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I 1MB IS MHD. Mississippi May Cut a New Cliane! for Itself. BIG FLOOD ON THE RIVER. A ilreak in the Levee?The Tennessee < Ity May be Left High and Dry. Storms Throughout the West. The Mississippi river at Memphis, t . - j.uursuay night, registered :$4.2 feet. The danger lino is 33 feet, and it is thought that tho water above will run the river to 80 or 30 1-2 feet, which will, so experienced river men say, overflow Arkansas as far as Crowley's llidge, forty miles from Memphis. The most serious feature of the present size of the river is tlio possibility of it cutting out a new bed for itself through Critteden county, Ark., and leaving Memphis high and drv, or at least leaving her on a shallow lako. Should this happen the $3,000,000 bridgo which stands ucross the Mississippi will end at the new Eastern hank of the river. About flvo miles above Memphis the Neely plantation is partly overflowed because of a break in tlioloveo. The current through the plantation is very strong and rivermen say that unless the heavy timber along Four Mile Bayou breaks the current. so that it cannot eat out a new bed for the river, that the Mississippi will change its course and run through Four Mile Be you, coming into the main river again about eight or ten miles below ami leaving a long narrow island I...t......... M I.: > " ... ...> v.ii i>iuiii|>iiin mm me river. luo high waters have already reached a critical stage. The ferry steamer Bryan now makes daily trips to Murron, Ark., which ordinarily is three miles inland. All along the route to .Marion submerged houses can lie seen and some stock has been drowned. There has been a rise of seven-tenths of a foot since yesterday morning, the height at this point now being -1 v.v! feet, which is 4.7 feet above the danger line. At Yioksburg th'" water stands at :is.:t feet, a rise of live rcntlis of a foot within twouty-four hours. The danger line at this point is 41 feet. I Mock a <lc Threatened. The greatest snowstorm of the season is still raging over the eastern portion of Minnesota. Tlio weather is cold, the snow is drifting and a general blockade will bo the result. All trains I'nder an authority of an act of the from the West are delayed. Trains on the Little halls and Dakota line have been abandoned, and the cuts between St. Paul and Morris are full of snow. Business is suspended. It is impossible for farmers to reach the towns with wood as the snow in the roads is between three and four feet deed. nii/./.ard In Dakota. A severe hliz/.urd is reported to bo raging in the Dakotns. The Milwaukee Itoi.il I.mi ?- " .... ..m?. juot u|iuiirvi iia DOUIU HI1C and now has several freight trains buried in drifts between Aberdeen, S. P.. and Mitchell. One train was deserted ueur Warner Station, the two locomotive < rows running through to \hordecn. There is a probability that the storm and accompanying blockade will tie np the toads for another week. WltW IIKI) ItY 'I'll 1*1 l*Ti<)(?!?. Kate ot' a I'rain on the Kvnnsvillc anil '1'crrc llantc Koail Near lla/.clton, lndlana--Kive Lives Lust. The Louisville and Nashville train, limited, southbound from Chicago, was wrecked Thursday at a point one mile south of Ilnzclton, Indiana, and thirtyseven miles north of Evansville, on the Evansville and Terro Haute Road. Fivo men wore killed and two seriously injured, as follows: Killed, Herbert Allen, Evansville, head janitor of the State House, caught in the smoking ear and drowned; Jos Bolciuan, of Evansville, locomotive tiremnn; John Sears, of Terre Haute, conductor; two uniiiiown men. Injured, Itrakomnu Hansen, of Evansville; J. 15. Henderson, brother of ex-State Auditor Henderson. Both are seriously injured, hut will recover. The accident was the result of the heavy rains in Southern Indiana since Saturday. The damage to the roadbeds of the Evansville ami Terre Haute and the Evansville and I udiauapolis by the recent rains and Hoods to date is E>l,UUO,UUU. Dcfnulthiu <otore<l Haulier. Tho total loss by tho insolvency ot llio Lexington Havings Hank, Haiti more, and tho defalcation of its president and cashier, Everett .1. Waring, colored, who disappeared last Saturday night-, will be about. 17,000. ()| tins loss the defrauded depositors will hear $H,000, the stockholders SA.OOO, and the hanks and money handlers, who have lent the hank money. ?1,000. Waring lost 0,000 1>3' loose and frequent speculations and the remainder is supposed to liuve been carried away with iiim. Hlg <irain Eire, The ltyan Elevator, Itufliilo, V Y., was burned Thursday. It was an old stvuetnro with a capacity of nhnut 1 -10,lOO bushels, and contained about 0,000 hllKlwl^ <r?f Iflinoi ?? ?.! ' ' ' ... ..II.i I'illS. 1 III Igss on tlio elevator is probably ?.*0,00(1 and on contents $10,000. I {van and Clark were the owners. Alongside tiu stationary elevator was a Holding elevator, u!'? owned by Kyan .V Clark and hied a. This too was t royed. A Long Strike Declared OH". The great strike of the mine workers of Lcndville, Col., which has been in progress since June 19th, last, lias been called off unconditionally by the miners. For several months there has been much dissatisfaction among the union men with the way the strike has been conducted. tieritry will be Hanged. be. 11. (ientry, the murderer of the actress, Madge Vorko, in I'hiladelphia. lots been sentenced to be hung April > > NEWS ITEMS CONDENSED. Southern Pencil Pointers. Tramps attacked a train on the Seaboard Air Line rutul near lvilhy, Va., aud Conductor J. C. Judkins wus shot in the arm and Walter Rlackwell, a tramp, mortujly wounded. Bud Brooks and Grady Reynolds, the murderers of M. C. Hunt, wero taken to Atlantu from Jackson county, Go., for safe keeping. Tliev would probably have been lynched had thoy uot been removed. The California Mortgage, Loan Trust Company, at Han Diego, brok? yesterday. Liabilities, $200,000; ubsetts, said to be $'JHO,000. Hailstones as large as hen eggs fell at Nashville, Tenn., doing considerable ilimmi'm Proceedings have been instituted in the Circuit Court at Chattanooga, Tenn-, against the Southern itailwny in suits for civil damage, aggregating $~~o,0(,0. Tho plaint ill's arc the several administrators of the Woodard family, killed by a Southern train a few months since. Mr. II. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, has been tendered theoHiceof Commissioner of Pensions and m all probability will accept the appointment, which is one of the most important in the departmental service at Washington outside of the Cabinet oflices. The Seaboard Air Lane will have connection with New Orleans. Hon. W. J. Bryan's visit to Nashville was tho cause of u second ovation. He addressed 8,000 people. The Kentucky legislature meets in a lew days and the old senatorial tight of the last session will be renewed. Fire destroyed more thun a million feet of lumber in the South Norfolk (Yn.) lumberyards. Loss $' ! ?, 000. Major Nathaniel 11. Chambliss of Selma Ala , died suddenly of heart failure in the cathedral at Baltimore. By means of contesting seats of Senators the silver men hope to prevent the organization of the Kentucky Legislature. AO: 11: t ! i . Kiiiiuin i\ iipamcK. tne oldest >11:111 in (ieor.uia, died at ('nrtersvillo, sued ION yearn. Ho unlisted iu the Confederate army when he was 7'J years old uud fought through it. A Louisville ?V Nashville iiorthhonnd fast mail train was held up by six masked men three miles from Culera, Ala., and a number of valuable packages secured. The passengers were not molested. Near Augusta, (la.. Tip l*>'Ry shot and killed his brother, Cul llr?y, in a dispute which occurred at a dance. John Wall, one of "Lynchburg's wealthy citi/c?is, died suddenly while waiting for a train at a depot iu that city. H. M. Walton, an architect, of New Decatur, Ala., was found dead in his bed at the St. Nicholas hotel, New York. Ciovernor Siloxhnm, of Florida, appointed ('ol. .1 ohn A. Henderson, of Tallahassee. Fuitcd States Senator to till the vacancy, pending an election by the Legislature, which will meet in April. All About the North. At Duhtt<|Uc. la., the Iowa Iron Works have ^onc into the hands of the -I..**.; ?v O 1 II-I III. Albert Zeimer, ii ('leveland, < >.. merchant. was fatally wounded 1?v shots tired at a tleeinjj luuyrlar. At St. J'aul. Minn., yesterday, Win. Dawson assigned lor ; *I,(ifjl,7tt\i. II? was president of the broken bank of M innesota. Because his wife refused to return to his home, Hubert .1. I'owley, of Niagara falls. N. Y., shot and killed her. William Itoeher, a New York coal dealer, who made an assignment recently and disappeared, was found dead at Coney Island. Ten of the ringleaders of an A. 1*. A. mob, which attacked Kditor Harris, of Wardncr, Idaho, have been jailed. A bust of Senator Morrill, of Vermont, ha been unveiled at the Ohio State t niversify in recognition of his work of promoting agricultural interests. l!x-l"nited States Senator Jos. N. Dolph. of < trefoil, is dead. Three persons lost their lives by ini'endiary tires in Itrooklyn, N Y. An entire family was extirpated by measles at 1'oluca, Ills. (Jen. Julio Sanouilly, recently released from i;nprisoip.tent in Cuba, has urrived in New Yoik. The attempt to settle the strike at the (ilube f-liiM yards, ('It'vcliiml, ()., lias failed and the sti ike is still 011. 'I bourns W. Frar). convicted at l?oston of the hark Herbert Fuller murders, lias been sentenced to hang .Tune IS. The recent heavy rains have caused exceedingly heavy losses in Indiana. The railway and telegraph companies are the chief sullercra. The Spang I ron and Steel Company and the Moorehead I'rothcrs' Steel Works, at Shnrpsl.nrg, Fa., have resimied work after an idleness of about two months, giving employment to about seven hundred men. The Hark theatre, the oldest playhouse in Indianapolis. and one of the best known in the country, was destroyed by lire. It was owned by Messrs. I >ie|<M?n .V Talbot, wlio esti mate Oieir loss at ^too,ui?!\ with insur ant e of ?*"!?,'Hit'. lieporls from one hundred towns in the northwest indicate that another great snow storm i*. raging, perhaps the greatest of the winter. :i iioiici' mis iiecn pusini :u tlio ,\aiionul tulxi Work;. I\Ic Keen port. announcing an average reduction of ivii^ch of 10 per cent. Kvory ilopartuicnt is includeil in the reduction, att'eetin^ ;{,( ()(? men. The workers have accepted the cut, ? Miscellaneous. The compulsory education hill lins passed tho? Indiana legislature. WKKK'S KKVIKW OF TKADK. Continued Activity and Fairly Steady Prices. Bradstreet's weekly review of trade says: "Continued activity in various industrial lines, based on an expanding consumptive downnd, fairly steady prices for staples, further improvement in railroad earnings and widespread conlidence that the volume of business will expand materially in the near future, constitute the trade features of tho week. Jobbers at Chicago and St. Louis do not lind tho activity expected at this time, but report u fairly steady request by mail ordor and visiting buyers. 4 4 Hfl n lr /?! nnri 11 ira no r* rn.ln l?nv/\???n_ '?<? > .vtvm u>o A* UltUU i)|?I um\. ter, point to a temporary check to the tendency to increase noted earlier in the year, the week's total, ?'J2<i,000,000, being 8 per cent, less than lust week and iJ per cent, less than the second week of March, 18!><$. February gross railroad earnings tend to improve, although comparisons with that month in 181)0 still favor last year. Total earnings of 110 railroads for February, this year, aggregated $04,105,1)1)1, a decrease of 7-10 of 1 per cent, from the total of February, 1800. This is a better showing than that in January or in any month since JSopteniber. The coalers, trunk lines and the Southwestern roads all show gains in February over a year ago." It. G. Dun and Co. in their week's review say: "The money markets continue esi>ecially favorable to industrial recovery, and there is no such speculative epedemic as to lock up an excessive share of available capital. Cotton is not active, though a sixteenth higher, for the curtailment of consumption by many mills does not yet help prices in the least; nor the suspension of print cloth reports, and dealers so generally hold buck orders for other goods that the tone is weak. "iron furnaces, March 1, were producing KM, 1)8(1 tons weekly, 7,0'2? tons, or 4 per cent, more than Feb. 1, ami although visible stocks have increased the increase in four weeks, still ftiore furnaces have started this month. The demand for finished products still lags behind the supply of pig iron, ex- j cepi in me greut (steel works wliose ; stocks are not reported, Imt their orders j without doubt cover the full production for several months. Bessemer pig is a shade lower, but no other change in quotations appear, aud there is a gradual increase in the demand for plates, sheets aud all the wire family of products. With the advent of spring without, and outdoor work, much more business is expected. The starting of the Marylaud Ruil Works under contract with the Carnegie Company, in order to rnuko shipments by water more cheaply is significant. The volume of business shown by clearings is but 1.8 per cent, smaller than last year. "Tho failures for the past week have been 2"?0 in the United States, aguinst 100 last year, and 01 in Canada, against oU last year. NEW SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES Remarkable Record of a Week? Money Being Invested. The Manufacturers' Record's weekly report of Southern business interests shows that industrial and financial matters are receiving increased attention, and that the indications throughout the South generally point to a marked improvement in business affairs, During the week the Georgia Railroad ami '.tanking Company has sold ?Jl,U00.U()?i per cent, bonds to retire 0 per cent. Hunts; the {Seaboard Air Line has sold i?I,u00,000 a per cent, bonds to retire 8 her cent, bonds; the details have been completed for the building by lending otton manufacturers of .New England M a ?(100.000 cottou mill in Alabama: contracts have been let for the construction of the buildings for the steel plant- in Birmingham, thus detiuite'y assuring the establishment of large iteel works in that city; a company has ocon organized ti> develop u :t,UiJU-liors? power near Gainesville, (in., It electrical transmission, to includo in its >perations a 10,0(10 s| Tulle cotton aiill and street railway; an Augusta cotton mill will Guild a 20,)00 spindle mill in addition to the resent plant; a $|.'i0,00d cotton mill company has been organized at Dougjasvillo, (la., a .Milwaukee manul'aetur .ng company will move lo Gadseu ami *pend ^00,00 in buildings and machinery; a $20,0(1(1 railroad machine slioj will be built at blue liidge. (la ; a $2o. too variety works at Cordele, and electrical and water works at Fitzgerald; in Louisiana a iMon.ooo company has been organized to build a sugar mill, and contracts have been let for another sugar mill; one furnace at Anniston, Ma., has gone into blast during tin week; a company to manufacture crossarms and insulator pius for elect! e wires has purchased 1,000 acres of t ruber land in North Carolina, ami will is iablish a large plant. There are but a few indications to illustrate the diversity and extent of the industrial enterprise reported during the past week. In all parks of the Bouth, and in all linps of industry, as well as in railroad construction, the indications for increased business seem tc be more promising than for many months. There is no great rush, but a steady, gradual improvement that in dieatos a solid and substantial growth with increasing activity in the near future. Seventy-two >1 il?-s an Ilnur. The riant System has hrolcen tlx t()();inile fast record in the Sonth with a special train, which made the run be twocn Savannah and Charleston, !<!> miles, in 1)0 minutes. The average speed was 7'J miles an hour. The special was run for itittenhouse Moore, i large contractor, in order to reach Charleston to put in a bid for governon ant work. <?lvcii Five Years. Honey Fulton, a young white man, was tried in the Hustings Court a-. Danville, Va., on an indictment charg? ing him with attempting a criminal as sail It on Tassie lice, the eleven-year-oh" daughter of a woman of unsavory reputation. Ho was found guilty and sentenced to a term of live years in tin | penitentiary. DOWN A SIXTY FOOT BLUFF. Heavy Itnins Cause a Disastrous Wreck on the Southern, A passenger trim on the Southern railroad pluuged down a hluff 00 feet deep at the approach to the Etowah river bridge, near Koine, Oa., Saturday morning, with the engineer stickl iug to his post. The wreck caught lire and seven cars were burned. Tho fatally injured are: Engineer James T. l'ittman: Fireman Alfred Kennedy; Express Messenger Polk Culberson; baggage Master Winston. All of the above live in Atlunta. John Simpson, colored, who ' was in the smoker was budly bruised and tv o other passengers wlioso names are not known, slightly injured. The train was <<f " >? I - - "? * * ?" I nmn sleeper, day eoaeb, smoker, bag[ gage, express ear ami tiVe ears of J freight. Heavy ruins caused the trestle near tho bridge to give way. j A stove in the express ear sot fire to the wreck uml all tho ears which had gone through tho trestle were burned. A freight truin came along and pulled tho sleeper and a ear away from the fire. James Pitman, the engineer, went down into the river, but swam out. Kennedy, tho fireman, Polk, the express messenger, and Winston, baggage muster, were injured, but none fatally. Pittman and Kennedy ore in a hospital at Rome; the others went on to Atlanta, Destructive Fire In Savannah* Savannah was visited by a large fire Friday. Tho following is a statement of the losses and insurauee: Jos. Mabbets, 80,000; insurance. 8000 on stock. J. Tyler, agent, $2,000; no insurance. Iv. 11. Williams, Sl.OOO; insurance $1,- | 000. Walker Pros. & Co., on building, 84,000, insurance on stock, 8-"),000. (t. W. Averutt.on stock, 8o00;on building, $2,000; insurance, $9,000 on property. Wade ?V Powers, $1,000; no insurance. (?. L. Lilly, 81,000, insurance on stock, ?1,f>00. Sweat ?V Wilson, 8J00; no insurance. Harrell & Co., $2,000; insurance. SSOO. Miss Waters, $1,200: ?<> insurance. J. (). Morton, $2,000; insurance, $800. Creech ?V Thariu, on buildiug, $2,<?00; insurance on stock, $.>,000. blisses Monger, $1,000; no insurance. Win. Hunter, on building, $2,000; insurance on stock, $<{,000. J. W. Hopson, on building, $150; insurance on stock, $5,000. ({rover &. Co., $2,000; no insurance. Li. S. Price, $1,500; insurance, $1,000. Several other losses of smaller amounts partially insured. Important Kxtenslon. It is announced tliatTiegotiations looking to the extension of the Mobile and Ohio railroad to Montgomery, Ala., have been successfully completed by the sale of $4,000,000 five per cent, bonds of the Mobile Hailroad Company, having fifty years to run. Terminal grounds and facilities granted by the city of Montgomery have been secured at that point and at Tuscaloosa. Mississippi's <ai-cnt Height. The latest news received from Memphis says the Mississippi river there now registers a higher stage of water j than ever known. I >isast s attending this condition liavo begun, two Arkansas towns across from the city being submerged, and the inhabitants driven to safer places. These are Marion and West Memphis. The former is under rom three to four feet of water due to a break of its protection levee. Failure in Cincinnati. Hermann Rrackman lias been appointed receiver of the Consolidated | Building and Saving Company, of Ciu1 einnati, (). The liabilities are $2550,00!) and assets $175,000. It. affects almost all the employes of the Consolidated Street llailway as well as others. It was incorporated in 188.} with a capital stock of $(>00,000. Kise In the Chattaliooelie. The Chattaliooelie River is on a big ..1 C .l 1 ? ' - ? 1 " uuiiiii ill I U|I||11I)II?, 1111., llllil T lie J'.aglG and IMni'iiix Mills, employing 4,000 hp.- ds. have shut down 011 account of high water. The rise measures 'J? feet a few inches below high water mark? and still rising. If the rains do not cease all bridges will he in danger. A New Georgia t'olony. Deals have heen closed for the purchase of about 1,000 acres of the best farm lands in middle Georgia, located about ten miles from Augusta, for the organization of a colony. A town site will be surveyed and the property divided up into small farms, principally for the culture of fruit. Mr. Carlisle's Trip South. lion. John (i. Carlisle, Mr. Cleve land's Secretary of the Treasury, arrived in Lynchburg, Vn., Tuesday I night on the Florida sj>ecial, from Washington, and after remaining there for two or three hours, lett on the Washington limited for Greensboro, N.'C. An Kinlicz/.lcr Sentenced. At Hoston. Mass.. Allison Z. Mason, convicted of einhc/.zling tlio funds of the Globe Investment Company, of which company he was president, was sentenced to State prison for a period <>i not less liian live or more than eight years. I .las. I). Cowan l>ea?l. .1 antes I>. Cowan, of tlio firm of Cowan, McClung Si ('o., of Knoxville, Tenn., died Saturday. Mr. Cowan had been a merchant there for more than ."iO years. Miners Strike. The miners employed in the F.ieholbeger, Hicks, Sweet and Heed bituminous coal mines at Dudley, Bedford county, I'a., have gone out on a strike because of a reduction in the price of yardage. The strike affects about 400 men. Kentcky's Senator. W. (Jodfroy Hunter was selected by the Republican caucus for United States Sonntor on the tirst ballot. It is said Mark Manila's influence brought about the curly result. TIIK WORST ON KKCOKI). Later Reports from the Storm-Swept States. The storm which raged throughout the Middle West Thursday night is unparalleled, not only for tho extent of territory over which it raged, but for the amount of water precipitated. At Cincinnati the rainfall rci?orted by weather bureau officials amounted to 5.8S inches, and floods are reiwrted from almost every telegraph station from Pittsburg on the east to Kansas City on the west, and from the lakes to tho northern boundary of Tennessee. In some instances the wind reached tho velocioy of a hurricane, and much damage to dwelling, barns, fences, orchards and forests has been reported from various points throughout the district. Throughout southern Illinois, Inuiaua and Ohio the dainauro to railroad property in tho form of washouts, inukiug truffie impossible, nnd in wrecks caused by rofteuiug of roadbeds is iin| menso. A not inconsiderable loss to' the people, n3 a whole, will be caused by tlio washing away of bridges and roadways, which have been built in the rural districts* at a cost of millions of dollars, and which in too many cases have been totally destroyed. Owing to the demoralisation of railway traffic the mails local to the deluged district have been greatly delayed, while tho through service over the trunk lines. East and West and North and Soutn, has beeu badly crii>pled, greatly to the annoyance of the vast business interests involved. The estimates are that considerably over $1,000,000 worth of property has been lost in the vicinities of Cincinnati. Dayton, Indiauupolis and St. Louis. 3IRS. lSKKlTlKIt DEAD. Passed Away 011 Tenth Anniversary of ller Husband's Death. Mrs. Henrj' Ward Beeeher died Monday, tho tenth anniversary of the death of her famous husband, at her home at Stamford. Conn. She was 85 years of ago. Mrs. Bccclier had been sinking steadily since Saturday noon, and during the twontv-fonr hours lireoedinrr her dentil hurt been unconscious. Kcvernl members of the family were nt the deathbed. Eunice White Ballard Beecher was born in West Sutton, Worcester county, Mass., in 1812. Her father was Dr. Billiard, a physician and farmer.. She was educated at a seminary at Hadley, Mass., and became acquainted with HenryWard Beecher while he Mas a student at Amherst College. Their engagement lasted seven years. She became tho mother of ten children, but four of whom are still living. During the last dozen years Mrs. Beecher had contributed a number of articles on domestic topics to various publications. She piinlislied a work entitled "Letters From Florida," and also a limited edition of a book named by the publishers "From Dawn to Duylijjfht." Her life during her husbands ministry at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Mas, for the most part, one of ipiiet domestic happiness, and in tho days of his troubles she stood by him xvith uuwavering affection and loyalty. Acreage Reduction Advised. At a meeting of tho Texas branch of the American Cotton (trowers Association, nt Waco Texas, Hon. Hector D. I.alio made a speech urging the necessity of decreased acreage. He gave figures to show the danger of overproduction. E. S. Peters, president of the State Association, made an address on farmers raising their own supplies. He urged the necessity of more corn. An address was issued appealing to nil the cotton groM-ers to reduce their acreage, to raise more food crops uud to patronize home industries. Cabinet Sworn In. All tho members of tho new Cabinet met in tba Cabinet-room, adjoining the President's office, Monday morning Avium, according to arraugemonts, the Chief Justice was expected to administer tho oath otlice. The ontli was administered to the Secretary of State and to the others in rapid succession in the following order, (ienernl Alger, Judge McKenna, ex(Jovernor Pong, Mr. illiss, Mr. (Jary and Mr. Wilson. New Ilattlc Ships. Tlio NaA-y Department will in all probability issue advertisements for bids on armor for the battleships Alai barna, Illinois and Wisconsin, upon [ which Congress placed a limit of SHOO | per ton. It is understood that no time ! for tho delivery of tho armor will be specitiod, which will permit concerns without the necessary plant to compete for the work, and install the necessary machinery as the delivery progresses. A Clean I'lek-Up. President MoKinley Mill have the disposal of 100 Presidential postofficos which Mr. Cleveland had tignred on for tho outgoing administration and for which his selection of postmasters had boon announced. These represent the full list of postoffiee nominations made by Mr. Cleveland during the session of ( iii?t ntidvoil ntwl wliioli 4-lw* Senate failed to confirm. ShocniflkorK Strike. Two hundred employes of Williams ,V Clark, shoe manufacturers, Lynn, Mass., have struck by order of the executive hoard of the Hoot and Shoe Union. Conferences were unsuccessful in an endeavor to persuade the firm to return to the scale of wastes paid hefore the cut of 'JO per cent, last fall. To Hc-or^anlze. The Southern States Freight Association, which largely controls the railroads passing through the territory south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi, is probably on the eve of reorganization. Mr. Ilrynn at ldttlc Hock. At Little Lock, Ark., a crowd of 10,O'H) or 1'J, 000 greeted Hon. W.J. Hrynn. Coventor .lottos and Ccncral James ('. 1'appan, Speaker of the House, nppeared on the stand with the distia FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Doth Housesof theNatlonnl Assembly Have Ad|our?cd. SENATE. Monday.?Most of the new Senators were on the floor when Vice-President Hobart called the Senate to order at noon. Senator Davis, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee offered a resolution referring back to that committee the treaty of arbitration.^ The resolution was adopted. While in Executive session the Senate oon firmed the nomination of Mr. JameB. All parties in the Sennte devoted consider nuio tune to tho solution of the problem of tilling the Senate committees. Tuesday.- For a littlo morothan two hours this afternoon tho Democrats of the Senate endeavored to rencli some conclusion upon the question of orf;anizing the Senato. Like the Repubican caucus of Saturday, it was fruitless in results. Tho eflort to take the organization from the Republicans was antagonized by soiuo leading Democrats for various reasons. The result of lhe two-hours' session, therefore, was concentrated in tho appointment of a committee of conference. The belief on the part of the leading Republican Senators is that tho silver Democrats cannot count on the vote of gold Democrats in any plan that contemplates the organization of the committees by the silver vote of the Senate. Wednesday?There was an unusually large attendance of Senators at the opening session. Ex-Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, now minister to Mexico, was on the floor and was cordially greeted by his old osBooiatcs. The Vice-President laid before the Senate a communication from Governor Rrudlev, of Kentucky, setting forth that ho had appointed Andrew T. Wood, of Montgomery county, Ky., as Senator from that State. Tlio communication was referred to the committee on privileges and elections. Mr. Hoar gave notice of two amendments to the rules, which were read. They were both radical innovations upon the practico of the Senate for a century past. The first was "to enable the Senate to act on legislation when it desires, after reasonable debate." It provides that when any bill or resolution lias been under consideration moro than one day any Senator could demand tho debate closed. If ?? majority of tho Senators so decided, there should be a vote without further delay. The other was in relation to calls of the Senate, so that if a suggestion be made of tho absence of a quorum, the presiding officer. instead of instantly ordering a call to be made, shall determine the matter ami report whether there is or not. After some executive business and discussion tho Senate adjourned eine die. Chicago drain and Produce. Chicago. Saturday. ? Tho leading futures were as follows: Wheat: Open. Close. March 72* May 72' 7HJ July 70S 71* September 08$ 61)j Corn: March 161 May 17* 17* July 18* 18* Oats: March 23* Mav 24* 24* July 25.1 251 September 26 20, Mess l'ork : March 8 .70 May 8 55 8 00 July 8 70 8 70 Lard: March 4 15 May 4 22 4 25 July 4 32 4 85 Ribs: March 4 CO May 1 60 4 60 July 4 67 4 65 New York Cotton Futures. New York, Saturday.?Cotton closed quiet and steady. Lowest. Closing. March 6 116 6 95 April 7 01 6 08 May 7 04 7 02 Juno 7 08 7 07 July 7 00 7 11 August 7 14 7 12 September 6 80 0 87 (letober 6 77 6 75 November 6 80 6 77 >1 miliary ... Liverpool Cotton Market. Liverpool, Saturday ? Middling ? 31-32. Futures Closed firm. March 3 58 s March and April 3 58 m April and May 3 58 v May and dune 3 5H0J51 dune and duly 3 58($5Ji duly and August 3 58<#5l August and September 3 56 b September and October 3 50(<q51 October and November 3 46(rh4l November and December 3 45 s December and Janunry 3 45 s dauuary and February Indicted in Ninety-One Counts. .T. M. MeKnight, president of tlu suspended (Scrmau National bank, Louisville, Ky., has been indicted bj the grand jury on the charge of violating the national banking uct. Tb? indictment will eml>raco ninety-opt counts, and in( ludes nearly every 6lfense embraced in the law. B. and L. Association Assigns. The National building and Loan Associution, of Milwaukeo, has gone intc the hands of a receiver. Judge Austin appointed Martin W. Sherman secretary of the association, to take charge ^ and wind up its atlairs. The Arkansas Legislature adjourned yesterday without passing any of the appropriation bills for the cxecutivo and judicial departments. liOans t > the? amount of ?4,000.000 have been obtained from New York banks within a week to pay duties on goods held i?i bond in anticipation of higher <* Mies uuder the? new tariiV. Ki^ht men were ted in a mine at I'ove r, I'litflamjc' Kepri" entativ,# inanufaeturers ol spool cotton ' in this country have formed an association to bo known as the American Spool Cotton ManufactU" rors' Association. . ft