The Humboldt Republican from Humboldt, Iowa • Page 2

HUMBOLDT, IOWA. "the man who fights nnd runs away, don't live to fight another day." He kills himself to save his emperor any trouble. THK first birthday eelebrntion mentioned in history is thnt of Pharaoh, ns recorded in the twentieth verse of the fortieth chapter of Genesis, KIIOPK In.AND nnd Colorado nre both names descriptive of color, the latter named from its brightly hued cliffs, and the former from its "rwdy" or red cranberries. SI-SAN ANTHONY says has not fclept fit harm? for years. From this it would appear that her brand of woman suffrage is the imported article, for it certainly is not domestic.

RR-KS, in a went decision at Toledo, (L, fixed the maximum sum recovered in a United States court ns damage for loss of life at SIO.OOO. Other judges, however, would not necessarily bound by this ruling. AT Copenhagen. N. young worn- nn who held a thief until the police came was presented with diamond brooch nnd a letter of thanks from th: director of police, nnd nn offer of marriage from a well-kno-vu journalist.

THE Ttoston (ilobo thinks St. Valentine, lieorge Washington and Abraham a very distinguished triumvirate for so short month as February to furnish. They ure. And let it not lie forgotten thnt iu February also tho humble but not altogether insignificant groundhog has his day. Pwioirr L.

jiloonv. the evangelist, celebrated his 58th birthday recently in San Antonio, Tex. On the same day his mother, Mrs. Betsey Holton Moody. celebrated her "JOth birthday iu the house in which she brought up her children and In which she has lived sixty-six years in East Northfield, Jlass.

IN 1837 Fred Douglass was hunted in the alleys of New York like an escaped felon. The day after his recent death his widow received a most urgent re quest that his body might be allowed to lie in state In the governor's chamber in the municipal building of that city, like President Lincoln's and Grant's. LOTS of qiteer English floats into the pension office in Washington in the shape of letters, affidavits nnd other literature. One affidavit, after lauding the character of the claimant, says: is one of the committee that was appointed by the county to bury other disabled and impoverished soldiers not able to burv themselves." CI.AKA LOUISE KELLOGG, whose sweet once charmed two continents, is living in New York in comparative poverty. Once she was worth nearly 81.000,000, but it has all been swept away by unfortunate business ventures.

The once famous woman has lost her voice entirely, nnd has no way of recouping- her shuttered fortunes. DR. LOOMIS' will, disposing- of Sl.OOO,- 000, is nn illustration of the larpe fortunes rolled up by physicians who achieve prominence as specialists in York. This fortune was made in the main during the last ten years, and its size would indicate that the rumor which places the income of many of the New York crack doctors at 800,000 S75.000 a year ib not fur out of the way. THE artist Gibson says that he has seven t3 pes of the American Heauty, the Boy Girl, the Sentimental Girl, the Flirt, the Ambitious Girl, the Convinced Girl and the Well-Ualanced Girl.

He has not made many pictures of the last-named and confesses that ehe is the only one a man can fall in love with. Mr. Gibson is in danger of losing his popularity with the young ladies if he becomes too open with his confidences. a the Week. 1 INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. rrfXwditjRi of the Soranti SATI-RDAV. Feb. effort in I ho senate to take up the railway pooling- bill WHS defeated by vote of to The Indian appropriation bill wns further considered and the- nominntion nf Matt Hansom, senator from North L'arolina, for minister to Mexico, to succeed the Inte Isnnc Gray, was In the house proposition to pay an extra monthly salary to all the employe! of the house and senate was carried. The reading of the deficiency bill wus completed with the of a few amendments.

MUMIAY, Feb. In the senate the time was occupied in working upon the appropriation bills. An item in the sundry civil bill appropriating Sl.VUXX) for purchasing the historic property of the late G. Itlaine in order to prevent its use for theater purposes agreed to. In the house the deficiency approprinticm bill was passed after an amendment to pay Great HrUnin S40.VNK) in settlement o'f the Hehring sea award hnd been defeated.

Tt KsiiAY, Feb. time in the senate was occupied in discussing the sundry civil appropriation bill, the feature of the day being the passage of a sugar bounty proposition. aggregating S.Ni!OO.IKW. by a vote of to UU. A bill was passed for the construction of a bridge over the Illinois river at Ilennepin.

In the house the national arbitration labor bill was passed, as was also a bill for the publication of the bulletins of the department of labor. The remainder of the day was devoted to eulogies on the life and public services of the late Philip Sidney Post, of Illinois. WEDNESDAY. Feb. 27.

After the financial debate closed in the senate work on the sundry civil bill was proceeded with, and among the amendments agreed to was one authorizing the selection of nine commissioners to represent the United States at the international monetary conference. In the house the pension appropriation bill was passed and the post office appropriation bill was discussed. THURSDAY. Feb. as.

The senate passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, including- over for sugar bounties and the provision for a commission to represent the United at an international monetary conference. The executive and judicial appropriation bill was also passed. During a debate warm words passed between Senators Chandler, Hill and Martin. In the house the senate amendment to the bill to prohibit the wearing- of the sign of the Hed Cross without permission of the National Red Cross society was agreed to. was voted to insist on disagreement to the senate amendment to the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill providing for the Hawaiian cable.

FROM WASHINGTON. IN the United States the visible supply of grain on the L'Gth was: Wheat. 7lC- 470,000 bushels; corn. 12,000,000 bushels; oats, 0,772.000 bushels; rye. 340,000 bushels; barley, 1,522,000 bushels.

THE National Council of Women at their session in Washington elected Mary L. Dickinson, of New York, as president. AT the capitol a statue of Gen. Grant will soon be added to the group now in statuary hall. POSTMASTER GENERAL HIBSELI, placed his resignation in the hands of the president, to take eiTec-t in April.

PHYSICIANS of Washington were discussing a phenomenon offered by a young colored girl who was having the smallpox for the second time. THE present system of divorce laws was discussed by the National Council of Women at Washington. DUIUNG February the treasury receipts were within $2,311,278 of tbe expenditures. THE president nominated Congressman W. L.

Wilson, of West Virginia, for postmaster general, to succeed Wilson S. Bissell, resigned. Woo JAN, a Chinese laundryman of Ashland, went into a grocery store of that town the other day and paid for a bill of groceries for a destitute faintly. He requested that the beneficiaries be kept in ignorance of the identity of the donor. In New York the collector for charity called at Wat's house and asked for a contribution for the destitute.

Both the proprietor and his assistant put their hands in their pockets and each contributed six dollars. There is yet hope for the heathen. THK distress in Newfoundland, since the failure of the banks there, is so pro- uounced that the mayor of Boston has appointed a relief committee and it is expected that 825,000 will be raised in fc New England for the sufferers. It is represented that if help is not promptly accorded, thousands of people will die of starvation. It would seem as if Great Britain, which holds the suzerainty over Newfoundland, should relieve the distress of the inhabitants, or else surrender the province to the United States.

If Uncle Sara had that country he could make something out of it. A prKt-iAT. prand jury at Kansas City found twenty-one indictments for frauds at the fnll election. FI.AMKS that started in Oeland's sawmill anil heading factory at It lack Hock. caused a loss of 8100.000.

AT his home near Logansporl. John Iturke celebrated his HUM birth- tiny. Porri.isT* of tlie Third Michigan nominated Robert McOougall, of Millstlale county, for congress. TIIK Kentucky prohibitionists in state convention nt Louisville nominated T. H.

Ocmaree, of Louisville, for TIIK monster polyglot that the protection of the government may no more be vouchsafed to the Bale of intoxicating liquors and opium, or to the legalizing of the social vice was presented to the United Htates government by representatives of the World's Christian Temperance union. The petition is signed by four million persons, in fifty different languages, its tour around the world, under the care of members of the union in all portions of the globe, and is as large as a barrel, and it is to be probe Ltd to the heads of all the civilized governments of the world. IT has long been claimed by medical journals and practitioners us well as by scientific men generally that long continued cold weather destroys microbes, freezes out miasma, and kills oil the germs. We have had phenomenally lung continued cold this winter, (surpassing the memory of the oldest inhabitant, and yet in the memory of tliut same tiresome old person there has never been a time when the germs and microbes have been mure plentiful or wore phenomenally agile, active and industrious, or when uiiasiua, malaria, uud all the other murderous m'b have their work more (successfully. THE EAST.

New York Charles L. Hobart, a member of the produce exchange, was married at noon and died In the evening while attending a theater with his bride. AT Lynn, an epidemic of grip prevailed to an alarming extent, there being over 500 cases, and marfy deaths had occurred. FRED DOUGLASS' remains were buried at Rochester, N. after impressive ceremonies in Central church.

THE friends of Frank G. Lenz, the American bicyclist who was lost in Asia Minor ten months ago, have organized a search for him. ON the Paris Gen. Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army, sailed from New York for London. IN Pittsburgh, all but three labor organizations seceded from the Knights of Labor.

IN New York Hamburger A importers of leaf tobacco, made an assignment with liabilities of 8300,000. JN the Delaware house members of the W. C. T. U.

sang the doxology when the vote repealing the bottle law was announced. THK death of William Ward, a member of the Forty-Hfth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh congresses from the Sixth Pennsylvania district, occurred at his home in Chester, aged 58 years. WEST AND; SOUTH. AT Portland, und Tacoma, distinct earthquake shocks were felt. AT Indianapolis a national society for 2.oys from the ages of 12 to 18 was incorporated under the name of the "Princely Knights of Character Castle." The originator is Kev.

A. Connor. DEMOCRATS of the Tenth Illinois district nominated Fred K. Uubtiim for congress. IN the cloakroom at the art exhibition Mrs.

Isaac Reynolds, a society leader of Cleveland, dropped dead. By the explosion of an oil pump boiler Alfred Daugherty and Oliver Lock wood were fatally scalded near Nottingham, I ud. THE marriage of David Irwin. ugcil 87 years, occurred in Chicago to Mrs. AmiiuA.

XorrU, aged 114 years. This is the groom's third matrimonial experience and the bride's hecond. WILLIAM and Curtis Waltz were killed by the bursting of the boiler iu a wuv- mill near Adelphi, O. AT Hoifcingtou, John M. llerres, a shoemaker, fatally stabbed his wife, killed his 4-year-old daughter, Fuuuie, and then committed suicide.

lie was crazed with liuuor. DEBS LECTURES. Gather to Listen to the Famous Labor Leader. AT the age of SI Gen. Mnpon llraymun.

ex-governor of Idaho, one of the oldest masons in the t'nited States, died at Kunsus City. Mo. llv gas explosion thie to imperfect ventilation twenty-eight men employed in the mines at Cerrillos, N. were killed. AT her home in Port Fulton, Mary Marshall, aged HIS years, dropped dead.

She was born in Virginia in 17. 7. Is Detroit Adjt. Gen. fhurles L.

Kiiton, of Michigan, fell dead with apoplexy of the heart while attending funeral. IN Chicago fire destryed the Kuestner building, occupied by numerous tenants, und several adjoining houses, entailing loss of 9400.0iiO. TIIK Nevada legislature passed concurrent resolution striking the wort! "male' 1 out of the constitution. linos'. Hour mill ut Pen body.

was completely destroyed by fire, the loss being Tin; republicans- of the Tenth Illinois district nnminjiU-d Gem-go W. Prince, of (iuleshurg, for congress on the ballot. FIUK destroyed the factory of the Chicago Pipe Works company nt New Philadelphia. the loss beiug OOd. THE prohibitionists nominated A.

M. Todd. of for congress, to succeed Senator Burrows. IT wus shown by an autopsy on Herman of Terre Haute, who died while lifting an ice chest, that his heart had broken in two. AT La Grange, Enos Hundall nnd his wife died almost simultaneously.

Randall's death was the result of a protracted illness, but his wife had been in perfect health. THK directors of the Minneapolis exposition formally offered the building and site to the, state for capitol purposes. AT Kingston, N. a cigarette carelessly thrown by a boy started a tire that caused loss of DAVID JON KB, of Klwood, after 152 dnysand nights of wakefulness, fell into a refreshing sleep. A MAN named Kirbj- L.

May, who, by representing himself as a young girl anxious to marry, had victimized men in all parts of the country, was arrested in St. Louis. UEMOCHATH in convention at Snginaw, nominated John W. MeGrath for supreme judge and Charles J. Pail- thorp, of Petoskey, and Strntton D.

Brooks, of Isabella county, for regents of the state university. Resolutions declaring for free silver were adopted. THE Michigan legislature passed a bill providing for registration iu the city of Detroit. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. KOMK seventeen thousand Chinese, supported by twenty guns, attacked the Japanese position at llai Cheug, but were repulsed.

A HAND of natives attacked the Britr ish expedition on the Brass river in Africa aud were defeated and several of their towns burned. MARTIAL law was declared through out Cuba, several outbreaks having 1 occurred at Cieufuegos und Matanzas. FI.AMKS which broke out in the government immigration building ut Halifax destroyed property worth GOVERNMENT soldiers shot Manuel Garcia, a famous Cuban highwayman, with a companioitln Havana. O-N a mountain bide near the City of Mexico an excursion train jumped the track, forty-two persons being killed and thirty or more seriously injured. THE steamer King-don, Capt.

Jones, which left Hamburg December 18 last for Philadelphia with a crew of thirty- six meu, wus given up as lost. firftre rtmrKfR nut the General There Vlllnlnv llchlnil tho Slur the Deputy Manhnl. Cim-Aon, Mnreh 15. V. Prlis.

president of the AmcrU'nn Ituilwuv union, elivered his lerture: "Who are the onspt ni tors," to itn audience of people 'hnrsduy nijrht. LATER NEWS. RICHARD O. OORMAX, the eminent Irish Naturalist, died at his home in New York City the 1st, aged 75. FIFTY tramps attempted to capture the town of Decatur, hut were driven off by the marshal and a posse only after a hard fight, in which three of the tramps were wounded by piste! shots.

IN the yachting carnival off Cannes, France, in the Muditcrunean sea the American 10-rater, Dacotah, won in her class, after an exciting race, and the Kptunnia won in her class by ii, minutes. Valkyrie I. have beaten the Britannia on time allowance, bul she wus very badly handled at the finish. IN a duel between M. Pcrcher and Le Chatelles, near Paris, France, the 1st, Mr.

Percher was thrust through the right lung and killed. THK wall of an old malt house of E. Schuyler, in New York, fell upon a number of workmen who were en gaged in tearing it do.vn the 1st. Three dead bodies were taken out in a few hours after and several injured were extrucatui). TUB refusal of the Sneath glass works at Hammond, to pay union wages to blowers resulted in a strike oi 250 men.

GKOHOR MAGEE was hanged for murder at Frankfort, the 1st. lie was pronounced dead In 13 minutes, his neck being broken by the fall. TIIK consolidation of the Chicago Times with the Herald was uniiouncet the 1st. Itoginnlng with March 4 tin paper appeared as the Times-Uerald with James W. Scott editor-in-chief am publisher and Henry HaVley man uging editor.

A witiit-'K on the New Jersey Central railroad n.eur Jluyonne, N. the 1st by a broken axle on a coal car, in the death of W. II. Thomas and Winfield Ho.laud. LATE it dispatches from Mexico placo the number killed the railroad disuu ter at 101.

The cause of the wreck was the failure of the engineer to apply the brakes when the train started dowi the grade. D. It. JOXKS, crank at San Francis co, wants to form republic, of tho state i west of the Uouky Tin-, L'. S.

senate the 1st conflrmci the nomination of Hon. L. Wilboi as pjbtmastor general. lUiutY HILL, the murderer of Mat ihevv Allison, was hunycd ut i'lutts rnouth, the 1st. the Auditorum he address wus 'plete with enustic utterances lined nt the general malingers, he nited States deputy marshals und the ourts, and the erowd applauded the generously.

"The railroads ill find out before they get through lint they undertook a bigger contract tiau they imagined when they tried down the American Railway union." nM Mr. Dobs. "The general manage) ould have averted the I'ullutan strike they would havi- only said one word, ut that one word was wanting." After very extensive review of the causes lint led up to the great strike of Jebs said: "If the railroads would pay dividends on onesi Investments they would ho to pny oncst wtiirrs. Tho merit 1 Mumpers' HS- ticlatlnn went duo ptirtni'rshlp with the 'ullnian company to crush HIP life mil the A. U.

Hack of It nil wus recmioelved Idea of all the rullromls to wer the wnjrcs of emjiloyrs of all tho rall- uds nil over the country. This has been me. as history will show. In their unifies ffuith. UK pndllstu'd In rhfciipn niornlnit per, the Mutineers, association tie- hired Unit they would stiuid mutually pt'iulent and Unit they would furnish nicy, men and to each other ml Unit they wlshcJ to Toiler sympathuliir trlltes so that the proposed cut in wnce-4 I Id lie ami fur- reach Ing- The ieral association was formed for Mtic sympathetic strikes uml who, then, lire conspirators';" The speaker praised Judge the fairest-minded man on the bench.

'timing his attention to the deputy mirshuls, Mr. Delts said: "When I wns here a few days npo I met Ciipt. 'aimer, of the Chk-atio tire department. He old me his company was tlKhtlnff the re In the line of boxcars near Fifty -tlfth htrcet the strike, he found man cutllnR the oae there. He promptly 'slutfuecl' htm and that he wore dcmity marshals' slur.

Two fflcers In citizen's clothes caiiffht two men vlth oiled wiisto In a liox car und they were Iso found to lie deputy marshals' These marshals were from the scum of he city." In conclusion Mr. Debs said that tho orporations had driven freedom out the land, but he still had confidence the integrity of the people, ami ex- lected to sen that freedom restored rough the medium of the ballot box. rhlch it was still possible for the work- ng people to control. He added: "The working people are beginning to think nd they will soon benln to act. They will not outlnue to supplicate for their rights, but hoy will take them.

Not in violence, not in lotlnw, not In anarchy, but in lawful mun- icr will they take them. "I have come to believe that Industrial trlkes cannot help the working people. They acrtMise the sense of oppression. But I do be- ieve that the working people will Inanimate not by leavlntr their employment but by strlklnK at the ballot box. I believe a bel- er day Is dawning.

If the night Is tlaru. 1 bc- ieve that the dawn of the clay of einuuct pa- Ion Is close at hand." BEHR1NG SEA AWARD. A Small Majority OeftmtH the Appropriation In Hotittcs "WASHINGTON, Feb. item under discussion in com mi t- of the Monday wus the HARRY ACCUSES ADRY. Brother Illffh- wHjmnn Who Ilthl lip Mint MINNEAPOLIS.

Feb. yn. Defendant Harry Hnvwiml reH-rnncd stand nt the opening- of tho (ling murder trial Monday morning. He hnd evidently been enutioned Mr. Krwin und Rhmvrd a disposition to condense hm testimony.

His nnrrntive wus resumed nt the pttint where he returned to the after the then tor und first heard the news thnt there hnd been nn accident. lie hud dinietilty persuading lionRinun, tin- liveryman. who was toli-phoning- about it to police headquarters, to tell who wus killed, lie thought it was Miss (Jing Miss Ireland, and when finally ho lonrned thnt it was Miss (iing he been me very mueh exeited. Mr. Krwln asked him to deseribe his experience in he "sweot-bux." and despite Mr.

Nye's objections he was allowed to do so. Haywurd described how he was tnken to tho morgue, itnd shown the dead body with everybody wn tching hiiii. Me didn't know what he did. but snid he felt very bad, nnd knew everyone there thought him guilty. On Thursday he and Adry arrested und put in a eell together.

Adry seemed very down in the mouth, und Harry said to him: "We're not guilty. What's the use of feelliifr this way?" Hut Adry wus dispirited, and finally Harry said: "Adry, what is this'. 1 You held her up with Adry was silent and refused to talk any more. After that there wus no further conversation between them. This evidence caused Mutter of excitement.

It brought in the story hich on Thursday had been ruled out by the court to the effect that Adry wus the masked who last April had held up and robbed Harry. Miss und Miss Veddcr while they were out riding. The fnet that the charge was thus brought before the jury Monday morning will probably lead to a ventilation the whole episotle. Adry, it is understood, will go on the stand nnd deny the storv with an alibi. Did you have anything to do mendmcnt offered by Mr.

Breckin- in charge of the bill, appropriate to pay the llritish government in full for all dam- iges claimed by the Canadian sealers vlio were prevented by the United States from pursuing the seals or seized while so nt work, in accordance with the agreement reached by Sccre- Greshara nnd Ambassador Paunce- last August. The committee on appropriations, by i tie, refused to incorporate the item the bill to be reported to the house. It was advocated by Messrs. Brcckin- ridge, McCruary und (dc.ni.. und opposed by Messrs.

Cannon Ilitt 111.) und Henderson In committee of the whole the amendment wns agreed to by a small majority; but iu the house, on a call of the yeas and nuys, it was 112. INTO THE RAVINE. An Excursion Truln In Mexico a Fatal I'lunjje. CITY or MEXICO, March excur- iion train coming into this city on the nter-Oceanic railroad met with an accident Thursday afternoon, as a result of which forty-two dead bodies are now lying in the improvised morgues of a little village 30 miles from here, while thirty other persons are so seriously Injured that many of them will die. The train consisted of ten coaches, all filled with pleasure-seekers, who were taking advantage rf a low rate for a visit to the capital.

Many of the passengers were women and children. The train was un hour late, and the engineer wus endeavoring to make up lost time. Suddenly, while rounding a curve on the side of a mountain, the engine jumped the track and with five of the heavily laden coaches plunged over the bluff and to the bottom of the ravine, a distance of over 100 feet. The cars were smashed into kindling wood. CONSPIRACY CHARGED.

South Uukota Out for Taylor's FrlencU. S. Mar. sensation was caused here Wednesday by the arrest of Charles T. McCoy, of Aberdeen, one of the lending politicians of the state.

The arrest was made upon a warrant sworn out by Attorney General Crawford ngulnst McCoy. Daniel K. Tenney, the well-known Chicago attorney and president of the civic federation; John L. McChesney, a prominent broker of New York, and Charles Wells, of Chicago, who is known to be in close relations with Tunnuy, The warrant charges thuf the four men implicated formed a conspiracy to prevent W. W.

Taylor, the latc htute treasurer, from paying over to the state the money in his possession Jan ua ry 8, uud to compel him to divide it among tneui. Ittoivit to JMecm. CHII.LICOTIIK, Feb. has just readied here that the sawmill of Jucob Woltz, near South Perry, PRISON OR EXILE. r.x-Ouppii Mtlunkiiliinl IPiivvMI Miiy IlnvR Ilpr HoNor.n.r.

I-VK 11. per steamer (file- lie, via San Francisco. Kub. The government has caused the arrest tif 381 persons since 0, of whom ninety-four have been tried before the military court. Sentences in but twenty-four cases have been made public, twenty-three natives charged with treason and V.

V. Ash ford, charged with misprision of treason. Fifty-five men have been released by the authorities; the military court acquitted two. Three men, Cranston, and Mueller, were deported. It is understood that the queen sentence will.be five years for the part she has taken in the trouble.

1'robubly she will be allowed to leave the country without serving the sentence if she so desires. Twenty-four natives have been sentenced to prison for terms ranging from seven to eight years. The sentences found instant favor among the people generally, though some thought Uipikane ut least should have been summarily dealt with. In regard to the dispatch sent by Secretary Ureshum to Minister Willis about dciuftndiiifr a delay of execution, Attorney Ueneral Smith stated that the government luid no intention of executing the condemned men until the military court concluded its labors and every fact bearing on the case was brought out. Mr.

Smith intimated nothing 1 would be ttonc until the United States government is in possession of the facts in each case. According to the attorney general the queen will nut be sent out of the country. WASHINGTON, Feb. Willis has been instructed to insist on postponement of the execution of American citizens in Hawaii until the charges and evidence can be looked into. LAID AWAY TO REST.

TROUBLE IN GEORGIA. Serious Trouble Niirrowly Averted by the Ml 11 Miry iu SAVANNAH, Feb. openly made against ex-Priest Joseph Slattery. who was to deliver a lecture here on the Roman Catholic priesthood, culminated Tuesday evening when the lecture was delivered. All efforts to have the ex-priest's permit to lecture revoked proved futile.

The lecture, it is stated, contained no offensive language, but the crowd which had gathered on the outside began to hurl stones the wintlows. The police ordered the crowd to disperse, but it refused to do bo. The riot alarm was Bent in. and soon eight infantry companies and a troop of dismounted cavalry were upon the scene. By this time the lecture was over.

The crowd on the outside numbered several thousand. A portion of it kept yelling and hurling bricks ut the windows of the hall. A few shots were fired In the air by the rioters, but no one was hurt. Peacemakers hud no influence with the crowd. The audience had to be dismissed under military protection.

Police and soldiers escorted the lecturer and his wife to their hotel. Service the of In unit Rorhfitrr. WAMHXOTON, Feb. 28. From 0:110 Monday morning till 1:110 in the afternoon thousands of persons, both white and eolored.

passed in double through the Metropolitan African Methodist Kplscopul onurtrh. where the funeral services over Vhr re mains of Frederick Douglass took place, nnd viewed the remains of the dead freedman. The altar anil reading desk covered with floral tributes. Tin? funeral sermon was preached by Kev. (J.

Jenifer, pastor of the church. Itev. II. 10. Stevenson, pastor of the white ehurch in Anncostia.

followed with a brief address. Kev. J. II. Kunkin.

president of Howard university, also delivered a brief eulogy. Mr. John Ittltehinson. who hud, with his sister, accompanied Mr. Douglass to England on his mission against slavery, told some touching stories of his life-long friendship with the deeeascd, and then sang two requiem solos.

Secretary Nicholas, of tho llaytien legation in the I'nited States.representing Minister llientji'ns, delivered a brief eulogy In French, which was translated by ex-United States Minister Durhnm. The woman also rendered their tributes to the deceased. Miss Susan B. Anthony read a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth C'ady Slant nn, which wns highly eulogistic.

Mrs. May Wright Sewali spoke feelingly of Mr. Douglass, who, she said, had nnt only opened up the way to the emancipation of his own people but to the emancipation of women. Tho hymn "Seeking for Me" was followed with an eloquent prayer by Uev. Anna II.

Shaw, nnd then Bishop Williams, of the colored Methodist Episcopal ehurch, pronounced the benediction. N. Feb. ter wus in mourning Tuesday for Frederick Douglass. At 1:30 o'clock tho remains wore taken to Central church (Presbyterian), the largest und one of the handsomest in the city, where the final services in honor of the city's dead were hold.

At the close of tho exorcises the remains were taken to Mount Hope cemetery. The remains were placed beside his first wife. IOWA STATE NEWa Wed Wlthont Pnrontal Conwrnf. Rarah Jnne Polk, daughter of Jcffer- unn S. I V.Ik, railway magnate and multi-millionnire, was married in Mi Keedcn, the study of 'lev.

It. O. if the Centra, church of M'GANN BILL PASSED. was blown up and AVoltx and Tuesday his son morning William and a man named Curtis uro killed or fatally wounded. Curtis had his bowels blown out, ami Jucob's head was nearly severed from the body; William was found 40 feet from the lu ill, with an arm uud a leg missing.

BISSELL RESIGNS. Wtlaon to lie runtiunster Oen- cntl In IIU iMitL'o. WASHINGTON. March 1 General Hissell set at rest all doubt as to his purpose of remaining in the cabinet by tendering his resignation to President Cleveland Wednesday after noon. As far buck as the early autumn Mr.

Jtlsscll felt that his law practice at Itnffalo required his personal attention, und at that time he notified the president that sooner or later hu would be compelled to retire to private life. Nothing further passed between the two gentlemen with reference to the, matter until ten diij's ago, when Mr. ISisKell again assured the president that he must soon resign his portfolio. March president has nominated William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, to succeed Wilson S.

llissell us postmaster general. He does not expect to qualify until the 1st Mraptiro I'rnvldliiK Cnr Arbitration Iti I.a- hnr DtdputeM Srnt to the Semite. WASIII.NUTOX. Keb. L'8 hud its innings in the house Tuesday with the result that an urbitratlon bill recommended by the leaders of all of the railway labor organizations in the country, by Carroll D.

Wright, the commissioner of labor, and drawn in part by Attorney General Olney, was sent to the senate for its action. The bill wns reported from the committee on labor by Mr. Erdman who explained its provisions in a brief statement to the house and answered questions that were put to him by various members with regard to its practical operations, A synopsis of the main features of the McGann bill adopted by the house: The purpose at tho bill is to provide a board of conciliation, consisting of the commissioner of labor und the ohalrtmm or the interstate commerce commission, whose duty shall bo when a controversy concerning hours of Inbor or conditions of cm- loytncnt arise between a carrier under this act and tho employes of such carrier, seri- usly interrupting or threatening to tnter- ujit the business of said carrier, to put tht-m- elves In communication with tho parties to uch controversy and shall use their bust ef- orts, by mediation and conciliation, to uinlcu- )ly setllc the and. if such (Tor Is Khali ie unsuccessful, shall at once endeavor to irhiK about an arbitration of said controversy submitting the same to a board consisting it throe persons, one to he chosen by the cm- one by tho employer, und two iclceting the third. ONLY AGAINST LIVE CATTLE.

French Kmbargo DOCK Not Extctitl to or Culm ml Iteef. PARIS March .2 Contrary to the cabled reports received here the United States ambassador to France, Mr. lames It. Kustice, has not received in- tructionsto protest against the French exclusion of American cuttle from this country. It seems that there is a misapprehension in the United States in reg-urtl to scope, of the decree, which applies )nly to American live'cattle and which Iocs not affect tinned or dressed beef.

It is learned that France took this with the greatest reluctance. M. tlanotaux, the minister of foreign af- says: myself, was greatly opposed to the issue of the decree, and it was only done after the minister of agriculture hud assured us that there was positive evidence that disease miong the cattle lunded existed. "I urn not willing to agree to any step which bo construed an unfriendly to the United but Germany, Belgium and Knglund itive already taken exactly the KUOIC prucau- tlojis, uud we are tho last nation to do so." TERRIFIC MINE-EXPLOSION. An Awful Disaster Is Reported from New Mexico.

CKKRILOB, N. March One of the most serious accidents known in the territory is reported from White Ash, 3 miles from here. The accident occurred at 11:30 a. m. Wednesday in tho mines of the Santa Fe company, caused by an explosion presumably of powder.

A dense volume of smoke poured from tho entrance. There were seventy men at work in the mi no at the time, but none were injured to any extent except those who, being unable to extricate themselves, succumbed to the deadly after damp. Twenty-four bodies have been recovered which accounts for all the men except tone, a stranger. The victitnh for the most part were buried Thursday afternoon, in ah hi the lurg funeral New Mexico has ever seen in Christ, to Albert Maish. insurance The couple immediately left fnr Denver, but will return to DPS Mttlnes for permanent residence.

The mutch was made In opposition to the wishes of the younjr Indy's parents. Attempted to Wru-k Trnln. An attempt wns made to wreck tho Iturlinffton pussenper train on tho QuitK-y brunch miles south uf Carman. A pile of ties had been placed on the track. Kohhins Raw tho obstruction in time to apply brakes I so that the train did not encounter it, full speed, nnd no damage resulted esides a general shaking up of the ssc pers.

Convicted nil fount. Patrick Itrudy. e.x-Mverscer of the ior at OHiimwu, and one of the cmm- boodlers. was found guilty of nb- iiininfj money by false pretenses by olleetiiifj hundreds of dollars for suji- of mythical paupers. Thin wns mt one of six indictments found lyulnst him.

The extreme penalty iu even years in the penitentiary. I'nronntltutloinil l.niv HtmuH. Judge Holmes, of the Des Molnes liMriet eotir'. holds that the act of the t-gishiture providing for the unnexu- jon of Miburlis to Di's MoinVs is uncoii- hut that the question not avlng been raised soon enough the aw would now stand because of the )oople sleeping on their rights since ts enactment in IMto. OflU'rni IClrrtml.

At the twenty-fifth annual state con- 'cntion in Oskuloosa of the Young Men's Christian association ofllcers vi-re chosen for the coining year us follows: President. Thomas 11 Foster. Ottumwn; vice presidents. K. C.

Ut-s Mollies, and A. secretury, P. -Irlmm, Drake university; ussislant (secretary, Fred MrUcu, Sioux City. Mulct T.nw Not Ho Kxpprmlvc. The record of the justices of tho icuce for the last six months of 18tU, when the mulct Inw was in force -he first time, compared with the first six months of 1HH3.

when the prohib- tory law was in force and seizures and Rearuhes were being made, shows that Polk county saved by the mulct JMtMl of IIU Wound. CHICAGO, Feb. H. Hub erlo, of Milwaukee, the young mar who was accidentally shot Sunday evening by Prof. A.

Ueickolf on Idngel's i-ituyv, died Monday afternoon in the hospital. The murksmuii who llrcd the fatal shot is still locked up in tho police station und will be held until released by jury. time of pence. The Sucur Ituunty. WASHINGTON, Feb.

proposition was taken up In the senate Tuesday to pay to the sugar producers of the United States the full bountj' up to August, when the now tariff bili went into who had no 1 yet received and eight tenths of a cent per pound bounty on till sugars above HO per cent, polurl scope test, produced up to June-30, lB All side issues were either ruled ou us not in order or we.ru voted down und then the question wus taken squarely on the committee, amend meat. The first clause of th bounty up to August, ugrcei -Iti; nuys, 20; und the sccont cluuse for bounty for the year up t' June 80, wus ugrcctl Ulj nuys, yii, Came Death of HorflPi. The state veterinary has examined a number of tho stomachs of the seven- horses lost In a short time by J. 11. Nlelert, of Marion county, and pronounced the cause of death due to rubs taken into the stomach by the animals gnawing into the ground when on the short grass.

SnvtMl from Sulcldo. The dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dillon was burned at New London and Mrs.

Dillon bravely saved her husband Irom a horrible death by drugging lim out of the house, lie is an invalid ind, it is said, he saturated the room with coal oil und started the blaze with suicidal intent. In Ilrln', Hop Lee, a Chinese laundryman at Ottmnwu, was almost murdered at his of business by two negro thugs, ivho robbed him of 8700. They were irrer.ted. The annual convention of the Southeastern Iowa Teachers' association was held at Fail-held with 501) delegates present. State Superintendent Henry Subin delivered an address.

The furniture factory of Knostman Peterson was damaged by fire ut Davenport to the extent of $7,000. The Star bottling works at Oskuloosa were robbed of a wagon loud of beer and other liquors. Five of the burglars were arrested and most of the liquor was found. J. llohauon was arrested in Des Moines for counterfeiting and ollicers found in his trunk a complete outfit for the manufacture of silver dollars, and numerous finished coins.

Fifteen creameries in ferro Gordn county last year paid farmers for milk over SiiOO.OUO. Miss Conlin, aged 22, was fatally shot at Creston by her younger brother, who was playing with a gun which he thought was not loaded. Maj. W. T.

Seward, sentenced to death for connection with the recent insurrection at Honolulu, was a former resident of Fairfield, and is the only brother of Mrs. C. Slagle. W. K.

Rees, of Slay ton, wan held up two men on a prominent street Sioux City and relieved of SltlO curb. He had 8000 cash In another pocket which the robbers overlooked. Ed an Iowa man with a S2 000 Def-i Moines life insurance policy on him, was found dead in a boarding house at Denver, leaving a narrative story of trouble with his wife, who had deserted him. Thomas Meredith, of Des Molnes, has withdrawn his name entirely from the bond of J. C.

Yetzer; the alleged fraudulent Atlantic banker, which will leave Yetzer in jail. George Hitman, who is one of the Americans deported from Hawaii for making dynamite bombs for Queen Lai, lived in Ottumwa. lie left for Honolulu some years ago. Uoy Mintle, 18 years old, was killed by the cars at Griunell. H.

C. Warner took poison by mistake for medicine at Missouri Valley uud died. G. W. Burton was found dead in his mining camp near Stewart's park.

Ho was widely known and formerly wealthy. All the factories and gas and electric light plants started up again at Fairfield after an enforced idleness of several weeks caused by no water. Military Higgblude, general merchants ut Alta, assigned, with liabilities of 830,000 uud assets of 837.UOU. A railroad bridge carpenter named Kellers was instantly killed at Dayton by being struck by Northwestern freight train. Mrs.

Ann Malvon, about 80 years old, was burned to death ut (ireeley. She was atone in the house, aud her clothing caught tlov. Jackson has appointed A. J. Mc, Creury, of Iveokuk, district judge to 111! the vacancy cuuseil by thu death of lllnuitullUti Active.

LONDON, Feb. committee of the bimetallic U-aguy bus resolved to djjo Casey of Fort Madison. ttohicH, March tl. An effort will increase, its propagation fund to OUO. fnml hus cached tioui, uiu.li..