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BURLINGTON, "WISCONSIN. Three Men in San Antonio Do Battle, Two of Them Being Fatally Wounded. French Preparations for War on Germany Death of Mrs. Pinkertoh Nebraskas New Senator, Etc. Latest Congressional, Legislative "and General Eastern, Western, South-ern and Foreign News.

Tried Whittreek. Marne. Marshall, Jan. 20. A bold attempt at train-robbery of the St.

Louis train on the Chicago and Alton railway took place last night about 8 oclock, three miles east, of Independence, Mo. The train was brought to a standstill by the violent pulling of the bell-cord. Brakeman Painter and conductor Tremblett rushed through to the forward part of the train to ascertain the cause of stopping, when they were fired upon by a man standing on the front platform of the smoking-car and ordered back into the car. They barely escaped injury by dodging back into the The engineer was also fired upon, but not injured. Four or five shots were fired by the man.

The would-be robber and murderer jumped from the car and escaped in the darkness. After a few minutes delay the train started on its way. Three Persons Cremated. New Westminster, 11. C.

Jan. 21. The New Westminster hotel burned yesterday morning, catching fire in an unknown place. It was so quietly consumed that three guests were burned to death. One is believed to be CampbelL The register and all valuables, including the baggage of guests, were burned.

The other guests escaped in their night-clothes. A Lively Battle. San Antonio, jan. 22. A shooting affair took place, yesterday afternoon, on the military plaza, between two brothers named Nicholson and Robert Wynne, resulting in the fatal wounding of W.

O. Nicholson and Wynne. Abe Nicholson and Wynne were formerly partners, owning a wood-yard, but the partnership had been disolved. Wynne claimed he had been swindled. He called at the store of the Nicholson Brothers, and deliberately provoked a quarrel, with the above result Fifteen shots were iired.

French Preparations of War. London, Jan. 22. Rumors of war are becoming more and more frequent. The North German Gazette the National Gazette and the Cologne Gazette, as well as the Times, Standard, and Daily Netvs of London, all report that France is making elaborate preparations to dispatch to the German frontier strong reinforcements of arms.

CONGRESS. Proceedings of congress for the week epding January 22: jSENATE. I 1 1 Mr. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, reported back favorably tbe house bill for the relief of dependent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors now disabled and dependent on their labor for support. lie gave notice that he would the senate to take up and consider it.

i The bill appropriating' $300,000 to expedite the completion of the Charleston jetties (the appropriation to be available immediately) Was passed. Mr. Edmunds presented the report from the committee on foreign relations on "the subject of the fisheries. Ordered printed. A message was presented from the President vetoing a bill granting a pension to William Diekens.

The ground of the veto is that a pension had been already, in December, 1886, given to the beneficiary through the pension oflieeL Mr. Conger reported back without amendment, the house bill to amend section 5 of the act of June 10, 1889, i in transportation of dutiable goods, and asked for its immediate consideration. Mr. Cockrill resented a petition numerously signed merchants and manufacturers of St. Louis for a repeal of the internal revenue Mr.

Hoar called up the conference report on the electoral count bill, which was agreed to. i The presiding officer presented a communication from the President, with a letter from Sam C. Reed, offering to the nation the sivordof his father, Captain Reed, who commanded the privateer General Armstrong at the battle of FayaL The President suggests that action bo taken for the acceptance of the gift. Ordered printed and laid on the table. 1 Mr.

Spooner was appointed on the Committee of privileges and Elections, to fill the vaearjey caused by the death of General Logan. 1 I HOUSE. The house resumed the consideration of the joint -resolution for the investigation of the accounts of the Pacific railroads.1 After a short but spirited debate, in which Mr. Hayden, of declared that this investigation resolution had been originated for stock jobbing purposes and to defeat tbe funding (bill, the joint resolution was passed without division. The bills granting pensions to Mrs.

Logan and Mrs, Blair, widow of Gen. 'Frank Blair1, were defeated in the! house committee on invalid pensions. There were two absentees Messrs. 1idcock and Ellsberry-r-when the committee met. The members were arrayed on partyl lines seven democrats voting against and five republicans in favor of the bills.

On motion, of Mr. Clardy, of Missouri, a bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi river at Louis. Mr. Frye, from the committee on foreign relations, reported an amendment to- be offered to one of the (appropriation bills appropriating $50,000 to take part in the international exposition in south Australia June 30, 1887. Mr.

Outliwaite (O.) reported back the following resolution, which was Ballottlns to Purpose. Indianapolis, June 20. The Legislature took but ono ballot to-day for United States senator, and that resulted as follows: Turpie 75; Harrison n1; Allen 4. Allen is a druggist of Terre Haute, a Greenback man, a native of Ireland, and a pleasant agreeable gentleman. He was the editor of a Greenback papar here for a time, but that he is in any sense a workingman, except in theory, never been dis covered.

There are plenty pf rumors as to the probable change of candidates by both parties. There is still talk of Judge Niblack being substituted for Turpie, and the names of both Porter and Gresham are talked of slightly as Republican candidates, but none of these are received with any favor. The Hlurlir Vetoes It. CniCAGO, Jan. 19.

-The license for the marriage of August Spits to Miss Nina Van Zandt was issued by the county clerk yesterday. The briie-elect called for the document hersilf, which was granted without hesitation. The license reads as follows: i State of Illinois, Cook county is. No. 110,822.

Miss Nina Stuart Clarke Van Zandt, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stato of Illinois, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she is of the age of 20 years, and that Mr. August Vincent Theodore Spies, of Chicago, in the county of C6ok and State of Illinois, is of the age of 31 years and that said above-named persons are single and unmarried and maj lawfully contract and be (joined ii marriage. i (Signed) Nina Stuart Clarke Van Zandt. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of January, 1887, Henry Wulff, I Clerk of the Cotfnty Court. By M.

Solmonsen, deputy. The ceremony was to have come off on Thursday pf this week but Sheriff MatBon positively refuses to let the wedding take place. It is a silly infatuation, he said, of a self-willed and romantic young woman, who cannot possibly comprehend the position in which she seems anxious to place herself. I am surprised that her parents have even permitted the girl to visit the jail, and much more that they would consent to let her wed in prison a man who is sentenced to be hanged. But since they will not attempt to save their own child from shame and disgrace 1 shall see that she is at least given a chance to look before she leaps.

Spies occupies a cell In murderers row. He has been tried and convicted of murder, and i3 now under sentence of death, I If he should marry now, and the sentence of the court be carried out, his wife would forever share his disgrace, and she would bf a wife in name only. Consequently, I the marriage would not benefit him, while it would ruin her. On the other hand, if the Supreme Court should grant a new trial, and Spies should be given his litpty, the' wedding might very properly tike place. There is no possible excuse for it now.

If their love for each 'other is mutual and prompted by pure and unselfish motives it is but fair tq presume that it will lhst until the case of the Anarchists is disposed of. Locked In by a Sea of lee. Cornwall, Jan. 18. The Stormont cotton mills, which are situated betweenthe canal and the river, were completely surrounded by water, the boiler, being submerged, and an immenss amount of machinery and stock also being under water.

The rising waters did not reach the Canada cotton mills, the woolen mills, Macks flour mill, and other factories at the extreme east end of the city until the hands had all got to work. I he flood burst in the doors, and those employed in the lower stories had to flep for their lives. In the Canada cotton mills two mpn were supposed to have been caught by the water in the machinery-room, Curtis De Ruchie and Frank Bergeron. They went back to look after their tools, and De Ruchie got but, after great exertions, but Bergeron has not been seen since, and it is feared he has been drowned. All the mills were submerged to a depth of fully fifteen feetj The magnificent weaving room of the Canada cotton mill, the largest on the continent; was at least a foot deep with water.

The quantity of stock in process of manufacture was very largo and the loss is tremendous, not to speak of the machinery, much of which is wrecked. It is too soon to estimate the damage, but it will run up high in the thousands. In the rear of the town there was also a flood, the water backing up Fly Creek and inundating the surrounding land for hundreds of yards in either direction. lit The Deadly Fly Wheel. Chicago, 21.

The gevernor-belt of the heavy blast furnace engine in the rolling mills at South Chicago slipped from the fly-wheel and the engine ran away. Before it could be stopped the ponderous flylwheel, weighing fifty tons, burst, flying ia all directions. Charles Weislogel, the engineer, was almost instantly killed, and half a dozen other workmen were badly though not fatally hurt. At the convention of live-stock commission men, yesterday, a National Association was formed, and Congress, by resolution, was asked to pass the MiUer bill. Mrs.

Allen Pinkerton. Chicago, Jan. 22. Mrs. Joan Carfrae Pinkerton, the widow of Allan Pinkerton, died early this morning after ah Illness of four weeks at her residence, No.

234 Ashland avenue. Mrs. Tink-erton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, sixty-five years ago, and when she was 20 years old and singing in the choir of the Unitarian church of Glasgow, Scotland, she met Allan Pinkerton. They were married in 1842 and immediately set sail for America. The ship on which they embarked was wrecked on Sable isle, off the coast of Nova Scotia, and although the lives of the young couple were saved they lost all of their personal effects, and had but little money.

They managed to reach Chicago, however, and here started out with no capital but strong hearts and willing hands. In 1850 Allan Pinkerton discovered his true vocation and established the Pinkerton National Detective agency, and as it flourished the lives of both he and his wife were made easy. Since then Mrs. Pinkerton has lived continuously in Chicago, presiding with matronly grace over a happy household, until 1884, when her husband was taken away from her. Mrs.

1 inker ton was the mother of ten children, three of whom survive. Of these eldest, ang Robert, are now carrying on the business established by their father, while the daughter is happily married to William J. Chalmers, a manufacturer of Chicago. The time of the funeral is not as yet -determined. Piddork is Their Choice.

Lincoln, Jan. 22. The senatorial contest was brought to a happy conclusion yesterday by the election of ex-enator laddock. The ballot in joint convention resulted: A. S.

Paddock, 94: Congressman McShane, (Democrat) 82; Van Wyck, 4. Austro-IIungary is no exporting-much wheat, A good share of Indian, Russian, and American wheat exports is going to France, Italy, and Spain. An English fish-raiser thinks American farmers would be more successful with eels than with German carp, and that they would be better satisfied with them. The distinguished French agricultural chemist, M. Bossingault, gives the relative value of oil-cake as food for stock, as follows: One pound ofj oilcake meal is equal to three pounds i of corn meal or nine pounds of wheat bran, or ten pounds of timothy or clover The fifteenth annual convention pf the Wisconsin Dairymens association will be' held at Sparta, Feb.

8, 9 and 10. Circulars giving the programme of exercises and tbe premiums offered for dairy products can be obtained by addressing the secretary, D. V. Curtis, Fort Atkinson. Rabbit skins from Tasmania last year realized the considerable sum of 22,572, and the people of New 8outh 4Y ales, where the skin3 are destroyed by fire, are asking why fiis wasteful custom should be continued.

For a long time rabbit skins have formed a large item in New Zealand exports. I Prof. IJudd urges that the Iowa state fair grounds be used as an arboretum, with three hundred or four hundred varieties of ligneous plants properly distributed, all labeled sn plainly that visitors may read as they run. The Shaded walks would then become an especially educational afid most attractive part of the state proo-erty. In preparing food for stock, such as cooked vegetables, chopped feed, always season with salt.

Every animal ciaves, it and must have a certain amount of saline matter introduced into its system to enable it to thrive. Many animals really suffer for the -want of salt and lose appetite, which 4s attributed to some other cause. It is a mistake to suppose that be cause ducks are fond of water they will do well if kept in damp quarters. They must haves dry place in which to sleep, or they will soon show signs of disease and in the end die. Ducks that are well kept through the winter, having a warm place at nights, will begin to lay a month earlier than thos which sleep on the warm side of a barnyard fqnce.

Our natife vine popularly known as bitter-sweet has become a favorite in the east; and is being quite extensively planted in gardens and door-yards. It seems strange that it was not appeciat-ed long ago, as it is far more beautiful than many of the ornamtntiil vines for which high prices are paid, The vines are easily transplanted from the forests where they grow, and could doubtless be raised from seed. I We have no native fruit that equals the papaw in beauty or excellence. It is in every respect superior to the bananas we get in tbe north, which are picked long befotc they (are ripe or even fully grown. I still nd attempt is made? to improve the papaiy by cultivation, or to extend its production be-j end the part of t)ie country where it was originally found.

Thtreeis very beautiful, and would be an ornament to any lawn, or yard. A remarkable instance of the depreciation in the viilue of agricultural land has been' presented at a sale by auction at Newbury, England. The Snelsmore faim estate, comprising about 263 acres, with residence, farm-; buildings, and cottagts, was disposed of at low figure of 3,120. The estate, whiclj is within three miles of Newbury, originally Cost 16,000. The farm was formerly let at ta rental of 5'K) per annum, but the present rent is 160, the tenant pairing the tithe, 83.

A London horticultural paper sayst There is a charm about I an English cottage home, with its litilq strip of carefully-tended (lower border, that no other country can show its' travelers by the road, and this is not a. vain insular boast is proved by the pleasure expressed by our' foreign visitors at the pretty jiictures, such as the ono we now engraie, so frequent in our viil.ages and scattered bv our country raodesides. The-double (lower border leading from the road to tbe vine-clad porch is filed with good, h.lrdy flowers, tended with watchful care by the mistress of the-little duelling the" home of an honorable family of laboring, people. Next the flower border, is a line of fruitful gooseberry bushes, and then a good bit of vegetable gar- -den and potato ground, oy, according to the local wording of the) older folks, a bit of ground to grow sauce in. Mahogany is being rapidly introduced into every part of India, where it promises to thrive.

The seeds sown have germinated Tcmarkably well, a single pound planted in a green house in the southern districts having yeild-ed between three thousand 2and four thousand plants. It is thought to be quite probable that the world may soriie cljy lo to India instead of America for its mahognay as well as its quinine. The eastern product of the lattir has already become, so extensive and of such superior quality that the chinchona bark- exports of the United Staffs of Colombia are said to have diminished 50 per cent livejeara. Hunting: for Wolves. Tuscola, 111., JanJ 20.

Yesterday occurred the much-talked-of wolf hunt in Sargent Township, Douglas county, about fifteen, miles southeast of this city. The area surrounding comprises the whole of Sargent township, and bright and early this morning sportsmen from every quarter gathered at the lines designated for the start, and a huge circle was formed, so strong that it seemed impossible for the beasts to penetrate it, but nevertheless many of them succeeded in doing so. The first wolf started was by the Oakland party, and after an exciting chase it was shot by Capt. Frank Pearce as it was attempting to break through the lines, and its capture seemed to animate the hunters to a high pitch of enthusiasm. 1 1 I Like produces like, and it ill- impossible after grain is put into the bin to tell whether it came from a large, vigorous plant or not.

Great Britain makes from her own orchards 220,000,000 gallons of cider annually, and imports about 900,000 barrels of apples from the United States. It seems quite certain that British India's power of shipment of ivheat this year is deficient 20,000,000 to 000 bushels as compared with last year. If a farmer will take care not to purchase what he cannot use or has little need for he will soon learn that it is poor economy for him to buy anything but the best. i i The amount recommended for the care and- maintenance of the numerous parks and gardens of London this year was $558,000, but only $202,000 was voted for the purpose. The cutting down is not an index of failing interest in public parks, but from a belief that of the money is ignorantly wasted.

I i The Fort Wayne Gazette says: Farmers should be sure and sign every paper presented to them by a stranger. If the stranger forgets to present one ask him about it. It may be added, if signed, it fiaay come back in the shape of a promissory note in the hands of innocent parties, and the courts have decided such must be paid. The London papers, commenting the wheat situation, say that America has the reins entirely in her own hands. Europe w'ants something like 2,000,000 bushels per week from the Atlantic ports during the" next five or six months.

The stock of English wheat is reduced to 10,000,009 bushels, against at the same time last year. 1 Farmers and dairymen must not place too much reliance on the oleomargarine law raising the price of butter. If better prices are to be had they will be for good butter-alone, for the day hen carelessly made and badly-kept butter will sell at paying price has gone. In fact nothing to-day helps the sale of oleomargarine so much as the presence of this poor dairy butter in the markets. Consumers want pure butter, but where they can- not get it sweet and pleasant to the taste they will of necessity take oleomargarine.

Fix up your currant bushes no4r, and have no bother with them in spring, when you will otherwise be busy enough. In pruning, merely cut out the old enervated wood, tip the strong, young shoot3 and remove the little switchy stuff that comes up close about the crown or stem of the plant. Then clean out the patch, slightly fork the ground between the bushes, and apply a heavy mulch of cow manure. Carp kept in small ilonds need to be fed during the winter if they are expected to growJ The most economical food for them is grain, tom, rye or poor wheat. They all becomii soft by remaining in the water.

i The National Stockman figures out some tariff duties on foreign agricultural products as follows: Barley, 10 cents per bushel; cord, 10; oats, 10; rye, 10; wheat, 20; potatoes, 60 pounds, 15cents; w'ool, clothing and combing, under 32 cents per pound, 10 cents per pound; wool, carpet, under 6 cents per pound, cents per pound; wool, carpet, over 6 cents per pound, 5 cents per pound. There are no American wools which compete with carpet wools except a' little from Texas and New Mexico wools. There is a duty on cheese of 4 cents a pound; and on butter the same. Hemp, $10 a ton, and flax tow the same; on the straw and flax, $5 per ton. Tobacco has a high duty in all its forms.

'Eggs are free. The United States agricultural department announces that the experiment of making sugar by the diffusion process in Kansas has proved so satisfactory that next season a diffusion apparatus will be set up in Louisiana. In the matter of sorghum cane further experiments will be necessary to achieve full success by the process. Baying royalty to traveling scamps who claim to be agents for machines, the patents on which they say have been Infringed in some articles already in the farmer's possession. There are many rascals armed with bogus papers, through the country, swindling farmers in this way.

A good tmll-dog is a blessing when these fellows are around. The fleece bn the merino dam should be dense, well set, and standing well up under pressure, and, if pressed down, should have suilicient elasticity to return quickly to its upright position. I It should be dense rather than long in staple. It should cover all parts of the body, head, legs underneath the belly. It is desirable that this last should have -the wrinkles running down on to and across it, be covered with as long, thick wool as the sides.

The' face should be covered with a heavy foretop of wool, rimmed round broadly over the eyes. The model ram does not have the wool running down very close to the end of the nose; but a ram with such a face may be profitably used on a flock if the ewes have poor' faces. The fleece should be as even in length, thickness and quality on all parts of the body as possible. The Illinois State Board of agriculture concluded its annual session at Springfield 13. The board voted unanimously to ask the General Assembly to pass a law permanently locating the State Fair at the most accessible point to the greatest number of agriculturists of the state.

The points competing for the location of the fair are Freeport, leoria, and Ol-ney. Springfield is also mentioned. There will doubtless be other applicants before the general assembly passes the V11 for the permanent location. The spirited contest between tbe breeders of draft hor3e3 brought from France was permanently settled by giving separate classification-, for Percherons and the French drafts. The board decided to hold the horse show? at the Exposition building in Chicago, on the week commencing Nov." 7, 1887.

The dairy show will be held during the same month, and no provision was made for a further exhibition of oleomorgarine and butter-ine In connection therewith. The poultry show will be held as before in 1,5. ,1. TVf Fat adopted: Resolved, That the secretary of Twenty-nine-cent dances are popular at Janesville. The Chautauqua circle at Oshkosh is to be incorporated.

i Walter Raen, of Xeenah who was bitten by a cat a few days ago, is still Buffering very much from the wound. Ex-Governor James Lewis has been struck with paralysis at his home in Colnmbus. One side is completely disabled. He is not expected to recover. i Albert Hoffmaster, an employe of the Marinette Iron Works company, was killed at Marinette by a shock of electricity, while attempting to adjust an arc light in the foundry.

Among the several claimants fera $15,000 estate in Smithtown. L. are two Milwaukee ladies Mrs. Geo. II.

Daniels and Mrs. Frank Hughes and MraW. H. Kimball of Green Bay. The Farmers Institute opened for a two daya session, at Watertown on the 12th inst.

There was a large attendance and great interest in the proceedings was manifested by the neigboring farmers. John Denke and wife, of Clayton, Pollk county, and their ten children, all of i whom are married, and who had gathered from their homes (n Iowa and, Dakota for a-family reunion with their parents recently had 'their pictures taken. 'The groop is an interring one. Percival Roberts of Chicago, one of the sub-contractors who furnished the iron for the new Dane County Court building, has brought in the United States Circuit Court suit against David Stephens, the contractor, and Dane county for $11,000, which he claims is due him from the coiitractor, Stephens. While the Young Mens Christian Association were holding services in the jail at Eau Claire, a few days since, James Sullivan, a prisoner of many al-liases And many offenses, turned up Lis coat collar and passed out unnoticed.

He was in jail for an audacious theft from a passenger coach at the depot here of property belonging to a Chicago drummer. 1 At the annual meeting of the Walworth County Agricultural society at Elkhorn the' following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 8. R. Edgarton, president; D. S.

Allen vice-president; L. E. Allen, secretary; L. G. Latham, treasurer; Virgil Cobb, superintendent of grounds.

An executive committee of one from each township1 was chosen, 1 Judge William C. Allen died at his home in Racine, aged 72 years. He was County Judge of Walworth county from 1842 to 1843, a member of the assembly in 1866 and 1867, and a member of the State Board of Charities and Reform from 1870 to .1874. He resided at Delavan from 1841 to 1870, and since then at Racine. He was one of the most prominent men of Southern Wisconsin, until he retired from active life, about ten years ago.

There seems likely to be a suit between I Waukesha county and Waukesha, because of the refusal of the Village to refund to the county money paid by the latter for board of prisoners sentenced to jail under village ordinances. The refusal of the village to pay Is based on the claim that the sheriff had no authority to make arrests under the ordinances except on complaint of the president or a trustee; and as complaints were not thus made it is felt certain tjmt payment cannot be Teachers conventions will be held in the State as follows: Milwaukee; January 25 and 26; Madison, January 27 and 28; Oshkosh, February 8 and 9, Eau Claire, Febuary 10 and 11. County Superintendents, are required by law to attend at least one convention, Rnd must select from the places designated above the one that will inciir the minimum traveling expense, (n order to obtain a certificate that will entitle them to reimbursement by their respective counties for the actual and necessary expense of attendance. The short course in agriculture in the1 State University is starting out with the most flattering prospects. Professor Henry says that twenty-six young men have entered, one coming from Dakota Territory and one from Iowa.

The" veterinary sience is to be taught by lectures twice a week' by Dr. Atkinson, State Veterinarian. One of the celebrated Auzon horse models, consisting of 1,000 separate parts, has been ordered from Paris, at a cost of i $1,000, to be used in connection with this work, but has not yet, arrived, although it is expected befotd the end of the term. I The Farmers Institute, held in Oeonomowoc, on the 13th and 14 th inst, was, without doubt one of the most successful agricultural institutes ever held in this state. The meetings were held under the direction ofSuper-intendent William C.

Morrison, aided by a corps of able workers, among whOm were John Gould, of Ohio; H. C. Adams, of Dane county, Wisconsin; J. M. Smith, of Green Bay; D.

S. Sayres, of Rock coiwity, and other prominent agriculturists of the state. The meetings werb held in the new City Hall, and were largely attended, the audience of the afternoon and evening sessions being variously estimated at from 800 to 1,000 persons. In the family' of C. F.

Cook, living in the west division of Eau Claire, three persons were taken suddenly and violently ill after eating breakfast and went intdi indicating that they had partaken of poison, supposed to have been contained in the bread. Hopes -are entertained of their recovery i The residents of the town of Campbell, near La Cro3se, are bitterly opposed to the proposed extension of the limits of that city east and north. There are nearly fourteen hundred veteran soldiers in the National home at Milwaukee, and three hundred more are expected on the completion of the barracks in course of construction. 1 jhe Kevstone Iron Mining com- pany, of Ashland, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The capital stock is I incorporators, John L.

Mather, F. Ei Field, J. B. Connor, C. ONeill, and H.

H. Field. Tbe taxes levied by this year aggregated On man paid one-tenth on the whole tax. Thomas Savage, aged G4 years, an old resident of Beloit and veteran" soldier was found dead in some woods neat that city, where he had gone to chop. He seemed to have sat down and then fallen over, dying without a struggle.

At Sparta, Feb. 8, 9, and 10, will be held the fifteenth annual meeting of the State Dairymens association. A Hartford farmer recently sold tweftty-four head of fine fat cattle for $1,000. Madison zitizens consumed gallans of water last month. W.

A. COLBY, Publisher. Immigrants Itave arrived in the United States thji year the rate of thousand a day. There are signs of a coal famine in New York. In Chicago the coal holds out better than the money supply.

Fires in 123 iron mills in the United Slates during 1883 caused losses aggregating $3,400,030. Since October 30 to date Chicago packers have slaughtered 1,301,000 hogs, against 1.878,000 for the corresponding period a year ago. Thomas PraTt, one of the parties who robbed the bank at Kewanee, 111., lias been pardoned from Joliet prison by Governor Oglesby, after serving over four years. The English government has decided to purchase 40,000 additional horsca and 500,000 Mannlicher repeating rifles, to be ready March 1. The compromise Culiom Reagan interstate commerce bill has passed the United Stales Senate.

The bill now goes to the house, where its passage is anticipated. An expedition under 1rof. Charles A. Young is to be sent from Princeton college to Russia to observe the eclipse next August. The Minnesota Northwestern road is enabled to lay six hundred feet of track per hour on its Chicago Freeport lino by the use of a novel apparatus.

George W. Weiieh, the failed boot and shoe manufacturer of Chicago, made an alignment to Jacob F. Rehm, for $100,000 placing the liabilities at from $75,000 to $80,000. Prominent citizens along the southern coast have issued a call for a convention at lie Funi.ik Springs, on February 8, to counsel as to the? best method of securing protection. The number of weekly and daily newspapers in the Uftitci States amounts in round numbers to 12,800 exclusive of a vast number of monthly and quarterly pel iodi cals.

Efforts to secure raisin, orange, and wine shipments from California are now being made by the western freight agents of the Burlington, Denver nd Rio Grande roads. The publishers of General Logans book report that up to the date of his death they had -paid him an average of $1,000 per month, and the sales have since increased to a marvelous degree. An extensive distillery at Terre Haute, with large quantities of highwines and whisky, was destroyed by fire reft ntly. Los? about $100,000. One man perished in the The court of inquiry requested by William V.

Jacobs, colonel of, the 1st cavalry cf Chicago, finds him guilty of neglect and carelessness, and indebted to the regiment ia the sum of $1,701 10. The. Eliot church at Trenton, Blass, valued at $70,000, was destroyed by flames originating from a disjointed pipe. The congregation will at once commence a stone structure to cost $100,000. Cholera is ravaging the towns of Uruguay and the 'Argentine Republic, hua.

(lreds Of deaths occurring daily. Loaded vessels off Buenos Ayres are not -allowed to communicate with tne shore. A bill Las b-en introduced in the legislature of Texas req tiding railroads to give thirty days notice of the discharge of employes or reduction of their wages, and also requiring laborers to give a monthls notice of a strike. The national banks of Chicago, have petitioned congress to he placed on an equality with New York as a reserve center, when 25 per their circulation and deposit liabilities must be kept in their vaults. A MONEMEN'j to soldiers who fell in the war for the union is about to be placed in the public square at, Burlington, Wis.

The county appropriated $2,000, II. S. Magoon gave $1,000, and the people will contribute $3,000 more. Samuel Dysart, the new president of the Illinois board of agriculture says that the board favors an appropriation of $25 000 toward the eradication of pleuropneumonia, and has appointed a committee to urge its passage by the iegisla ture. There is a house in Philadelphia that has been standing there for 250 years.

It was built before Penn obtained his charter, and is one story high with an immense roof, The walls, made of stone, are two feet thick, and the oaken doors are large and heavy. 1 A natural son of the late prince impe rial of Franco and a schoolmistress In Australia is said to be at the chateau with the Marquis dOyley in Paris. The ex-Empress Eugenie has telegraphed to the due de Mouchy to make an investigation of the story. 1 The mm points for the sale of 1,423 miles of track by the Tennessee road tithe Richmond West Point company have been agfeed upon. The parties controlling the former are to receive for their prtferred stock in cash and four thousand shares of Richmond stock.

The receivers of the New Jersey Central road, after fully investigating the strike of employes of the coal shipping companies for 25 cent an hour, find that labor of the same grade on the railways brings but 12 cents, and that they cannot recommend that the coal companies yield. The Duchess of alliera has recently been in Berlin as the guest of the crown princess. She is a middle-aged widow, and possessed of fabulous wealth, estimated at five hundred million lire. It is related of her that wjien wme time ago her cashier decamped with more then million lire she did not think it worth while even to prosecute him. One of her sons, the Mar-quis de Ferrari, is a professor in Paris.

Senator Baaard hs addressed a communication to congress asking an additional appropriation of $6,000 to cany out the provisions of, the resolutions of June 14. 1873, and Feb. 27. 1S81. appro pnating $30,000 for the erection of a memorial building on the site of the birthplace of George Washington, in Westmoreland county, Virginia, at the confluence of Bridge's creek and the Potomac river.

A reat Robbery. Boston, Jan. 20. The safe of the Belmont Savings Bank, in the town hall 1 at Belmont, wa3 blown open late on Tuesday night, and securities representing a large sum of money were stolen. Of these about $1,500,000 worth are negotiable, while the others are not.

-A number of un-negotiable notes were also taken and a small sum in cash. The job was done by professional cracksmen, who left no clew. I Two Ineffective Votes. i iNDiANAroos, Jan. 22.

The two ballots for United States Senator yesterday did not elect, the vote being as heretofore: Turpie 75, Harrison 71, and Allen 4. There was perfect silence duriDg the call of the roll to ascertain if all were present, the rumor that there would be absentees having been generally circulated during the morning. The call of the roll on the two ballots was not marked by. any demonstration except when Robinson voted for Allen. Trampled t.

Death. London, 19. While about five hundred persons, mostly Jews, were witnessing a performance last night of the Hebrew Dramatic club at Spita-flelds some one in the -gallery, doubtless for a joke, shouted Fire. The gas was immediately turned off at the meter and a terrible panic ensued. The people rushed in a solid mass for the doors and numbers were trodden under foot.

When the panic had subsided it was found that twelve women and five youths had been trampled to death affd many others injured. A Denperado Caught. Chattanooga, Jan. 18. One of the most noted desperadoes In middle Tennessee, Luke Anderson, was captured yesterday at Anderson Station after a very bloody struggle.

He has killed four men in the last ten years, and was wanted on four charges of arson. He was traced to an isolat-' ed house in the mountains last night bya posse and thei building surrounded.1 Anderson had with him twelve of his confederates, and they all Bhowed fight. In the melee that ensued, a man named Johnson was shot, and fully twenty-five shots were fired, slightly wounding several. Anderson finally was overpowered and was taken to Windhester, where he now lies in jail. 1 i I The Indiana Huddle.

Indianapolis, Jan. 18. Jujge Ayers, of the Civil Circuit Court, rendered his decision in the proceedings against Lieutenant Governor Robertson. lie held that the court had jur isdjction of the case, and also that there is no provision of the constitution whereby ft, Governor can be elected at any other time than when a Governor is elected, that is, once every four years; and inasmuch a3the election was not constitutional, the proceedings could not be a contest! ed election as provided for by the con-stitntion and statutes. IIo granted the writ of injunction against Colonel Robertson to restrain him from pre'sid-i ing at the joint convention on A)'ed-nesday.

In conclusion the judge said he assumed jurisdiction, and made the decision he did, so there could be an appeal to the Supreme Court at once, he believing that upon such an import tant question the opinion pf that Court, should be had. I Flogged Ills Wife. Louisville, Jam 19. The police were informed yesterday of a case of shocking brutality. Joseph Dean, a bricklayer, living in the suburbs, went home half drunk, and his wife refuse to admit him to her rooms.

He broke the door down, seized her by the hair, and, in spite of her struggles, dragged her into an outhouse and tied her tightly to a post. Then, taking a black-snake whip, he lashed her till she was insensible. He then left her hanging against the post, her clothing covered with blood. Staggering back into the house, he locked his three children in a room and disappeared. Shouldhe.be found, there is talk that he will meet with summary punishment at the hands of infuriated citizens.

Isabella Begg, a niece of Robert Burns, died in London recently. I I THE UARkETIi The Indiana SI addle. Indianapolis, Jan. 20. The members 1 of the legislature in view of the restraining order against Lieutenant Governor Robertson, agreed that Senator Smith Bhould preside over the joint convention yesterday.

The first ballot' for senator was 75 for Judge Turpie and 71 for i Benjamin i Four Person. Torn to Pieces. Indianapolis, Jan. 21. At 10 oclock yesterday morning the boiler in a saw-mill owned by Jackson Norris, located in Daviess county, three miles from Washington, exploded with terrible effect.

Norris and his two grown sons, Frank and John, and William McAfee were killed outright, their bodies being terribly mangled. The mill and machinery were totally wrecked. Portions of the boiler were carried four hundred feet from the scene of the catastrophe. Norris was aged 55 years. He leaves a wife and two children.

McAfee was single, as were both sons of Norris. The boiler had been in use a long time, and it was the intention to replace it with a new one in a few days. the treasury be, and is hereby, requested to inform the house of representatives as soon as practicable the sums of money which were owing to the United States on the 1st day of January, 1887, from the Pacific railroads which have received aid from the government in bonds, giving the sums which are due, principal and interest, under existing law, severally and collectively, from said companies, and what vrill be the result to the treasury and effect ujion these debts if the house bill 8318 should become a law and its provisions be complied with. The following committee reports were submitted and referred: The senate bill ifor the admission of the state of Washington for the suppression of the opium traffic; for the completion of the monument to Mary, the mother of tyashington,) at Fredericksburg; authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to make a special distribution of seed in the drought-stricken sections of Texas. Mr.

'Martin (Ala.) called up Senate bill amending the law relating to patents trade marks, and copyrights. The bill, which was passed, provides that hereafter during the term 'of letters patent, for a design, it shall be unlawful for any person other than the owner of letters patent, without license of owner, to apply the design secured by such letters patent or any imitation thereof to any article of manufacture for the purpose of sale, or to sell or expose for sale any article of manufacture to which such Lcsign or imitation shall, without the license of the owner, have been knowing that the same has been so applied. The vote upon the adoption of the conference report on the Inter-State Commerce lull resulted yeas 219, nays 41. Those voting ih the negative were Allen of Massachusetts, Anderson of Ohio, Bliss, Boutelle, Boyle, Bragg, Brumm, Campbell of Ohio, Caswell, Dibble, Ely, Evans, Felton, Findlay, Frederick, Gay, Gilfillan, Hayden, Hill, Johnson (of New York), Ketcham, Libby, Long, Markham, Martin, McKenna; Miller, Morrow, Oates, O'Neil (of Pennsylvania), ONeil (of Missouri), Itan-ney, Reed (of Maine), Rice, Seymour, Wadsworth, Wait, Weaver (of Iowa), and White (of Pennsylvania). The bill after being enrobed and signed by the presiding officers of the two houses, will be sent to the President for Ills acception.

Mr. Belmont, of New York, offered the following resolution, which was referred to the committee on foreign affairs: I Resolved, That the President be requested to transmit to the house copies of such correspondence up to the present day between this government and the British government as he may decide can now properly be made public, in regard to the deprivation inflicted in certain ports on American fishing vessels having the right to touch and trade, of the liberty heretofore enjoyed by such vessels to enter Canadian ports open to foreign vessels, and buy and sell and to transmit merchandise Jthere-in, and which is permitted in such ports to American trading vessels, and to vessels of all other nationalities. J- A Big Malt. 1 Detroit, Jan. 18.

In -the United States court the common stockholders of the Flint and Per Marquette railroad, brought suit against that company, alleging fraud and mismanagement, asking an investigation of the books, an injunction against the extension of the road pending the investigation, and the issuance of stock to the common stockholders. It is claimed that the reorganization of 1880 was illegal, and that since that time the road has been run in the interest of holders of preferred stofik. The Buit involves $3,500,000, the amount of common stock. McGlynn la Removed. New York, Jan.

20. The Herald announces that Dr. McGlynn has not only been "suspended from exercising his priestly functions but has by special order from Rome been unfrocked and deprived of all priestly office. It is this fact which caused the appearance Saturday of Father Donnelly in St Stephen's as pastor. Dr.

McGlynn has tried to keep the fact of his explusion from the priesthood from the ears of his flock, but the -news could not be suppressed. CHICAGO. I -j Attacked by Albanians. Constantinople, Jan. 20.

Three thousand Albanians attacked the military depot near Mitrovitza. The minister of war has ordered troops from Salonica Monaster to the scene of the trouble. Alexander- Advancement. The queen was prevailed upon to postpone her intention of giving th gaiter to Prince Alexander of she has Consoled herself by advancing him to the highest grade in the Order of the Bath, and he is now placed in the military division, an ar- rangemont which hak exceedingly displeased the prince of YVales, and which will inevitably give offense at St. letersburg and at Berlin, as it has always been the custom to place Honorary Knights Grand Cross in the civil division, except under very exceptional circurastanoes.

The German emperor and crown prince are, of course, in the military division, but there is no reason why lrinde Alexander of Ilattenberg should have joined them therein Lon-don Truth. Tli tek news of Human if alrv Measurements have shown the thickness of the human hair to vary from the two hundred and fiftieth to the six hundredth part of an inch. The silkworms thread is one part of an inch thick and the spiders web only one thirty-thousandth. Blonde hair is the finest and red the coarsest Taking four heads of equal weight, a patient German physiologist found the red one to contain abont hairs, the black 103.000. the brown 109,000, and the blonde 140,000.

A Mother. Fiendish Crime. Cleveland, Jan. 21 Great ex citement prevails here over the horrible murder and suicide committed by Mrs. Antoinette Cabalek, living on Independence hear the city limits.

The husband, James Cabalek, fe well-to-do carpenter, and his oldest son left for work, leaving the wife and mother in a bad humor over something which occurred at breakfast. Soon after they left she sent Henry, her 15-year-old son, to a grocery near by, and still another son to a milk depot. When they returned they could not get Into the house. Going into the back yard, they 8a James, 13 years old, in a closet; bleeding from sixteen wounds in his left side. They hastened away and called their older brother, who had gone off with the father, and, returning, the three boys forced an entrance to the house.

They discovered 8-year-old girl, bleeding from a dozen cuts in her left side. On the floor near by were Mamie, 5 years old; Antoinette, 3 years old, and Willie, three months old, all dead from dreadful stabs near the heart. A bloody pair of shears told the story. A hunt was made for the mother. She was found in the cellar, hanging from a rafter, dead.

She had killed her three children, mortally injured two others, and had then suicided. The two children who were still alive were removed to a neighbors house, but they will die. No cause for the terrible deed is given. The husband does not think that bis wife was insane. connection with the American Stock Show.

The board adjourned to meet March 1st, when the location of the State Fair will be settled. An Inhuman Fair. Pekin, 111. Jan. 20.

Gottlieb San-sti, of Tremont, came to Pekin and placed himself in the keeping of the Sheriff of the county in order to save himself from the wrath of the enraged people of Tremont. Sansti and his wife are accused of treating their 10-year-old boy in a most heartless and cruel manner, such as burning him upon the stove, tying him to the floor and leaving him in that position till his feet were frozen, and at times whipping him nearly to death for some trifliTig offense. A complaint was made against the father, and he was taken to jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. The mother is said to be even more cruel in her treatment of the boy than is the father. The lad is now being cared for by friends, and it is thought will recover from the effects of his late ill-treatment, though the attending physician thinks the chances are against him.

I An Antidote to Nicotine. M. Armand, a French savant, 1 has stated to the Academy of Sciences that he has discovered a sure antidote to nicotine in the watercress. It destroys the poisonous effects of nicotine, and yet does not alter the aroma of tobacco. A solution of watercress may be employed for steeping the leaves of tobacco, and would thus divest them of their noxious properties.

I A resident of Massilon, stepped on the point of ft nail and died the next day. An Old Arkansas Traveler. George "Washington Sims of Mount-ainbury, claims to have been born January 14, 1777. In the war of 1812, he received injuries that necessitated the operation of trepanning. recovered, and to-day is a hearty old man, a first class rifle shot, and in possession of his fscultiea..