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BOTH FROM HOME AND ABROAD.
What is Going On the World Over.
Important Events Briefly Chronicled.
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Railroad News.
At the meeting of Presidents beld in Chi- |
cago last week it was decided to enforce
strictly the rule of the Western Passenger
and Western Freight Associations regard-
ing the issuance of passes for the purpose
of influencing traffic of any sort. The new
order was i-sucd several days ago to the
General Freight and Passenger Agents and
instructions went with it that the roads
should on April 1st promptly shut down on
the grant of new passes, Nonew free trans-
portation of any kind will be granted dur-
ing the remainder of the current year.
The Pullman Car Company has sounded
the keynote of the World's Fair rush. It
has been announced that the charge per
day for a tourist car will hereafter be $25
instead of $15.
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Disasters. Accidents and Fatalities
A Jacksonville southeastern railroad col-
lision near Edwardsville, I11., Monday night
killed Engineer Ashpaugh, Fireman Hamb-
ley, Fireman Woods and Scotty Welsh.
Several others were injured,
At Grand Rapids, Mich., James Hogan
62 years old, drank carbolic acid instead of
whisky by mistake for his morning bracer
and died soon after.
Two fnore persons have died as a result of
the accident on the Jacksonville Southeast-
ern railway, near Edwardsville, Ills,, mak-
ing a total of six. One of the six is the
fireman, and having opened the furnace
door to put in more coal, just before the
crash came, it is feared that the momentum
may have thrown him forward into the fire
A wrecking crew is at work, endeavoring
to find the missing body. None of the
passengers were seriously hurt.
The schooner Genesta, of Gloucester,
Mass., capsized in a squall of 30 miles ofl
Barnegat. Of her crew Husting Butler,
Clark McGenny and two Doane brothers
were lost. The remainder were picked up
and landed at the Breakwater.
Capital. Labor and Industrial,
The question of ironworkers’ wages in
Chicago came near beirg settled by the toss
of a copper. but 374 cents an hour, an ad-
vance of 24 cents, was finally agreed upon.
The strike of 1,00) carpenters scheduled to
take p'ace Wednesday at the World's fair
grounds to enforce discipline against non-
union men was a fizzle, fo: less thau 100
turned out,
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Washington News,
The President commuted to imprisonment
for life the sentence of death imposed upon
Edward Smallwood, a negro of Washing
ton, who was to have been executed on
Friday.
An applicant for an office sent the Presi-
dent $10 with the application to pay the
president for loss of time in writing out a
com mission. The money and application
were returnéd to him.
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Crime and Penalties,
Edward Shellenberg, a merchant of
Mound City, Mo., Sunday night shot and
kilied William Slebbins, son ofone of the
wealthiest citizens of the town, who was
trying torob the store. The tragedy dis-
closed the existence of a gang of aristocrat-
ic young burglars.
At Atlanta, Ga., E. G.Lloyd, a prominent
farmer, shot his wife fatally. She says her
husband was playing with a pistol. Others
say he drew a weapon on her brother and
she interferred, when he shot her. She will
die, and Lloyd is under arrest.
William Moore, coiored, was hanged in
Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia. The
hanging was conducted with unusual dis-
patch, Moore's crime was the murder of
his rival, Charles Madden, also colored.
Dennis Cloonan, the switchman who beat
his wife's brains out with a chair at his
home in the rear of No. 50 Carson street,
Pittsburg, on St. Patrick’s day last year,
paid the penalty of his crime at 11 o’clock
Thursiay morning. In accordance with
the sentence of the Court he was hanged by
the neck until he was dead.
Charles Harold, 71 years old, a brush
maker, living in New York, made an un-
successful attempt to shoot his housekeep-
¢1, Mrs. Louise Roth, and then shot him-
self dead,
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Legislative.
In the New York assembly Mr. Bender's
so-called anti-conspiracy bill was put upon
its final passage. The measure, had it
passed, would have made a boycott not un-
lawful, and would have enabled working
people to prevent by any other means than
threats of actual force persons taking their
places in employment when out on strike.
After a lengthy discussion the bill was fin-
ully lost by a vote of 52 ayes and 57 noes
The Democratic legislature of Florida has
unanimously nominated United States Sen-
ator Samuel Pasco to succeed himself,
The Colorado legislature has adjourned
gine die.
The bill providing for submission to vote
of the question of the consohdation of
Bri: oklyn and New York has been practi-
cally killed in the New York senate.
The Florida legislature convened Wednes-
day to remain in session sixty days.
The Nebraska Legislature has adopted ar-
ticles of impeachment against Secretary of
State Allen, Attorney General Hastings,
Commissioner Humphrey and ‘ex-State
Treasurer Hill.
The Illinois state senate passed the bill
extending the elective franchise to women
in certain municipalities and
elections.
The Arkansas senate passed a bill confer-
ing on the women of Arkansas the right of
suffrage and making them eligible to mem-
bership on school boards,
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Religions.
The Maryland annual conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church opened at
Laurel, Del. The President's report stated
that during the year there has been 2,400
conversions,
township
Dr. Gotwa'd of Springfield, O., bas been
merit which founded the Wittenberg col-
lege.
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Chelera Advices,
Paris.—Seventy deaths have been record-
ed at Lorient, near Brest, in the past fort-
night from a mild form of cholera. Lori-
ent is notorious as a hotbed of fever dis-
I pases, due to the utter absence of draipage.
It is estimated 200 persons have been at
tacked and the disease is still spreading,
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. Fires
At Chicago, the new World's Fair hotel,
known as the Lemont, just appioaching
completion, was destroyed by fire. The
loss, covered by insurance, will be $30,000.
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Miscellaneous.
The trick of Farmer Adams, who placed
obstructions on the Ft. Wayne railroad
tracks and then flagged the train, hoping
fora reward, has been duplicated by George
Richardson at Drain, Ore., on the Northern
Pacific. He told a thrilling story of train
robbers. When detectives put him in the
sweat box he confessed.
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BEYOND OUR BORDERS.
The English ship King James burned in
the Pacific ocean March 30, Sixteen of the
crew in a lifeboat have landed at Point
Conception, Cal. The other half of the
crew, including the captain, are in another
boat.
terdant by the capsizing of a sailboat in
which a party of 16 was on a pleasure ex-
cursion. Twelve of them were rescued in
an exhausted condition, but the others
perished.
MINISTER TO CHILE.
ux-Governor Porter, of Tennessee,
Nominated and Confirmed,
JAMES D. PORTER.
Ex-Governor James D. Porter, who has
been nominated and confirmel as Minister
to Chile to succeed Patrick Egan, was born
in 1828, at Paris, Tenn., where he now re-
sides. Heis a lawyer andl was Assistant
Secretary of State under Bayard.
ANOTHER STRIKE DECISION.
Employes May Quit Work, but Their
Privileges End There.
Judge Jackson, of the United States Dis-
trict Court, at Wheeling in charging the
jury in the-case of the boys indicted for
obstructing the United States mails carried
on street cars during the recent street car
riots, took ®ecasion to give an opinion re-
garding strikes, boycotts, the rights and
privileges and duties of employes and the
general obligations of citizens. Its leading
idea is that, while men may refuse to serve
an employer, their rights stop there. The
law does not permit them to interfere with
the business of corporations or individuals
by obstruction or intimidation. In all
other respects Judge Jackson's opinion was
in line with the recent decisions of other
Federal courts.
The Rhode Island Elections.
A second attempt to elect members of the
Rhode Island General Assembly was made
in Pawtucket, Cranston, East Providence
and North Kingstown on Saturday. The
Democrats were successful everywhere ex-
cept in East Providence, ex-speaker Wilson,
Republican, being elected in that town by a
a substantial majority. "But one represen-
tative was e'ected in Pawtucket, however,
there being no choice in the cases of the
other five, and another attempt to elect will
be made next Tuesday, The result of the
elections make the Legislature a tie, 41 Re-
publicans, and 41. Democrats, Twenty-six
seats remain to be filled, and bye-elections
for that purpose will be held the coming
week. Upon the result of these elections
depends the complexion of the Legislature
and the choice of Sta‘e officers. there having
Deen no election bv the people.
A Cigarette Caused Her Death.
Mrs. Claus Frahm met a peculiar death
at Hastings, Neb. She had been confined
to her bed by heart trouble for some time.
The other afternoon she lighted a cigarette
to deaden the pain. She fell asicep and the
cigarette set fire to the bedclothes. Mrs.
Frahm awoke and started for the bath room
with her clothing ablaze. She jumped into
the bath tub and turned on the water, and
fainted from excitement. When the fire
was extingnished by neighbors a search
was instigated for Mrs. Frahm. She was
dead in the bath tub. The water was still
running and her head was submerged.
ASPHYXIATED WHILE THRESH-
ING.
A Peculiar Experience Had by Some
Farms Hands in Michigan.
While engaged in threshing a new variety
of clover on the farm of Stephen Playford,
Decatur, Mich., the workmen suddenly be”
came unconscious and for several hours re-
mained in a critical condition. The men
had the appearance of being asphyxiated,
and it supposed some active vegetable pois-
on was carried in the dust which arose
when the machine commenced thresh ing.
A Boy Murderer Sentenced.
At Denver, Col., Antone Woode, the 1i-
year-old boy murderer, who killed Joseph
Smith for his watch and gun, was sentenced
to 25 years in the penitentiary at hard
labor.
Four persons lost their lives near Ams-
of
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DEVASTATE, WITHER, DESTROY
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Property, Crops, Industries and Homes
in all Parts of the Land.
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NINE MEN KILLED.
Jovter, Irrn.—The first serious accident
on the drainage canal happened at Romeo,
near thiscity. Friday evening a heavy
wind arose and was followed in about five
minutes by a heavy fall of hail. This caus-
ed all the men to run to shelter. The men
on one of the cantilevers ran into the en-
gine house at one end of the huge machine.
The tracks on which it runs extend north
and south. The lever was on the south end
of the track, and had been carelessly leit
unfastened. The wind started the canti-
lever down the track toward the engine
house, in which 14 men were huddled. The
enormous machine, weighing 280 tons, fell
directly upon the engine house. Nine men
were killed and six severely wounded. The
men were all Italians except the foreman,
Bamuel Korus. The'machine itseif is a
total loss.
meneame nent.
A TOWN WIPED OUT.
EVERY BUSINESS HOUSE IN CLIFTON, W. VA., IN
ASHES.
ParkersgurG, W. Va.~—A destructive fire
at Clifton. Friday afternoon, started in the
works of the Cliiton Salt Company. and at
3 o'clock had burned every business house
and many residences in the center of the
town. The salt works are a total loss. South
bound trains on the Ohio River Railroad
were stopped there for several hours by the
fire, and telegraphic communication with
the blazing village is destroyed. Latest
reports before the wires went down were
that the fire was stiil burning and ‘a strong
wind blowing. I’arties arriving here from
Clifton say the fire there was not under
control at 8 o'clock Friday. and the whole
town was doomed. Jhe plant of the salt
company, which is'a total, loss, was valued
at $200,000. The place had seven or eight
stores, three churches and many fine resi-
dences, all of which have been burned, cx
were soon to be. The loss cannot be given,
but it will reach $250,000 or $275,000.
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A BIG TIDAL WAVE
SWEEPS UP CHICAGO RIVER, AND THE INHABI~
TANTS ARE PUZZLED OVER IT.
Cr1cAGOo—A huge wave Friday morning
swent suddenly into the mouth of the Chi-
cago river, tearing a number of vessels
from their moorings and temporarily
grounding two vessels. Some people were
inclined to attribute the phenomenon to
seismic disturbances in Lake Michigan.
Others said that it was due to the unseason-
ably high temperature and to a rapid
change in the direction of the wind.
Dispatches from points on the shores of
Lake Michigan state that the wave was the
highest ever known. The water swept back
over the‘beach 600 or 700 feet, and rose four
to five feet above the normal stage. The
wave quickly receded, leaving the beach
smooth and clear. The phenomenon was _
was the most remarkable of the kind ever
recorded on the lake front.
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FLIMSEY WORLD'S FAIR HOTELS.
Cnuicaco.-The Plymonth Hotel, a World's
| Fair hostelry at Seventy-second street and
Stony Island avenue. collapsed during the
slight wind storm that prevailed Firday
morning. The building was one of the
largest of the World's Fair hotels and was
almost completed. In its fall the building
crushed another structure, which was to
have been used for restaurant purposes in
connection with the Plymouth. Both
buildings were owned by William Searls, of
Plymouth, Ind.. and were valued at $25,000.
This makes three World's Fair hotels that
have been destroyed by wind and fire in as
many days.
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EXTREME HEAT IN THE SOUTHWEST.
Kaxsas City.—Such warm weather in
April was never before known in the south-
west, and for two days the thermometer
has ranged from 90° to 98° in the shade,
with a blistering wind blowing strongly
from the soush. From Emperia, Kan., tel-
egrams report the thermometer at 98° and
a terr fic wind blowing from the southwest.
The atmosphere was hazy with dust, and
the weather was of most unfavorable char- *
acter. Every day of such weather knocks
off millions of bushels from the Kansas
wheat crop. The telegraphic weather re-
port along the Kansas division of the
Union Pacific reported no rain and unfay-
orable conditions. Western Union advices
stated hot winds and no sighs of moisture.
A Union Pacific official arrived in town
yesterday from an extended trip over the
ine and told the same story. From Kings-
ville, Mo.. a telegram reported the injury to
wheat at 45 per cent. Loraine, Kan., report-
ed hot winds and the crop irreparably dam-
aged. Andale, Kan.. brought tidings of a
similar character. Clinton, Mo., reported a
prospect of not over half a crop and a great
deal of the wheat being plowed up. The
interest in crop conditions was never more
intense than at present. The amount of
speculation passing over the wires between
Kansas City and the great exchanges has
reached a phenomenal volume.
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DISASTROUS FIRE AT TRONTON, O.
ITroxTON, O.--The Yellow Popular Lumbér
Company's plant was burned Friday after-
noon. The fire started in the dry-house.
Along with the lumber consumed the Nor-
folk & Western railway lost a trestle and
seventeen cars and all travel on the road
was stopped. Thirty dwellings went with
the rest and twenty-two famiiies lost all
they had. Mrs. Brush, an invalid, was
burned to death. A high wind was blowing
and the flames could not be checked. The
lumbermiil foreman places the loss to the
company at $400,000 and on the dwelling
houses it will reach $70,000. There are 2:0
persons thrown out of employment.
AN EARTHQUAKE.
CoArrLEsTON, 8. C.—An earthquake was
felt in Edgefield district Friday. Two
shocks occurred at 6 and 7 a. m. No dam-
age was done beyond frightening people
out of their houses.
A special from Lincolnton, Ga., says two
distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in
that place.
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SNOW IN NEW YORK AND BOSTON.
NEw York.—Spow began falling here
Friday morning, continuing two hours.
Advices from the Catskills say eight inches
of snow have fallen, while at Troy and
Syracuse snow bas fallen to the depth of
three inches. Boston had 4 inches of snow
Friday.
THE NEW FRENCH CABINET,
Dupuy After Making Two Attempts
Forms a Ministry.
_ A dispatch from Paris says: M. Charles
Dupuy after making two attempts, has suc-
ceeded in forming a Cabinet as follows: M.
Dupuy, Premier and Minister of the Inter
ior; Paul Louis Peytral, Finance; Senato:
Eugene Guerein, Justice; Raymond Poin-
carre, Public Instruction; Louis Terrerier,
Commerce; Admiral Rieunier, Marine; Jules
Develle, Foreign Affairs; Francois Viette,
Public Works; General Loizillon, War;
Albert Viger, Agriculture.
The announcement of M. Dupuy’s. policy
is to the eflect that he will ask the Chamber
to dispose of the present Budget as soon as
possible, 80 as to clear the way for the dis-
cussion of the Budget of 1894.
Mayor of Chicago bv a majoriy of 19.0)
and the entire Democratic ticket is electel
by majorities ranzinz from 16,030 to 19.09),
. Louts.—The election here resultel in
a victory for the Republicans. They secursd
the mayor, collector, council and most of
the minor offices, if nov all. Cyrus P. Wal-
bridge secures the mayoralty by a majority
of about 3,000. .
Miwaukeg, Wis.—P. J. Somers, Demo-
crat, is elected to congress in the Fourth
dstrict over Theobald Otjem, Republican,
by about 1,200 majority.
Derrorr.—Returns show the election of
Judge Hooker, Republican, for supreme
judge and two epublican regents by
pluralities of more than 10,00) each. Muni--
cipal elections were held in all the cities in
the state outside of Detroit. In several of
the old Democratic stronghold Republican
Mayors and officials were elected, while ~in
a fewer number of Republican cities Dem >-
crats carried the day.
HrLExA, Mo~xT.—The city election result-
ed in the election of a Democratic Mayor,
Treasurer and Police Judge. The Republi-
cans only secured four councilmen.
DENVER, Cor.—Eighty-nine precincts out
of 112 in this city give a plurality of 2,000
for M. VanHorn, Republican candidate for
Mayor, over J. D. McElvery. The entire
Republican ticket is probably elected.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—The ults of the
election today show that th Democrats
elected their entire city ticket. Rheuna D.
Lawrence, Republican for Mayor, is proba-
bly defeated by Frank Kramer, the Demo-
cratic candidate, by several hundred plural-
ity. The probabilities are that the Repub.
licans elected four out of seven Aldermen.
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.
Kansas City, Ks.—Great excitement at
tended the municipal election in this city-
and a vote of over 9,00), a very full one be-
ing cast. The result is the most sweeping
victory ever scored in the city for Republi-
cans., The women turned out en masse to
cast their ballots, but strange as it may
seem. they did not cast them for Mrs. Pot-
ter, the woman candidate. Mrs. Potter re-
ceived only about 50 votes, all told, and of
these not more than five were cast by wom-
en, Itis estimated that 3,600 women, or 85
rer-cent. of those registered. cast their bal-
Fe Returns from throughout Kansas show
that the Republicans have swept everything
where party lines were drawn, which was
‘he case 1n most of the principal t” wns.
' THE OHIO ELECTIONS.
Cr1xcINNATI.—Elections here resulted as
follows: Superior Judge, Samuel F. Hunt,
Democrat. and present incumbent, defeats
J. C. Schwarts, Republican. Emil Ruhse,
Republican is elected clerk of the police
court for the third time, defeating J.
Schultz, Democrat.
* Creveranp.—Robert Blee, Democrat is
elected mayor over Akers,
Republican. Armstrong, Democrat, is re-
elected city treasurer, while Logue, police
udre, and Fiedler, police prosecutor, both
publicans, are re-elected. The Demo-
crats elect the justice of the peace. The
council will remain Republican.
STEUBENVILLE.— Republicans re-elected
Mayor Scott. They also elect Marshal Teff
and City Solicitor Rogers, Water Works
Trustee Charles Ferman and City Commis-
sioner John Lawson. The Republicans
elect five out of six members of council, and
three out of six of the board of education;
also the township officers. Eli Smith, the
Republican candidate for township trustee,
died Sunday night and the question as to
how to fill the office is a puzzle, .
CotumBus—The Republicans carried the
council and school board with the indica-
tious that the Democrats will elect the
mayor and city tickets by majorities rang-
ing from 190 to 300. The Democrats make
a slight gain over the vote of last fall.
Younestrown—The Denmiocrats elect both
candidates for water works trustees, gai
ain
three members in council and the board of
education, and elect all the township offi-
cers.
TorLepo—After one of the bitterest cam-
paigns fought in this city for yearsthe Re-
publicans have succeeded ‘in electing
every man on their ticket with one excep-
tion, and have captured both branches of
the couff€il. The fight was one of creed, the
Republican convention having been con-
trolled by an anti-Catholic society known as
the A. P. A/ which has secured a hold on
all of the cities in this vicinity.
ZanesviLLE—W. 8. Bell, Republican, was
defeated by Robert Silvey, Democrat. and
the who'e Democratic city ticket on the
miner offices was electe :
AxroN—Lorenzo I. Watters,” Democrat,
P. M. Hoffman, Republican, William Mas-
on, Hispablicas, was elected marshal; J. V.
Welsh, Democrat, city solicitor; John
Wheeler, Democrat, street commissioner.
Deniocrats and Republicans ‘each elected
three members of council; the board of ed-
ucation stands: Republicans, 4; Democrats,
: WoosTER—Republicans elected one coun-
¢ilman and one assessor;the Democrats, four
councilman and five assessors, The Repub-
licans“lost the-mayor, but won the city so-
licitor:
Canton.—Republicans elected Cassidy
mayorover Wettach by 150 majority. The
rest of the Democratic ticket is elected with
a full city council.
MansrieLp.—The Democrats elected their
entire municipal ticket, capturing the ward
officer in 8 out of 10 war The majorities
range from 100 to 400.
Martins FERRY,—The Republicans elect:
ed their entire city ticket here except one
councilman. Pridgeport Barnesvslie and
Flushing made a clean sweep. Bellaire di-
vided between Republicans and Democrats.
St, Clairsyille went wet.
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A LABOR VICTORY.
Judge BSpeer’s Decision Favors the
Brotherhood of Engineers.
The decision of Judge Speer, rendered at
Macon, Ga.. on Saturday, in the case of the
petition of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers to require thie receiver of the
Central railroad of Georgia to continue a
contract of the officers of that road with
that organization for the service of its mem-
bers on the road. isregarded by the brother-
hood as a signal victory for that organiza-
tion. Tt has attracted the attention of the
lawyers and caused discussion among them,
and by them it is said to be the most far-
reaching,'important and satisfactory declar-
ation upon the relations of capital and labor
yet rendered.
In the cotirce of his decision the judge
paid this compliment to railway employes
generally and the Brotherhood in particular:
*In this department of industry it is re-
ported by the interstate commerce commis-
sion that there is invested in the United
States $9,829,475,015, or nearly eight times
the whole national debt of the country. Last
year the railroads transported 530,000,000
passengers, or more that eight times the en-
tire population of the United States. The
operatives employed by the railroads num-
ber 784.000 and it is no trifling testimony to
the faithfulness and efficiency of "the
mighty army of railroad employes that of
the vast population transported under their
care only 293, or less than one two-thous-
andth of 1 per cent lost their lives.
*‘It is, moreover true that no operatives
of a railread more than the locomotive en-
gineers arelcharged with the preservation of
life and property. When we are advised by
the proot that of 32,000 locomotive engi-
neers of the United States, more than 80 per
cent belong to the brotherhood, it is diffi-
cult to believe that membership therein
lessens efficiency to employers or fidelity to
their supreme duty to the public.”
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The Tabernacle Debt Lifted.
The New York World announces that
the fll amount necessary to free Dr. Tal-
mage’'s Brooklyn tabernacle from debt has
been subscribed.
was elected by a plurality of 11 votes over |
WHAT IS BEING DONE BY THE HIGH-
KR BRANCH OF CONGRESS IN
SESSION AT WASHINGTON.
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" Monpay—The session to-day began the
filth week of its extraordinary session with
a fair attendance of members and a large .
audience in the galleries. The rights of the
three senators from the states of Montana,
Washington and Wyoming to seats were
discus ed. Anothsr question as to a sena-
tor's right to a seat was raised to-day by the
presentation of a petition from Jo eph
Ady. of Kansas. Mr. Hoar presented the
Ady petition, glaiming that Jobn Martin
was never duly elected senator from the
State of Kansas and that he (Ady) was duly
elected and desired to be admitted to a seat
in the senate accordingly. The petition was
read and was referred to the committe on
privileges and elections. The senate then
went into executive session and afterwards
adjourned until to morrow. Inthe execu-
tive session a few postmasters nominations
were confirmed, all in western sand south-
ern states. L
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the senate: .
William Edmond Curtis of New York, to
be assistant secretary of the treasury. vice
G. M. Lamberton, resigned; Cbarles ©
Hamlin of Massachusetts. to be assistant
secretary of the treasury; vice John H.
Gear, resigned; James H. kels, to be
comptroller of the currency; J. F. Meline
of the District of Columbia, to be assistant |
treasurer of the United States; I. Siovo
Farrow of Sonth Carolina, to be second
auditor of the treasury: James J. Willie of
Florida. to be deputy fifth auditor of the
treasury; Dudley O. Watson of Michigan,
to be collector ot customs for the First dis-
trict of Michigan. :
William Edmond Curtis of New York,
who succeeds Judge Lamberton as one of
the assistant sécretaries of the treasury, is
38 years of age and a practicing lawyer and
while not a professional politician, interest-
ed himself deeply in the last campaign in
New York, and was an *‘anti-snapper.” He
is a free trader.
Charles 8. Hamlin of Massachusetts. nom-
inated to be one of the assistant Secretaries
of the treasury. is a Boston lawyer. He is
an active member of the Massachusetts
Tariff Reform League and also of the Civil
Service association. \
James H, Eckels, nominated to be comp-
troiler of the currency, is only 35 years old,
but stands high in the estimation of the
people of Illinos Mr. Eckels is an attor-.
ney and has written a great deal on -the
subject of tariff reform.
Tuespay—In the senate to-day the debate
on the admission of senators appointed by
governors when the legislatures fail to elect
was continued by Mr. Vest. After an exe
cutive session the senate adjourned until
tomorrow.
The President sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nominations.
James O.sBroadhead, of Missouri, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary of the United States to Switzer
and. :
Bartlett Tripp, of South Dakota, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tentiary ofthe United States to Austria‘
Hungary. ’
Eben Alexander, of North Carolina, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tentiary of the United States to Greece,
Roumania and Servia.
James O. Broadhead is by profession a
lawyer, and has represented his State in
Congress as a member from St. Lous. He is
about 65 years old, and has been prominent
in polities in Missouri for a long time.
artlett Tripp was one of the pioneers in
the Dakotas before the division of the terri-
tory. He is 48 years old, and is a brother-in-
law to Senator Davis, of Minnesota.
Eben Alexanderis at present Greek
rotessor at the University of North Caro-
ina. He is a little more than 40 years oid
and has been in his present place for 10
years.
WEebpxNEspAY—The sesgion of the senate to-u
day behind closed doors was devoted en-
tirely to, routine matters.
The President sentthe following nomi-
nations to the senate to-day:
James 8. Ewing of Illinois, to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States to Belgium.
Thomas T. Crittenden, of Missouri, to be
consul eeneral of the United States at the
City of Mexico,
Louis C. Hughes, of Arizona, to be gover-
nor of Arizona .
Wn. T. Thornton, of New Mexico, to be
governor of New Mexico.
Wm. M. Maize, of Ohio, to bz surveyor
of customs for the port of Columbus, O.
Thomas Crittenden. of Missouri, who is
named as consul general to Mexico. is per-
haps best known to the public throagh his
pursait and destruction of the celebrated
ames brothers, who terrorized the State for
many years. He achieved this feat whie
governor of Missouri. He was a liententant
colonel in the Union army during the late
war, and is a lawyer.
James 8. Ewing, of Illinois. who is nomi-
nated to be minister to Belgium. is a law
partner and cousin of Vice Pres. dent Stev-
enson, the firm consisting of Stevenson &
Ewing. He is about 50 years of age and
lives in Bloomington,
TrHURsDAY.—The President, besides a big
batch of postmasters. sent the following
nominations to the Senate to-day:
Hannis Taylor, of Alabama, to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States to Spain.
William Lochren, of Minnesota, to be
Commissioner of Pensions.
It is doubtful whether a more popular
appointment, certainly so far as the North-
west is concerned, could have been made by
the President than the nomination of Judge
William Lochren, to succeed General Raum
as Commissioner of pensions. He is 57
years old. and was born in Vermont. He
came to Minnesota in 1857, and practiced
his profession until the war broke out.
When the war was over he returned to
Minnesota and resumed the practice of law.
In 1882 he was appointed by a Republican
Governor to a Judgeship on the Circuit
bench and at the expiration of his’ appoint-
ment was twice re elected to the same place
without opposition. .
Hannis Taylorisa lawyer living at Mobile.
He is 41 vears old. He was strongly recom-
mended fo Secretary Blaine by ~ Senator
Morzan as one of the arbitrators, or counsel,
in the Bering Sea arbitration.
A
THE NEW, SENATE OFFICERS.
During Senator Hoar's speech to-day. on
the admission of Senators app inted by Gov-
ernors, he yielded the floor in order to allow
action to be taken on the resolution for the
election of officers of the senate. The reso-
lution was agreed to without the formality
ofa division, electing William Cox,of North
Carolina, Secretary of the Senate; Richard
J. Bright. of Indmna. /Sergeant-at-Arms
and Doorkeeper, and William H. Milburn,
D. D.. of Illinois. pop'ilarly known as the
“blind preacher,”’ Chaplain; their te-ms of
office to begin on the first day of the meet.
ing of the Fifty-third Congress. After con-
firming a large number o! appointees the
Senate adjourned.
Frivay.—After a number of confirma-
tions were made. the speech begun by Mr.
Hear, Republican, Messachusetts, yesterda
against the proposed constitutional amend-
ment for the popular election of Senators of
the United States was concluded by him to-
day. It was a scholarly, historical and
statesman like argument and as such was
listened to with profound attention.
He did not believe that the people of
Massachusetts,and the same might be said
as to any American State, would accept the
roposed change of the method of choosing
Bi an invitation which depended not
only on the claim that State Legislatures
were unfit to be trusted with- one of the
chiefest functions of sovereignty, but that
the Senate of the United States had been on
the whole a failure.
He did not believe that the people of Mas-
whose members are without an oath of of-
fice, without a record, without any Te-
straint, and who had no accountability to
their representatives. He did not believe
that they were quite prepared to say that on
the whole they were ashamed of the Sena-
tors who had for 100 years represewted
them in the great National council.
The notion that popular suffrage was al-
ways to be defied, and that the people had
all wisdom and all honesty, was a poor,
cheap flattery of the people.
It was not true that in the sober judgment
of the American people, the Senate had
failed to meet the just expectations of the
neration that adopted the Constitution.
"he Senate had responded quite as s; ily,
and quite as directly, to the settled desire of
the popular heart, as the other house. It
had originated far more than its proportion
tory. It bad resisted what was evil. but it
had also initiaied and accomplished what
was good. And this was never more true
than inr cent years.
In conclusion Mr. Hoar spoke of some of
the great men who have shed lustre on the
Senate, of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Sumner
and Seward. ‘*We do not,’ he said, “‘excel,
and it may be we do not. equal other people
in arms. But the grandest victories of con-
stitutional liberty since the world began,
are these whose battle ground has been the
American Senate. and whose champions
aave been the Senators who for 100 years
have resisted the popular passings of ~ the
hour, have led, respected, guided, obeyed
Saturbay—The senate has practically
concluded its labors and is now waiting for
an intimation from the president to brin
the extra session to a close. All ideas ©
passing upon the questions involved in the
appointment of turee senators from the
North west has been abandoned snd that
matter will ba left for disposal at the next
session. The President sent the following
nominations to the senate ay: :
Jumes B. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be am-
bassador éxtraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary to France.
August Belmont & Co. to be special
agents of the navy department at London,
Eng.. vice Seligman Broa.
he nomination of Mr. Eustis, who had
already been confirmed as minister to
France, issimply to raise the grade of the
mission to an embassy to meet the corre-
ponding change made by the French gov-
ernment in the case of its representatives at
‘Washington.
. After a few minor confirmations the sen
ate adjourned for the day. .
THE STATE TO SELL LIQUOR.
Bouth Carolina Will Have a Monopoly
of the Matter.
There will be no liquor or beer sold in
South Carolina except by the State, after
July 1, 1893. Four of the most eminent le-
gal fixmsin the state decided the matter.
Soon after the passage of the law at the last
session of the legislature, the liquor dealers
of th.zstate formed an association and em-
ployed counsel to test its constitutionality.
Counsel filed the opinion which was subse
mitted to the executive committee of the li-
quor dealers last pight. y
The council advise the liquor dealers that
they prepare to meet the law as valid and
unconstitutional, vet in view of the heavy
penalties pre-cribed by the act they cannot
advise them to continue selling liquor after
uly 1. .
‘The counsel sav that the statute can only
be tested after July 1 by the attempt of the
state or any of its officers to seize and sell li-
quors manufactured in another state. The
news wus a great surprise and will retire a
large number of people from business.
Meantime the governor and state dispenser
fre traveling in the west and north arrang-
ing to open the barrooms July 1. Under
the new law the state will sell all the liquor
ana beer sold in South Carolina. Gov. Till-
man expects to buy the liquors either in
Chicago, St. Louis or New York. The act
appropriates only $50,00) with which to
start business. but the Governor thinks the
state can easily get all the credit it wants.
. "The new law.” the Governor, said in ap
interview “provides that every ounce of al-
coholie liquors sold within the State shall
be purchased by the State Commissioner, af-
ter having been subjected to a test and
pronounced pure by the State chemist. No
liquors of any kind can be shipped into the
State over the line ol any railroad or by any
common carrier except the package bears a
certificate signed by the State Comrission-
er. All liquors are bottled or jugged, in
packages from one-half pint to tive gallons
vach at the State dispensary, under the di-
rection of the Commissioner. These pack-
ages are sealed and then distributed
to the local dispensaries, one or
more of which may be located
in any town where a petition for its estab-
lishment is signed by a majority
freehold voters. Any person over 21 years
of age not an habitual drunkard can
chase liquors in any amount from half a
pint to turee galions by signing a written
order for the same. The purchaser need
net state for what purpose he wants the
liquor, The maximum profit charged by the
State is 50 per cent. which is alto the maxi-
mum profit allowed the legal dispensaries.
The first profit goes to the Commonwealth,
while the second profit is divided between
the county in which the local dis-
pensary 13 located and the municipal-
ity . in which the liquor is sold,
The new law will make a wonderful change
in the State, and I think it will finally be
universally adopted as a solution of the
liquor,problem. For 40 years it has been
in successful operation in Norway. In
Charleston there are 280 saloons where, af-
ter July, there will be but 10 dispensaries.
Eveu the drug stores are prohibited from
selling any spirits except alcohol, and even
that must be purchased from the State, and
a sworn account of every ounce used must
be made at the end of each month, stating
just what medicines the article was used to
prepare. There are six prohibition coun-
ties in South Carolina, where there will be
no dispenSaries.”’
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AN OPEN AIR PROGRAM.
Hundreds of Thousands Will See Cleve
land Press the Button.
President Cleveland will touch off the
World's Fair, on May 1, in the presence of
from 100,000 to 150,000 people. The plan to
have the opening exercisesin a hall has
been abandoned and the ceremonies will be
held at the east front of the Administration
building.
A substantial platform will be built just
infront of the Administration building,
This will be connected with Machinery
hall, so that President Cleveland will only
have to step to the speakers’ table to touch
the button.
The new platform furnishes many oppor-
tunities for picturesque effects. It is pro-
posed to mass all the electric launches,
gondolas and other water craft in the basin,
in front of the Administration building,
Thousands of spectators can get a fine view
of the platform from the water front.
Arthur Again Enjoined.
Arthur, grand chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineer was served with
another restraining order, issued at Toledo,
9. by Judge Taft, It enjoins him from ja
suing any boycotting order against the T.
A. A. &N. N. railway, and from inducing
employes of connecting lines to discrimi-
nate against that line in any manner, pend-
ing further action in the United States cir=
discredit
sachusetts were quite ready to
cuit court,
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