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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News,
CONGRESSIONAL.
Mast petitions, bills and resolutions were
Introduced in the Senate on the 9th. Among
them were bills for the admission of Idaho
and Wyoming as States, and a bill by Sen
ator Plumb to equalize bounties. Senator
Turpie presented a resolution looking to the
suppression of trusts, and after an ex
ecutive session the Senate adjourned....
In the House Mr. Payne (X. Y.) introduced a
bill defining the duties of sergeant-at-arms.
After the introduction of several resolutions
the Speaker surprised the House by an
nouncing several important committees, be
ing the committees on Ways and Means, Ap
propriations, Manufactures, Elections and
Mileage, with Messrs. McKinlcy, Cannon,
Kclley (Pa.), Kowcll and Lind chairmen in
the order named. The House then adjourned
until Wednesday.
Wue.v the Senate met on the 10th Mr. Mor
rill reported adversely the bill for the organ
ization of National banks with a capital less
ithan $30,000. After the introduction of bills
SenatorTurpie addressed the Senate in favor
,of his resolution for the suppression of
trusts. Senator Evarts introduced a bill for
holding the World's Fair at Xew York in
1S92, and after an executive session the Senate
adjourned The House was not in session.
IH the Senate on the 11th a number of Ue
publican Senators resigned from certain
committees in order to make places for Sen
ators from new States. By request Senator
Insalls introduced a Service Pension bill.
The Senators then proceeded to the hall of
the House of Itepresentativcs to participate
In thecentennial ceremonies In commemora
tion of the inauguration of George Washing
Ion In the House no legislative business
was transacted. The Senate, the President
and Cabinet, diplomatic corps and other
notable persons were received at one o'clock
and the ceremonies commemorative of the
Inauguration of George Washington as first
President proceeded, at the conclusion of
which the House adjourned.
A number of bills, petitions and resolu
tions were introduced In the Senate on the
12th, among them a bill by Senator Stewart
for the free coinage of gold and silver; a bill
by Senator Itutler for the emigration of col
ored persons from the Southern States. Sen
ator Gibson offered a resolution on the same
subject, and Senator Ingalls a resolution for
a holiday recess from December 19 to Janu
ary ft. The Senate then adjourned until
Monday In the House Mr. Iluttcrworth
(Ohio) offered a resolution for a special com
mittee to investigate certain forgeries'of sig
natures of members of Congress during the
late campaign in Ohio, which, after an amus
ing discussion, was adopted. After a lengthy
debate upon the report of the special com
mittee to investigate the late defalcation by
the cashier of the sergeant-at-arms, the
death of Mr. Gay, of Louisiana, was an
nounced and the House adjourned until
Monday.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The beef combine investigation at
Washington on the 9th heard witnesses
who testified that the "Big Four" had
refused meat at wholesale prices to
parties who had secured Government
contracts when bidding against the
combine.
Mks. Scott-Lokd, the sister of Mrs.
Harrison, died at Washington on the
10th.
The centennial ceremonies over the
inauguration of George Washington
as first President of the United States
occurred in the hall of the House of
Representatives on the 11th. The
President and Cabinet and other dis
tinguished native and foreign digni
taries were present. The oration was
delivered by Chief Justice Fuller.
A fuxd for a monument to Jefferson
Davis has been started in Washington,
with a subscription of $100 by General
W. II. Payne.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi
nation of Green B. Ilaum, of Illinois,
as Commissioner of Pensions.
THE EAST.
TnE following are the new officers of
the National Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders elected in New York:
President, II. A. T. Mali, New York;
first vice-president, L. Stanford, Cali
fornia; second vice-president, J. V.
Baker, Jr., Ohio; secretary, L. D.
Packer, New York.
Hakvky Kennedy, one of the old
est and most prominent Wall street
brokers, died recently.
Peter Clauseh, a New York line
man, has been burned to death by
electric wires.
Rev. J. R. Kexdrick was found
dead in bed by the side of his wife at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the other morn
ing. He was at one time president of
Vassar College and was widely known.
The Johnstown, Pa., theater owner,
in whose place the panic occurred, has
been censured for not having a proper
number of exits.
New York sheep breeders prefer
the abolition of internal taxation to any
reduction of the tariff.
By a cave in at Bundy's coal mine
near Butler, Pa., one miner was killed
and another fatally injuied.
M es A. Shaw, formerly a lumber
merchant at Towanda, Pa., has been
arrested is Washington on a warrant
charging him with false pretenses. It
is claimed he worked the "pious racket"
and succeeded in defrauding the citi
zens and banks of Wellsboro andBloss
burg. Pa., out of $100,000 and the citi
zens of Plainfield, N. J., out of a like
sum.
General JosErnB.lnn, ex-Secretary
of State, is in St Luke's hospital.
New York, with tumor of lower jaw.
A section of the jawbone has been re
moved. He can not talk.
Judgments for $90,00 damages
against the New York City elevated
xoads have been docketed.
J Jf e Franklin, colored, 107, aud
Amelia Whitson, 102 years old, died in
New York City one day recently.
Boston business men gave a ban
quet at the Hotel Vendome on the
32th. Among the speakers were ex
Ikeslfent Cleveland and Henry W.
Grady.
E. N. Dicsersox, the noted New
York patent lawyer and leading coun
sel for the Bell Telephone Company,
died in New York City the other nigB
Marie Dobsey, under life sentence
for the murder of her rather, Benjamin
J. Burton, of Newport, B. I., died at
tht State prison.
THE
As awful panic occurred at the
Park Opera nouse, Johnstown, Pa., on
the night of the 10th. Thirteen resi
dents of the unfortunate city were
killed and about 75 injured. The
calamity was due to an alarm of fire.
Sister Mary Kelly, of the Roman
Catholic convent at Harrisburg, Pa.,
tried to commit suicide by jumping
from a window of the third story of a
house, but was prevented. She was
insane.
B. R. Johnson, clerk of a Detroit
jewelry firm, sustained fatal injuries
the other morning by falling from a
fourth story window of a hotel which
had caught fire. Other guests had
narrow escapes.
TnE Chicago Auditorium was dedi
cated on the 9th in the presence of
President Harrison.
Colonel J. II. Rattiboxe, founder
of theKnightsof Pythias, died at Luna,
O., on the J)th.
TnE deadlock over the selection of
Senators in Montana continued on the
9th.
By a collision between a local freight
and a work train near Crawfordsville,
Ind., the other day a fireman was
killed and three men badly hurt.
The Missouri Democratic State Cen
tral Committee met at St. Louis on the
10th and elected Frank Walker secre
tary. Walker is a Francis or anti-Vest
man.
Robert Snyder, who shot and killed
his wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Sarah Collins, at Eldorado, Kan., Au
gust 10, has been sentenced to impris
onment for life at hard labor in the
penitentiary.
Jonx Tissle, a brakeman, on a
gravel train, was accidentally killed at
Atoka, I. T. He fell under the wheels
and his head was severed from his
body.
TnE new Union Depot at Moberly,
Mo., was the occasion of a demonstra
tion on the 11th. The building is an
elegant structure and the citizens are
justified in their pride concerning it.
General Davis Atwood, editor of
the SUite Journal, of Madison, Wis.,
died recently. He served a term in
Congress and was one of the leading
Republicans of the State. He had been
connected with the press nearly fifty
years.
It is now openly stated that gross
frauds are being perpetrated in Kan
sas under the pretext of voting bonds
for sugar manufacture.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
says: "Kettle Jack's" gang of horse
and cattle thieves in the Big Horn val
ley, eleven in number, are reported to
have been lynched by a band of settlers.
Expert burglars broke open C. A.
Whyland & Co.'s safe in their commis
sion office, near the Board of Trade,
Chicago, the other night and secured
5,000 worth of negotiable bonds.
Charles Crook, a well known char
acter living near Sioux City, Iowa, af
ter a hot race with a train, tried to
cross in front of the engine and was
torn to fragments.
Jonx Martin, aged eight years;
Ambrose Donnelly, aged ten and Bert
Sheldon, aged twelve, broke through
the ice while skating on a mill pond at
Irontou, in Sauk County, Wis. Martin
and Sheldon were dead when their
bodies were recovered, ten minutes
after the accident, but Donnelly was
resuscitated.
Judge Samuel Maxwell, a mem
ber of the Supreme Court of Nebraska
since the admission of the State, has
been offered the position of chief at
torney for the Consolidated Street
Railway Company of Omaha, with
$10,000 salary.
Andrew J. Dexisox, for thirty
years a merchant of Chicago and an
enthusiastic Democrat, died the other
night of pneumonia.
Before adjourning the Indiana
State Grange declared in favor of Chi
cago as the place for holding the
World's Fair.
The estimated damage by flood in the
vicinity of Colusa, Cal., will reach
$1,000,000, mostly to crops.
John Gillman, the murderer of
Mrs. Ettenhover and child, has been
hanged at Empire City, Ore.
TnE current expenses of the State
charities of Kansas for the month of
November amounted to $26,849.28.
THE SOUTH.
Southern students at Johns Hop
kins University passed resolutions of
condolence on the death of Jeff Davis.
By the explosion of a boiler in Dean
& King's saw mill, near Birmingham,
Ala., four men were killed.
Two thousand 'longshoremen of Sa
vannah, Ga., went on a strike on the
10th. Not a bale of cotton was loaded.
The trouble had its origin hi the deter
mination of the stevedores to stand by
the ship merchants as against the own
ers of vessels in the case of custody of
customs fees.
The funeral services over the re
mains of Jefferson Davis occurred at
New Orleans on the 11th. Bishop Gal
leher, of the Episcopal Church, offici
ated, assisted by Bishop Thompson and
clergy of other denominations. The
procession was lengthy and was an im
posing display. The body was laid in
its temporary resting place after mili
tary rites.
Louis Wilkowski, the mayor of
Starke, Fla., was shot and killed by
Albert Thrasher at Gainesville, Fla.,
recently. The affair was due, it was
said, to family complications.
Several days ago the trainmen of
the Pratt mines, near Birmingham,
Ala., struck for higher wages. Later
over 1,200 free miners stopped work,
demanding that the trainmen's request
be granted. They say that they will
not run the risk of operating the mines
with green hands, and propose to sup
port the strikers.
Jonx Tierxey, a wealthy railroad
contractor, fell from a construction
train near Granburg, Tex., and was
horribly injured.
Carter Wilkixsox, colored, has
been hanged at Plaquemine, La., for
killing his paramour.
UK.VERAE.
Fifteen thousand seals have been
killed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence dur
ing the past few days.
Three renowned German artists
have been commissioned to paint a pan
orama of Stanley's and Kmin's adven
tures for the American World's Fair.
The Hotel Suiss, Amsterdam, was
destroyed by Hro the other night. Tho
guests all escaped.
TnE sou of Minister Lincoln, reported
very sick, has greatly improved.
TnE National League magnates havo
commenced legal proceedings against
the Brotherhood ball players.
There are efforts in France to scaro
up a boom for General Boulanger.
McDonald, the alleged candy
poisoner, of St. Johns, N. B., has been
proven insane.
Ex-Consul Sewell is to be reap
pointed Consul at Api, Samoa.
General Sickles' daughter, by his
second wife, eloped recently with a
bartender.
There is a rumor that Silcott, the
defaulter, is on his way to Chili.
Bombay dispatches say thero will bo
no famine in the Madras presidency.
Rain has fallen and supplies havo gone
from the north.
It is reported from Rio do Janeiro
that the jewels of the Empress of
Brazil have leeii stolen. They were
exceedingly valuable.
Emin Pasha is pronounced by his
physicians to be much better and in ex
cellent spirits. He, however, requires
constant attention from his physicians.
The Bell Telephone Company h:is
declared a dividend of $.'5 per share,
payable January 15.
The natives of Swasilaud, South
Africa, have agreed to permit a trium
virate of two Englishmen and one
Transvaal Dutchman to govern their
country.
Robert Browning, the poet, died
at Venice. Italy, on the 12th. Ho was
bora in London in 1812, aud started a
new school of thought, many cities in
America and Europe having branch so
cieties. Edward Bradley, whose writings
as "Cuthbert Bede" have gained him
world-wide celebrity, died in England
recently.
The threatened strike of the coal
porters employed by the London gas
companies has been averted by arbitra
tion. All the printers in Berne, Switzer
land, have struck for higher wages.
Several papers were unable to issue
their usual editions.
Owixg to the scarcity of farm labor
ers in Germany, the project of import
ing Chinese farm hands has been re
ceived with great favor.
English newspapers, without ex
ception, print extended obituary no
tices of the poet Browning, bestowing
upon his achievements a measure of
praise which they as unanimously
withheld from him during his life.
They agree that he possessed and dis
played a high degree of genius, but are
inclined to the belief that much of
what passed for admiration of his
works was really affectation.
Great excitement has been caused
in high circles in Berlin by the arrest of
a woman occupying an exalted position
in society on the charge of being a pro
curess. Le Carox, the spy and informer, is
shortly to publish a book relating his
personal adventures and experiences, in
which enterprise he is understood to be
backed by several men prominent in
the leadership of the English Conserva
tive party.
THE LATEST.
By the burning of a boarding house
at Hancock Mich., the other night two
women and a child perished.
There seems to be no doubt that
Dr. Minor, G. Morris Halles aud Louis
Cox, prominent citizens were drowned
at Seattle, Wash. Their bodies were
not recovered.
Three children were drowned at
Port Hope, Out., recently, by break
ing through the ice on a pond.
A disastrous explosion occurred in
the Belmez mines, Spain. Many of
the unfortunate men at work were
killed and injured.
By two caves-in at the Big Champion
mine at Iron Mountain, Mich., on the
13th three miners lost their lives.
The Star distillery, non-trust, at Pe
oria, HI., was burned recently. One
man lost his life.
By the explosion of a boiler in a saw
mill at Covington, Tenn., Robert Jones
and Mack Stewart, engineers, were in
stantly killed, and Jack Chandler and
Buell Euos, sawyers, were fatally in
jured. Sam Brokaw, baggage master on
the Grand Rapids & Ishpeming rail
road, has been arrested, charged with
robbing the mails. For the year past
the mail pouches on his route have
been rifled and thrown into the river.
Mrs. Booth, wife of the General of
the Salvation Army, who has been suf
fering from cancer for some time, is
sinking rapidly. All hope of her recov
ery has been abandoned.
Three trainmen were killed by a
collision of a freight train with a flat
car at Graham, Mo., on the 13th. Four
others were badly injured.
Tns strike at the great Pratt mines
near Birmingham, Ala., has been ad
justed. The Chicago Daily News published a
sensational report of a plot to murder
one of the Cronin jurors during the
trial.
Business failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended December 12
numbered, including Canada, 290, com
pared with 31C the previous week and
303 the corresponding week of last
year.
Secetary Tracy will call for bids
for the construction of a new 3,500-ton
and a 7,500-ton cruiser. The appropri
ation for the former is 1,800,000 and for
the latter $3,500,000.
The bureau of statistics of the Treas
ury Department reports that during
.November the value of breadstuff ex
ported was $10,053,446.
SUGAR FRAUDS.
Kerretajy Mohler Advised o' Fraud la
Voting Itonda For Sugar Mills The
Profit From Legitimate Haslness.
Topkka, Kan., Dec .13. Secretary
Moliler, of tho State Board of Agri
culture, has received a dispatch from
Meade announcing that hjg frauds had
lwen unearthed in connection with the
Miimuola sugar works and requesting
' him to start at once for Meade and in
I vestigato the matter. He held a con
1 fcrence with tho Governor and then
telegraphed that it would be impossible
for him to leave the city at present, but
that he would send some one to Minne
ola to look into the matter.
Later information was received that
tsiveu uiiib
,pany. of
Meade, is
and oper-
the American Sugar Comp;
which O. B. Hamilton, of
president, and which built and oper
ated a sugar factory at Minneola,
Clark County, last fall used imported
barrel sugar in making its sirup in
order to deceive the people who had
voted lKnds to establish the works.
Tho Adamson or "roasting" process
was employed in this mill.
W. G. Emerson, It. M. Painter and
A. T. Bodle, are credited with the dis
covery of the fraud. AH of them have
been instrumental in helping the
American SugarCompany introduce its
plants, and tiny feel that ti ey have
been shamefully duped.
A dispatch from Meade states that
fortunately the $00,000 of bonds voted
in six different townships were not in
possession of the American Sugar Com
pany and would therefore be returned
to those who voted them.
Secretary Mohler said to a corre
.spoudciit: "If Messrs. Emerson and
Painter can prove the charge they make
against tho American Sugar Company
and it is reasonable to suppose that
they can, for they are conservative men
and would not take the position they
now occupy without the strongest kind
of evidence the sugar industry of
Kansas will undoubtedly receive a
serious setback. So far as indiscrim
inate bonding of townships and coun
ties is concerned the sooner it is stopped
the better. While I regard profitable
sugar making in Kansas I am free to
admit that the experimental stage has
not been passed, and it is folly for the
people of Western Kansas to accept
blindly the representations of men who
wish to erect mills through purely sel
fish motives. The mill at Medicine
Tnil.TB wlifrli wnc luiilr liv fnlnnl Tvl-
dred with his own money, has made a
good showing this year, and from its
work I expect to be able to gather be
fore long reliable statistics concerning
the industry.
"I propose," continued Mr. Mohler,
"to have the representative of every
sugar plant and process in the State
present at the annual meeting of the
Board of Agriculture next month, so
that the public may leani the exact
status of affairs as regards sorghum
sugar making. In the meantime the
charges against tho American Sugar
lrtniivini- will Iia invnctifTfitml "
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The process employed by the Ameri-
can sugar company is the one which.
its representatives promise to use in the
mills they are now seeking to establish
in Stanton and Haskell Counties
through the aid of bonds.
T. A. MeNeal, of Medicine Lodge,
said that the Eldred mill, which uses
the diffusion process, has made 450,000
pounds of sugar this year, most of
which has been marketed at a good
prie. Colonel Eldred has been experi
menting with beet sugar with con
siderable success. From four acres of
beets he manufactured 9,000 pounds of
good sugar, ne proposes to devote a
large acreage to sugar beets next sea
son and then be able to manufacture
beet sugar after the regular sorghum
season is over. In this way he expects
to make his mill pay handsome div
idends. THE FIRST PRESIDENT.
The Centennial of the Inauguration of the
First President Celebrated at the
Capitol.
Washixotox, Dec. 13. The two
houses held a joint meeting Wednes
day, in pursuance to a resolution of the
last Congress, to celebrate the centen
nial anniversary of the inauguration
of tho first President. The meeting
was, in fact, supplemental to the cen
tennial celebration of the adoption of
the Constitution observed in Plyladel
phia last spring. The Hall of Repre
sentatives was literally crowded and
the gathering was in every respect
notable. The great men of the Nation
were in attendance and the foreign
representatives were numerous the
Pan-American congress being in at
tendance in a body.
At one o'clock Vice-President Mor
ton called the vast assembly to order
and after prayer Chief Justice Melville
W. Fuller of the Supreme Court was
introduced as the orator of the day.
The new Chief Justice, little known in
public life in the capital city, made a
profound impression. His address was
ornate as well as clear cut, and his
analysis of Washington's character is
judged as being one of the best crit
iques ever spoken of '-the Father of
ffis Country." He eulogized Wash
ington both for his deeds as a war
chief and his thorough conservatism
and patriotism as the first Chief
Magistrate of our country. Judce Ful
ler spoke at length, but his essay was
of a character to command and retain
the attention of his great and intelli
gent audience.
Miss Sickles' Elopement.
WniTE Plaixs, N. Y., Dec. 18.
Thomas Dinham and Miss Alta Sickles
quietly applied to Rev. F. B. Van
Kleeck, pastor of Grace Episcopal
Church here and were married. Miss
Sickles is a daughter of General Daniel
Sickles and granddaughter of George
E. Sickles, who died at Xew Rochelle
about three years ago leaving an es
tate of about $2,000,000. She is eight-
een years old and recently graduated
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from a Catholic convent in Montreal.
Dinham is about twenty-five years of
age, and is employed as a bartender at
New Rochelle. The affair turns out to
be an elopement
MANY ACCIDENTS.
Fatal Wreck on the Wabash Road A Fatal
Hoarding House Fire In Michigan
Promlneut Citizen of Washington
Drowned Other Casualties.
ACCIDENT OX THE WARASn.
St. Louis, Dec. 14. An accident oc
curred last night on the Wabash rail
road near the town of Graham, four
teen miles west of here, in which three
men were killed anil four badly injured.
The dead are: Charles Seffenbaiigh,
conductor, Sandusky, O.; James Ester
brook, brakeman, St. Charles, Mo.; Ed
Kennedy, engineer, Ferguson, Mo.
The injured are: I. King, James Ken
nedy, Charles King, Charles Stout. Tho
men were on the engine of a abash
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J es,tern frf ht- aml were """ m
H.ie tow?f Ksoii. A flat car ob-
! sjructed the track and m the collision
the engine and tender were thrown
from the track and the engineer, con
ductor and brakeman killed. The in
jured men were on the flat car and
saved themselves by jumping.
fatal flames.
Milwaukee, Wis.,Dec.l3. A special
from Hancock, Mich., says the Huron
mine otlices, a large building, formerly
occupied as a store, burned last night.
The second story was used as a board
ing house. Of the twelve boarders
eleven wero working on the night
shift. Ono man jumped, injur
ing himself bady. Two Finlander
women and a six-weeks-old child
perished in the llauies. A fireman
succeeded in getting one of them totho J
window, but on account ot the dense
smoke was compelled to leave the in
sensible woman to save his own life.
Portions of the bodies of the victims
were found this morning. The books
of the mine office were saved. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The loss
is several thousand dollars.
THREE CITIZEXS DROWXED.
Poktlaxd, Ore., Dee. 14. There
seems to be no longer a shadow of
doubt as to the sad fate of Dr. Minor,
G. Morris Halles and Louis Cox.
Flags are displayed at half mast all
over Seattle, and the city hall is draped
in mourning. A meeting was held by
I the Bar Association and Chamber of
I Commerce to take suitable me-
morial action in " respect to the
, memory of the dead. A large party
t has been organized to institute a thor-
ough search for the bodies of the three
men. Hie ueacn will be patroiieu uay
and night near the scene of the drown-
The bodies are expected to be
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found within a short distance of where
the Indian canoe was found, but they
are not expected to rise for several days
j'et,
THREE CniLDREX DROWXED.
Port Hope, Ont., Dec. 14. A very
sad drowning accident occurred here
in which three children Iwlonging to
very respectable families lost their
lives. Two little bovs, sons of Joseph
J Mallette, and a son of E. M. Mitchell,
of the Port Hope Gardens, were skat-
l ing on the electric light pond, where
I they were last seen. They undoubted
ly broke through the ice and were
j drowned. An energetic search party
is now looking for tho bodies,
KURIED IX A JIIXE.
IsnPEMiXG, Mich., Dec. 14. Three
miners were buried by a fall of ground
in the Big Champion mine at Iron
Mountain, Mich. William Leech was
rescued badly burned, but alive. Au
gust Magnusson and Gustaf Erickson
were taken out dead. At six o'clock
last evening another fall took place in
the "C shaft of the same mine, kill
ing Ed Parmenter. The body has not
been recovered.
FATAL FIRE.
Kaxsas City, Mo.. Dec. 14. Early
yesterday morning the Oklahoma
House, Thirteenth and Walnut, was
discovered on lire by Policeman Morlan,
who dashed through the flames and
smoke and aroused the sleeping in
mates. James Russell, aged twenty
two, however, was overcome and
perished. Two others were hurt.
There are suspicious of incendiarism
aud Charles Marchaunt, the cook, has
been placed under arrest,
CAUGHT IX THE MACIUXEP.V.
Lixcolx, Neb., Dec. 14. Isaac
George, a miller of this city, was hor
ribly mangled in the machinery of his
mill yesterday morning. His leg was
caught in a pulley and ground to a
pulp to the knee, the skin being en
tirely torn off from that point to the
hip. He can hardly recover.
FEARFUL 31IXE EXPLOSIOX.
Madrid, Dec. 14. Tliere has been
an explosion in the Belmez mines. Fif
teen injured persons have been brought
to the mouth of the pit. The number
of dead is unknown, but it is thought
to be large.
Republicans Defeated at Chicago.
Chicago, Dec. 14. A board of
waterways of nine members was elect
ed Thursday. The Independent "Cit
izens'" ticket, consisting of Judge
Richard Prendergast, A. P. Gilmore
and J. J. Altpeter, Independent Demo
crats, and II. J. Willing, Christopher
Hotz and Murry Xelson, Independent
Republicans, were elected. Of the
straight Democratic ticket, John H.
King, William II. Russell and Frank
Wenter were elected. The straight
Republican ticket was snowed under.
Diamonds Found In Wyoming.
Dexveb, Col., Dec. 14. A topaz
which differs from the African diamond
has been discovered in Popoagie canyon,
Wyoming. The stone is reported as
being plentiful, and many have left for
Mm nonr "li;imrmil field-: of Wvoniillf."
Found Dead on HI Claim.
Guthrie, I. T., Dec. 14. Dr. Martin
Cheney, formerly of Kingman, Kan.,
was found dead on his claim about six
miles southeast of here yesterday after
noon. He had been shot in the head
with a rifle and was still warm when it
was reported and the deputy marshals
reached him. When shot he was
sitting on a log at the edge of the
woods and was probably mistaken for
a deer, as several hunting parties were
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scouring the woods ai mai piace. xie
had been here since April 22 and had a
fine claim and no contest. He leaves a
sister and two children in Waco, Tex.
FRAUDS CHARGED.
Cirave Accutatlns Ag:tlnt Henry Craw
ford, of Chicago.
Chicago, Dee. 15. For two davs
past two prominent Indiana lawyers,
General Lew Wallace and Lew Hatch,
have been at the Grand Pacific Hotel
on a secret mission, and extraordinary
measures have been taken to prevent
publicity. The object of the visit, how
ever, was manitestfd when they ap
peared in Judge Gresham's chambers
and laid before the judge charges of a
sensational character against Henry
Crawford, the well known Chicago
lawyer and railroad speculator.
The accusations against Mr. Craw-
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bought the Midland Itaihvav Company
of ll.Uana for mim Jt a -foriV,,;sili
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ter originated a scheme for lloating
bonds for 810,000,000 upon a road the
value of whose rolling stock, right of
way and all other :uets was
not over 8175,000. Fraud of a bold
and ingenious kind is charged against
him, and on a portion of the $H,lMM,
000 issue of bonds $2t,000 are known
to have been obtained with a prospect
that this is only a part of the sum
fraudulently realived.
Messrs. Wallace and Hatch represent
the Loan & Investment Company of
Xew York, which claims to be a victim
of Mr. Crawford's railroad financiering
i to the extent of SIGO.OUO and b the first
to complain.
A GRAVE STORY.
Evidence of the Premature llurlal of a
Voting Ctrl.
Madisox, Wis., Dec. 15. A sad case
I of premature burial has just developed
here. About a month ago diphtheria
appeared in the house of a prominent
family. A young domestic was terri
bly frightened and desired to go to her
home in the country, but the attending'
physician would not permit her, not
from fear of spreading the disease, but
to render assistance to the family. A
young child died of the dread disease,
and this, with the horror of diseases,
caused the girl to take to her lied, and
she apparently died in a few hours,
and was at once buried by the author
ities. A few days ago her parents ob
tained permission to remove the Iody
to the country, and upon opening the
casket they were horrified to discover
that the body was lying on its face, the
hair wrenched from the head and the
flesh literally torn from the face and
hands.
THE SUPREME COURT.
Reasons Why the Xumlier of Justice
Should Be Iiicrraaed.
WAsniXGTox, Dec. 15. One of the
reasons which the Supreme Court Jus
tices think should have weight in favor
of the passage of a bill to increase the
number of Justices of the Supreme
Court bench is the large territory over
which some of them have to preside
when they go on circuit during the
summer recess of the court. Justice
Miller's circuit includes Colorado,
Aikansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska
and the Northwest. This circuit is the
one Judge Brewer has presided over,
and there is a unanimity of opinion
among lawyers that it is too large for
one Circuit Judge, and that the extreme
Western territory should be divided by
creating at least two additional Su
preme Court Justices to sit with the
Circuit Judges in the new made dis
trict when not on the bench at Wash
ington. NATIVES SLAUGHTERED.
5e.rpa 1'anta Accused of Deceit and the
Killing of M:tkoloi People.
Zaxzihar, Dec. 15. Mozambique
advices state that Serpa Panta, after
deceiving British Consul Johnson by
declaring his intentions to be peaceful,
obtained reinforcements iiiMozambique
and proceeded to theMakoIolci country,
where he and his party entrenched
themselves and declared war upon Ma
kololo, slaughtering hundreds of men
with Gatling guns. It is rumored that
the Gatling guns were lately placed at
the disiosal of Serpa Panta by Consul
Johnson. The Makololo people were
thoroughly suldued. and, believing
that the English had abandoned them,
accepted the domination of the Portu
guese. Serpa Panta has publicly an
nounced his intention to subdue the
entire country to Nyassa.
Murder and Suicide.
Gkaxd Rapids, Mich., Dec. 15.
John McDonnell, a farmer of Tyrone
township a few miles north of this city,
went hunting, leaving his home and
farm in the keeping of his wife and
hired man. Upon his return about
noon he found his wife dead in the
house and Gilmore a corpse in the
woods across the road. The wife had
been strangled with a leather thonjr
tightly wound about her neck and from
the appearance of the room had made
a desperate struggle for her life. Gil
more committed suicide with an old
musket loaded with buckshot and his
throat and breast were riddled with
bullets. The motive for the tragedy
is thought to have been Gilmore's in
fatuation for the woman.
Saved HI Neck.
Dexver, Col., Dec 15. Henry Ty
son, who was arrested in Kansas City
some months ago and convicted of
murder in the first degree for the kill
ing of John King in Denver, has saved
his neck, the jury having returned a
verdict that Tyson is insane.
Took IIU llrhle Alone-
CiiEVEXNE, W. T.,Dec. 15. Thomas
It. Adams manager of the cattle ranch
of the Milwaukee & Wyoming Invest
ment Company, has absconded. His
defalcations are estimated at 815,000.
He has been married about six weeks.
He took his bride with him. Drink and
gambling are the causes attributed.
Business failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended December 12
numbered, including Canada, 290, com
pared with 316 the previous week and
303 the corresponding week of last
year.
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