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TREEBOBN CO. STANDARD. WILLIAMS DKAKE, Publishers. ALBERT LEA, MINNESOTA THE prospects or "winter wheat, are' somewhat better than a week ago, bnt 110 body pretends that an average crop will be- harvested. The deScit will give assurances of better prices for the spring varieties.

Farmers will perceive-the point without urther elaboration, tYir for STEEL is Jiby sleepers or ''ties," which said to be very flexible and -will out-last the toughest rails, while their great cost over timber ties will be compensated their greatei endurance and the diminished expenditure of relaying. NEWS SUMMARY. RAILROADS. The Chicago, St. Paul Omaha 13 now running trains at all points.

This road has had the worst time of any with blockades aud floods. AH the railroads centering at St. Paul will raiae thd grade grounds orvth'e of the river. The late Jiooa taught 'them bae good esson. The coutiact for grading twenty-five miles of the Wisconsin i Michigan road," from Foit Howard north, has beea let to L.

Rossiter, La Crosse. Walter H. Blown, ex-president of the Fort Dodge Fort Ridgely railroad company, has" skipped oat The sheriff of Enunett county' wants him to exuiaiu what he did -with $1,000 THE Methodist of Vermont adopted a resolution whereby members of the conference agree not to marry divorced persons excepting the innocent one where the cause is adultery. Other religious bodies have action. The divorce mania has-reeeutly prevailed to a greater extent in the older states than iu the west, hence this method of discouraging the practice.

to the 3chool Qf gwa are township, while he was of the board. RECORD OF CKIBIE. Iu a political discussion in a aaloou in Sr. Paul, oil the evening before the city election, John W. Carter put a bullet into the breast of I a Swede named William Munson, but the not fatal r- i The.

trial at of Capt.fi. Thomas, who killed M. Hough his brother-in-law, for seducing his daughter, resulted in a verdict of manslaughter, with recommendation for the least punishment under the law. It is.supposed the governor will he petitioned to immediately pardoii Thomas. A affair occurred on Saturday eva-, ning at Fond du Lac, sixteen miles from Duluth.

A party of lumbermen went into C. A. Krouse's store and called for Plantation Bitters. Krouse saw they 'weie partially iiiloxi- I cated and refused to let them have it They I began to crowd him pretty herd when Krouae REPORTS received at the treasury depart- picked up a shot gun and" emptied a load of duck shot into the leg of a Frenchman named ment shows that tne export of merchandise Le Duc Dr Kolaati went at midnight Satur- roni the United States for the year ending day and has taken out aoiue forty shot already. with the April is tbe Largest of If'the leg haa to be amputated "the man -will very likely die.

EG. Frost, president of the Franco-Texan Laud company, at Weatherford, has absconded, leaving heavy debts behind him. It any year since the foundation of the government. The aggregate for the year named amounts to 257, 025. Estimating the exports for April, and the aggregate for thirteen months amounts to fully one billion dollars, or more than half of the public debt.

A LARGE number of Mormons have arrived in New York from Europe, destined for rtah and Wyoming and the church generally is represented as in a flourishing condition. As old as the world is, there are yet a great number of people who do not seem to understand that persecution always defeats its intent. The more the Mormons are persecuted by self-righteous and dissolute gentiles, the greater will be the accessions to their number. A NEWSPAPER correspondent, doubting the statement about Secretary Elaine's ill health, went up to the state department to see for himself whether or not he was a dying man. He found very lively corp.se, gave a little jkewuatvsm in his knees; I leaves a' family, looks and feels like a bridegroom, and, in the presence of a room-full of people, dispatched business with unexampled rapidity.

The reporter thinks Ids good spirits and good temper will give him a longer life than either Coakling or Cameron. is said that he'appropriated fjO.OOO of the company's money, and that he owea $3.500 to different parties in the town and along the railroad. He left riding on horseback, leading another, waa armed with a couple of six era and a twenty-aix shooting Evan's i ifle. It is believed he has" gone to Arizona 'or New Mexico. It is also believed which the company subscribed towards building a court house "at Sweet Water, Xolan county, and put it in his own pocket The Frauco- Land company has some of the moat prominent men the State connected with it.

FUSES AND OTHJ2K CASUALTIES. The handsome house of James McAlpiue at Milwaukee waa burned. Thordo mill and lumber yard at Fife Lake, waa burned Sunday." Load no insurance. Eddy's lumber yard, a coal yaid and several stores burned at Stapleton, Stateu Island Loss $30,000. Incendiary.

John Kirchen, a sweep, was caught in the machinery at lieru flouring works. Milwaukee, aud was horribly mutilated." He died iu a few minutes. Ha thirty-three years old, aud Sis GEOBGE GEAXVILLE WILLIAM Sl'THELAXD-LEVEIiSON-GOWEE, the third duke of Sutherland, one of the richest men of the world, accompanied by his sou, the Marquis of Stafford, William H. Kussell, the well-known war' correspondent, known as "Bull Run Bussell and a distinguished party of English railroad magnates, arrived in New York last week for the purpose of investigating American railways. They will go as far south as Eichmond and to San Francisco, and return to "England in June.

THE twin brothers lately caught in a burglary at Andover, have received a good deal of newspaper notoriety, growing out of the statement that they were theological students, Now, it is denied that they were in any sense present or prospective theological students. One who knows the facts states that they were members of Phillips Academy, the celebrated preparatory school for colleges, and had not the remotest connection with the Theologica, Seminary in the same towrn. Furihennorel they never professed piety or even a religious belief. Their creed was avowed, blatant infidelity, and they had already begun to excite the suspicion of their teachers and the disapproval of their schoolmates. Those who exhibited exultation because of the belief that theological students committed a crime, will be sorry to learn these facts.

THOMAS J. BEADY, late second assistant postmaster genenal, affirms that all the charges against him in connection with the late scandal which caused his dismissa from office, are absolutely and unqualifiedly false; but as yet he has vouchsafed no other proof of his innocence than the assertion that he has carefully kept copies of all the recommendations for increased service and increased pay of contractors made by congressmen and other public functionaries, which is no proof at all. Like all other contracting and accounting officers of the government, it was his business to guard the treasury against the rapacity of these same congressmen and public functionaries, as well as against the more obscure mercenary leeches' who were only too willing to be his partners la fraudulent contracts. UNTIL a short time ago the government has collected a specific duty of 50 cents a pound on knit shirts and drawers, and also an ad valorem duty of 35 per both forming a pretty stiff protection to American manufacturers of these articles The recent decision of the supreme cour of the United Stases, in the case of the Victor and otheis against Chester A. Arthur vrhich held that worsted stockings are no subject to a specific, as well as ad valorem duty, was made the text of a circular from The house- of David Eeeae near Sew Providence, burned recently.

While Reese and hia sou were eudeayoring to preserve some the effects, the burning building suddenly col lapsed and both burned to death, ilra. Reese was also severely burned. The floods in Dakota have prevented the holding of court for the trial of Cameron, indicted for the land frauds. As soon as court re- umes the department will push the case to a onclusiou, and look into alleged frauds iu the and operations of the west generally. Two accidents occurred on the Texas Pa- ifice railroad, one at Sweehvater, twenty miles of Dallas, here the locomotive of a freight rain went through a bridge, killing Engineer Sanders anfl the fiieman, Amos Daiintry, of )alla3, and fatally wounding a mknown, and slightly injuring Conductor Juo.

Harris. The second occurred at a bridge waah- itit near Katula, forty-three milea west of Dalas. Engineer Frank Lanes, Dallas, and a jrakeuian, name not reported, are miaaing aud eported killed, and J. J. Henderson, telegraph ine contractor, seriously injured.

At Ottumwa, Iowa, the wholesale drug and jook house of J. L. Taylor A and the First national bank were totally destroyed by fire. whole aale hardware house of Harper. Chambers A iiest of Taylor, had the roof crushed in by the valla oftne Taylor building ailing and damaged bywater andfire seriously.

Taylor's loss is estimated at SU he" First national bank, $10,000: Harper, Jhambers Cockrell'a tea store, Laramie lodge, $1,000, and lawyers, nsurance men and others in considerable Green variety store and W. Jarner, wholesale dry goods, were conaiderbly damaged by removal "of goods. On the opposite side of the street a number of heavy plate windows were broken and ruined by the in- enae beat. The total losses will foot up from 5150,000 to 175,000. CURRENT EVENTS.

The municipal elections in Hooaherdom were mostly in favor of the republicans. Ogontz, the magnificent country seat of Jay 3poke, was bid off at $113,000, anppoaed for iiimself. The depositors in the Freedman's banks will receive o5 per cent, of their duea, leaving $1,200,000 aa a total loss. A. tannery owned by Aid.

Mooney, four miles from Montreal, and the largest in Canada, burned. Loaa, partially insured. Harper's Weekly publishes a series of pictures from photographs of scenes on aome of the Minnesota railroada during the snow blockades. Hon. Ansel Briggs, the first governor of the aiate of Iowa, and for several yeara a resident of Omaha, died at the reaidence'of hia son, Mr.

John S. Briggs, aged 73 yeara. Richard G. Frackelton, of Milwaukee, china and crockery dealer, has made a voluntary assignment to Wm. Frackelton.

The liabilities aud assets amount to about $9,000 The city election in St Paul resulted in the election of Hon. Edmund Rice (deru by majority and also of the whole democratic ticket, save'one or two school iuspectora. An inter-atate oratorical couteat occurred al Jacksonville, 111., for the championship of the northwest The first honors were awarded to Chas. F. Coffin, of Indiana, and the second to Owen Morris, of Minnesota.

Mr. Whitelaw Beid and Mrs. Beid have sailed for Europe hi the White Star steamship Bepub- lic. A lai go party of personal rienda and many members of the Tribune ataft went down to th vessel to bid them good-bye. It ia understood that the demand for the resignation of William Channiag Bussell, aa acting president and profeaaor of history in Cornell university, is baaed iipou hia dissemination of materialistic doctrines through lib oral papera.

Whitelaw Ried, editor of the Sew 1'orkTri bune and Miss Elizabeth Milla, daughter of Mr D. 0. Milla, formerly of San Frauciaco, wert married at the residence of the Inkle's fathei on Fifth avenue, opposite the academy of mu sic, New York. Glaagow papera state that Catherine Marshall agl seventy-four, the wife of a railway labor er, lias not taken food since the beginning the present year. She takes a little water daily but scarcely ever sleeps.

She ia greatly euiac'i ated, but her pulse is perfectly natural. The consecration of the F. Jas sens, vicar of the dioceso of bisho; the treasury department on the 211th March, in which the secretary of the treasury took the ground that the decision covered knit shirts and drawers, "and similar articles made on frames, of whatever material composed." Under this oidt-r the specific duty of (if ty cents pound on of took place Sunday last in St. 1'e knit bhirts and drawers, was remitted, and tbe ad valorem duty of 33 per cent, only was retained. The manufacturers were c.f Cincinnati, preached a sorindrj, and" Bisho greatly excited by the decision of the souit Jasbens celebratedpontificial vespcis.

and bv the treasury circular, and rallied in The board review of the National Trottin association reinstated Junis, who was exnclle force at the treasury department, and nnal- from tlle assi)c iatiou tracks for failing to tip ly secured the issurance of an order to the pear according to engagement at the meetin various collectors instructing them not to of the Haitford track last year. The reaso P. for tho failure was that he changed hands afte apply the decision to knit Rhirts and drawers the engagement was made, having been pin until further orders, and the specific duty chased by Win. H. Vanderbilt It is piohabl on 50 cents a pound on these articles was a will appear again this your on th turf public.

Tbe board who decided th: restored St. Jtlien, foimerly owned by E. Stokes and now the property of J. Vauderbilt, Hartford, who was suspended for the nonpayment of a fine incurred by a technical violation of rules, should be reinstated oa the pay- meut of fine. Two years ago Henry Ward Beecher agreed to speak at an Agricultural Fair at Cumberland.

but for some cause he was not present. A day or two since it was telegraphed from Wash iugtqn with the general news, that Mr. Beecher was in that city, and his presence there became known to the ofliceis of the society at Cumberland. Beecher left Washington for New York, and when the train iu its passage through Baltimore, stopped at the depot, a deputy shenff stepped aboard aud served summons ou Beecher to answer suit against him bv the society for failure to deliver the address, the summons he- ing returnable at Cumberland the second Monday iu May. Beecher took the matter verv good-naturedly, and said he would answer through counsel NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The decrease of the public debt during Anril was $9,090,900 Mr. John B. Bowman of the Ute commission has resigned and Mr. Thomas A. McMasters of Colorado has been nominated to 31! the vacancy.

The Republican league and the stare centra! committee of California have telegraphed Senator Miller to share no efforts.even to breaking the deadlock, to secure the ratification of the Chinese treaty. The commissioner of internal revenue decides that the money in custody of the government, and belonging to a citizen, is not subject to levy and attachment under the proceedings instituted in a State court by creditors. yome democrats are woiKing very hard for Conkling, and they claim that; the matter now stands, fifteen democrats are aure to vote against Eobertsou. On the other baud there is a report that some republican senators are dropping away from Conkling, because they thiiik" he ought not to push their fight to th'e disadvantage of the republican party. The action of the president in withdrawing the nominations oi Mr.

Conkluig's friends to oftioe, in New York stite, ha? the greatest political sensation experienced in Washington many yeara. Whe'u Kobertsou was nominated to be collector of the port much conster- ation was pi oduced, but anxiety at the future political outlook is now expressed among thinking republicans oi almost every shade of party affiliation. It ia now learned that Geu. Sherman signed a great many appeals and petitions to haw the mails on the star routes expedited. Being general of the army his inrluence had great weight.

His motives were entirely good, and 110 one acquainted with him could think otherwise. His motive was to give increased mail facilities to the soldiers at far western posts. It is now believed that his good nature was imposed upon by the star route jobbers The secretary of the interior and the commissioner of th? general laud office have decided that the circular of the Freedman's Association of St. Louis, offering ItiO acres of land in the Okolona Indian Territory, cannot be carried out. The commissioner says: "The present attempt to make use of colored people of the deluding them with ficticioua assurances that new and congenial homes can be provided for them within thia territory, deserves especial reprobation, sines the only ef- ect must be to involve innocent people hi riminal conspiracy, and to subject them to iiappointment, hardship and suffering." A reporter of the Western Associated Press isited the White House and obtained a true ersion of the presidents letter to Senator Dawes.

'he president did not retain a copy, but the I ote was short. In the first place the presi- ent wrote that he was iu favor of a free" bal-1 ot and a fair count, not only in Virginia, but i in every state and would encourage it, but he vould not assist in elevating a man who, as ed- a daily paper, is constantly attacking and efaming hi'm and his administration. This ef erred to Gorham, editor of the National Ee- ublican, and nominee of the republicans for ecretary of the senate. The above is, snb- tanhally, all the letter to Dawes cantairied. Attorney General MacTeagh will at once in- titute criminal proceedings against the star ont ring.

He has received full instructions rom the president to go ahead and obtain in- ictments against the ringstera. Subordinate fficere in the contract division of the postoffice epartment will be drawn into the crooked usiness, and more removals will follow. It is Tobable that Brady will yet make a clean reast of the whole "system" of 'fraud, aud the of those who were concerned in it. It is nderstood that the goverdment already has uite as many witnesses as it needs, and new vidence is coming iu slowly but surely, and ill cause the ariest of several important per- onages, FOREIGN FLASHES. At London, Leonard's boiler and en- nne works were burned.

Loss, in- urance, $15,000. Seventy-five men were hrown ont of employment Edwin Sooth made his first appearance at he Lyceum in London, as Othello, before an mme'nse audience. Irving and Miss Terry ap- jeared as lago and Desdemona, respectively. Dillon's arrest has not caused the slightest excitement in any part of the country; on the contrary, it appears to have had a quieting ef- 'ect S'ome of the warmest friends of the ten- int farmers condemn Dillon's speeches in the strongest terms John Dillon is ill, and he" will be removed to an infirmary. There ia no cause anxiety regarding his condition.

The statement tha't Dillon would resign his seat hi the house of commons was a canard. The question will be eft for discussion by the executive committee of the land league. Minister Lowell presided at the dinner in London far the benefit of the literary fund. Ia jroposing the prosperity of the fund, he said- 'Whatever advance science might make, unimaginative prose and poetic literature would always concurrently exist." One hundred and iffy guests were present.including Lord Derby, Jord Coleridge, Sir Garnet Wblseley, and Viscount Enfield. CONGRESSIONAL.

MONDAY, MAY 2. Mr. Farley called attention to the large number of nominations awaiting action, and moved to go into executive session. The people of his state, of all appealing to the senate to consider important matters in which they were directly interested Petitions were daily coming from California asking for consideration of the Chinese Debate ensued between Senators Dawes and Farley, the Chinese question receiving considerable attention. Senator Beck said the republicans had not dared to go into executive session because of division in their party on important nominations.

He taunted the republicans with cowardice. Mr. Saulsbury denied the charge made by Dttwes that the democratic senators were responsible for the delay in transacting public ousineas. and asserted the contrary to be the truth. Adjourned.

TUESDAY, MAY 3. Unfinished business came up and Mr. Davis, (W. Ya.) took the floor with a speech upon the debt question between Virginians, premising his remarks with an expression of regret that the speeches made by senators from Virginia and Ohio, Mahone and Sherman, should have compelled him to discuss in this chamber whal ho considered to Be purely a local matter.He gave a history of the debt complication and said tho Virginians and his people will pay their debts, and the sooner the better. Ho hoped the two states would soon come together and settle the question.

After a short debate on the debt of Virginia the senate adjourned. The senate, in caucus, resolved in substance that executive sessions shall be held forthwith, the first one to-morrow, for the transaction accumulated business in the following order First--Reference of nominations now on th table to appropriate committees. Second--The consideration of pending treaties. Third--The consideration of all nominations horetofoieor hereafter reported from senate committees, which respectively are not object cd to by one Republican senator from the stat( to which the olhce appertains, or from whwh in case of a national or territorial appointment tho EOmiuee is to be appointed, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5. The deadlock was temporarily broken' thi morning.

Mr. Dawes moved to go into execu tive sestion, and in doing so repudiated the ide that by so doing he and his associates were givini up the fight over the senate officers, which considered in its scone and character as ore sauting a question of great importance to the future welfare of the government, involving, as it did, the right of the majority to rule. The motion was unanimously carried. The senate, in executive session, confirmed the following nominations: Robert Hitt of Illinois, assistant secretaiy of state; Hiram Price of Iowa, commissione'r of Indian affairs; A. M.

Jones, United States uiaishal for the northern district of Illinois; Sauford A. Hudson of Wisconsin, associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota. Postmasteis, W. H. Craig, Albany, N.

Wm. Mulleaix, Bristol, T. F. Black, collector of customs, St. Mary's, Ga.

The foregoing were all confirmed by "unanimous consent. Other nominations oi) the table weie lefened to appsopiiate committees. The senate then took" up the Chinese immigration treaty. THURSDAY, MAY O. The senate did a good day's woik executive session.

The Chinese treaties aad 34 nominations were confirmed. A great sensation wa? caused by the president witudrawiag the nominations of Coupling's friends, Steward L. to be district attorney for the donthem district of New Yoik; Lewis F. Payu, to be marshal for that district: Mr.Tenny, district attorney for the eastem district of New York; Clinton D. McDougaU, to be marshal for the northern district of New York, ami Maj.

Tyler, to be collector of customs at Buffalo. The nomination of W. H. Robertson, to be collector of customs at the yoit of Sew York, was not withdrawn. Theseuatecoanrmedtha following nominations William Walter New Jeraey.eu- voy extraordinary aud minister plenipoteutiarv t.i Austria; Cortes' Fedieukeu, of Romeo, Michigan, United States surveyor general for Dakota; Richard W.

Montgomery, receiver of public moneys, Bioomington," Seldeu M. Bronson, postmaster at Menasha, Lionel A. Sheldon of Ohio, governor of New Mexico Territory: EdwardS Meyer. United States attorney for the northern diitnct of Ohio; Henry Fmk, United Statea marshal for the extern district of Wi5con-iu: Thos. Wilaon, District of Columbia, consul at Ghent: John F.

Jeuue, New Jersey, consul at Nuevo Laredo; C. Jewett, United States aaiayer, St. Louis. Surveyors of customs--Joseph L. Gaaton, Chattanoga; J.

B. Leonard, InUanapolis; collector iuteinal revenue, Marcus Bogga, eleventh district of Ohio. Registers of La-ad Officer--William Letcher, at Mitchell, D. J. P.

Owetia, Tavlor'a Falls, C. Tvler, Tracy E. H. Cav- auagh, Oberlra," KM H. Smith.

Woi thing- ton, Minn. Receivers of Public ifoneys--John Leed, Tiacy, Kaa. Postmasters--J. Willis, Bnddoek, PeuiL M. E.

Taggart, Letouia, 0.: T. Sheperd, Mechanicsburg. E. Hulibaid, Richmond, Sayre, Wabash, Indiana: J. McKiu- uey, Jr Aledo, W.

Phillips, Oak Park, J. Sayles, Evarr, Mich C. Dehi- meie, South Haven, H. Botsford, Owego. G.

E. Mathews, Hazelhurat, MHS. T. Kichardaoa, Port Gibson, A. G.

Pearce. Greenville, Miss: Tipton, Cleveland W. E. Hobsuu. Bowling Green, H.

N. Cook. Columbia, H. W. Turner, Lexington.

C. Cryslar, Independence, S. Rogers, Bed Oak, A. L. Sanborn, Auduboa, ,1.

C. Dickev, Wateirille G. W. Doty, Buriingtou. Kaa.

Mr-i. E. in London. A private letter received in St Paul gives information of the arrival of Mrs. Dodge, the divorced wife ot" the late 0-isiau E.

Dodge, ia Loadon. It farther states that Mrs. Dodge has been granted leave to make formal application to tbe judge of the pioper court for "access to her children, and ozfers to support her case by fuither evidence aa to her mode of life since 7-lr. Dodge left America. The ludgeadjourned the appointment for a month, and declined to jranf her leave of acce-53 to her children.

Mrs. Dodge atated in her affidavit that Mr. Dodge, after the divorce pneeedmgs were put an end to, resumed co-habitation with her for eighteen months, aud that then, having induced her to leave home on aome pretext, he deserted her without making any provision for her. after having persuaded her to give up her nght to dower or thirds in the real property without consideration, and that she haa been "obliged to support herself ever since by her own Tabor. She has sworn that ahe has never committed adultery or any act of anyone, and that she has never "done anything which would disentitle her to the custody of her children.

It is believed that the fact'of Mr. Dodga having lived with Mrs. Dodge after the chargea of adultery were made, condoned or pardoned those offenses. THE STAR-ROUTE RING. BETTING OX DEATH.

They Publish an Ante-Election Letter from Prefident Explained to be Harmless. Washington Telegram. The following alleged letter of Sen. Garfield Hnbbell haa been published: Mentor, 0., August 23, 1380. My dear Hubbell: Yours of the iust.

re- and contents noted. Please say to Brady hat I hope he will give us all the assistance jossible. I think he can help us effectively, 'lease teU me how the department generally As ever yours, J. A. GABFIELD.

Hon. J. A. Hubbell, Washington, D. C.

The day before the letter was published, the jresident was advised confidentially by a friend hat the thing was coming. "Well," said the president, "let it come. I don't remember ei- ictlv what waa in the letter, but nothing certainly that I am afraid of." The fact is, the members of the ring held the document back several days after the time of its intended pub- ication in "the hope that the hints of it wlu'ch he president would get would cause him to le somewhat on the star route investigation mi the scheme failed utterly. FURTHER EXPLAINED. The president's attention having been called a letter published this morning, alleged to jave been written by him to Hon.

Jay Hubbell, "rom Mentor, stated" there was not a line in the etter that he would have the slightest objection giving to the public; that the star route con- rractors were neither mentioned nor thought of: that it was simply an expression of hope liat Brady, a citizen of Indiana, who was reputed to have made an immense fortune in tel cphone stock, would respond from his ample means in aid of his party in the life and death struggle then going on in his own state. Detetinination of the Nihilists. Intelligence from St. Petersburg reports a manifesto of the nihilist executive committee, printed on the 17th of May, says: The verdict against the nihilists who have just received martyrs' crowns was dictated as well as confirmed by the czar. The first act of his autocratic will thus has been the hanging of women.

Without waitiiag for his coronation he has sprinkled his throne with the blood of champions of national rights. Over the graves of our colleagues we publicly affirm that we will continue our efforts for the liberation of the people. We will no more be deterred by the gallows than were Solovieff and other champions. After the event of the 13th of March the executive committee informed the emperor that the only moans of reverting to the path of peaceful development was by an appeal to the people. Judging by the execution the supreme power has decided to appeal to the hangman.

So be it. The committee defers pronouncing any judgment on the general policy of the emperor, but it declares that a reactionary policy will lead to conseqxtences more disastrous than the event which took place in March. The manifesto concludes by appealing to all ould shake off slavery to co-operate in the struggle for liberty. A gentleman in Milwaukee, who wrote to Senator David Davis indorsing the senator's views regarding the organization of a partj- opposed to monopolists, has received a reply in which Mr. Davis says "The mechanics, the farmers and the labor ers of this country have its destiny in their hands.

They create its wealth in time peace, and they are its backbone in time of war. Whenever they choose to protec themselves against corporate monopolists and extortion in other fotms, they have the power to make the protection effective, anc I hope they will exercise it wisely and well' Worth, the Pans man-milliner, latel made for an English lady what is reports to be the handsomest cloak which ever lef his shop. It is of green velvet borderei trimmed with the tails of Russian sable The cost was 88,500. Kxtent of the Speculat'on In Insurance Policies ill IViitisylvauIii--Whole Stale Officers in the Meshes. The Philadelphia Press prints a six-column expose of the gambling in human lives as carried on iu that State under the wild-cat insurance system.

It bhows that such bare-faced speculation never was that it infests church and state, enters the school-room, reaches as low 3.3 the cradle and stalks boldly into the halis of justice; that even tho executive chair is paralized by its seductive and that the Ian making power is really part and parcel of the evil itself. Careful investigation has developed.the fact that there are 103 companies in that State actually en- gaged iti the business. In addition to the old line life insurance companies there are only eight that are entirely free from the speculative taint--namely, the Fidelity Mutual Aid association of Philadelphia, the Ueuefit company of Philadelphia, the New Era Life association of Philadelphia, the Temperance i Mutual Benefit association and the Odd Fol- i lows' Mutual Life Insurance cotnntay of Montrose, the Shore Masonic of Erio, the Centra! Mutual Aid association of Locklm en, aad tha juitable Mutual Aid association of Glen Rock. The last two weie organized within the last year. There are also three companies that profesi to he a legitimate business--namely, the Mutual Aid society of Lebanon, the Home a Life Uon of Lebanon, and the Keystone Mutii.1 ReneSt aswcution of thes- companies allow their policies after issue to be transferred to persons "who have no insurable interest in the person insured, which 13 uo 1 legitimate aud amounts to speculation.

It is proven ihit in Sayder county alone 1,000 persons have either neglected or abandoned their former vocations, and are now engaged the speculative TI! IX HUMAN LIVE? moat of them amenta of companies, others as officers, (theio being eighteen companies in the county), and the balance in speculators-- thai is, buyiug and selling policies. The re- salt 13 hundreds of families, through their efforts to keep up their a-isessmeuU oil such policies, have heen reduced to penury. Manv of them during the winter were 'unable to sond their children to school for want of clothfca. They are also unable to Dav the mer- chaata, who are in many" instances I to lose accouutaor take spefilative policies and risk paying the assessments aud recovering m- i to indemnify them for the moneys due them by this class of persons. A great manv of these speculative subjects persist in living, and in consequence the merchants upon whom policies have beea imposed aro financial distress.

Men holding oublic office and trusted positions are getting themselves into trouble by speculating beyond their means, aud in their desperation using the public funds. The sheritf of an interior county is said to be in financial trouble, as he is carrying a of $100,000 ou the aged and decrepit, "and it is i alleged that to eiiabla him to carry this enor- Hious sum of insurance he ha? made an inroad oa the public funds to the extent of This officer is very much worried about the i uncomfortable position in which it has placed him, and the state of his mb'i may ba inferred from his own language, the purport of which 1 is: "The beggars don't die fast enough." The i same state of affairs is shown to exist iu sev- eral other counties--namely: Berlin, rfchuyl- -Jill, Lebanon, Pern-, Lancaster, York, and i In York county a poor man. I ouis Strayer, has risen to be worth over made almost wholly by having policies on the lives of persons' in questionable icalth aud afterward transferred to himself, Philadelphia a representative of a half doz- speculative companies has been found who wasted of having nritteu in three Says, who offered to insure a man's diseased nd dying uncle, aged eighty-eight, to the mount of $25,000, $3,000 to be placed ia he following companies. Commonwealth, Itate Capital, Local of Harrisbnrg, Augusta of iunburg, and to be left to tho DISCRETION OF THE KSUBEB. He guaranteed that there would be no risk in that ha would bring his own physician, who would mike the examination "nght and then 10 sold a policy to the reporter for $11 on one Mary Walker for tho woman being a consumptive and not likely to last more than a month.

Similar cases are mentioned from the other counties named above. Among the ia- erestiug incidents is a of a doctor insuring a patient nnder his charge, and an undertaker a man whom he had been called to take a measure for a coffin. A son ia one instance in- nsures his dead father, and aii instances have een brought to light where the insured have jeen murdered by those holding assignments of their policies. Some of these offenders have been brought to justice, but the so-called insurance companies are not interested in prosecuting them, though called to pay the Dolicies hat have heen dyed deep with fraud and crime. The managers have no funds HI their disposal until the death or murder of an insured person causes an assessment, and in tho 23 or DO per cent of the policy retained by them consists heir profits.

The Dolicy holders who pay the assessments are, of course, the losers, but as one and all, are expected to profit in turn by much tha same methods, they pay ths assessments for a while, and in due time company breaks np and the gamblers in human life, unsuccessful in one com pany, are usually quite ready to try their luck another. Evidence is adduced showing that one of the companies--the Commonwealth-has for its officers State Printer Hart and Edward Herricks, chief clerk in the auditor jeneral's office, and that by permission it refers to Henry M. Hoyt, governor of the State; Hon. Wm. P.

Schell, the auditor general; Hon. Samuel Butler, the State treasurer, and Hon. Wm. A. Wallace, ex-United States senator, the indorsement running as follows: "That it may be understood that the directory of this association will in good faith carry into effect all they promise, they have but to point to the names of the distinguished gentlemen to whom they have permission to refer." It is also demonstrated that there are syndicates of tho State legislature formed in Harrisburg for the purpose of issuing policies upon lha lives of diseased and dying old people, with a view of profit thereby.

There is an old man living near Siegersville, Lehigh county, named Heffer- finger, seventy years of age, a worn-out man. Representatives' Sieger of Lehigh, Higgins and Schliecher of Schuylkill have ordered a policy on him. They have already taid $50 for other cases, Schliecher drawing the check. Other members are doing the same, but their names are for the present withheld "Tho president not taken the action of.to- doy without deliberation." Jt ifjib spirit Tf veuge that be has ling's friends. The caucus bid decide! bo consider tho nomination of Robertson.

Ho aloua of all the New York nominations was singled out for Ifis tlijt soon as tho present executive -'business is disposed of, the senate will adjourn sine die, or tho members will go away and leave the senate without a quorum. Mr. Conkling would have had his iends installed in office, and the independent element InState polities, would have been laid aside until nest "How does tho case "The president has made twelve nominations of friends of Mr. 'Coukliug to positions iu the cabinet, diplomatic service, executivo departments aud important judicial posts in New 1'ork State. One nomination representing tha faction hostile to Mr.

Conkling was made. At once the senator goes to work to that nomination. He DOES NOT THIKK OF HAEMONY. All ho wishes is to defeat the administration. Bobertson must be withdrawn, or his confirmation must be prevented.

If 'Conkling had devoted one-fourth of tho lime he, hag spent iu devising means to defeat'" Robertson to consider of means to brin" about harmony, he might have achieved considerable success. IJho ad visory committee of the Bepublicau caucus ostensibly iep- resented the Republican partv, but in reality it spoke for Mr. Conkling. The committee talked with the president for two hours. It was Mr.

Conkling says this and Mr. Couktiug feels tnus, aud not a word about the feelings of the president. They desired the nomination of Robertson to be withdrawn and the president would not do it The question was one of senatorial courtesy versus executive right By withdrawing tho nominations of Mr. Coukling's frienda the president has put all the vacant offices in tho State on au even footing. All of Conkliag's nieii will go iu the same boat with Mr.

Kohertsoa "What about the future of these offices. Will tho president ultimately the men whom he has to-day withdrawn':" "Thatis a matter for future consideration," was the reply. "I do not know that the president has any intention at present of the names he once sent to the senate, but that may depend on future contingencies." OAKFIELD AN!) DONKL1XG. ill of the Conkling JSomination.x Withdrawn from the Senate--The Gage of Battle--The President's Side of the Question- Telegram to the Associated Press. WAVHISOTOS, May prosidont to-day withdrew tho nominations of Stewart L.

Woodford, to be district attorney for tho southern district of New York; Lewis F. Payn, to he marshal for that district; Mr. Tenney, to bo district attorney for the eastern district of New York; Clinton D. McDougaU, to be marshal for tho northern district of New York, and Maj. Tyler, to be collector of customs at Buffalo.

Tho nomination of W. H. Bobertsqn to bo collector of customs at the port cf New York was not withdrawn. The nomination of liichard Elmer to be seconc assistant postmaster general will not be withdrawn, for two reasons. Although bo ia a friend of both senators from New York, especially Mr.

Halt, tbe office to which he is chosen to fill ia not in tho State of New York, and tbe nomination was made upon tho recommendation of Postmaster General James. The action of tho president has created a profound sedation here. Ever since Mr. Eobertaon's nomination was made, quite a number of Republican senators have labored to secure baimoni- ons relations between the president aud Conkling. While in this mission they have thus far failed, all hopes oC a final amicable adjustment were not abandoned until today.

he withdrawal of the nominations of Mr. Conkling's friends has destroyed every chance which might have existed for a restoration, of peace in the ranks of tlio party. Henceforward, Mr. Conkling and his followers may bo relied upon to FIGBT THE ADjnXISTIUTION-, and the president has thrown down the gago of tattle. In conversation with an Intimate friend of the sneaks by authority, tho reasons which impelled the president to withdraw thu nominations were givem This gentleman said: CLIMATIC REASONS.

Abortive of W. D. Wushlmrn to Get the Secretary of the Interior to Modify the Law for Relief of Homesteader-it. Following is the law under which the hud bureau is authorized to extend the time when homestead settlers may commence a residence ou land from which they have been driven by climatic reasons: Au act to amend section 2207 of the revised relating to homestead entries. Be it enacted by the senate and house- of representatives of the United States of America, in ffress assembled, That section numbered '2-97, ot title numbered o'J, be aJdisi; thereto the followins proviso, namely: Prr-vided.

tha: where there niay be chmatu- reasons, tbf rommis- siolKr of the cener.il land offlro may, in his discretion, allow thy settler twelve month? fruro the date of iiUnc in which to hi-4 residence oa said laud under such rules and as he uuy pres-cnbe. Approved March And the following are the instructions of the commissioner which have proved as onerous to settlers as if no law had been pa-sed for their relief at all, and which Hon. D. WiShburn is trying to set modified at the land da. partment, f-o that ntw instructions may ho issued which will cover the entire Northwest for this year.

If ho succeeds it will relieve buudreils aud thousands of bona fide homesteaders who have been forced to leave their claims by tbo unparalleled snows of the oast winter, and by the floods which followed. Our Washington specials represent bearing that the secretary of the interior has felt obliged lo rule that '-ho act did not contemplate snow and water as among the climatic reasons for giving settlers an extension of time. It would ba interesting to know what Secretary Kirkv-'C-od regards as climatic reasons, if snow and floods ire not CIKCtTLAR rSSTEUCTlOS? UXDEE ACT OF 1IABCH 3. 1391. DEP'T OF TITE INTERIOR, GEK'L LAMS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.

Aon: IS. 1331. To District Land Officers: Gentlemen: It his lone been a department ruling under section 2297, revised statutes, that if a humestead claimant did no; establish his residence upon the homestead within six months from date of entry, each entry might ba contested and canceled for abandonment. Bj act of congress approved March 3, 1885, appended herelo. t'ne co rnmissioner of the general land office, in his may alloT the- twelve months from date of entry in which commence his residence oa the land, where there may have been climatic reasons which prevented he establishment of residence at an earlier date, At the expiration of six months from date of entry, the homestead party who has not been able establish a bona fide residence upon the homestead owinc to climatic reasons uiast die with yon is affidavit, duly corroborated by two credible witnesses, irivinir iu detail the storms, floods, blockades jy snow or ice, or other climatic causes, which rendered it impossible for him to commence residence within six months.

It will be insisted in each case that the claimant shall exercise all reasonable diligence in establishes bona fide residence aa soon as possible after thd chmitic hindrances have disappeared, and a failure to do so would imperil the entry iu the event of a contest prior to the expiration of ons year from date of entry. A claimant cannot be allowed the atitude residence on the land at an earlier day. To the end that pronor data may be placed on file, you will require each settler who seeks the remedy which said act trusts to my discretion to furniiH a supplemental corroborated affidavit as soon as residence is established by him, givme date of the completion of his honse, its probable valne, and the date of comtnencini; residence therein. The affidavit? called for should be acknowledged as in homestead proof, before a jadco or clerk of the court of the county in which the claimant resides, or before a district land officer. Yon will transmit such affidavits to this office to be Hied with their respective homestead papers, and for such action as may be required.

Very respectfully, C. W. HOLCOMB. Acting Commissioner. MINNESOTA NEWS.

Jlinncnota News by Telezrspn and Mall. W. E. Hawkins, republican, -was re-elected Mayor of Bed Wing without opposition. On Monday Dr.

Bjornson of Houston died, after a few days' illness, in his twenty-eighth year. Sam Judd, of Marine, bid off tho first seat at the opening of the Stillwater opera house, and paid $100. Plans have been perfected and funds, guaranteed for the erection of a now hotel Bear Lake, near St. Pant The widow of the late lodge E. Stout, of Lake City, has received 32,000 from the Masonic Belief association.

The farmer's elevator, at Cokato, Wright county, was burned on Monday. Insurance $2,000 on building and $10,000" on Mr. and Mrs. Edward Capron of Stillwater. celibrated their golden wedding last week! Among other gifts was a present of $200 in gold from 3t John's Masonic lodge.

In an interview with Gordon E. Cole in regard to his declining to be a candidate for governor, ho gives as his reasons the following: Cannot afford to sacrifice his business by devoting time to a campaign; has had all the experience he cores fer. and wants a little rest. A family in Minneapolis named Suones, were tiken suddenly and seriously ill. All of them were seized with violent retchings, of so alarming a naturo that a physician was summoned with all dispatch, and none too soon for their comfort, and perhaps for their safety.

They had made a supper of canned meat, and those who ate of it were thus violently seized. Another child, who did not partake of the meat, was not attacked, and was therefore, enabled to procure assistance for the others. All recovered. The second hospital for the insane, in Rochester, is constantly undergoing enlargement and improvement. Mr.

H. E. Hortou has just completed the plans and drawings for a new engine house, the contract of which will be let, soon, so that work on it may be commenced within a couple of months aiid completed this season. This new Structure is to be located 100 feet in the rear of the present engine house, which it is to supersede. It is for tho accomodation of the engine and a set of Fer- merrick boilers of 300 horae power.

A Major Mills, of the English army, has given $20,000 as a peimanent fund, tho interest npon which is to be used for the relief of the poor of Montreal. it 1 II i 51 i i '( I lot It 1. SI Zf 1 3 II it I 1C I I I.