It is well to hold -y0 gL to the lionie market until we can get a bet- ter one. tratittnx ribuwe $$ j oq $ 0 s 0 $ $ $ I Wilson's bill will be discounted if yon cast. t 4 your vote for Galusha 9 A. Grow. EIGHT PAGES-56 COLUMNS. SCHANTOX. r.. THURSDAY MOKMXG, FEBRUARY 1, 1804. TWO CENTS A COPY. F III 11 n ME Tin nnii urn pu DISCUSSING THE BOND ISSUE The Attention of the Senate Occupied Yes terday with the Question. A BOLD POPULIST HEARD FROM Mr. Allen Argued That the Power to Issue Bonds Under the Resumption Act Was Not a Continuous One. Mr. Gorman Defends Generally the Democratic Position The Debate Attracts Much Attention. Washington, Jm 31. Till', resolution offered gome days sinee by Mr. Stewart, Nevada, denying the lepil authority uf the secretary of the treneurjr to issue bond: ccupied the Attention of the senate the whole of today's j-s-siou. thepr ,'ipal speeches being made bv Mr. Allen (Pop., Neb.). Mr. Hoar (Mass.). Mr. Gorman (Md.) and the I'liairuinn of the limine committee, Mr. Voorhees I tuti.). Various other senators .ovk part in the debate, Mr Allen x Siied that til power to issue bonds uniler th reeutnptloa net w is not is Mr. Sherman had claimed yesterday I a continuous one, but that it cease I when the reJ-rnption of the xreeu backs was completed under that act. Mr. Hoar, ex-chairman of the judic iary committee, declared with muc'ti solemnity of ui inner, that the pro posed bonds would be ill 'gal an 1 won; I convey no constitutional or lawful o.j ligation. Mr. Gorman defended, generally, the Democratic administration aud party, and discn.ged tiie question of responsi bility for the deficit in the treasury, -vincli be attributed to the revenue aieasnres an I extravtaut appropria tions of tne Republican!. Mr. Voorliees took a similar positioti and asserted tliat the secretary of the treasury could ose the money obtained from the bonds in any wiy that teemed to him proper and couducive to tiie general purpose of the resumption act of 187o The who! day's debate was forcible and it attr i:ted close atten tion. The senate adjourned at 5 p. m. PROCEEDINGS IV THE HOUSE. The house spent very liv-ly day over amendments to the internal reve nue bill. Including the income tax T'he greater part of the day was spent in dis. jussin:; the distilled spirits gened nle. An import. amendment wn also offered to tho income rax feature by Mr. Springer, of Illinois, and was Hgreed to put a tax of 'i per cent, on incomes derived from succession and from gifts, devigeg and inheritance of both real estate and personal property. The amendment patting the internal revenue bill on the tariff bill was then s.'reed to, and an attempt was made to amend the barley schedule of the bill in the way of raising the duties, but fuiled on account of the expiration of the time. THE WORLD'S FAIR A SUCCESS. A Surplus of $1,700 WW Be Left for Pennsylvania. Harhisburo. Pa. . Jan. 31. The finan cial strings of the World' fair commis icn are being gathered up and with the close of the (lay trie statement will be practically completed an 1 will show a Burplus approximating $1, 700 after all debt are paid. Of this amount $1,500 will go to defray "the expenses of the military display on Pennsylvania day and the balance will be turned into the reasury. A few of the most important items in the list of expenditures are as fol lows: Expenses of members iu attend ance upon the mtetiuga of the board, $7, 036. 13; salaries of executive com missioners and employes, $25,220.95; exper.gea of Pennsylvania day, $5, (M)0; deduction, World's fair buildings, 408 S4; Pennsylvania building at Chi cago oonatructiou, $90,679 84; tarnish ing, $10,14'.) ,08; la-lies parlor, $5,690.23; incidental, $5,994.24; grounds,$l. 735 20; insurance, f 1,350; maintenance, $13, 635.52; total, $135,158 08, expenses of committees. The records will be filed at the audi tor general's department in a few days MURDER OR SUICIDE. The Mysterious Death of WlllUm Brun ner, n Emhroldry Manufacturer. New York. Jan 31 - William Itrnn tier, manufacturer of embroideries nt 144 and 140 .South Fifth avenne, either committed suicide by jumping from the center of Washington bridge at 8 30 o'clock this en nine, or was thrown from the bridge. There are indications of a struggle in the snow at the point on the bridge from which he fell, and it may be that he wag murdered There was nothing found in his pockets 10 gliow that the inuri intended to commit auicids. - SNOW DRIFTS BLOCK TRAVEL. Gravity Railroad Hampered by Snow. Tralne Abandoned. Sjterial to the Srranton Trifmne. Honekdalk, Pa., Jan. Bt Snow drifted heavily Monday night and Tuesday in Honesrtale and vicinity, nearly crippling traffic on the Gravity railroad. The last two trains were abandoned, shutting off yesterday's Honesdale correspondence to The Tri bune. The roads on tho hills above Hones iale are badly blocked bv drifting laow. M'lEOD'i AGREEMENT. The Ten Per Cent. Reduction Will Be Restored. Bostof, Jan 31. A dispalch from New Haven in a morning paper Htating that the agreement made with the trainmen Dec. 1 by President McLeod, that the 10 percent, reduction in wages ihonld be restored Feb. J, was hot likely to be fulfilled, that no intima tion of the restoration has been made to the employes, and that they are talk ing of a conference to insist on the fulfillment of the compact, with a strike as the alternative, was shown to Vice President and General Manager O'Dell today. Hesaid: "No 'language is too strong in which to denounce such a story. The bargain was made and an order whs issued to restore the 10 per ceut. Feb. 1 aud it will ba fulfilled, livery employe of the road knows this, and has known it for sixty days The dis patch could uot have any basis from tut employes for they known better. It comes from some gosiip who felt obliged to Bay something unpleasant about the road." - SITUATION AT RIO JANEIRO. An Officer Ij Iujured ou Board of the Detroit. WASiiiNUTON.Jan. 81. The only new phase of the situation at Rio Janeiro is that Secretary Herbert has called on A'huiral Renhnm for a written report of l is trouble with Da Crania 'o be sent by mail for use in any complications that may arise. It is probable that an other Cable message from Amiral Reu hiin will reach Secretary Herbert to day; at least, one is expected. The report that an otlker and a bine jacket were injured on board the D droit during t lie threatened Instili ties is continued at the navy depart ment. They wete not wounded by sbotg from Di (Jama's ships, but through ctreleai handling of guns on boar 1 the Detroit. Tueir injuries are very slight, aud it is stated that they have) only theimelvei to blime for the OOCUnt nee. Mysterious Cave Filled to Overflow ing ith Inflammatory Literature. Arms and Amumnition Found. Mansfield, Pa., Jan. 31. Ten of the ringleaders of Saturday's riots were capiured at Tower hill tlds morning. A::i ng tiiem were the noted Anarchists B-uz-d Benlsh, Charles Perltech, Frank Chonr and others. A dozen Germans and Slavs esciped to the hills. Tho village appe ue l to be a hot Oed of anarchists. In every hous were found pictures of the Chicago anarchists and inrl immatory literature of all kinds. Among the prisoners are three boys w.io have beeu identified as those who set fire to the BridgeVlllt tipple. One man said p itheticully : "Take my wife aud Ohildren too, i have no work and no grub, and if they lose tne they will have no one to steal for them." The greatett find w is made by Dep uty Sheriff Mowry, who burst onu the loor of the house of Bentol Benish. Every inch of the walls of the three rooms in the shanty was covered with anarchistic pictures. Banish was known and handcuffed imme liately. As the party was leaving the house they heard one of the children say: "Don't come ont yet." They turned back to find out wnat was meant. The searching party discovered that there was a cave-like room ander the house. I'iia- key was demanded, but was re fused. A threat produced it, however, and when the door was unlocked tin officers started bak in astonish ment. The interior was arranged as a meeting hall. thins. nil of which had beeu recently dis charged were arranged abont the walls. Here, too, the walls were pro fusely decorated with blood curdling pictures. Empty revolver cartridges were thrown abont. Cnarles Perliech was found hiding beneath a pede'tal. He was secured and afterward" ac knowledged that a meeting had b-eu held in the place on Friday night, nt which the lea lers of the mob m id : known what they would do. THE STARS AND STRIPES RESPECTED American Vessels Can Now Enter Bra zilian Porte Unmolested. Rio Janeiro, Jan. 31 American vessels that desire to come to the piers of the city, can now do so without be ing interfered with by the insurgents. The negotiations to settle tho trou ble between the insurgents and the government by arbitration, in which Admiral BsnbUUI wag acting as a pri vate citizen, are at present at s stand still. This is probably due to the fact that Admiral Da (4ama's nephew was killed early on Monday morning while engaged in a foray aiong the shore ou a tug. The American minister here, Mr. Thompgon, today sent a long secret cahl" dispatch to the state department at Washington. FIRE DAMP EXPLOSION. Five Minere Badly Burned Their Inju ries Not Fatal Fayette City, Pa , Jan 81 An ex plosion of ftrH damp occurred in the mineg of the Fayette OmI company at 6,80 this morning. Five miiirs were badly burned about the head, face and hands. They are Thomas Taylor. Samuel White, C. C. Hamilton, Charles Mathews and I. Dewait, While their injuries are serious they are not considered fatal The explosion was caused by an open light coining In contact with a small body of gas which had accnmulatnd during ilia night. The force of thoex nlbsiofl wag not strong enough to do much damage to the mines, FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Robert P, Porter has fttignSd tho chief editorship of the New S'ork Press. The Senate has confirmed Commodore John (triines Walker to bo rear udiuirnl in the nsvy. William McCarthy, aged SO years, re puted to ba miser, was mysteriously mur dered on Monday night at St. John's, N. K. (leorge Sterling, nn old man wtt.li 11,1(50 worth of .United States postoflire sLjimps in his possession, has been arrested at New York. Albert Stroebel, who was hanged at Vic toria, li. (!., for murder, con .iderately as sured the jurors that they bad found the right mau guilty. The Kentucky legislature has adopted a resolution Instructing Bsnators BlMKbnra and hiudsay to vote to reject the nomina tion of Peck ham to be assoriato Justice of tbe supieine court. Myra Bradwell.the oditor of the Chicago I .-nil News, and the first woman over ad mitted to the bar in the United Staten, Is at the point of death from a complication of maladies at Chicago. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE TOILS The Western Uinl Boouur Under Five TIidiis aml Mian Bail, SOME GILT-EDGED LAND STOCK The Editor of Alluring Circulars Is Arrested In New Yor' on an Order of Judge Lawrence ot the Supreme Court It Was a Fort Worth Deal This Time, and the Purcliasoa Proves Troublesome. New York. Jan Bt 1 HUMPHREY It CHAMBERLAIN, Lj h promoter from Colorado, who n reached this oity recently, was J U placed and arrest today ou an order granted by Jnslioe Lawrsnoe, of the supreme court, iu a suit by Joseph V. Paislev. of ttiis city, to recover $', 175. Chamberlain is charge i with gross frani and swindling Piisly says he paid Chamberlain for 100 shares of stock ot the Fori. Worth Park Plac company, winch w is absolutely worth less. Chamberlain reorssented ttut the company own d 400 acres within . short distftnOS of Fort Worth. The circular of this concern set forth that it ha I a paid up capital of $1,000, 000 and the offlcsrs were H, li Cham berlain, president; A. W. and F .1 Chamberlain, vice presidents; W. It. Chamberlain, treasurer, and F. B Gibsiu, secretary. It wag a Colorado corporation, and according to the cir cular bail branch offloes at New York, Rochester, Fort Worth, Scranton, De troit, Utioa, San Antonio aud Corpus Cbristi, TVxts, andjin London and Not tingham, F.-iglan 1. Tins circular was a most alluring one and the descrip tion of the so-called proprty very el i borate. It was located withiu a mile and a half of the board o' trade, close) to an electric railroad, adjacent to a great boulevard, as well as pos sessing other extensive advantages. The cost of the laud to tho companv was but $8S0 M acre, while property further out was wortu $1,503 an acra on the market The result of this was that Eaisley to ik 10U shares of he stock, which was to be paid for iu installments. He male his last payment, miking in all. with interest, $5. 175 in November, 1892. Pail"V becoming suspicious went to Fort Worth. There he met H W. Tal lard, oue of the original promoters of the company, to wham one.tighth of the stock had beon issued. Tallard told him that the company never owned any land nor a dollar's worth of property of any kind. He also informed Paisley that ar the time he bought the stock the land was owned by Robert MoCarl and William Capps, citizens of Fort Worth. Chamberlain famished $5,090 bail. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. A Sletzh . Party Caught bv a Locomo tiveThree Perjone Killed. Fall River, Mass., Jan. 81. A sleigh containing twenty-eight mem bers of the sOphomors class of the li. M. C. Dnrfee high school was crossing tho Brownll street crossing of the New York, New Haven ami Hartford railroad this evening when tho Boston express hove in siiht. The driver succeeded iu getting within two feet of being ont of danger. Everett B. Durfeo a teacher in the school, and iu charge of the party was sitting on a camp stool at the end, aud oa either site of him were Brooks Borden, son of Col onel Spencer Borden, ami Ray Thorn ton, son of Charles I). Thornton, while Orion Swift, the 17-yehr-old Ron of M. B. Swift, was sitting In the lap of Henry Hawkins When theparty saw the rushing train tho members became terror stricken. Borden and Thornten jumped over the tail board only to be struck by the locomotive. Swift wns preparing to jump when he, too, was struck. Borden was hurlod forty feet, his skull ami body being crushed in. anil he was killed instantly Ray Thornton was dragged along in the wheels for 100 yards, his hoad and right hand being severed from his bo ly. Swift was burled twenty feet aud was uu conscious when picks 1 up He was taken home, but died shortly after he arrived there. Mr. Dnrfee jumped with Clark ('base, jr., when they saw the train and they escaped with slight bruises, the train passing betwoeu them and tne sleigh. Inimediat-ly after the accident, the terror stricken pupils jumped from their conveyance and the young ladies became frantic. The only injury done to tiie sleigh was the smashing out of the end about a foot iquaie. The horses were going at a moderate gait and did nut attempt to run. M HILAKIOUS DEPUTIES. A Number of Washiuir'on County OUT, dale Under Arrest. WaiBINOTONfJaU. 81. This morn ing a party of Washington county dep uty sheriffs who had been ordered to Kseen mines to make arrests of rioters became go disorderly on the train that it was necessary to sidetrack their coach and place the entire posse under arrest. They were all very drunk. - A SIDE SHOW. Ha I. v Russell and 0" Slddona Have Arranged a $A03 Plftht BlttDOEPQBT, Conn , Jan, III -Danny Russell, uf Bridgeport aji I -orgs Sid dons, bt NeW Orleans weremitclled to day for $500 a side for a Bnish fight, Maroh 1, to weigh iu at 186 pounds The contest will probably take place just outside of Connecticut, ImM MURDER SUSPCTED. Muncv Ditectlvea All Searching for the Body of Hounokuecht. Williams port, Jan. 81. There is every reason to believe that Isaacher Houeekneoht, the farmer residing in the western part of this county who disappeared nearly a week ago, was foully murdered by robbers in their ef forts to get the money he had ulmut his person. Several clews have been run out. by the Muncy officers, and it is now believed that Hougekiiecht'a body is in the river and a search will be made for it. District Attorney tiilmore Iisb taken charge of the case, aud will uudeaver to unravel the mystery. i e THE EASTERN LEAGUE. Important Meetlnv at Albany-eSy racute and Toronto Seek Admleslon. Albany, n. y . Jan. 81. The Eist- eru Base Rail league circuit committee mot this afternoon at Hotel Kenmore. President P. T Powers u I 1; l.e proxies of Burns, of Bjlrlngfield, who was too sick to attend, and Bogart, of Wllkes liarrj. President Franklin, of Buffalo, was the other member of the couimitee present. Applications w re receivel from Syracuse, represented by Qiorge M. KnentSOwand Toronto, represented by W. W. Bornham, formerly the man agar of the Providence 'irsys. No ac tum was taken ou the applications. The committee refused to consent to the placing of Albinv and Troy in dif ferent sections of the circuit, making it possible for Albany to play at boms while Troy was ou the road, aud vice Verse, President Fassett, of Albany, then offered to sell out and Syracuse offered $1,000 for bis franchise and players. Mr. Bassist has this offir under ad visement, but will probably take no action until be Jnscertains whether Al bany capital with not come in and run the club. Toronto made S, similar otter to Troy, but President Malonev did not consider the Inducement sufficient in his case. e- THE BRIDEGROOM WHIPPED. Simpson's Bride Was Snafchel from Him by Brothr-ln-Law. BANGOR, Me., Jan. 83 Last evening Howard V. Simpson, of Ibis city, and Miss Estelle Blanche Maloney, of Franklin, Pa., daughter of George C: Maloney, a prominent citizen of that place, were secretly married. The couple intended to leave on the 8 o'clock train for Bosion, but the brlde'g sister and her husband iu gome man ner learned of the marriage and ar rived at the depot before the depar ture. Tne bride wa seized and carried bolily to a carriage outside, while a liberal horsewhipping was meted out to the bridegroom. The bride was then spirited away from her discomfited hue baud. THE USUAL RESULT. Ifag-g-ie Tru'ock Plays with a Revolver and Kill Usr Sweetheart. DliCATLR, III., Jan. 31 While play ing cards with Miss Maggie Trulock and other friends last night, David Lambert laid a revolver on the table alter, as be supposed, having taken out the cartridges Shortly afterward Miss Trulock playfully pointed the revolver at Lambert and pulled the trigger. There was a flash and Lambert drop ped to the 11 ior fatally wounded. It is reported that she and Lambert were engaged to be married. Miss Tru lock is nearly crazv with grief. . ARRESTED FOR MURDER. Philip Wagaaman Is Committed to the Gettysburg Jeil Gr.TTYSituitu. Jau. 81 Philip Waf gamao was committed to jail charged with being coucorned In the nnirierof Jacob W Waggamann the mountains of Hamiltonban township last spring. Warrants are also out for Amos Oar baugh, who the commonwealth thinks committed the crime by choking the man to death. Philip Wagaman is the cousin of the murdered mau. Cu b nigh las left the county, but his whereabouts are known and lie will probably be arrested within a few days. WILL DIL GlME. Vaillant Says That He Will Approach the Ouilloiine Fearlsoely. Paris, Jan. 81 Vaillant's mother was allowed to have a half hour inter view with hiin late this afternoon. She was trembling and weeping when she left the prison. Vaillant is calm. He bus re-said repeatedly t ijtlll keep rs to day, ''Death does not frighten me, 1 shall walk firmly and fearlessly to the guillotine " He still refuses to see the chaplain, and declares that he will die an atheist. It is certain that he will not be exe cuted tomorrow. IN OUR OWN COMMONWEALTH. Odd Fellows' Day In the Schuylkill dis trict Will be April 88, Thieves extracted $!IO(t from Slichter A Cemlnger'S safe, Reading. An ordinance) for dollar gnu has been In troduced iu Keadiug councils, the price now being fl.U). Manager I iilbert lireenborg, of Hunt ingiiou. has begun a test case in the the atrical license dispute. The unit works of the I'.. iV O, llrooke Iron company, employing 2110 hands, have started up after a month's idleness. . Testimony wns taken at Altoona in the case of F h. Patterson, who h looheed of issuing 100 shares of railroad stock to liim seir. Psjaengnr train crows of the Philadel phia and Heading road must hereafter live at the places where their trains start from. At midnight Mr. Child's physicians is sued n nulleliii sajing that he had psssed a jQUlei day and there wan no noticeable change in his condition. 'I he twentieth annual convention of the Pennsylvania Btate Dairymen's associa tion IntH opened Ht Meadville for three days with about 158 members present. QOVCrnor I'attlson has sent Coiigrossiimn Sibley a b tter acknowledging the receipt otf bis eomttuntcntlon withdrawing ins resignation and enclosing the loiter of resignation! over 150 employes of the Pennsylvania company at I'lttsbnig have received no tice or discharge. The company proposes to continue i educing the working force of the road at all points where the men can possibly be dispensed witb. Fourth class Pennsylvania postmasters were appointed yesterday as follows: A. ,1. Nonas, Calmerville; A, A Payne, LeU- oxviiie; Mrs. h. B, Webster, Lovkport station: F. B. McClenahan, liilroy; Charles Clemens, Reedsville; Nicholas L nninel, Itobbins Station; C. E. Merrick, West liinghatn. If IB Mm illwWi StoSPs fek'tv-. ORDER 8M, " FINLEY'S WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. MR. GLADSTONE WILL RESIGN. An Authorized Statement to That Ef fect is Made by Sir Algernon West. LONDON, Jan. Ill -Mr. Gladstone authorize,! Sir Algernon West, who ig his companion in Biarritz, to send out this evening the statement that fol lows: "the statement that Mr. Grindstone has definitely decided, or decided' at all, to resign, is true. It is true, however, that for many months past hwage and ti e condition of Ins sight and hearing have, in Ins judgment, made relief from public life desirable. Therefore, his tenure of office has been at any mo ment liable to interruption from these causes, which are iu their uatnra per manent. "It remains exactly as it has b?en. Ho is ignorant of the course which events important to the nation may take even during the remainder of the present session of parliament, and he has not Baid or done anything which could in any degree restrain his abso lute freedom or that of his colleagues regarding tne performance of th-arduous duties now lyrig or lik.-ly to lie before them." THEY OBJECT TO CORBETT. Bane B i 1 Magnates Denounce the Propo rtion to Star the Pugilist. New York, Jau 81, The directors and heavy stockholders of the New York club aud one of the leading stockholders of the Brooklyn base ball duo met today to talk ovor the off. r to pay Pugilist James J Corbet! $1,000 per week during the months of July and August to play with the Balti more club as suggested by President Han Ion, They denounce the i loa and they in timate that if the Baltimore club in sists upon it, the h f T a i r may bo taken before the National league at the con vention to bo held in this 'city on Feb. 20. They declare, iu the first place, that to use a prize fighter to advertise base ball is all wrong, and the game could not gain anything by such an acquisition, MUST FIGHT OK DIE. President cf Fan-American B metallic L-uena Chnlleng-n a Man. DENVER, Jan. 81 Colonel C. A. FiBk, of whom Senator Boyd said in the Senate had never -am- I an honest dollar, last night challenged the snna tor to fight a duel. The colonel hkvi if the senator does not publicly retract and apologise, for his offensive remarks or accept the challenge ho will beat his brains out with a club. Colonel Fisk is president of the Pan American Bimetallic association IN BEHALF OF STRIKERS. Bills to Prevent Judged Restraining Railroad Employe Llc-nee. Term Haute, ad., Jan 81. Grand Master Sargeant of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Kngineera ban returned from Washington, where be bus been in consultation with Senator Voorhesi and Representative UcUaon, of llli nois. A bill will be introduced soon in both branches of congress to prevent federal judges from restainiug railroad em ployes from sti iking. WANTS THE NEXT FIGHT. Roby Club Would Give $20,000 to the State to Permit It. Hammond, Ind., Jan. 81, 'the Roby Athletic club, through its president, M. Champagne, of this city, announces that the organisation WOUld give a fin 000 purso to got the Corbet Jackson fighl It would present the state with 180,- floo, providing Governor Matthews gives permission to allow the mill to be pulled off In their arena at Koby, - i A FRISKY BIVALVE. Daniel Oyeler of the Ridgway Bank Ar rested on Fourteim Warrattle. St. Mary 'B, Pa., Jan. Ill Daniel (' Oysler, thp president of the defunct Knlgway bank, was arrested I his morning on fourteen 'different war rants charging embezzlement He was brought before justice Mo Vean.of this place, and waiving a hear ing was admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000. Cleveland Will Have to Try Again Be fore He Can Overthrow the Hill Murphy Combination. Washington, Jan. 31 Wheeler H Peckbam, President Cleveland's latest nomine for associate justice of the Mlpreme court, will not be confirmed. This assertion is based upon a canvass of the opponents of Mr Peckhaui in the seuate. It is undergtood that Senators Hill aud Murphy and other Democratic Senators have DOt permitted auy grass to grow under their feet since Mon day, and are now perfectly satisfied, according to inside information, that no pressure that Presidei.t Cleveland aud his friends may Priug to bear upon the senate will result in Peck'nam' confirmation They understand full well that there is no foundation for the report that I Mr. Clevelanc is endeavoring to pla cate certain Democratic senators who have not been in line with him. but while he may succeed in a few instan ces with the aid of the Republican votes those opposed to Peck ham's con firmation ou tiie Democratic side feel absolutely certain that he will be de feated. A FANATIC'S LONG FAST. Say She 19 Through the Wilderness and Ie Nov.- BpllituaL CHICAGO, Jan. 81. A special from Portland, Ore., says: "Mrs. Williams, the faith cure fanatic and religious enthusiast, baa just finished her 110 days' fast, seventy days of which crackers and claret (the body tad blood of Christ 1 tonued her sole diet, and forty i in which she ate absolutely nothing, This season of fasting, called "going through the wil derness," is considered necessary to purge the body of all sin fulness and give the tasters purely spirituul bodies. Mrs. Williams looks but little the worse for tho critical ordeal. With her are about 180 disciples, who are -rejoicing that they have reached the eud of the long weary "wilderness." According to a com mand from on high, as Mrs. Williams Bays, she went soventy day on bread and water alone. Then she was forbidden oven that, and for forty days aha went with nothing i but water. Mrs. Williams explained ni great length bow ell that wag carnal and earthy of the present body had been cleansed and purified, leaviug a wholly gpi ritual body, i M H WINDLE RETIRES. The Champion Blcyrle Rider Announcea Hie Return to Privain Life. Worcester, Haas., Jan 81, -William W, Windle, the champion bicycle rider, announces today bis p-rinaueut re tirement trom the race track alter a most successful career as a bicyclist for the i asl seven yaars. This decision is caused by the fact that be wising to study designing. Windle began riding lb 1880 He has over $10,000 worth of trophies he baa won. 1 . NAN0S ACROSS THE SEA. The czar's .condition is much improved . The Vicuna cabinet wants to increase the tax ou corn Hour. Btnporor Williams' visit to Bismarck will be before April I, France's Mediterranean const defenses were declared iu the French chamber to be Inadequate, After today, British vessels dare not catch seals wnlnn ten miles of the Russian ooastsbs the Bering eta, Some one mild to Prlnoe Himiiarok Unit ha bed an iron Constitution. "Iron, yes but rusty, i retorted the ec chancellor, Lien tenant Lnca ivnueiT and ins brother Btojen were convicted of conspiring to murder Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Joseph Chamberlain says be will here after be a Unionist, s England needs great patriotic party to save it from po litical sharks. e ( WEATHER FORECAST. CLOUOY WAiwtimwR, Jan. 81 Forinttt m- (nurmnw ' " eiiNferii reiin- sylvania, gntntly cloudy and frtiTiifeniim urntlici-.iiorth iei'iii.v h'ov iresdvii Peuasufoattfa, otOMCty icealh er with liiM oeal .snoie, i-uri'dfie icinj.v; slightly colder Thursday night. 510 AND 512 LACKA. AVENUE, if IRS Extraordinary Value. 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