condition which eon front tho treury dcrartn--.ent hat con a trained tho c.emter of tho majority of tho eon-.sltteo. while not agreeing to ail tho proria'.ona of tho bill nor to all tho raoalctf employed la thl report, lo concur la reporting the nieauro to tb houo for lta conlderalion. each reierttctf to httr.e:f the r.fht to c -ex uch amendtaenta a he day Aeom proper, and Vo vuto on iho bill Hastily aa be Ciy Ce:ertu'.ne. Tho report cf the minority wa presented by Mr. Walker (rep. Ma.). It refer lo tho baio with which the party majority not tho voting majority sf the comnjltteo presented the meaur. and aay lhl hato 1 all tho more inexplicable In tew cf the fact that Secretary Carlisle testified that thla till, which he had drafted himself for tho relief cf tho treasury, would not la any event reilere it t&alertaily for Cto years and t&U&l tot for twenty years. The report ata'.ca that tho whole action of the party majority of the committee waa most extraordinary and not approved ty lta voting majority. The bill waa only read Ineommltteo la part, on on occasion and aa opportunity to conidr or amend tt wa refuted both to tbo democratic and repub lican morabora. Tho report continue that It la tho opinion of s r.u-jber of tho most clear-healed and eminent financiers of tho country that If the Carlisle bill la en acted Into a law that It will within twenty Cay a precipitate a panic far more aevero than that of lfrJ. a li would compel the forced aalo upon tho market of nearly AW OOJ.CVO worth of United State bond within six months. Tho report saya that whatever legislation Is bad with reference to the finance of tbe coun try or banking In its effects upon national banks ahould bo permlslre and not manda tory aa to national banka while their present charters continue. In tho opinion of the minority, the provisions cf exemption a to stale banks would drive every exUtlng national bank that deslrea to to take out circulating note Into tho state bank ayatem If tho bill were enacted. The taxation of national banks would amount to ts.000.000 annually under the present bill, which there Is no reason to bellove would be Imposed upon them under the stalo system. The report direct attention to the fact that all of the witnee who appeared before the committee objected seriously to the bill, and those who did not. Repudiated many of It sec tion upon cross examination. Tbe report contlnuea: The passage of the Carlisle bill may meet some political exigency of which we do not know, but we do know thai Its passage will ag gravate, rather than relieve, the perplexities of tbe financial situation, snd especially that of the United State treasury. The United State legal tender note withdrawn from cir culation, did ail existing national bank take out sll the circulation permitted under the bill, would only be llM.000.00a. still leovlng I3M.000.000 to vex the treasury. This would not aTord any substantial relief to the con stant drain or gold from the treasury. It would make still more conspicuous and thu more urgent, the demand for gold upon the treasury and tbe note lnsued under the bill would make confusion worne confounded in the currency by adding from one to forty-five mors kind of money to those already existing. "Finally, we are of the opinion that It I not ssfe for the houso to enter upon the line of legislation proposed until some bill Is brought before it that has received far more attention than the Carlisle bill, and we recommend that It be indefinitely postponed." Epworth League to Meet at Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 18. The general committee has located the in ternational conference of the Kpworth league for 1S95 in this city. The dates fixed are June 27, 23, 29, 30. It was de cided to hold the meeting in tho south and Chattanooga forcibly presented the advantages of tho historic sur roundings of tho city, as well as good hotel and railroad facilities, and has secured the conference. An attend ance of 10.000 to 15,000 is anticipated. One open-air meeting will be held on Lookout mountain. There are new 1,000,000 members of the Kpworth league in the UQiled States. .IN ANNUAL SESSION. Fourteenth Annntt Convention of the American Federation of Ijibor. Dknvkic Col., Dec. 17. The main work of Friday was the consideration of the platform adopted last year by the Chicago convention to be approved, this year. The preamble was cut away and the planks, amended slight ly in some cases, adopted as follows: I. compulsory education: 2. direct le gislation by the use of the referendum; S. a I'-iral work day of not more than eltrlit hours: 4. sanitary Inspection of workshop, mine and home: . ll bliny of employers for Injury to health. loly. or lite: ..the abolition of contract system la all public work; 7. the abolition of the sweat ing system; H. the municipal owner-nip of street car and iran and el-clrte j)lants for pub lic distribution of luht. heat and power; 9. tne nationalization ol telegraph, telephone railroads and mines. The tenth plank declares for the collective ownership by the people of all means of production and distribu tion. It aroused the most intense in terest and was the cause of a very ex citing debate. DEN VF.it. Col., Dec. 18. The discus sion of idank 10 in the political plat form (the socialistic plank) was re sumed Delegate Lloyed moved to rerefor the plank to the subordinate unions. Treasurer lennon supported Mr. Lloyd's motion on the ground that the vote in many unions on tlie platform was not a representative one. Dele gate Urettell read an alleged newspa Ier interview with Attorney (leneral Oluey, In which he was reported lo have KJiid that he would break up every union in America by means of the anti-trust law. Mr. Urettell thought independent political action was necessary lo protect laboring men. The previous iuestion was called nju the motion to refer the plank re lating to the collective cwnership of all means of pr iluction and distribu tion by the people to the atliliated or ganizations to be again voted upon was lost. The proposition of the government of establishing a saving bank in con nection witli the post otlice depart ment was defeated by a large major it3', and the question then recurred upon the substitute for dank 10. pro viding for the alndition of the land monopoly ownership and substituting occupancy and improvement as the only guarantee of title, which was adopted. A resolution that the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor l-e removed from New York was adopted. Dr.xvEH. Col.. Dec. 19 -The first business on Monday was to determine the future location of the headquarter of the federation. The vote resulted: Indianapolis 1,'-C0; Washington, trjrv. The election of officer was then taken Mr. (omers and John McIIride, president of the Cnited M ine-Workers, were the only candidates for presi dent. The vote resulted: MclSride. 1.1C2; (lorapert. 937. President tlom per moved that it be made unanimous, jut a delegate objecting that vote failed. Vice presidents were elected as fol lows: First, 1. J- McCtuSre. Philadel phia: second. James Duncan. Balti more; third. Uoady Kenehan. Denver; fourth. T. J. Kiderkin. Chicago: for aecretary, A. McCraith, of Iloston. New York was selected as the place for holding of the next conveution. The committee on . resolutions re ported favorably upon a number of resolutions as follows: Conlensnlnr attempts to secure for trans-pxrtar.- lines the Involuntary seiv.tude law cf the maritime trale: to restrict transient provlaclal Immigration bv national leflslation; cpposlr.g the HalfJnore plan cf financial legis lation, to secure state legislation to abolish the aweatlr.g system: declar Ir: for a work day cf cot more than euht bo r. advocating the libera tion of lleatty and lempey. Homestead strikers, now Incarcerated in the Al'.egheney penltentUry: urg;rj the adoption of the refer endum in national and state legislation; c an demnlrg the padrone sj tra of labor employ ment; against blacklisting of railway em ploye: against ffirtber bond Issues, unless aperinrally authorized by the lower house of congress. A MISSOURI BANK FAILS. Slater Institution tio-o Cnder. with Hear Liabilities Satlnc Hank Closed. Si.atf.k, Ma, Iee. IS The Citizens stock bank, capitalized at $100,000. closed Monday and is In the hand of C r. Storts as assignee. Joseph Field, cashier of the Institution, also made an assignment for the beneBt of his creditors. The failure is a bad one, and will catch many creditors heavily. Among them are said to be various St. Louis and Chicago institutions. The bank's liabilities amount to about fsVVj.OOO, and assets, excluding consid erable wrthless paper, will not ex ceed S-50.000. The failure was precipitated by a call of the state officials for a state ment, which showed that of the cap ital stock and S'.'SO.OOO of deposits there is in the vaults of the bank less than ?J.(K)0. The failure caused great ex citement and precluitated a run on tho Slater savings hank, capitalized at S.0,000. and resulted in the bank be ing closed also. COLLEGES IN LUCK. A lleelslon Kenlerel In Their Ior Ile K art! Ins tho l'ayerweather llstate. New Youk, lhjc. is. Judge Truax Monday decided the Daniel H. Kayer tveather will contest in favor of tho live colleges which sued the estate. The decision practically upsets the whole disposition of tlie estate, which is worth about SO.000.000. Tho action was brought by Dart mouth. Amherst, Williams and Hamil ton college h, and the University of Rochester, and these w ill get big slices of tho estate. Siehemn to I'urlfy Mleetlon. MoNTOOMKitY. Ala., Dec. 18. Repre sentative J. C. Manning, of Clay county, tho populist leader of the Al abama legislature, has gone to con sult leading populists and republicans in Tennessee and other states on the subject of a plan proposed by him to organize into a league all of those in the south who favor ballot reform and protection. Iose on tho I.a kes. Chicago, Dec. 18. Sixty sailors and thirtj'-elght vessels were lost on the lakes during the year. The property lots was buaaller than for a decade, THE CURRENCY BILL- fsecretary Carlisle' Measure Discussed In the Ixrr House or Conirres. On December 18 Mr. Springer (dom.. I1L) la committee of the whole opened the debate ca the currency bill. The great Importance of the pending measure, he bean, could not b more effectively emphasized than by referring to the reiortof the comptroller of the cur rency, which showed that last year there were fU0.C0 depositors In national batiks b-virn? a capital stock uu'ifTvaiU.g tl.' )( )0. Their deposit amount d to!l -."0.tJO .). Mr. Sprsr-t r declared that the committee had -lvrn the sub ject the most careful consideration. It had carefully examined tho recommendations: c;f the president and the ecr tary cf the ir'. as nry, had called before It some of th; -blest financier in the conr.try. und the result bad been the presentation of the tending measure aa a measure of financial reform. Mr. Mahonc (rep . la) thought thit If half tr-e bunks should fall and the other half be assessed to redeem the failed biis.Us' r.-'te. the solvent bank would be bankrupted to aid the lnnolrent banks, to which Mr. Sprinter re pile!: "'If all the banks should tall ur.der thl system the note holders would Ixj secure ' Mr. Walker (reu. Mass) ss'.d th; bill pre sented by the secretary of the treasury ha! not one feature that could be enctl. exc ; t aJter remodeling, without endangering the Ui.ar.c ll Interests of the country. Ho then suoke of bl own bill and it su perlority over the Car lisle bill, and exr r's.ed his fco;e that his bill would be lased In p'.aee of the Carlisle bill. Mr. Hall (dcxn..Mo. said it mus-t !? distinct ly understood by men hers that l.t Var r bill wa not under discussion nd that when they came to vote they must vote either for tho Carllslo bill or a continuation of the prc-i.t system. Mr. Hall contended that the Carlisle bill was opposed by the national bank because they preferred the Ualtlmore plan. V.'hy Be cause In the Ualtlmore j'lan the covernment stood behind the notes sud. and m the Car lisle bill the banks tbemselte were responsi ble for their notes. Mr. Hall Insisted that every bank ojr.tlal summoned I -e fore the com mittee had been forced to aim It. when cor nered, that currency issued un '.er the Carlisle Mil would be entirely safe. They had or.roved the bill on aee-our.t of the IlfCl section, w V-ch roale the banks solely responsible t jt -.htlr -sue. On the lih Mr Johnson (rep.. Ir.d ) . rr.lt tel the defect of our currency syst-:c. but he said their correction could not l obtained alor.gthellr.es stgested by the comrnittte. It yi much easier, he declared, to att .ck the present system thn oiler a safe sut stitute for It. While remedial legislation ilht 1'- ad visable. thU was no tltj.e for eiptris.-r.!i legislation. Mr. Johnson then contrast l the advantages of the rational l.cilw system w ith resj-t t to r Tempt and sat f-cu ry set tlement t.-j:ist fa:ied b.isks aud of security to note bolilers. with those of the state baij, sys tem revived by the bl'i. Mr. Warner iCvu.. S. V nives ated the t-i-sat-e of the till because of te proposed rehab ilitation of state b-nk. ar.d b-vuse cf the fact that it took the goverr.rx. r.tout of the busi ness of issuing curr-ey. Mr. Kilis' (vlem . Kv.) ot j-silica was largely basu upon the fact that ir.- b:ll jtov :- l for a reoryaalzatlon und eite-sioa of the national tanking system, when every t to and national rontention of the derr.cvrat.c party for yc-jr had declared tfa.r.H it. and this at j lie weu the necessity fo their services : Cscal Sgenls. If ltevereiisled. had absolute:y j:i'-e. Mr. Hiand ein.. Mv.) gave rotice that he would move to aa.end by substituting for the till his free co1ca'c cl tiHer anJ coin i.oto scheme. A NOVELIST DEAD. Kobert txuls stvenson I'usseo Away In Ilia Siriojii Hum. Accki.a.nh. Dec. Advices from Apia, ama, 01 tne naie i rciciuurr i. are that the novelist, llobert Louis Stevenson, had died suddenly of apo plexy. II is remains were interred on the summit of Pala mountain. l.r.oO feet high. At the time of his death Mr. Stevenson had half completed the vr-riling of a new novel. Some timerago Mr. Stevenson, who was auffering from lun trouble, j came to the South Pacific for his health. lie became enraptured with the Samoan islands and decided to take up his residence and sj?end the rest of his days there. He took a close interest in Samoan afTairs and has written many letters to the news papers in favor of the natives as against the treaty power under whose direction the government of the islands is conducted. WAS A DEATH DLOW. A I'uclttat Never Keeover onwluatcru After LeJnc the Illoc- NkwOhmiaxs, Dec. 17. Andy llow en, of New Orleans, was defeated by "Kid" Lavigne. of Saginaw, Mich.. In the Auditorium club arena Friday evening. The purse was ?;?.0OO. of which WX wenit to the loser. The Michigan lad had the fight all his own way from the start and gave llowen an awful beating, and finally knock ing him out so effectively that llowen had to le carried out of the ring in a senseless condition. New Orleans, Dec. IS. Andy How en died Saturday morning at 7:15 o'clock while Father Delaney was pray ing over him. He remained uncon scious from the time the fatal blow was landed and was conveyed from his dressing-room at the club to his home on Thalia street near Magazine. DEATH OF A JUR 1ST. Jame Ctllfallln. Chief Justice of Mlnne eota, iliplre at St. l'snU St. lAtf- Minn., Dec. 17. Judge James Uillfallinfchief justice of Min nesota, died at his resilience in this city Sundaj" morning from a complica tion of kidney and liver troubles, lie was C5 years old. He enlisted as a private when the war broke out, but was soon chosen captain and later made colonel of tho F.levcuth Minnesota, serving until the close of the war. He was appointed chief justice of the state in l'J and three times thereafter elected. If ho had lived his term would have ex pired January t. A wife and tdx chil dren survive him. Will Contest Tarsney'a Seat. Washington. Dec IS. Col. IL T. Van Horn, editor of the Kansas City Journal, republican candidate for con gress in the Fifth district of Missouri during the last election, has filed no tice of contest with the clerk of the house against Representative Tarsney. fseejy l'leatl Uutlty. Nr.w York, Dec. 18. Samuel C Seely, the former bookkeeper of the Shoe and Leather national bank, charged with aiding tho late Frederick Daker in robbing the bank of SUM. 000, was ar raigned in the United States circuit court Monday, pleaded 'jnilty and was remanded until Friday for sentence. itta Her DUorvo Llasll)-. Denver, Col., Dee. 1. A divorce has been granted to Mrs. tlertruda Hutcftins Clarke from Clarence W. Clarke, the New Yortt adventurer now in Jail here, to whom she was-married after two days' acquaintance. ' I) g t s
