The Lyon County News and The Emporia Times from Emporia, Kansas • 2

INTERSTATE DECISION. KANSAS STATE NEWS. School Fund Apportionment. The semi-annual of the State school fund hs-; been mad, and shows the various counties tet ba entitled to amounts as follows! Published Every Thursday, at Allkn, Lyon Countv, Kan s. MAJOR A.

PAUL, Ed. Pr .1 ST. LOUIS rti Democratic National Committee lects St. Louis as the I'lare and Jane 0 a he Time for Holding the National ventioii. Washington, Fe'tfc 38 The National Democratic Committee met ia Willard's Hall in this city at noon to-day for the Jar poSS Pf selecting a time and place for the holding of the ftett Democratic convention.

Ex-Senator William H. Pamum prosided and F. O. Prince acted as secretary- There was a full attendance of delegates. Thri work of selecting a date for the meeting of ihe convention was then proceeded with, the principal speakers being ex-Senator McDonald, Senator Gorman andL'ongressman W.

L. Scott; who holds a Seat in the as pMixt' for W. A. Wallace, of Pennsylvania. The committee selected July 3 as the data or the holdingof the votes being twenty-eight for that date and twenty agirist ii The committee took ten unsuccessful ballots for the choice of a plaJ for holding the convention, the tenth ballot s'st-ding fcian Francisco, 17; Chicago, 15; St.

Louis, 14; 'Jindmiatl, Adjourned until ten o'clock to-niori'dtf COMPOSITION OF TH toMI'f'rE8, The following are the member's- c'f the1 oommittee: Alabama, H. C. Semple; Ar-kan'sa; Feordicv. California, M. F.

Tarpie; Colorado, Thomas; Connecticut, W. H. Barnum; Delaware, Grubb; Florida, Samuel Pasco; Georgia, laiM Captain Bam Jrown, the turfman, has issued a card at Pittsburgh, in which be denies that be said that the Dwyers had Runnymede pulled in the Derby of 1883, and that Garrison pulled Blue Wing In the Brooklyn Handicap of 1SS7. The attendance at the New York dog on the 22d was fully 10,000, J. Pier-pent Morgan bought the famous English rough-coated collie' Bendigo" tor At the Merchants' Exchange, Gloucester, on the 22.1, it was averred that the rights of American fishermen had been sacrificed to the interest of Canada, and President Cleveland and Secretary Bayard received much criticism at the hands of the fishermen, who declared that the treaty was a disgrace to all American citizens.

At a recent session of the Electric Light convention at Pittsburgh, a paper on 'Underground Electric Arc Light Wires" was read by Wells W. Liggett, of Detroit. He claimed that while it was entirely feasible to bury telephone, -telegraph or even incandescent wires, no system had or probably ever would be adopted which would solve the question of burying arc lights underground. William McMasters, of Brooklyn, N. who had been directed by his physician to use an electric battery for heart disease, dropped deid the other night when he turned the current on.

An oil still in a Buffalo (N. refinery exploded recently, instantly killing an employe and severely injuring the superintendent. A riHE on New Granite street, Pittsburgh, recently destroyed two churches and several business houses. Loss over $100,000. THE STRIKING ENGINEERS.

ITIffecrt Htmdrefl Locomotive Engineers anfj Firerripn 011 the Cliicneo, Hur-Ifirgton tjuincy and 15rancUe The ifral putcume Ticerlaiii. Feb. 27. Four o'clock thi morning is the bour officially announced a the time for the gr'JSt strike on the Chicago, Brlington Quiucy railroad. Yesterday morning E.

Hoge, chiiiruian of tha relief committee- at Mi Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, working oa the system, and J. H. Murphy, tfwtrmaa of the griev-nee committee of the firemen, called on General Manager Stone at tile company's office and fw him vrbal notice tiiat unless their demand were acquiesced in the men would slrikj at four O'clock next morning. Hoge said that thoy bad had sufficient advices from men along vbe line to warrant them in taking the step, fe then stated whatthe men wanted. and Stone hearing him through, replied that the Burlington would not recede from the position it had takefi, and asked if that was the ultimatum.

The to said it was, and told una that wish Chief Arthur, could ba found St the Grand Pacilic Hotel until four o'clock in tb? rooming if he desired to commun cale with them. The committea then retired. The grievance committee Cf the engineer, Which 8. E. Hoge, of MeCook, is chairman, is composed of member of the local div'isi'jj' of the Engineers' Brotherhood on the Chicago, Burlington (Jf'ocy system.

It is a standing committee anu bus had enlire charge of tbe negotiations with Sir, sione, the general muna-ger of the railroad. The chairman fays ihv committee's direct negotiations failing, hief Arthur was sent f'-r and he attempted an ad jaavmeut of the difficulty, but also failed. Then the committee, after the strike wast determined upon, agreed that it should be-iiin at four p. in. to-day.

At that, hour most ol the engineers would be. at the end of tile'r runs, and few trams would be in motion. All the local divisions and through them every member of the order employed oa the Chicago, Burlington Qaincy system have been notified not to go to work unless especially advised by the chairman of the grievance committee to report for duty. firemen hold.ng position, dependent on those of the engineers have acted with the latter in every thing, and utiles Stone concludes to accede to the terms ot' the engineers, no entities will be run out ty the aid of members of either brotherhood. lYaihs- 011 the road will be run to the end of the engineer's division and stopped.

I'assengcArains leaving any point bol'oro four o'clock will be rd;) to the ends of the division and side-tracked. To a representative of the! Associated press General Manager Stone said that The West Claire tenants In Ireland haT9 secured from 30 to 59 per cent, reduction ltt rents as a result of the plan of campaign; The shipbuilders of the Clyde in Scotland regard the prospects for their trada as exceedingly gloomy-. The Cunard and other steamship companies are arranging to run extra steamers on tfteir routes. It is expected that there will be a large increase in Irish immigration this year. News from Philippopolis says that a regiment has been ordered from Slivno to Bourgas and it is expected that part of the Philippopolis garrison will also be ordered there.

Il is believed that Bourgas and Varna will be fortified. The Irish Exchequer Court has set aside the sentence of two months' imprisonment passed by the criminal court in the case of Mr. Walsh, edilor of the Wexford Peop'e, on the ground of irregular publication of the notices forbidding meetings of suppressed branches of the National League. Mexican' troops had a skirmish with Yaqui Indians in the Bucaled mountains recently. Ten Indians were killed.

The Mexicans lost two. The Burlington railroad has refused to grant the detnand of the engineers for a change in the system of wages to the mileage system, and the ofdcials of the company declare they will adhere to the present plan. The Wabash and Alton roads have agreed to the new scale of wages, with slight modifications. Mr. Phelps, the American Minister, had a long interview on the 22d with Lord Salisbury on the subject of the Fisheries treaty, the text of which was before them.

Lord Salisbury expressed approval of the substance and form of the document. General Boulaxger will issue a protest against the use of his name for election purposes. His friends assert that the nomination of General Boulanger for the French Chamber of Deputies is a reactionary maneuver intended to discredit him. TnE annual report of the Chicago Alton for 1SS7 has been issued. It shows gross earnings, operating expenses, net earnings, It has been decided to form a club of English and American students in Berlin.

Pkixce Louis, second son of the Grand Duke of Baden and grandson of the Emperor of Germany, died on the 23d, aged twenty-two. The" plan of campaign victory near Louffhrea, Ireland, was celebrated with boutir.s. S.r Henry Bourke has granted twenty-five per cent, reduction to his tenants, pays the legal cost, reinstates evicted tenants and pays the cost of their maintenance since eviction. Father Kennedy and eight farmers have been convicted and sentenced to two months' imprisonment for ati ending a meeting of a suppressed branch of the National League at Newmarket. Fifteen hundred weavers went on a strike recently at Flers, in the department, of Arne, France, formed in procession and marched through the streets singing the "Carmagnole." When the factory was reached stones were thrown at the windows and most of them were Gendarmes quelled the riot and dispersed the crowd.

The Italian troops at Massowah have advanced to Ghyda and found it evacuated by the Abyss nian troops. The Dominion Parliament was openel at Ottawa, on the 23d. The Governor-General commended the new Fishery treaty to the favorable consideration of tha members. The British Liberal Unionists gained an unexpected victory in the Parliamentary election in the West Riding of Yorkshire recently, returning thoir candidate in a Liberal's place. Prince Louis Napoleon has resigned his commission in the Italian army.

Madrid newspapers state that the Duke of Montpensier has notified the Government that he will return to Spain at the end of the present week, notwithstanding Prime Minister Sagasta's warning. The chief Government measure to coma before the Canadian Parliament this session is a railway act similar to the United Stales Commerce law. A grand tie-up on the Burlington system was expected on the 25th, owing to the refusal of the company to agree to the demands of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended February 23, numbered for the United Slates, 237; Canada, 33; total, 270, as compared with 273 the previous week and 2Sy the corresponding week of last year. It is reported that a syndicate of French, Belgian and Dutch banker has advanced to Russia the sum of $30,000 000, refusing to grant a larger loan umess tha Bulgarian question is settled peacefully.

Justice Denny, of the Queen's Bench divis.on, Ipswich, in the case of a poacher who had severely wounded a gamekeeper, held that the gamekeeper bad no right to arrest and hunt poachers as he would wild beasts. The jury acquitted tha poacher ou the ground of self-defense. Ih lnter'Ste Commission Decides A gainst Discriminations In Fnor of the Bcandard Oil Company. Washington, Feb. 24.

The Inter-State Commerce Commission yesterday promulgated an Elaborate Ppip.ion in the case of George Rice, of Marietta, 6. the Louisville Nashville and several other railroads, charging, among other things, discrimination in lavor of the Standard Oil Company. The opinion says: Complainant's method of shipment was in barrels. This was the only method for which Shy Of the defendants supplied rolling stock to their' patrons. The IiOuisville ftashrilie and the Cincinnati! New Orleans Texas Pacific Companies had each a few taUk tars, but the tanks upon them were owned by tne Standard Clil Company, of Kentucky, and they were not attainable by other parties desiring t6 ship oil in bulk by tank cars.

The? could Only db so by procuring and tendering to the railroad ompa-nies the cars for transportation. The defendants by their rate sheets, gave rates on oil in barrels, and to many towns, but not all, on oil hi talilts a'sd. Generally the rates on oil in tanks were car rates. But lil som" fases they were by the 100 pounds. The rate sheets gaJc no information as to how tank cars were to be obtained.

The Commission decides that it was the duty of defendants to publish information on "this subject with their rate sheets and that 1-7 id not fully give the information regarding rates which the act to regulate commerce intends shall be placed before the public, unless they did so. It is obvious that instead of the defendants offering two methods of transportation which are open to the acceptance of all, they offer only one which is sq open: The other is OHered Cm sueh terms that it cart hf nt possibility be aceepted only by parties who 6an control considerable capital and who will supply for themselves ah important part of the means of transportation and also supply terminal facilities: The man of small means who adopts the methods of transportation in barrels can not be said to do so of choice when the failure of the carrier to supply for the other the customary means of transportation compels him to do 55. It does not seem to us either just or plausible to say under such circumstances that the rer-son whose oil is carried in barrels has voluntarily chosen that method and has no concern with the charges imposed his competitor who adopted the other. He Isi on contrary, vitally concerned with tiiosS charges-, and if his own are not to gauged iii sfcime degree by them he may be ruined in his business without redress, even though the charges lie paj's when considered by themselves may not seem unreasonable. The Commission lays down the general rule that the tank is to be considered part of the car itself, and for whatever is carried on it the chorffc ought to be the swine by the hundred pounds as is made on the transportation Ol baf rels of oil in car load lots in other cars.

Eve. then the shipper in barrels is at some disadvantage, for he must pay freight on the caskets as well as on the oil; but this, as between him and the carrier, is not unjust. This ruling does not preclude such allowance for the use of tank cars as is customary, provided it be reasonable, but it assumes that such allowance will be made. But it should be made on some system by some rule of uniformity, and the authority to make it must not carelessly or otherwise be made a means of discrimination, The case of each of the defendants was then considered separately, and in the case of the Louisville Nashville railway an order was entered that defendants cease their unjust discrimination, that they cease to make tank rates when the tanks differ in capacity, and that they conform their charges on tank car and barrel shipments to the rule above prescribed. In the case of the St.

Louis, Iron Mountain Southern railroad the Commission finds that the defendant made excessive rates en barrel shipments and that the effect was to unjustly discriminate complainant and to give undue and unreasonable preference to shippers by lank cars. Order was entered that its charge 5 be corrected and made to conform to the rule. In the other three cases, the Mobile Si Ohio, Mississippi Tennesse and IdiuoU Central, no orders were entered-m CORCORAN DEAD. The Millionaire anil rhilnnttirnpist Dies in His Ninetieth Year. Washington-, Feb.

2i. Mr. W. W. Corcoran died at 0:30 o'clock this morning.

William Wilson Corcoran was born in Georgetown, D. December 7, 17tiS, his father being a native of Ireland, who removed to Georgetown in 17S7, and was for many years mayor of the town. Mr. Corcoran first engaged in the dry goods business and afterwards became a commission morchant. From 1SJS to 1836 he was in charge of the real estale business of the Bank of Columbia, the branch of the United States Bank at Washington.

He then entered business as a banker and broker, in which he remained until 1S54. InlfcS30he took the late George W. Riggs into business with him. When the Mexican war broke out the Government had great difficulty in inducing prominent financiers to float ils bonds. The linn of Corcoran Riggs thereupon offered to undertake the work, and by the skill in accomplishing the task not only laid the foundation of their subsequent fortunes, but earned for themselves high places in the financial world.

In 1S35 .1 r. Corcoran married the daughter of Commodore Morris. She died five years later, leaving only one child, Louise, who in 1X59 was married to Hon. George Eustis, then a member of Congress from Louisiana. Mrs.

Eustis, like her mother, survived her marriage only a few years. It is as a public benefactor and philanthropist that Mr. Corcoran is known. His benefactions are of long standing. In 1847 he purchased the site or the Oak Hill cemetery, Georgetown, expended about in improving it aud presented the cemetery to his native town.

The Corcoran gallery of art he established in 1857, expending about in fitting it up and in addition establishing an endowment fund of nearly a million dollars for its benefit. The war interrupted his plans wilh respect to this structure, but at its close he entered upon the work wi! increased energy and transferred his entire collection of paintings, statuary and works to it. Ano'her of his large public gifts is the Louise Home, which he founded in memory of his wife. It is intended as a home for aged women ot refinement and education who by reverses of fortune have been reduced from affluence to poverty. This building cost about and has an endowment fund in addition of about 1300,000.

Mr. Corcoran has also made large and valuable gifts to the Washington Orphan Asylum, Columbia University and many institutions in the South. He also gave 100,000 to the Church of the Ascension of this city. To the University of Virginia he has made gifts amounting to about besides a library of about 4.000 volumes. Storm in Indiana.

Evansville, Feb. 25. About five o'clock last evening a storm visited Haub-stadt, sixteen miles north of this city in Gibson County the Evansville Terre Haute railroad, doing considerable damage to property. Barns were blown down, live stock killed, dwellings unroofed and trees blown across the railroad track. Telegraph wires are down and the extent of the loss can not be leal 1, but no persons were killed or inrurec far as known.

At Milltown, a ntation on the Air Lino between Louisville and Huntingburg, a water-spout burst and flooded the track, making it very dangerous for the running of trains. Considerable damage is also reported. Threatened Damage. Nebraska City, Feb. 25.

The ice in the Missouri went out below here Thursday night, doing some damage to bridge property. The ice in the main channel a( the city is still firm, but above the city-it has broken and forced its way through the old river bed, a quarter 01 a mile from the present channel, destroying a Chicago, Burlington Qumcy pile bridge and doing other damages. It is that this will result in the river forming a new channel aud passing on the sast side of the expensive new br dge oeing constructed here, A cold wave last evening, however, goi Ted the ico and tht company is making rts to block it and teep tbe river in present channel County. Amount County. Amount- Allen Anderson Lincoln Linn Lyon Marion 12,142 3.435 4.560 3,876 4,424 C.060 id? 3,460 3, 383 4,973 2.84 2.61fi Atchison Barber Barton Bourbon Brown Butler Cherokee Cloud.

Coffey Comanche Cowley Crawford ftavis Dickinson Douglas Edwards Klk. Ellis Ellsworth Finney Ford Franklin Garfield Gove Graham Grant Gray Hamilton. Harper Haskell Harvey Jackson Jefferson Jewell. Kinsman Kiowa Labette Lane Leavenworth 5.310 1.789 2.613 .1.079 4.W9 1.74 2.797 4.92 627 1.152 ii s. ita i.

4.04 3.094 761 6.216 4. HO I 1.7rt3 1.421 4.076 2.491 4,505 74H 2.776 1.555 2.051 1,0 0 1.4:lt 4.075 872 691 1,:33 1,122 749 3.241 ifci Marshall 5 I'icPherson 9l 1 Meade 61 Mitchell. ..1 in os 7ii 1 Morton 258 3.446 3,761 1.272 2.158 4,893 3.014 32 to 52 Ness 52 Norton 76 1 Osage 60 Osborne 96 2,710 3- Pawnee. 1.313 16 Phillips 9 iPottawatomie. 84 Pratt 28 Rawlins.

sn.Kepublic Si R'ce 92Rilev hl Rooks 3,460 1.611 1,236 4,254 3,546 2.720 2.H6 1.103 1.633 8,230 6 Rush 24iRussell SljSaline OiRcott 3viSew'ard 6'llSheridan K8iSh 8niSmith lKjStevens. Cii Thomas 1::.. 56 5-: i Wallace 1 rl Washington. (ul! Wichita 12: Wilson 291 7,932 673 328 3.394 1,796 312 6,01 .1 933 1: 991 2,276 276 4.23) 391 3.338 1.839 93S 2.S 3.378 4.i '81 3.172 2.1 i9 813 5,461 579 -(iiWoydson. 6,728 728 Amount apportioned.

1273,693 76 The school population is apportionment par capita, 52c. The name of the post-offices at Bix, Snra Her County, has boan changed td Black-stone. The post-offices at Bayne and Russell County, have been discontinued and the mail of both ordered to Lucas. The telegraphers of Topeka, of whom there are about one hundred, are preparing to organ iao ft lodge of the Order Of Telegraph Operators. A construction train on the Kansas Central division of the Union Pacific road was wrecked by a wash-out near Holton a few days ago, "and Engineer Mc.Sweeney and Brakeman Richard? were badly scalded, the latter fatally.

About thirty ladies have registered for the spring elections at xVtchison, while more than one hundred have attended to this important duty ia Xewton. The not receipts of the benefit given a the Grand Opera-house in Topeka recent ly by the Art Dramatic Company for the sufferers in Western Kansas wore The executive committee empowered Mr. P. G. 2soel to purchase two carloads of corn, one for Gray and one for Haskell County, and ship them immediately to the Santa Fe station agent for distribution.

A portion of the Sal vation Army, known as Crusaders, No. 3, left Fredonia recently for Oswego, after a ten days' stay. Their work resulted in sixty-nine conversions. They airn that the religious people of Fredonia received them more courteously and rendered more assistance from the first night than any city in the State during their sixteen months' campaign, in which time they claim 3,000 conversions, 7S within ten weeks. ttle Edith, the seven-year-old daughter of Prof.

D. O. Jones, was instantly killed near Emporia a few evenings since by the accidental discharge of a shot-gun, in the hands of Alfred Hughes, aged fifteen, while he was attempting to take a cap off the nipple. Colonel W. F.

Cloud, of Topaka, and others are making arrangemonts to hoi I a reunion of the "army of the frontier," composed of volunteers to the number of 21,000 or 25,000 from Kansas, M'siouri, Arkansas, Iowa and other States, who operated in Missouri and Kansas. Winlield was with delegates to the department encampment of the G. A. which begun on the 22d. The Woman's Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans were also largely represented.

General John P. Ilea, National Commander, was among the distinguished guests, and reviewed the grand parade. A man in Rooks County has be8n arrested for stealing a school-house Two hundred Kansas farmer! arrived in Memphis, a few days ago, to look for homes in Mississippi and Tennessee. Reso'ntions have been adopted by the Syracuse Board of Trade protesting aeainst the passage of the bill opening Oklahoma to settlement. Wellington is to have a new depot building which will be, with the exception of the one in Topeka.

the largest one on the Santa Fe lines in the State. Governor Martin has appointed Horace Jones as justice of the peace for Wabaunsee township, Wabaumee County, to fill vacancy caused Ly the resignation of Enoch Piatt. John Henu, whobtirglarized the store of Deutsch at Musotah, and afterward stole a team and buggy to facilitate his escape, plead; guilty on his trial at Atchison and wa? sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary. The town of Col Iwater, Comanche County, was almost entirely destroyed by fire a few nights since. The fire started from a stove used in preparing oysters for attendants upon a masquerade ball.

Loss, insurance, $20,000. Sheriff Morris of Pottawatomie County arrived at the Leavenworth penitentiary a few evenings sines, escorting four prisoners, Brock Turner and Johnstone, colored, sentenced to three yeats each for grand larceny, and Carl Bennett and X. A. Gibbs, white, for seven years each for the same offense. George D.

Hale, of Topeka, has presented the State Historical Society with a vase of coarse pottery which was taken from mound on the banks of Little river, in Poinsett County, Ark not far from the Mississippi. Jefferson County's creamery don't pay. A Fargo man offers to furnish seed to the farmers of Seward County and supply them with provisions sufficient to carry them through until they harvest their crop, provided the farmers will give him mortgages on their teams and cattle. The proposition does not seem to meet with much favor. The city of McPherson is erecting a central and high school building, which will soon be completed.

It will cost and is a model of school architecture. Among the new features is an assembly room seated with opera chairs, and. especially arranged for school exercises, lectures, society meetings, etc. Dr. W.

D. Simpson committed suicide with morphine at Leavenworth. The State University at Lawrence is so crowded that it has been found necessary to turn away many new applicants for admission. At the last meeting of the State Board of Charities George T. G.lmore tendered his resignation as steward of the State Insane Asylum at Topeka.

On the of last August, O. W. Clemens, of Argentine, was severely injured by being knocked off a freight train by a scaffold on a bridge at "Big Flint Hill," on the Southern Kansas railroad. The company has settled with Mr. Clemens, allowing him $3.

OX) and a lifetime job as passenger conductor. A Kansas doll has baen sent to the G. A. R. fair at Washington.

THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily News. COXGKESS. Wms the Senate met on the -Xhh bills were reported and placed on the calendar. The riillto incorporate a Washington City cable road was taken up when Senator Edmunds, "in order to place Senators on record as to the direct tariff moved an amendment that the rails used shall be of American manufacture, which was adopted by a vote of 2 to 17.

After an executive session the Senate adjourned In the House business of a routine character was transacted. After a Ions? and uninteresting debate upon the motion to suspend the rules and pass the Senate joint resolution to extend the day of inauguration from March 4 to April 3u and the defeat of the motion, the House adjourned. Aftkk comrui to reputed in Hie Senate cu the 21st the bill to incorporate the Washington Electric Cable railroad was taften up and debated until adjournment In tre House the bill to credit and pay to the several States and Territories the direct tax levied in tstil was reported from the Judiciary Committee, also the joint resolution for the constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy. The bill for the sale of the Black Bob Indian reservation in Kansas was amended so as to fix the price at lix dollars per acre and passed. The House then went into Committee of the Whole after trhich it adjourned.

Wi'EK the Senate met on the 22d the business of the session was dispensed with and Washington's Farewell Address was read by the presiding oflicer. The Senate then adjourned The House was not in session. The Senate on the pase i a bill to extend the )s of The Unitrd States over certain unorganized territory south of Kansas known as No Mon's. T.and. It establishes the Cimarron land district.

Debate on the bill for compulsory education of Indian children then followed, when the bill to incorporate the Washington Electric Cable road was taken up and passed. In the House Mr. McAdoo offered a resolution which was referred calling for correspondence in regard to disputed boundary between Great Britain and Venezuela. The Public Buildings Committee then reported a number of bills and the House went Into Committee of the Whole upon the special order the consideration of bills for public buildings. A number were agreed to in committee and passed by the House v.h'mthe committee rose in spite of earnest and persistent from Mr.

Bland, of Missouri. Adjourned. In-the Senate on the considerable time was consumed In debating the Nicaragua 'lanal bill. The bill craming pensions to ex-rs and sailors who j.re incapacitated for il labor and providing for pensioning dent relatives of o--ceased soldiers and 3 was then fallen up and Mr. Mand'-rson ssedthe Senate in favor of the measure, 'urpie also made an eloquent appeal in behalf.

After an executive ses-the Senate adjourned until Monday, the House several Senate bills of little interest were passed. A monster peti-l favor of the Letter Canior and Postal bills now pending was presented from men and others from New York and places. The Senate Invalid Pension bill avorably reported by Mr. Lynch, of Per.u-nia. The House then, in Committee of "hole, considered bills on the private cal-The Committee on Eelections re-1 on the contested election case of ts.

Davidson, of Alabama, in of Davidson, silting member. Mr. Long, asachusetts, made a minority report in of the contestant. Mr. Springer, from "ommittee on Territories, reported ad-y the bids for the admission of North and Dakota as separate Slates, and Mr.

of New York, presented a minority re-a the same measure. Adjourned. WASHINGTON" NOTES. s. Pkesiiji.xt Cleveland has joined Circle, for the elevation of --x en in India.

This organization is the rowth of the work in his country of Ramabai, who has been laboring in various cities of tiie United States i March, lsfj, to awaken an interest in -siablishment ef a uornial school for caste child widows in Foona, India. President has the act relishing the right of the Cnited Stales rta lands in Kans is. f. Piesldent left Washington on the for a trip to Flo'ida, where he will lie Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jack-lilc. Senate mt'da the Fisheries troaty ic on the 21st.

American fishermen tin many substantial advantages. A minorconees ion are made. peaKiii; Carlisle left Washington on of the 21st with Mrs. Carlisle for where their son was ilL trict party vote the House has agreed to report fa-. Chairman Springer's "omnibus ill" toetiable the people of Dakoia, Montana, Washington Territory aud New ico U- form Constitutions and Stale Governments and to be admitted into the Union on an equal fooling with the original States.

The Democratic Congressional Committee hel I a meet eg at the capitol. Washington, ou the 23J, and Representative James T. Jonc5, of Alabama, was made chairman and Representative Benjamin F. Shively, I I ndiana, secretary. The chairinau was Jithorized to appoint ten members of the .1 mmittee who, with throe appointed by Senate, should constitute a joint execu-e committee.

Ihe Democratic National Committee at shington on the 231 chose St. Louis as place of holding the National conven-. The time was chauged from July 8 to i5. Inter -State Commerce Commission leaded the case of Rice vs. the Nashville, charging discrimination or of the Standard Oil Company.

The rinds that the tauk line system was a deception, the public not really being allowed to compete with the Standard Company. Judgment was therefore entered for plaintiff and the railroad ordered to grads its tank rates with its car-load barrel rates. W. W. orcokan, 'he philanthropist and retired millionaire banker, died at Washington on tlie 24! in his ninetieth year.

THE EAST. IK six-story building, No. 536 to 554 it Twenty-third street, New York, oc-ed by the Cylindrogr.iph Manufaetur-Company and other firms, was burned other night. The los was estimated H. Corliss, the eminent mechan-, engineer, died at New York on the of paralysis of the heart, superinduced tastnc fever.

He was in his seventy-md year. IE Commercial Advertiser, of New York, Mr. Joseph Pulitzer will probably totally blind. His treatment at ta Barbara has not been successful, the municipal election at Philadelphia he 21t John T. Thompson, Republican, elected police magistrate by 10,765 maty over Jacob J.

Eberhardt, Democrat, tue couucilmen elected thirty-eight are mbiicans, three Independent Repu Hnd fifteen Derooera's. RF.CEiVEit for the embarrassed ivory iers, F. Grote New York, has appointed. Their liabilit ies are their nominal assets Kt. i the Sugar Trust investigation by the ate Law Committee at New York on 21st, several of the witnesses refused i aswer questions.

floods were reported in Massa-setis on the 21st, caused by an overflow oe Quabag river. iHAFF, BexseTi iron manufac-' rs of Pittsburgh, have filed a oed 3S-ignmont In lSs-3 the firm failed for at were granted an ei- Sion. Wilson, the persecutor of Phil an. left New York for Loudon on the 23 d. had a bountiful letter of credit.

Walsh; Illinois, W. C. Goudy; Indiana, J. F. McDonald; Iowa, W.

I. Haves; Kansas, Blair; Kentucky, H. D. McHenry; Louisiana, fl. F.

Jonas; Mama, W. H. Clifford i Maryland, A. P. Gormaai Massachusetts, F.

O. Pnnee Michigan, I M. Weston; Minnesota, V. II. Kelly; Mississippi, A.

Johnston; Missouri, J. Prattler Nebraska, t. K. Boyd; C. King! New Hampshire, A.

W. Hrflloway; New Jersey, Miles Ross; New YorK; 'VViiliam North Carolina, M. W. i 10' som; Oaio, Armstrong; Oregon, A. H.

Gorman; PeiirisyWnia, W. L. Scott; Rhode Island, J. B. South Carolina.

F.W.Dawson; F. Looney; Texas, O. T. Holt; Vermont, Hiram Atkins: V.rgmia, J. IS.

Barbour; West Virginia, H. S. Davis; Wisconsin, E. R- Usher: Arixorla: W. Mead; Dakota, M.

H. Day: John Ballet', Montana, W. i. McCormick Now Mexico, AfltOiiio Joseph; t'tab, ft Hurimond; Washing-' ton, J. H.

Kunn; M. E. Post; District of Columbia, William L'icteon. ST. LOt 11 CIIOSKX.

Feb. 24. After several hnd been taxen by the Democratic National Committee yesterday morning with reference holding the National convention, a break took place in favor of St. Louis, which city was finally declared to be the choice of the committee. Mr.

Scott made a motion to reconsider the vote by which July 3 ha I been fixed as the time for holding the convention, and Mr. Tarpie took the floor in opposition to the motion. He said that Juie was the time when his people were busy with their haivest and when it would be most inconvenient for them to attend tha convention. As the convention had been cleii'cd to the Pacific coast, ha hoped that the committee would be able to consult the wishes of his people in the matter of time. Mr.

C. S. Thomas, of Colorado, and Senator-elect Barbour, of Virginia, also spoke in opposition to the motion, but on being put to a vote the motion prevailed by a vote of 20 to 19. Ex-Senator McDonald moved that the date of the convention be changed from July 3 to Tuesday, June 5. A motion to amend by substituting June 26 for June was lost "and Mr.

McDonald's motion was adopted by a vote of 2'. to 17. The chairman was directed to appoint a committee of seven, of which he should be chairman and the secretary of the committee secretary, which committee; should have authority to make all the necessary arrangements for holding the convention, and also have charge of the preparation and organization of the canvas3 until the meeting of the convention. That committee was not announced. Announcement was made of the death of Edmund Wilson, of Maine, aud Hubert O.

Tuompson, of New York. THE CALL. The National Democratic Committee having met in the City of Washington on the 22d day of February has appointed Tuesday, the 5th day ot June next, at noon, as the time and chosen the city of St. Louis as the place for holding the National Democratic convention. Each State is entitled to a representation therein equal to double the number of its Senators and representatives in the Congress of the United States and each Territory and the District of Columbia may have two delegates.

All Democratic conservative citizens of the United States irrespective of past political associations and differences, who can unite with us in the effort for pure, economical and eonstitut onal government, are cordially invited to join us in sending delegates to the convention. William II. Maksum, Chairman, Frederick O. Prince, Secretary, National Democratic Committee. The committee adjourned to meet in St Louis on Monday, June 4.

FLORIDA'S WELCOME. President 1 ail Mrs. Cleveland Kceeive a Koyal Welcome iu the stale of Oranse Groves. Jacksonville, Feb. 22 The Presidential party arrived here yesterday afternoon, and was greeted with a salute of twenty-one guns and the acclamatiou of an immense concourse of people.

The party was escorted to the St. James Hotel by tha State military, the reception committee ia carriages and a band playing patriotic airs. Mayor Barbridge rode iu the carriage with the President and Mrs. Cleveland. The carriage was decorated with flowers and evergreens.

At 1:30 o'clock, after the Presidential party had taken lunch, tha marshal of the day, Major Harkishimer, with twenty aides, formed the procession. The line of march was along the principal streets, which were givy with decorations of all kinds, including evergreens, bunting, festoons of oranges and orange flowers. Masses of people in holiday atr tire lined the route, and it is estimated that 100,000 citizens and visitors witnessed the procession, including thousands of Northern tourists. The President's public reception was held last night at the St. James Hotel, lasting two hours.

President Cleveland, escorted by Judge Settle, and Mrs. Cleveland, escorted by C. H. Jones, entered tho parlors at 8:30 o'clock, and when the reception ended at 10:30 over 8,000 persons had passed in line and shaken hands. Probably the best lookout point or natural watch totver in the world is Caddo Peak, in Johnson County, Tex.

It is a beautiful truncated cone, rising three hundred feet above the level of the surrounding country, and from the top of it, on a clear day, one can see a distance of four hundred miles up the meandering Brazos river. A butter dealer recently sold a quantity of bad butter at a residence iu Indianapolis. When he next returned he was invited in. He entered and was seized by the inmates, stripped of all his clothing, and buttered from head to foot with his rancid wares. It is said that a Cleveland tailor has gone crazy in his efforts to make a coat which will button up behind and be acceptable to the public.

The idea of wearing his coat-tails in front of him is rather startling to the average American. Ducks are so abundant in Georgia that the Savannah market has been glutted. They are said to be flying by thousands in large and small flocks, and one hunter, in eight day3, killed over 700 of tha birds. THE WEST. In- the insane asylum at St.

Peter, it was discovered the other morning that, J. W. S'over had brained his cell mate, Charles Warner. Both lunatics were considered harmless. Ax enormous pocket of quicksand recently made itself apparent in tue vicinity of the new water tunnl shaft at Chicago.

The fall of the sand caused the tracks of the Illinois Central to ink in an alarming manner. The case against Josie Holmes, of the Fidelity Bank, Cineiuna'i, has been nolle pressed by the Government. Geolge S. TuuniiEit, of Thurber Gore, was suspended from the Chicago Board of Trade recently for one year. His offense was giving customers rebates on commissions.

Articles of incorporation of the Dubuque Personal Liberty League have been filed with the Iowa Secretary of Stale. The objects of the. association are auti prohibitory. 'Dr." Teed, the Chicago faith cure or mental physician attending Fletcher Benedict who died from lack of proper treatment for bronco-pneumonia, has been held to the grand jury by the coroner, the charge being practicing medicine without a license. Ex-Puesipest Hates addressed the members of the Ohio Legislature and others on the 22.1 on the subject of industrial educa-t on.

He made a strong argument in favor of making it a p.irt of tins public school work, and urged the importance of greater respect for labor than now existed. Washington's birthday was celebrated February 22 in the usual manner. At Chicago the Union League gave a banquet after a meeting, Chauneey M. Depew being the orator. The rink of S.

D. Newton, at Peshtigo, collapsed recently from the heavy weight of snow on the roof. Four workmen who were engaged in converting the nnls into stores were killed or fatally injured. A mvsterious explosion of dynamite in a cutatDuluth, recently, fatally injured two workmen and seriously injured six others. The west bound Southern Pacific train was boarded at Stein's Pass, N.

the other night, by two masked men. They cut the express and mail car from the train, made the engineer run down the track a mile and a half, forced the express messenger to open the car and rifled it of all valuables. The mails were not touched. The robbery was said to be heavy. A warrant has been issued at Cincinnati for Frank Reigel, late assistant cashier of the Metropolitan National Bank, charging him wi forgery and swindling building associations.

He was an officer in several building associations and influenced them to deposit in the Metropolitan Bank. Mos mouth. 111., the other night was lit up with what appeared to have been a monster meteor on a tramp, moving from southeast to northwest, and passing the place with lightning rapidity. An explosion which jarred walls and windows took place shjnly after. Reports from neighboring towns showed that all experienced the same sensations.

Daniel Wren', the convicted Chicago boodler, was taken to the Joliet penitentiary on IheS-'ld to serve his sentence. Kate Castleton, the actress, has filed a bill for separate maintenance against her husband. Isadore Phillips, whom she married in San Francisco. She charges continued drunkenness. Assistant Cashier Frank M.

Rif.gel, of the defunct Cincinnati Metropolitan Bank, has been arrested for using eight l.tOJ orders of a building association for his pri vate ends. A severe storm visited Gibson County, on the night of the 24th. Much dam age was reported, but no lives were thought to be lost. The party arrested near Lebanon, Ma, recently for Tascott, the murderer of millionaire Snell, turned out to be someone else. At Detroit, recently Francis Her bert, aged thirty-three, was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the seduction of a thirteen-year-old girL THE SOUTH.

Dan Bnowx, who was convicted of man slaughter and sentenced a few days ago for the killing of Adolph Zeneck, of the New Orleans Jfaseolt, for the publication In that paper of an article concerning his alleged intimacy with a lady has been pardoned by Governor McEnery. G. W. Hill, manager for the Diamond Match Company, New Orleans, has been missing for some time. He is short in his accounts.

Rev. J. C. Price, colored, president of the Livingston College, Salisbury, N. has received a letter from Secretary Bayard informing him that the President has appointed him Minister Resident and Con-sul-General of the United States in Liberia.

Mb. Harry Harwood, the gentleman jockey who was injured in a steeple chasa last fall lies in a precarious condition at Maryland, Md. Both of his legs and the right side are paralyzed, and it is feared that he can not long survive. President Clbyelaxh and party attended the Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jacksonville, on the 22d. Large numbers were present, and a cordial welcome was extended to the visitors.

The annual commencement of John Hopkins University, at Baltimore, took place on the 22d. The degree of bachelor of arts was conferred on Charles B. Chap man, of Wisconsin. Lewis Moore (colored) was hanged at Georgetown, recently, for the murder of Randall D. Wright, another colored man.

Moore, who confessed on the scaffold, said whisky was the cause of the crime. GEXEBAI. It is reported in Dublin that Lord Londonderry, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is very desirous of leaving that country, and will probable resign. Paris papers fear a Government crisis should the Cabinet insist on the Chamber of Deputies voting money to the secret service at present. Theue ivas little doubt among the railroad men on the 2Hd as to the future of the Western rate war.

The roads were sick of the tn uble and willing to restore rates and stop the present enormous loss, provided a satisfactory agreement could be reached. thch'fi wero engineers ana nieiueu their employ. How many of these belong to the b'rotbarhpwi oe did not know, but presumed thev all did. 'What is your programme J-' was asked. "U'e will not attempt to move any freight trains; our object is to run most of our suburban and passenger trains as usual, (Jar first endeavor will be 10 get in our suburban passengers and take care of all passenger ior points not covered by competitors.

There are a large number of men in our employ capable of running engines in addition to yard men, foremen aud i aJ ftn-emen, "'ho nearly all are engineers. At Aurora ive have a laboratory where a we number of young men are engaged, who have all learned the art of running a locomotive. All these wiil be pressed into service." "How about the report that you ara bringing a lot of men from the Kaiiir.g system "Ve have no arrangement or contract to) that effect, but we sent East advertisements for competent men, and we have received a number of telegmms from individuals in Philadelphia and Other Pennsylvania ints, saying that th-'V would come and" brmi4 engineers with them. To all these I havo replied that we will give good wages and perrmuent employment to all men of god character who arj competent to do the work." In regard to freight traffic FUme said their first endeavi would bo to taise care of it on the same basis that they would tho passenger truffle. He could not toll how they would get on till they had sized up tha situation.

If the strike were so serious a3 stoo their trafiic they would have to lay off all' their freight handlers and shopmen and a number of others employed 111 a similar capacity, numbering six or seven times as many as the engiueors and ii reined. Ha does not anticipate any such serious state of affairs. The feeling among the engineers and firemen around the roundhouses was of a decidedly aggressive character yesterday. They stood about in groups cf threes and fours all day and discussed the strike in all its bearings. The strike is not likely lo involve any other road-, in the opinion of Arthur and Sargent, th.v.gli they expressed no opinion on the contingency that some other company might endeavor to aid the Utll'ling'-ou.

FATAL COLLISION. Accident on the Missouri Pacific Near Col-ton, 1 Fire Add Horror to the IScene. Coi.tox, Feb. 27. The Union Pacifio fast train Jio.

4, known as the flyer, collided with a freight at this point at 1:30 o'cicclc Saturday morning, and the engineer of tha flyer was instantly killed and eighteen people wounded. The freight which was pul ing into the side track was struck the third car from the caboose. It was loaded with benzine, and in a flash the entire wreck; was in flames. Engineer Michael Power, of Cheyenne, who was running the flyer, stood at bis post and was crushed to death. His body was burned to a crisp.

Tha killed and wounded are: Michael Powell, engineer, killed; August Johnson, fireman, thigh broken and bruised about tha head; W. H. Murphy, of Sloan, hand hurt; Mrs. Douglas, of Marysvilie, kuee aud hand hurt; Frank Lawrence, brakeman, Nor Platte, bad cuts ou the temple and head badly hurt; Georga McNamara, Portland, ankle sprained; A. A.

Brown, Portland, head badly braised; John Law, Julesburg, wrist thrown out of joint and ugly cuts about tha head; Mrs. Benton Reed. Jamesville, N. back hurt; Mrs. Bayard, Laramie, ankle sprained; Lucy Hacken bury, Pawnee City, hand hurt; W.

V. Knowles, Mauard County, 111., back hurt, ruts on the head and legs; Mrs. John Light-hall, Helena, shoulder blade broken. Western Inventions. Washington, Feb.

-JO. The fo lowing patents were granted to inventors in Missouri and Kansas the past week: Missouri Coffee-pot, Leo Eiirlich, of St Louis; combined wagon bed and brake, Stephen It-Riffle, of Foley; clover harvester, Thomas-son Peuce, of Kearney; fire and burglar alarm, Robert J. LaRue, of Mexico; oven, for vapor stoves, Henry Flynt. of Kansas City track-cleaning attachment for street cars, Peper Sobinski, of St. Louis.

Kansas Wagon brake lever, Walter A. West-brook, of Kingman mower, Lambert Er-pelding, of Leonardville; refrigera'or, Gilbert M. Lee, of Jeffersou; cultivator, 8cbermerhorn Jury, of Terra Cotta; Fender for horse rakes, Leboeus Mundy, of Morgan. Pittsburgh liiscouragred. Pittsburgh, Feb.

27. In an interview last night, Andrew Carnegie stated that notwithstanding the natural facilities of Pittsburgh, the iron and steel manufacturers were unable to compete with Chisago and the Northwest. The cause of this was the advantage of lower freight rates which made it possible for tbe Western manufacturers to come to Pittsburgh's very doors and take Us trade. The steel rail trade, he said, was unusually dull. The last year the consumption WuS 1325 tons.

From the present outlnos it vould not reach half that amount this year. There was not a steel rail mill in tha sountry that had orders to run them Sot jixty days. THE LAiESI. The ferryboat Julia exploded at Vallejo, on tha morning of the 27lh. The vessel was torn to pieces and tooK tira.

About thirty persons were killed out of the seventy on board. The vessel was an unfortunate oue, having exploded bor boiler in 1SS6, when nine persons were killed. The Skate Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Fulton, was burned the other night. The structure cost $500,000. Tn schooner Nellie Bowers was wrecked near Portland, recently.

The captain and three of the crew were drowned. The village of Valtota, in the north of Italy, has been destroyed by an avalanche. A shocking loss of life was reported. Twenty-three bodies were recovered. John D.

Rockefeller was exam ned at New York on the 27th by the committee investigating trusts. Rockefeller gave a history of the Standard Oil Company, the trust of which had no corporate existence but was bound together by a written agreement. The remains of the late W. W. Corcoran were buried from Kt.

John Church, Washington, to Oak Hill Cemetery on the 37lh. Mrs. President Cleveland was present at the services. The strike of the engineers and firemen on the Burlington system took place on the 27th. No freight engines were taken out and but few passenger trains were running.

Two accidents occurred owing to inexperienced men employed as engineers. A. R- Gumaer, cashier of the defunct Exchange Bcnk of Canon City, has been arrested, charged with taking money on deposit when he knew the bank was insolvent. The Senate on the 27th passed the bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. The vote stood thirty-eight to fifteen.

The Dependent Pension bill was then taken up and argued. In the House the Committee on Invalid Pensions reported adversely a resolution to investigate Pension Commissioner Black. After debate the resolution was tabled. District of Columbia business aud introduction of new measures occupied the rest of the day. Ax application for the dissolution of the Minneapolis (Minn.) Paper Company has been filed.

The company has lost money and owes about while its assets, consisting principally of mill site and machinery, are worth about 11 The old hat firm of George R. Clark New York, has failed. Liabilities, The strike in the Edgar Thompson steel works at Pittsburgh, took place on thi 27th. A bout 1,000 men were affected. Thb Armour Packing Company, it was reported, would contest the legality of the Inspection bill of Iowa if it was enacted.

it reported that the Russian garrisons on the Austrian frontier have been reinforced during the last fortnight by several brigades which are on a war footing. There are four cavalry regiments neat Piocxoi whisli directly menace Cracow..