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i I I * ? i ! HAWAII IS DEFIANT. PROVISIONAL PARTY WILL f RESIST RESTORATION. I ->y h L a d c r Tho Australian steamer Arawa. which brings late Hawaiian new?, has arrived at Victoria, British Columbia. Immediately upon entering the straits she was boarded by a reporter, who w:is informed tiiat yueen Llliuokalani had not been restored and that there had been no trouble in Honolulu. Sinca the arrival of the last reports from Honolulu only two things of a significant nature have happened there. The annexationists held a mass meeting on November 26 and adopted resolutions appealing to Congress over President Cleveland, Secretary Gresham and Mr. Blount, and on four days preceding the sailing of the Arawa the troops of the Provisional "Government were busy Y] fortifying and barricading Government House, or the Castle, as it was formerly called. The wort was being done with sandV : - bags principally. As the Arawa sailed from ^ the harbor the troops could be seen from the * deck of the steamer busily engaged in heaping up the breastwork. James Walker Butcher, of the Sydney fNew South Wales) Evening News, was a passenger ol. the Araw# on his way to San gg r ALBERT 8. WILLIS, MINISTER TO HAWAII. tm 'Francisco. He is of the opinion tnat the |B Hawaii&n Government is simply lying back, (raiting for tho United State? Government to go on record. Great dependence is placed By the annexationists on the popular feeling B^B In the United States. It seemed, ns well, to Bj be a clearly defined plan of the Provisional gHB Government to force the United States into committing an act of war in an attempt at reetor.it ion. The Castle at Honolulu is bar9H rloadod or fortified and sixteen cannons are mounrod in front of It. mm A correspondent in Honolulu, writing un|H~ .ier date of December 4. says: ''At the HQ unanimous and urgent deauvnd of the AmeriSfiK sau citizens the Provisional Government has ^B deciilwl to resist to the utmost extremity any HH attempt to overthrow them by the United i^HI Rtrt+a* fnrnfts without authority from Con |grcs>? Leading citizens generally have annouii'-tnt their intention to be foremost in the defence. Twelve hundred volunteer ciflmion are ready to call with large Maxim anil Gatling batteries. Minister Willis is pledged to the Government to tako no action be/ore the return ot the Alameda on Deoember 21. His instructions are still concealed.'' President Dole stated that the Government has received two bona fide offers ot armed assistance from the coast. One was for .service at Honolulu, in defence of the Provisional Government, of one thousand men, and the other for four thousand men. While we do not need this aid." said the ( President, "the factlhat it has been tendered us shows what the feeling is in the United States. ' The Honolulu Bulletin say3: "We are authorised to contradict statements that the Queen has had any communication with Minister Willis as a private citizen, or that Mtnister Willis has at any time referred the Queen to the Provisional Government fox protection, or that tho Queen has had any communication with the Provisional Govern-ment on any subject." Probably one thousand persons were at Jho mass meeting already mentioned, which on the call was stated to be "for citizens fa;ornble to annexation.' The royalists say the meettnsr was packed by representatives of tho Provisional Government, and that all enthusiasm was ot a pre-arranged order. P. M. Hatch, Vice-President of th9 Provisional fkivernment. and President of tho An F- Club, presided and made the opening speech. He appealed to Congress against the Executive, and hold that Secretary Gresham did not know international law. He declared that the Provisional Government had never submitted its right to exist to the TJnlted States, and was, therefore, not bound by the policy of President Cleveland. W. R. Castle, one of the Annexation Cornfiussiouers to Washington, made on ar^uijnoat to prove the authority of mass meetings. Wo quoted reoent American opinion that the Revolution of 1776 was the work of a rmuority. Hawaii, he said, was surely tronding toward the goal ot union with its ILilitiokalani. Quean Emma. Kalakaua. feLimouamoha I. Lunalilo ffl HAWAIIAN" MONARCH*. her country across tne water. "Can fcetary Grebhain stop the onward proRE of Hawaii?" ha shouted. J>Ir. Castle pitted that President Cleveland and F. Gresham were tryinsr to execute justice id to do what is right, but he said the emies of annexation had stuffed Mr oars with lies. The speaker de 9E8^VTared that the people of the United wR^Kitatea were ap.iinst the President's BB^p Hawaiian policy. He said that the President of the United States is nowhere authorized to hocin war. Mr. Castle attacks Commissioner BV V.lounr. charging fcim with twice inviting the supporters of the Queen to revolt against the Provisional Government. He asserted tlMr Mie pt*oplo of the country had establinhed the Provisional Government. Mr. ggB c.istlo concluded by moving th?* lollowinsj roK-oluttocs. which passed without dissent : " Ilusolved, That we read with surprise and 0 tiin r",''ftmmcn tiitlnn o" tlir- Rivrot.nrv iof Statu of the Unitftii State* to the Prusi<{ent to restore the monarchy lately existing in Hawaii. Resolved, That W9 condemn the assumption of the Secretary that the ricrht of the Provisional Government to exist wis terminated by his refusal to resubmit to the Sea;it<t.ho treaty of the union pending between the two countries, and also his assumption that the Provisional Government at that time submitted the question of it3 continued existence to the arbitrament- ""DTresineni or -of any other power. Resolved. That we support to the best of onr ability the Provisional Government, to resist any attack upon it which may be made /lAnf^av tf\ fhft nono-A r?f Katlftns." I A. New York World correspondent at Honolulu called upon Mr. Willis, the American | Minister to Hawaii, at his residence. Mr. Willis said: I cannot disclose the nature of any instructions I may have received from Washington, or I may have brought with me, nor can I say whether I have sent any reports to Washington. Many statements are reported here purporting to com? from me. but they are not-true. This, however. I did : When I arrived here I found tha town in a state of great excitement, many young men, clerks and others not accustomed to it, were standing guard nightly with arms. In order to relieve this tension, I notified all parties that during this period of waiting I would allow no rioting or bloodshed. If any such attempts were mad? I would land the troops from the United States war vessels and suppress rioting promptly." "I suppose the British Minister could coODerate with vou in suc'i measures?" sue gested the correspondent. I have had no conference with the British Minister on this or any other subject." Mr. Willis denied savins: in a speech that iie would like to see Hawaii under American protection., The war vessels now in theharbor of Honolulu are rhe Philadelphia and the Adams of the American Navy, and the British ship Champion, Captain Rooke, and the Japanese vessel Naniwa. which arrived December 2. The British gunboat Nymph is expected daily from Victoria to relieve the Champion. Careful discipline is maintained among the regular troops of the Provisional army in Honolulu. The picket detachments are kept at the palace, under Colonel Soper's personal command. Across the street, at the old Government buildings, are sixty-seven more, and the remainder are scattered about the city. At both' the old and new Government buildings are perfectly equipped bar rauiu) IUL mo iiuvpo. The supplies of ammunition and weapons are abundant, and are of the most improved kind. The uniform worn by the soldiers is similar to that of the Unifed States Army. In fact, the Provisional Government imitates the United States as closely as it can in all things. The maintenance of this army is proving a heavy burden upon the Provisional Government. President Dole told the correspondent that it was their chief expense. The soldiers receive $40 a month and their keep. There is some talk at Honolulu to the effect that in case the United States does not put the Queen on the throne and protect her there the members of the Provisional Government will be picked off by secret marksmen. Paul Neumann, Attorney-General under the Queen, and one of htr most faithful adherents, says it will be done. "It is a mistake." said he, '-'to assume that the Hawaxians will not fight. They sympathize very strongly with the Queen, and they will adopt this method of making war upon her enemies. So long as the American marines are in the harbor, ready to interfere, I do not anticipate trouble, but if they are drawn off, I think it will come." The members of the Provisional Govern ment say they do not fear b9ing shot. Certainly their actions do not indicate a fear of bullets. After the mass meeting at the barracks Mr. Dole walked quietly home alone and iu the dark. You can engage the Provisional President of Hawaii in conversation almost any day at the corner drug store, or walk down thu street with him when he is on his war to th? butcher's to buy his steaks and chops. OFFICIAL CROP REPORT. Tlie Average Plantation Price of Cotton and Cereals. The statistical returns of the Department of Agriculture for the month of December ara principally devoted to the indication of the average of the prices of the various products of the farm at the points oi production, or iae nearest local markets. As thus indicated the value of corn is 37 cents per bushel, which is 2.4 cents lower than the corresponding price of last year, which was 39.4 cents per bushel, a figure which corresponds nearly with the average farm price of corn for the decade 1880 to 1889, inclusive, which was 39.3. and 6.1 cents lower than the average for the three years 1890 to 1892. The average price of wheat is 52.1 cents per bushel. The next lowest price in the twenty-three years from 1870 to 1893, inclusive, was 64.5 cents in 1884. The average for the ten years 1880 to 1889 was 82.7, while for the three years 1890 to 1892 It was 76.6. The decline from the average of the last three preceding years, in two of which, 1891 and 1892, occurred the largest yields in the history of the country was 21.5 cents, or 32 per cent. The returns make the general price per bushel of rye 51.8 cents, whioh is three cents lower than that of last year, and 5.2 cents lower than the average during the past de caae. The average farm price of oats, aa returned for December, 1893, is 28.8 cents per bushel, which is 2.9 cents lower than last year and 1.4 cents less than the average price during the past decade. The average farm price of barley is the lowest on record, the price being reported at 40.6 cents, against 47.2 a year ago, 64 cents in 1S91, 64.8 in 1890, and 42.7 cents in 1889. Unlike the other cereals, the farm price of buckwheat per bushel is the highest since 1888; the average price of buckwheat per bushel is the highest since 1888. The average plantation price of cotton, as shown by the department reports, was, on December 1, 6.99 cents per pound, as against 8.4 cents on the same date last yoar.showing a decline of one and forty-one hundredths of a cent. Notwithstanding the unfavorable indications as to yield, as reported for the current year, this price is one and two-tenths cents lower than the average plantation price for fvia oiivan vaqt-q dnHntf xxrhinh thft range was from 8.6 cents to 7.3 cents; average. 8.2 cents. The average price of hay is $0.18 per ton, which is thohighest dunng the past decade, except in 1887, when it ros? to $9.97. The average price in 1892 was $8,49, The average price of tobacco for December is returned at 7.8 cents per pound, which is almost the same as in 1885, 18S8 and 1890. Kentucky, the State of tne largest production, reports 7.6 cents, or two tenths of a cent lower than the general average. Potatoes on the farm December 1 were selling at an average price of Bixtv cents per bushel, seven cents and a fraction less than at the same time last year. The lowest price is sufficiently warranted by the difference in yield between the two years. The conditions ot winter wheat on the first of December averaged 91.5, against 87.4 last year. In the Middle and Southern States it ranges from 75 to 99. In tha principal winter wheat States the condition is as follow#: Michigan, 89; Ohio, 92 : Indiana. 90 : Illinois, 83 ; Missouri, 82 ; Kansas. 8'J ; California. \D0. Winter Bye?Tbe condition o( winter rye, as reported, is 94.0, as against 89.4 last year. TAX RIOT IN SICILY. A Mob Kills the Sheriff and His Wife and Parades Their Heads. A despatch received from Giardinelli gives further details of the tax riot at PartLnico, northwest Sicily. Tho mob of peasants who had protected against the milk tax wrecked the communal building and dragged on the ground two carabineers who tried to summon military re-enforcements. When the troops arrived they found at the head of the mob several women who carried aloft pictures of the King and Queen nnd screamed. ''Down with the taxes!" The officers In command of the troops appealed to the women to be quiet and called upon the mob to disperse, but no heed was given to their words. Several shots wore fired by the rioters before the troops received orders to shoot. After the first volley the mob retreated carrying away several killed and wounded. As soon as the troops were withdrawn the rioters gntiiered again, entered the rooms o', the Sheriff, aul Killedaira and his wife. The leaders cut the heads from both bodies, stuck* them on poles, and carried them thus at the I 1 t^HAn??!* H?o ffturn ueau ?Ji tin .HUM lillVUSU 01 the ei^'h: persons kiliod iu tlie riot lour were shot dead by the soldiers and two were wounded so severely that they died within an hour. The other two on the death list were tht Sheriff and his wife. Ten persons ?i,.. ;ir? at ill alive. The urn iority oi th?*ni will rueover. Italian Settlement in Arizona. Two Italian clergymen arrived in Yuma Arizona, a few days ago to arrange for the settlement of a colony of five hundred Italian families as grape growers in that Territory. Governor Hughes arranged the preliminaries of the scheme some time nzp. . ' s, >s ' DEADLY AKABCfflSTBOHB EXPLODED IN THE FRENCH rttr a wrDrD nr m?tJTTrprDo ui uxjx u JL xj-ikji The Miscreant Caught?He is August* Vaillant, Professional Anarchist, and Glories in His Crime?Eighty Persons Injured?Paris in a Per* feet Fury of Indignation. Anarchy has struck its most insolent blow in Paris. It fired a bomb in the French Chamber of Deputies a few afternoons ago, when about 300 members were in their seats, and the galleries were filled. In the courso of the business of the House the election of M. Mirman came up for discussion. M. Mirman had been speaking from tho tribune, and had just descended to resume his seat, when a mAn in the galJery above threw a bomb toward the floor. Tho bomb must have had a time fuse attached to it, for as it passed the head of Prof. Lemire, Deputy for Hazebruck, it exploded with a terrific report. A dense cloud of smoke and dust ascended, shutting out from view for a time those sitting in the bodr of the House. For a single instant the House was perfectly quiet, and then, the members and others realizing what had occurred, there was tho wildest excitement. The officers detailed to guard the Chamber were the first to regain their senses. They at once shut the sjreat doors leading to the Chamber to prevent tho escape of the boom thrower. The peeple in the galleries fled in wild disorder, tearing inai ocner oomos woaia De inrown. They were in a state bordering on frenzy, and almost fell over each other In their wild, but futile, haste to get out of the building. One lady, who, it was learned, was an American woman, had been hit on the forehead by a piece of the casing of the boom, and she fled with blood streaming over her face. On the floor of the House the exoitement was fully as great as that in the galleries. Many of the members rushed for the exits, fearing every moment to hear another explosion. M. Dupuy, the President of the Chamber, wa9 apparently the coolest man in the Chamber. Two ladies besides the American in the lower gallery were Injured. A man sitting beside the bomb thrower was also wounded. The Deputies wounded werp Professor Abbe Lemire. Count Paul Henri Lanjulnals and M. Leffet. The excitement among the members did not last long. The wounded were taken to committee rooms ana meaicai assistance was hastily summoned to attend them. While this was being done some of the reporters picked up on the floor of the House bits of metal and a number of horseshoe nails that had formed part of the contents of the bomb. The dust raised by the explosion was so thick that tho clothing of everybody in the Chamber presented an ashy appearance. The Chamber looked as if it had been swept by a riot. Many desks and chairs lay where they fell after having been wrenched from the floor. In several places the floor and furniture were spattered with blood. The mattresses for the wounded in the committee rooms were spotted red and the doorlatches were smoared with blood. M. Leffot looked as if brought from a battlefield when he was carried from the Chamber. Hia face was blackened and streaked with red, and tho blood flowed in streams from his left hand. Two of his fingers had been blown off, and his arm had been badlytorn. At noon as the smoke and dust had oleared away the members resumed their seats and business proceeded, M. Montfort ascended the tribunal, and, in a perfectly steady voice, took up tne discussion or tne qu9StiOD beforo the House as though nothing out o( the ordinary had ooeurrecL When the discussion had been finished M. Casimir-Perier, the Prime Minister, said that he did not wish to interrupt the business of the Chamber, but he felt compelled to assure the House that the Government would do its duty. At 10 o'clock in the evening it was announced that, as far as known, thirty Deputies and fifty onlookers had been injured by the explosion. Many of these eighty, however, received only scratches. Some of them lost fingers, others have slight fractures, not a fow suffered merely painful flesh wounds. One woman suffered a bad fracture of the knee-cap. As soon as the explosion occurred the guards locked the gates leading from the Chamber and no one was permitted to leave unless he or she could give satisfactory reasons and identification. All others were detained a3 suspects. Some of those detained were dirty, repulsive loafers of the lowest type. Any one of them might pass as an Anarchist. Despite the numerous arrests, it was feared that the culprit escaped through some side exit during the panic. The wounded spectators, who, after having been arrested, convinced the police of their innocence, were allowed to go in ambulances to their homes late in the evening. At midnight it was announced officially that forty-eight persons were wounded. This list does not include those who received merely slight scratches and bruises. The number of persons arrested in the Chumber on suspicion is twenty-three. Excepting those who were wounded, the suspects were sent to tho police station. The wounded were taken to an infirmary by a strong guard. All during the evening the officials at the Prefecture of Police were verifying the statements and examining the names of the suspects. The first name to challenge their attention was that of Vaillant. Several deteo known as an Anarchist of the extreme type? n ranter who had surpassed all his comrades recently In the violence of hifl language. Upon searching the records the officials found a full biography of Valllant. whoso career jurifled all that the detectives had said of him. Ho was among those detained by the closing of the gates when the crowd sought to escape from the scone of the explosion. A fragment of his bomb had torn away a part of his nose. He was rushing toward the street, with blood streaming from his face, when stopped by the Soldiers. Four detectives then wont to the Hotel Dieu and sought the bed on which Vaillant lay, suffering from many wounds. In reply to their questions he said that his name was Marchal and that he lived in Choisy-le-Roi. wnen asKoa lor more iniormacion, ne pleaded that the shattered condition of his nerves incapacitated him from talking coherently. He must sleep, he said, before talking more. When the detectives pressed him for answers he grew angry, turned over in bed, and refused to speak. The detectives, convinced that he was either principal or accomplice in the plot against the Deputies, continued their efforts to draw him out. As the French police say, they "salted" him. Nothing wa3 learned, however, until well into the morning. At 9 o'clock the Procureur of the Ilepublic and M. Lepine, Prefect of Police, arrived at the Hotel Diea. After conferring with the detectives they went to Vaillnnt's bedside. ri'Kn ani/4 J. U'j X A. UUU1 uui oaiu pujui toij "You are not Marchal; you are Auguate Vaillant." vaillant started, hesitated a moment, then blurted out pettishly: 'So I am. Yes, I am Auguste Vaillant, and I threw the bomb because I have had enough of this blood sucking bourgeois society." He then told his story with an air of bravado. He attended the Cnamber, he said, for the purpose of throwing the bomb at M. | Dupuy. President of tho House. He said ho had no accomplices. Tho infernal machine, as he called it, was exactly like that which killed several policemen in the Kue Bons Enfante last winter It consisted of a small, covered, iron sauce |mu. iuun wn:? uv/uxumo JUI iuioouw. >uv centre of them was 11 dumb-bell-shaped slas.? vessel. The bulbs containod one. picric ueid ; the other, prussiatt) of potash. Connecting the two was cotton soaked with sulphuric acid. Carried one end up the bomb wa* harmless. Inverted, it exploded instantly. Vaillaut spent several years in America, where his **ife. whom he deserted, now lives. The presents received by the Russian art aural. Avelan. and his <. "fleers \.hil?in France recently are estimated to be worth *G00,000 Anion;; thn oiTerinKS were tallow candle.*, weighing all told 300 pounds: thousands ol bottles of champagne, fine wines of various brands, liquors, cognac, soap, perfumery, linen and bric-a-brac. The clerjy of Franc | presented a painting irora tno urusn 01 j. fllaillurt to be used in the chapel of the Admiral's vessel. Five acr<w of apples belonging to Judge W. B. Felton, near Canon City, Col, this season yielded 1500 barrels ot apples aud netted $0750 from the flvejicros. LATER NEWS, Nathak Matthews (Democrnt) was reelected Mayor o? Boston, Mass. His plurality is about 7000. James B. Carpestkr, of Port Royal, Toim., has been arrested, accused of killing his blind father with an axe. A jcby to try Prendergast for the murde;of Carter H. Harrison was secured in Chicago after four days' work. Despatches received at San Francisco, ' Cal., from Hawaii up to December 4 said that Minister Willis had not yet restored Liliuokalani to power and that the Annexationists would resist such a step by force of arms. The Annexationists were collecting arms, drilling men and throwing up breast works. v icE-.fbesident btevensoit uouvereci an address at the Augusta (Ga.) Exposition. The President has nominated Charles W. Dabney, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice Edwin Willis, resigned. Admiral Mello seized the French vessel Parabyba and Admiral de Gama formerly assumed command of the rebel ships in Bio Harbor, Brazil. , A boat from the troopBhlp Tamar capsized in Plymouth (England) Harbor. Five of its occupants were drowned. A thaw has set in at St. Petersburg, Russia, and with it an increase of oholera. On one day there were thirty-eight cases and fifteen deaths. Wtt.t.taw Karjp nnrl FTflnrv RaaaIat- ttpto killed, with the two horses hitched to their wagon, by going over the edge of a bridge near Haverstraw, N. Y. The New York State Board of Canvassers canvassed the vote for State officers ; the Republicans will have a majority of forty-one in the Constitutional Convention. Twelve persons were injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Nanticoke Station, Penn. Incessant rains have swollen the rivers and flooded all the valleys of Washington, endangering much live stock and farm property, and creating great apprehension. John Cobpfbew and Abram Williams, murderers, were hanged at Winton, Ya., in the onnn preaeuue ui GIA/U pcuyic. The contract for furnishing the first smokeless powder to be used by the United States army ha3 been awarded to the Leonard powder Company and the California Powdei Works, each to furnish 5000 pounds. The widow of Admiral Porter died in Washington. % At the annual moeting the Board of Trustees of the American University in Washington a gift of .$100,000 was announced by the Chancellor, Bishop Hurst. This is in addition to the site, now valued at $300,000, and the pledges of $300,000 for buildings and endowments previously secured. The Japanese steamship Matsuvemarce struck on the rocks while bound for Shonchara, and foundered. Thirty passengers were urowucu. Past ol Major Forbe's command was at? tacked by King Lo Bengulo's warriors io Matabetand, Africa, and forced to.retjreat, _ FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate, 4th Dat.?Mr. Hill gave notice that he would move to take up for consideration tha bill to repeal the Federal Election Laws reported from the Committee on the Judiciary, Mr. Hoar gave notice that when the subject was before the Senate he should move to refer the bill reported by Mr. Hill to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Jones offered a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the amount of monev paid from any source since January 1, 1873, to the United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York (other than payments on account of salary) as compensation for examining the titles to lands and as compensation iu prize causes, and the authority for such payments. 5th Day.?In the absence of the Vice-President Mr. Harris, President pro tem., presided. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution of inquiry as to the authority under whioh James H. Blount was appointed to a diplomato office without the advice and consent of the Senate In discussing it he made an attack on the President who was defended by Mr. Gray. The Senate then proceeded to executive business, and at 2.40 adjourned. 6yh Day.?Mr. Cullom spoke against the proposed repoal of the Federal Election laws. His strictures on Judge Maynard, of New York, were answered by Mr. Hill. Mr. Stewart then addressed the Senate in favor of the repeal of the Federal Election laws. 7th Dat.?Mr. Hoar's resolution o! inquiry into the President's power to appoint Mr. Blount Commissioner to Hawaii was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee after a lively debate in which Messrs. Frye. Vest and others took part. Mr. Morrill addressed the Senate on the tariff question, and theu, after a short executive session, the Senate adjourned. Tho House. 4th Day?General debate on tha Bankruptcy bill was concluded. Mr. Bailey summinsr up in opposition and Mr. Oates speaking for the measure. A resolution granting tho use of the Monument grounds and public reservations to the Executive Committee of the Knights of Pythias for the annual oncampment of that order, to Do neia next August, was aaoptea. a resolution was adopted authorizing tho employment of several additional clerks and laborers and assistant doorkeepers, in order to bring the Capitol force up to a standard of proper efficiency. oth Day.?In the morning hour a motion by Mr. Kilgore to take up for consideration tho bill admitting Utah Territory as a State produced two roll calls for the purpose of securing a quorum, when the motion fell by reason of tho hour expiring Tho Bankruptcy bill was defeated by a vote of 142 to 111. 6th Day.?Mr. Culberson reported tho Abandoned Property bill favorably, but owing to objection it was not considered. A bill to abolish postal notes was introduced. Mr. Bailey introduced a bill to provide for a uniform system of bankruptcy. It provides only for a system of voluntary bankruptcy, and is drawn to meet the objections'made to the Oates bill. Under the rules,'the floor was then accorded to the Committw on the District of Columbia. Mr. Richardson reported a bill providing for the extension of North Capitol street, and the House went into Committee of tho Whole for Its consideration. Mr. Dearmond offered an amendment that tho District be required to boar all the expenses of the extension. The amendment was agreed to, and when the Committeo rose the bill, as amended, whs passed. 7tii Day.?Alter the routine morning business Mr. Meyer cnlled up the resolution providing for a joint commission to investigate the rank. pay. and other matters relating to the personnel of the navy. It went over without action. A bili to admit Utah to Slatehood w.is discussed, without action. Fth Day.?Mr. Hitt's resolution calling lor informHtion in regard to Hawaii was unanimously adopted. The bill to admit Utah as a State was passed. Mr. Holman Introduced a resolution for an inquiry into tho charges of collusion in the matter of warship_premiums. Tlio Vice-President's Broken Desk. For the first time in years it has been found necessary to renew tho top of the desk of the Vice-President in tho United State Senate Chamber. When the green baize covering was removed, the top was found to be litern IKr Uwnl-nn In rrt a rvl i tt f ix rc UJIJ UAWfkWU. iu uuuuw *? Much of the wreckage was caused during the recent silver debate. A strong piece of light mahogany wood now forms tlio top of this desk. nHHK., AMIDDAYBANi BOBBERY THE SOUTH BEND, DTD., NATIONAL LOOTED OF $15,900. The Cashier Had Gone to Lunch?His Assistant Was Decoyed to the Door?The Robber Broke Through Two Doors Into the Vault Where the Money Was. A bold robbery was committed about noon upon the South Bend (Ind.) National Bank, one of the leading banking concerns in the 8tate. The amount taken was $15,900. The rnhhArs fleam to have made eood their escape. From the manner in which the details of the theft were carried out, it is certain that It was engineered by a gang of experienced criminals, who must have been for some time shadowing the bank and its officers, and had become thoroughly conversant with their business habits. The South Bend National Bank is located on North Michigan street, the First National Bank being just north of it, on iron fence joining them. Shortly after noon,while Cashier Campbell was absent at lunch, Assistant Cashier Kelly, who resides in the rear of the building, was called to his front door by a man who said he wanted to seefcim on some business. At the same time a man approached the bank building on the north and effected an entrance to the directors' room, prying open the window sash with a steel nhi?Al He then forced a heavy oak door, which opened Immediately In front of the vault. Tne outer door of the vault was open, but a two-inch middle door had been closed by Cashier Campbell. This yielded readily, the combination having for some reason failed to work, and before the robber stood the counter tray, containing between three and ten thousand dollars. In the safe a pile of $14,000 in gold nnd many thousands in greenbacks was arrayed on shelves. In the haste the counter tray with its loose thousands was undisturbed, the robber confining his theft to the safe, from which he took $4000 in yellow coin, about all he could carry, and $11,900 in bills. No silver coin wns touched. The vault was then closed, and the robber made his escape by means of a back door before Assistant Cashier Kelly had again passed through the building. It is probable that but one man entered the bank, be perhaps being protected by outside guards, who could easily have been placed where thoy could watch through the plate-glass window the movements of any one inside the building without attracting attention to themselves. The money was not missed until some time after Cashier Campbell returned from dinner, and then information of the theft was suppressed for some time in the hope that some olue to the robbers might be discovered. AMEBICA TO EXHIBIT, Department of Agriculture Interested in the Vienna Food Exposition. The United States Department of Agriculture is taking especial interest in the International Food Exposition, which is to be held in Vienna from April 30 to June -S fl ? If L J IU, auu oeercmrjr luunuu uiu uumm John Mattes, Jr., the special agent of this Government in central Europe, to proceed to the Austrian capital in ample time to receive and Superintend the installation of exhibits that may be sent from the United States. The Department of State has just communicated to the Secretary of Agriculture the earnest invitation of "the Austro-Hungarian Government to the Government of the United Btates asking its participation in the Exposition, and expressing the hope that the United States authorities will take occasion to inform the people in general, and especially persons likely to be interested in making exhibits. The principal object of the Exposition is to present a complete exhibition of all sorts Of food products, whether fresh or preserved ?chiefly all kinds of meat, vegetable and bakery products, as well as different method* of salting and pickling. Rational methods of bread making and preparing food in large mill Ka n/rfnnl nnornfinn 4U0U11I109 nut UU iU ttV'lvai** V|/W?M..V? Popular lectures will be given, accompanied by experiments with u view tt comparing the relative merits o the food preparations. In the department of army maintenance the exhibits will shovt all particulars connected with the sustenance of troops in compliance with the n> quirements of military life, such as easj transportation, quick production and extent of nutritive power. Special Agent Mattes will receive all goods that American manufacturers may desire to exhibit, and will install them in tho best manner possible. The date up to which entries may be made by American exhibitors has been extended to February 1. STATEHOOD FOE UTAH. The Bill Admitting the Territory Passed by the House. The bill which passed the House of Representatives for the admission of Utah Territory to Statehood provides that all male citizens of the United States over the age of twenty-one years, who have resided in the Territory for one year prior to election, are authorized to vote for and ohoose delegates to form a Convention in the Territory. The Board of Commissioners, known as the Utah Commission, are authorized to cause to tw made a complete registration of voters of the Territory under the liws of the United 8tates. Liberty of belief shall bo secured, and no inhabitant of the State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of religious predilections; provided, that polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited, andthat the people of the proposed State lorever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within its bouudaries. The debts and liabilities o! the Territory shall be assumed bv the State. Provision is made for the establishment and maintenance of a public school system. Until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by law, the State shall be entitled to one representative ia Congress, to be elected on the day of the adoption o/ the Constitution. Lands to the extent of two townships aro to bo reserved for the establishment of the University of Utah. Two hundred thousand acres for the use of an agricultural college are set apart. The proceeds of the sale of lands or any portion are to constitute a permanent fund to be invested by the Stiite, the income to bo used for the university aud agricultural college. Five per cent, of the proceeds of the sale of public lands are to be exr^euded in supDort of its school. M AUnTTERTF/R'S fiAtfAL. The Directors Superintended the Formal Opening. The directors of the Manchester (England) Ship Canal have formally opened the canal. At the principal points bunting and flag? were lavishly displayed in honor of the formal opening of the waterway to the sea. The steamship Snowdrod, conveying the directors, left the Liverpool landing stage at 7 o'clock a. m, and passedthroughtho entire length of the canal. In 1884, after several years of fighting between Liveroool and Manchester. Parliament passed a bill authorizing the construction oi the Manchester Ship Canal. The opposition of Liverpool to tbo schemo was based upon the fear that should Manchester get the canal the former place would lose a large percentage of her carrying trade, particularly in cotton. Work on the canal was commenced in 1887, and after many vicissitudes and the expenditure o vast sums of money, the canal was completed. Ships may enter the canal a< Eastham by one of three locks. The largest of these is 600 feet long by eighty foot wide, and will accommodate steamship of the size of the White Star liner Teutonic. Eldeu Ijisxet, a muscular minister. wa? fined $32 for assaulting a younjj man named Wood near Ashboro, Ind. The elder, in quelling <i disturbance at a revival meeting, struck Wood. Dianey appealed the cose. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Under most favorable conditions the net* United States cruiser Marblebead developed an average speed of 18.94 knots, over a seventy-two-mile conrse on the Sound, off New London, Conn., thirty-six a^inst and thirtysix with the tide, and -will bring her builders a bonus of $175,000. The Brazilian war vessel Pirating sailed from New York City for Southern waters. The town of Danbury. Conn.. voted $50,000 ,for the relief of the loeked-out hatters. Benjamin Tennis was hanged in the jail at Harrisburg, Penn., for the murder of little Agnes Wright, near Hummellstown. Jacob Holtzkaith, 3ged twenty-eight years, killed his ten-month-old boy and then himself at the residence of his mother-in-law in Pittsburg, Penn. He had been married just a year. The marriage was not a happy one. n AT TrtrrvXT TT?- >*> A1r>A \is.^&doju t/vu*i ii. juiiatc utou ?w ?im uuiuo In .'-'Jburn, N. Y., a few days ago. , He waa born Novembers. 1826, In the town of Victory, Cayuga County. CoarzLica Mixton, the twelve-year-old non of James .H. Minton, died at Bed Bank, N. J.. 'A what the attending physician says was hydrophobia. The boy was bitten by a dog on October 20. His people were unable to pay $300 for the Pasteur treatment. Bran explosion of dynamite In the new tunnel now buildinsr at Armonk, N. Y.,to divert the Bvram Biver into the Kenskso reservoir, one man was blown Into .'ragments and another killed instantly. At least five others received serious injuries, and two of them fatal ones. Hejtoy 8. CocHBi.iT, ex-Chief Weigher of the Philadelphia Mint, who was recently' convicted of stealing $135,000 worth of gold bnllion from thfl instfhiHnn mi awntnnfw*/* fn seven yearsand six months' imprisonment. The New York Court of Appeals has decided that all fishing on Sunday, whether in public or private waters, is prohibited. The Lehigh strike cost the company about $1,000,0^) and the men about 690,000. The disoharge of Brotherhood men at Wilkesbarre, Penn., led to new strike talk. South and West. Brideoboox Oscar Russell was shot dead by Herman Echlenkampat a double wedding near'Omahn, Neb. General Eppa HrcrroN and Thomas 8. Martin were nominated for the United States Senate by Virginia Democrats. The Southern Female University at Birmingham, Ala., has been burned to the ground. The casualties were: Minnie Dean, Warrior, Ala., fatally burned; James Foster, badly burned while saving the young women; J. B. Bobbins, badly burned; Virginia "West, a servant, badly burned, and an arm broken by jumping from a window. The money loan is $40,000 on the building ind 420.000 on school fnrnltnrA. Mb. Thcbston, tbe Hawaiian Minister at Washington, arrived in San Francisco, Cal, on his way to Honolulu, to coaler witli President Dol<\ A oahoof robbers used dynamite to force an entrance into the vault of the National Bank of Piano, Texas. The robbers had horses in readiness and escaped into thesur* rounding country. It is thought the gang got away with 810,000. Eighteen' Chinamen, brought to an Island near Key West, Fla., in a Spanish sloop In an attempt to smuggle them, have been captured. A fifteex-veab-old colored boy Sod Hojv uer, assaulted Miss Lizzie Keller, a sixteenyear-old white girl, on'the road a mile from Harrlsburg, Ark. The girl fought desperately to save herself, but the ravisher cut hex throat with his pocket knife. The girl told the story before she died. An express train was side-tracked and robbed near Austin, Texa*, by seven men) many passengers lost their valuables. ' t Washington. A statement, forwarded biy Collector Clark at Chicago, shows that customs duties aggregating $656,073 have been paid on World's Fair exhibits which have been sold or which are retained in this country. The estimated value of all the foreign exhibits at the World's Fair was $14,000,000. Chile, on behalf of the owners of tho seized Itata, has made a claim on the United States for over $225,000. j. i-msten jtalkeb, tnrougn tne Secretary of the Treasury, in a communication tq the House, estimates that there will be a deficiency of $210,000 in the appropriation for the present fiscal year??200(000 on account of public printing and binding, and $10,000 for the removal and storage of certain material from the building. The President has approved the joint resolution conferring diplomas upon designers. inventors and expert artisans, and the joint resolution providing for the payment of salaries and expenses ot additional collectors of internal revenue to carry out the provisions of the Chinese Exclusion act. Reports made to the National Congress of the Argentine Republic and just received at Washington through regular diplomatic channels, show that in October the debt 5f that Republic wns $348,283,699. This is the National debt alone; the States and municipal debt amounts to about $100,000,000. Mb. Ellsworth, representing the World's Fair Commission, called at the Treasury Department and paid to Aoting Secretary Curtis $40,300 to defray the expenses of trans porting and recolning the souvenir coins undisposed of by the Commission. The amount to be recoined is $1,700,000. Habrison*, liorixo & Co., of Boston, the builder? of the cruiser tfarblehead, have applied to the Navy Department for a further trial. They are very much dissatisfied with the result of the official trip. The President sent to the Senate the nominations ot Charles H. Simonton, of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Judicial District, to succeed the late Judge Hugh L. Bond, and twines rarmnge, 01 ijouisiana, to do umtea States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana to succeed the late Judge Billings. Commodore Fbaxcis M. Ramsay, who has been reappointed Chief of the Navigation Bureau, will only serve until sorno vacancy in the fleet commands occur, when he will resign and be assigned to sea. Foreign. The Norwegian bark Don Juan was wrecked off Lemvig, Denmark. Out of her craw of fourteen, eleven seaman were lost. The aluminum yacht Vendenesse, built for Comte Chabannes, was launched at St. Denis, France. This is the first vessel constructed entirely of this metal. New warships for Great Britain are to ba built with all possible despatch. A destructive gale passed over the United Kingdom. The Spanish police have unearthed a secret society organized for the active spread of anarchism and the perpetration of dynamite outrages. Bkbfx forces from Rio Grande du Sul. Brazil, made a attack on the town of B:ige. but were quickly repulsed by loyal troops With severe loss. The famous Maison Hanseatique, at Antwem. Behrium. was burned to the ground the other day. It contained 20,000 tons ol grain, and the loss is said to be $1,COO,000. The battery of Nictheroy. in Rio Harbor, Brazil, is said to have been destroyed. Carelessness in handling cartridges resulted in an explosion iu the arsenal at Belgrade. Servia, killing eight men. Four measures for the repression of Anarchists were Introduced in the French Chamber of Deputies; a bill modifying the press laws was pas3sd. Advices from Hawaii via Japan say the Provisional Government declares openly that it will resist any attempt to restora the Queen. THREE DKOWNED, Californian and Family Make a Fatal Trip After Provisions. Captain Fowls, who lived on the west side of Salt River, Eureka, Cal., went with hia young wife and four year-old child to Table Bluff landing, where they brought a load of provisions and started on their return ifliimny. In some manner their boat whs oapslzed and tbeir lifeless bodies were wash ed ashore near the mouth of the river. '" VV CALENDAR FOE 1894. 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Tl 8 J 1011121J M 1518 9 10}ll 121814 LSI : 17 18 19 20 21 22*28 1617J18 19120 21B2I [ 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ^j25&to 28?|' cursBR iy 1894. ^ la the year M34 there will be four . eclipses?two of the son and two of the moon? and a transit of the planet Heromy across the sun's disk, aa follows: ' L A partial eolipae of the moon, March 21, visible In the United States west of the 100th meridian, where the moon will set with the eclipse still on. This will be a small ecllpea of 2.97 digits, or about one-fourth' of the' moon's apparent diameter, and apon the southern limb. This eclipse returns April L 1912. when it will be still smaller: and it will puss off In an Appulse, April, 12th, 1930. EL An annular eclipse of tne son, Apdl 5,. fa visible in America. IEL A partial eclipse of the moonrSeptember 14-15, risible throughout North America ?' / 8tee, when greatest, 2.77 digits, and upon the northern limb of the moon. 17. A total eclipse of the sun, April 29th, , invisible in United States. V. A transit of the planet Mercury across the sun's disk. November 10thr risible throughout the United States. The planet .will enter upon the sun's disk on the east side, and pass upward and across the same, occupying 6h. 43m. 22s. in so doing. TEE SEASONS. . Winter begins 1893, De<?. 22,andlasts89 1 Spring begins 1894, March 20, and lasts92 20 /' '-*:Vri RnmrnnphAffifialftlU .Tnnn!)1 jtnil U 14 .Autumnbegins 1894, June 21, and lasts 8> 1841 > , Winter begins 1894,Dec. 21, trMp. yr,,385 6 161 ttA.VZ.TS BBIQHXH3T OB BEVT ABUT. Mercury?February 21st and October 15th. setting after the san as evtmlng star; April 13th and August 19th, rising before the son as morning star. < Venus?January 10th, setting after thp sun. as evening star; March 22 A. rising before the sun as morning 3tar. Mars? October 20th, rising at sunset, aa ' evening star. Jupiter?December 22 J, rising at sunset an , evening star. Saturn?April 11th, rising at sunset,' . evening star. Uranus?May 3d, rising at sunset, an even" ingstar. . Neptune?December 6th, rising at sunset, . /,; an evening star. ?nnirtv/i r t i no * t . . ' > : Mercury?See Planet? Brightest ../ V.V Venus, from February 10 to November :#k?; Mars, until Jane27. , Jupiter, from June 4. to September 1.: , v Saturn, until January 19 and after Oeto-/' ber2L ' " 'S ' 1 r 1 EVENI1CG STABS. >-Xr. Mercury?See Planets Brightest. Tenus, until February 16 and after November SO. , *ti? Mars, after June27. Jupiter, until June 4 and after September L Saturn, from January 19 to October 21. . ~ v FIXZD AND MOVABLE FE8TIYAL5. Epiphany \? . .January# Septuageslma Sunday... January 31Sexageeima Sunday January 38 Quinquagesima Sunday February 4 >" } ' Shrove Tuesday.. r90raary.tr Ash Wednesday February-? Quadragesima Sunday February 11 Mid-Lent Sunday.. March 4 f St. Patrick's Day ..March 17 , Palm Sunday ?C.. March 18 Good Friday Marok 23 Easter Sunday March 25 Low Sunday April 1 Sogation Sunday '. April 29 Ascension Thursday (Holy Day). .. . .May 3 Sunday after Ascension ...May' Whitsunday (Pentecost)..,, ,Moy 18 Trinity Sunday .May 90 << Corpus Christi May 24 St. John the Baptist June 2? Michaelmas Day September 29 Advent Sunday December 2 Christmas Day December 29 BTEBIUZATION OF MTT.lf. I A Simple Method Reported to tbe Secretary of Agriculture. - : V J_'?_ secretary aiorroa js guowiug muuu uum est la the prevention of the spread of oontaglous diseases through the milk of cows. He recently requested Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, to report some simple method of effectually* sterilizing milk. Br. Salmon in his report v just submitted, comments on the danger of ? > the spread of contagion and says that sterilization of milk for children can be satis&otorily accomplished by simple apparatus, >' , ' which he describes as follows The vessel containing the milk, whioh may \ be the bottle in whioh it is supplied, or any other vessel, is placed inside of a larger vessel of metal, which contains water. The requirements are simply that the interior ves: sel should bo raised about half on inch above., the bottom of the other, and that the water should reach nearly, or quite as high. as the milk. This apparatus is then heated uatil the milk reaches a temperature of 1651 degrees Fahreaheit, whoa it is removed from * ' L ? A fl>rn H 11 011TT LUtJ IlOttt iiUU ouunoa IV v.v/w? A temperature of 150 decrees maintained I for lialf an hour is sufficient to destroy " any germs likely to be present in the * milk, and it is found in practice that raising the temperature of 155 degrees and then allowing it to stand in the heated water until cool, insures the proper temperature for the required time. The simplest plan is to take a tin pail and hare for it a false bottom with perforated holes and legs half an inch high to allow circulation of the water. The milk bottle is set on this false bottom and the pail is filled with water until it reaches the level of the surface of the milk in the bottle. A little hole may be punohed in the cover of the bottle in which a cork i* ^ inserted and a thermometor is pyt through It so that the bulb dips into the milk, and the temperature can thus be watched without removing the cover. v J HXJfciUUTiUJNI AT JKiU. , J Five of an Insurgent Ship's Company ' I Killed. i iTho British steamer Nile, whioh sailed from Pern3mbuco, Brazil, oa December 5tbf i hasarrrived at Lisbon, Portugal. 8he was boarded at once by a correspondent, who ob- I t.ainedthe following news from tho officers * and from mail advices. Just before the Nile sailed the Government had tho fifteen insurgent officers and the crew ot mo guarasnip runuivutt wizou juiub harbor, carried ashore and stood up to be shot by a party of soldiers. The soldiers flred with sreat reluctant*?. With the first volley they killed Jive. The rest of the prisoners shouted "Long live Mello!" The soldiers refused to Are again. and the reat of the ma- J rines are supposed to be still alive. J Admiral da Gama has gained possession ' j of Copas Island and Enchndas, at Rio ; mar- *^1 tial law has been declared in Pernambuco. ' 1 The custom house and naval arsenal aw ! continually under Are. KIUe y Joy. *r?? /i t miss isuwienuc uuuci, ui iiaunnu ui/uu* ty, Pennsylvania, was so overjoyed a day or two ago at a decision in *er favor in a suit j : which she had instituted in Hagerstown, Md., to set aside a deed (or a farm that she was overcome by the excitement and died' VH an hoar after. BPH KHHl u ^ ;