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VOL. IX. FALL RIVER, GREENWOOD APRIL 10, 1890. NO. 29.

Rioting on th part of the students of KiefT and KLarkoff, Russia, was renewed on the 31 t. CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. THE PENSION BUREAU. Commissioner Raum Getting the Work of the Pension Bureau Down, to a System, and the Examination and Adjudication of Cases Being Materially Expedited.

Washington, April 7. General Raum, Commissioner of Pensions, on Saturday submitted the following report of rapid progress recently made in adjudicating claims: Bon. John W. Noble, Secretary of the Interior: Sib On the 23d of December last I issued an order requiring that an examination of the claims pending in the office should be made and that all cases which appeared to be complete should be placed upon what I denominated the "completed flies." As a result of this examination, 30,857 cases were placed upon this list, and the adjudicating divisions were required to spend five days In each week in their examinations. Some days later I issued a further order which provided that claims would be placed upon the "completed files," upon the application of the claimants or their attorneys upon a proper statement of facts showing that the cases were complete.

Since the issuing of that order 23,359 cases have, upon motion, been placed upon the "completed files" in all 56,207. During the past three months of these cases have acted upon, and there now Temains but 3,978 cases on the 'completed files," and applications at the rite, upon an average, of 450 per day are received for placing cases upon these files. These orders also required that one day in each week should be devoted by the adjudicating divisions exclusively to making calls for additional evidence in pending claims. As a result of this arrangement for the transaction of the business of the office, we are nowsendi; out calls in about fifty thousand cases per month, and adjudicating over sixteen thousand cases per month, so that we are actually handling about sixty-six thousand cases per month. During the month just ended, 16,374 pension certificates were issued, being, as I find from the records, the largest month's work ever performed by the bureau.

Of these, 8,183 were original applications. During the past five days 3,540 certificates were issued, of which 2,631 were originals. I take pleasure in informing you that the business of the office is now in such a condition that every claim placed upon the "completed files" will be taken up and acted upon within the week following the day it is so placed upon the files. As the business is now arranged in the office, I will be able, by the last of May, to cause the examination of every claim pending in the office on the first day of January last; have every claim allowed that is completed and calls for evidence made in those not completed. It is proper to state that we have a section in each adjudicating division for issuing orders for medical examination in all pending claims for increase of pension.

These examinations, when made, will fix the date upon which the increase of pension will begin, where parties are entitled to increase, and in a very short time the w.irk of ordering thf-se examinations will dispose of the accumulated business, after which time the orders for examination in new cases will be made from day to day as the cases are filed in the office. Very respectfully, Gbees B. Raum, Commissioner. MURDER BY WHOLESALE. A Rival for the Famous Bender Family- Sentence of Gracian Chleborad, at At-wood, to Fifty Vears Imprisonment for Killing His Brother A Series of Disappearances "ow Thought to Have Been Caused by Murder.

Atwood, April 5. Judge Bertram on Thursday sentenced Gracian Chleborad to fifty years in the penitentiary for murder. Chleborad is about thirty years old, and will probably not live to servo his time out. The crimo of which ho wa3 convicted was poisoning hi3 younger brother Joseph last December. Strange to say, although there was proof positive of strychnine in the dead man's stomach, and every circumstance pointed to Gracian as the murderer, the jury returned a verdict of murder in the second degree, acquitting Mrs.

Chleborad, Gracian's wife, who was indicted with him. The Judge, however, made amends for the jury's action by pronouncing a sentence that virtually amounted to life imprisonment. If the evidence of Chleborad's neighbors is to be believed, the poisoning of Joseph Chleborad was the last of a series of murders that, if investigated, will prove as horrible as the infamous Bender crimes exposed in 1S73. The Chleborads lived on a claim that was originally settled by Mr. Shaw, who mysteriously disappeared.

Evidence indicated that he was murdered for his money and his body thrown into an abandoned well on the "divide" not far from the Shaw dugout. After awhilo the Chleborads, consisting of a man and his wife and three which Gracian was the oldest, took the claim. In the course of time Mrs. Chleborad died mysteriously and her place of burial was never known. Tho event occasioned comment, but the people seemed to be afraid of the Chleborads, and it was never investigated.

It was generally believed, however, that she was murdered and her body thrown into tho well. Later the old man died suddenly, and the neighbors again suspected poisoning. This was followed by a fresh burial in the well. This crime was charged to Gracian Chleborad and his wife, May. A few months later one of the brothers disappeared, and Gracian said that he had gone to Nebraska; but the boy never came back, and it is supposed the well received another victim.

Last December young Robert was poisoned, and the murderer was detected by a party of neighbors, who met Gracian with the body of the boy on his shoulder, making straight for the old well. He was arrested and the murder proved. An effort has been made to have the county commissioners dig out the old well now nearly filled up, when proof of all these horrors is likely to appear. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. A Season of Decided Unrest in the Russian Capital The Czar's Illness and the Mystery Surrounding It The Closing of the Universities and what it May Lead to An to Divert Popular Attention.

London, April 5. The absolute secrecy observed by the authorities at St. Petersburg in regard to tho condition of the Czar has left the way clear for a flood of rumors of the most diversified and, in many cases, the most improbable character. Not only is secrecy maintained in the matter of permitting reports to go abroad, but the same degree of popular ignorance concerning His Majesty prevails in St. Petersburg, where the people are even forbidden to indulge in public speculation on the subject.

It is permitted to be known, however, that intense excitement exists in the Russian capital and that it is on the increase. The closing of the universities has swelled the popular discontent, by the realization that such action has practically ruined the future careers of thousands of young men, who, by the deprivation of the ensuing year's course in the institutions from which they are "debarred, will be com-peled to devote themselves to other pursuits, if, indeed, their enforced leisure does not lead them into dangerous paths. Discontent on this account has spread among hundreds of thousands who would otherwise be content to let things drift along in the old way. As if to divert popular opinion from tho unsettled state of affairs at home, the Novoe Vremya urges that more attention be paid by the government to affairs in Afghanistan and India, and warns the government to beware of British intrigues in the former territory, which it believes are already ir progress. BLOODY DEEDS.

THE SOUTHERN FLOODS. The Situation in the Great Tensas Basin Decidedly Dubious A. Contingency which, Under Existing Conditions, is Likely to be Experienced A Glimpse at Affairs Along the Mississippi Water Everywhere and the Levees Melting Away. Vicksburg, April 3. The situation between Memphis and the mouth of the RedRiver to-day is just this: On the Arkansas and Louisiana side are six crevasses Sappington, Arkansas City, Columbia, Laconia, Luna, and Raleigh, La.

The water below Arkansas City to Luna flows back to the headwaters of Bayou Macon and Boeuff river, but it divides on the point of the Macon hills, in Louisiana, near the Arkansas line, and part flowed down in the rear of East Carroll and Madison parishes to the Tensas river until a few years ago, when the levee system was made complete. The breaks at all these points overflow all plantations in a direct line between the river front where the break occurs and the basin to the rear, but between these breaks there are many places yet dry, so the damage is not universal nor is the flood general. Back of Raleigh, the condition is the same, saye that the flow is increased by additions from the upper breaks, and that the flood spreads over the rear of Madison Parish, now being in a part of one town eighteen miles west of here Tallulah. Here it again collects, and is caried down the Tensas basin by the network of streams, but if the whole basin fills the river and bayou fronts will remain dry. The worst effects are still days, perhaps weeks off, or until the great basin is thoroughly filled.

If this flood passing down the Tensas basin meets a high stage of water at the mouth of Red River the whole volume will back up, and then, indeed, will the real damage be done on that side. The people have had long experience in floods, and don't mind it as much as sensational reports would infer. In Tensas and Concordia parishes, even with the water creeping town, the people are planting crops as usual. On the Mississippi side there are now four breaks Austin, the latest, and Huntington, Offutts and Skipwith. The break at Austin at once filled up Beaver Dam lake, lying between it and the Louisville, New Orleans Nashville railroad, four miles east, and the lake has poured against the road-bed; but as this is a basin or swamp, crossed by a long trestle, the water does not injure the road, but goes through to the Tallahatchie basin, at the head of tho Tallahatchie river.

It will take fifteen days for the basin to be full enough to make the river get out of its banks, so there is no immediate damage to be feared, as this district is sparsely settled. Alone the Mississippi. Memphis, April 3. The levee at Miller's Bend is expected to break at any moment. At Greenville the water is rising in the town and is up to the doors of the Bank of Greenville.

It rained all day yesterday and tho river is still rising. When the break occurred in the protection levee the negroes in the lower part of town became demoralized, but were all ken to places of safety, without the loss of a single life. About 200 were housed in the court-house. Some idea of the flood can be formed from the fact that large steamboats can navigate the overflow up to the town of Concordia, which is four miles from the river bank. Terrene, is so completely submerged that only the chimneys are visible.

Near Henrico, a colored Baptist Church floated away while services were in progress, but the worshipers all got away in skiffs the same way they went, without loss of life. Relief has reached all the sufferers, who are in reach from the river, by this time, but to reach all those back of the river is impossible, except in skiffs, and their condition and the lo3s of life and stock will probably not be ascertained till the waters subside. The river here is 35. 04 and stationary. Heavy local rains fell yesterday, but it is clearing this morning.

The Louisville, New Orleans Texas, and Georgia Pacific railroad bridges over Bayon Phalia were washed away last night, and the mail and telegraph service is interfered with. At Easton, the break in the levee, severe at first, is now tremendous, and a large volume of water is pouring in on the lower lands. At Friars Point, the river is falling, and has already gone down three-fourths of an inch. The levees are intact, but are being closely watched. At Arkansas City, the river is falling; thought to be from breaks in other sid3.

It has been raining for two days. such floods ever recalled. Trains on the Valley road stop at TiUar, nineteen miles away. Mail and express matter is sent over in boats. Laconia, is completely over-flowed.

Only one house is not in the water. A telegram from Areola to Vicksburg, for fifty tents for flood sufferers could not be filled. At Clayton, the Louisville, New Orleans Texas road was washed away last night. At Natchez the guage reads 45 feet 6 inches, and stationary. The rise in the Black and Tensas rivers continues.

At Bayou Sara the river is 38 feet 3 inches. At Memphis, 85 feet and 4 inches, a rise of one-tenth. At Logan Court House, W. Jerry natfield and McCoy Lee met, on the night of the 1st, in a house of ill-re pute3 Both began shooting at once, and natfield was shot dead. Lee escaped to Kentucky.

Lee was an adherent of the McCoy faction in the Hatfield-McCoy vendetta. Colonel Chas. De Armaud, a Russian with a claim against the Government, called General Boynton, the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial -Gazette, a coward, and was immediately thrown through the office door. He returned and apologized for his language, saying that he was now firmly convinced that General Boynton was not a coward. Prince Bismarck announced, on the 3d, that he had decided to frequently express his opinions on public matters through the press.

The Pacific Mail Company's steamer China arrived at Hong Kong from San Francisco on the 31st. Her time was twenty days, including a stop at Yokohama. This reduces the time two days, being the fastest trip on record. The curator of the St. Petersburg University being unable to calm the excitement of the students, the police were, on the 3d, ordered on permanent duty.

Aijkests -continue daily in the university towns throughout Russia. The students express their determination to carry their point, and the authorities are resolved to suppress them. The Pesther Lloyd says that the fact that Emperor William has decided to base his foreign policy on friendly relations with Russia, thereby following the advice of his grandfather, causes anxiety as to the durability of the Driebund. Owing to the attitude of the Bavarian Government on the Old Catholic question the Vatican has become bitterly hostile toward that kingdom. On the 3d Stanley telegraphed: "I accept Emin's action as a proof that he has entirely recovered from the effects of his accident, and wish him bon voyage.

The gospel of enterprise is spreading." A gang of forgers who had been circulating spurious Spanish and Italian bonds were run down and arrested at Trieste, Austria, on the 5th. The face value of the bogus paper they had put into circulation is upwards of 25,000,000 francs. Governor Hill of New York signed the Corrupt Practice bill on the 4th. The Cameron mine, at Shamokin, Pa with its twenty-five miles of galleries, was flooded, on the 4th, the fire having got beyond control. Damage to the amount of $100,000 and the loss of a year's time will result.

The President signed the Urgency Deficiency bill on the 4th. The Savannah Construction Company to build the railroad from Savannah to Columbia, was organized in the latter city on the 4th. Work at the Henry Clay colliery, at Shamokin, which had been idle three months, was resumed on the 7th, giving employment to fifteen hundred men. The fifth annual business meeting oi the American Association for the Ad vancement of Physical Education was held at Cambridge, on the 4th. Dr.

D. A. Sargent, of Cambridge, was elected president, and a number of interesting addresses were delivered. T. V.

Powderlt addressed a large audience at Dover, N. on the Labor question on the 4th. He was enthusiastically received. TnE annual meeting of the American Society of Microscopists, to be held in August, will take place in Buffalo, N. instead of Louisville.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Ik the Senate, on the 5th, a numbei of bills were taken from the calendai and passed, among them one appropriating $500,000 for an additional fireproof building for the National Museum; one prohibiting the importation of adulterated food and drink, and one for an inspection of meats for exportation. After a short executive session, private bills on the calendar were, taken up, and 113 bills were passed in just one hour In the House a number of bills relating to military affairs were passed, among them one amending the Articles of War in reference to courts-martial; authorizing the construction of a hotel on the Government Reservation at Fortress Monroe, and reorganizing the artillery force of the army; after which the House listened to eulogies of the late Representative Newton W. Nutting, of New York, and adjourned as a further mark of respect to the deceased. A barge containing twenty negroes was capsized, on the 4th, in Bayou Fa-lay and seven of its occupants were drowned.

During the month of March 16,374 pension certificates were issued, being the largest month's work ever performed by the Pension Bureau. Of these, 8,183 were original applications. Secretary since the death of Walker Blaine, who was the medium of communication between the public and the Secretary, has lost, in the estimation of many of his warmest friends, much reputation by his secretiveness about affairs of which the public have a right to be informed. The dam of the upper reservoir of the Ithica (N. Water Works Company, holding 20,000,000 gallons of water, during the night of the 5th, and when the water plunged through the cliff-bound chasm below the dam it was a terrific torrent eighty-five feet deep.

No loss of life resulted. Commissioner Raum says that as business is now arranged in the Pension office, he will be able, by the last of May, to cause the examination of every claim pending in the office on the first day of January last; have every claim allowed that is completed and calls 01 evidence made in those not completed. The Hotel West at Greenville Junction, was burned ealryon the morning of the 5th. Mrs. Chandler Woods was slightly injured by jumping, and one man had a leg badly hurt.

A numbei of woodsmen stopping at the hotel lost their winter's wages. A number ol horses, cows and hogs, which Wfre in the stable were killed KANSAS STATE NEWS. Ingalls to Lecture in a Church. Senator Ingalls has a date to lecture In the Methodist Church of Wyandotte after the adjournment of Congress. The Tables Turned.

Stevens County is considerably stirred Up over charges and counter charges of fraud in connection with the aid contributed by the eastern part of the State and Missouri during the winter to the alleged starving people of the West. Tom Shirley, cf Hugoton, who made so successful a solicitor, is now in jail, and will remain there until $400, the costs in a suit recently brought by him against other Hugoton citizens, has been paid. Shirley bad seven Hugotonites arrested on a charge of stealing the richest carload of aid he had secured in the East, but the evidence adduced at the trial seemed to point the necessity for some one to take the aid contributions off Shirley's hands so that others might get some little benefit from the charity, and the case had not proceeded far before the county attorney asked that Shirley be committed until the costs in the suit were settled. Found in a Well. In Denver, Rawlins County, the father and mother of a family named Chle-board disappeared some time ago.

Their bodies were recently found in a well. Governor Green's Sword. For some time previous to the death of ex-Governor Nehemiah Green, the sword worn by him during his services in the Union army had been in the keeping of Manhattan Lodge No. 17, I. O.

O. F. The lodge has now placed the relic in the keeping of the State Historical Society, and have given to be placed with it a costly silver plate containing the following engraved inscription: "Sword carried during the war of the rebelion, 1861-65, by Governor Nehemiah Green, fourth Governor of Kansas, and by him presented to Manhattan Lodge No. 17, I. O.

of O. Manhattan, April 13, 1882. Presented by the lodge to the State Historical Society, February 13, 1890." Kansas Masons. At the annual meeting of the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society of Kansas at Topeka the following directors were elected: E. T.

Carr, Leavenworth; H. N. Coffin, Willis Edson, Dr. L. C.

Washon, T. L. Stringham and L. Kingman, Topeka, and Governor L. U.

Humphrey, Independence. The following officers were elected by the board: President, E. T. Carr; vice-president, L. C.

Watson; secretary, D. W. Nellis; medical director, Dr. S. E.

Sheldon. A resolution was adopted to transfer $6,000 from the permanent fund to the beneficiary fund for the payment of death claims. The total receipts for the year were $68,205.50 and the disbursements were $65,884.09, of which $54,000 was for twenty-seven benefits, the amount paid at death being $2,000. The annual report of the secretary showed that the number of members in the society at the present time was 2,334, there having been 213 deaths since the organization of the society, seventeen years ago. The total amount paid by the society to widows and orphans of Masons in the past seventeen years was $379,109.45.

Samuel Shy Dead. Samuel Shy, who recently achieved considerable notoriety by submitting to Congress a financial scheme advocating the establishment of an institution known as the People's Bank of the United States of North America, with headquarters in Washington, and branch banks in each Congressional district, died at Wichita a few days ago of Bright's disease. The dead financier was seventy-eight years old, and came some years ago from Frankfort, where he filled at different times several Governmental offices. Captain Conch Shot. Captain W.

L. Couch, of boomer fame, who spent the winter in Washington in behalf of Oklahoma legislation, was shot on his claim a few days ago, a martyr to the cause for which he labored so long, though unsuccessfully. He was working on his claim when the shooting began, and was carried to his home near by. His wounds were thought to be fatal. Kansas Crops.

In his crop report for March Secretary Mohler of the Agricultural Department says his reports from 106 counties of the State clearly indicate that the agricultural condition throughout the State on April 1 was, on the whole, satisfactory. The winter was exceedingly mild and favorable to wintering aU kinds of stock, and but for the cold weather and high winds of -March the wheat plant would have passed through to spring rains and spring suns unimpaired. From this cause the plant generally throughout the State has suffered, and in some south and southeastern counties the damage has been serious. In many portions of the State the condition is excelent, and in a general way the farmers of Kansas have reason to be encouraged. The increase in area sown to wheat in the State in the fall of 1889, as compared with that sown the previous year, is estimated at 24 per which gives a total area for the State of 1,925,338 acres, or an excess of 374,391 acres over that of the previous year.

Eleven per cent, is reported winter killed. The general condition of the plant, as compared with the full stand and unimpaired vitality, is 90 per cent. Rock Island Extension. On good authority it is reported thai the Rock Island will this season build its line to Junction City from eithei Manhattan or McFarland. The Union Pacific has a monopoly of the east and west travel through that city, and the Rock Island, tapping almost every other principal city in that section of the State, is anxious to gain a share of the territory.

Sugar-Growers. The Kansas Sugar-Growers' Association held an important meeting a Hutchinson. Papers, relative to tfce. in dustry were Timothy D. Lincoln, a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, died, on the 1st, aged sixty-five years.

The London Telegraph's correspondent at St. Petersburg- says the, Czar was taken suddenly ill on the 1st. "Buloaisia has yielded completely to the demands of Servia and has appointed a new diplomatic agent at Belgrade. The Treasurer of the Canton of Tici-no, Switzerland, was arrested, on the 3d, on the charge of embezzling francs. The commandant of the Brooklyn Yard received orders, on the 3d, to put the United States steamer Enterprise out of commission.

The invitation extended by England to the German Government to delegates to the International Fishery conference has been accepted. The United States Court of Claims, on the that the Government is responsible for the loss sustained by the defalcation of Sergeant-at-Arms Sil-cott. The little city of DeWitt, had a small but genuine cyclone on the 3d. Its path was but a rod or two in width, but several buildings were demolished, others unroofed and sidewalks torn up. The Sultan of Turkey, yielding to the advice of the English Government, has decided to repress the lawlessness of the Kurds in Armenia by establishing strong garrisons throughout that country.

Rev. C. Reimixsxyher, of Lancaster, connected with the American Sunday School Union, died, on the 1st, aged seventy-one years. He was a brother-in-law of ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman.

The war on President Corbin of the Reading railroad was amicably ended, on the '2d, Mr. Corbin consenting to the request of the discontented shareholders for a representation in the board of managers. Seventy-five weavers employed by the Bridgeport (Conn.) Elastic "Web Comyjany who struck several weeks ago on account of the firm employing nonunion men returned to the 31st, at the old rates. A max, supposed to be Frank Schmidt, of Spokane Falls, was found dead in the closet of a car on the Wisconsin Central at Waukesha, on the 2d. He had hanged himself with a pocket handkerchief.

Stephen C. Rowan, U. S. N. (retired), died in Washington, on the 31st, of Bright's disease, aged eighty-five.

He had been ill nearly all winter, but not seriously, and his death was quite unexpected. The Servian diplomatic agent at Sofia has been recalled and took his depart-nte for Belgrade on the 3d. A serious rupture between Bulgaria and Servia, owing to the machinations of Russian emissaries, is imminent. The big bench show of the New England Kennel Club at Boston, was opened on the 1st. Most of the 730 entries were in their kennels ready for the judgment of the judges.

There was a large attendance of visitors. The Republican city convention oi Dubuque, on the 4th, indorsed the Democratic nominees and adopted a resolution in favor of repealing the present Prohibitory law and the adoption of a judicious license law. Jake Gaxjdatjr won the three-mile and one-mile races at St. Augustine, on the 2d. Ilamm was second and Ten Eyck third in the first-named event, and Hosmer was second in the one-mile race.

The water was very rough. The bill to prevent the enlistment in the navy of unnaturalized aliens was, on the 4th, ordered to be favorably reported by the House naval committee with an amendment providing that the act shall go into effect January 1, 1891. The London Times reproaches Emin Pasha for his ingratitude, pointing out that after British money and British enterprise have extricated him from an untenable position in Africa he is assisting Germany in an anti-British movement. The Vatican forwarded instructions, on the 3d, to the Papal Nuncio at Berlin and to Dr. Kopp, Bishop of Bres-lau, to act in accord with the Center party in the Reichstag, and to yield nothing to the government without compensating measures.

A Noktiierx society is being formed at Atlanta, for social purposes and to aid in spreading correct ideas in the North as to the state of industrial and social affairs in the South. About one hundred Northern-born citizens attended the preliminary meeting on the 4th. Circulars issued in Zanzibar, on the 3d, by Emin Pasha, accuse the British Consul of having falsely described Mm as the plaintiff in the civil action against Tippo Tib, and declares that the real plaintiff in the case is Stanley. It is thought that politicians are using Emin to further their own ends. The National convention of colored men in session in Washington, on the 4th perfected a permanent organization by the election of Rev.

J. C. Price, of North Carolina, as president, and W. C. Chase, of Washington, secretary.

A list of honorary vice-presidents, ono from each State represented in the convention, was alo selected. Of one hundred students of the University of Moscow who have been arrested, fifteen will be arraigned as political revolutionists, forty-two will be expeled from the university and the others will be subjected to minor punishments. The acts of alj are regarded revolutionary, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS lx the Senate, on the 31st (meeting under the new rule at 11 a. the principal business transacted was the passage of the Dependent Tension bill by a vote of 42 to 12. The Montana contested-election case was made the unfinished business, and the Senate went into executive session In the House a large number of local or special bills and resolutions were passed, and the House went into committee of the whole on the Army Appropriation bill, which was afterward reported to the House and passed.

Mr. Springer (111.) introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to retire General N. P. Bank with the rank of Major-General, which was referred. In the Senate, on the 1st, the House bill authorizing the Mississipi River Commission to purchase or hire such boats as may be immediately necessary to rescue inhabitants of the overflowed districts, and to use the boats for that purpose, was passed, after which the Senate went into executive session In the House a large number of Senate and House bills and resolutions were passed and the House went into committee of the whole on the Fortifications Appropriation bill, which was passed without division.

The bill appropriating $292,000 for improving the Zoological Park in the District of Columbia was passed with an amendment providing that the District shall bear half the expense. IK the Senate, on the 2d, a substitute for the Anti-Trust bill was reported back from committee and discussed. The conference report on the Urgent Deficiency bill wa presented and agreed to, and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the Montana election case. It was agreed that on and after the 7th the daily sessions of the Senate should begin at noon In the fouse a number of bridge bills were passed also a bill amending the act to aid vessels wrecked or disabled in vfaters coterminous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada. The House then proceeded to the consideration of the Idaho Admission bill.

IN the Senate', on the 3d, after the transaction of routine business the Montana election case was taken up, and Mr. Gray finished his argument in support of Clark and Muginnis.tiie Democratic claimants. The matter then went over In the House Senate bill concerning the fnr-saal interests was passed, and the Senate concurrent resolution requesting the President to invite arbitration with foreign governments to settle disputes or differences which can not be settled by diplomacy, was agreed to. The Idaho Admission bill was then taken up, discussed and passed: Yeas, 129; nays, 1. The Democrats refused to vote and the.

Speaker counted a quorum. The Senate was not in session on the 4th. In the House, after the consideration and passage of five private pension bills, pending from a previous night session, the body went into-committee of the whole on the private calendar. The bill for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies used by the United States army, under the provisions of the Bowman act, was discussed at length, mainly on points of order, but pending action the committee rose and the Ho use took recess until eight o'clock. At the night session thirty privat pension bills were passed.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The Democrats and their Catholic allies made a clean sweep in the Milwaukee (Wis.) municipal election, on the 1st, the chief issue in the contest being the repeal of the Bennett Compulsory Education bill, which the Demo-cracts and Catholics favored and the Republicans and Protestants opposed. It is rumored in the City of Mexico that Mr. Gould will establish a steamship line from the United States to Mexico and Central South American ports. The East Tennessee, Virginia Georgia Railroad Company has contracted for the purchase of the Erlanger system, comprising about twelve hundred miles of road for $5,500,000, the idea being to make a leading north-and-south line between Cincinnati and Jacksonville, Mobile, New Orleans and Memphis.

The parliamentary election in Windsor, England, on the 2d, resulted in a Conservative victory by an unexpe cted-ly large majority. Mr. Barry (Conservative), received votes, to 973 cast for Mr. Grenfell (Gladstonian). The dead victims of the Louisville horror, up to the 1st, numbered ninety-three, besides 150 badly wounded persons, some of whom will die.

Furnace No. 3 of the De Bardeleben Coal and Iron Company, at Bessemer, was blown in, on the 2d, with elaborate ceremonies. The University of St. Petersburg was closed, on the 2d, and two hundred students were refused almission. The Technological College was also closed, and three hundred students were refused admission.

The action of the authorities in closing the institutions named is due to the discovery of a conspiracy among the students. The freedom of the city of Augsburg was conferred upon Prince Bismarck on the 2d. The Danish Parliament was prorogued by the King on the 1st. In the absence of a budget he empowered the government to levy existing taxes in order to provide funds for the expenses of the gov ernment. It is estimated that the proposed new tariff bill makes a total annual reduction in the revenues of about The proposed feature of a grand review of the navies cf the world in New York harbor in October, 1892, now pending in the Senate as an amendment to the World's Fair bill, is heartily commended by Admiral Porter.

Samuel Lewis, of Antwerp, boarded the east-bound Wabash passenger train to steal a ride. On the morning of the 2d his dead body was found by section men near Paulding, O. He was a bar-tender and unmarried. A large sum of money was found on the body. It is understood that Attorney-General Miller will take an appeal from the decision of the Court of Claims, which makes the Government responsible to the members of Congress for their loss of salary through the Silcott defalcation.

On the 2d, at the de Gabolda collection sale in the American Art Galleries in New York City, a jewel casket presented to Christopher Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain was sold for $1,125. A sword of the Renaissance period with wire grip, double basket hilt, once part of the Baron Adoph Rothschild collection, brought $100. Diplomatic relations between Servia and Bulgaria hay been entirely broken pa, THE CATFISH POINT CREVASSE. Thirteen Hundred Feet Wide at Last Accounts Sad Condition of Affairs in the Sunflower Lowlands Three Women Drowned while Fleeing Before the Flood. Greenville, April 6.

The crevasse at Catfish Point was 1,300 feet wide and increasing at last reports. The water from there reached Greenville yesterday morning, and is flooding the first floors of buildings Parties arriving here by skiff from Greenwood report a sad condition of affairs in the Sunflower lowlands. Plantations are submerged and buildings are being washed away into the swamps. The colored people are huddled upon the levees, hungry, cold and shelterless. Many are likely to die of exposure if aid is not received.

Tents, food and clothing are greatly needed. The Government boats are doing what they can, but they can not cover the entire field. Friday while a colored man with three women, in a skiff, fleeing from the approaching flood in the Bogue country on tho Georgia Pacific railroad, the skiff commenced to leak, and before any assistance could be rendered them, the whole party went down. The man had a narrow escape, but the three women were drowned. OVER THE FALLS.

William A. Welch, a Farm Foreman, Supposed to Have Been Carried Over the Falls of Xiagara. Niagara Falls, N. April 6. Wm.

A. Welch, who has for several years held the position of foreman on H. C. Howard's farm near LaSalle, is missing, and there seems but little doubt that he was carried over the falls. On the vening of March 27 he was seen by his step-son to go out into the river opposite Mr.

Howard's residence to set a night line. A search along the river began Friday. An oar with the name of the missing man was picked up below the Falls, and a short time afterward a portion of a boat which proved to be a part of the side of the boat belonging to Howard, was caught, which makes it almost certain that Welch was carried over the precipice. Welch was about forty years old, and leaves a widow and step-son. The Maryland Treasury Steal.

Baltimore, April 7. The Legislative committee authorized to investigate the accounts of State Treasurer Archer commenced its work in this city Saturday. A number of bank presidents and cashiers and stock brokers, with or through whom Archer disposed of the State's securities, were examined. One witness, C. C.

Shriver, president of the Metropolitan Savings Bank, swore positively that the first transaction (6,000) wTas made with Archer in the Safe-deposit building, wherein the State securities were kept in a vault, and that the State Treasurer handed him the bonds there as collateral. The amount of the defalcation is now known to be at least 192,700. The Strike is On. Chicago, April 7. The Carpenters Council declared, Saturday night at twelve o'clock, that the strike was on ot would be this morning.

About seventy five delegates were present representing over six thousand men. Until twelve o'clock the council was prepared to receive any committee from the Master Carpenters' Association with a view to arbitration, but no committee appeared. The object of the strike is to make forty cents an hour the minimum wages; to secure an eight-hour york-day, and to bring about a recogni iion of tho council Iroxn tfee Several Murders in Rowan County, Ky. Follow a Raid of Revenue Officers 01 Illicit Stills Informers, or Those Sus pected of Being Such, Shown Mercy. Flemingsburg, April 5.

Lawlessness and violence have again made their appearance in Rowan County, growing out of the manufacture and sale of illicit whisky. The United States revenue men made a sweep a week ago, destroying various stills, and things are being made decidedly uncomfortable for the people who are thought to have given the Government information. Eph. Cooper was shot from ambush Thursday, and Bart Baumgartner and Tim Cooper were also killed in a fight. George Hogg, son of the "sheriff, was shot yesterday morning.

Hiram Roberts was bushwhacked Thursday and mortally wounded. Nelson Egan was called to his door Tuesday and received a bullet in the brain. It is all a mere question of whisky or no whisky, and there is no telling whero the bloodshed will end. Fatal Result of a Boys Quarrel. Jeffersonvtlle, April 5.

John Aldridge, aged sixteen, and Wm. Gleason, aged seventeen, car works employes, had a boyish quarrel at noon yesterday resulting in Gley li being struck on the head with a "Uhoe" casting in the hands of Aldridge. Gleason died thirty minutes after he was struck. Aldridge was arrested, but declines to make a statement. He is a brother of Miss Bettie Aldridge, who died in th-i arms of George akel, her lover, some months since.

It is said that the killing of Gleason was wanton and linpro. roked, Jake Gaudaur A grain a Winner. St. Augustine, April 3. Jake Gaudaur wqn the three miles and the mile races here yesterday afternoon.

Ilamm was second and Ten Eyck third in the first-named event, and Hosmer was second in the mile. The water was very rough. Papal Approval and Bleating. Quebec, April 3. A cablegram has been received by Cardinal Tasche-reau from the Pope approving of and blessing the free night schools whiclt were inaugurated this winter in Mon.

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