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\ % r/ / ’ITOMIZED. Fur nace at Joliet, 111. The blast furnace known as No. 2, a part of the Joliet (111.) Steel Company’s plant, gave way at noon the other day and fell to the ground while twenty men were at work upon it. Nine men were killed. Their aamee are as follows: Stans Fasmeck, top filler; Neil* Larson, hottom filler; Theodore Larson, bottom filler; Gus Loosa, eager; Frank Miller, bottom filler; John Peterson, rigger; Thomas Swan- sen; rigger; John Uinlustadis, bottom filler. Late that night the body of an unknown man was found. Those fatally injured are: August Diremer, chest crushed; Patrick Kilcullen. leg crushed; XT. Lind, badly crushed; Oscar Wenberg, hurt about the head. Five others were seriously hurt. The cause of the accident was the giving way of the columns which support the furnace and the consequent collapse of the great two hun dred ton retort. The blast had been blown out and the men were at work on the inside taking out the brick lining preparatory to reliningit when the crash came. Thousands of men, women and children rushed to the scene as soon as the disaster became known, and the police had hard work keeping the people back while the rescuers were at work. When the furnace collapsed there were eleven men on the inside, six at the bottom and five on top. The furnace carried with it the blowpipes and roof of the casting shed'and buried itself in the earth so deeply that the work of rescue was exceedingly difficult. Hundreds of men offered their services and the work began at once. Superintendent Pettigrew directing the workers. Several physicians were on hand promptly, but left Li a few moments for the hospital upon learning that there was little hono for the men who had been working upon the inside of the retort. One man, who had been working on top, was carried down, but the others were thrown off when the fall came and thus es caped instant death. Of the nine wounded four were working on the outside tnd were ■trre.’: by flying pieces of iron. All the wounded were promptly carried to the hospital and everything possible done for them. Hundreds of women and children— relatives and friends of the victims—crowded around the hospital and clamored for ad mittance with the most pitiful appeals. In the meantime the work of rescuing the bodies from the wrecked retort was going on, but owing to the manner in which the Iron casing was crushed and bent it was difficult to get at the bodies. Finally an en trance was effected, and during the afternoon four corpses were reached. All were horri bly crusted and mangled, some of them be yond recognition. Great masses of brick and iron had fallen upon them, and death must have been in stantaneous. Later in the evening the res cuers succeeded in getting out another body. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Cincinnati has 20,000 Spiritualists. Cholera is raging in Aleppo, Syria. The Canadian Indians are reported quiet. The sugar-cane crop will be a large one. Professor Koch calls his 'ymph “para- tolidin.” Sugar beets have done well west of the Missouri. An epidemic of influenza is prevailing in Hungary. afr sdlLsoan have a "and Middle States, Its Bank at Indiana, Penn., has idoora. The extent of the failure The Bessemer plant of the Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company has shut down for an indefinite time. Twelve hundred men are thrown out of employment. The A. Campbell Manufacturing Com pany (cotton yarns), at Manayunk, Penn., was damaged oy fire to the extent of $300,- 000. One fireman was killed and three others were injured by falling walls. The Secretary of the Navy has made a contract with fi. W. Bliss & Company, ol Brooklyn, N. Y., for the manofactare of pro jectiles for the service. A contract has bees given the firm amounting to $125,000 to in stall a plant such as is needed. Ltttleton Long, a brother of Colonel Chaille Long, the African explorer, was ar rested in New York City for forging check* belonging to Jacob D. Nordlinger to the amount of $40,000. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Field celebrated their golden wedding in New York City. Mrs. Lucy Wood, 105 years old, of Barre, Vt., has sent a petition to Congress for a pension, her husband having been an army teamster in the War of 1812. The employes of thirteen shoe factories of Rochester, N. Y., numbering about two thousand, struck, because the manufacturers refuse to employ members of the Inter national Shoemakers’ Union. The New Hampshire lower house met in extra session at Concord. The Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the names of twenty-two members, twelve Democrats and ten Republicans, be striken from the roll. Forger Albert H. Smith, the junior partner of the stock brokerage firm of Mills, Robeson & Smith, who were swamped by his forgeries to the extent of $300,000, has been sentenced to seventeen years in Sing Sing (N. Y.) Prison. Secretary Windom has selected as a sits for the Appraisers’ Warehouso in New York City the square bounded by Christopher, Washington, Barrow and Greenwich streets. This square contains 56,000 square feet, and with the exception of a small portion, is owned by the Trinity Church Corporation. The price to be paid for it is $500,000. The Rittenhouse Woolen Manufacturing Company of Passaic, N. J., has gone into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are $800,- 000. Three men were crushed to death by a train at the Port Richmond (Penn.) coal wharves. James Irwin and wife perished in the burning of the Dickson Flats, in Pittsburg, Penn. The lower house of the New Hampshire Legislature killed the Senate bill enacting legislation for the guidance of the clerk; thirty-seven Republicans - voted with the Democrats. Dr. Foster, of New Haven, Conn., has made the first experiment in this country with Dr. Koch’s lymph, using the fluid sent to Professor Chittenden, of Yale University, on three patients, with excellent results. Joseph B. Abbott, bookkeeper for Henry W. Sage & Co., committed suicide at Al bany, N. Y., when his defalcations to the extent of $100,000 had been discovered. South and West. Robert Leeds and Jeremiah Hitchcock were fatally injured in a railroad collision at Cherokee, Iowa. The Brazilian naval officers visited Anna polis (Md ) Naval Academy and were enter tained at dinner by Secretary Tracy. The Indians at the Pine Ridge Aj drifting into the inaccessible Thomas G. Jones was inaugurated Gover nor of Alabama, at Montgomery, to succeed Thomas Seay. ' The First National Bank of Texarkana, Texas, has; suspended. This is the oldest ’are railroad bridges in the loo^m : made a small yiel 1 The sorghum except at the Sout! It costs twenty-live cents for three pota toes in Buenos Ayres. Tin ore has been discovered in Kittitas County, Washington. A Russian millionaire is building the largest steam yacht known—1000 tons. Two hundred trains go out of the Grand Central Station, New York City, daily. C hjnese residents of Asiatic Russia are re quired to become subjects of the Czar. It is estimated that 750 patients are under treatment by Koch’s method at Berlin. An oyster famine this winter looks like a certainty. Prices are now the highest ever known. The German Government may assume control of the manufacture of Dr. Koch’s lymph. A tunnel between Scotland and Ireland is discussed, thirty miles long, to cost $40 - 000,000. The salaries of Government officials in the Argentine Republic have been cut down ten per cent. A butcher's shop has been discovered at Chicago in which horse meat was prepared and sold. Porvland, Oregon, sends East every week about twenty tons of Columbia River stur geon in refrigerator cars. In obedience to the President’s proclama tion all cattle have been driven from the Cherokee Strip, in Indian Territory. A Russian guard on the Prussian frontier near Slupca recently shot dead four persons who were about to emigrate to Brazil. The great chemical trust in England has been registered as the United Alkali Com pany, with a capital of $30,000,000 in $50 shares. A contract has been made at; Selem, Oregon, to dig a ditch three miles long for the drainage of Lake Labish, by which means 3500 acres of valuable land will be re claimed. There has been organized in Chicago the American Harvesting Company for the manufacture of harvestry machinerv, with a capital stock of $35,000,000. A threshing machine trust is also being formed there which, it is said, will have $20,000,000 capital stock. Nearly all the establishments of the country are in the deal. The Reichstag will be asked for $12,000,000 for the German army, part of which sum is to provide new munitions, and part to alter the color of the uniforms, in order to render the movements of the troops less distinct. Henceforth no glitter of headpiece or arms will be permitted; a sombre uniform is a necessity under the new tactics. raary at BUS. jurder- pngja. UNCLE SAM’S LAW SUITS. Review of the Work in the Depart ment of Justice. The annual report of Attorney-General Miller just made public gives a detailed statement of business of the United States Supreme Court and Court of Claims, and of all the judicial proceedings during the last fiscal year in which the United States was a party. The aggregate number of suits now pending 4n the Court of Claims is about 14,000, without regarding the great number of suits involving many millions of dollars in special jurisdictions, and the French Spoliation Claims. The claims alone now pending are about 8000 in number, and esti mated upon the basis of amounts claimed iu cases tried earlier in their history will aggregate at least $400,000,000. ’ These claims are now carefully examined. The evidence, largely to be found in the South and in the Confederate archives, is carefully searched out and rigidly scrutinized, with the result that comparatively few of these end in judgments against the Government. During the last year, under the general jurisdiction of the court, claims amounting to almost $2,000,000 have been disposed of. In these cases the amount recovered nas been abont $210,000. Claims against the District of Columbia have been adjusted by the De partment to the extent of $850,000, resulting an judgments of only about $45,000. Of the war claims tried, the amount claimed was nearly $1,000,000, and in these cases findings have been made for claimants only for $103,000. The Attorney General recommends the building of United States jails to hold the in- jcreasicg number of toners. rcKY farmer came across the river file, Ind., and engaged five colored men to load corn on a barge. The party at tempted to cross in a skiff. The river was very rough, and when near the Kentucky shore the skiff was capsized and the five col ored men drowned. The Bank of Commerce in West Superior, Wis., closed its doors and made assignments. Among the depositors was the city, which had with them $230,000. The business portion of the town of Col- 1 inwood, Ohio, was completely wiped out by fire. Colonel Heyl, of the United States Army, alleges that the Indian trouble was due to a scarcity of rations; a blizzard pre vails in the Northwest and prevents fear of immediate danger from the Indians. Ex-Congressman Isaac M. Jordan was instantly killed at Cincinnati, Ohio, by fall ing through an elevator shaft at Lincoln’s Inn Court, which had been carelessly left open. The Farmers’ Alliance Convention at Ocala, Fla., appointed a committee to look into certain insinuations against President Polk and others. The flue cut department of the Scotten tobacco works at Detroit, Mich., was de stroyed by fire. Two firemen, O. G. Robin son and Patrick Coughlin, were killed. Loss $300,000. Fire destroyed the Arlington Hotel and four adjoining buildings at Oxford, Ala. A falling wall fatally injured W. H. Orr, Chief of the Fire Department; Walter Gallagher, fireman, and- J. M. Whitesides and C. J. Dodd. Loss $100,000. A passenger train bound for Kansas Citj was wrecked at Jacksonville, Mo. Frederics Smith, of Pekin, 111., and Judge J. K. Riffell, of Kansas City, were instantly killed. B. C. Tillman, elected Governor of South Carolina by the Farmers’ Alliance, was in augurated in front of the State House in Columbia in the presence of a large crowd from all parts of the State. This is the second time iu the history of the State that a Governor has been inaugurated in the open air. The mother of United States Senator Tur- pie, of Indiana, was burned to death at Del phi, in that State, her clothing catching fire from the fire-place. She was ninety years old. A fire started in Brookville, Kan., and before the flames could be extinguished the greater portion of the town was destroyed. The Democratic Senators in caucus '’ solved to oppose the Election Force bill the end. The Japanese Charge d’Affaires has just received a telegram from his Government announcing the appointment of Mr. Gozo Fateno to be Minister of Japan to the Unite! States. The Intercontinental Railway Commission, composed of representatives from the United States and other American republics, met for organization in the diplomatic chamber of the Department of State. Consul General Edwards, at Berlin, reporting on the patent system of Germany as contrasted with that of the United States, calls especial attention to a provision of the German law permitting the cancellation of a patent where the invention is not put in ooeration in Germany within three years. SURGEON-UENERAL BAXTER, OI tne United States Army, who was recently stricken with paralysis, died at his house in Washing ton. Dr. Baxter was born in -Vermont in 1837. He had .been in the Government ser vice for thirty years. !’ ALLIANCE. Foreign* Five of the six Irish members of Parlia ment now in this country issued a manifesto at Chicago declaring that Mr. Parnell must retire as leader of the Home Rule Party. Lord Wenlock has been appointed Gov ernor of the Madras (India) Presidency, vice Lord Connemara. An English war vessel has gone to the New Hebrides to punish the natives for an act of cannibalism, two men, an English trader and his son, having been killed and eaten on one of the islands. The wife of Major Gregg, an instructor in the Sandhurst Royal Military College, Berkshire, England, suddenly became insane and murdered her mother. The demented woman then took her own life. The Irish Home Rule members of the Brit ish Parliament held another long and exciting meeting in London, but without result; a motion to postpone the question of Parnell’s retirement was defeated. Advices from the Congo State report that the natives are still rebellious, and that fighting has occurred between them and the forces of the State. Eight natives were killed and twenty wounded. A French woman, the Marquise Gaggel, while traveling in a railway carriage from Monoco to Toulon, was attacked by thieves, who pinioned her and robbed her of $1250. Deputy Minister of Finance Courtney has left for England to float a loan for a few million dollars to pay off some $2,000,000 of Canada’s floating liability and to meet maturing liabilities on account of interest on the national debt. The body of a young peasant girl, so hor ribly mutilated as to suggest the handiwork of a “Jack the Ripper,” has been found in a forest in the vicinity of Berne, Switzer land. Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire land, has ordered a man-of-war to secure ten tons of meal and immediately proceed to the relief of the distressed people of Clare Island and Innisturk. Advices from Orenburg, Eastern Russia, state that the mercury suddenly fell from three degrees of warmth to thirty degrees of cold. Four caravans of horses, sheep and camels and thirty Kirghese, who were riding across the steppes, were frozen to death. -»■" The British House of Commons voted $25,000 for the relief of distress in Ireland. According to a census just made the pop ulation of Berlin, Germany, is 1,574,485. Bevis, Russell & Co., merchants, of London, England, and Bombay, India, have failed. Then: liabilities amount to $1,150,- 000. The body of the late King of Holland was buried at Delft with impressive ceremonies. Robert Loewenstein died at Frankfort, Germany, after being inoculated with Koch’s lymph. His death struggles are said to have been terrible in their fury and evi dent suffering. - a Six female paupers perished in the burn ing of the workhouse at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England! rffff^ABOR WORr: to Washington. Republican Senators in caucus agreed press the Force bill to speedy passage. The debt statement issued shows an in- ?rease in the Public Debt in the month of November, amounting to $6,130,810. The surplus in the Treasury aggregates §59.044,- 325, against $67,803,033 a month ago; a de crease of $8,758,408. General Miles spent a half hour with the Secretary of the Interior in discussing the Indian situation. Upon leaving the Sec- retary's office, in answer to inquiries, he said that the Sioux continued to be much excited and that he feared an outbreak. He said he regarded the situation as alarming. The President has directed the removal from office of Joseph H. Wilson, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, on the ground of neglect of duty aud inattention to the public interests. The Fifty-first Congress reassembled to take up again for three months the labors of legislation left unfinished at the end of the long session on October 1. There was an unusually full attendance in both branches. President Harrison has issued a pro clamation that in cases of collision at s?a the masters of vessels must stand by and aid each other. Admiral De Silviera and other Brazilian officers looked upon the sessions of the two houses of Confess, under the chaperonage of Secretaries Blaine and Tracy. Admiral Silviera and Senor Yalente at night returned the complimentary banquet given them by Secretary Tracy. Covers for one hundred were laid at the Arlington. Nearly every prominent army and navy official in Wash ington was among the guests present. Sec retary Blaine was also present. The President has nominated Lathrop B. Kinney, to be Probate Judge in Sevier County, Utah; Everett B. Sanders to be Register of the Land Office at Wausau, Wis. j Robert H. Johnson to be Receiver of Public Moneys, at Wausau, Wis. Times are dall for printers at p: Tacoma (Wash.) plasterers get St. Paul (Minn.) shoemakers t strike. Carpenters are scarce at Great Montana. Victoria bricklayers work seven half hours a day. San Francisco painters and decorators will erect a $20,000 hall. Saleswomen may be had by the hundred in New York City at $3 a week. The typographical unions out West are commencing to agitate for eight hours. More than 300 different industries enter into the building of every ocean steamship, The city of London, England, will build and rent houses to workingmen at a sliaht profit. A universal labor congress has been called to meet at Brussels, Belgium, August 16, 1891. San Fmancisco blacksmiths complain be cause $40,000,000 worth of their work is done in the East. Two million and a half is the number of persons who are said to work on Sundays in this country. The parliament of labor which recently met at Liverpool, England, represented 1,500,000 men. In St. Louis hod-carriers get #3 per day for eight hours, while carpenters receive only $2.80 for the same time. Emperor William has given orders that women shall not be employed at night in any Government factory. The Premier of Australia will call a con vention of the heads of Australian countries to discuss the prevention of strikes. It is reported that in the mining districts there is a greater scarcity of competent men than has existed for many years. Many good miners, it is said, have been practically forced out of the business by the operations of the registration law. \ Careful experiments go to show that, for! the maximupi efficiency of mind and body ot the working population in the Northern countries of Europe and in the United States : meat or animal products of some kind should; constitute at least two-thirds of the total supply. I The Boston plasterers have secured a vie- 1 tory, the bosses having agreed that work shall be eight horn s per day at the rate of • forty cents per hour, to commence work at • 7.30 o'clock and quit at 4.30 o'clock, and Saturdays seven and a half hours, this to continue to April 1. The average production in England during 1880 for each employe was $496; of this the laborer got $296, and capital $200. In the United States the average production for each employe in 1880 amounted to $720, of which the laborer got $346 and capital $374, In England the laborer gets more than capi tal; in America capital gets more than labor. A REMARKABLE CASE. Doth Legs of a Woman Broken by Muscular Contraction. On a recent morning a few minutes before noon, while sitting in her room talking, Mrs. J. Harry Brent, of Paris, Ky., felt the mus cles of her right leg suddenly contract with such force as to break the limb just below the hip joint. The children were badly frightened by the noise the bone made in breaking, and ran for a doctor, who quickly arrived. Before he could do anything for the suffering woman, however, the muscles of her left leg contracted severely, and in a few minutes it had broken exactly like the other. Her sufferings were intense, and it was feared that she would die. Mrs. Brent is about forty years old, aud has been in ex cellent health until within the past few days, when she has complained of a slight stiffness in her joints like rheumatism. She is the wife of Judge Brent, who was a prominent candidate last summer for. Judge of the Su perior Court. She belongs to a wealthy aud aristocratic family, and is one of Kentucky’s most popular society ladies. Leading physicians at Paris, Ky., say this is one of the most remarkable cases on rec ord; that while limbs have been broken be fore by muscular rheumatism, there has never been a case recorded in which a person comparatively well, as was Mrs. Brent, was a victim ot this misfortune. Meeting of the National Body at Ocala, Fla. A Synopsis of President Polk’s Annual Address. WJ' % ?/r' Jj. L. POLK. A public meeting of the National Farmers’ Alliance was held in the Opera House at Ocala, Fla. About twelve hundred persons were present. President Rogers, of the Flor ida Alliance, presided. The only business done was the calling of the roll and the appointment of a Commit tee on Credentials. After a recess for dinner another session was held, and Governor Fleming, of Florida,made a formal speech of welcome, which was enthusiastically received. John F. Dunn, a prominent aspirant for the United States Senatorship, followed the Governor in a brief address. President Foulks, of the South Dakota Alliance, delivered an address, in which he pre dicted victory for the Alliance at the ballot box in 1892. This sentiment was cheered to the echo by the delegates. All the speakers predicted the general prevalence within a short time of the ideas embodied in the Alliance platform adopted at St. Louis. Chairman Rogers introduced President Polk, who delivered his annual address. He said, In part: Pr< 'rofoundly impressed with the magnitude of the great revolution for reform, involving issues momentous and stupendous in their character, as affecting the present and future welfare of the people, the public mind is naturally directed to this meeting with anxious interest, if not solicitude, and you cannot be unmindful of the importance and responsibility that attach to S our action as representatives, coming from tates and localities remote from each other and differing widely. from each other in their material and physiological characteristics, and marked by those social and political differences which must necessarily arise under our form of Government. It is your gracious privilege, as it shall be your crowning honor, to prove to the world by your harmonious action and thoroughly fraternal co-operation, that your supreme purpose is to meet the demands of patriotic duty in a spirit of equity and justice. The alarm incident to centralization of the money power and upbuilding of monopolies was then pointed out, aud both political par ties were condemned for forcing and encour aging this condition. He urged that addi tional organizers be sent at once to Oregon, Washington, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Arizona and other States. Among the recommendations was one that an. organization be formed to be known as the National Legislature, composed of the National President and the Presidents of all ate Alliances, their duty being to look ' ‘ itive reforms demanded by dosed with an eloquent appeal for< harmony. In relation to the political action of The Alliance, he said that while the order is polit ical, it cannot be partisan or sectional in its action. In support of this declaration he pointed to the record of the Alliance in the re cent popular election, and particularly to the noble and patriotic bearing of theBrotherhood in Kansas and South Carolina. In regard to the record of the Alliance during the past year, and especially with reference to the legislation demanded by it, Mr. Polk de clared that Congress had permanently ig nored all of their propositions, notably in the case of the measure known as the Sub- Treasury bill. “Congress,’’he said, “must come nearer to the people, or they will get nearer to Congress.” In outlining the future policy of th« Alliance, President Polk said that it will demand the restoration of silver to all the rights and qualities of legal tendei which gold possesses, the issuance ol Government currency direct to the people, equalizaticn of taxes, prohibition of alien ownership of land, ownership and control of transportation lines by the Government, limit of public revenues to the econom ic ad ministration of the Government, graduated taxation of incomes and the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. At the conclusion of President Polk’s ad dress the Alliance resolved itself into a sort of “love feast,” during which C. A. Power, an old Union soldier from Indiana, moved that all ex-soldiers in the hall who indorsed the sentiments expressed in the speech of President Foulks, of South Dakota, with reference to the burial of sec tionalism, rise up to be counted. The mo tion prevailed, and between forty and fifty stood up amid the wildest enthusiasm. Under the inspiration of feeling an ex-TJnioa soldier cousin stood up in his seat upon all Union soldiers give three cheers for the old Confederates in the Alliance. They were given with a will. Then it was the Confederates’ turn, and they cheered the old soldiers of the Union with a volume and heartiness that raised no doubt as to the genuineness of their feeling. The cheers ended with a wild, old-fashioned “yell.” The convention then adjourned until eight o’clock next day. this good from Wis- and called present to" The Alliance Elects Officers. The Farmers’ Alliance at its third day’s session adopted the St. Louis Alliance plat form of 1689. Dr. C. W. Macune, Chairman of the Executive Committee, made a strong speech opposing the third-party proposition for the present and advocating a conference on the subject in 1892. The Colored Alliance adopted a resolution calling for the passage of the Force bill and demanding that it apply to the whole coun- trv. Luring the afternoon L. L. Polk was unanimously re-elected President of the Alliance. B. F. Cover was re-elected Vice- President and J. H. Turner Secretary. For National Lecturer J. S. Willetts beat -Benjamin Terrell by a vote of 48 to 32. H. D. Tillman, of Tennessee, was elected to the vacancy on the Committee on Legisla tion for a term of three years, and Dele gate Cole, of Michigan, was elected a member of the Judiciary Committee. The new Com mittee on Fraternal Relations is composed of Talbott, of South Carolina; Leouckc, of South Dakota; Livingston, of Georgia; S ogers, of Florida, and Terrell, of Texas. lie National Executive Board remains un changed. FIVE YEARS’ ABSTINENCE, If Holland Drinks Rnm He Will Go Back to Prison. i Edward Holland, a life convict, who was sentenced to Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison on June 20, 1878, for the murder of Ellsworth, fellow laborer on the Croton dam, was -rated from prison uj on a commutation his sentence from Gove nor Hill. ; A condition of the commutation was that i should totally abstain from liquor for five tars and if he violated the condition he [onld be returned to the prison to serve out [e life sentence. His wife secured a divorce -r his sentence, remarried and is now liv- _ near Paterson, N. J. He had two chil- ?n by her and feels much aggrieved at her ion. 'he old stockade grounds at Anderson- , Ga., have been purchased by the Grand ly post, of Macon, and will be converted inio a park. ; LATER NEWS. Four large business buildings, seven stor ies high, on Liberty street, Pittsburg, Penn., were burned. Chief Engineer Samuel Evans and five firemen were caught under a falling wall. Firemen Quigley was killed and Au gust Both fatally injured. The total loss is estimated at $350,000. The special session of the New Hampshire Legislature was declared adjourned by Gov ernor Goodell. A fire in the big N. Cohn building, in New York City, caused a loss ot $250,000. Two hundred and fifty men and women were thrown out of work. Appeals for aid for the drought sufferers of Kansas and Nebraska have been received at St. Louis and other Western cities. The City Council of Chicago, 111., passed the ordinance authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount ot $5,000,000 for World’s Fair purposes. The investigation of the books of ex- County Treasurer Little, of Vandalia, HI., shows a deficit of $10,830. The Government Commission has offered the Cherokees $7,528,442 for the strip of land desired by the Government. The President transmitted to the House of Representatives the correspondence growing out of the killing of General Bar- rundia* by Guatemalan officers, on board the Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco, in the port of San Jose. The Indian situation, as indicated by the dispatches at the War Department, is im proving. The Sioux have stopped ghost dancing and quiet reigns among them. The President made the following nomina tions: Romualdo Pacheco, of California, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Central American States; William Mon aghan, of Ohio, to be United States Consul at Hamilton, Canada. Counselor John M. Bowers made an argument before the House Census Com mittee qt Washington in behalf of New York City’s right to a new census enumera tion. * The British ship Lizzie C. Troop was wrecked off the island of Yeralow of the Loochoo group and thirteen sailors perished. Sir John Walter Huddleston, the famous Irish jurist, late member of the House of Commons for Norwich, and a Baron of the Court of Exchequer, is dead. Emin Pasha, at the head of a German ex pedition, has arrived at Lake Victoria, Africa. The expedition had a number of fights with Arab slave traders. Karl Eichler, of Parchim, Mecklenbui*g- Schwerin, has swindled the Anglo-German Bank of Hamburg out of $40,000, by means of forged drafts, and has absconded. It i* thought that he will endeavor to escape tc America. PARNELL AT BAY. A FLOOD OF FAILDBIS. Tight Money Canses Wide spread Financial Distress. Stormy Meeting of the Irish Mem bers ot Parliament. The meeting of the Irish members of the House of'Commons in London, England, called to consider what action the Nationalist party shall take in regard to the leadership of the party, began at noon. Mr. Parnell JP® and his Private Secretary were the first- to arrive. Mr. Parnell took the chatf 1 house m New Yor and called the meeting to order. Tele- 1 the party now ym Archbishop Croke were read. [ An amournmefi -then taken until 1.30 o’clock to allow members to procure luncheon. Delamater’s Private Bank at Meadville, Penn., Goes Under. The effect of the recent panic in Wall street has been more widepread and lasting than was anticipated and numerous failures con tinue to be announced throughout the coun try. The cause of all this is the stringency in the ready money market. A meeting of the House Committee on Banking and Cur rency has been held in Washington to devise means for relieving the financial situa tion, but there was such a radical difference of opinion regarding the meth ods for affording relief that the committee came to no conclusion, and its members look on any immediate solution of the difficultv as hopeless. A list of one day’s failures is subtended: The private banking firm of Delamater & Co., of Meadville, Penn., has filed a general deed of assignment of all their property, real and personal, naming the firm of Has kins & McClintock, attorneys, as assignees. The firm consists of George B. Dalamater and his two sons, T. A. Delamater and the Republican candi date for Governor at the last election, George W. Delamater. Each of the mem bers of the firm also makes an individual assignment covering all property, real and personal. Prior to the assignment judgments were entered against'the firm and the individual members for about $110,000. The assignment will not seriously affect the other banks, and there has as yet been no run on any of them, although the residents of Meadville City are panic stricken. The liabilities are estimated at $200,000. Senator George W. Delamater, late Republi can candidate for Governor, is President of the institution. The stringency in the money market is believed to have been the cause of the failure. Judgments were entered against Delamater & Co. and the individual mem bers of the firm aggregating $115,000 in favor of the Merchants’ National Bank for rediscounts. The same bank has also entered judgment against the firm for $216,000, against W. A. & T. A. Delamater fer $4700, and $5000 against G. W. Delamater. There is also entered a judg ment against the firm of $15,000 by Senator McFarland, the brother-in-law of Senator Delamater, who left Philar delphia so mysteriously six months ago. There are numerous smaller judgments. The failure is for about $250,000. The assets will aggregate about $200,000. State Treas urer Boyer said that the State had $100,000 deposited in the banking house of Delama ter & Co. He said the State could lose nothing, as the deposit was covered by a bond. The Delamaters first accumu lated means in the early oil days through the striking of a big well near Oil City. The elder Delamater and his sons have at times made large sums out of oil lands and rail roads. George R. Delamater, the father, was a State Senator before his son. The failure is announced of V. & A. Meyer, one of the largest cotton factorrf^nd commission firms in New Orleans, La. Nt) schedule of liabilities and assets has been made as yet but the former will no doubt be very heavy. They were rated-at $2,000,000. General Adolph Meyer, the junior member of the firm, is the recently elected Democratic Con- K essman from the First Louisiana District. ist spring the Hebrew cotton merchants were caught on the wrong side of the cotton market and a number were seriously hit. It is believed the Meyers were among the heaviest sufferers. It is reported that General Meyer’s campaign for Congress cost him between $50,000 and $60,000, which helped to further cripple the firm. It is not believed that any further troubles will follow this failure, as the house has been known to be shaky for The firm has a branch ork City. Charles S. Higgins & Co., the extensive soap manufacturers of Park and Clinton avenue a. Brooklyn. N. Y.. have been flnan- for Before the meeting.Mr. Parnell held a con ference with his supporters. Messrs. Joseph Nolan, Kenny, John Redmond, William Red mond, Edward Harrington, Power, Shiel and O’Kelly were present at the conference. When the meeting reconvened about seventy-five Irish members of the House were present. The motion for the retirement' of Mr. Parnell was made by Mr. John Barry, mem ber for South Wexford, who aided the late Isaac Butt in founding the Home Rule Con federation of Great Britain in 1872. Mr. Joseph Nolan, member for North Louth, submitted an amendment to the effect that the question of the retirement of Parnell should be postponed until the members had personally ascertained the views of their con stituents on the subject, the party then to meet in Dublin and decide the matter. Mr. Parnell ruled out of order any refer ence to his conduct in the O’Shea case and this brought him into frequent collision with the different speakers, especially Mr. Healy, with whom Parnell exchanged hot words. Parnell displayed great passion through out. At half-past eleven the meeting adjourned until noon next day. HAWAII’S KING HERE. Kalakaua Arrives at San Francisco in Searcli of Health. The United States steamer Charleston, with King Kalakaua of Hawaii on board, entered the harbor at San Francisco, Cab, at 11 o’clock a few mornings ago. The United States steamer Swatara met the Charleston and saluted her—as did the forts afterword—accompanying the Charleston to her moorings. Colonel McFarlane, Chamberlain to,King Kalakaua.said that the King visited California for the benefit of his heal th and his eyesight. The King, he added, would probably remain in California five or six weeks,but would not go East. The King is accompanied only by Colonel McFarlane and a few servants. Prior to leaving Honolulu, Kalakaua issued a proclamation designating Princess Liluok- alam as regent. The Charleston and the Swatara again fired a royal salute as the King left the ship. Upon arriving at the wharf he was received by General Gibbon, commanding the Division of the Pacific, and Consul General- McKinley,of Hawaii. A battalion of United States cavalry was drawn up in line, facing the wharf. ' Great crowds of people sur rounded the landing-place. King Kalakaua immediately entered a carriage and was driven to the Palace Hotel, where a recep tion was given him, which was attended by Governor Waterman, Mayor Pond, repre sentatives of the commercial organizations and a number of citizens. UNCLE SAM’S FINANCES. Secretary B indom’s Annual Treasury Report. Secretary Windom in his annual report, says the receipts of the Government were $463,903,080, and expenditures $358,618,584, of which $106,936,855 was for pensions. The estimate 1 surplus for the fiscal year 1892 is only $15,147,790. In regard to the pay ment of pensions, he suggests that the quar terly payments be made at different dates in various parts of the country, so as to avoid accumulation of large sums in the Treasury, the payments at New York to be on the fourth day of May, August, November and February. Regarding the currency, he says that the gravest defect in our present financial sys tem is its lack of elasticity, the demand ior money being so irregular in amount of cir culation, the amount required in August and September being more than at any oth er time, to move the crops, but he offers no remedy. Regarding the silver law, he says that it has been the means of providing a healthy addition to the circulating medium. He favors the recoining of uncurrent small silver coin. Further legislation is needed to exclude persons unfit for citizenship, and it is there fore recommended that all emigrants be re quired as a condition precedent to their landing, toproduce evidence attested by our consular officers of their moral, mental and physical qualifications to become good citi- of the tjpim^m^BSII^ymarEet. They have beenunafll^To meet their obliga tions and were compelled to stop pay ment on notes. As a way out of the diffi culty, the firm was dissolved and a new stock company, to be known as the Charles 8. Higgins Company, has been organized, in which several of the principal creditors of the firm are members and will take as active interest. The Chicago (111.) Safe and Lock Company has failed for $600,000. The assets are $700,- 000. The assignment is due to the disappearance of B. H. Campbell, the President of the company who disap peared Thanksgiving night. Mr. Camp bell was the only creditor of any con sequence. The officers of the company are unable to state when they can resume busi ness, as it all depends upon the fate of the missing banker, Campbell. Russell, Seybold & Co., wholesale dry goods men of Ottawa, Canada, have sus pended payment. The liabilities are between $200,000 and $250,000. The embarrassment is caused mainly bv the late depression in the lumber trade, the firm’s leases during this 3’ear alone being nearly $45,000. The suspension of J. F. Monroe, a small I trader, was announced on the Philadelphia (Penn.) Stock Exchange. No statement of assets and liabilities could be obtained. A small amount of St Paul was sold “under the rule” for the account of Mr. Munroe. John A. Patterson & Co., of Montreal, Canada, formerly known as Patterson, Kis- sock & Co., have failed with liabilities of $60,000. The firm did a large business in im ported millinery and the creditors are prin cipally English and continental houses. The assets show a nominal surplus over the liabilities. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Count von Moltke is an enthusiastic mu sician. Jules Verne is the author of twenty-four novels. Justice Miller left a personal estate valued at $1113. Buffalo Bill made $500,000 out of his Wild West show. The Crown Princess of Denmark is six feet three inches tall. There are ninety-seven counties in Con gressman Lanham’s Texas district. The ex-Emperor of Brazil is translating “The Arabian Nights” into Portuguese. The Prince of Wales has already drawn over $16,000,000 from England’s treasury. John W. Young, son of Brigham Young, is'President of the Utah Central Railroad. Mrs. Dorothy Tennant Stanley is two inches taller than her husband, the great ex plorer. Dr. Koch, the discoverer of the cure for consumption, is said to be dying of that dis ease himself. The rule of the Sultan of Turkey is said to be most humane. Only one execution has taken place iu the Empire for several years. LordC’hiek Justice Coleridge, of Eng land, is nearly seventy years old, and re joices in the receipt of a comfortable salary of $40,000 a year from the crown. The wealth of Senator Leland Stanford, of California, is placed at about $80,000,000. Mr. Stanford is a New Yorker by birth and went \\ est in his youth in quest of a fortune. The surgical operation on General Benja min F. Butler's eyelid has not entirely re moved the deformity, but has very consid erably improved the General’s appearance and eyesight. Vice-President Morton’s eldest daugh ter. Miss Edith Morton, is now about seven teen years old. She is a pretty girl who has been well educated and possesses many graces of manner. Captain James Bend, who saved the lives of 29S persons wrecked off Long Beach on the ship State of Georgia in December, 1852, still lives at the age of ninety, near Beach Haven, N. J. B. P. Shillaber, the well known “Mrs. Partington,” died the other day at Chelsea, Mass., ai the age of seventy-six. He pub lished nine books, and forty years ago was the most popular humorist in the country. Marshal McMahon, in his eighty-third year, is as hale and hearty as a man thirty year his junior. He has just finished writ ing his memoirs, on which he has been em ployed ever since he resigned the Presidency/' of the French Republic in 1879. He is un usually fond of hunting, and can ride with the fleetest. FIFTY-FIRST 00] galleries, but they, distinction... .The In the Senate. 1st Day.—The opening proceedings in the Senate were very quiet. The Wyoming Senators were sworn and chose their seats, Mr. Warren drawing the short term closing March 8, 1893, and Mr. Carey the long one^ • ending March S, 1895. There was the usual large crowd in the contained few persons of President’s Message was read and referred ....On motion of Mr. Sherman the Senate then adjourned. 2d Day.—The Senate, by a vote of forty- one to thirty, took up the Federal Election bill. The bill took first place as “unfinished business”... .Several bills for the free coinage of silver were introduced....Mr. Sherman introduced a bill providing that the present tariff act should not be construed to repeal' or impair the stipulations contained in the reciprocity treaty with Hawaii. 3d Day.—General debate on the Force the open- ie location Printing Office Build-' ing was discussed.... A lively debate., on the Indian question was held.... Mr. Pierce introduced a bill appropriating $200,000 for repairing and extending the buildings at Fort Abraham Lincoln, North Dakota... .Mr. Cullom introduoed a bill ap propriating $100,000 for the erection of a public building at Danville. 111... .Mr. Cam eron introduced a bill to grant a pension of $100 a month to the widow of the late Gen eral Daniel McKtbben Mr. Cullom intro duced a bill providing that from and after July 1, 1891, the rate of postage on domestic and drop letters shall be one cent for half an ‘ ounce or less, and one cant for each addi tional half ounce or fraction thereof. 4th Day.—The joint resolution to supply arms to the States of North Dakota, Soutb Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska was passed.' ' ....The Force bill was discussed by Mr. Pugh....Mr. Quay introduced a bill grant- ^ ing to all persons whose names are now on the pension list or may be hereafter placed on it, who have lost both eyes, or both feet, or who are otherwise totally disabled, a pension of $100 a month.'...Mr. Stewart introduoed a bill for the free and unlimited use of silver as money. 5th Day.—The debate on the Election Force bill was resumed, Mr. Gray arguing against the measure....Mr. Stanford intro'! duced a bill to provide the Government with means sufficient to supply the National want of a sound circulating medium.... Mr. Mor gan offered a resolution calling on the At torney-General for a statement of the names; places of residence and dates of appointment of the Chief Supervisors of election now in office in each judicial district in the several States. In the House. 1st Day.—Speaker Reel announced that the House of Representatives would come to order forthwith and begin the second session of the Fifty-first Congress .. .The President’s Message was read....The Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury asked for an appro-" priation of $30,000 to purchase gas buoys to be used on the Atlantic coast.... Mi- Coleman introduced a bill appropriat- !ng C9,000,000 to repair and build the levees on the Mississippi River....Messrs. Flower ind Cummings introduced resolutions In Congress designed to census enumeration in New York City.... Mr. Dockery offered a resolution for an in vestigation cf the allegations that twelve Senators and fifteen Representatives, more or less, were pecuniarily interested in a “pool,” which bought and held silver bullion, pending the silver legislation of last session ....Four bills to proride for free and un limited coinage of silver w-re introduced. 2d Day.—The morning was taken up by Mr. Wheeler, who discussed for an hour the reference of a Virginia claim to the Court of Claims....The Pension Appropriation bill was taken up during’the afternoon as regular business... .The House voted to cc Frank Copyright bill....Mr. Reapportionment bill 8d Day.—The Copyright bill by a voteof 139 to 95....Mr. iuced a bill to limit to $1 the fee consider the introduced a was Belknap which intro- any person may receive for prosecuting a claim for increase of pension. The maximum fee tt present is $10. 4th Day.—The Pension Appropriation bill was consid red, 1' .attack prepare a now ■ notes, commonly call <l Secretary oMbe Tr teries of Treasur greenbacks, and issue them in sums equal to the amount of National bank notes that may be from time to time surrendered for re- lemption or cancellation by National bank ing associations. .. .Mr. McKinley introduced t bill providing that the present tariff law ihall not affect the operations of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty. 5th Day.—The Pension Appropriation bill was passed....The joint rwdutipa ' mpply arms to North Dalsgtf South r Wyoming and Nebraska^with an amend ment to Include Montana, was passed.... Mr. Hansbrough introduced a bill providing for the disarmament of the Indians, and making it a punishable offence for any per son to sell arras or amunition to them A bill was introduced providing that all officera and privates of the volunteer force of the Union who served in the late war and who were on doty on April 30, 1865, shall be honorably dischargea. LUMBERMEN DROWNED. A Boatload ot Men Upsets and Sia Find a Grave A sad accident took place at Miller, Sig- noor & Co.’s logging camp on Devil’s Lake, twenty miles north of Rice Lake, Wis. A boatload of men who were returning from the opposite side of the lake to were caught in a strong gust of win; tween the ice and were upset. The follow ing were drowned: A. D. Clark, of Royal- ton, Minn.; John Crotto, Frank Fouriner, William Knight, Arthur Page, Charles Stykes. Four of the men sank immediately, but Crotto. with bis brother, floated on a broken cake of ice for five hours, when it upset with them. His brother was rescued. Tne bodies have not yet been found, owing to the con dition of the ice, which is not strong enough to support men. snpger THE MARKETS. 49 NEW YORK. Beeves.... 3 25 @ 5 15 Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00 @45 00 Calves, common to prime... 2 50 @ 7 25 Sheep 3 50 @ 5 25 Lambs 5 25 @ 6 65 Hogs—Live 3 25 @ 3 90 Dressed 4>£<S~-'-6. Flour—City Mill Extra 5 15 @ 5 40 Patents 5 15 @5 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1 03%@ 1 05J Rye—State 79 @ 82 Barley—Two-rowed State... 88 @ 89 Corn—Ungraded Mixed 57 @ 63 Oats—No. 1 White — @ 54 Mixed Western 47 (4 50 Hay—Good 45 @ 55 Straw—Long Rye — @80 Lard—City Steam — (g 5.75o Butter—State Creamery.... 25 % 26} Dairy, fair to good. 16 (g 25 West. 1m. Creamery 12 @ 24 Factory 8 @ 20 Cheese—State Factory 7 @ 9<! Skims—Light 6%@ 6J Western 6 @ 8) Eggs—State and Penn. — <8 31 BUFFALO. Steers—Western 1 75 @ 4 50 Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 80 @ 5 05 Lambs—Fair to Good 5 25 @ 5 80 Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 3 00 @ 4 -00 Flour—Family 8 85 @ 4 50 Wheat—No. 1 Northern — @1 03J Corn—No. 3, Yellow 57% @ 58 Oats—No. 2, White — <§) 50 Barley—No. 1 Canada 94 <j£ 95 boston. Egg—Near-by. thy, _ Clover, Northern.... 10 @ 11 Hay—Fair 13 00 @14 00 Straw—Good to Prime 17 50 @18 09 Butter—Firsts 21 @ 24 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef—Dreseed weight 3%@ 6J Sheep—Live weight 4 @ 5 bs.. ' Lam Northern PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Penn, family 4 25 /* /Wheat—No. - — - - Corn—No. Oats—Ungraded Potatoes Butter—Creamery Extra. Cheese—." *' 4 50 io. 2 Red, Dec... 98%@ 99 .2, Mixed. Dec..... 58 @ 58% graded White. 50 @ jm rsBa