Newark Daily Advocate (Newspaper) - January 7, 1890, Newark, Ohio RK DAILY ADVOCATE VOLUME HIV 152 Cents Per Week NEWARK OHIO TUESDAY JANUARY 7 1890 Single Copy 3 Cents NUMBER 57 i at fork Am Senators Resume Their Places in the Capitol SEVERAL MEASURES PASSED Among Them One the Pension of Soldiers Totally to Seven u Month But Little i tho patches Jan the yesterday a number of bilU and tions were introduced and the to dispose of certain lands in the state of Alabama was disposed Among the were two from Kansas and Texas respectively the first in g ing selection of Chicago and me second the selection of St Louis as a site for the world's fair of 1893 Mr Platt presented a copy of the con- adopted at Boise City for tin proposed state of Idaho and it was re- ferred to tho committee on territories Mr Plumb offered a resolution which was agreed to directing the managers of National Soldiers homes to report on the of establishing a hospital at Hot Springs Ark for disabled Union soldiers Mr Plumb also offered u lution which went over setting forth the fact that advertisement had been sued for bids tor the seal privileges m Alaska and that under existing tions no company had any chani e in the bidding with the Alaska company which was charged with exercising its present rights there oppressively and ing upon the secretary of the treasury to take no further action on the and in the meantime to make a lull re- port to congress as to tho m which the Alaska company has dis- charged its duties Mr Call offered a long resolution ting the fact that the bonded debt of the Island of Cuba was held by man bankers that they controlled the financial and political policy of the land that as neither Cuba nor Spam would able to repay this money an alliance the German empire and Spam be tho natural Hnd declaring that in the sense in the senate done in the Island of Cuba tending to tiansier the und political of the island to an European power is to the best interests of the United States and must be dis- countenanced It also requests the president to furnish the senate such in- formation as the state department may posses on the subject Mr Sherman objected to the ate consideration of the resolution and it went to the committee on foreign re- lations Mr Dawes offered a resolution which was agreed to calling on the postmaster general for information as to the posed connection of the de- with the telegraph companies and as to the probable cost of tion of an independent government tele- graph line between the cities of St Louis Chicago Philadelphia and Sew York The increasing the pay of census supervisors from 8300 to wa- passed Mr Stewart incidentally intro a discussion of the silver question The increasing the pension of sailors totally helpless to a diers and month was passed The to provide for the disposal o certain public lands in Alabama was debated at some length and went without action The senate then went into secret sion and at adjourned House Jan feature et the house was the introduction of bills tinder the call of states The chaplain invoked divine protection for Mr Kelley of Pennsylvania who is Seriously ill On motion of Mr Carlisle ot tucky the speaker was authorized to administer the oath of office to Mr dall at his home Messrs Wilbur of Sew York and of Tennessee were to take the oath of office before proper officers The states were then called for the In- and reference of bills At the conclusion of the call of states the speaker announced the following Regents of the Smithsonian institution Representatives Lodge and Wheeler At the house adjourned Tho Pope Not WASHINGTON Jan depart- ment officials profess titter ignorance ol any intention on the part of the pope to send a nuncio to this country as tne of the Vatican Assistant Secretary Wharton said that he knew Nothing about the matter but he thought it was not likely that a nuncio would come Mr Walker Elaine when asked about it We have of course never recognized the pope as a temporal ruler and have never sent him an envoy Our minister to that region has been to the Italian government and there has ever been any occasion for communicating with the Vatican it has been done through the minister I do not think that a papal representative has ever been sent to this country It is a grave question or not one would Be received if he came a question that would have to be discussed over at the White House and I have not the est idea of how it would be decided I do not believe in the rumor Supreme Court Work WASHINGTON Jan supreme court of the United States has the Virginia tax coupon cases for ment on the of this month The case arising out of the ing of Judge Terry in California last summer was set down for argument on March 1 as was also the case of the San Tulare Railroad company of California involving the right of the states to im- pose special taxation upon railroads WASHINGTON Jan navy de- is informed that the United States training ship Portsmouth has started on her cruise to the West Indies Lieut J E Craig has been detached the command of the now on the Asiatic station and ordered hoaie Lieut Commander Vail been dered to the command ot the Palos NEW YORK Jan Southworth who shot and killed Stephen some time ago is said by the tombs physicians to be in a dying condition HEROES IN A Ml WE Fire Men From a Burning After an Explosion Pa Jan the Nottingham mine in Plymouth the disastrous cave-in occurred last week a terrible accident was averted yesterday evening About 7 o'clock a terrific explosion of gas took place There had been a heavy fall of coal and this forced the gas toward the shaft but on its way it was ignited by the naked lamps of miners and exploded The brattice work and lumber caught fira at once and burned fiercely Five men were caught between the cave-in and the fire and all manner of exits cut off The report spread that the men weru dead and in a few minutes hundreds of men women and children gathered at the moul h of the slope waiting to see tho flead bodies hoisted out The wives and children oC the imprisoned men be- came frenzied and their grief was ble to behold About hall an hour after tho fire broke out John D and John Richards were lowered into the mine When they reached the fire they heard on the other side Putting their hands before their faces they rushed through the lire and dragged the tive imprisoned men out one by one un- injured When they reached the crowd above the rescued men and heroes were received with shouts of welcome Thomas who was in another part of tho mine was severely burned by the explosion and it is feared he can not recover Part f tlie of the mine are located und river and the thai water is oozing through where the cave-in occured last we They fear the river may break the mine Many mines would lie drowned out beyond hope of reclaiming them and operations would have to lie suspended CHEAP VERMONT LANDS Farms I Tie Hart There from to AlTi Ai Vt Jan state of agriculture and published a map of mont show ing the locations of towns in unoccupied farms and lands unoccupied The list includes towns Tho stales that gool farms with buildings and maple sugar orchards can lie purchased at trom to per a on with better ings ami near railroads or villages can be bought liom to 10 an acre of these lands are far from a ready and all are adapted to dairy Farm labor is in great demand at wages Already eral letters have been received from I'M TV section of tho United States making concerning unoccupied lands in Several sales of the lands in have been made to Conner now in the west and to citizens ot the state All In iie Jan E Oaks of West arrested a few ago for placing obstructions on the tracks of Franklin and wav in Salem has confessed to Sheriff Oaks says ho is in a gang ot three composed of himself Henry zell of Salem and Jesse Doyen of West bound together by thrilling oaths to wreck trains rob mails and passengers Their headquarters he says arc in an old lumber camp on Mt Abram Buzzell wan arrested and brought here Saturday and Officer Gould telegraphed that he arrested Doyen at Andover yesterday and will be hero with him to-morrow Shot Wife N Y Jan special to m 3 Press and Knickerbocker from says: Willet an ax maker followed his wife clown Mohawk street at last night and fired tive shots at her One look effect in the back and may prove fatal She also re- a slight wound The woman cried murder and fell to the sidewalk She was curried into the Clarendon hotel and medical aid The man was arrested and jailed lie said the reason he shot his wife was that she refused to live with him and preferred outside company Chicago City Mall cm riro lor Four Jan combination of mice and matches started a fire in one of the vaults of the council chamber on the top story of the city hall last Friday and it burned until yesterday morning without being ered Fortunately only some ant papers were destroyed but the authorities were scared when they dis- covered that the city ball had been on fire for four days Both Branches Meet GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE READ A Number ol Resolutions and Bills and Action Token on Some ol Them Bookwalter from the Senatorial Contest COLUMBUS O Jan of State Ryan convened the house of a few minutes after 10 a m Prayer was offered by the Rev J C Jackson of Columbus Representatives Taylor of Champaign and of Muskingum were appointed as clerks until the members had been sworn in The roll was called by counties in blocks of ten and the members elect ar- ranging themselves in front of the clerk's desk were sworn in by Judge Williams of the supreme court One hundred and nine members answered to their names Messrs Counts of Sholby Eggerman of Harding Kean of Carroll of Defiance and Lawlor of Franklin were absent The names presented for speaker of Perry by the Democrats and Laylin of Huron by the Republicans Grocers Bx Louis Jan Wholesale Grocery company failed with liabilities estimated at 000 The is clue to blow collections and an attempt to on a big business on a small capital The chief creditors are located in New York Chicago and St Louis The assets are stock and tlie balance in bills receivable Congressman Gibson 111 BALTIMORE Jan 7 Congressman Charles H Gibson of the First land district is seriously ill at the dence of a friend at No 2113 North Gal- vert Coming up on the boat on Friday night from the eastern shore he contracted a severe cold in the head which rapidly extended to his lungs and developed pneumonia Mr Gibson's condition is alarming Will Try It Again Jan Myer the 111 who fought Jack McAuliffe to a draw and has never been whipped has been matched to meet Harry Gilmore in an eight round con- test on Jan 15 at Battery D Myer has twice defeated Gilmore each time iu one round The allair is under direction of Parson Davies for whom Otto Flato is Furniture Failure CHICAGO Jan A Heliner has been appointed receiver for the firm of fi Deimel Brothers extensive of parlor furniture in bonds of The receiver was appointed on a filed by Simon Deimel who has charge of tlie New York branch and claims that the business here has not been managed EXPLOSION A Number ot Workmen Buried Under the Debris and Several Seriously Hurt LIMA O Jan 3 o'clock day afternoon one of the large barrel stills of the naphtha works at the j Solar refinery exploded with a terrific force that was felt all over the city The still was located in the napths works at the east end of the grounds j The shock shook all the houses in the southern part of the city At the south school building it nearly caused a panic among the children The still was No 6 and it was being emptied when in some way not yet ex- it exploded tearing away a 1 tion of the roof A number of men who i were working near were covered with debris The immediately caught fire causing considerable excitement The men employed in other parts of the works came rushing to the rescue and the work of removing the injured was commenced William Culver fireman was found insensible under a pile of brick with a bad gash in the head and his face burned Peter Devine a brickmason i had his right leg broken in two places and badly bruised and burned Their injuries are serious and may prove fatal J F Deman face and hands badly burned William Murphy J L Galler L E Helser Walter Evans Frank White and John Sullivan were bruised and burned but are not thought to be seriously injured Charles kammer was thrown quite a distance into a tank of water and came very near drowning The company immediately sent for Drg Vail Hover and Metzgar to ter to the wounded who are receiving the best of care The fire was without any great loss of received 53 votes and Laylin 32 Mr Hysell was declared elected and he was escorted to the chair by Messrs Forbes of Coshocton and lin of Huron the steps and standing before the judge to take the oath Mr was with He made a courteous little speech of thanks although he was much embarrassed He promised to so deport himself in the dis- charge of official duties that bers would never regret having thus honored him He urged members in considering any measure or taking any action that whenever the interests of tho rich and the poor seemed to conflict that would give the benefit of the doubt to the poor and he concluded by savins that bo was a believer in the principles enunciated by Jefferson iiy Jackson and advocated by the Create if of their successors Cleveland Fur speaker pro tern Mr Forbes ot nominated Mr Robeson of Darke Democrat and Mr Griffith of Lucas nominated Mr Hudson of Huron Republican Mr Robeson was declared elected he receiving fifty-five votes and Mr son fifty-three votes The nominations and election of the other officers then proceeded as per cus David S Fisher of Hardin was elected clerk David Lanning of lin was the Don V Taylor of Ashland was ed journal clerk George H Kolker was the Republican nominee For message clerk Sherman Mott of Defiance was elected John C worth was the Republican nominee For engrossing clerk G F Pollock of Monroe county was elected Coborn W Reynolds of Lawrence county re- the Republican vote For enrolling clerk W B of Brown county was elected Scott A Webb of Ashtabula received the Re- publican vote For recording clerk Miss Sallie F Brown of Hancock was elected For George D Neal of Knox was elected and the following were elected F Foster of Wyandot J Knight of ton Blaukner of Franklin The customary resolutions were ed after which the house took recess Tlie house reconvened at The following were announced as the committee on Belville of gomery Forbes of Laylin of Huron Hudson of Clinton and Mr Speaker Mr Hodge introduced a to provide for a more efficient form of government for the city of Cleveland A resolution was offered and over under the rule providing for a joint meeting of the legislature to count the vote of the November election Mr Hodge raised the point that the resolution under the constitution to read to witness the count The chair announced the following as the house members of the joint com- to wait upon the governor and in- form him of the fact that the legislature was organized for Belvill Forbes Donavin Hudson and Hodge In a short committee returnee and reported that the governor would communicate with the legislature forth with The governor's message was then received and read The senate joint resolution in memory of the late Senator Pendleton was unam adopted under suspension of the rules Adjourned ready to receive any communication ne may have to make was adopted and the committee named at the morning session was reappointed Mr Oren introduced a to prevent the organization of trusts or tions This is intended to be mentary to a introduced in the United States senate by the Hon John Sherman Mr Morrison offered a resolution in- our senators and tives to oppose the construction of road bridges across the Straits of De- troit Adopted unanimously Mr Morrison introduced a ing for the care of insane persons at in- the state to pay for the same Mr Reed introduced a requiring real estate appraisers to give notice to land owners of the valuation placed upon such real estate at the timo of making the appraisement Mr Brown offered a resolution under which John of Hamilton county was made third assistant arms The message of the governor was re- and read at the clerk's desk Mr Massie introduced a to have the American flag displayed over all school houses during school hours Adjourned SENATORIAL CONTEST So Sew Developments Except the of Mr Bookwalter COLUMBUS 0 Jan contest Cor the from Ohio is in the background apparently without any new developments further than rumors of an extravagant nature The con- vening of the legislature has over- shadowed all other questions John W Bookwalter has written a letter withdrawing from the candidacy Cor United States senator He take the ground thai no millionaire should be chosen Presence of England's Ruler Not Desired in Ireland A VOTE TAKEN ON THE SUBJECT A JLover Shoots Himself Jan was the cause a youthful attempt at cide yesterday morning Louis Kurtli a lad 15 years old and the son of a inent citizen shot himself with a pistol The girl he wished to be liis sweetheart Nellie a girl 13 years old had not only rejected his matrimonial advances but also preferred the com- pany of another boy to that of young Kurth This made him desperate and he tried to kill himself He aimed tha at his heart It is likely that his attempt will prove successful for the vound inflicted is dangerous A Once Eminent Minister's End PUEBLO Col Jan was found dead in a South Side saloon It waa the striking ending a remarkable life For years one of the most eminent preachers of the Methodist church in New York state be became a drunkard and outcast wandered to Pueblo reformed and again joined the church His reformation lasted for a rear during which time ho did editorial vork and demonstrated rare ability Sis last fall was complete all efforts ol riends being useless He leaves a ily in Three Men Injured in o Wreck HAGERSTOWN Md Jan was an accident on the Valley railroad near hero yesterday afternoon A freight train ran into an open switch and struck a bowlder The engine and several cars were smashed Harvey Gardner the engineer Funk fireman and Charles Mullens brakeman were injured the Joiner Entirely Unknown RALEIGH N C Jan News and Observer says that careful gation fails to show that any such a son as Rev J M Joiner was ever in the vicinity of Holly or that any outrage such as he describes to the Washington authorities ever occurred Joiner is entirely unknown to the people of that Boston's New Mayor Sworn III BOSTON Jan Hart was sworn in to-day and delivered his in- augural For the first time in many years the city government Republican in all its branches ia SERIOUS STORM DAMAGE Senate Proceedings COLUMBUS O Jan senate met at 10 o'clock and was called to der by Lieutenant Governor Lyon There were few visitors and the business transacted was in the usual form Senator Kerr was made temporary secretary The senators in squads of sixteen were called before the clerk's desk and the oath of office was tered by Chief Justice Minshall For president pro tern Mr Van Cleaf nominated Senator Adams and Senator Alexander named Senator Massie Adams elected Mr W A Taylor of Franklin was elected clerk of the senate Mr I J Fisk of Morrow was next elected journal clerk Mr Joseph R Kagy of Hancock was duly elected message clerk Miss Nellie O'Hagan of Erie was elected engrossing clerk For enrolling clerk James Ireland of Warren was elected For recording clerk Miss Leal son of Shelby was elected The election of sergeant-at-arms being in order nominations were made and David W of Coshocton was elected to that position For first assistant Carlos Trevitt of Franklin was elected for second ant W A Varley of Athens was elected Mr Lowry offered a resolution ing the house that the senate had and was ready to proceed to business Adopted Mr Cole offered the usual resolution to appoint a committee of three to meet a similar committee of the house to notify the governor that the general assembly ia in session and ready to proceed to business Adopted Messrs Cole Ryan and Pumphrey were appointed the com- Mr Gaumer offered a resolution to point a committee to arrange the com- of the senate Adopted Messrs Adams Van Cleaf Shaw Corcoran Ryan Massie and Kerr were made the committee Mr Ashburn offered a resolution viding for counting the vote for state officers on Wednesday next in the hall ol the house Adopted Mr Brown of Hamilton offered a resolution eulogistic of the life and lic services of the late Hon George H Pendleton Adopted unanimously A resolution providing for a tee to wait on tne governor and inform him that the legislature is ia Accidents -Each Attended With Results SAN Jan storm caused great damage to the Oregon Railway and Navigation company's road accidents each attended with fatal results have been reported man Cross was seriously scalded at Hood Eiver Sunday Fireman Orvis was killed in a collision between a freight and a passenger train near Willows Sunday It is rumored that men were killed and thirteen persons injured on the same road at Riparia but this is un- confirmed The first train from Spokane in five days arrived here Monday Eight have been demolished on this road The heaviest storm in years is prevailing The thermometer ia below zero Blizzard Throughout Kansas KANSAS CITY Mo Jan first blizzard of the season struck this section Sunday night and continued all day A heavy snow fell Reports from Kansas show that the storm ex- the state Snow lias been falling for the past twenty-four hours in Kansas and fears are entertained by railway men that a blockade will occur The temperature is very low near the zero By the Corporation of Preparations Being Made to Receive Stanley In Demands of Victoria's Health Other Foreign News DUBLIN Jan a regular ing of the Dublin corporation yesterday a Protestant alderman introduced a inviting the queen to pay a visit to Dublin Immediately half a dozen Nationalists were on their feel seeking the recognition of the chair that they might denounce the resolution and its author and it was some minutes before order was sufficiently restored to enable the observance of parliamentary usage Several vehement speeches were made against the resolution and a vote was finally taken with the result of rejecting the motion by an overwhelming ity The grounds upon which the lution was rejected were declared to be that the Irish detested the present and would not stultify selves by endorsement of a sycophantic invitation to one whose presence m Dub- lin in the existing circumstances would be most Preparing to Receive Stanley LONDON Jan preparations are being made for the monster tion of welcome to Stanley The Royal Geographical society has provided for people at the Albert hall The main of the evening will be a map of Africa one hundred feet by eighty in extent and tho different routes followed by Staley ia liis travels the dark continent Tlie queen was desirous of conferring the Cross of St Michael and St George upon Mr Stanley and name would have been in- cluded in the batch of New Year's ors just made public had not Lord bury advised that the dignity be reserved until Mr Stanley's arrival in England Would Have Made Livingston Happy LONDON Jan a letter to Mr Bruce son-in-law of the famous African explorer Dr Livingstone Stanley de- scribes the expulsion of ism by the continued efforts of native Christians and the subsequent sion to Christianity of King the savage persecutor who murdered Bishop and says: The fact that the native Christians are strong enough to make a successful revolution in one of the most powerful of the African kingdoms would have made Livingstone content to die in peace The most deadly persecution with the stake the knife and the bullet has failed to shake their staunchness Burial of the Fire Victims LONDON Jan burial of tims of the Forest Gate pauper school fire took place yesterday The mony was witnessed by an immense crowd of people and the scenes ing it were touching in the extreme The bodies were encased in coffins ly in style and wero followed to the burial place by hundreds of children whose genuine sorrow at the death of their former companions was manifested by tears and sobs which elicited re- manifestations from many ol their elders At the graves the children sang appropriate hymns with impressive England's Demands of Portugal LONDON Jan correspondent of The Times at Lisbon telegraphs that another note from Lord Salisbury was delivered to the Portuguese yesterday which is believed to threaten an immediate rupture of diplomatic re- lations unless satisfaction is at once given for the action of Serpa Pinto The cabinet met immediately the receipt of note and charged Senoi Gomes with the duty of sending a re- ply at once Lord Salisbury's note somewhat cavalierly ignored the pretensions of Portugal in Southeast Africa BLANKETS CLOAKS White Blankets worth you can buy them now for 5 Our Lot of Cloth they cost us from to each your choice for ow is your time CARROLL CO Weather Indications Showers in southern portions fair ill northern portions colder northerly winds followed by a cold wave PRICES CURRENT Review of the Money Stocks and Cattle Quotations for Jan G Money loaned at easy rates per cent throughout the morning Exchange dull Currency sixes 116 bid fours coupon 125 do bid The stock market was extremely dull this morning and the course of prices was what irregular The features the ings wore the Coal stocks Sugar certificates Pacific Hail Tennessee Coal Missouri Pacific St Paul Texas Pacific and Lead Trusts Tho general list opened cent lower in response to a similar decline for American securities in London wanna and Reading were especially weak The former fell per cent to The decline in Reading was not so large During the first half hour the general market further declined slightly but toward 11 o'clock under the lead of Pacific Mail and Tennesee Coal which were exceptionally strong the early decline was fully recovered Pacific Mail was per cent higher at 11 o'clock than it closed Saturday In the hour to noon the market was very dull but mg with Pacific Mail and Pacific the features wero slight Atchison C I Del Brie Lake Shore L Pacific Mail and Missouri The changes however HO Mich Cent N Y Central Northwestern Miss Pacific Mail Rock Island St Paul Western Union 107 111 22 39 84 Cincinnati WOOL Unwashed fine merino combing medium delaine and clothing braid dium combine fleece washed nne merino X and XX medium ing delaine Choice timothy sells at per ton prairie brings straw Good to choice butchers 3.90 fair common stackers and feeders HOGS Selected butchers and heavy shi fair to good packing SS by the committee who prizes Cor tho best and second best plans for the proposed Watkin English Eiffel It will be so high that all that need be done when fog conies on will be to enter the lilt and in a few minutes be up in the clear blue Lepers are still numerous in Norway The number is upward of one thousand most whom are found in the districts There are four leper hospitals Leprosy once common in Europe lias maintained its hold in Norway longer than in ot her tries but is gradually being exterminated there During the recent floods in Japan sons were killed and 155 were wounded SO 000 were deprived tho oC life houses were swept away or rendered uninhabitable acres of agricultural land with their crops were laid waste bridges wore carried away and hundreds of miles Df roads were destroyed The diamond and pearl necklace worn on state occasions by Mrs Cornelius has excited the greatest wonder imd tion The striking feature of this necklace is that the diamonds are pierced through the center and arc strung alternately with the pearls It is said thut it required many weeks of patient labor to pierce each stone Tho numbers of cloisters ami monks in Spain have increased with astounding of lato years Spain now has monks and nuns in cloisters and 179 orders In Barcelona alono there are 163 cloisters for women In tho lust fourteen years tho number of monks in Spain has been sextupled and the number of nuns has been doubled Jeff Davis wrote to a friend in Atlanta under dato of March 8 My father was a native of name was uel my grandfather resided and died in name was Evan The family were Wales and I have lost what littlo I had of record beyond the memory of the facts as stated above to Columbus to Inauguration Campbell On Jan 12 and 13 the P C St L will sell excursion tickets to Columbus and return for SI good returning Jan 14 inclusive account of the inauguration of Gov For contort safety take the Panhandle Over in Use 24 Now ill lino In This City common and rough packing fair to good light 3.53 fair to good light pigs CONDENSED Minor EvenN and Little at Various Places The strike on the Mackey system has been settled All electric wires at Pittsburg are to bs placed under ground The cases against the New York boodlers have been abandoned Harvard hits declined to row Cornell uni- versity at New London In June Justice Brewer was sworn in as associate justice of the United States supreme court Monday Bishop Cotter was installed as bishop ol the new diocese of Winona at Winona Minn Sunday The investigation of the case by i the special committee appointed by congress i will begin to-day Strauss with hh entire orchestra has been j engaged to come to America in May for a j three months engagement 1 Louis North aged 15 shot himself at At- i chison Kan because he was rejected by Nellie aged 13 Congressman Charles H Gibson of the First Maryland district is lying dangerously ill with pneumonia iu Baltimore James TV Husted has been named by the Republican as speaker of the New York house of representatives It will be his sixth term The municipal election at Jackson Miss passed off only a few colored voters asking the privilege of casting their ballots and they were refused Arthur S Kniffen the dentist whose wife was found dead in bed at her home in ton N J Friday morning made an attempt to commit suicide Monday by cutting his throat and taking poison Several Delaware capitalists hare a company with capital all paid in to build an industrial city at mont Ala with Preston Lea of ton Del president Two hundred thousand dollars worth of town lots were sold within an hour from the beginning of the sale on Saturday Illness of Queen Victoria LONDON Jan is officially stated that the queen has lately suffered a great deal from rheumatism although she has at no time been unable to form her ordinary duties She is now somewhat better but it is announced that it will be impossible for her to undergo the fatigue and exposure dent to her opening parliament in son Treaty of Berlin Violated LONDON Jan statement is re- affirmed that Russia has addressed a circular note to the powers calling at- tention to Bulgaria's flagrant violation of Article 34 of the treaty of Berlin Prince of Thurn Dead BERLIN Jan Prince of Thurn and Taxis died at his residence at Ratisbon yesterday from pneumonia He was in the year of hia age HOTEL FIRE A Number of People Are Injured by Jumping from the Windows KANSAS CITY Mo Jan special to The Star from Hiawatha Kan says: Fire was discovered issuing from the staircase of the Principal hotel here early this and the guests were obliged to jump from the second and third story windows to save their lives A number of persons were injured but none fatally Among those most seriously hurt are Dr Wilder of cago badly burned about the face and hands Fred Brooks of Hastings Neb and H Whelan of Hiawatha whose injuries are dangerous The total loss will be about with an insurance of No Quorum HELENA Mont Jan cratic legislature met in joint convention yesterday but as heretofore without a quorum twenty-six out of members being present They took a ballot each voting for the caucus nees Clark and Maginnis and then ad- Knew His Pistol Would Work ATLANTA Ga Jan Garnie committed suicide Sunday at Decatur Two years ago he shot a man in sonville but was acquitted He used the same pistol No cause is known for suicide save despondency Remarkable Memory a visit from an old school fellow who had come to see the exhibition they had not met for the last fifteen years Is that My very own self A hearty grip of the hand and a long chat about old By the said the visitor do you re- member the day we last met I lent you ten at him in blank astonishment Then after due reflection he naked him to wait A few moments after he came back a ten franc piece and a book both of he handed to his friend But I didn't lend you the book I know but it ia a memory prize which I got at school and yon are more entitled to it than I Boston Wool Ohio X Ohio XX Ohio XXX Ohio No 1 Michigan X Michigan No 1 fine Ohio de- laine Michigan delaine un- merchantable Michigan unmerchantable Ohio No 1 combing Ohio No 1 combing Michigan unwashed Ohio do Michigan Kentucky blood combing do blood combing Pittsburg C good 4.10 fair bulls stags and fat cows fresh cows other grades fair to good common Iambs Chicago mixed 3.75 heavy beeves steers cows bulls and mixed 3.25 stackers and feeders per 100 Ibs New 2 red winter February 2 mixed February STRAY BITS the government fixes railroad In India rates William Gwynn of Napa Cal carries a watch that is more than 160 years old It keeps first rate time Constantinople has a real German verein which celebrated in November 1889 Its twentieth birthday It is supposed that In the next European war artillery can effectually stay advancing infantry at yards distance The French republic now has a well ped army of men five as Napoleon had for his empire in 1870 one of the famous trees in fornia is twenty-three feet in diameter at the base and estimated to weigh tons Mexico is to have a magnificent palace the architect to be Piacentini who built the Palace of the Pine Arts in Rome So eminent a statistician as Dr Talmage estimates that Solomon atone time possessed in gold and in silver Of late years the number of women ing the professions of painting and sculpture has enormously increased in Prance Germany and Russia The deepest bore hole in the world Is in feet It took a dia- mond drill three years and a half to reach the bottom The average watch is composed of 175 ferent pieces comprising upward of separate and distinct operations in its facture The balance wheel whirls miles in one year The pipe smoked by the Sandwich Islander is made of virgin cork lined with schaum and is curious by reason of the tern on the cork made by the Insects which feed upon the trees Fortress Monroe is the largest single cation in the world It has already cost the American government over The water battery is considered one of the finest military works in the world James H Carson of Charlotte N C has in his possession the granite step on Jefferson Davis stood on the 18th day of April 1885 when in that city he received and read the telegram announcing the death of President Lincoln LITERARY LIGHTS Alphonse Daudet is said by publishers to be the most popular French author living ot dead M Zola it is said has reduced his weight forty-five pounds through abstinence from liquids Charlotte M Youge the historical writer has written and published exactly 100 books She is now engaged upon her work to published shortly Oscar Wilde is described as having settled down into a sedate literary strong broad shouldered athletic fellow with no nonsense about him and an evident nation on his part to make and money Edmund Clarence Stedman who is called the banker is the youngest looking literary men in New York although he is a grandfather and years old His literary work is done almost entirely at night Lord Tennyson is very hospitable in old age and likes to entertain young people Mary Anderson is a great favorite with him and he prefers a handsome woman as a guest to one who has no claims to beauty In fact he is very sensitive to beauty in man or woman and has a poet's love for symmetry of form and feature Robert Browning did not think his last ness a serious one and insisted almost to the end that he was getting better It is stated that just before he died he turned to his son and asked for news from his publisher son read a telegram saying that the edition of his last volume of poems w as almost ex- hausted The poet upon this smiled and How gratifying I These were his last words Jules Verne says in a interview that be regretted not being able to call CD Mr Edison when the hitter was in Paris 1 am an said be I was shot at four years ago by a nephew of capital fellow who used to be fond of me and to whom I was devoted Ten minutes after we had met one day he drew a revolver and without a word of warning fired at me twice He had gone stark mad and ia now in an asylum The highest rate of speed ever by any writing machine wordo per awarded the Medal the Ohio Centennial Exposition at 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