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1 THE NEWS.THE WHOLE NEWS AND NOTHING BUT THE NEWS YTOLUME V. AXTELL, MARSHALL COUNTY. KANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1887. NUMBER 6. mnrrisgifcvs5agg-.

The Axtexx Anchor DIRE DISASTER. FUNDING THE TAXES. against sneering opposition. For a compromise Christian character an easy time now, but John's park a number of men were brought into the yards in closed cars to fill the places of the Italians who joined the strikers and SMOKE LESSONS. THE REV.

DR. TALMAGE'S DIS COURSE. cate heavy rise yet to reach here that will cause further rise of from three to five feet This will force at least a hundred families to vacate their houses. No danger of life or portable property is apprehended, as timely-flood warnings have been issued by the sig nal office. The river in now 41.3 feet on the gauge and rising.

Loiisville, Ki Feb. 4. At 11 o'clock tonight the river was rising about an inch an hour, with feet 11 ihthes in the canal. It began raining again after nightfall and now looks though the bad floods of former Tearl will be repeated. About twenty-five machine that will bore a hole to Mie earth's centre, and some desperate nation will throw into that hole enough dynamite to blow this hulk of a planet into fragments dropping like meteoric sionte on surrounding stellar habitations.

But this shall not be, for whatever else I let go, I hang on to my Bible, which tells me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet come to its grandest use when the warrior and the husbandman shall enter it de by side, and the soldier sha'l throw Into his bank of fires his sword, and the farmer shall pick it np a ploughshare, and the straightest spear shall be bent into a crook at each end and then cut in two. and what was one spear shall be two pruning forks. Down with Moloch and up with Christ Let no more war horses eat out of the manger where Jesus was born. Peace 1 Forever roil off the sky the black pillars of smoke from the Marengiw and Sala-mancas and Borodinos and Sedans and (let-tysburgsof earth. And right after them, roil into the heavens the peaceful vapors from the chimneys of farm houses and asylums and churches and capitals of Christian nations and, as the sunlight striks through these vapors they will write in letters of jet and gold all over the sky from horizon to zenith: "Glory to (iod iu the h'ghest.

and on earth peace, good will to Then let all the men-of-war tire a broadside, and all the forts thnnder forth a resounding vol'ev, anil the earth lie girdled with tiie cannonade over the final victory of the truth. THE Coon WORK JVST RFfiVN. While thiuking of these things I looked ont from mv window, and the wind was violently blowing. And I saw from manv chimneys the smoke tossed in the air and whirled with great Telocity, volume after volume, told after fold, and "carried on the swift wind were the great pillars of smoke. And helped by Solomon in the text I saw the speed of the church symbolized.

Do you realize the momentum the church of (iod is under! Why the smoke of a chimney on the top of Mount Washington when the wind Is blowing sixty miles an Jhonr is slow as com- fared with the celebrity of good influences, or fifty-nine centuries the devil had it his own wav among the nations. Nearly all the great missionary movements have been started within the century, and see what one century lias done to recover the world from fifty-nine centuries of devastation. AVhat great revivals What mighty churches! What saved millions! What advancing civilization! In all the United States Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, full freedom to worship God according to conscience. Along the coasts of China. and Africa the batteries are plante 1 which are to take all these empires for God and civilization.

From the ruins of Babylon and Assyria and Nineveh and the vallevs of the Nile confirmations have been exhausted proving to all fair-minded men that the Bible is the truest lnxk ever written. The mythologies of Egypt were found to have cmb.idied in them the knowledge of man's expulsion from paradise, and the sacrifice of a great emancipator, Muses' account of the creation corroborated by the hammer of Christian geologists; the oldest profane writers like Hiromus, Heianieiis. and Berosuscontirmlng the bible account of ancient longevity; Tacitus and Piiny confirming the Bible accounts of destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; Tacitus and Porphyry telling the same storv of Christ as Matthew and J.uke told; Macrohius telling of the massacre of children in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketching the darkness at the crucifixion. It is demonstrated to all honest men that it is not so certain that William Cullen Brvant wrote "Tbanatopsis" or Longfellow Hiawatha" as that God In- the hand of prophet and apostle wrote the Bible. All the wise men in science, in law, and medicine, aud literature, and merchandise are gradually coming to believe in Christianity, and soon "there will lie no people who disbelieve iu it except those conspicuous for lack of brain or men with two families who do not like the Bible because it rebukes their swinish propensities.

THE WORLD SI HE TOB1RN The time is hastening when there will be no Infidels left except libertines and harlots and murderers. Millions of Christians where once there were thousands, and thousands where once there were hundreds. What a bright evening this, the evening of the nineteen: century! and the twentieth century, which will dawn in thirteen years from now, will, in mv opinion, bring universal victory for Christ and the church, that now is marching on wilh step double quick or, if yon prefer the figure of the text, is lieing swept on in the mighty gules of blessing, imposing and graud and majestic and swift, like pillars of smoke. come into church through Christ, the door, a door more glorinu than that of the temple of Hercules, which had two pillars and one was gold and the other emerald, Cwne in to-day! Come in and be one of lhe eternal victors! The world you leave behind is a poor world and it will hum and pas off like pillars of smoke. Whether the final conflagration will start in the colli mines of Pennsylvania, which in some places, have for many years leen burning and eating into the heart of the mountains, or whether it shall begin near the California geysers, or whether from out the furnares of otopaxi and Vesuvius anil Stromboli, it shall hurst forth upon the astonished nations.

I make no prophecy, but all geologists tell us that we stand on the lid of a world, the heart of which is a roaring, raging, awful flame, and some day God will let the red monsters out of their imprisonment of centuries, and New York on fire iu and Charleston on lire in N'i. and Chicago ou fire in 171 and Boston on lire in 1S73 were only like one snark from a blacksmith's forge as compared witii that last universal blaze which will be seen in other worlds. But gradually the flames will lessen and the world will become a great living coal, and that will take on ashen hue, and then our ruined planet will begin to smoke, and the inountaius will smoke, and the valleys will smoke, and the islands will smoke, and the seas will smoke, and the cities will smoke, and the five continents w.U be five pillars of smoke. But the black vapors will begin to lessen in height and density, and then will become hardly visilie to those who look ujion it from the sky galleries and after awhile from just one point there will curl up a thin solitary vapor, and then even that will vanish, and there ill be nothing left except the charred ruins of a burned out world. corpse of a dead star, the ashes of a distinguished planet, a fallen pillar of smoke.

But that will not interfere with your investments if vou have taken Christ as v.mr Saviour. Secure heaven as your eternal home, you can look down upon a dismantled, disrupted anil demolished earth without any perturbation. When wrapped in fire lhe realms of erher glow. And heaven's last Ihnmler shake Hie earth helow. Thou.

undisniaveiL shall o'er the ruins smile. DOTS AND DASHES. A Dublin dispatch says twenty moonlighters, broke Into a farmer's house on Mill street. County Cork, Friday night, took possession of the farmer's kuhs and fired them oyer the beads of the farmer and his family. They then shaved the hair from the heads of four daughters because, as they alleged, the young women had disobeyed the order of the league, prohibiting them from speaking to policemen.

At mass in the church at Mill street Sunday the priest denounced all secret societies in the most scathing terms. His utterances created a great deal of excitement. At Tipperary, Ireland, Sunday, a tenant named McCarthy was evicted. A mob subsequently lemolished bis house, declaring tbey would not tolerate evictions in Tipperary iu future. A report is current at Rome that the Count di Robitant, minister of foreign affairs has resigned and that Premier Depretis is likely to follow his example.

While the Wabash west bound through express, which usually carries a rich load of currency, was passing through the bottoms near Tolon, Sunday night, three young men crawled from their hiding places behind the tender and peremptorily ordered the enelneer Tvrell to stop the train, cooly remarked that they had found access to the express car impossible except through a side d.xr. Tvrell pretended to comply promptly with the demand, hut instead reached hi ch and drew forth a revolver. The would-he robbers were compelled to hold up their hands and then one at a time Tvrell kicked them igno-miuiously from the train as it rushed along. About 4:15 Sunday morning two shocks of earthquake were felt at Terre Haute and Sul-' livan, and at Martinsville, Paris and Champaign, 111. The seismoscope at the Krise polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, recofied the" time as Prof.

Mendenhafl of Terre Haute places the intensity of the shock at two to tliree on a basis which fixes the Charleston shock at six. A slight shock was felt at 4 o'clock in Louisville. and iu Xcw Albany and JeflVrsonviiie. Ind. In an insurance care tried in the federal court at Cincinnati, Judge Jackson decided that a general agency can be determined without giving its holder a claim for damages.

The Russian government has forbidden the exportation of horses. The French are purchasing in Russia large quantities of oats for the cavalry, and have chartered steamers to take thein from the Baltic poris. A Berlin Cablegram states that the German government will negotiate a loan of $7.3, ft for military purposes. In the Delaware river near Shawnee. Pennsylvania, Ice is piled fifty feet high and the lowlands are overflowed.

The secretary of the inter; the senate that forty-four of the M.m children at Fort Marion have i.ee.. --iei-rej to the Indian school at Carlisle, and runt sixty nf the younger ones are to be it St. Augustine by the Sisters Charity at each per quarter. Nine citizens of Clinton, Iowa, have subscribed to the stock of a company desiring to build a wagon bridge across the Mississippi. Steps have already been taken toward securing a federal charter.

The German socialists of Chicago have forwarded 12,000 to aid in re-clectiDg social democrats to the reichstag. The physicians of Charles S. Parnell believe that he is afflicted with Bright's disease of the kidneys. The Oregon legislature has passed a bill granting to the Oregon Railway and Navigation company a franchise to bridge the Willamette at Portland. The majority is ample to pass the measure over the threatened veto of the governor.

Friends of Dwight L. Moody in New York are actively raising money with which to commemorate bis fiftieth birth-lay I wing his schools at Northfield, Massact.u-r ts. The decline in F---ncfc n-t weeks has been 5 fianrs cenfmes. Charles Whitney, now lying in a critical condition at Athens. Georgia, was one of the victims of the Havmarket massacre in Chicago, whose partial "recovery as almost a miracle.

Anthony Behme. an old merchant of Evansville, Indiana, was killed in his hack yard by a stroke of lightning. Charles Talbott, the hotel elerk who fled from Memphis with the diamonds of a popular actress has been traced to Kansas City. Trustworthy reports from the ranges of Dakota and Wyoming are to the effect that there has this winter been no unusut of cattle. A single firm has ma ic contracts fo of two million railroad ties in this vear.

mainly for the Northwes 1 I'nion Pacific roads, an 1 tiie Burl about to arrange for another million The decree entered by Judge Tul case of Maria P. Storey cuts off the ir. of $2,000 per annum as alimony, certain property from which she draw her dower. While traveling in a sleeping-ear from Austin to Fort Worth, Senator M.uev was robbed of tm King Theebaw has advised the Burmese to submit to the British rule. A terrific gale prevails in St.

George's channel and the steamers have all hen detained in Krt. Stanley's expedition for the relief of Emm Bey will comprise twelve hundred men, including eighty blacks. The London Thnfx is pleased that the bishop of Canterbury invited two An bishops to commemorate tennial of the cousecratiou of the first can bishop. Jack Sprain recently resigned the- tership at Big Spring. Illinois, to whie appointed by President Jackson.

For four years' service he has received "vi for siru. The municipal council of I.imerie' has refused to celebrate the the ground that she ha visited mice and has never assisted Irish charities. The Egyptian government has raised the blockade of the S-u-hm and reopened commerce with that region. The B-lgiau goverainen' is expectel to ask the chambers to appropriate so.ino.000 francs for niiiiiarr purposes. For being deposed from a pastorate at Lyors, Iowa, fifteen years ago.

Fattier C. Jean has been awarded damages of i) against Bishop llenncssy. of Dubuque. Editor Cutting, of Mexican fame, tried to lecture at Springfield, the other night, but only three persons being present the doorkeeper, the proprietor ot the hall, and the lecturer gave it up. The blizard still raging in Dakota has blockaded the railroads at Pierre and Huron.

The Ohio river is rising at Louisville so rapidly as to foreshadow a serious tloo I. The Suez canal is blocked bv the grounding of an Austrian Lloyds' steamship. The Russian government has forbidden the exportation of horses. Parnell' malady is said to lv Fright's disease of the kidnevs. lor consecrated behavior, grimace ana carica ture.

For the body, thanks to the God of free America, mere are now no swords or nery stakes, but for the souls of thousands of the good, in a figurative sense, rack and gibbet ana torquemada. 1 ne symbol oi tne aomes tic and social and private and public suffering oi a great multitude ot God's dear cnuuren, pillars of smoke. SAVING SOULS VOR TOE LORD. What an exciting scene in India when during tne sepoy rebellion a regiment oi Miguianaers came up and found the dead body of one of General Wheeler's daughters, who had been Insulted and mauled and slam by tne bepovs. So great was the wrath against these murder ers that the Scotch regiment sat down, and cutting off the hair of this dead daughter of General Wheeler, thev divided it among liiem.

and each one counted the number of hairs given him, and each took an oath, which was executed, that for each hair of the murdered daughter they would dash out the life of a miserable Sepoy. But as we look over the story of those who in all ages have suffered for the truth, while we leave vengeance to the Lord, let us band together in one solemn vow, one tremendous oath, after having counted the host of the martyrs, that for each one ot those glorious men and women who died for the truth, an immortal soul shall live, live with God and live forever. But, as I have already hinted in the first sentence in this sermon, nothing can be more beautiful than the figures of smoke on a clear sky. You can see what you will in the contour of this volatile vapor, now enchanted castles, now troops of horsemen, now bannered processions, now winged couriers, now a black angel of wrath under a spear of sunshine turned to an angel of light, and now from horizon to horizon the air is a picture gallery filled with masterpieces of which G.xl is the artist, morning clouds of smoke born in the sunrise, and evening clouds of smoke laid in the burnished sepulchres of the sunset The beauty of the transfigured smoke is a divine symbol of the beauty of the church. The fairest of all the fair is she.

Do not call those persecutors of whom I spoke the church. They are the parasites of the church, not the church itself. Her mission is to cover the earth with a supernatural gladness, to open all the prison doors, to balsam all the wounds, to moss all the graves, to burn up the night in the fire-place of a great morning, to change iron handcuffs into diamond wristlets, to turn the whole race around, and whereas it faced death, commanding it, '-Right aliout, face for heaven!" According to the number of the spires of the churches in all our cities, towns and neighborhoods are the good homes, the worldly prosperities, and the pure morals and the happy souls. THE CHURtn A BLESSING. Meet me at any depot the world over, and with my eyes closed take me by the hand and lead me so that my feet will not stumble, and without mv once looking down, or iking on the level, take me to some high roof or tower and let me seethe tops of the churches, and I will tell you the proportion of suicides, of arsons, of murders, of thefts.

According as the churches are numerous are the crimes few. According as the churches are few the crimes are numerous. The most beautiful or ganization the world ever saw or ever will see is the much-maligned church the friend of all good, the foe of all evil, "fair as the moon and cleaas the sun," Beautiful in her author, beautiful in her mission, the heroine of the century, the bride of Christ, the queen of the nations. There are hundreds of kindly institutions, some caring for inebriates some for the crippled, some for the imbecile, some for the some for the blind, but the church is the mother of all these kindly in stitutions. There are asylums American, or English, or Scotch, or Irish, or French, or German, or Italian, hut the church spreads her mantle over all these, and will yet spread it over all nations.

Her gates are Deautnui, her songs are beautiful, her prayers are beau tiful, her convocations are beautiful, her work is beautiful. All kings and warriors will yet bow down to her altars all chains of serfdom be shattered against her doorstep, all nations will yet follow her leading. How amiable are thv tabernacles! How sacred thy altars! How glorious thy auditoriums! So graceful, so aspiring, so grand; ami roiling ou ana roiling up, we cry out iu regard to her: "Who is she that cometh out ot tne wilderness line piuars of smoke'" Men may desecrate it, as Cromwell when he stabled his cavalry horses in St. Paul's cathe dral; or break off the image of Christ, as did the iconoclasts in 1 orkminster; or nun against it august literary antipathies, as did Gibbon: or plot its overthrow as do some in every community whose pride and hate and debauchery are reproved by the Ten Commandments which it thunders and the sermon on the mount which it breathes. But it will stand as long as the earth stands, the same unique and wonder-working, and beatific, and miraculous thing for which God decreed it.

Small wits tax their brain to say things that will put her at disadvantage, but many of them will semi for its condolence when dying, and their children will be gathered up under its benedictions after the parental curse has been removed. Through her gates will inarch all the influences for good that shall ever reach our world. Take her membership as a mass, not speaking of the acknowledged exceptions they are the noblest, grandest, kindest best men and women of the ages. But for them the earth would long ago have been a burned out volcano. They have been the salt that has kept the human race from putrefaction insufferable to either human or angelic olfactories.

You lying and hypocritical world, shut up those slanders about the church of Christ, an institution which, far from being what it ought to be aud never pretending to be perfect. is five hundred times better tnan anv otner institution that the world ever saw or ever dreamt of. The higest honor I ever had. and the highest honor I shall ever receive, and the highest honor I ever want, is to have my name on her records as a member. At her altars I repented.

At her sacraments I believed. In her service let me die. From her doors let me be buried. church of God Thou home of the righteous! Thou harbor from tempest! Thou refuge for the weary Thou lighthouse of many nations! Thou type of heaven! I could kiss thy very dust with ecstacy of affec tion. For her my cares shall fall.

For her my prayers ascen'l. To her my tolls and cares lie jjiven Till toils and cares shall end. TEACE IN CHRIST'S ADVANCEMENT. 'Perfumed savs Solomon, in the words following inv text. Not like the fumes coughed up from the throat of a steam pipe, or poisoned with the gases of chemical factories or floating in black wrath from the conflagration of homesteads, or sulphurous from blazing batteries, but sweet as a Durniug grove of cinnamon or jungle of sassafras, or the odors of a temple censer.

"Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh ami Hear it, men and women everywhere, that lhe advance of the genuiue church of Christ means peace for all nations. Victor Hugo, In bis book entitled three," says: "Nothing calmer than smoke, but nothing more starting. There are peaceful smokes and there are evil ones. The thick ness and color of a line of smoke make the whole difference between war and peace, between fraternity and hatred. The whole happiness ol man or his complete misery is sometimes expressed in this thin vapor which the wind scatters at will." The great Frenchman was right, but I go further aud say that as the kingdom of God advances like pillars of smoke, the black volumes belching from batteries of war and pouring out from port-holes of ships will vanish from the sky.

A distinguished gentleman oi iue late war told me recently that Abraham Lincoln pro posed to avoid our civil conflict by purchase of all iue Slaves oi tne souiu aim sciuui; mem free. He calculated what would be a reasonable price for them, anil, when the numlier of millions of dollars that would lie required for such a purpose was the proposition was scouted, aud tne norm won not nave made the offer and the south would not have accepted it if made. "But" said my military friend, "the war went on and just the nnmlicr of millions of dollars that Mr. Lincoln calcu lated would have been enough to lnuKe a rea sonable purchase of all the slaves were spent nwar, besides all tne precious uvea mm neie hurled away iu the iod battles. in other words there ought to be some other way for men to settle their controversies without wholesale butchery.

AN ARBITER FOR ALL NATIONS. The church of (iod will yet become the arbi ter of nations. If the world would allnw it it could to-day step in between (ieruiauy aud Frauce and settle tne iroiioie auoui isaee and I.orrane. aud between Russia and Bulga ria, and between England ami her antagon ists, and between an oiner nauons mai aie flvinir at each others throats and command peace and disband armies aud harness for f. i tne plow tne war uorses uun neni mmunition wagons, or scuuieu ior unmnj charge.

That time must come, or througn the increased facility for shooting men aud blowing up cities and whelming hosts to ln-tnnt lenth. so that we can kill a regimeut easier than we could once kill a company, and k.ll a brigade easier than we could once Kill a regiment, the patent offices of the world more iisv man ever iu riiinrij destrue ion. the hum.iii race will after awhile go lighting with one arm and hobbling with one foot and stumbling along witn one eve, and souk; ingenious inventor, inspired of the archangel of all mischief, will contrive a were not allowed outside, as picKeis oi stria-era were around. The freight handlers on the' Baltimore and Ohio pier 43, North river, left work this afternoon, being called out by the delegates. They obeyed with reluctance as they had never had anv trouble with the company.

They were the last of the railroad men to go out They told Supt Brooks that they had no grievances, but were forced to go out on the call. They loaded up all the freight on the pier and swept the place clean. They refused to accept any pay for their work as they were going out on a call by the union, and not by any grievances of their own. The Republic of the White Star lineTand Erin of the National line could not be loaded by the green hands in time to sail to-day. A public meeting of business men has been called for Saturday night to consider the cause and cure of the wrongs which the business men and others are subjected to by the controversy between the coal transportation and other companions and their employes.

James Farrell, a non-union man, was assaulted by a gang of strikers to-night and is supposed to be fatally injured. A Bold Iielease. Pittsburg, 4. The most daring and successful attempt ever made in this vicinity to rescue a prisoner occurred early this morning on the Cleveland Pittsburg express, which left this city at 11 :25 last night for Cleveland, Captain Hoehene and Detective Hulligan, of Cleveland, having received a requisition, de termined to return to Cleveland last night wtth their prisoner, Harry McMunn, who was accused of having been concerned in the recent extensive fur robbery in that city. Securely handcuffed, the prisoner was placed on board the train at the outer depot In Alleghany.

The express sped on, and at 2 o'clock this morning Alliance, was reached. At that point five men boarded the irain and passed through sev eral of the cars, and finally sat down a tew seats from the prisoner, aud in a few minutes the express continued on its course. When Ravenna was reached the five men arose suddenly from their seats and without warning drew their revolvers on the officers. Their quick action gave them the drop. One of the men uemanoea tne prisoner, nut msteau oi complying with the request, the officers jumped to their feet and tried to draw their revol vers.

Thev were too late. The five men opened fire on them. Captain Hoehene retreated, and tottered over into the aisle with bullets in his shoulders and thigh. As he fell the gang jumped on him and kicked him until he lay as still as death. hen the liring first commenced Detective Hulligan received several bullets in the boby.

He still attemped to defend himself, and an other volley was fired at him, until seven bullets pierced his body. He tottered and fell insensible in scat, lie was men KiehCU until his head was split open. The passengers that were in the smoking-car became terrorized and hid under the seats. The alarm spread to other cars, and the trainmen and passengers hurried forward. A frightful scene met their gaze.

Stretched out, but a few feet apart were the bodies of Detective lluiligan and Captain Hoehene. The floor was covered with bloraL The seats in the car near where the shooting had occurred were pierced and shattered by bullets from the five revolvers. The prisoner and his rescuers had disappeared in the excitement, having jumped from the train. All trace of them was lost in the darkness. The Havenua police were notified, and a posse slaried out at once to scour the country.

The injured men were made as comfortable as possible and were taken to Cleveland. Armour and the Hoycott. Chicago, Feb. 2. It is reported that District Assembly No.

24 Knights of Labor has placed a boycott on 205 local firms which are using Armour's gixxls. They now prooose to boycott those wholesale and retail dealers who purchase and sell Armour's products. Chariee Y. Scih, secretary of District Assembly No. 24, has been the recipient of reports systematically made, giving the namesand addresses of those who deal in the Armour meats and these appear in the circular issued.

ArmpiT thought the. boycott would "be a harsh injustice to the small business men who might lie forced to the wall by such measures. Refeiring to the effect of boycott of a month ago on his firm, he said: My house made the fight on principle and never dreamed of anything hut financial loss. Tooursurprise hundreds of orders from new sources poured in and they made distinctly upon the issue that, as a boycott was thoroughly un-American, the senders of orders were thoroughly in sympathy with the American house that had the pluck to risk its money on Aincr.can fair play aud should have the trade." Pinkerton Officer Sliechy Held. Jersey Citt, N.

Feb. 2. The coroner's jury in the case of the boy Hogan, who was shot and killed January 20, to-night rendered a verdict that the bor died fr.rni a bullet wound inflicted by Pinkerton Special Officer Patrick Sheehy. The other Pinkerton men under arrest were committed with Sheehy to await the action of the grand jury. Indiana Republicans Protest.

Indianapolis, Feb. 3. The republicans would not admit the legality of Mr. Tur-pie's election to the United States senate, or that the work of the joint convention was perfected in yesterday's proceedings, while the democrats claimed that the record was valid and that the joint convention adjourned yesterday sine die. In accordance with the motion of Representative Gardiner, which the republicans sav prevailed, the joint convention reassembled tc-day at noon with all the democratic and seven republican senators absent Seaker Sayre presided and the clerk of the house called the rolL Ten senators and fifty six representatives of the republican side an-swered, but the democratic members of the iiouse were silent and were regarded as absentees until the roll of that class were called wheu the speaker announced the presence of each one, but as not answering.

Representative Gardiner then presented a preamble and resolution reciting the illegality of the election of Turpie and the pretended odjournnient of the joint convention sine die and called for an investigation iu order to prepare a memorial of the coute.it to be presented to the United States senate. It was adopted and a committee appointed. It consists of Senators Winter and Hustou and Representatives Gardiner, Griffiths and Linck. Murdered lor His Money. Warrensbirg, Feb.

2. About 9 o'clock last night F. M. Trussing, an old and respected citizen, closed his store at the -cor ner of Holden aud Culton streets, and started for his home on Maguire street, in the north ern part of town. As B.

F. McCluney, public administrator, passed the Prussiug residence he saw a man lying unconscious near the gate. He did not recognize his neighbor, but thinking that somebody had fallen iu a drunken stupor, called to the family to take care of the man and prevent his freeziug to death. 1 he sons responded to tne call and were horrified to find their father bleeding from ghastly wounds on the head. He was taken luto the house, and doctors were summoned to attend him, but they pronounced his wounds fatal, and he remained unconscious until this afternoon, when he died.

The club with which the crime was com mitted was found near the path by which the assassin had left the scene and gone to town. It was of green hiekorv, about four feet long, and was stained with blood. That the object of the murder was robbery there can be no doubt, as Mr. Prussing's pocKets nad ocen rincd. The tracks of two persons were discovered and followed through the ravine to 11 olden street, where all traces were lost, aud no further clue has been obtained.

Brakeman Schwartz on Trial. Morris, Feb. 2. The preliminary examination of Henry Schwartz, charged with perpetration of the Rock Island train robbery and murder of Express Messenger Nichols, was begun this afternoon. The state's attorney said that only enough evidence against Schwartz would be given to warrant binding him over to await the action of the graud 1'ury.

No witnesses were examined except 'red Wagner, the conductor of the rilled train, and his testimony was apparently without importance. The coroner who held the inquest on the murdered messenger will be put ou the stand to-morrow. Bound Fast by Masked Burglars. Clbvilasd, Feb. 2.

At Nashville, Holmes county, last night four masked burglars entered the bouse of Frederick Stone-brook, bound him and his wife and ransacked the house. They secured quite a sum of money. Mr. and Mrs. Stonelirook were found by neighbors this morning and released.

What the Senate Bill Lately Passed Provides. The Secretary of State by No Meang a Wreck Governor Tilden's Advice. Refunding the Taxes. Washinotox, Feb. 6.

The bill to adjust the accounts of the several states and territories with the general governmen arising out of the direct tax of 18S1 passed by the senate was occasioned by the following circumstances: This law levied a direct tax of $30,000,000 to be apportioned among the states and territories according to their respective population. It was paid in whole by many of the states and territories and the District of Columbia, but not paid by other states, and in South Carolina the pro rata was obtained by the sale of the property of individual citizens. In 1868 the enforcement of the collection was suspended by act of conaress, and since that time no collections have been made by seizure and sale of property in the delinquent states, but the general government hai, so far as practicable, enforced collections independent of the law by withholding from all such states whatever funds might become due them from the United States on any account A great many complications arose, and the states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi brought suit against the United States in the court of claims for funds withheld on the grounds that under the law of lSbT the United States had no claims against the states, but only against the citizens, and that the funds withheld were trust funds given to the respective states for specific purposes and therefore subject to offset The many embarrassments growing out of this condition of things prompted Secretary Folger and Judge Lawrence, then first comptroller, to recommend the passage of a bill substantially like that just passed by the senate which pro-Tides that in order to adjust equitably all the existing difficulties the United States shall refund to the states the amounts paid by them respectively and remit all unpaid amounts, thus in great measure placing all the states in the same condition which they enjoyed before any of the tax was collected. This is thought to be the only way out of the diffculty, since it is conceded bv the best lawyers that the collection of the delinquent tax can not now be enforced, and it would obviously be unjust to keep the money pail by a number of the states while the others were relieved from like payment On the question of referring the senate bill to a committee of the house yesterday there was a contest between Mr. Morrison of Illinois and Mr.

Heard of Missouri, the former claiming the committee on wars and means should have the bill, while Mr. Heard desired it sent to the judiciary committee. On this question the vote was first taken by tellers, and then ou demand of Mr. Morrison by yeas and nays resulted in a victory for Mr. Heard by a eooil majority.

The friends of the bill claim they can increase the majority in favor of the bill, since all who voted with Mr. Heard are friendly to its passage, while many who voted with Mr. Morrison, who is understood to be opposed to it, will vote for the measure if reported favorably by the iudiciarycomniit- tee. The state of Missouri paid her tax, amounting to ltil.OOO, which will be refnnded to her if the bill becomes a law. The reference of the bill to the judiciary committee is considered a signal victory for Mr.

Heard. Mr. Slannlns's Health. Washington, Feb. 6.

Mr. Manton Marble, who has been a guest of Secretary Manning for several days, returned to New York last evening. Just before leaving he said with reference to certain published reports concerning Mr. Manning's condition: "I perceive absolutely no impairment of his mental faculties; and as to bis physical condition, a Idle, of course, he cannot work as many hours a day as he did last vear, to mr personal knowledge his progress toward sound health has been continuous and uninterrupted since last summer, and has been more rapid since his return to the treasury department last October, although his office is bv far the most exacting and laborious in the federal government. The stories that he is unable, to siirn his own name are entirely unfounded.

He signs his name to warrants. checks, appointment papers and letters scores of times daily, and, as a matter of fact bis daily work now would overwhelm many younger men. One of the last letters written by tiovernor 1 ildcn, wnich 1 received in Europe later than the news of his death, in formed me that he should advise Mr. Man was then visiting Greystone. to resign as soon as he had finished his statement of the federal finances and a plan necessary for taxation and reform.

Its execution could be left to the president and congress. His own first duty would then be to re-establish his health. I do not doubt that the president has reluetantlv yielded to the same con clusion." Anti-Saloon Republicans at Work New York, Feb. 3. Dr.

T. D. Bancroft of Kansas has been engaged by the national committee of the anti-saloon republican league to organize anti-saloon republican clubs all over the country, and his mission here is for the purpose of conferring with Chairman Griffin before starting out noon the work. He will probably begin somewhere in Con necticut His enorts will oe seconded in various ways by the committee in sending out documents and appeals to anti-saloon people in every locality, urging and author izing them to organize local leagues as rapidly possible, without waiting tor outside promptings. When a reasonable number of these local leagues have been formed they will be merged into a state organization, unless there is already one in existence.

The New York Strike. New York, Feb. 3. Very little freight was moved along the river front this morning and most of the railroad piers on the West side were still closed, but the New York Central had 150 men at work discharging a big float and the company was receiving all the freight offered. The merchants, however, were shipping no more than the most urgent orders, fearing delay.

The Pennsylvania railroad introduced a hundred men on pier 5, but they were all green band6 who had never handled freight before. One gate was open this morn ing ana a lew tracK men were ueiayeu. iue Lehlirh company at pier 2 did not open its gates, but some freight was handled at the dock. The New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad put on a force of men in the place of the strikers and opened a pier for the freight, but very little was received. On the steamship piers there was much improvement, freight being moved mostly by new men.

There was an abundance of un skilled labor to be had and the superintendents of the docks had more men than they bad places for. lhe trouble on the Guion line pier was, however, further complicated when Alexander Taylor, the dock stevedore, resigned, claiming he could not work with the force on band. At the Hudson river freight depot a gang of Italians quit work and joined the strikers. The master workman of the Italian local assembly of the Knights of Labor called at the headquarters of the ocean association to-day and told the committee that seventy-five Italians who were working as non-union men were willing to strike if admitted to the union. The offer was accepted and the men struck.

An officer of the Ocean association says an Italian is paid $2 a head for supplying men to the steamship companies, the non-union men on luc iriauurv 1111c pier wiiu ecvaoi uaj a ago have joined the union. Police Superintendent Murray has taken vigorous measures to repress outrages. Police Inspector Steers has taken charge of the officers along the piers with a large force of uniformed police under his command, and the river fronts are practically in a state of siege, while 1,000 police have been massed in reserve at four different points, and patrol wagons have been stationed at each place so the whole force can be concentrated at any given point in a short time, and the 1,000 men can handle twenty times that number of rioters. A thousand more are in reserve at police headquarters and fully a hundred detectives have been detailed for duty along shore, wearing plain clothes, and alf the river stations report half hourly to Superintendent Murray, who thinks he will be able to repress an; disorder or rioting which might arise. Over three nundred non-nnion men of every nationality, brought to Pennsylvania piers 27 and 28 this morning, upon finding a strike in progress, refused to work and fifteen went over to the strikers.

Over two hundred more were kept on tug boat and not allowed to land. Police guarded the Savannah pier to-day for the first time. They fear trouble in consequence of the shooting affray of Tuesday night. At the Hudson river railroad sheds at St The Frightlul Plunge Passenger Train of From Off a Bridge Down Into a Deep Gorge. Fnllj Thirty Person Crushed in Wreci or Burned to Death, the Another Railroad Ilorror.

N. 1L Feb. ,5. The express train mat ldt Boston at 7 clock last night met wun a terrible accident near Woodstock, on the Central Vermont railroad, at about 2:30 this morning. The train started from this city on time, but was detained at White River junction and was about an hour and a half late when it left there.

It consisted of locomotive, baggage car, postal car, two pas senger coaches, and two sleeping cars, and was running at the usual rate 01 6peea. When atout yards south of the end of lock lindge, near Old indsor Station, a broken rail was struck. 1 lie locomotive, bainrasre car and postal car broke away from the rest of the Train, passing over the bridge in safety. he rest of the train was thrown from tne rails, but continued on the road until it came near the end of the bridge and there it ran over the abutment and all of the cars fell into White river, some fifty feet below. The gorge at this point is frightful, and when the cars went down there was a terrible crash.

As soon as possible the detached part of the train was stopped snd ran laik to the scene of the disaster. The screams of the injured were heartrending. Assistance also came from the people living in tile vicinity and everything done to rescue and relieve the injured. Soon after help arrived it was discovered that tire had started in the tirst passenger coach, and soon the entire train was ablaze, thus adding a new horror to rhe alrea.iv frightful catastrophe. Those who were present were powerless to stop the Iflre, and they devoted themselves entirely to to rescue those imprisoned iu the wreck.

The rescuers met another and unexpected obstacle in the heat, which had become so intense that they were obliged tore-linguish their efforts to save the sufferers, and were compelled t. Jretrcat to a place of safety fr themselves, aud to become unwilling, horror stricken witnesses to the awful horror. Jn addition to this and to add to the terrors and of the passengers, the weather "as inte lselv cold, and the heroic rescuers were hin bred thereby in their work. No water could obtained With which to check or extinguish the flames. The ice was several inches thick on Uie river and there were no appliances at ti.md to raise it.

Ira. A. Chase, of Bristol, as at White River Junction when the new, ot the disaster was received, and went to the wreck on a special train. His 5-for; the accident is as follows: "he train left White River Junction late, rind the accident is thought to have occurred a'xiut 1:15. A broken rail was discovered some '30 feet this side of the bridge, but whether this caused the accident or the wheel first broke, is in doubt.

The locomotive and bairgage and mail cars crossed the bridge in safety. Two passenger caches, the Koston sleeping car "I'iiirri and tile Springfield sleeper 'St. went off the bridge at the end on the ri'ht hand side, and apparently turned bottom 'jidc up it. the fall. Men living near by state 7 bat they got to the scene there was no lire, except in the forward passenger car.

But the flames soon spread to the other cars aud then to the bridge: all were consumed. Twenty six persons, as far as known, have been taken out of the cars which were burned. Two of these are said to be Mr. Wesson, a pistol manufacturer of Springfield, and Ed. Brockelbanks, a brakrman, but they died soon after.

Two passenger coaches were filled, and every berth in the Boston sleeping car was occupied and twelve in the one from Spr'ugfield, making the total number of pastjengers in the wrecked cars aftout eight'. This will probably make the nuir.lier of dead lietween tiftv and sixty. Vie bridge was between thirty and forty feet aoove The water, which was covered with thick ice. making it probable that death resulted from and burning rather than from drowning. Several were penned up In the wreck who might have been rescued alive but for the flames, lirakeman Parker, who was on the forward end of the first passenger car, f'-lt the iar and saved his life bv pimping.

He qui. kly seeured a conveyance and carried lhe news to While River junction. An oevuuint of the Boston sleeper, whose name couli not tie ascertained, passed through here this afternoon. He said the car was full every lierth being occupied, lhe train was nte out of White Kiver junction and when elt, it had a sleeper from Springfield beside the -passenger cars. He thinks it must have been o'clock in the morning when he was awakened bv the quivering of the car as if it was off the rails.

This movement he noticed tmt a short 1 line, when he became conscious that the coaches had gene over an abutment of a bridge and was sinking with frightful rapidity. To add to his consternation, the car turn upside down and when it struck the ice in the river the top was crushed in. He Tecupied a lower berth and by almost sup -Tinman ctlorts. ne eucceded in extricating himself from the wreck. He was acquainted with the occupant of the upper bitth, a Boston gentleman, and as qu'ckly as possible set liiinscil at worK to relieve Ins Iriena.

ite worked with energy and bv his kind words cheered, but his efforts proved unsuccessful and he was linail driven awav bv the flames and became an involuntary witness of the horrible death of his companion, who was burned liefore his eyes. Saw quite a number of persons rescued, manv with severe bruises and burns. But few bodies had been taken out when he left. At that time is was impossible to ascertain the names ornuinher ot victims. He expressed the belief, however, that no more than thirty persons were killed.

The railroad bridge took fire from the wreck, and was totally destroyed. The accident is the most terrible of anv that ever occurred in northern New England. High License for Prohibition. St. Pai Feb.

3. The hall of the house of representatives was crowded this aftcnuton by the friends and opponents of the Trosser high license bill which bad already passed the senate. It fixes the license in cities i.f 10.1X10 or more people at 1,000, and in smaller places at S.YKJ. A motion to amend i'V making the higher lecense $iiO0 instead of SI.iU failed. to 44.

and the bill finally pass ed by an emphatic majority, and will doubtless become a Jaw. It iiermits municipal autbori ties to make the license as much in excess of the aliove as they may see fit, and does not affect the local option provisions already passed. A Great Flood. Cincinn ati. Feb.

4. Access to the Cen tra passenger depot was cut off by high water th is morning and the Cincinnati Southern, Cincinnati, Indianajiolis. St. Louis and Chicago, Ohio and Mississippi, Bee line. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Cincinnati. Washington and Baltimore, and Columbus and Cincinnati Midlaud roads were compelled to discharge and receive psssengers at the Eight street crossing. Freight movements were also seriously endangered. Disastrious floods were reported in the Big Sandy. Little Miami and Licking rivers.

At Falmouth, on the latter river, the distilleries and saw mills aud other manufactories are submerged, and many bridges on the turnpikes have been carried away throughout the country. At Butler, the Licking was this morning within a few inchos of the highest mark known, whieii was in At Newiort, there was already considerable encroachment on the lower portions of the city and six inches more of water would rut off" street car travel between Newport and Covington. The river continues to rise steadily at the rate of an inch an hour, aud it was 54 feet 8 inches at 13 o'clock. Reports from points on the river to-day show rising river all the way to the headwaters. In the lower portions of the city, as well as in Newport and Covington, there were many families removing from the lower floors to higher or out of the houses altogether.

The river at 11 o'clock, local time, to-night, was 55 feet inches, and rising steadily an inch an hour. Specials from all points on the Ohio report it rising but report the headwaters of all the princiiial tributaries falling. The tky here is overcast and threatening and this, with reports of rain and sleet at St. Louis, Louisville and Evansville, disheartens river men who hoped a great rise would be averted and who now begin to fear the worst HIGH WATERS ELSEWHERE. Nashville, Feb.

4. Cumberland Tiver at this point is booming. The heavy rains of the past few days have covered a large area and caused a rise of about six feet since Monday. The lowlands adjacent to Nashville are overflowed and many families have been run oat of their homes. Reports from Carthage and Bursside ln4i- Martyrs of the Church Found in Many Centuries.

Millions Slain for the Sake of the Lord of Hosts. Blessings of Christianity Shown in Many Ways. Special to lAs Kama City Brooklyn, N. Feb. 6.

To-day was moving day in the Brooklyn tabernacle, as the annual pew letting has just occurred and many have changed places. This church com bines the two plans of pew rental and free church. The rented pews this year yield an advance on all previous years, so that the income will be about But about 2,000 sittings are always kept free, so that no one may complain that be can not worship here for lack of means. This morning Prof. Browne rcudcred an organ solo, first sonata in minor, by Ritter, and the congregation sang the hymn Our God, oar help In ages past, Our hope for years to come.

The subject of the sermon was "Pillars of Smoke," and the the text was taken from Sol omon's song, 5-6. "Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?" Dr. Talmage said: The architecture of the smoke is wondruos, whether God with his finger curls it into a cloud, or rounds it into a dome, or points it in a spire, or spreads it in a wing, or, as in the text, hoists it in a pillar. Watch it winding np from the country farm house in the early morning, showing that tne pastoral industries have begun; or see it ascending from the chimneys of the city telling of the homes fed, the factories turning out valuable fabric, the printing presses preparing book and new paper, and all the ten thousaud wheels of work in motion. On a clear day this vapor spoken of mounts with such buoyancy and spreads such a delicate veil across the sky, and traces such graceful lines of circle and semi-circle, and waves, and tosses, and sinks, and soars, and scatters with such affluence of shape, aud color, aud suggestiveness, that if you have never noticed it you are like a man who has all his life lived in aris and yet never seen the Luxembourg, and all his life in Rome and never seen the Vatican, and all his life at Loekport and never seen Niagara Forty-four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, and It is about time that somebody preached a sermon recognizing this strange, weird beautiful, elastic charming, terrific and fascinating vapor.

Across the Bible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom, the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the pit, the smoke of the volcanic hills when God touches them, and in my text the glorious church of God coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke. THE SMOKE OP MARTYRDOM. In the first place, these pillars of smoke in my text indicate the suffering the church of (iod has endured. What do I mean by the church i I mean not a building, not a sect, but those who in all ages and all lands, and of all beliefs, love God and are trying to do right For many centuries the heavens have been black witn tne smone oi martyruom. set side by side you could girdle' the earth with the fires of persecution.

Rowland Taylor burned at Hadleigh; Latimer burned at Oxford: John Rogers burned at Smithheld; John Hooper burned at Gloucester; John Huss burned at Constance; Lawrence Saunders burued at Coventry; Joan of Arc, burned at Rouen. Protestants have sometimes Kinted to the Catholics as persecutors, but th Protestant and Catholic have practiced Infamous cruelties. The Catholics during the reign of Hunneric were by Protestants put to the worst torures, stripped of their clothing, hoisted in the air by pulleys with weights suspended from their feet, then let down, aud ears and eyes, nose and tongue were amputated and red hot plates of iron were put against the tenderest part of their bodies. George Bancroft, the historian, says of the state of Maryland: "In the land which Catholics have opened the protectant's mass might not be said publicly; no Catholic priest or bishop might utter his faith in a voice of persuasion; no Catholic might teach the young. If a wayward child of a Paptist would but become an apostate the law wrested for him from his parents a share of their property.

Such were the methods adopted to prevent the growth of popery." Speaking of Ireland, Bancroft, the historian, says "Such priests as were permitted to reside in Ireland were required to be registered, and were kept like prisoners at large within prescribed limits. All paptists exercising ec-clestiasiical jurisdiction, all monks, friars and regular priests, and all priests not then actually in the parishes and to be registered, were banished from Ireland under pain of transpor-tion and, on return, of being hanged, drawn and quartered." PERSECUTIONS IN ALL SECTS. Catholicism as well as Protestantism has had Its martyrs. It does seem as if when any one sect got complete dominancy in any laud the devil of persecution and cruelty took possession of the sect. Then see the Catholics after the Huguenots.

See the Gentiles after the Jews in Touraine, where a great pit was dug and fire lighted at the bottom of the pit and 100 Jewish victims were consumed. See the Presbvterian parliament of England, more tyrannical in their treatment of opponents than had been the criminal courts. Persecution against the Baptists by Pseudo-Baptists. Persecution of the established church against the Methodist church. Persecution against the Quakers.

Persecution against the Presbyterians. Under Emperor Diocletian 144,000 Christians were massacred, and more of them died from banishment and exposure. Witness the sufferings of the Waldenses, of the Albieenses, of the Ncstorians Witness St Bartholomew's massacre. Witness the duke of Alva driving out of life 18,000 Christians. Witness Herod, and Nero, and Deeius, and Hildcrhrand, and Torquemada, and earl of Montfort, and Lord Claverhouse, who, when told that he must give account for his cruelties, said: "I have no need to account to man, and as for God I will take Him in my own hands." A red line runs through the church history of nineteen hundred years, a line of blood.

Not by the hundreds of thousands, but bv the millions must we count those slain for Christ's sake. No wonder John Milton put the groans of the martyrs to an immortal tunc, writing: Avenge. Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bours Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. The smoke of martyrs' homes and martyrs' bodies if rolling up all at once would have eclipsed the noonday sun and turned the brightest day the world ever saw into a midnight. "Who-is she that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke!" NOT ALL PLEASANT TO DAT.

Has persecution ceased! Ask that young man who is trying to be a Christian in a store or factory where from morning to night he is the butt of all the mean witticisms of unbelieving employes. Ask that wife whose husband makes her fondness for the house of God and even her kneeling prayer by the bedside a derision and is no more fit for her holy companionship than a filthy crow would be fit companion for a robin or a golden oriole. Compromise with the world and surreuder to its conventionalities and it mav let you alone, but all who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Be a theatei-going, card-plaving, wine-drinking, round dancing Christian aud von may escape criticism and social pressure." But be an up and down, out and out follower of Christ aud worlding will wink to worlding as he speaks your name, aud vou will be put in many a doggerel and snubbed by those not worthy to blacken your oldest shoes. When the bridge at Ashtabula broke and let down the most of the carload of passengers to instant death Mr.

P. P. Bliss was seated on one side of the aisle of the car writing down a Christian song which he was composing, and on the other side a group of of men were ulaying cards. Whose landing-place in eternity would you prefer that of P. P.

Bliss, the gospel singer, or of the card-players? A great complaint comes from the theaters about the ladies' high hats because they obstruct the view of the stage, and a lady reporter asked me the other day what I thought about it, and I told her if the indesceut pictures of actresses in the show windows of Brooklyn and New York were accurate pictures of what goes on in many of the theaters night afier night, then it would be well if the ladies' hats were a inTie high so as to completely obstruct the vision. If prolesscl Christians go to such places duriug the week, no one will ever persecute them for their religion, for thev have none and they are the joke of helL But let them live a consecrated and Christian life and thev will soqu run is mi lies in bhlppuigsport have already left their homes. No great trouble is anticipated here for several days. 1'ittsbuko, "Feb. 4.

Navigation is entirely suspended to-day, on account of higher water in both rivers. Late this evening the warf marks showed 21 feet and slowlv rising. Twenty-three to 24 feet of water is expected. The weather is clear and moderating. No damage as yet has been reported, except the enforced closing of several iron mills and glass houses until the water recedes.

Montana People Snowed Under. Helena, JL Feb. 4. The Indian commissioners arrived at Chouteau last Friday night from the Blackfoot agency afier a hard struggle through the blizzard, and have been snow bound ever siuce with the thermometer 40O degrees below. Such is the scarcity of wood that fences and unoccupied nouses will be burned if the storm continues.

From 6,000 to 8,000 cattle are strung along the Te ton river, suflerinrr frreatlv lor food. At rort Benton there is a fuel famine and the citizens are burning fences aud out-hous es. Ihey have not enough Hour and coal oil to last a fortnight. At Assinaboine the thermometer registers 5i degres below zero. The missing Chouteau coach reached the river last night.

The Injured Men Cleveland, Feb. 4. The train bearing the two wounded men arrived in Cleveland alxiut 7:30 this morning. At the depot an ambulance and a large springer covered wagon were In waiting. Captain llociiene was placed in the wagon and sent to the city hospital.

The am bulance took Ilulligan to his home on the corner of Bond and Lake streets. On arriving at the hospital the house physician examined Captain Hoebene's wounds. The brave officer was shot in the hip, the bullet having passed lengthwise down the leg and beng imbedded in the flesh; another bullet took effect in the left arm, and pai-siug from the wrist upwards came out at he elbow. He also received severe cut in the head. Hulligan had four cuts in lhe head, one was made by a coupling pin ana mis, it is leared, lractiirea the skull.

One ear was also half cut off. The physicians tlunk Captain lloenenc may recover, although lis injuries arc very serious. Detective Hul- ligan's condition is very critical. If inflam mation sets in he Will die. One of the burg lars was shot, but his "pals" carried him from tne train made their escape- When Captain Hoehcnc arrived at the eitv hospital, he seemed to be near the brink of death, lus tace ana clothes were covered with blood that had flowed from his manv wounds.

but he was washed up and placed in bed and is now resting easier, lhe captain in Ins statement of the murderous assult, said he learned hat tliree suspicions characters boarded the ram at Alliance. He took the precaution to walk through the car and lookout on the plat form, -seeing no one. lie returned to his seat. At Uevanna three men entered the car from the rear door.facing the captain. They walked through the aisle until thev reached the seats occupied bv the two officers.

Hulligan's back was toward them, aud drawing a couplingpin. wrapped in white p.iier, one of the men struck tne detective a terrible ow on tne head, knocking him almost senseless into the seat. At the same time two of them covered the captain with revolvers and ordered him to remain quiet. Hiilligan called for help Hoe- hene, disregarding the pistols aimed at his breast, jumiied to his feet, drew his revolver and fired. The assassins returned the fire, and the man with the coupling pm again stnieK Jlalligau, then ran along the aisle and broke the lamps.

In a moment lhe car was in total darkness and a terrible hand to hand struggle between the brave itoiice caplain and his foiirassailantsen-sued. Twice the thieves knocked the captain senseless to the flour, and times he recovered consciousness almost immediately and returned to the conduit. The first time he fell one of the murderers "We'vekilled him; let mm lay there." 11c did not lie. however, but jumped to his feet and phiekily continued to tight. All this time Hulligan was uncon scious and the assassins dnigired him, hand cuffed to the prisoner, from the car to the ground.

Hoehene. finally fought his way to the platform of the car. where the baggageman aud freight conductor found him. The county commissioners and the police board have offered a reward of for the capture of the burglars. Both of the wounded officers are resting quietly but the chances of recovery are strongly against them.

The couu ry about Ravenna is being scoured by detectives and policemen in the hope of capturing the desperadoes. A (lean Steal. Ottawa. Feb. 2.

The excitement is intense in Quebec over the revalations which Premier Merc'crof that province has made in regard to the corruption which was carried ou by the late Quebec government. The full extent of the plundering will not be known until an investigation is held. The apartments of the late sneaker, which were elaborately furnished out of the treasury, have been completely stripped and valuable plate furnishings are missing, and are known to have beeu carried off by the boodlers. Ou taking hold of lhe treasury chest Mcrcier found it empty. Worse than that.

Sir John MacDonald had advanced the defunct government over out of the dominion treasury, which is charged against the province, all of which went into the general corruption fund. In addition to this the province has been run heavily in debt; large amounts of outstanding claims remain to be paid, and there is nothing with which to pay them. Premier Mcrcier has issued a circular to the officials in all branches of the public service to balance their books and report at once. A Postmaster Shot in old Itlood. Sax Antonio, 2.

Dr. G. B. Johnston to-dar received intelligence that his brother, R. II.

Johnston, a prominent citizen of Uvalde county and iiostmaster of the town of Cancan, was murdered yesterday by a desperado named Charles Kay. He had received a warrant by mail for the arrest of Hay with instructions to deliver it to the sheriff. Bay, hearing that the warrant had been received. called at the office to ascertaiu the truth of the rumor and shot the lxislmaster in cold blood. Just as Johnston fell, with a bullet through his neck, he fired a load of bird shot into his murder's face.

Ray was arrested and will probably be lynched. Crushed While on Duty. Echo, Utah, Feb. 2. The west bound pas senger, and a freight train collided here today, and Lewis of Evanston, the enirincerof the freight, was caught, had his lower extremities literally ground off aud died in twenty minutes, exclaiming: my poor wife!" Having been warned to jump, he might have saved himself, but preferred to stand by the lever.

Both engines arc total wrecks anil two others were badly smashed. The airbrake of the passemger was not in working order, and as the train was on a down grade it got away from the crew. The passengers. among whom were several hitrh army officers en route to F'ort Duchesne, escaped injury. Saved by Iter Son.

Ashtabula, Feb. .1 During the absence of William Morrison of this city from his home last night Mrs. Morrison prepared a bowl of Paris preen aud water, which she attempted to force ner six children to drink. She succeeded with one, a little girl of six years. The mother then threatened to cut her own throat, but was deterred by an 8-year old son, who suggested hanging as an easier mode of dying.

A rope was otitained, and the little fellow went alolt in an unfinished portion of the bouse and tied tiie rojie to a joist. The mother then secured a barrel, got uiKin it, placed her head through the noose, kicked over the barrel and 6wung off. The child then hurried aloft, cut the rope and saved thedying mother. At last accounts the little girl is hanging to life by a thread, and the mother is too prostrated to realize her nearness to eternity, or the fearful crime she so nearly consummated. Sixty policemen of Cincinnati; using three patrol-wagons, raided a cockpit in the fourth story of a building nearly opposite the courthouse while a contest was in progress.

More than one hundred iersons were arrested. Forty of the offenders paid tl.OJO into the school fund. The remainder chose to take the chances of a jury trial, And light thy tore i at nature's funeral pile. The I'lice of Willi Beasts. The following; extract from Muj.

Xott's preface to his sumptuously illus trated volume ou wild animals, which has just been published by Messrs. Sampson Low, may be of interest to our readers. He is speaking of lhe cost of animals in the Zoological gardens: "The gardens are constantly receiving presents of sjM'cimens, some of theiu being very tine, but the rare animals have generally to be purchased. and some of them are expensive. Tims we learn that a rhinoceros cost ill, 200: three giraffes cost altogether nearly an elephant and calf have been bought for 500.

The first hippopotamus, which was such an at traction in ls.n, although a gitt, cost nearly 1.000 for transport. and tigers have cost the society between 150 and 200 apiece, but are now cheajier. Some rds are very expensive namely pair of blaek-nee ed swans cost X0; and rare pigeons or ducks mav cost anywhere between and 25 each. When the Knmvsiey collection of birds was sold in 1S5! the soeiety'invested nearly 1,000 in pur chases. Trices are bv no means sleady even in the animal market, and appear to lluctuate considerably; presumably.

like everything else, the supply and demand regulating it The ignorance of prises and values is frequently exemplified, and we hear of a sea captain asking 600 for a pair of pythons that he was glad ultimately to get rid of at 40. An American once thought that he had struck oil when lie offered the society a grizzly bear for 2,000, liiey to pay. in addition, the carriage across the Atlantic. More ridiculous still was an offer thev had of a moribund walrus, which for over two months had luen fed on salt pork and meal, for the small sum of 700. These are, of course, absurd prices, but the cost does not deter the society from obtaining favorable specimens of any animals required to keep their collection complete and unique iu its perfection." I'all Mall Oaztlle.

Father Lawicr. of I.onisv.i nicate.l from fie atholie has excommu-hureh a grocer named Michael Met first wife until who maltreated his euied a divorce, where- ti)on he married a young woman living next door. AH iiemt)ers of the eliuieh are forbidden to recognize the offender. A gas well that was developed at Lancaster, Ohio, after nin months of patient work, yields a ftipp'y believed to b- quadruple that required for the city. Th; drill was sent down uineteen hundred feet.

The railroad commissioners of Illinois are about to report that but eleven roads in the state pay dividends twenty-eight yield only the fixed charges, and four fall short of paying op 'rating expenses and tax -s. The net income of all the roa is is but 1.1 per cent, on the capital represented by their securities. John D. Lisle, discount clerk iu the First National bank of Baltimore, is reported to be a defaulter for fj. A detective from Peoria has started from Montreal with J.

F. Holie, the embezzling ba.uk official 1.