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Thirty Years Experience. In the Selection of Drv Goods DEADLY TYPHUS. SLAVES Convention or Me NO LONGER. Vvlio The Fever Eeported Spreading in 1 Feb. were two very pretty fights in the conven- Various Cities.

In what makes the 1C Every Effort Being Made to Prevent an Cases Are Quarantined. THE LOYEL! NEW SPKIHG BRESS WE NOW OFFER are absolutely our own Styles, being our direct importation and cannot be duplicated elsewhere, Prices Moderate, A visit from you is Solicited. WILER WISE, Fourth Street. lias within two in confederate to pay 8QOO, 00 SHORT SPECIALS. John Calder of New Orleans, have failed; 5300,000.

league baseball schedule for the present season consists of 154 games. It is said that the western brewers' war has been settled and that prices will be advanced. The National Butter association were in annu. at Madison, Tuesday. The membership of the League of American now numbers G80, of whom C13 are women.

The League of American Wheelmen want congress to pass a bill providing SOT a commissioner of highways. The holding of a national conference of independent voters from air over the north is proposed by the Massachusetts Reform club. J. W. Connor, alias "Billy" Connor, was acquitted at St Paul of complicity in the robbery of the Minneapolis post office July 0, 18S9.

Gov. Fleming, of Florida, has issued a proclamation call on the citizens -of his state to to tho fund for Russian relief. The state of Georg'-i months paid pensions, and expect more within a month J. L. Lorimer, tho who brok jail at Creston, September 19 last has been captured at YFarrenton, Mo.

and returned to Creston. The city of Kockport, has votd a subsidy of $45,000 to the proposed In dianapolis Chattanooga railroad There were only thirty votes against it Bogus titles to 1,000,000 acres of land in Montgomery county, are being extensively sold over the northwest. The county has but 1,000,000 acres all told. Steel-workers in the Columbia iron and steel works, at Uniontown, have refused a reduction of 25 per cent in wages, and a strike may be the result The western window glass manu facturers, at a meeting Tuesday at Cleveland, decided to advance the price of window glass 5 per cent on March 1. Reports that an English syndicate is forming a leather trust are discredited by New York dealers.

They say the syndicate's is inadequate, Gladstone has entirely recovered from the effects of tks attack of influenza from he. suffered. iu, England, and.i* now tk'c- enjoyment of vigorous Anna Schulte, aged resident oi Taylor Center, mysteriously disappeared three weeks ago and no trace has been found of her. She fired with her nephew and the townsfolk believe that she was murdered Mary Buelow has entered suit against the Chicago, St Paul Kansas City Company Dubuque, claiming $10,000 damages byijpiwonof the death ofjher husband, -who WM killed on the last SeptemEer. The Bremef 1 county fatioual bank's suit against of 1U dead N.

J. Bidg-tirBj, tot SS7.5CU which EC is alleged to have lent in violation of law, has been transferred to Dubuquo and will be tried at the March term of the district court. Tuesday at Sioux Falls the republican central committee of South Dakota voted to hold the state convention at Chamberlain on the 23d of March. They also passed a resolution petitioning the governor to call an, extra session of the legislature to make an appropriation for a world's fair exhibit Will Rifunri the Dutlca. the senate Senator Morrill (Vt.) chairman of the committee on finance, reported back favorably a bill refunding ST.12S duties paid in the port of San Francisco on the wreckage of the United States warships Trenton and Vandalia presented by the United States government to the king of Samoa in recognition of tho humanity of the Sainoan people to American seamen on the occasion of the great cyclone which wrecked these vessels.

The bill was passed. VT1H Me Rcivppolntrd. WASHTNQTOX, Feb. house committee on military affairs has adopted a resolution providing for the reappointment of Gen. L.

Mitchell, of Wisconsin; Gen. W. J. Sewell, of New Jersey, and Gen. A.

L. McMahon, of New York, at the expiration of their terms as members of the board of managers of national homes for disabled volunteer soldiers. IN- XEW YORK. NEW Yor.K, Feb. 17.

-Two Italian, supposed to be suffering from typhus fever were brought here Monday nigh from Trenton, N. and are now un der observation by the health authori ties. Two additional cases were re ported here Tuesday. The total number of cases detained is eighty-six. All incoming steamships are now detained at quarantine much longer than usual, as it has been decided to take no chances of any more infectious diseases being brought to port The Hamburg- American steamer Suevia, which arrived Monday, is still in quarantine, as is the Burgundia, from Marseilles and Naples.

ALBANY, N. Feb. are five cases of typhus fever in Valatie, Columbia county, in a family of Russian Hebrews. The village is wild with excitement The stricken family came over on the steamer Massilla. The workmen in the cotton mill have been exposed, together with five other Russian families.

OQ Guard Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. officers stated Tuesday morninsr that they had located fourteen of the thirty- five immigrants from the fever-infected steamer Massilla in the Italian quarters, but have discovered no evidence of typhus among them. To Shut Oat Scourgn. NEW YOEK, Feb.

agents of the White Star, Hamburg-American and North German steamship lines have cabled directions to the agents in Europe to accept no more Russian Hebrew passengers. This refusal of tho companies to take any more of these passengers will prevent the spreading of the fever here. The action of tho companies -was prompted by the expresse determination of the port health officials to detain at quarantine every vessel which has aboard as passengers Russian Hebrews. Six Cases In "Worcester. WORCESTER, Feb.

dreaded typhus fever has made its appearance in the Jewish colony in Oakdale. There are six cases. 'The victims are a mother and five children who were sent over by the Hebrew Charity association to work in the mill of Fred Whitney. They came to the village about ten days ago. They were immediately taken sick and the disease was nounced typhus.

The board of health' immediately hired an unoccupied house on the hill overlooking the village and the sick ones -were removed there. Typhns in Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Feb. board of health of Pittsburgh is much excited over the discovery of a genuine case of typhus, or ship fever, at an Italian boarding house, 1S5 Penn avenue. The sick man admits that he was one of fourteen immigrants that recently arrived in Pittsburgh, who were passengers on the steamer Massilla.

He refused to disclose the whereabouts of his companions. City Physician Meyer had the man removed to the pest house and instituted a search of the Italian boarding houses, hoping to find the sick man's companions. tion Tuesday. Delegates to the Bi- chloride of Gold clubs of the world divided first on the question of admitr ting saloonkeepers to membership in their organization, and second, over the election of a secretary. The Banner of Gold, the newspaner jest established by Col.

Nate Reed, of Chicago, was declared the official organ of the association, and Rev. Mr. Davis was indorsed as a lecturer to the various subordinate clubs. Directly after dinner the committee on constitution and by-laws reported, and after the first reading the sections were taken up and discussed separately. No opposition was developed until the secretary read the section which recites that no man shall ever become 'a member of a Bichloride of Gold club unless he shall have first been cured by the Keelcy remedies; that no man shall be admitted who has been cured and then relapsed; that no man shall be admitted who is connected in any way with the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors.

After a lengthy discussion the latter clause was allowed to stand and the constitution was adopted. A permanent organization was effected by the election of officers, as follows: Presidont, S. E. Moore, of Pittsburgh: flrst vice president, TT. S.

Arnold, of Divight; second vice president, Franlc P. Clark, of Missouri: secretary and treasurer, J. B. Kehoe, ot Kentucky. The convention of the league will be held the second Tuesday in October at a place to be selected by the directors.

THEY DEAL IN DIEE fieal Estate Brokers in Convention at Nashville, HOOSIERDOM. Bits of Information of Especial Interest to ladianians. National Association to. Be Forme' of Its Objects'-T-ppen-. ing Ceremonies.

MAKING IT NATIONAL. Schools to Celebrate the Dedication of the Adopted by Superintendents ut Brooklyn. -'BROOKLYN, Feb. department of superintendents of the National Educational association met at 10 o'clock a. President Satin in the United.

States Commissioner Education Harris offered the followinj: resolutions: The world's congress auxiliary he World's Columbian exposition have mad patriotic suggestion that at the same tim that tho exposition grounds at Chicago are tie ins dedicated in 1802 all the people of the coun try unite in a celebration, of -which the publi schools be everywhere the center; therefore, ITteaolved, That the department of supedn tenSents heartily Indorse this suggestion "ani ask superintendents of education and teacher; everywhere to unite to make this nationa public school celebration unl versal and successful; that we request newspaper pross to cooperate and lha name the heads of education In the several states as a general committee to carry out the suggestion of tho executive that a programme committee of of-whom shall be'tho-manager, appointed -by Bbnney, the president of tho congress auxiliary, shall be appointee by 'the chair." The resolutions were adopted and the chair appointed the committee as follows: Francis chairman; J. W. Dickinson, Massachusetts; T. B. Storkwell, Rhode Island; K.

Garrett, Tennessee, and W. C. Hewitt, Michigan. LOST. ON THE HIGH SEAS.

A SPECIAL MESSAGE. To Repeal tho Commerce LAW. WASHINGTON, Feb. Morrell, of Massachusetts, introduced in the house a bill to repeal the interstate commerce law, and it was referred to the committee on commerce. Fertilizer'Works Burned.

GREENWICH POIXT, Feb. Fire in the extensive works of the Tygert-AUen Fertilizer Company Tuesday destroyed most of the building's, causing; a loss estimated at S50.000. Burial of Minister Clark. MUSCATIXE, Feb. remains of the late Hon.

Alexander Clark, United States minister to Liberia, were buried here Tuesday with military and masonic honors. lie died at his post of duty last summer and his remains have just reached his old home. Many distinguished colored mon were present. Killed -bj- if m- "Roots PARIS, from. Algiers states that.

BOTCH Arabs who iad spug-ht shelter grotto atKouba, Algiers, -were ill.killed by of "-the roof of the jjrotto, pnrcell Win Imbecile. Feb. the Tuesday the astounding' fact leaked out that a qourt of record had declared Archbishop Pnrcell an. imbecile only a few hours before, his assignment, which startled the whole Catholic world. of Dr.

HewBrd Aniold. Feb. nephew of the ISite Matthew Arnold, Dr. Howard Arnqfi, has committed suicide, with irussic mcid in fit of insanity caused 3JT grip and The Presidont Calls the Attention of Con- Cress to the Jfecesslty of Legislation for the Protection of Miners. WASHINGTON-, Feb.

following- is the text of a message transmitted to congress Tuesday by the president: "There was passed by the last congress an act for the protection of the Uves of the miners In the territories, which was approved by me on the 3d day of March, 1691. That no appropriation was made to enable mo to carry the act Into effect resulted, I suppose, from the fact that it was passed so late in the session. The law recotmizes the necessity of a responsible public inspection and supervision of the business of mining in the interest of the miners, and is in line with the legislation of most of tie states. The work the miner. has Its unavoidable incidents of discomfort, nnd danger, and these should uot be Increased by the negligence of the owners to provide every practicable safety appliance.

Economies -widen involve a sacrifice of human life are intolerable. I trans- mitierewitn memorials from several hundred miners working in the coal mines in the Indian asking for the appointment eta inspector under tfce act referred The recent frightfnUUsaster at KrebsC sirty-sevettminers met a horrible death, gives thai a special appropriation be.atoccemade., Ibr tfie salaries; and 'necessary expenses-of the Inspectors providedforjn the law." i Threatened Srnptfon of Venorlm. ROME, Feb. people of Naples and vicinity, are alarmed by a threatened eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Lava is issuing from the base of the volcano and flowing into the Atrio del Carillo.

This is considered as that a new crater will he formed in a situation that imperils district heretofore comparatively secure from disturbance. Xontrcikl Go to the Wall. MOXTBBAX, Feb. Scott. k.

Col, wholesale grocers, have made an assignment Their HablHtUm are The Britlnh Bark Carour Believed to Have Gone Down In the Storm on the LOJTDOX, Feb. loss to shipping, during- the storm of the last two days.has been very heavy. The extent of.it cannot. be known as the reports from the coasts, owing to the prostration of the wires, are very meag-er. The -British bark Cavour, it is believed, has been lost off Eoundstone on the Irish coast Fragments of the wreck have come ashore marked "Cavour, Grenock." A box of books marked F.

has been picked up. A large vessel, timber-laden, has drift ed bottom up, near the same arid'fishermen just come in report that they saw the body of a woman in the water. THIRD PARTY CONFERENCE, The Attendance tools Eipectod to Bo Much Larger Than Anticipated. ST. -Louis, Feb.

Up to this time ten" reform and industrial organizations have notified executive committee of the so-called third party conference, to' be held in St. Louis Monday of next week, of their intention of being officially 'Nearly all railroads have given a one fare for the round trip rate, and a very much larger attendance is expected than was at first anticipated. The total number of applicants for hotel and boarding house accommodations exceeds, 15, 000, and tele- California and other, dis- states have. 'been. received announcing the starting 4tt -large delega- titins.

A LAP.GE NASHVILLE, Feb. estate brokers from all parts of the country, representing- many billions 01 dollars, assembled to a total of several hundred in the hall of the house of representatives at 10 a. m. for the purpose of bringing- into existence a nation real estate association. It is one of the largest assemblies oT business men over seen south of the Ohio river.

Objects of the The real estate brokers are almost the only class of business men who have no national association, and it is now proposed to. provide, on legitimate basis, lor promoting the interests of all the states in the matter of handling realty. The objects of such an association will be in part to promote a uniform mode of estate transfers for all the states, to formulate a plan to enable the industrial classes to secure homes for themselves, to gather and discuss statistics relating to the real estate of the country, including its mineral and timber wealth, and to devise means for utilizing and developing this for the good of the entire country. Opening Gov. Buchanan opened with an address of welcome, lie was followed in a similar strait by Mayor U-uild and George H.

Armistcad of the Commercial club and J. C. JjarthoU, secretary of the Milwaukee real-estate exchange, and others responded. Hon. E.

Pilcher was elected president, and H. M. Cline, secretary. The usual committees were then appointed. Topics to Uc DIncussuil.

The convention will discuss the question of uniform real-estate transfers as well as the question as to the height to which buildings should be' erected. On the latter point many of the delegates a.re in favor of seven-story buildings or less. The convention will be in session and the delegates will be entertained by the business interests of this city. WILL GIVE THEM BACK. Labor Troubles nt IXDiAXAi-OLiA, Feb.

campaign which organised labor has determined to make against President 1'Venzel, of the street railway corn- puny, was inaugurated Tuesday, when a committee of labor leaders and street railway employes. appeared before the county commissioners to protest against granting of a franchise to company over the streets leading to the new fair grounds. The cornajiW tee was not received owing to- pressure of other business, but tha commissioners promised to hear them before taking action in the matter. The street railway employes confessed that their position was an arduous one, but contended that they could not expect justice from Frenzel and said that they were determined to oppose everything he want- eel. They claim that spotters are being employed by the president and that five of the late strikers have been discharged upon pretexts of most flimsy character.

The. discharges will be considered at the next meeting ol the brotherhood. Resolution Return UatMe Flapa Captured from Mexico Passed by the Ken- ate. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.

Senator Sherman (0.) chairman of the committee on foreign relations reported favorably to the senate a bill introduced by Senator Perkins, as successor to the late Senator Plumb, who originally 'presented the matter, requesting the president to return to the republic of Mexico twenty- one battle flags, now in the museum of the United States military academy at West Point, captured by the army of the United States- during the war of 1848, He said this was an act of courtesy, suggested by the American minister to Mexico (Mr. Ryan). The committee on foreign relations thought it a arenerous and proper act to do to a friendly nation. In these views Senator Cockrell (Mo.) expressed his entire concurrence, and the resolution was unanimously adopted. Destroyed Nino Moonshine ANXISTOS, Feb.

17. United States Deputy Collector W. W. Oolqnitt and Deputy Marshals Briggs and Jackon. have just returned from the most successful -revenue raid In ears.

They were gone four days and traversed Cleburne from one side to the other. Four mooon- were captured at work. Nine tills and all the working apparatus were destroyed, and 10,000 gallons of and several hundred gallons of hisky were spilled. This is seventy stills destioyed in Cleburne in the last four months. IMcd on tlie Operiitlni; Table.

IXDIANAPOI.IS. Feb. patient died Tuesday night on. the operating table at St. hospital.

The victim was George Shelton, of Crawfordsville, 43 years-of age. Shelton was afflicted with a. cancerous growth about the tonsils. Before beginning an operation, for the removal of the diseased parts a special instrument was prepared; something after the plan of the- contrivance that is placed over a tooth that is to be filled. had been placed tinder the jji- luence of chloroform.

The instrument- placed in his throat and the phy- iicians, Drs. Eastman and Woolen, were about to commuoce work when. it. was discovered that the patient wms dead. Shelton was in a high state of nervous terror before the anesthetic was administered and this, with-the- shock and his debilitated was probabably the.

cause of The operating physicians arc held, blameless. Tliuited GKAirroKDeTnxxr -Seh. 17. Miry See'riajf and'Jlabel Hudson, girls of flm place -who attempted to eome to CHcajro Monday to join a ballet troupe, were captured at the; depot by police. Suicide.

17 Tuesday afternoon -Clarence Bnrbridge, aged 25, '-attempted suicide by morphine. Despondency- 1 caused by the grip is given as the -cause; mil Aid the Builromd. SocKi-OKr, Feb. IT. This on Monday voted a subsidy HC, 000 to proposed Indianapolis i railroad.

were only teirtf To Be Kan on Cooperative Plan. KXOXVILLE, Feb. 17. mines of the Tennessee Mining Corn- any at Briceville will worked upon the cooperative plan. Details have been agreed upon and incorporated in.

an amended charter which has been filed. The miners are allowed to take stock and have taken 810,000. A subscriber is twenty months in which, to pay for $100. The company wiH erect Residences nnfl allow the. to buy 'terms.

Cuftlm SxxSiuxcaco, feb. the M. Curtis CMC- Tuesday W. testified to having" seen, throe men, of whom shot Policeman Grantand ran away in a different direction from Curtis- Mrs. M.

L. Abbott swore saw a third unknown man run away after the shooting. The friends of Curtis feel they are making a good for'hlm. Prompt Xeunrec with AurehJiU. MADRID, Feb.

number of anarchists arrested at Cadiz is 192, all of whom will be tried "by court-martial early month. There will be no executions. A doxen principals will "be sentenced to life Imprisonment, fifty others to various terms'of imjjrUon- meat and the will to Xho INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. anker had expected to return hit verdict Tuesday in the matter of the late surgical institute fire, but was deterred by the fact that the ste- norgraphers failed to complete the transcript of the testimony. The coroner has made up his mind as to what the verdict will be.

fie will, it is understood, exonerate the institute management from the charge of not taking- proper precautions in the way of providing apparatus for fighting fire, and from the charge that proper means ol escape in case of fire was not provided. If there is any criticism at all it wID be of the employes who were on duty the night of the fire. Captured Ucur Hia Mother's PKINCETON, Feb. Boger, an escaped convict, was captured near his mother's home, a few- miles east of this city Monday night He recently escaped from the prison at Jeffersonville, Ind. Fifty dollars re- ward was offered by Warden Patton for his arrest.

A few days ago be was seen to enter the home of Farmer Mm- nerman. The house was surrounded, but Boger jumped through a window and escaped in the darkness. Died In Prison. MITCHELL, body of Harvey Kichardson, who four was sentenced to the state penitentiary at Jeffersonville for the murder of "Tom" Hollers, was brought here Tuesday for burial, having died there of consumption. His was the same old story of love and jealousy.

He Boilers coming from his mistress' rooms and shot him, killing him instantly. He was sentenced for eight years. Filled with Shot. CEAWFOKDSVII.I.B, Feb. 17.

Harry Eemley, a. young rnan living west of this city, met with a -oainful accident Monday while preparing shells for shotgun, accidentally striking primer. The shell exploded, putting' out one of his eyes and filling his with shot and powder. The wounds are dangerous and may result in loss life. Took poUon hy Mistake.

BBAZIL, Ind.j Feb. J. W. Keith Tuesday morning toot sagar-of lead by mistake instead -She discovered her mistake at" once' and told a neighbor what: had' happened: Medical aid was quickly-' summoned-' and her life may 'be saved: Out In the Cold. Hrrs-nsGTOJT, Feb.

one men. in the car department of Cnicago Erie shops were laid off at 11:50 o'clock Tuesday. It is not whether the sudden suspension will permanent or Sr PAUL, Feb. dew- ocratic state central committee awt here Tuesday afternoon and named Sfc Paul as the place and March SI date for the convention to name egites to Chicago. All the committeemen present except two ia faror of derelwd..