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ACROSS THE WIRES. 1 Late News Gleaned From Foreign and Domestic Sources. Particulars Regarding the Cabinet Crisis at Berlin. A cablegram from Berlin, Germany, says in regard to the Cabinet crisis: Sinci the fall of Bismarcif, two years a^o.tb? political tension h?rj his not bean so intense as it has been now. From the elegant Hilier's, Unter den Lincen. to the bare cafes of the Karl trssse in the studancs'quirter the one topic has been th? action o! Jliaister Zaiitz and Chancellor Caprivt. Then* is no room for doubt as to the resignation of Count Capri vi, although every effort is made in hi^h political circles to kaep the facts of the Cabinet crisis absolutely secret. Had the Chancellor not thrown the whole weight of his personality on r\t~ tho School bill, which has caused all the complication, be might have escaped tbe embarrassment of bis position. He aas annonncd so repeatedly in and out of Parliament recently his advocacy of the bill, and has set up his opinions so persistently against the moderate advice of his rival in the Cabinet, Dr. Miquel, tfcat the Emperor's tendency toward the course recommended by the latter left him no alternative but to resign. It was thought by the best informed politicians that the lanperor would not accept his Chan* color's resignation, on the ground that the School bill, as a pure y Prussian matter, js not closely connected with Caprivi's record as Chancellor of the Empire. Caprivi, moreover, is needed to keep together the Ultramontane-Conservative coalition in Parliament. In order to avoid coming to an immediate decision the Emperor retired to his castle to Huborcusstoctc. rrince nonry, the Km per or s brother, joined the Kaiser there. The Empress followed next day. The semi-official announcement is made that the rumors of the Emperor's illness are greatly exaggerated, and that his condition is satisfactory. Nevertheless the physicians advise that he take ?ome rest, and that he seek the greatest practicable quietude for the present . Chancellor von Caprivi was summoned by a special courier to the Emperor at Hubertosstock. The Chancellor has made a second request to be allowed to retire. Only imder toe utmost pressure, it is thought, will Caprivi consent to serve longer, a? he feels personally aggrieved by his treatment at the bands of the Emperor in the management of the School bill. In conversation with Albert on Leve'.zow, First President of the Reichstag, yesterday, he said, with much feeling, that he believed he had not been treated fairly by the Emperor, and 9hould therefore I Icsisi U{.on being allowed to retire. An Ossified Man Dead. Edward Emmons, the "ossified man" of Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, is dead. Although ati ossified man and a living curiosity, he never exhibited himself, althougn he cried to get the museum managers to show hire. The three ossified men known to trequenters of museums are Jonathan Bass, W liliam Sapp, and a colored man named Monroe. Emmons's death was caused by the grip. He was born in Port Jefferson ttnrty-eight years ago. When quite ycung he went to tea and was taken ill with typhoid fever. He got over the fever, but it left him very weak. When twenty-two years of age he was taken ill with rheumatism, and on his return voyage home he suffered severely. He never left *'ie house again, but lay in bid for sixteen yearsj_ and his fiesh gradually became ossified. * or several years nis sunerings were terrible. His body was rigid except one arm, which he could use, and his jaws were set. He was fed through a hole in the mouth, where a tooth was broken out. Several years ago Emmons's pain ceased. He could read, articulate after a fashion, and was slightly deaf. Emmons's father was afflicted the same way, but the trouble did not come upon him till late in life, and he died before his joints were entirely set. All the family, which ?ow consists of a mother, brother, and four sisters, are afflicted with rheumatism, except the mother. Death of a Girl Leper. New Orieans, La., has a novelty in the shape of a hospital for lepers, which until the other day contained four inmates. It is situated on Hagen avenue, near Gravier, in - an isolated portion of the city, and the lepers are treated there. Treatment plays a small part in the matter, though, as the disease is incurable, and the hospital is designed simply * * ?-??:? ? to prevent lepers irom mm* rest of human kind. About a monta ago a younj white girl, Hiss Naomi Ribbi, came to the hospital from Iberville Parish. She belonged to one of the craole families in that section of the State, and was only twenty years old. Iberville is the home of a number of lepers, nd from some one there the young woman contracted the terrible disease. When received at the leper hospital it was found saa was beyond even the aileviation of ner pain. Both her eyes had been eaten away. She 'lived a month, passing through terrible torture*, and has just died in great agony. i Bank Officers in Disgrace. The ?anque Generale Chemin de Fer et ! Industrie, of Paris, France, has suspended; One of the Directors has committed suicide^1 two absconded and one has been arrested. r The liabilities amount to $5,000,000 and i the assets to SI,000,000. The failure had no ffect on the Bourse. The reason assigned for the suicide and flight is that the authorities were about to EJ?ififnfA lanra] nFAooo^inrrc Qnrainof tKa TiiriW*. lUOWWtW VUW*.MVV tors of the bank, on the charge of fraudulent banln-uptcj and of obtaining money under false pretenses. The bank dealt largely in the French national loan of 1891, and. received subscriptions to the loan of upward of $400,000. His Head Under a Hammer. JVederick Hengle, agel forty, committed uicideat Pniladelphia, Penn., by placin? his head under a steam hammer at the establishment of Pearce, Kirsch & Co., manufacturing jewellers, Thirty-sixth and Market streets. He was employed as a gold beater. Wh:n the whistle blew for dinner ho went with another employe for dinner. Upon their return he left his companion and went down into tha cellar, where the engines and boilers arcs ?itua:ed. vVilliam Watson, the engineer, wont down hrxin alter and saw a nun's bodv on trie block on whici a 530-pound triphammer struck. Lawless Indians Killed. A special from Holbrcok, Arizona, give^ the news of tbe death and capture o? tue band of Aoashe Indians who have committed depredations on tbe borders of the White Mountain Indian Reservation. The ban I numbered five bucko and six women anl children. Three men were killed and the remainder surrendered to Lieutenant Bean, Second Cavalry, who is now at Fort Apache in charge of the Apaches at that post. Killecl Two Women and Himself. News reached Orleans La., recnetly of a tragedy on Silvery flac?, west of Baton Rouge. Monroe Scott, ^a colored preacher, killed his wife aud a woman tor whom he wishel to put bis wife aside, but who would not live with him, and when pursued into the woods and about to be captured fired three shots into his head, kill ing himself. The three bodies were buried together. A Remarkable Suicide. A ainmiilni* ir o f fKa XX iai uaauoii/j WMW OU<VIUO of aa artilleryman in the barracks at Vien- : na. Amtria. The mm shot himsel: with a i Werral rifl*. The butlet, after passing through the suicide's breast, plowe i through the head of a *econ I soldier standing near, killing him, j and then imbeded itself in the arm of a third oldier, iuflicting a serious injury. Affray on a Train. T (vo Indians got in a drunken row on a train between Jenson, Ark., and Cameron, < Indian Territory, and one stabbed the other ij fatally. Whenthe wounded man drew a revolver his assailant jumped from the train, w'aich was running at the rate of thirty milea , aji hoar, and wa? killed. Did It ever occur to you that a iwan's up-side is never down? THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, The heaviest snowfall of the season de)?aH t-.rnffln considerably in Now York City. The Supreme Court of Connecticut decided the case of the State against Controller Staub in the State's favor. | The carrier pigeon loft at the United States Naval training station at Newport, I R* I., which was established three or four years ago by officers of the station since transferred, has bean abandoned, as the Government failed to become interested. Fred Millet, a mill watchman of Pittsburg, Penn., killed his wife and himself. His wife was jealous and upbraided him. The new British bark Windemere. bound from Milford Haven in ballast for New YorK and Calcutta, ran ashore at Deal Beach, N. J., about a mile north of Asbury Park, during a blinding snowstorm. Th? crew were rescued, but the ship and cargo will be a total loss. The Union Railroad station at Nevi Haven, Conn., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over <30l*,0U0. The F/rst Reformed Church of Albany, N. Y., celebrated its 250th anniversary. - * a ? fkn baonftr jxlrs. V/hklbi IAIN AL3fl.il, nuo ui wuv avvj/?. of Oakwoo.l Cemetery, Troy, N. Y., committed suicide by hanging herself to a rung of a ladder plaoed against one of the cemetery vaults. She was insane from the grip. The Standard Oil Trust has been dissolved in New York City, by vote of the stockholders. The leaders aud originators of the Trust, however, will continue to be the chief directors of the companies which composed the Trust. The Board of Pardons, at Harrisburg, Perm., recommended a pardon in the cases of Johu A. Mellon and William H. Porter, publishers of the Beaver Star, who were eonvicted of libeling Senator Quay. The committed appointed by the Bar Association, of New York City, to investigate Judge Mayaard's connection with the Dutchess County election case, reported in favor of his removal from the Court of Appeals bench by the Legislature. Dr. D. Hates Agnxw, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the most eminent surgeons in this country, died a few days ago in Philadelphia. Dr. Agnew was born in Lancaster County, Penn., In 1818. South and West. . While officers were conveying Heflin and Dye, colored, murderers of an old woman in Farquhar County, from Warrentown to Alexandria, Va., they were met by a crowd at Haymarket, who overpowered them and carried the prisoners to cno wuuua u?u uj and lynched them. During a quarrel at Rosebury, Oregon, A, Hansbrough, brother of Senator Hansbrough, of North Dakota, was stabbed and killed by Nicholas Jones. The heaviest snow storm of the season prevailed in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. The Rev. H. D. Benjamin, of Portsmouth, Ohio, hanged himself while suffering from dementia. The extensive tobacco factory of Liggett & Myers, in St. Louis. Mo., was damaged by fire to the extent of $345,000. Captain Anderson and a sailor of the schooner Charles C. Dame were drowned at Mount Pleasant, in Charleston (S. C.) Harbor, by the capsizing of a small boat. At Chicago 111., Frank Ives defeated * L of f anrfiian.innh HaIIt lino %J UUUU ovua0101 aw *wu? vwvm -w... ..Uw billiards, by a scorf "V 800 to 499. Ives is now champion of thv. .^orld. The Painesville (Ohio) Savings and Loan Association Bank closed its doors. Angry depositors threatened violence. Heavy snow storms prevailed in Iowa and Illinois. Lamson Bbothkrs & Co., a leading Board of Trade Arm of Chicago, III., are losers to the extent of $40,000 to $63,000 by the peculations of employes. The Arm's cashier and bookkeeper were in collusion. The explosion of a gasoline stove used to heat water in the baptismal font in a church at Manning, Iowa, wrecked the font and set fire to the clothing of t&e minister, the Rev. Air. Boles, burning him fatally. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin declares the Assembly, Senatorial and Congressional apportionment made by the last Legislature to be unconstitutional. The decision of th? Court was unanimous. It held that the constitution ordains that Assembly districts shall be "bounded by county, precinct.town or ward line3." Washington. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Charles S. Aldrich, of Illinois, to be Solicitor-General, vice W. H. Taft, resigned. 0?ck?iary hilikju>3 uas auiduuou xxiuij regulations so as to provide that no person under the age of twenty-one years shall be enlisted or re-enlisted withont the written consent of his parents or a legally appointed guardian. The National bank note circulation is now 1161,000,000, an increase of nearly $20,000,000 since July last. The President signed the commissions of the nine new Circuit Judges and ordered that they be forwarded to them at once, so that there may be no unnecessary delay in their entering upon the discharge of their functions. Lord Salisbury has sent a communication to this Government in reply to the note of Acting Secretary Wnarton, of the State Department, requesting a renewal of the modus vivendi tor the protection, of aaal life in Bering Sea during the oomingseason. Assistant Secretary or the Treasury Nettleton has instructed immigration officers that "tubercle of lung being classed by ] the medical authorities as a dangerous contagious disease, the law absolutely prohibits the landing of aliens suffering f roin that disease." Senator Hill, of New York, returned to Washington from his Southern trip. District Attorney Ridgway, of Brooklyn, and Assistant Adjutant General McEwan, of Albany, N. Yaccompanied him. At a meeting of the full board of the Interstate Commerce Commission, William R. Morrison was elected Chairman to fill the vacancy made by Judge Cooley's resignation. Tee President has made the following nominations: Milo A. Jewett, of Massachusetts, United States Consul at Sivas; Samuel L. Overstreet, to be Register of the Land Office at Guthrie, Oklahoma, Deforest D. Leacb, Register of the Land Office at Oklahoma, Oklahoma. The price of f .8937 per ounce, paid by iWammflnf. hHa nfchor HftV fnr SllVftP. is I the lowest figure at which the Government has ever purchased the metal. At this figure tue silver dollar is worth 693^ cents in gold. At the invest gation in Washington by the Joint Committee on Immigration into the management of the Ellis Island (2T. Y.t landing station it was shown that buildings that were to have cost f2o0,000 have involved an expenditure of f?12,000. Foreijjn. JT Dnlsbure. in Rheinish Prussia, the boiler of the tug boat Heinrich, plyin* on the Rhine, exploded. The deck of the tug boat was shattered. Six men, including the captain, were killed. A threk-stoky house in course of erection at St Petersburg, Russia, collapseJ. j Thirteen workmen were killed by the fall- ] in? walls. There have been 775 deaths from yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during t j? last fortnight. The crews of twenty-three steamers have been attacked by the fever. A butcher shop in Fulham.London,England, was tturne 1, and four occupants of the building perished in the flames. , It was stated in Berlin, Germany, tbat General von Caprivi, Imperial Chancellor, had tendered his resignation at the Cabinet meeting as a result of the protracted contest on the E iucation bill, which, as Prussian Premier, he has championed from the first. Quke* Victoria left Windsor Castle and at once proceeded to Costebelle in the south of France, where two hotels had been engaged for the royal party during their proposed Ave week's' stay Whex the American steamship Missouri, loaded with America s gift of grain to the starving Russian peasants, passed up the harbor of Libau shi was greeted with lou i and enthusiastic cheers. Crowds lined the ietties. Greek priests went on board and held a thanksgiving service, which concluded with the formal and impressive ceremony of blessing the ship. A dispatch from Byeres, Franc?, announces the death there of Louis Cartigny, aged 101 years. He was the last French survivor of the memorable naval battle in the Bay of Trafalgar, on October 21, 1805, in which the British fleet defeated the combined fleets of France and Spain, and in which Lord Nelson was killed. The Bark Sylvan McDongal was blown ashore on the Bay of Fundy. Nova Scotia, and five of her crew drowned. I THE House Ot uommons Iiy a uuauiLuuui vote has expelled George Woodyat Hastings, recently convicted of embezzlement of trust moneys. Ix accordance with the decision of the Miners' Federation, nearly all the 300,000 British coal miners who quit work on the 12th inst., have resumed work. Several of the members of Balmaceda's Congress admitted to bail at Santiago, Chila, are in such a wretched condition through prison abuse that their lives are despaired of. Cottht vow Zedlxtz's resignation from the Privy Council has been accepted by Emperor William of Germany. The text of an extraordinary, treaty with the United States was submitted at the meeting of the French Cabinet in Paris. A serious conflict occurr?! at Paipa, Panama, between civilians and a military company that was returning from Cocuy. Five persons were killed and fourteen wounded. Oddly en< ogh the disturbance had nothing to do with politics. tSe labob wobld. The Crede iCoIj miners aret 13 a dav. There are 30,000 cash girls in New York. Siemens steel is to be manufactured in India. Great Britain produces 10,000,000 tonl of furnace slag annually a forge and gun company at San Fran* cisco, Cal., will employ 4000. The European Powers have taken measures for the relief of the unemployed. The sboemaking business in California ii controlled almost entirely by Chinese. It is said that there are 5,000,000 women in Germany who earn their own living The New York Central is soon to build cor shops costing $500,000 at Buffalo, N. Y. Many iron and steel furnaces in Pittsburg, 'Penn., are being cooled off, owing to th? overstock. There exist in Russia no laborers' associations comparable to the traJe unions of other countries. Mr. Winans, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Kansas, was formerly a bricklayer in Atchison, fie built his own iortune. Railway schools for children of railway employes are maintained by the railway companies of India at a very small expense to the pupils. A statistician has estimated that every worker in an American factory consumes over $90 worth of American agricultural produce in a year. The workmen employed to dig out the ruins of a cheese factory destroyed by firs at Pittsburg. Penn., struck for higher wages because of the bad smell. The wheat harvest :n the Argentine Re* public thk season is said to be so great that much difficulty is being experienced in obtaining labor to gather it. In Germany 27,485 children between twelve and foarteen years worked in the .factories in 1S90; in England 86,499 under thirteen years were employed. Working days are of very unequal lengths in Russia, varying from six to twenty hourc, the average given in the report as an estimate being not less than twelve hours. The rule is so indefinite, however, that there is never any claim of overtime possible. Interesting information upon the unwillingness of the working class to subscribe in early life for an old-age pension is afforded by a great English firm of cotton spinners. They offered to subscribe $5000 to d pension fund on condition that the work people subscribed upon an acturial scale, but this proposal was rejected by a vote of more than two to one. Much suffering has been caused in Queensland by stagnation of industries. In one day 400 women and children besieged the Labor Bureau in Brisbane begging for relief. The crush was so great that many fainted. Husbands have gone into the country seeking worlr, leaviug their families destitute, and the women and children are dependent upon the Government for food to keep them alive. PROMINENT PEOPLE. President Carnot is one of the very few Frenchmen who never get axcited. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, is about to build a%mansion in Washington to cost 1100,000. Ex-Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, takes only cases of importance, and his smallest retainer is {2000. The late W. H. Smith, the London newsman who became a British Cabinet Minister, left $20,000,000. John D. Rockefeller's income from his Standard Oil interests is probably nearly 17,000,000 a year. Ex-Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, has I decided to contest anew the right of Governor Boyd to his office. Baron Hirsch, the wealthy Austrian banker and friend of the Prince of Wales, is just sixty-one years old. The Queen of Greece is at present in a very bad state of health and causes her husband and family much alarm. Ex-Senator Inqalls is reported to have declined an offer of $10,000 a year to edit a Kansas City (Ho.) evening paper. Pf.incb George of Wales now has an annual allowance amounting to $75,000 a J ear. Previous to the death of his brother e had $25,000 a year. Few people are aware that the late evangelist, Mr. Spurgeon was never ordained. He began and ended his remarkable ministry as a lay preacher. Ex-President Cleveland and Governor Flower, of New York, were guests for a few days of the New York Rod and Gun Club at their ciub house on Spesutia Island, Md. Bismarck sprinkles his conversation, which is at all times interesting and sometimes epigramatic, with choice and pertinent extracts from Shakespeare, of who? Tvorks i e is especially fond. One of the largest salaries received bvany man in this country is drawn by C. A. ttriscoio, the Chief ct the International Navigation Company, of Philadelphia, Penn., who receives jMO.dOU a ve-ir William Walter Phelps, the United States Minister, returned to Berlin, Garmany, from his trip to Egypt, enjoying splendid health. Ho .-ays he feels in good form for v.ork after his vacation. Alkxander Ribot, the new French Premier, is just two weeks over fifty years oC age. He is sometimes called a youthful Thiers, and he has had a meteoric career in politics during the last ten years. Ire United States Army now carries on its retired litt thirty-two Brigadier Generals ana four Major General?. The quartet of I Major Generals is composed of Jonn Pope, S. S. Carroll, J. C. Robinson and Daniel fi. Sickles. Congressman* Stonk, of Kentucky, owes bis life to his wife, who, when a youug girl, found him lying dangerously wounded after one of the battles of the Civil War, and taking him to her father's house nursed him back to health. Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President, is reported to havo made great progress in her art studies, to which sne has devoted much time during all her occupancy of the White House. She has become especially skilful in water-color work. C???...An TrArtnriffno nf Tniliann ia n Ha. T UUC\ab?>0( W4 -W ? voted admirer of art, and is often to be seen in the CorcDran Gallery, in Washington, standing before some favorite painting op statue in evident delight. He is said to be an able critic in the matter of art, and quit* a connoisseur. Andrew Carnegik, the Pennsylvania iron manufacturer, has been talking very frankly to the 8au Francisco newspaper men. He rates himself as worth from $30, 000.000 to $85,000,000, and says he will spend every cent of his money before he dies. He is an agnostic, and declares he will never give a peony to a church. I THE CRISIS PASSED. Senator Morrill, ot Vermont, Dc- j clared Oat ot Danger. ' Y *' SENATOR MOEBILU Senator Morrill, of Vermont, after being in imminent danger of death for a week or ten days at his home in Washington, was at last declared by his physicians to have passed the crisis and to be on the road to recovery. Senator Morrill was prostrated three weeks ago with an attack of the grip which refused to yield to the treatment of his physicians, and to the consternation of the family soon developed into a severe attack of pneumonia. Because of the extreme age of the "Father of the Senate" hope for his recovery was almost abandoned and several times bulletins were issued announcing that he could not survive the day. His constitution, however, as rugged as the granite of his native Vermont hill?, stood him in good stead, and his systen responded so promptly to the treatment of his distinguished physicians that they ware enabled to snatch him almost from the very jaws of death. The last bulletin issued from the distinguished patient's bedside read as follows: Senator Morrill continues to improve slowly. At night he rested easily aud during the day he was comfortable. His physician reports him as doing well. WORLD'S FAffi NOTES, \ Newfoundland has decided to participate in the Exposition, Thz New South VVales World's Pair Com- [ mission is conbempiabiug bull mug lur uiuui* bition at the Exposition a whole tribe of aborigines. Mr. 8. J. Hunter, of Nevada, Mo., has a collection of over 11,000 varieties of woods, petrifications, etc., which he purposes exhibiting at the Fair. CON3T7I/-gznira.i, Crawford has written from St. Petersburg that Russia is making very extensive preparations for making an exhibit at the Exposition. An Esquimaux village, inhabited by from fifty to seventy-five natives of the frozen regions, will be one of the sights on Midway PJaisance at the Exposition. Foreign exhibits for the Exposition have already begnn to arrive at the custom house In Chicago. Exhibits have recently been received from India and Costa Rica. THE limit o: ume in wmca suites ana .territories nnd foreign countries must accept the sites allotted them on the Exposition grounds has been fixed at Jnue T, 1892. It is reported that a number of Indians from the Peruvian forest?, and a largi collection of native Peruvian paintings will be included in the exhibit which rera will ma ice. The Arkansas World's Fair Board has selected ten acres near Little Hock which it will have cultivated with the view of raising various agricultural products for exhibit at the Exposition. * A concession has been granted for the construction, on Midway Plaisance, of a $60,000 natorium, which will include besides a large swimming pool, bath rooms, a cafe and flower and cigar stands. The Cunard Steamship Company has applied for spaca in the marine section of the Trnnsnnrtation buildintr to show a series of models illustrating the speed of "ocean grey* bounds," and the development of trans-Atlantic travel. In Georgia exceptionally strong efforts are being made to make its State Fair this year as complete and representative as possible, for it has been decided to send the best of the exibits to Chicago and place them on view in the Georgia building at the Exposition. '1 he women members of the North Carolina World's Fair Board have undertaken to raise $10,000 to be devoted to the erection of a State building at the Exposition. They will hald meetings at numerous point* throughout the State and receive subecriptions. It is the present expectation that every Epecies ox mo anu utuer a ljua uiu awuiw large enough to be seen, whicn Is native to inland waters and to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceana, except perhaps a live whale, will be exhibited in the Fisheries Department of the Exposition. The City of Philadelphia will contribute to the Pennsylvania exhibit a choice collection of historical relics now in the possession of Meade Post, G. A. R., George W. Chiids, and the Drexel Institute: representations of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Girard and other old-time celebrated citizens; the famous "Liberty Bell," and other exceedingly interesting objects. Instead of a reproduction of an Aztec temple, Mexico will construct a typical hacienda, or residence of a wealthy landed proprietor. This will be decorated in lavish manner with Mexican fruits and flowers and archaeological and ethnological specimens. The Mexican exhibit will illustrate the present condition and resources and products -.n .m.ntpir rnthnr than its n?s? historv. Ui motvuuw.; A ? Onk of the striking and very attractive features of the dedication ceremonies and msplay next October will be the ,,Process.on or Centuries," or parade of symbolical rloats througn the lagoons and waterways of the Exposition grounds. These floats are to be gorgeous affairs. The contract Tor the construction of twenty-four of them has beeu let at an approximate cost of $330 J each. EATEN BY ANTS. The HorseThieve9 Thought Shooting Too Good lor Their Prisoner. The Indians have always been known for their inhuman ways of torture, but it has remained for a band of Mexican bandits to beat them. Henry's band of horse thieves raided Henry W ithers's ranch on the Garrita River, in Arizona, recently, driving away all his stock". Withers started after the band single handed and succeeded in shooting down three of them from ambush before they discovered that oniy one man was pursuing them. They succeeded in capturing hxm as he was trying to get away Death was his sentence, but shooting was too easy a death. Withers was taken out on the liDt sand beds and left to lie naked for six hours,fully exposed to the sua'* rays. Thiswes not enough, and he wa3 than carried, still nude, to a bad of cactus bushes, where be was laid on the sharp points. He was bound tightly to a stake, and then a large anc mu which was ucau ?vm wi u open with sticks and he was left to his fate. The insects swarmed out and over Withers'a body, and within two hours he was dead Irom their bites. The ants did not leave him alone, however, until every particle of flesh was eaten from his bones. A prisoner of the band was taken where he could witness the whole affair and was afterward turned loose and told to tell the people that that would be the future punishment of all who tried to kill a member of the band. Trappkes in Oregon and Washington report that fur-bearing animals are vert I numerous this winter, the beaver eanaoUUs, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL News About the Lawmakers and Departments at Washington. Debate on the Bland Bill Opened . 1 TT in tne nonse. The beginning of the tnssel over the Bland Free Silver Coinage bill in the House of Representatives at Washington drew the biggest crowd of spectators that has been seen at the Capitol since Judge Crisp was installed as Speaker. In hour before the House was called to order, the galleries were packed to the doors; standing room was at a premium, and hundreds of disappointed visitors roamed through the corridors to gain admittance. The attendance of members was larger than it had been at any time since the day when the s pecial order was made lor the consideration of the Bland bill. The scene offered a striking contrast to that which was presented on the day of the beginning of the tariff debate. Even the President's aud diplomatic gal* leries ware occupied. Mrs. McKee was present with a party of friends* The crash about the galleries reminded one of the closing days of Congress. A large proportion of the crowd were ladies. Many of them were young ladies of great beautv The brilliant costumes of the ladies maae the picture of the Houss most inspiring, and, no. doubt, had- a good effect upon the speakers. The Silver bill having been read in full, Mr. Bland took the floor, bnt was immediately taken therefrom by Mr. Tracey, of New York, with a point of order that the bill must receive its first consideration in Committee of the Whole, as it involved a charge upon the Treasury. It was overruled by the Chair. On motion of Mr. Bland a resolution was adopted providing for evening sessions. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, then opened the debate in favor ofthe measure. He was followed by Mr. Williams (Mass.), Democrat, who represented the anti-silver element of the Democratic party. Both speeches were loudly applauded. Among the other speakers were Harter (Ohio), Rayner (Md.), Taylor (III.), Hopkins (I1L), ail anti-silver; Bpes (Va.), Crawford (NV C.), for the bill, and De Forest (Conn.) against it. At 5:3J the House took a recess until 7:30 that night. At the evening session Messrs. Weadoct, of Michigan. Bowers, of California, Winn, of Georgia,and Lewis, of Mississippi,spoke in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Covert, of New York, and Post, of Illinois, against it. During the debate Mr. Harter, of Ohio, caught Mr. McKarg, of Maryland, bv the throat and shook him violently. Mr. Harter was excited and not conscious of the assault until it was all over. a. nuge peuuuu ill reguru to ins silver questiou was presented to Speaker Crisp. It is addressed to the Democrats of the House of Representatives, and asks them to postpone the consideration of any silver bill until the next session of Congress .the petition is signed by over 6000 Democrats, including prominent officials high in the party, Presidents of colleges, business men and others. Space at the Patent Office. The recent announcement of the Commi* sioner of Patents that copies of current patents can no longer be furnished until Congress provides a place for the storage of the same has stirred the world of patented industries mightily. It is the old story of the slowness of Congress to provide needed accommodations for the only self-supporting Bureau of the Government. The Patent Office pays its expenses and puts by about f200,000 ever} year. Its savings have accumulated in the Treasury to the amount of $4,000.000. Still Congress has failed from year to year to provide for this rapidly growing, money earning institution. Its examiners and clerks are packed into rooms so small they can hardly breathe, and its immense mass "of valuable records are stacked up on triple row3 of pine shelves in the corridors, where raotii and dust may easily corrupt, and where a flre may break out if thieves do not break in. Now even this space is exhausted, and copies of patents now be* ing issued cannot be stored, so that no copies can be obtained. The numerous firms of attorneys and the great manufacturing interests all over the country that want copies of every patent issued affecting their special business, are now unable to get them, and they are pouring in their complaints upon the House thicker than leaves on Vallambrosa. Unless some provision is made before long for the storing of these copies, the patented industries of the country, and even the courts handling patent causes, may get badly tangled upA Fire in the House Folding Room. A fire occarred in the folding room of the House of Representatives about 7 o'clock in the evening and destroyed a large number of public documents, mostly agricultural reports and memorial addresses, which had been prepared for mailing. The Fire De. partment was promptly on hand and soon had the flip under complete control. In accomplishing this, the office and corridors, which were closely packed with documents, were flooded^ to the depth of several incties, ana taa aenso smoke caused thereby permeated the entire building, including the House of Representatives. It took some time to clear the hall of smoke so as not to interrupt the proceedings of the evening session of the House. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is estimated at 115,000, confined almost exclusively to public documen ts. The folding room ia in the east sub-basemsnt of the House wing of the Capito!. 'Denmark to Assise Peary's Rescuers. News was received at the National Academy of Natural Sciences that a letter had arrived at Washington addressed to Secretary Blaine from the United States Minister at Denmark, announcing that the Danish Government has issued instructions to its officials in Greenland "to extend all possible support" to the expedition for the relief of Lieutenant Peary. MINISTER KEID DINED. Amonjc the Guests Were All the Descendants of Lafayette in Pans. ? ? n-;j A .norinan Minister to Wniteiaw xvciw, tus France, and Mrs. Reid dined in Paris, on the eve of their departure for the United States, with Count Dassailly, great grandson of the Marquis de Lafayette. The guests included all the descendants of Lafayette now in Paris. Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Reid attended a farewell reception given in their honor by | Baron de Mohrenheim, the Russian Embassador to Frar ce. That night they at- I tended a banquet given by the American! Artists' Association. M. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his colleagues in the Ministry, expedited the business of the Government with the American Legation, so as to enable Mr. Reid to ?ii >hi. TTnitfld States. ban iui wuw w ? EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics irade Bulletin. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics ra ports that tha total values of the exports of merchandise from the United States during the two, eight un:i twelve months ended February, as compared with similar exports during the corresponding periods of the preceJing year, were as follows: Two months ended witn February, 189.', $186,778,433; lfc'.M, ?157.5tX>,S(W. Eight 1 ivihi F?hrn?iri*- 1892. ?747. 901.B28; lS'l, W22,*)0J,6ti7. Twelva months enaed with Feoruary, 1S9"2, ?999,779,771; ISM, $8rt9,il9,882. The values oil the imparts were as follows: Two months ended with February, 1892, S12b.101.523; 181)1, $ 128,280,232. Eight months onded with February, 1892, $527, 776,444; 1891, $540,550,496. T.velvo months ended with February, 1892, $828,142,231; 181)1,18:25,193,033. A Virginia Citt (Nev.) youth was recently detected in the act o! shooting an arrow, with a cigarette attached, through a broken window in the rear of the jau to some boys who were imprisoned therein. /.? / - ... , fIFTY-SEOOND CON&BESS. In the Senate. - 55th Day.?In the temporary absence of Vice-President Morton, Mr. Manderson, President pro tem. of the Senate, occupied the chair Mr. Frye reported the Senate Kill ATdmnh'nff A mni?i'rton /moaforiaa aoi'Nnw vessels, piloted by their licensed masters or by United States pilots, from the obligation to pay State pilots for services not rendered. Calendar Mr. Peffer introduced a bill to establish an electrical experimental station to determine whether electricity can b9 used in the propulsion of farm machinery. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. 56th Day.?Mr. Casey reported a bill to establish a uniform standard of wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye. Calendar Mr. Hawley introduced a bill appropriating $50,000 for a pedestal and statue to General W. T. Sherman in Washington. Referred ?The calendar was then taken up, and several minor bills were disposed of. 57th Dat.?In the absence of Vice-President Morton the chair was occupied bv Mr. Manderson, President pro tern., who pre- ' sented a communication from the President of the United States, with information from the Treasury Department as to the purchase of unpublished correspondence and manuscripts of President Monroe?The Senate passed the House bill increasing the pension of Anna Maria Young, whose husband served in the Revolutionary War, from 112 to $80 a month Among the bills placed on the calendar was the Senate bill to punish the crime of per jury before the United States local land offices?Among the bills introduced and referred were the following: To amend the act for th? appointment of bank receivers. For the purchase of Sturgeon Bay ship canal. To refund to the producers of cotton the internal revenue tax collected thereon. 58th Day.?The bill to improve the navigation and to afford ease ana safety to the trade and commerce of the Mississippi River, and to prevent destructive floods, was taken up at a special order and passed?yeas forty* eight, nays five?Messrs. Call, Kyle, Perkins, Pugh and Vanco voting in the negative ?? The bill for the reliet of settlers on pablio lands passed?yeas twenty-four, nays twenty-five The bill appropriating $300,000 for an equestrain statue in Waa&ingtDn to General u. S. Grant was laid aside. 59th Day.?The correspondence with Great Britain on the Bering Sea matter was transmitted to tne Senate by President Harrison under secrecy Thi provision in the Indian Appropriation bill transferring the care of the Indians to the army was discussed The Armv ADDroDrlation bill was presented and referred. * * In the House. 60th Day.?Half an hour was consumed in determining who should be the author of the digest of the rute3 for the present Congress. The struggle was between Mr. Smith, the former journal clerk, and Mr. Crutchaeld, the incumb3nt. Mr. Crutchfleld was victorious The debate on the Free Wool bill was then contitued, speeches being made by Messrs. Payne and Ellis. 61st Day.?There was a colloquy between Messrs. Williams and Walker concerning the hitter's speech ?The debate on tin "Free Wool bill was continued The evening session considered private bills. 62d Day.?The entire session wai devoted to eulogies on the late Senator Plumb, of Kansas. 63 o Day.?Prayer was offered by Rabbi Emil G. Hlrsch, of Chicago The House practically censured Walker for violating its rules in attacking Williams in the Record The House then weut into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, in the cbair) on the Army Appropriation bill, which was passed Mr. Enloe, < offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a list of all persons employed in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. inrifni-mnfcirtn hn cairi from a diS' charged employe that the Coast Surrey was in the hands of a ring?-The House then went into Committed on the Whole (Sir. Blount, of Georgia, in th9 chair) on the Free Wool bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Goodnight. Dlngley, Warner and Wheeler. Mth Day.?The debate ' on the Free Silver bill was begun, and evening sessions were ordered. 65th Day.?The House continued the discussion of the Sliver bill. Tne debate, la which about twenty members participated, was oevoid of incident, and at 5:30 the House took a recess until 7:39. At the evening session Messrs. Coombs, Bacon and Chapin, of New York; Page, of Maryland; Brosius, cf Pennsylvania; Haves, of Iowa; Walker, of Massachusetts; Geissenhainer, of New Jersey, and Bunting, of JSew York, opposed the bill. Me3srs. Livingston, of Georgia; Hemphill, of South Carolina; Abbott. of Texas; Townsend, of Colorado; Whiting, of Michigan, and Layton, of Ohio, advocated it. -n-rrnxTrnTT i-lT*ITrtttpi TJlti Jtiliti Y-fclN XH UXjIMOUOi An Additional Two Million Dollars Required to Complete It. Messrs. Tonner and Evans, the committee recently appointed by Secretary Noble to make an investigation of the Census Bureau, have completed their report The committee find that it will require $2,000,000 to complete the work of the eleventh census, including the $250,000 lately appropriated by Congress. They recommendthat the finance and appointment divisions be discontinued, and that the work be transferred to the Interior Department proper; also that a large part of the census working force be concentrated upon the manufactures division, which the committee believes is the most important branch of the census uncompleted. Secretary Noble sent the report to Superintendent Porter, with a request that he express his views upon the recommendations of the committee. He also directed the Superintendent's attention to his (Porter's) last annual report, in which he said that in his opinion $1,000,000 would be sufficient to complete the entire work. Superintendent Porter, in reply, commended the report and expressed his approval of the recommendathat f ha t.wrt divisions be abolished. He said that the data now in band would prove of great service to him in the future management of his work. [ i. A FIEND STRANGLED, His Death Hastened, by the Hangman j Palling at His Legs. Frank Schneider, who with his wife, assaulted and murdered many servant girls, has been executed at Vienna, Austria. Schneider was gibbeted after the Austrian manner. He was entirely broken down as he was led from the cell to the scaffold. As he saw the stake and spike, from which he was to be handed, rising above it, his sallow face turned a greenish hue, and he had almost to be carried to the spot The stake had fixed in the top of it a spike about tix inches long. There were three steps to lift the dooms 1 criminal, up. He was lifted to the spike, and thfl hank of his neck held cloce to it. Then a cord was passed around his neck, fastening it tightly to the spike, and he wus strangled to death. To hasten bis end the executioner pressed his arms around the mouth and nostrils oi the dying criminal, while one assistant i eld nnd pulled Schneider's arms, and another pulled his legs. The wretch died in Hour minutes. The body was left suspended tu the stake. AN" IDLE GUILLOTINE, ' First Execution in Switzerland in Twenty-Four Years. The first execution that has occurred in Switzerland since 1868 took place the other day at Lucerne. The culprit was an Italian named Gatti, who after assaulting Mile. Degan, a teacher, murdered her. He was executed by the cuillotine. "Buckskin Jennie," a conspicuous character among the Indian tribes about Del Norta, Cal., is dead. She was thought to have committed a number of murders among her own countrymen and the whites, but the crimes could not be tracad to her. Jennie would shoulder a rifle and go on the warpath with as much nerve as any of her brothers and was as quiok on the trigger as any of them. . vvjj' Jtli LATERREWS. ft. H. Gilliford, Chairman of the Alia ?i m v a _ *- ? gnvuy (reuo.) vafuuui i/Uiumibuov reported the result of the investigation into the accounts of the city officials. In the ao counts of th* Mayor's office, Market Clerk Superintendent of Waterworks and Healtl Office a deficiency of $250,197.20 was dit covered. Fob more than five hours a thick fog cor ered the waters of New York Harbor. Net York City, Brooklyn and Jersey City wen completely enveloped in the mist, which hit the rivers and bay, extending through th Narrows and some distance out to sea During the heavy fog several collisions Q? curred. The ferryboats Princeton and Bus quehanna came together in the North River Three colored children locked in by thei mother, near Arcadia, La., were burnet with the house. Mb. and Mas. Nelbos Stewart, of Mil lersburg, Ohio, stopped at the Bacht?l Hotel Lima, on their bridal tour. They blew th gas out. About midnight the door to thei room was forced open and they were fount asphyxiated. The mutilated bodies of two men and e boy were found in the Bernard Elver, new the Texas coast, who were believe! to have belonged to a parly traveling overlandam to hare been murdered by their Mexican guide and a partner. The wagon in-whid they had traveled was found near by, par tially burned. A letter was found on cmeo the bodies addressed to S. C. Gray The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill. completed by tho Home Committee, appro* priated abont 125,000,000, or $13,000,000 lea than last year. The President transmitted to the United States Senate Lord Salisbury's note of Sim day, relating to the Bering Sea contro versy, together with the rejoinder of thii Government, and these were read in secret session and referred. The general order issued by the "War Department granting furloughs to soldiers who re-enlist, has been revoked. The Senate passed a -bill to increase thi pension of George R. Allen, of St Lawrenct County, IT. Y., from $3 to $35 per month. Mr. Allen served in the war of 1813 and fa ninety-two years old. A train was derailed at Sonaon&te, fifty miles southwest of San Salvador. Thirteen persons were killed and thirty-om wounded. It is the most terrible railroad sticant-or t.Vint. has cv6T hwnrM?npH in Central America. The great strike on the Canadian Pacific Railway is endeJ. All th9 man were reinstated at once, and the wages in dispute are to be referred to a committee from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who will decide what the men should be. pai<LB The men consider this a victory. The Count of Ealenberg, Grand Marshal of the Imperial Court, has been selected lot the Presidency of the Prussian Ministerial Council, and he has accepted the position. It was reported in Parliamentary circles is Berlin that General von Caprivi visited Emperor William in order to reoommenc Count Ealenberg for the Chancellorship at well as the Prussian Premiership. MILLS CHOSEN SENATOR. | He Was Elected Almost Unanimously by the Texas Legislature. I ROGER Q. BOLLS. JH Ro,?er Q. Mills has been elected Unit^H States Senator by the Texas Legislature Austin, to succeed Reagan. He roceiv^M twenty-nine votes in the Senate and ninet^H three in the House, there being twelve sca^H tering complimentary votes for oth^H prominent Texans. The last ballot resulted as follows: In t^H Senate?For R. Q. Mills, 31; Wash. .Jont^H I; J. D. Sayres, 1. " In the House?For R. Q. Mills, 98; Hon^H Chilton, 3; K. B. Culberson, 1; BarrflH Gibbs, 2; J. H. Bailey, 4. There was a good deal of speaking iH making and seconding the nomination ofJa^H Mills. Both houses then adjourned. Setoat^H Chilton had previously addressed a zy6t? a caucus of his friends, announcing h<B| withdrawal from the race, thus leaving ta^| field clear for Mills. Mr. Chilton assignsH as his only reason for withdrawing that found the total vote ot his friends in ttfl| Legislature insufficient to elect mm, and did not wish to embarrass themraho wou^B stand by him. f m Toe announcement in the House at Was^H ington that Ro.^er Q. Mills was the choice the Texas Legislature to sncceafl Mr. RaagaH in the Senate of the United ??ates was tt[H signal for an enthusiastic outburst of plause, which was exceedingly gratifying Mr. Mills, who occupied a s^at in the oute^B most row. MBj ALDERMEN INDICTED. I Charged With Bribery and Conspl^B acy to Do an Unlawful Act. I Indictments were returned by the Gracfl| Jury, in Chicago, Hi., against the follovricHj Aldermen: W. J. O'Brien, D. JEL OBrieJH N. A. Creamer, Patrick** J. Gorma^B Philip Jackson, Stephen M. Gossel^B John F. Dorman. The charge against vH| J. O'Brien and Powers is bribery, aifl against the others conspiracy to do an u^H lawful act. HB Before the Grand Jury Aider man KoflH named Aldermen O'Brien and Powers the men who paid him the boodle for voticflH for the Northern Pacific and Economic G^H ordinances. Ho received $1750 as his sh&r^H The accused men were arrested and each r^B leased on $13,000 bail. FIGHTING GABZA'S BAND? Two Engagements in Texas Which Blood Was Shed. Captain McNeil's company of Rangers a fight the other day with Garza's band revolutionists near Bennett's Ranch, Tex^H Robert Doughty, one of the rangers, w^H The Sheriff's posse also had an eaga^H ment with the outlaws near where G-lo^^H was slain, killing Qne and wounding The United States troops were withdra^H a few days before, and the revolutiooi^^J immediately resumed their depredations. IB Owtno to continued drought the BolivI^M wheat crop is a failure. It is feared th^H great distress will prevail all this ye^H throughout the Republic. ' EH