; Crime and Penalties.
Elmer Fostile shot and instantly killed
ichael Niland at Yoder Siding, near Rock-
wood, Pa., during a quarrel about their
“work.
‘William Smith, wife and little son were
discovered in their house, near Sheridan,
Tex., cut and gashed in the most horrible
manner and insensible from loss of blood.
A colored man named Sam Massey has been
arrested on suspicion, but he stoutly claims
his in:
James W. Collins, President of the Cali-
fornia National Bank at San Diego, Cal,
who was accused of embezzling $200,000,
committed suicide. :
A boy named Harry Gray,aged 18,son of a
prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga., was shot
by a policeman while he was attempting to
Tob a ngighbor’s house. He was formerly
. of good reputation.
©. Charles Waterbury and Samuel Suther-
- land were sentenced to four years and John
: McCann to two years in the State prison, at
. Bridgeport, Ct., for kidnapping little Ward
~ Waterbury some time ago. :
| Assistant Postmaster Myler, of Allegheny,
. Was arrested, charged with embezzlement.
He was held in $1,000 bail.
Charles W. Ayers, a prominent business
1 of Detroit, was shot and fatally injured
“ by his wife, Annie D. Ayers. Cause: dos
‘mestic troubles.
‘At Lebanon, T11., Rev. Harris Thompson,
a Baptist minister, committed snicide in a
fit of mental derangement—the result of la
grippe. :
Anos Miller, the burglar who escaped
after the murder of Marshal Sprinkles and
the suicide of his confederate, Tacket, was
taken from the jail at Dexter, Mo., by a
masked mob and hanged. “The mob forced
the keys from the sheriff at the muzzle of
revolvers. The body of Miller was cut down
by the coroner.
7 Rev. John Calvin, a Methodist preacher
in Green county, Ala., shot and killed Wil-
liam Herdy, a deacon in the church, "and
fatally wounded David Smith, brother-in-
law of Herdy. Herdy suspected Calvin of
‘being intimate with his (Herdy’s) wife, and
‘attacked him with a cane, when Calvin drew
. a pistol and fired five shots, with the above
result. Calvin is in jail at Eutaw, Ala.
Two men entered the sleeping apartment
- of Father Rives, of St. Ann’s cathedral at
; Haute, Ind., and at the point of a re-
solver forced him to open the safe and turn
over the contents. After securing several
_ hundred dollars and a valuable gold watch,
‘they turned the priest's face to the wall and
escaped. They were unmasked.
¢ A tough character named Williams, living
#i Richland, Ind., shot his wife, killing her
Enstantly. Williams then turned the weapon
on himself, inflicting fatal injuries. The
tragedy was the result of jealousy.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Ex-Mayor Wyman, of
Allegheny, Pa., was sentenced by Judge
- Kennedy to three months in'jail and to pay
"the cost of the prosecution. He was’ found
guilty of extortion.
i Dr. Henry P. Mendes, pastor of the
. Bhearith Israel Synagogue of New York,
Was on Saturday fired upon by a crank who
‘wanted the pastor to give him $100, The
ball struck Dr. Mendes in the abdomen, but
his life was saved by the thick pleating of
his shirt. The assailant escaped.
Ed Russel and Al. Robinson settled an old
family feud in Alabama by hacking each
other to pieces with knives
A a-year-old negro boy at Pittsburg, killed
a 7-months-old white baby by hacking its
head with a piece of iron, while its mother
was absent. = .
Capital, Labor and Industrial,
Six hundred men and boys and 250 wo-
men, employed in Selz, Schwab & Co.'s
great shoe factory at Chicago, struck. They
object tothe employment of seven new
~ men, who were engaged during a previous
. ‘strike, and demand their discharge.
‘Work at the several mines near Duquoin,
J11., is suspended, the contract between the
mine operators and miners having expired
«Monday. The miners ask for a continua-
tion of present prices, 40 cents per ton
gross, while the operators want to reduce it
10 30 cents. More than 1,000 miners are
The United Express Company is about to
open the war of extermination on the
_ Brotherhood by discharging INessengers.
. Coffrede & Sailor, proprietors of the large
‘bridge works at Pottsville, Pa., have notified
eir 500 employes of a 10 per cent. reduc-
n in wages, to take effect March 14.
sweeping reduction in wages paid to
‘piece workers at the Singer Sewing Machine
tks, New York, went into effect and
'e i8 much excitement among 3,500 em-
loyes in consequence. The cut will range
r to 20 per cent.
general reduction of about 10 per cent.
he wages of furnace employes is being
into effect in the Alabama district. No
ble is apprehended, as the necessity is
ly recognized among the men. The
furnaces are all in blast and are preparing
low prices.”
Pittsburg boiler trade is reported in a
t condition, caused by the flooding of the
ket with patent boilers. :
Board of Prison Managers at Still-
Minn., has fixed the price of prison
twine at 10 cents per pound. It was
1y sold at 9 cents, but did not pay ex-
most reliable authorities ‘are of the
that there will be no strike of the
erhood of Carpenters this year by
n of their rejection of their scale by the |
5 Ni
“3 i a
» “Senator Quay still ling Flo
"| rid of the effects of his recent ilsness.
Washington
Senator Cameron is confined to his room,
suffering from the effects of ‘a cold that
the House, the Pension Appropriation Bill
forthe fiscal vear ending June 30; 1803. The
bill appropriates $134,825,066, being $12,239,
484 less than the estimates, and $389,719 less
than the appropriation for the current fiscal
year. The number of pensioners. on the
roll has increased from 242,755 in 1879, to
676,160 in 1891, and the amount disbursed
on account of pensions, has increased from
$25,493,742 in 1879, to $124,415951 in "1801.
The amount appropriated for 1892 was $135,-
214,785.
Congressman Springer’s condition is not
so favorable, the erysipelas in his head hay-
ing again made ‘its appearance. This un-
favorable change has complicated matters
somewhat and the patient on Monday was
not so well as he was Sunday, when his
temperature had become normal. Secretary
Blaine and Congressman Mills are reported
to be convalescent.
The Hbuse Appropriations Committee
completed the Urgent Deficiency bill. The
bill makes deficiency appropriations
amounting to $438,413 an increase of $53,-
000 over last year’s bill. :
The House Committee on Military Affairs
completed the Army Appropriation bill.
The bill carries an appropriation of $24,245,-
649, against $24,613,529 appropriated for the
current fiscal year, being a reduction of
$367,880.
The Behring sea matter has assumed a
most serious phase, and public officials make
no attempt to disguise their grave concerns
at the outcome. It was developed that Lord
Salisbury’s proposition with regard to the
present season was not only to open Beh-
ring sea outside of a thirty-three mile zone
from Pribylov island to indiscriminate seal-
ing, but fo limit the catch within that belt,
including, of course, the shores of the
island, to 30,000 seals. In the language of a
prominent official, this proposition is
“wholly unfair, arrogant and even insulting
to this country.”
Disasters and Accidents.
Henry Raab, engineer, was killed, and 3
passengers seriously injured in a wreck on
the Balto. & Lehigh R. R. near Baltimore,
Md. :
A bowl of gasoline exploded in McCor-
mick’s Chicago dyeing establishment, and
one man was killed and three injured.
John Clark, a wealthy farmer, was killed
while overseeing the work of erecting a barn
on his farm near Oaktown, Ind. A heavy
beam fell upon him, producing instant
death.
A passenger train on the James River
division of the Chesepeake and Ohio Rail-
road was wrecked by a: huge boulder on the
track, near Lynchburg, Va. Engineer F. H.
Plapp and Fireman W. C. Moseley, were
killed. ;
A terrific boiler explosion occurred at the
well of Greenlee & Forst at Laurel Hill sta-
tion, Allegheny county, Pa., and ‘‘Con"
Daugherty, a tool dresser and engineer; was
instantly killed. :
‘While loading baled hay at Richmond,
Ind., Orlando Gardner lost his temper be-
cause one ba'e, when partly in the wagon,
fell to the ground. In his rage he kicked
violently at the bale, fell, broke his back,
ruptured a blood vessel and died on the
spot.
A misplaced switch on the Big Four road
near Cleves, Ohio, causeda passenger train
to run into the rear of a sidetracked freight.
John :Larsh, fireman, was mortally and
Omer Henry, engineer, seriously hurt.
A lineman named McNeill was struck by
a fast express train at Port Chester, Conn..
and instantly killed.
Judicial.
Judge Hawley, of the U. 8. Circuit Court
at San Francisco, has upheld the State Su-
preme Court and decided an important
Chinese case in favor of the Celestial and
against the local collector. The Judge’s de-
cision is important, as it establishes the fact
that Chinese consuls residing out of China
may issue certificates which must be recog-
nized here as evidence of the right of hold-
ers to land. This means that Chinese con-
suls at San Francisco, Victoria, Honolulu,
Peru, Havana, and other ports can issue cer-
tificates.
cided that aliens can hold mineral lands in
that State.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided
that pencil marks made on an Australian
ballot are legal; that the statute when it
says they shall be made with a pen and ink
is only directory.
Fifteen persons, officers and employes of
the Louisiana State Lottery Company, in-
dicted by the grand jury for alleged viola-
tion of the anti-lottery postal law, were
arraigned at New Orleans before Commis-
sioner Wright, and placed under bond of
$200,000 each to appear at the next term of
the Circuit Court at Trenton, N. J.
Legi-1 rtive.
The Judiciary Coni..ittee of the New
York Assembly has reported a concurrent
resolution calling upon New York’s repre-
sentatives in Congress to faver the bill pro-
viding for the election of United States
Senators by the people.
The New York Senate passed the ‘‘Anti-
Pinkerton’ bill.
The Towa House concurred in the Senate
joint resolution calling upon Congress to
provide for the elections of United States
senators by direct vote of the people. A
joint resolution was presented favoring the
election of the president of the United States
by direct vote.
The Virginia Honse of Delegates passed a
bill appropriating $25,000 to the World's
Fair, and the Senate agreed to it.
The governor of New York has signed
chapter 61, appropriating $800,000 for con-
tinuing work on the State capitol building.
The capitol has cost the people of the state
to the present time $18,582,243 58. It was
begun in 1867 and the original plan called
for an expenditure of only $4,000,000, This
plan was soon set aside, however, for one
much larger structuwe,
The South Dakota Supreme Court has de-
author of a mumber of important
educational and philosophical works, and
was prineipal editor of the revised edition of
‘Webster's Dictionary. He was admittedly
one of the most scholarly of American
wmetaphysicians. ’ :
Henry 8; Carpenter, commercially known
as the corn king of the west, died at Joliet,
Tls., from softening of the brain, aged 66
years. Deceased had a European’ as well as
American reputation, shipping annually!
12,000,000 bushels of grain. a
Dudley T. Young, editor and publisher of
the ‘Evening Review,’ of ‘East Liverpool,
O., and well known in newspaper circles
throughout Eastern Ohio and’ Western
Pennsylvania, died after an illness of sev-
eral weeks of typhoid fever, superinduced
by the grip.
: Sanitary Items. ¢
For the week ending February 27th, there
were 107 deaths in Pittsburg, 45 being from
pulmonary diseases.
Tle monthly bulletin of the N.Y, State
Board of Health for January last has been
issned. The total number of deaths re-
ported was 13,460, against 11,241 for Decem-
ber. The average for January for the past
seven years has been 8,968. Of the total
number of deaths 3,246 were under 5 years
of age. The greatest number of deaths was
caused by acute respiratory diseases, and
the least specified (two) by smallpox, one
case of which occurred in New York City
and the other in New Rochelle. The mor-
tality of January is greater than that of any
month previously recorded, except that of
April, 1891, which it ncariy equals. The
increase is due to the epidemic of influenza,
whicn may be termed the third outbreak
and which reached its height during this
month.
Fires.
At Indianapolis, Ind., the State Female
Reformatory was destroyed by fire. All the
inmates escaped unhurt, and it is charged
that three of them started it. The loss will
exceed $300,000, with an insurance of but
$51,000.
Fire destroyed the William Reed Glass
Company’s building and the Detroit Con-
fectionery and Fruit Tablet Company at
Detroit, Mich. Total loss, $200,000; insur-
ance, $160,000.
At Philadelphia, the four-story brick
carpet factory of J. B. Ryersons & Co. Loss,
Several of
the 300 employes were severely burned in
escaping.
At SiouxCity, Ia., the dry goods store of
J. H. Noynihan. Loss, about $30,000.
The Ocean and Beach hotels and three
cottages at the beach, 20 miles from Savan-
nah, Ga., burned. Estimated loss, $40,000
Personal.
Secretary Foster, of the United States
treasury, arrived safely at Southampton on
the steamer Spree.
Mrs. James G. James, Jr., from her sick
bed at Sioux Falls, S. D., wrote a reply to
her father-in-law’s statement, [in which
statement Mr. Blaine, Sr., averred that Mrs.
J. G. Blaine, Jr., had done all the courting
and persnaded J. G. Blaine, Jr., to marry
her, and that the senior Mrs. Blaine had
done all in ‘her power to cause the young
couple to live harmoniously.] She claims
the sentences extracted from her love letters
were calculated to give an unfair impres-
sion and requests him to publish the letters
in full. At the same time she declares she
has the letters written on both sides and
threatens to publish them. The junior Mrs.
$15,000; insurance, unknown.
Blaine gives her father-in-law ten days to
retract his statements.
Political.
The N. C. State Democratic executive com.
mittee met at Raleigh to-day with a large
attendance and called the State convention
to meet in that city May 18.
Half-fare railroad rates will rule for the
Democratic ‘Ntioanal Convention at Chi-
Cago0. X
The Democraiic National Committee has
approved the Chicago Wigwam plan.
Religious.
The great religious movement in Cincin-
nati, O., which was inaugurated six weeks
ago under the leadership of the Rev. B. Fay
Mills, came to a close Sunday. The services
have been attended by vast audiences from
the beginning and the result has exceeded
the most sanguine expectations. Music
Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity
this afternoon and to-night, fully 25,000.
people availing themselves of the last op
portunity to hear Mr. Mills.
Miscellnneous.
The body of DPr.Robert G.Mitler was fished
out of the river at - Chicago. Dr. Mitler:
disappeared Dec. 24 and was located in Cin-
cinnati and other places by people who pro--
fessed to know him. The finding of the
body proves them wrong. It is not yet
known whether the doctor was murdered or
fell into the river.
Mrs. Lucy Ridley died at New York City
in her 118 year. She wasa slavein North
Carolina before the war.
Emil Bathel, boss switchman, was held
responsible by the Coroner's jury at Mil-
waukee, Wis. for the railway collision there
Tuesday, in which seven men were killed.
A. H. Moore of Philadelphia, who has re-
cently purchased about $100,000 worth of’
trotting stock, sold the 6-year-old brown
stallion Commoner, by Electionser, dam
Molly Cobb, by General Benton, to W. C.
France & Son of Lexington for $12,500.
The Wool Clip for 1892.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin gives
ofhcial figures showing the number of sheep
in the country, by which the clip of 1892 car
be forecast with some exactness, The tig-
ures show that the total increase in sheep
is 1,519,229, an increase which is very gen-
erally distributed and in some surprising
places. The decline is mostly in the South-
ern States, though the heaviest shortage is
in Colorado, where 109,174 sheep have dis-
appeared, and in New Mexico, where there
are 166,183 less than last year. The. States
showing the largest increase are: Texas, 49 -
903; Illinois, 77,099; Michigan, 89,530; Iowa,
113,006; the Dakotas, 215,681; California,
871,281; Ohio, 406,180. Estimates from these .
figures place the total yield of the United
States in 1892 at 816,063,711 pounds, or.
estimating the shrinkage of pulled wools
at 40 per cent. a scoured yield of 141,096,937
pounds. This is an increase: of 12,652,224
pounds in the grease, or 6,000,000 pounds.
reoured. PLT i AS
>n, Conn., December 14, 1841, He.|
SUPREME COURT DECI
THE ANARCHISTS.
a —_——
NO HOPE FOR
The “No Quorum?” Ruling and Constitu®
tionality of the McKinley Bill Affirm-
ed. Behring Sea Decision.
The Supreme Court reconvened at Wash:
ington for the spring session.” ‘A long list of
unusually important and interesting cases
were disposed of.
The right of the Speaker of the House to
count a quorum as was done in the Fifty-
first Congress, was unanimously affirmed by that
the courtin an opinion deliv
Brewer, in the case of the
against Ballin, Joseph &
the New York Circuit
volved the validity of
« Justice
tion act. "When it was before the House for
action, 138 votes were recorded for the pass:
age of the bill, whereupon the Speaker pr
ceeded to make a quorum by comnti
several Representatives: present, but. none
voting, pursuant toa rule adopted by the
House for such cases.
orum, and when that quorum is
present it isthere for the ‘purpose of doing
busin is.” oS 2 Na
The decision of the Supreme Court in the.
case of Marshall, Field i
oyd et al and Charles Sternback et
al, of New York,, versus the United States,
involving the validity of the McKinley
tariff bill, was delivered by Justice Harlin.
Duties were assessed on various articles im-
orted by the appellants under the McKin- |
ey bill, und they protested against Paying
them on the ground that the act was not the
law of the United States for the reason that
section 30 of the:
ouser and
conference, was 2
the enrolled bill & “by
siding officers of the two houses, and by the
President, and that therefore, it did not
comply with the requirements of the Con-
stitution. This was the first time the ques-
tion was presented to the Court and Justice
Harlan said it received the consideration it
deserved. After referring to the constitu-
tional Tequircments respecting the passage
of the bill and the proceedings of Congress,
the Court says:
‘The signing by the Speaker of the House
of Representatives and by the President of
the Senate,in open session, of an enrolled bill
is an official attestation by the two Houses
of such a bill as one that has passed Con-
gress. And when a bill thus attested re-
ceives hui (the President's) approval and is
deposited in the public archieves, its au-
thentication as a bill that has passed *Con-
gress should be deemed complete and unim-
peachable.’’ « = T
In support of this view numerous deci-
sions are quoted. The judgments of the
courts below sustaining the validity. of the
act are affirmed. ° EE
A decision was given against the Chicago
Anarchists, Fielden and Schwab, who sought
release from Joliet prison on writs of habeas
corpus. Their counsel held that the men:
were not proses in the Supreme Court of
Illinois when sentence of death (afterwards
commuted to imprisonment for life) was
pronounced on them. The Court holds that
sentence of death was not’ pronounced on
the defendants by the Supreme Court of
Illinois, but was passed (when the men were
present) by the Criminal Court of Cook
county. This rule of common law, that a
person must be present in court and asked
if he has anything to say why sentence of
death should not be pronounced, applies
is held,only to courts of Hgigal ut
and not to courts of appeal like the Illinois
Supreme Court. Bo appellate court, the
Supreme Court holds, simply affirmed the
decision of the Criminal Court, and fixed a
day for the execution.
The Bayward case involving the jurisdic:
tion of the United States over Bering sea
was dedided against the British Govern-
ment. This does not invalidate the arbitra-
tion negotiations now going on between”
this country and Great Britian.
pre-
THE UNEASY KAISER.
He Makes Another Move That Will Stir
Up His People’s Indigration.
BerriN, March 5.—There was another
storm of populic indignation to-day when
it was announced that by order of Emperor
William the issue of the Frankfurter
Gazette of March 1, containing an article re-
flecting upon the Emperor's now famous
Brandenburg speech, had been confiscated,
and that the paper would bé prosecuted on
the charge of les majeste. This action fol:
lowing so closely nyon the steps taken to
prosecute the Cologne Gazette for similar
utterances will, it is judged, raise a hurri-
cane of newspaper and popular indignation
in Germany. It would appear that the Em-
peror, in addition to desiring to ‘grind to
powder’’ and ‘cause to shake the dust” off
the feet of all who disagree with him, also
desires to smother the voice of public
criticism.
BEYOND OUR BORDERS,
The Trinidad Colonial Legislature has ap-
proved the West Indies reciprocity treaty
with the United States.
The last 15 bags of mail from the 'strand-
ed steamship Eider, on Atherfield ledge,
Isle of Wright, were taken off. An effort
will be made soon to float the vessel.
Severe storms prevail throughout
fand and the coasts.
Etienne Arago, the French writer, drama-
{ist, and statesman, died at Paris. He was
Eng-
1 bornin 1802 and was the last surviving
brother of the illustrious astronomer, Fran-
cois ATago. : : ;
Minister Tupper introduced a'bill: in the
‘Car.adian Parliament renewing the modus
vivendi which permits United States fishing
vessels to enter Canadian waters and ports
cn certain conditions.
The Mercantile bank of Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, has failed.
The strike of 3,000 shoemakers at Leices
ter, England, has been settled.
Mrs. Deacon, in France,is wearing mourn-
ing for her dead lover Abeille, whom her
| husband shot dead in her bedchamber.
EAST LIVERPOOL’S LOSS.
The Finest Business Block .in the City
Burned.
East Liverroorn, O., March 5.—Fire de-
stroyed a block facing the ‘Diamond and
Market street. The loss is $150,000; insur-
ance, $95,000. The destruction is complete.
The fire is of unknown origin. H. E. Por-
ter, dry goods, loses $50,000.0n stock; insur-
ance, $22,500. Crosser, Ogilvie & Co., dry
goods, $17,500 on stock; insurance, $12,500.
Nine business houses were destroyed and
10 families rendered homeless. No lives
“were lost, ; i ;
| was again te
1\
1 w passed May, 4.
1891, and known @s the worsted classifiea-:
Co., of Chicago, |
(3b |
sdiction |
1 bill allowing ‘railroad
Animal industry, #n
ments in the 1
ture’had ng jurisdiction over the matter,
‘adjourned.
Co;
nZTress was n up wit
In the Hous B
cary debat
the Indian Appropriation bill
talked over, and in the § e the |
Claggett-Dubois contest was the bill." There
was no action in either case. Senator Vilas
introduced a bill to amend the general pen-
sion laws, which provided that the pension
of any invalid pensioner who deserted his
family should be paid to his wife and
children, and that in case of insane pen-
sioners - and pensioners imprisoned for
crime a like course might’ be followed.
Senator Stanford introduced a bill to deter-
mine the value of the legal tender dollar,
and providing that all dollars shall be re-
ceived and paid out in discharge of debts,
both publi i ar, measured by
= e stamp of the
) the dollar be on gold,
; ther material.
joint Committee r
te the operatio! the
€ importation of contract
quire particularly into the immigr
ople affected with typhus feverinto
port of New York. RE :
+ Turspay—In
ett’s righ $ Mr. Morgan m
egal and constitutional argument agai
the right of Mr. Duboi
the Senate. Without ac
ip n amendment to 1
bill was adopted striking out the $1,000
tra annual allowance to- Captain Prath
superintendent of Carlisle sch
The a providing
hereafter
i opted. Mr. Je
New Mexico, was fortunate enough
cure the adoption of an amendment
ing by almost $5,000 the appropri
the Indian school at Santa
bill was passed. Mr.
see, from the Committee o
together with the views of
sented by Mr. B of
Bryan, N. g d My.
Georgia, respectively fr« he same com-
mittee, reported for the free entry of
binding twine and n bagging and ties,
which was referred to the committee of the
whole, and leave was granted to Mr. Payne,
of New York, and Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania, to present the views of the minor
on those measures. The House then ad-
journed.
WEDNESDAY.—In the Senate Mr. Dolph
presented petitions in favor of Government
aid for the Nicaragua-eanal, and the Idaho
election case was again discussed ‘until’ ad-
journment. :
The proceedings of the House ‘were quite,
uninteresting to-day, and confined strictly
to the consideration of the District of Col-
umbia appropriation bill. e House ad-
journed with the bill still undisposed of."
TrHURsDAY—In the Senate the Idaho Sena-.
torial contest was settled to-day. The con-
testant, W. H.. Claggett
his favor. Fifty-five 8
A
ad seven votes in
Mr. Dubois had been
clared that
United States Senate.
leg elected to the
ator Sawyer
the committee on pos
, from |
yf d poste
ani broads,
reported to the Senate a bill, in the nature of
a substitute, Sroviding as follows: “That
on and after the first day of July, 1892, all
articles of mail matter of the ‘third and
fourth classes shall be comprehended in one
class to be known as third-class matter, and
postage on the same shall be chargeable at
the rate of one cent for each two ounces or
fraction thereof, to be prepaid with postage
stamps aflixed thereto: Provided, that upon
the consolidation of the two classes of mail
matter all the conditions asto wrappers,
permissible printing, and so forth, now a
plicable by law to fourth-class matter, in
addition tojthe priviléges now conferred by
law upon matter of the: last: mentioned
WE ‘Adjourned. Fa Te
~ In the House to-day the District of Co-
Jumbia appropriation bill was passed. * The
companies’ to: give
special ratesto commercial travelers was
considered. Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania,
offered an amendment providing that noth-
ing in the bill shall be construed to prohibit
any common carrier from granting reduced
rates to passengers or’ making reduced rates
for freight. The demand of the previous
est ok was lost and the bi'l became un-
nished business. Adjourned.
Fripay—The Senate devoted the greater
part of yesterday to the discussion, without
action, of the Paddock Pure Food bill. The
Military Committee of the Senate reported
favorably a bill to establish ‘lineal promo-
tion throughout the several lines of the ar-
tillery, cavalry. and infantry ot the army.
Eulogies were delivered in respect to the
memory of the late Representative Lee, of
Virginia, and the Senate adjourmed till
Monday. ;
It was private bill day in the House, after
which Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, introduced a
bill to regulate education and citizenship of
Indians. It provides that any Indian who
attends school for the period of 10‘years, in
whole or in part, at the expense of the Gev-
ernment, or who has had 10 years’ of in-
dustrial Sralning, and has attained the age
of 20 years, shall be declared a citizen of the
United States, with all the prigileges and
immunities of other citizens. A lengthy
and spirited debate then ensued on a “no
quorum’’ point.of order, and amid consider-
able excitement the House tsok a recess un-
til 8 o'clock. When the House re-agsemb-
at8 p. M. thére was no less than a
quorum present. Mr. Kilgore, of Texas,
raised the point of no quorum, and; after a
fruitless attempt to sequre one, the House
adjourned until to-morrow without tran-
sacting any business whatever. |
SATurRDAY—Senate not in session. In the
House Mr. Tucker. from the Committee on
the Election of President, Vice President,
etc., reported a joint resolution proposing a
Constitutional’ amendment changing’ the
date beginning and ending terms of Sen-
ators and Representatives from March 4 to
December 31; providing that the annual
sessions shall begin on the second Monday
in January; and further providing that the
term of the President and. Vice President
shall commence and end on April 30 instead
of March 4.""House calendar. The urgent
deficiency arpropriation bill was then on
motion of Mr, Sayers, of Texas, taken up
and passed without amendment or debate.
Mr. Hatch, of Missouri called up the hill |
appropriating (as aideficiency) $150,000 for
carryingon th: work .of the Bureau: of
i $10,000 for experi-
tion of sugar. T.
opp ofed the bill on’
brmittee on Agricul-
TY
Holman, of Indiana,
‘the ground that the C;
and it properly came under the jurisdiction
of the Committee on Appropriations. He
made the further.objection that the com-
mittee had not: properly investigated the |
‘question of appropriation, and propounded
several inquiries bearin upon this
point. After a. spiri discussion
the bill was passed, and the House went
into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Outh-
waite, of Ohio, in the chair), on the invalid
pension appropriation bill. At the close of
ine consideration of the bill, and when its
passage was next in order, a dispute arose
over a minor amendment, and Mr. Bailey,
of Texas, made the point of no quorum: He
did this, he said, not bceause of opposition
to the bill or its amendments, but in order
to call the attention of the country to the
fact that members did not attend the ses-
sions of the House in sufficient number to
transact business. ~The House thereupon
——
A new diamond is being cut in Ant-
werp said to be the largest ever found
in Afrjca. It weighs 400 carets, and
_oceur in-one 1
“red here last night, and was efnphasized b
av
Hero of the Battle wit
i ne 0
New Ouzate Mad h
bition. ever pr
nightiin thesame club _oceur-
the appearance of four real champions.
Fully 6,000 people witnessed the contest.
Frank Slavin and an unknown, arley
Mitchell and an unknown,and Peter Maher
champion of Ireland, and Robert Fitzsim-
mons, the middleweight champion of the
world, fought tonight. At8:35 o'clock the
arena; with its sea of humanity, ‘decorated
in carnival colored drapery and | alk
nations, presented a gala sight.
Prof. John Duffy was selected as Tei
Peter Maher of Ireland, an aspirant for
heavy-weight honors, and Robert Fitzsim-
mons, the New Zealander who is middle-
weight champion of the world, met to-night
before the Olympic club of this city for @
purse of $10,000, of which the loser gets:
$1,000, , . 3 ;
Arthur Upham and Charley Mitchell
were announced to box four rounds; Frank
Slavin and Felix Vaquelin four rounds, and
Slavin and Charley Mitchell four rounds.
Upham looked like a ghost in his corner.
as Mitchell sat eyeing him closely. Mitchell
made 4 holy show of Upham and knocked
him out in the third round. ra
Slavin and Vaquelin now took their
places and fought fiercely for three rounds.
The setto between Slavin and Mitchell
‘was a_spirited one, each man giving and
taking some heavy blows during the four
rounds.
The contest of the evening was next in or-
der, and the slight delay that ensued was
continually interrupted by yells of *‘time.’?
George R. Carn, of Chicago, was time keeper
for Fitzsimmons; P. onohue, of New
York, for Maher; R. M. Frank, official tim
keeper for the Olympic Club. A greeting
that was simply a hurricane greeted th
Australian and the Irish Lad as they sim
ultaneonsly entered the ring. Maher wi
the first to enter the ring, and it was com
mented upon that he looked nervous. Hii
weight was 178 pounds. Perspiration stood
outin beads on his forehead, andhe chewed.
his lower lip with a nervous movement.
‘When Fitzsimmons appeared a mom
later the house broke into a yell that resem:
bled the deafening yell of a Yale Coll
crowd at the close of a ball rush. Hise
weight was 165 pounds. At 9:15 the men
faced each other in the ring to battle for th
£10,000 purse and the $100,000 that had been
wagered on the result. fg VE
In the thirteenth round Maher gave up.
His seconds threw up the sponge and Fitz-
simmons was declared the victor. baa
The end of the fight was the surprise of
the night. Just as the call was about to be
made Maher remarked to ‘‘Billy’’ Madden:
and Fallon: .“'I cannot keep on, let it go at
at. :
‘Have you got enough?” yelled some one
in the crowd nearby.” Li Wai
e Irishman noded his head and seemed
in immediate danger of collapse. Fitzsim=
mons, who had hardly caught on to the situ- °
ation, sprang to his feet, rushed across the
ring, seized both of the Irishman’s hands,
and shook them again and in. Tears
stood in Maher's eyes and he half rose to
Irs feet. and then staggered back. The
a few minutes the ring was empty.
PENSIONS FOR 50,000 MORE-
The Men Who Enlisted to Repsl Lse’s
Invation of Pennysylvania Daclared
to be Entitled to Pensions. =
WasHINGTON, March 5.—Assistant Secre-.
Company I, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania
volunteer militia. On June 15, 1863, Presi=
dent Lincoln issued his proclamation call-
ing upon the executive of the State of
' Pennsylvania for 50,000 volunteers fo serve:
for the period of six months unless sooner
discharged. In pursuance ofthat proclama-
tion the Governor issued a general order =.
calling for volunteers to repel the threaten”
ed and imminent invasion of Pennsylvania.
In compliance with this erder the "Forty-
seventh Regiment was raised and mustered
into theState service for 90 days, instead of
8ix months as designated in the call. The
records of the War Department show that.
Manley was mustered in on the 17th of June,
1863, and was mustered out with his com-
pany on August 13, 1863. During this ser—
vice the evidence on file shows that the sol-
dier suffered a sun stroke from which he has
never recovered. Upon this application he
was grantad a pension of $24 a month, but *
on Junel3, 1891, his name was. dropped
from the penson roll upon the ground that
it had been ascertained that the regiment to
which he belonged was: not in the ‘ United
States service but in the service of the State:
of Pennsylvania. This is the position taken
by the Judge Advocate Gen:ral of ‘the:
Anny in a decision rendered September 12,
This decis’on restores to a pensionable: :
status the 50,000 soldiers who served in the ©
Pennsylvania militia about the time of Lee's: |
invasion in that State. | The questions in-.
volved in this derision have received more:
than ordinary consideration, an opinion
having been rendered to the Secretary of the:
Interior by the Assistant Attorney General
for the Interior Department, and later by:
the Attorney General of the United States,
both of which sustain the present decision.
RUSSIAN HORL.ORS,
Bedies of Murdered Men Found in the
Hlghways. A Man Tries to
Hang His Daughter; 4
~0XpO¥N, March 3—The English special’
correspondent who is traveling in the
famine districts of Russia writes from
Saratoy that crimes of violence in the .
valley of Volga are of frequent occurrence.
Clergymen’s houses ‘have been robbed, and
the bodies of murdered men are found on
the _highroads. The correspondent was
warned of the dangers of traveling about
the country, and he seldom drove at night,
Caravans of merchandise are escorted by an
armed force.
- The correspondent says that while h
Sleighin on the Volga one evening Pe —
tracked for half an hour by a rageed, ill-.
looking peasant armed with a musket and
¢udgel. “It was his intention to Signal tHe.
approach of the correspondent to an am...
bush prepared by robbers who infest both
sides of the Volga. The correspondent:
showed his revolver and the peasant retired.
In the province of Samara a number of |
German colonists live'in holes in the earth
for warmth. They eat bread made of wild
hemp and the carcasses of Horses, ig.
hier hoon a Died
er becau & 0
een siceessfnl in beggir 1% Tat al ot
Was given to a peasant, Es egen to
% Nish Ss Byidity of a famished wolf.
he was in the act of Iping x3
the bread he fell into a fit Sn Bee Sows.
ge
Her Babe and Little Girl Burned. La
Syracuse, N. Y., March 5.—Mrs. Callghary
left her 5-year-old girl in charge of her sick
baby while she went after some medicine.
In some unknown manner the house caught :
fire and was destroyed. The baby was
burned toa crisp, and the other child’
die from her burns, ~~
when it is finished
one half,
it will be reduced |’
the fight, badly punished and’ very weak, =
crowd cheered and began to file out, and in == 5
tary Bussey made an important decision: in + Es
the pension case of Rudolph M. Manley, of =
devour: