-?. ?- W 'i . ! K 1 I THE 1ED CLOUD CHEF. A. C. HOSMEK, Fabllsher. BED CLOUD. NEBRASKA. CURRENT COMMENT. France lias recognized the Brazilian Republic. Askkious strike is on among the cigarmukers in Havana. Neakly 87,000 reward has been of ered for the conviction of the persons who fired into the Jewish stores at Lake Providence, La. Henry M. Stanley has sold his forthcoming lwok outright to Sampson, Low & Co., the Loudon publishers, for the sum of 40,000. Navy officials are not satisfied with the results of the trials of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius. The contractors may be required to run the vessel an hour at 3,200-horse power. Indications of another invasion of Egypt by Dervishes multiply. Travel ers from Khartoum arriving at Wady Halii report the Mahdi collecting a great army to avenge the defeat at Toski. Tiie commission of Virgil P. Clayton a's postmaster at Columbia, S. C, has leen forwarded to him. This is the csise about which Senator Hampton wrote an open letter to the Postmaster General. TnE last of the Northern Pacific whaling fleet arrived at San Francisco on the 26th. The catch this year was the poorest in ten years and comprises 12,000 barrels of oil and 217,000 pounds of bone. Baitiste Peynaud, the famous tower jumper, while giving an exhibi tion at New Orleans the other day, struck the net with his head and in jured his spine. His lower extremities were paralyzed. The Scotch Weekly will shortly pub lish a love story written by the Mar ijuis of Lome. The scenes of the nar rative are laid in Canada, and the plot is said to be stirring, the incidents pa thetic and interesting. The Canadian Minister of Agricult ure has rendered a decision dismissing the petition of the Royal Electric Com pany, of Canada, for the cancellation of the patent for the Edison incandes cent lamp owned by the Edison Elec tric Light Company. Dukino a recent session of the lower house of the Hungarian Diet Baron Kass informed the chamber that the opposition had discovered a plot to as sassinate Hen Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister, by the use of dyna mite. They had, however, succeeded in frustrating it. TnE Russian Government has abol ished the provincial council of nobles of the Baltic provinces and substituted ordinary assemblies, colleges and pri vate committees, whereby the aris tocracy, which has hitherto ruled the populace independently of the Govern ment, will be suppressed. The general international committee provided for by the silver convention lias elected General A. J. Warner, of Ohio, chairman, and Lee Crandall, of Virginia, secretary. The chairman was authorized to name the time and place for holding the next convention and to appoint an executive committee of nine members to conduct the silver campaign. Francis D. Gunnell, ex-Surgeon-Geueral of the navy, and recently pres ident of the medical examining board, has been detached from the latter duty, and will be placed on the retired list of the navy on account of age. This will cause the promotion of Medical In spector Edward F. Bogert, Surgeon George I. Brush and Assistant Surgeon John Hancock Hall. Ik his speech at the opening of Par liament, the Governor of New South Wales referring to the subject of co lonial federation said that while there was an cxected difference of opinion regarding modes of procedure, all the colonies had shown the friendliest dis position and there was every likelihood that the cordial discussion now being carried on would lead to a patriotic agreement on the question. Advices by mail from Cuba indicate that the recent disturbances there were confined in the main to the San Cristo bal election riots. A street fight oc curred between two Spanish regiments at Matanzas and some slight difficult ies happened with Government inspect ors in tobacco-growing regions. One of the latter -was shot iile oh an offi cial tour through the tobacco nurseries district He will probably die. A German resident in Paris (Heir Krohne) has offered the German Gov ernment a sura of 5,000 for the cre ation of a German academy in Berlin on the model of the Frenck academy. It is to consist of forty members and its duty would be to preserve the Ger man language from corruption or de cay. The Chancellor of the Empire would be ex-officio president of the academy- The French papers rather deride the scheme. Dr. Wolfred Nelson, of New York, formerly a resident of Panama, -who has male a special study of yellow fever, said in an interview recently that the investigations and experiments of Dr. Domingos Freiere, of Rio de Janeiro, had demonstrated that the human system could be protected against the dread disease by mocula tin. Dr. Freiere's investigations were carried on under the direct encourage- J NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gleaned by Telegraph and IfaiL PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Albert C. Ridoway, of Illinois, has been appointed confidential clerk to the Commissioner of Pensisns, vice Miss Ada Tanner, resigned. TnE Guthrie News publishes a pri vate letter from Secretary Noble, in which he says he considers his course towards the cattlemen in the Strip a public duty, and that he hopes the present Cherokee Commission will be successful in its negotiations. Hon. George H. Pendleton, ex Minister to Germany and a well known figure in American political life, died at Brussels on the 24th of apoplexy. He had been ill for several weeks. Lieutenant Scd:roeder, one of the inventors of the Driggs-Schroedergun, denies that his invention has been sold to England and also that it is unappre ciated in America. The navy is already using it. The National silver convention as sembled at St. Louis on the 2Gth. Nine teen States and Territories were repre sented. Secretary Blaine and the mem bers of the Pan-American Congress are having some trouble keeping out men accredited as delegates by careless Governors of States. South Dakota gave the most trouble. The Spanish Cabinet is to be recon structed as soon as Premier Sagasta shall have conciliated the dissident Liberals. TnE Pan-American Congress has re ceived a formal notice from Delegate Feirera, of Brazil, declining to serve as a delegate in the conference. The con ference proceeded to the consideration of the report of the committee on rules, but without reaching final action on the rules, adjourned. King Carlos, of Portugal, has had the Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, pre pared for his great uncle, Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil. TnE Governor of South Carolina, in his annual message to the Legislature, recommended separate accommoda tion on railroads for whites and blacks; the amendment of the civil rights laws passed by the Republicans in 1876, and the collection and preservation by the State of all Confederate flags. Senor Fernando Cruz, Guate mala's delegate to the AU-American Congress, has written to the State De partment his thanks for the late excur sion. All he saw surpassed his dreams, and the affection of the people was more gratifying than all else. Dr. Cruz is a poet of reputation in his country The Cherokee Nation gave a Thanks giving dinner to the United States Commission, all the Senators and Coun cilmen being present. General Fair child, in response to the toast, "The United States," said that the Govern ment desired nothing detrimental to the best interest of the Cherokees. Secretary Blaine is reported to be engaged in negotiations foran interna tional copyright treaty with France with Count de Keratry, representative of that country. Mr. Terry, brother of ex-Judge Terry of California, who was recently shot by Neagle, a United States deputy marshal, intends to lay his side of the case before the Department of Justice at Washington. MISCELLANEOUS. A passenger train was wrecked on a heavy down grade curve west of Greenville, Tenn., the other morning and the engineer fatally and express messenger and four passengers badly injured. The postal car was burned. A DisPATcn from Emin Pasha, dated at Molala August 23, has been re ceived by Sir William Mackinnon. It says: "Thanks to all subscribers to the committee for their generous help, which has saved a handful of forlorn men from destruction." TnE Court of Appeals in New York has decided the United States Express Company must pay taxes to that State under the corporation tax law. At a meeting in Philadelphia resolu tions looking to the betterment of Rus sian exiles in Siberia were passed, and steps will be taken to reach the Russian Government through the approaching prison convention in St. Petersburg. The United States championship skating contest will occur at Newburg, on the Hudson, January 18. The North River Sugar Refining Company, of New York, has appealed from the Supreme Court decision dis solving the firm Landlord Leland, of the Chicago hotel which bears his name, and other property owners of Michigan avenue, Chicago, propose to push the fight for the clearing of the lake front of the Exposition and other buildings. TnE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has directed Indian agents at the Kiowa and Comanche agency in the Indian Territory to promptly remove cattle found grazing on the reservation with out the consent of the Indians. It is learned that several herds, aggregating about 30,000 head, are trespassing on the reservation. The New York grand jury has re turned an indictment for murder in the first degree against Mrs. Hannah B. Soutbworth, who shot and killed Ste phen Pettus. Later she was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. Jonxr McCarty, the conviet who in the Rhode Island State prison murder ously assaulted murderer LaCoste, hanged himself in a dark cell. LaCoste will recover. A decision has been rendered in the Illinois Supreme Court adverse to the Chicago gas trust. The parties inter ested were endeavoring to reorganize a new trust on lines that it was thought might stand. Protracted rains and floods have disheartened Virginia farmers. Cot ton is rotting in the fields and the ground is so wet it can not be hauled TnE Mexican Senate has passed a bill for the coinage of $300,000 worth of copper cents. LEEcnouno, Pa., was visited by a fire on the 26th which rendered twenty families homeless and destroyed $100, 000 worth of property. The safe of the Pacific Express Com pany at Fort Worth, Tex., was opened the other night by some one who knew the combination and $6,800 taken. TnE National silver convention ad journed sine die at St. Louis on the 2Sth. The delegates were given a mm j. ill, mm KErRKSr"" n., .ir..i h ,jt,..i,. . lAOlU UUUV1VU KfJ m UUUUk4Vtt4j X.VJ flagration on the 2Sth, commencing in the granite building owned by Jordan, Marsh & Co., Bedford and Kingston streets, adjacent to where the great fire of 1872 started. Two acres of build ings were burned over. The loss was put at $4,000,000; insurance, $2,600,000. Seven or eig4it persons were seriously injured during the progress of the flames. New manufactories in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are to be guaran teed twenty years' exemption from con tributions and taxes. Taylor and Duren, Americans un der sentence of death at Guaymas, Mexico, for train robbery, escaped re- cently, but Taylor was recaptured. The dock workers of Bristol, En gland, struck recently because the mer chants threatened to discharge the tim ber runners who refused to work with foreign crews. Emin Pasha has sent to the Anti Slavery Society a communication, in which he thanked the society for its sympathy and expressed regie ror Hie loss of the Equatorial provinces. He says that notwithstanding his unfor tunate experiences he still hopes to be able to do effective work against the slave trade. M. Gautier, chief of the detectives of Belgium, has been dismissed for em ploying men to induce striking miners to commit outrages. By an explosion in a colliery at Bochum, Germany, the other day four teen persons were killed and four in jured. By a landslide at the entrance to the tunnel near Pattenburg, N. J., recent ly an engine house was destroyed, the engineer iuueuauuiuBniiirouuuiuch.t:ufron, taking what is left. No one lor twelve nours. The great foot-ball match between x ate anu rrinceton iook piace at uere- ley Oval, New York, on Thanksgiving . . -.. - . . . . -. , i uay. ii was it iiuxu-iuugub giiuiu vviiicu finally resulted in favor of Princeton by a score of 10 to 0. There were about 30,000 persons present on the ground and the enthusiasm and excitement was something tremendous. One of the players named George, of Prince ton, was quite seriously injured, the ligament of his left ankle being broken. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended November 28, numbered 249, compared with 277 the previous week and 232 the correspond ing week of last year. A farty of American engineers is examining the Guanajato mines, in Mexico, with a view to purchasing them. They report the mines to be in excellent condition. Fire broke out in one of the mills of the Hartford Carpet Company at Thompsonville, Conn., the other night. The building burned was a brick, five stories high and 300 feet long. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHEH. A grand charity ball was given in the City of Mexico the other night for the benefit of the American Hospital. It was a great success. Judge Collins, of the Chicago cir cuit court, has refused to order the ar rest of Mayor Cregier fcr contempt of court for occupying the lake front in defiance of injunctions. A lone highwayman robbed the stage a few miles from Redding, Cal., the other night. The treasure box con tained little, but several registered let ters were secured. Secretary Blaine has been con fined to his home in Washington by an attack of lumbago. King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent a message to Henry M. Stanley, invit ing him to visit Brussels to receive per sonal congratulations on the completion of his task. Four little girls, children of Hugh Dunn, found a keg of powder recently at Elliottsville, W. Va., and in some way set it off. All four were blown to pieces. The mother has gone crazy. Rumors have reached Green Bay, Wis., that the propeller Hudson has been lost in the storm on the lake. She had a valuable cargo. Fire in Keyport, N. J., recently con sumed five stores, causing $50,000 loss. Jacob Leyrer was burned to death and his wife and son injured. The Caspar naehnle brewery, Jack son, Mich., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $20,000. F. E. Ison and J. B. Feasor have been arrested at Denver, charged with killing Sheriff Cross and four deputies in No-Man's-Land in July, 1888. In that terrible battle one of the Feasors was killed, making six in all. "Old Hutch" has been badly squeezed in the Chicago wheat pit. Will Russell, sixteen years of age, accidentally killed himself near Van Alstyne, Tex., recently. He blew in the muzzle of his gun, not thinking it was loaded, when it went off, tearing the top part of bis head to atoms. At the Noith Star mine on Solomon mountain near Silverton, Col., Pat Golden and C. Baldwin, two miners, attempted to pick out an unexploded blast, which suddenly exploded, blow ing them into a thousand pieces. Tupper, the well known English poet, died recently. Avery destructive cyclone passed over a portion of Beaufort County, N. C, on the 28th, doing great damage. Houses were blown down and trees torn up by the roots. Three persons were reported killed, among them a young lady, who was carried off by the wind, her body not being recovered. AFTER THE FIRE. Baafaeas Kfea of Lyaa, Maa.. Preparing e Rebuild Rertaed Flcares aa to LoaMS. Lynn, Mass., Nov. 29. In propor tion to its area and population, this citj Tuesday suffered a larger loss by fire than any other city in Massachu setts during the present century. It be gan like the grr it fire in Boston in No vember, 1S72, in buildings that ap I parently could bo easily reached, but ' as the flames spread thev became so in 1 tense that for several hours human skill , iu suit LllCUl ni VI I1U UVull. 11 trf-k (i(n 41intii - kf - rk1 Tt iriO a .-!"'iw- I "Ml destroyed winning alter Duuiling, and structures built with all modern safeguards against fire could not resist the tremendous volume of flames any more than an ordinary wooden dwell ing, from which a thin line of smoke would be visible at one moment while a few minutes later a pile of ashes marked the spot where the building stood. Any one who watched the progress of the great fire in Boston in 1S72 could not fail to notice, in many respects, a repetition of it here, as the water line formed one limit and the massing of engines at another point, after the con flagration had raged nearly six hours, marked a line where destruction ended, and valuable residences, which were endangered, were saved. In extent of territory the burnt district of Lynn is about the same as that of Boston in 1872 and the loss was relatively about the same. The prin cipal difference in the two fires was the burning of a large number of resi dences in Lynn, while in Boston the loss was almost entirely confined to warehouses, etc. It was a pitiful sight here to witness the breaking up of homes and the fran tic efforts of occupants to save house hold treasures and other effects, most of which were doomed to destruction, because hi many instances it was im possible to procure teams to remove them. Tho city is well patrolled by the militia, six companies 2-50 men in all being on duty. The men are stationed at the entrances to the ruined streets, barring all ap proach to the burned district. Guards are stationed at the stores that are but , partially cleaned out to prevent thieves "Jr permuieu to pass the gu; without a termit from the citv ; cer Through the charities many families Associated were fur nished lodging in rooms hired at lodg- i ....l .1. n: l i ..: c ...g ..u uc.B uuu,.uiu I4U.UIS vl hot soup, crackers and bread are being cu io u. m eeu oi ioou. .vs soon t some iiiiu iui assistance can ue ue- vised the work of providing for desti tute families will progress rapidly. As yet no fatalities have been re ported, which is a pleasing feature of the terrible conflagration. WOOL GROWERS. The Ohio Annoclatloa Deaaaads Proteetloa The Carpet ladastry Deaoaaced. Columbus, O., Nov. 29. The Ohio Wool Gnwwers Association held a meeting wifhVi large attendance. Among those present were David Harpster, president; Hon. Columbus Delano, president of the National Wool Growers' Association, and Judge Wil liam Lawrence. The association adopted an address to the wool growers of the United States, and adopted a resolution asking the National associ ation to take the proper steps to carry out the suggestions made in the ad dress. The essential features of the address are: In view of the imminent danger which threatens all industries of our Nation, and especially the production and manufacture of wool, the wool growers of Ohio urge the necessity of unity and activity in order to avert the peril of free trade or free wool with which we are now menaced. The wool growers of Ohio advocate a protective system. A tariff for revenue will not secure protection. The result of the last Presidential election was an emphat ic expression by alargemajarityof the people in favor of a comprehensive sys tem embracing all our industries, in cluding the protect ion of wool byname. If the Republican party in its legisla tive or administrative departments fails to comply with this expression, it will secure the reproach of insincerity or of inability to perform its duty. As wool growers we ask for such legislation and such administration of existing laws as are required by the de liberate promises made by the Repub lican party prior to the last Presidential election. They denounce the injustice of allow ing the carpet industry to damage the wool industry by importing clothing wool under the false name of carpet wool. The wool growers of the United States are called upon to be fully repre sented in the National convention of wool growers to assemble in Washing ton December 1, 1889. They are urged to ask Congress to give the wool and mutton industry protection to the full extent of the most favored manufactur ing industry. m m Violated Poatal Law. Washixgtox, Nov. 28. Chief Post office Inspector Rathbone is informed of the arrest of A. E. Bonsall at Cleve land, O., upon a charge of violatingthe postal laws relative to lotteries. Fort Worth Sold. New York, Nov. 28. After a con ference lasting all of yesterday between Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union Pacific, and Morgan S. Jones, president of the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Company, it was an nounced that the sale of the Fort Worth road had been settled, but that the of ficials were not ready to give out a de tailed statement. President Adam? left for Boston immediately after tho meeting. No information as to the .terms of sale could be obtained from toe officers of the Fort Worth Company. EVIDENCE ALL IN. The Erldeaee la the Creala Trial All la aad Arsameata Ceaanaeaaea Bad For Coaghlia. Chicago, Nov. 30. At the afternoon session of the Cronin case yesterday a number of Keepers and frequenters of saloons were examined in regard to the opening of a eertain saloon on the night of the murder. Then the de fense rested, and State's Attorney Longenecker said: "If the court please, we have some evidence that has come to our knowl edge, about ten o'clock or a little be fore ten, which we have not had the time to look into. Of course it will be evidence in chief, probably. Not hav ing come to our knowledge until this morning, we feel like asking the court to let us introduce the evidence at this late hour." After some objection by Mr. Forrest the court called the State's Attorney into a private consultation, at the close of which Judge McConnell said: "I take it that the evidence which the State's Attorney has ought to go j in the case. I have decided to allow it to go in. It will not delay the opening of the case to the jury. If I allow it to go in I do not see that it ought to in terfere with the opening of the address to the jury, and if you, Mr. Forrest, de sire time to answer it. I will give you the time. It is a matter which can be disposed of at any time.'' Police Officer Flyim was then called to the stand, and in response to ques tions testified as follows: "When Daniel Coughlin was arrested I was ordered by the lieutenant, Elli ott, to take him to the Harrison street .station, which I did. When we got there I searched him in Captain Bar tram's office. These two knives which I have in my hand I found in his pos session. I took the knives and a re volver from Coughlin, took them back to headquarters, went upstairs to El liott's office, and then took them down to my box in headquarters and locked them up. They were there until the 16th or loth September, when I took them to the Fidelity vault, where they have since remained. Last night I called the attention of Captain Schuet tler to them at East avenue station. I did not disclose the fact that I had them to auy one prosecuting the case. Ex-Captain Bartram knew I had the j knives, but up to last evening I did not t,Ul Lllf UblLllUUM Ul kMJ VUb Vlb IIS them." This closed the direct examination, and Mr. Forrest moved to exclude the cwciiLcu evidence on the ground that the knives i had been - t, possession of the State j ever smce Cou,ftn-3 arrest. The mo j ti(m overruled T. T. Conklin, the man with whom Dr. Cronin lived, was then called to the stand. He identified the knives as having been carried by Dr. Cronin when alive. The smaller one the wit- i ness had himself carried for two years, and he then gave it to Dr. Cronin. The larger one, the witness said, he had found in the street. If they were not Dr. Cronin's knives they looked t exactly like them. Dr. Cronin carried the smaller knife in his vest pocket. This ended the evidence and State's Attorney Longenecker began his ad- I dress to the jury. UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The Topeka Meat laapectlon Ordlaaace j So Declared By Judge Brewer. I Topeka, Kan., Nov. 30. Judge j Brewer yesterday decided that the To j peka meat inspection ordinance was illegal. The decision was given in a test case brought by Swift & Co., the Kansas City packers, whose agent was arrested, fined $100 and sentenced to imprison ment for thirty days, for selling a car load of dressed beef to Topeka markets in violation of the inspection ordi nance. Judge Brewer delivered his opinion orally, saying that while the ordinance on the. face of it declared it was en acted for the purpose of providing pure meat for the citizens of Topeka, it was in reality made for no other purpose than to prohibit the sale of Kansas City dressed meat here. This, he said, was clearly in violation of the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States. While he conceded the right of a city to prevent the sale of impure meat to citizens, it could not blockade com merce by requiring that all the meat sold to its citizens must be slaughtered within one mile of its city limits, as this ordinance provides. The city could prosecute the Kansas City packers if impure meat was sold, and it might re quire that all their meat be inspected before entering the city, but it could not refuse, as it had done in this case, to allow the meat to be inspected and thus bar it from the markets. v Jartadictloa Aflrmed. Topeka, Kan., Nov. 30. Judge Brewer yesterday gave in his decision on the question as to whether the Texas United States Court had jurisdiction over Xo-Man's-Land. He decides that the court in Texas has full jurisdiction in that land and that it has pewecto try all murder cases from that section. The arrest of the Stevens County murderers was not resisted, the fight between them and the law being a tech nical case, involving the jurisdiction of any court to try them. They will make this same fight over in Paris, Tex., which will probably sustain Judge Brewer's decision. Harry Hall Recaptured. Lixcolx, Neb. Nov. 30. Harry Hall, the life prisoner who escaped from the Nebraska penitentiary Janu ary 5, 1888, has been captured at Provo City, Utah, by Warden Hopkins. Hall had been closely shadowed ever since, but the authorities were never able to put their hands on him previously. At the time of the escape R. W. livers was warden, and this led to trouble be tween him and Governor Thayer, which resulted in bis removal. Hall's parents live in St. Joseph, Mo., and are wealthy and respectable. THAT FATAL TORNADO. Tha North Carolina Cjrlone MTr- Tliuu at First Reported Thirteen Killed ami Sfaay Wounded ttk li-ti4tr. Columbia, S. C, Dec. 1. Oncol tiie most disastrous cyclones ever known in the history of North Carolina p.i-. d over a portion of ttuford Com ly Thurs day. So far thirteen persons ,ur re ported killed and some twenty oi tlmf badly injured. The cyclone b'g,m it the upper or northern portimi-. i the county and carried away wr thing before it like the wim!--driving chaff. Houses wrr blown to atoms, and trees t t have withstood the winter blasts r half a century gave up, and ui i carried forseveral hundred yards I women and children, all aloni; t!.t path, lied when they heard its thiiMti r ing approach, but the family oi Ve!i Edmunds could not escape, :mI .t i perished. They lived in a farm I h Although they heard the noi-.e of tV approaching eyclone, they did it t hi siderit more than an ordinal st riu until its crash came upon the 1iohm, tearingit into hundreds of pni'-.. 'Vhv family consisted of Wesley L luim.i -his wife and children, the oMvt Ummij a daughter not quito oat of hrrtte.-.. The youngest was a son of eiuht tur-. Miss Elleu, the daughter, was to h.ue been married Friday to a so-t ot .i neighboring farmer. All anauui'iui nts to celebrate the happy event had lit-, completed, but the entire fani'h wir carried away on the bosom of the t -clone. Friday their bodies were picked up and all were buried in .t large partitioned coffin. On alow tn miles farther the cyclone blew down i factory. The hands fled, but Joscpu Emerson and Thomas Collins were ovei taken and killed by falling timber. More than a dozen others were badly hurt, and three or four will die. Mm Mattie C. Levy, a pretty young girl, was caught up in the c clone and ar ried far up into the air by the angry torrent. She was returning from ;i neighbor's house and tailed to escape the cyclone's path. J. W. Mayo, who lived six miles fr mi Aurora, was in the Held hauling It.iy. He saw the cloud and heard the roar, and at once unhooked his hoisc. II" saw one of his tenant houses twined into bits. It was occupied by nine ne groes and six of them were killed out right. The nearest body found to the ruins was 200 yards away. lai t- ot the house were carried twelve mile-.. lake disaster. East Tawas, Mich., Dec. 1. Two barges, Meant and Midnight, wnt ashore off Pish Point Wedni-dav night. The crews were taken off c. terday. Mate Powers of the Midnight had a leg broken, and Daniel Mowatt. a sailor on the Mears, has died trom tin effects of e$iosure. All the men suf fered terribly. Both barges will be .i total loss. The steam barge Wilhelm, whil 12l t-1 w was towing them when the Imcpaitc was badly damaged and lost mostt her deck load of lumler. The barg "D," "Peck" and "Wesley'" are ashore near Whitestone Point, and the icst named will go to pieces. The vessels putting in here report terrible weather. Captains of vessels arriving at Port Huron report the storm on Lake Ilumit the worst in years. "Sandy" Mitchell, cook on the schooner Mary L. P.icck. was washed overboard and drownctl Wednesday. REED NOMINATED. The Republican Caucus Nouiiu.te- Hun For the Speakership. WAsniNGTOJJ, Dec. 1. In the Ke- publican caucus yesterday on tlw Speakership Hon. Thomas L5. lci, of Maine, was nominated. General Henderson, of Illinois, hat ing bteu chosen chairman of the K. publican caucus, a call of the roll w.n begun to determine how mat: wcie present. After declaring the caucus open br balloting, the first vote was "taken, re sulting as follows: Reed, 7&, McKnt ley, 39; Cannon, 22; Burrows. 10; Hen derson, 16. On the second ballot Reed reeeiu'd 86 votes, thus receiving the noun nation. The second ballot was: Reed, &l, Mc Kinley, 36; Cannon, IS); Burrows, IV Henderson, 9. So Reed was declaim! to have received the caucus nouuu i tion. Promptly at noon the Kepublic.ei caucus was called to order by ?e ret rv McComas. Mr. Cannon, of IUim -. holds over as chairman of the cane i-, but in view of his candidacy for u ershiphe retired and Mr. Ilemh i " . of Illinois, was elected chairman. The roll call developed the pu-en of 165 members, 4 less than the e. f re Republican strength in the IInv". Mr. Mudd, the contestant for Mr. .Compton's seat from the Fifth M.rv- lana district, occupied a seat o i u: floor, but took no part in the p rot ecl ings. m m Salclde or a Judge. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 1. Judge i:. 1, Trippe committed suicide yestenl.n. blowing out his brains with a dout -barreled derringer. The cause ot tie act was despondency, due to ill he:Ith. He was thirty-five years of age and ha 1 been judge of the city court of Car' r ville before he came to Atlanta ami was afterward Assistant United State- I) -trict Attorney. - m Saaday Unsettled. PiTTSBURon, Pa., Dec. 1. TI." chances are that as Sunday of tl r-iusourgns is ieartut or the l'iaw--. League he will be released from h -agreement by his associates. Sundav case is one of pure "weaken." H w e .: into the scheme with full knowledge, as letters from his pen will show. I -rector Palmer O'NeiL of Pittsburgh, tells people that Galvin, Miller. IJav. ley, Staley, Sunday, Maul, Carroll ai.d . Kuehne will be with the Pittsburgh National League team next seao and all but Sunday have signed Br tnernood contracts. ment and patronage oi ahhu " i