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jft. -f THE W0RTHINGT0NA0VAN6E. MCCUHB. Editor and Publisher. WORTHINQTON.

Nobles MINN CAMPANIMI has the spirits of a boy since his voice has been to him by a surgical operation. ASK any woman what is a woman's most interesting age and she will come Tery near telling you how old she is. A POLICEMAN buying paregoric prised a Brooklyn reporter, who thought that the profession had no need of that medicine. THEBE are now two hundred ordained women preachers in the United States, where forty years ago there was oply one. "COMMODORE" TYSON, of et fame, conceived and carried out the idea of running news-stands in the ing hotels, lie is now worth half a million.

E. B. SKAKS, of Boston, has bought the famous English St. Bernard dog, Sir Bedivero, paying for it $6,500. Bather a costly piece of unconverted sausage.

A COMPANY has been incorporated in 6an Francisco for the manufacture of a new explosive, said to be five times the strength of dynamite and the tion of Dmitri Mindliff, a Russian chemist. BY her contract for a tour of America Sara Bernhardt is to get $200 a day for hotel expenses, 8600 for each ance, and one-third of the gross receipts. Sara may have deteriorated in-her ing, but she has lost none of her nerve. THE Presbyterian church of New Bedford, has declared itself in favor of matrimony. It demanded that a newly-elected deacon resign because he did not come up to the rule requiring that a deacon shall be "the husband of one wife and have his children in jection.

WHILE we are having just an ble winter, Europe is experiencing the toughest kind of weather. The zard, supposed to be an exclusive session of our own wild West, is raging about Austria aurl Germany with a verity rarely surpassed in the region of the Rockies. NEW YOKK has passed a law to stop the docking of horses' tails, but the fashionable people, incapable of ing that such a law could apply to them, have persisted in the practice. The ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty is now collecting evidence with a view to the prosecution of the offenders. THE late Harvey B.

Dodsworth, the well-known New Ycrk bandmaster, furnished the music at Presidential augurations for the last thirty years. During the war, free of charge for his own services, he furnished the armies of the North no less than fifty masters and five hundred musicians. A MAN who has been annoyed for years by the fact that one side of his mustache grows about twice as fast as the other side claims to have found an explanation in the circumstance that he Sits all day at his desk with one side of his face turned to a window, the light from which stimulates the growth of the hair on that side. A KANAKA legend exists that when a red fish enters Honolulu harbor the reigning sovereign must soon die. Such fioii nppini cjvi KTIi tne iutti of ber, fifteen days before the late King Kalakaua sailed for San Francisco.

It was intimated, however, that certain persons had something to do with the appearance of the ominous member of the finny tribe. GEORGE BANCROFT'S library is puted to be one of the best private lections of books in the country. It contains about twelve thousand umes, among which are many works in foreign languages, and every book in the collection has a value apart from its selling price. The books were ly packed in the four rooms that prised Mr. Bancroft's literary shop.

and there never was any attempt made to display them. MRS. C. FALL, of Boston, is now a lawyer, and has been admitted to the Suffolk bar, at which she will practice. Her husband is also a lawyer, ticing in the same court, but if he pens to be retained on one side of a case while his wife holds a brief on the other, he'll have to handle his witnesses very tenderly and treat his learned brother" with considerable respect or he will get himself into trouble when the court isn't around to protect him.

THE vigor with which the criminal law is administered in England was lustrated in a case at London. Henry Atwell was on trial for shooting at Robert Burn, his employer, the shot going wide of its mark. Justice Smith in summing up denounced the practice of "carrying abominable pistols which are absolutely useless to any one and dangerous to all." The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to five years' penal as severe a punishment as he would have been likely to receive in this country if he had succeeded in killing the man he was after. THE Japanese author does not write books. He paints them.

As soon as he Teaches the indispensable minimum of ideas he shuts himself in his study, brightened slightly by a soft light from a four-cornered white paper lantern. He has before him a polished table on which lie idyllic writing materials. The paper is of an agreeable yellow, and is marked with perpendicular and horizontal blue lines. His ink is held in a rich ebony plate, elaborately carved, and with a depression in which the black tablets are rubbed to nothing. The plate carries also five bamboo brushes which serve as pens.

Miss MAMIE SMITH, a beautiful young girl of twenty-two years, was arrested at Denver three months ago for tempting to pass a forged check upon one of the local banks. She was sequently released on bail, and mained there pending trial. The other night, after a brief illness, she died of pneumonia, when it was learned that she was not compelled to commit the crime from necessity, but was a maniac on the subject of passing forged paper. She had an estate in Louisville, valued at $75,000, from which she received a monthly income of $400. Her remains were sent East for interment.

THE death of King Kalakaua removes a picturesque character who for teen years ruled the little Kingdom of Hawaii. The most that could be said of his Majesty was that he was less. The affairs of State never rested heavily on him. The fifty thousand persons on the Sandwich islands are not a difficult population to govern, being more intent on raising sugar cane- and Hce thanoirdisturbances of any the result was that Kalakaua's reign was characterized by only one revolution. Personally Kalakaua was a good fellow, who enjoyed a.

first-class dinner, dsathwas hastened by high living. 5 BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Second Session. TUESDAY.

WEDNESDAY. Jan. House apportionment bill was considered in the Senate, and House bills were passed for public buildings at Rock Island, 111., and Rockford, 111. In the House the journal was approved out question. The resignation of John S.

McCarthy, a Representative from the Eighth district of New York, was sented. THURSDAY, Jan. 29. The Senate passed the Congressional apportion ment bill exactly as it came from the House by a vote of yeas 37, nays 24. This gives the House 356 members.

The bill creating the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General was also passed. In the House the time was cupied in discussing the Military emy appropriation bill. FRIDAY, Jan. the reading of the journal in the Senate Senator Morrill announced the sudden death of Secretary Windom, and in spect to his memory the Senate adjourned for the day. Jn the House, after a few affecting words of tribute to the worth of the deceased Secretary of the Treasury by Mr.

Dunnell, of Minnesota, the House, on motion of Mr. McKinley, as a mark of respect to his memory, adjourned. FROM WASHINGTON. THE exchanges at the leading ing-houses in the Unitad States during the week ended on the 24th aggregated against $1,240,086,0 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 185)0 the decrease amounted to 5.1.

A CANVASS conducted by two farmers' papers shows that Cleveland was the choice of Democratic farmers by a vote of 71,787 to 17.118 for Hill. Republicans were for Blaine by 39,309 to 31,013 for Harrison and 20,746 for Rusk. THE largest county in the United States according to a Census Office bulletin is Yavapai County in Arizona, and the smallest is Alexander County in Virginia THE business failures in the United I States dnring the seven days ended on the SOtli ult. numbered S20, against 380 the preceding week and 291 the sponding week last year. THE EASTi AN explosion in the H.

C. Fricke Coke Company's mine ten miles from Mount Pleasant, caused the death of 110 men. THE death of Dr. Sullivan Whitney, the first man to manufacture pathic medicine in America, occurred at Newton, aged 83 years. CARI.

STEVENS, aged 18, of Buffalo, N. was the man who committed suicide by jumping over the falls at Niagara. THE Rhode Island Legislature clared Oscar Lapham (Dem.) elected to Congress from the district. There was no election in the Second district and a new election would be ordered. ADVICES of the 2Sth say that 151 men lost their lives by the recent explosion in the Mammoth mine ten miles from Mount Pleasant, Pa.

THE loss to the telegraph and phone companies by the late storm in New York was estimated at AT Catasuqua, the Crane works, next to the largest pig-iron ducing establishment in Eastern sylvania, were sold to an English cate for THE failure of the Winona Paper pany of Holyoke, for $600,000 was reported. THE death of William A. Windom, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, occurred shortly after 10 o'clock on the evening of the 29th in the quet hall at Delmonico's in New York just as he had concluded his speech at the Board of Trade dinner. Heart ease was the cause. Mr.

Windom was 64 years of age. He was a member of Congress twenty years, ten in the House and ten in the Senate, and was dent Garfield's Secretary of the ury as well as President Harrison's. IN the Duquesne (Pa.) steel works a large ladle of molten steel was dentally upset and the contents poured out upon four men, burning them to death. IN their weekly review of trade a New York commercial agency says business continues unprecedented in volume and satisfactory in character. Measured by clearing-house returns, trade exceeded that of a year ago by per cent, in amount, and that meant a volume of business larger than in any other year at this season.

The tone in commercial circles throughout the country was hopeful, and the money markets were comparatively easy at nearly all points. IN the Mahoning and Shenandoah valleys owners of twenty-one furnaces and rolling-mills, representing a capital of over $6,000,000 and employing 20,000 men, formed a combination. IN New Jersey 300 building and loan associations formed a State league. WEST AND SOUTH. The death of John Woodbeck, aged 101 and a veteran of the war of 1812, occurred at Pewamo, Mich.

He was born in Columbia County, N. Y. AT Santa Barbara, Ramon Lopez was hanged for the murder of Mary Diserello last October. AT Tama, James Horton, a tramp, confessed that he murdered Conductor James O'Neil at Long Point, a Jan. 27.

In the Senate the credentials of Mr. Stanford and Mr. Irby as Senators-elect from fornia and South Carolina for the term beginning March 4, 1891, were sented and filed. The Congressional apportionment bill was discussed. In the House a bill was passed for a way bridge over the Missouri between Council Bluffs alid Omaha.

The tary Academy appropriation bill was discussed. few days ago. NEGRO families in Alabama were moving to Oklahoma. AN explosion in the paper mill at Rock Falls, 111., would cause the death of five workmen. AT a depth of 320 feet a vein of silver sixteen inches thick was found on the farm of A.

C. Brandt, near Fairport, la. IN a lodging-house at San Jose, two men were burned to death. AT Grand Rapids the Michigan sonic Home was dedicated by the Grand Lodge of the State in the presence of 25,000 people. Ml at Alcatraz bland, shot andldlledl his wife and then killed himself.

IJ? afire at Louisville (Kjr.) Iron works Joe Hvmiijj Joe Weaver and Bud Adams (firemen) weired fatally injured by falling walls. IN the Reed Henry saw-mill at Overton, Tex, the boiler exploded, ing Gill Henry, Dan Tncke and John Austin. In Chicago the body of Benjamin H. Campbell, a millionaire, who had been missing since November 20, was diecovered floating in the AT Atchison, the State National Banjk went into voluntary liquidation. It was organized in January, 1887, with a capital Qf $250,000.

IM joint session on the the consin Legislature formally declared William F. Vilas elected United States Senator from March 4, 1891. SPURIOUS nickels were in circulation at Brownsburg, supposed to have been made in the town. FLAMES destroyed the six-story ing of the Western Refrigerating pany in Chicago, causing a loss of $200,000. TEN Italian laborers were fatally jured in a collision on the Utah ern.

near Honey ville, U. T. IN the office of the State Treasurer of Arkansas a shortage of $94,500 was covered. THE Nevada Legislature on the 29th elected John P. Jones (Rep.) United States Senator for the fourth time.

In Kansas City, Charles Goble mortally wounded Anna Luther and then killed himself. The young lady had refused to marry him. TRAMPS attempted to take possession of a passenger train at Tippecanoe, but the train crew finally drove the tramps out of the car after shooting three of them, two mortally. AT Kalkaska, three feiters were arrested and a quantity of dies, casts and spurious nickels were found in their possession. THE celebrated Jones County (la.) calf case after twenty years of tion was brought to a close.

The calves over which the litigation ensued were originally worth $45, and the tal cost of the case was over $15,000. The plaintiff won the victory. THE National Farmers' Alliance in session at Omaha re-elected John Hi Powers, of Nebraska, as president. THE dry-goods firm of James R. Boyce, JJutte, made an assignment with assets of $125,000 and liabilities of $100,000.

A COLORED man named Logan McAfee while walking along a street in apolis with his wife shot and killed her and then blew his brains out. Jealousy was the cause. EX-MAYOR ROCHE, of Chicago, was robbed of $5,000 by safe-blowers. FLAMES destroyed nearly all the ness portion of Cygnet, and two men and a 3-year-old girl were burned to a crisp. Two CHILDREN of William boy of 3 years and a girl of 9 monthswere burned to death while alone in the house at Drexel, Wis.

IN Mason City, Lieutenant erics Schwatka, the Arctic explorer, fell down-stairs at a hotel and was probably fatally injured. THE Wisconsin Board of Health ceived notice of a case of leprosy in Buffalo County. The patient is a wegian woman. SEBASTIAN PETERS, of Lima, while crazed with drink murdered his wife by hacking her nearly to pieces with a large knife. IN Montana John Niles and three other horse-thieves were fatally shot while resisting arrest.

IN Chicago a man aged 60 years, name unknown, was robbed of $1,000 in the Washington-street tunnel on an Ogden- avenue, car. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. THE Jamaica world's fair opened at Kingston on the 28th, the eral officiating. WOLVES, maddened by hunger, tacked bands of Indians near Lake Winnipeg and many of the red men were killed and devoured. IN Greece an avalanche destroyed eighty houses in the town of Athamana, and twenty-five persons were killed outright and many injured.

BY the burning of the steamer ghai on the river Yangtse, in China, 300 Chinese lost their lives. IN Australia two large new gold fields were discovered on the Turner river. A TERRIFIC storm caused enormous damage on the island of Massowah, in the Red sea, and over 100 persons were drowned. 1 Di8PATcnE8 say that Captain Godfrey and six soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry were fatally injured, beside the four trainmen killed, in the recent Union Pacific wreck at Irving, Kan. AT Springfield, fourteen Masons contributed pieces of their skin from arms to cover a sore on a brother Mason's leg.

THE Kansas Legislature on the 28th in joint session elected W. A. Peffer to succeed United States Senator Ingalis. The vote was: Peffer (Farmers' ance), 101 Ingalis, 58 scattering, 6. IT was decided at the session of the National Farmers' Alliance in Omaha to nominate candidates, for President and Vice-Pesident of the United States in 1892.

THE death of Mrs. Eunice Beers curred at Omaha, aged 101 years. In the early history of the Territory of Nebraska influential in veftjting a number of Indian WHILE insane Surgeon William D. oi the Fifth Artillery, stationed ON the 30th ult. Charles Bradlaugh, member of Parliament for Northampton and one of the most unique ties in English political life, died in London, aged 58 years.

ADVICES from Java report Serious earthquakes in Batavia. The town of Joava was in ruins and many Chinese were killed. LATERi Burial of windom. WASHINGTON, D.OC. Feb.

tional capital was truly a city of mourning to-day. The executive partments and their various branches svere closed all day, and congress did not assembly until 2 o'clock in the ternoon. The flags on the White House and all other public buildings were played at half mast, and so were those of the hotels and other business lishments throughout the city, and the large granite columns of the four fronts of the treasury department were ly draped in black. These honors were paid to the memory of the late tary Windom, who was stricken down in the full tide of his usefulness on the 29th and whose remains were mitted to their last resting place to-day. The funeral was simple in character and without the least attempt at play or ostentation.

The only blance to military honors was in the presence of sixteen members of the treasury branch of the nationals guard of the district. During the forenoon the body of the dead secretary lay in an open casket in the front drawing room of the family residence on setts avenue, in the vicinity of the statues of Gen. Scott and Gen. Thomas, At ll o'clock the house was closed to I visitors, and soon after brief religious services, including a prayer and the reading of the Scriptures, were ducted by the Rev. Dr.

Hamlin, pastor I of the Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian). These services were private, I and the only persons present were the members of the afflicted family, near relatives, the president and the bers of his cabinet and the vice dent with the ladies of their families a few intimate personal friends. The funeral services at the Church were begun at 12 o'clock, and were short and impressive, closing with the Lord's Prayer, in which all the gation joined, the casket was then moved to the hearse amid solemn lence, and the cortege moved slowly out of the city the soldiers' home, to Buck Creek cemetary. AT Nancy, France, a woman and her three children were buhied to death in afire that broke out in a carpenter shop on the 2d. REPORTS from Buenos Ayres received the 2nd, state that the recent revolt has been, fully suppressed.

THE Senate bill opproprjating for a government building in was by Congrats GEM VMTOB. York Secretary of the Treasury Wisdom denly Expiree at the Gloss of Ills Address at the Board of Banquet. S9 YORK, Jan. dom died suddenly hen Thursday night from Heart Just as the Secretary concluded his speech at the Board of Trade dinner he grew deathly pale, his eyes shut and opened spasmodically, histltair. Thence wherp ha lay conscious.

The most intense excitement immediately ensued. Judge Arnoux, exSecretary Bayard and Captain Snow were the first of several who ran to Mr. Windom'8 aid. They found him parently unconscious. They lifted him gently and carried him into an room, where' 'several physicians ceeded at.

once to his assistance, but it was found that he was dead. His had been the first toast of the evening. He had finished his seated self, swooned at once and died almost Every effort to restore him was made, but in vain. He died of heart'disease. The great assemblage at once dissolved.

Mr. Windom had been the only speaker, and the ment to which he responded was: "Our Country's Prosperity Dependent Upon Instruments of Commerce." It was to have been a night of ing and flow of soul at Delmonico's. The NeW York Board of Trade and WILLIAM WINDOM. Transportation was to sit at its teenth annual dinner, and the great hall was bright with light and color. The dinner, which began at 6 o'clock, was completed shortly after 9 o'clock, and Mr.

Windom, introduced by Judge Arnoux, who acted as toastmaster, arose to speak, being the first speaker of the evening. He sponded to the toast: "Our Country't Prosperity Dependent Upon Its ments of Commerce." He finished his speech at 9:55 o'clock. It had been marked that he was reading it off riedly from the printed copy, goingfaster and faster as he neared the end, and at the last he had requested the ence not to applaud. A quiver of fear shot through the assemblage like an electric shock as the speaker finished. Mr.

Windom was standing erect under the glare of the gas lights, while the faces of the most famous body of men in the country were turned ward him. Something was the matter. They knew not what. For a moment the Secretary of the Treasury stooc silent while the banqueters, equally silent, watched him. It was a moment that no one who was present will evei forget.

Then Mr- Windom sat down quietly, too quietly many thought, in his seat, and Toastmaster Judge Arnoux arose to introduce exSecretary of State Bayard the next speaker. He began a short speech, but had not proceeded far wher Mr. Windom gave a short, sharp moan of anguish and fell back in his chair. His face grew purple. His lower limb.stiffened and stretched out of their own accord, apparently, the table.

His eyelids opened and 6hut spasmodically, but there was no gleam of intelligence in the eyes which were rapidly losing the luster a oi life. The cigar which he had been smoking was held in the grim clinch oi the teeth. For only a moment he peared thus. A cry went up from those sitting near the guests'table: "Look, look at Mr. Windom!" Every eye was turned toward thf man whose voice had just ceased.

Ai the rear of the hall many stood, am many echoed the cry as Mr. Windon: collapsed in his chair and was falling to the floor. His face was ghastly and a cry of horror arose front the late festive banqueters. Then was an immediate rush on the part of all toward Mr. chair, but several doctors who wert present at'the dinner got there first and drove the others back.

They were Drs. S. A. Robinson, Whitnsy. Fisher Dr.

Robinson bent down, and, making a close tion the prostrate form, discovered that the heart was yet beating, and, with the assistance of Judge Truax, Captain Snow and one or two others, lifted him to his feet, deathly He was carried into the room behind the banquet hall and thing was done to resuscitate him Messengers were hastily dispatched foi electric batteries, and as many as foui were applied to his body, which was rapidly growing cold. This was ex actly 10:05 p. m. For six minutes the electric, shocks were applied incessant ly, but without success. He was pronounced dead by Drs Robinson and Durant.

"I would saj that the cause of his death was apo plexy," said Dr. Robinson, "if it war not for the history of heart dis ease. I am inclined to think that hearl disease killed him. Mr. Windom was ject to fits of heart failure.

Tuesday last he was seized with an attack whilt on the steps of the Treasury at Wash ington, but he did-' not lose ness and was able to take care of him self." When it was officially announced thai the Secretary was dead Secretary Tracy at once went to the nearest telegraph offlfce and sent a message to President Harrison informing him of the untimely and requesting him to cate with Mrs. Windom. The following death certificate was issued: hereby certify that Hon. William dom. Secretary of the United States Treasury, died at De mmioo's, Corner of Twenty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, at New York Gity.

about lO o'oiock and 11 minutes p. on Jam uary 29,1891, and we further certify that the cause of his death was, first, cerebral rhage, and second, ccma. J. WHITNST, M. "103 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn.

"8. A. ROB NSON. M. "West Brighton, L.

Undertaker Huyler, of Grace Church, was summoned and was put in charge of the remains. The body was taken to room 25 of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Secretary Tracy and AttorneyrGeneral Miller awaited at the hotel to receive the remains, President S'noW teleigrlphedi to Preaident Harrison that the body would be sent on to Washington on a special train in the morning. He appointed as a committee to escort the remains: brose Snow, Darwin R. James, F.

B. Thurber, Wiley, Seth Thomac and Norman S. Bentley. THE NEWS AT THE CAPITAL. Jan.

anWmneementoi the sudden death of retary Kew Yoflc gavtf most as grtafc a shock to his efiaial 1 Mends aad iisaoelatesT here as did the of President Garfield to the membem of his official It so terribly sudden and unexpected tp AVOID CREDITORS. that all who the jiews wenj Rocked and so as be unabte to express this grief they felt. As soon aa the telegram bearing the sad intelligence was received by the Associated Press its contents were mediately -communicated to President at Wfcite House. He war" in the 'library lit the time, talking with Mrs. Harrison, and the message was read tp him he 'wm greatly distressed' and almost completely overcome.

He mediately ordered his carriage and went at to the house of the master-General, but a few blocks away, where a Cabinet dinner had been in progress and from" which he had turned -but! few ininntes before. A reception had fallowed the dinner, so the notdispersed. Mrs. Windom and her two daughters and Colgate, of New York, who is visiting them, were among those present at the reception. As soon as the Prudent arrived he had a hurried conversation.

with Secretaries Blaine and Proctor and the General and told them of the grief that had befallen them. They then privately informed Mrs. Colgate of Mr. Windom's death, and she, without exciting the suspicions of Mrs. Wittdom and her daughters, ceeded itt: getting them to their carriage and home.

The President, Secretary Proctor and Postmaster-General Wanamaker entered a carriage and followed directly after. When Mrs. Windom and her daughters reached the house Mrs. Colgate gently broke the dreadful news. Mrs.

Windom was completely overcome and had to be assisted to her chamber. The shock was a terrible one, as when the Secretary left ington in the morning he seemed in the best of health and spirits. The dent and the members of his Cabinet who were present extended their sympathy to the stricken family and offered their services to them. Official information of the death came in a telegram from Secretary Tracy and Attorney-Generai Miller, who were present at the banquet. It said: "Secretary Windom having concluded his speech, and while the next speaker was being announced.

Bunk down with un attack of heart iisease and died within ten minutes. His 1 -ath occurred at 10 o'clock. You will know how to coirvey the intelligence to his family." To this the President immediately replied, saying that he was greatly shocked and asking them to take charge of ihe body and bring it to Washington as early aspossible. SKETCH OF HIS CAREER. William Windom was born in Belmont ty, May 10, U27.

He received an academic jducatlon, studied law at Mount Vernon, and was admitted to the bur in In 18..8 le became prosecuting attorney for Knox Oaunty, but in removed to Minnesota, and was chosen to Congress for the term eglnning March 4. 1859. He was releo ed thereafter every two years until 1809, serving with credit to himself and his State the period of the civil war and re con-' struction. In the lower House, owing to hU amil arity with the red men, he served two erms as chaUman o( the committee on Indian aflairs, and was also at the head of the special committee to visit the Western tribes in ISLS of that on the conduct of the Comuissioner of Indian Aflairs In 1867. In 1870 he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired term Daniel S.

Norton, deceased, and he was subsequently chosen for the term that ended in 1877. He was re-elected for the jne that closed in 1883. but resigned' in 1881 enter the Cabinet of President Garfield as Secretary of the Treanury but, tired on the accession of President Arthur in same year. The vacancy was filled during called session of that year by Alonzo J. Edgerton, under executive appointment.

In October of the same year, aft jr Mr. Windom's withdrawal from the Treasury on the death of President Garfield, he was elected by the Minlesota Legislature to fill the vacancy caused bis resignation early in the year, and ne erved until the close of the term in 1883. Mr. Windom was a candidate for the Presilency before the Republican convention of 18i0. he Minnesota delegation casting their ten for him until tue twenty-ninth ballot, some of the votes were transferred to Mr.

aine. Three delegates vcted for him until he close of the balloting. After his retirenent from the Senate in 18H3 Mr. Windom Hent his time between Minnesota and New fork, practicing law an.l atteniinj to business until called to the Treasury portfolio jy President Harrlstn. ENDED AT LAST.

After Twenty ITe rs of Litigation the Celebrated Jones County (la.) Calf Case Is Brought to a Close. DES MOINES, Jan. Iowa Supreme Court has finally affirmed the lecision of the lower court in the brated' case of Johnson vs. Miller, et better known as the "Jones County jalf case." The verdict of the lower was for the plaintiff in the ium of $1,000. The last jury turned a general verdict and ilso answered a number of cial interrogations, and the case went to the Supreme Court on the Tfround that the answers to the special did not warrant the verlict.

The case has been in the courts for about twenty years, has been tried several times in the lower courts, and iias taken a number of trips to the preme Court. It has bankrupted body connected with it except the torneys. The calves over which the litigation has ensued were originally worth $45, and the total cost of the has grown to between $15,000 and 520,000 in addition to the verdict of $1,000. Death of General C. B.

Norton. CHICAGO, Jan. C. B. ton a prominent agent of the world's air, died at the Palmer House Thurslay evening.

On the recommendation Chauncey M. Depew Mr. Norton was itnploved by the world's fair directory to devise schemes for advertising and exploiting the exposition. He to phicago in June and began his work. The chief product of ais labors was the volume of sketches jn world's fairs.

He had been in ill health for and a stroke of paralysis two months ago hastened the culmination of the disease. General Morton was born in Hartford, iS5 veal's ago. Disaster at a Michigan Mine. IROK MOUNTAIN, Jan. About 6 o'clock Thursday evening a part of the Chaprn mine, one of the Largest and most productive in Mich igan, caught fire at the sixth level, and the flames spread to an alarming tent.

The shafts were quickly closed, but eight men are underground withlut a possibility of escape. How the fire started is not known. At a late hour the workers had not succeeded in subduing the flames. Freezing Out the Retailers. JOLIET.

111., Jan. are rapidly being organized in this county. Wholesale grocers' are bidding for the Alliance and Grange trade, and are sending out salesmen to sell direct to the farmers' organizations. They have their blank order for every cle for household use, and the agents claim to sell at the same prices given retail merchants. This is creating some confusion among retail grocers.

Drought in Illinois. ST. LOUIS, Jan. three months the drought in Central and Southern Illinois has been unprecedented, and has now assumed such proportions that coal mines and manufactories of all kinds are compelled to shut down. The.

trouble is especially prominent along the Wabash line. Water, is being' MINNESOTA STATE NEWS Mason fw a HguMsote Baaksfs y- nfto-A The mystery of tHe suicide on cember 4 of Henry L. Branham, dent of the bank of Stevens at Litchfield, is solved. The bank insolvent, and Its president, who abo mayor of Litchfield, took his own life rather than meet his creditors. What was.

done with the moaey, whether spent in gmnbiling in grain and stocks or Invested badly in real estate, was unknown, but it was not in the bank. The liabilities of the institution were abopt 8150,000 and there was not $10,609 to pay'the tors. Conservative business men said the depositors would get no mip than 10percent. Joseph KUng, a young lawyer who came to St. Paul four years ago to accept the position ai assistant solicitor of the Manitoba Railway Company, lay at St.

Joseph's Hospital a hopeless lunatic. Dr. Talbot Jones examined Kling and nounced him non compos mentis," ing his friends to take care of him or he would suicide. In the last three months Kliiig had lost several thousand dollars. IChnhihg out of money he gave a large number of checks on the German-American Bank, at Which institution he had no funds.

Hearing that Sheriff Bear was after him he became violently insane. A Foolish In Ben Wade township Miss Annie Simonson, a girl of 15 years, met Christ Abrahamson at the gate of her yard and told him she could not marry him because she was too young. Abrahamson, who himself is but 18, pleaded with her a few minutes and then drew a revolver and shot her through the heart. Walking away a few yards he placed the weapon to his ple and fired, dying almost instantly. Church and Lottery Divorced.

Archbishop Ireland has issued a letter to the clergy of the archdiocese of St. Paul in which he peremptorily forbids every practice that in any way sembles a lottery at Catholic fairs, hibiting all selling of chances, raffles, fish-ponds, post-olfices and other vices generally in practice at such tertainments and upon which church people largely rely for their receipts. The letter created general interest. Robbed of Purse and Life. Mrs.

Mary McCormick, of olis, was found dead in her bed. Some days before the lady had met with a heavy loss by being robbed on a ed street-car of a packetbook ing $58 in cash and a note for $105, and, as she had been a sufferer from heart disease, it was supposed that the worry consequent upon this loss was the cause of her death. She leaves a family of three boys and two girls. Assaulted a Sehool-Teaeher. Jitmes Cruzen, his wife and daughter have been arrested for an assault upon Matilda E.

Lent, a school-teacher at Winnebago City, with intent to kill. The wife was the one directly accused. She made the assault upon Miss Lent with a heavy school-bell on account of a whipping the school-teacher had flicted upon her child. It was feared Miss Lent could not live. Returus Not False.

The jury in the case of J. O. Vervais, the St. Paul census enumerator who was charged with making false returns, brought in a verdict of not guilty. This was said to be the first complete trial of its kind in the history of the country.

trials of the lis enunrerators, charged with acy, would be held later at apolis. New Foit-Ofllcei. New post-offices have been established in Minnesota as follows: C. E. berlain, Belle Plaine.

Scott County N. C. Mann, Cologne, Carver County T. R. Boyle, Ba ioway, Swift County: Archie A.

True, North Siotuf Falls, Pipe Stone County. Tim ltri hauled hi oil tanks, bitt the demand is meihod of. supfeljrWl to take the plaeeof the I banks which lately failed. iir The proposed annexation of of Duluth will give that city an area oi sixty-three square miles. Ira C.

Aldrich, of Faribault, has been appointed by Commander-in-Chief Veasey of the G. A. R. an aide-de-camp on his staff. At a special school meeting at ton bonds in the sum of 515,003 wert voted for the purpose of building anew school-house at that place.

George W. Magee, proprietor of th Metropolitan at St. Paul failed, owing The assignee would rue the hostelry for the present. A meeting of the State fair directors in St. Paul resulted in the selection of September 7, as the opening day, the fair to continue through the week.

A store building at Pleasant Grove owned by Ross H. Russell was stroyed by fire. The building was cupied by Dr. Baker with a drug store. Charles Kemmie, of Minneapolis, has challenged any 140-pound fighter inthi to a ma'ch for a purse of aside bet of from $1,0 JO to S3 5 0.

M. B. Harrison has secured three new manufacturing concerns for woolen mill, furniture factory anc planing mill. The tcdy of an unknown man, whose skull was fractured, was found floating in the canal at Duluth. A body of hematite ore has been covered near Ely.

The find lies nea the famous Chandler mine. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has leen retained by the Duluth prop rty holders to present thrir ca es for ing title aga'nst the 1 rentice claim before the Un.ted States Supreme Court. Laurence Schmidt, a Salvation Army private in St. Paul, was captured by a policeman recently, charged with forgery. It is said that he purchased twenty-five cents worth of sugar at a grocery store, handing out a forged cl eck for seven dollars and getting sis dollars and seventy-five cents in return.

A dustless coal and grain chute hat been invented by T. W. Emery, a neapolis man. At the speed contest of the raphers' Business Association in St Paul Stephen C. Vasaly wrote 52( words correctly on a typewriter in five minutes.

Mrs. Thomas Dixon, of Minneapolis, was run over and killed by a switch gine. John Mills and William McMahon were sentenced at Winona by Judge Start to six years each in the prison for holding up Richard Hague and relieving him of Mr. and Mrs. William N.

Harrington, of Winona, celebrated their golden ding anniversary. Fred B. Matthews, for B. Kirkbride at lis, was missing, and it was feared thai he had m6t with an accident, T. C.

Ifacgrave and W. Gould, ol Minneapolis, have obtained a patent oo anew method of manufacturing sewei pipe. Charles F. Leland, of Thomson, will organize a National bank in Dulutb with' an capital LAW If AKERS. I ST.

tkfl, Jan. was a short session the Honee only yesterday, with L. Stone presidihg in the Ohamplin. General bills introduced were: To prevent crimes against the elective franchise to amend the road and bridge law to provide for mechanics' lien to fix the liability of Wws, counties and tions relating to defective bridges. ST.

PAUL, Jan. the Senate yes-' terday joint resolution gress to defeat, the bill guaranteeing the bonds of the and Nicaragua canal was downed. Donnelly and Hotnpe being chief opponents to the resolution. Among the bills introduced were By amending the constitution to provide for an income tax Lommen, to extend the time of payment for seed grain furnished in 1888 by Leavitt, to tax incomes of sleeping cars, telegraph, telephone companies.1 In the House the following bills were introduced: By Ball, to reduce interest from 7 to 6 and 10 to 8 by Erickson, to relieve the poor of a county by Bjorge, a bill providing for the submission of a constitutional amendment providing for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State of Minnesota at a special election to be held on Nov. 8, 1891.

Referred to the temperance committee by Feig, a bill regulating the salaries of certain county officers. Referred to the committee on public accounts and expenditures. Feig introduced a resolution posing that a committee of fifteen be pointed, ten by the speaker and five by the president of the Senate, to gate the capitol lands in Kandiyohi There were ten sections of these lands, and, according to Mr. Feig, the capitol could be located on one section and the expenses incurred could be defrayed from the proceeds of the sale of the mainder of the land. The new eapitol was not to cost more than $2,500,000.

ST. PAUL, Jan. the Senate yesterday after a resolution to gate the official action of Oil Inspector Nichols had been introduced by Senator La Due and adopted, the contested tion case of Searles vs. O'Brien was taken up on the report of the tee and the rest of the day consumed in consideration of the same without reaching a conclusion. The House was occupied all day in the introduction of resolutions and bills a large proportion of which were locaL The principal bills introduced were By Long, to compensate state prisoners for.

extra labor also one to prevent persons under 18 years attending nal trials By Diment, making sleeping car companies liable for property the same as hotels By Currier, to tax phone and express companies By Searle, regulating the liquidation of banking companies By Feig, to late the election of presidential electors By Diment, a bill to regulate the ing of grain and produce by railroads, inspection, and one by Stockwell raising the age of consent from 10 to 14 years. Feig's capitol removal tion was taken up and laid on the table. The Reeve resolution allowing each member $10 for postage was passed by a bare majority. ST. PAUL, Jan.

Senate terday was occupied all day with the Searles-O'Brien contested election case from Washington county niid tt was 5 30 p. m. when a vote was reached. O'Brien, Democrat, was given the seat. The vote was O'Brien, 82 and Searles 21.

Seven Republicans and three ance men voted for O'Brien. The House held but one session. When the noon hour was reached the table was practically cleared, an 1 adjournment was had until the next morning at 10 a. m. Mr.

Doyle introduced a bill providing for the taxation of mortgages and trusts. Mr. McGuire had two bills, one for the weighing and handling of grain, while the other was to protect farmers from loss by hail and cyclone. Mr. Battley sent up a bill providing for the inspection of steam boilers.

All other bills were local. A lively tilt was had over a resolution of Keyes providing for the retention of Warden Randall at the Stillwater prison until the investigation committee could finish work. It finallv went over under notice of debate. ST. PAUL, Jan.

branches held short sessions yesterday journed as a mark of respect to the memory of Secretary Windom, until Monday at 3 p. m. In the Senate nelly introduced a bill relating to liar bility of employers and employes. ator March, to regulate the inspection of grain by Sevatson, to tax express companies and by Dean to regulate common carriers. In the House the morning hour was occupied in discission of the Keyes resolution for the retention of Warden Randall at Stillwater.

The resolution was adopted. Searle presented a lution announcing the death of tary Windcm. After several seconding speeches were made a joint committee was appointed to draft resolutions and House adjourned. Doing: Things Up Brown. Mr.

Architect, we come to the library. I suppose that '11 have to be a pretty big room. presume so. How many books have you? thought we might leave that to the furnisher and decorator. 1 haven't any -Harper's Bazar.

a pretty idea, Johnny, to call your sailboat Mamma!" "Yes, if is: I tell you she's a iyn Eagle. PEOPLE OF ROYAL BIRTH. THE high court of Amsterdam has cided that all official and public servants shall address the little Queen as Tfing Wilhelmina. ONE block of real estate owned by Queen Victoria is the most valuable in the British Kingdom. It is in London, of course, and includes both sides of the Quadrant and Regent street from dilly circus to Oxford street.

ARCHDUKE CHARLES LOUIS, heir sumptive to the Austrian throne, will allowjhis sons but fifty florins a month until they attain their majority. At the age of eighteen they become free with an income of at least twenty thousand florins. THE Sultan of Turkey is not in all spects the ease-loving monarch he is ported to be. He passes a good part of the dfty with his secretary discussing matters pertaining to the Empire, and it is his boast that he has never signed a state paper without reading it. THE Princess Louise, daughter of Princess Christian, will be married to I Prince Aribert of Anhalt during the coming summer.

The private chapel at Windsor Castle will be used for the wedding cercmony and a whole stream of right-reverend prelates will be laid on for the occasion. I THE Persian Shah's dinner is served to him in two courses. The first is eomposed of caviare, pickled fruits, dried prunes and, apricots. Then, after an interval of jtwo hours, a dish of f.hwlr I broth, containing roast lamb, chicken and stewed apples, and a rice stew are placed before him. The Shah eats very daintily with the tips of his fingers.

I guess I have the utation xyt being one of the young lows about town who have more money than yet 'you are I lot arc yon?" WWRUAKV WIDfe AWAKE IS both timely and seasonable, in Lieut. FremonV's account of "Life at Frontier Forts," with illustrations from photographs, -and in William Zachary Gladwin's opening "NHuieye tor an eye and a tootb for a tooth la the olO-tlma Scripture day Bat I tell my love that a heart for a hesrt Is by far the Mtter way! curious little article. about "A Fish Army" is a sort of military pendant to Lieut. Fremont's article. "Sir Grimbald's Ransom" is a ballad, by Mary Bradley, of4 the brave Crusader cestor of the present British Minister of Washington, Sir Julian Pauncefote, whose braver lady gave her right hand to ransom her lord from the Saracens.

The unusually clever short stories of the number include the strange true count of "Aunt Dolly's Two Robbers," by Sydney Quarles, "Diamonds and Toads," by Mrs. Burton Harrison thor of "The and ers.) "A Little Nobody Who Became a Great Somebody" is Mary WagerFisher's account a poor French boy, who established cotton weaving in France and thereby became the friend of Napoleon. Miss Rimmer'o drawing lessons are developing most ingeniously. Dorothy Holcomb tells of "Home-Made Games." There are poems by Mrs. Whiton-Stone, Elizabeth W.

Bellamy, Mary E. Wilkins, and others. Kirk Munroe's railroading serial, "Cab and Caboose," becomes exciting, Margaret Sidney's "Peppers" is full of delightful doings, and "Marieta's Good Times" is unique as the naive autobiography of a little Italian girl. Men and Things sparkles with wit and anecdote. Bridgman's amusing pictorial skit, "Through the Dark Continent," drops the curtain to the laughter of the audience.

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