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816? 4 CIIAS.H. KURTZ. NEWTON, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APKIL 19, 1892. N0f 720. i.

ounces over the prior year. The In YESTERDAY'S BALL CAME8. THE RACE IS RUN. NATIONAL CAPITAL BLOODSHED FEARED. AFTER A SUBSIDIZED LINE.

The Brazilian Steamship Company Accused of Unjust Discriminations. Washington, April la. In the senate vesterdav Mr. Vest Dresented resoln. i it iJ ij ADDITI0NALL0CAL.

Itest. How differently men and women indulge themselves iu what Is called a resting spell! "I guess I'll sit down and mend these stockings, and rest awhile," says the wife, but herhus-baud throws himself upon the easy lounge, or sits back in his arm-chair, with hands at rest and feet placed hor izontally upon an other chair. The result ia, that his whole body gains full benefit of the half hour he allows himself from work, and the wife only receives that indirect help which comes from change of occupation. A physician would tell her that tak ing even ten minutes' rest In a hori zontal position, as a change from sitting or standing at work, would prov more benilicial to her than any of her makeshifts at resting. Busy women have a habit of keeping on their feet as long as they can in spite of backaches and warning pains.

As they grow older they see the folly of permitting Euch drafts upon their strength, and learn to take things easier, let what will happen. They say, 'I used to think I must do thus and so, but I've grown wiser, and learned to slight things." The first five years of housekeeping are truly the hardest, for untried and unfamiliar cares are almost daily thrust upon the mother and home-maker. Domestic Monthly. Proposals lor Hospital Site. A plot of ground of from three to five acres, situated within five or six blocks of the center of Newton, is wanted as a site for Bailroad Hosoi tal, and proposals are invited, stating price and amount of ground.

Persons having a suitable site for sale will pleeas submit proposals in writing. Address, lock uox jl, Newton lias. A Farm For ourteen Dollars. Land office fees for 160 acres in Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations (soon to be opened) are tl4. You pay $1.50 per acre additional; one half iu two years, and remainder in five years This is under homestead act.

Sant Fe Route is the only railroad reaching all parts of the new country. Our Panhandle line touches northwest corner, and is nearest of any to western half of reservation. Buy tickets to Kiowa, Woodward, Hijgins or Can adian. via A. T.

S. F. Good wagon roads from above points to counties D. E. F.

and G. Oklakoma Citv on A. S. F. Texas lines has been designated by U.

8. land commissioner as the land office for southern half of Cheyenne Art- pano reservation Two daily trains over A. T. 8. F.

to Oklahoma City, and thence by rail to eastern border. Don't be deceived by the claims of inferior lines that only reach one side of the new lands. Local agent of the Santa Fe route will be glad to give you a copy of Oklahoma folder, and furnish full information relative to cost of tickets, route to take, etc. OLD ENGLISH NAMES. They StiU Cling Though Their Meaalag Is Well Nigh Lost.

The Rev. Brooks Herford, writing of "An Old English Township" in the Atlantio Monthly, says of old names in the England of to-day: One of the interests of England, to those who care to look below the surface, is in the associations of ancient life and times which cling about It everywhere. The very names of places and streets are often full of history. You come upon "Lazarus Lane." Now it may be only a plain little street of long rows of cheap brick' dwellings, but that name tells of a time, long centuries ago, when somewhere in the neighborhood stood the lazar bouse, or leper house, where the lepers of the little town were herded together, away from the other dwellings. Or here is a etreet called the "Friary, ''or "Black- friars, "or some other kind of "Irian" Gray, White, or what not; mere shops and houses now, but If you should search about in the old yards and entries it 1 likely enough that here and there you would come upon some patch of dark stone walling, grimy with age, perhaps a fragment of an old arch that long ago belonged to the monastery which surely stood there.

You have, indeed, to be upon your guard against mistakes in such local etymology, arising from the original name having been corrupted into something similar, and yet perhaps entirely different in meaning. Thus the. Deansgate" which you find la various north of England towns doe not recall an old city gate by which the dean used to enter, or. as some would have it, by wnicn tie Danes made their attack. -Hate, in the north of England, is simply way," and "deans" should properly be denes:" the way along some eld dene" or "den" some deep valley or ravine which may be entirely filled up now, but which surely was once there.

Perhaps the best illustration of such growth of false meaning on to aa old name is one that I came across when I was busy over the revision of -Balnear History of Lancashire. I wanted to know whether there were any traces left of the old Roman road which once ran near to Wlgaa. Having written to a friend resident there make inquiry, I received the as tounding Information that there cer tainly was one most Interesting trace the Roman occupation, Uaamuoh as a certain highway waa still called, and had been from time Immemorial Seneca Lane, no doubt ia memory the celebrated philosopher. This too much, however; but It was only after a good deal of Uqulry that found the real explanation, which turned out to be that this was aa oil way to a certain 'vereo acre' e'en-acro" field. I creased silver product was due princi pally to new finds in Colorado and Idaho and to the cheapening of the processes of smelting lead and copper ores bearing silver.

Tim total amount of rumor and me tallic money in circulation on January 1, 1802, exclusive of the amount in the treasury and its branches, was $3,592, 393,029, against 81,528, 594,027 on January 1, 18U1, an increase of $63,799,003, The amount of paper and metallio money in actual circulation on April 1, 1892, was $1,508,641,520. The product of gold and silver in the world for the calendar year 1891 was $124,229,000 gold and $139,175,000 silver. The product of gold increased in 1891 ovr pi'un; yenr jiearly $5,000,000, the increase being principally in South America. the product oi silver in creased in 1891 over the prior year about 8,000,000 fine ounces. The increase in the silver product was principally in the United States, Australia and JSohvia.

Fight Over the Chinese Mil. Washington, April 19. The Tacifio coast senators are making ready for a bitter struggle when the Chinese re striction bill comes before the senate to-day. will endeavor to have the senate adopt the bill as it came from the house in stead of the senate committee sub stitute, but to do this they must overcome the scruples of a large number of senators, many of them Democrats, who are at present inclined to the be lief that the house bill is unconstitutional and repugnant to the funda mental principles of the republic. Rumor About Gorman.

Washington', April 19. It is being talked on every hand that Senator Gor man is about to sever 1: connection with the national Democratic commit tee and resign his seat as the delegate from Maryland so that he may actively enter the race for president. A Bitter Fight Is Pending. Washington, April 19. The Rock-well-Noyes contest case comes up to day and the house is on the border of a bitter fight.

Neither side is disposed to yield an inch or give quarter or re ceive it. Washington Notes. Secretary Tracy is confined to his home with bronchial trouble. Mrs. Harrison is reported to be bet ter.

Chief Engineer X. B. Clark (retired) died at his residence yesterday morning. He was the inventor of the deflective armor now used on war ships of all nations. The house committee on military affairs does not feel that the charges preferred against Captain John G.

Bourke as a result of the Garza cam paign are worthy of investigation at ts Hands. The senate passed a bill granting to California 5 per cent of the net profits of cash sales of public lands in the state. The amount is $700,000. A bill was reported to the senate ap propriating $50,000 for a public build ing at 1-ort Madison, la. MRS.

ALDERMAN DIVORCED Decree Qulotly Entered by Crozler at Leavenworth. Judge Leavenworth, April 19. This city was not a little surprised yester day afternoon by the news that Judge Crozier had granted to Mrs. Anna Dorris Halderman a decree of divorce from General John A. Halderman The court room was almost deserted and the case was not expected to come up.

Several months ago General Halder man was sued by his wife for divorce, Grave allegations were made in the petition. The case was to have come up several weeks since in Judge Crozier's court in this city and General Halderman came here from Washing ton, where of late years he has made his home, to fight the suit to the end. His instructions to his attorneys were to make no defense to the allega tion of abandonment, but to fight all others, lo the surprise of every body the case was dismissed, and it was understood that it had been com promised. Thus yesterday's denoue ment was totally unexpected. The suit was renewed yesterday morning by a nutuai agreement and the case heard privately in chambers.

BOB FORD BANISHED. He Is Driven Out of Jimtown, the Law Abiding Cltisens. Jimtown, April 19. Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James, and Jack Palmer, who has been very intimate with Ford, were driven from Jimtown yesterday and instructed not to return if they cared for their lives. Ford and Palmer at once left for Denver.

Sunday night the two men created a panic and endan gered the lives of many citizens by walking up and down the streets fir ing their revolvers indiscriminately. The policemen were afraid to arrest them and this morning the business men took the matter in their own bands with the above results. Am Inhnman Mother. Mount noi.LY,N.J., April 19. Louisa Chockley, a colored woman, aged 45, was committed to jail here yesterday charged with the murder of her 9-year-old daughter, Hattie.

The murder was committed at the home of Mrs. Chockley, near Marlton, in the presence ner two other children, who were powerless to prevent the commission of the crime. The girl committed some trifling offense and the mother placed her in a chair, put a rope around her neck and tied one end to the stove, after which she pulled on the other end. of the rope until she had strangled the child to death. Brewer-Karrtck.

WASHiseTos, April 19. Miss Henrietta Louise Brewer, daughter of Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court, and Mr. James Lawson Karrick of Boston were married last night in St. John's church. Dr.

Dong-las performing the ceremony. Preside Dsaa Reaosalnated. Cjtt or Mexico, April 19. At the third session of the convention of the Liberal party which assembled In ths hall of deDnties at 8:10 o'clock last night, President Dies was unanimously I nominated candidate for re-eleetir is Six a in National League Games. AT PHILADELPHIA.

HUNS. HITS. ERRORS. Philadelphia 4 15 8 Brooklyn 11 It 0 Batteries Espcr and Clements: Foutx and Daily. All the other National league games were postponed on account of rain.

National League Standing. PCI WTTTfi New York 2 HO) 1 2 Cincinnati 2 403 Hoston 2 1 1010 Pittsburg 1 CleTslsnd 13 .181 Hrooklyu 1 .790 Chionicn 2 1 Louisville 1 Kt. Liouu 1 .250 Raltimore OS .000 0 2 .000 No Western Games. Rain prevented all the games sched uled yesterday by the Western league. Western League- Standing, WTTPTv Colnmbns 2 0 1000 Milwaukee 1 0 11)00 Kansas City 1 1 Omaha 1 1 DO 1 .900 it.

I'nul 1 1 Toledo 0 2 .000 ..0 1 .000 MR. EVARTS GOING BLIND. The Distinguished New Yorker's Eyesight Slowly But Surely Falling. new York, April 19. Ex-Senator William M.

Evarts is threatened with blindness, was the tenor of the state ment made at his home to-day by his son, bherman lvarts. "Mv father's eveslcht, said Shav. man Evarts, "is certainly failing, and he has been told by occulists that in time he may be totally blind." SEVEN MEN KILLED, Terrible Disaster in a Now Jersey Pow der Factory. -1 I MousT Arlington, N. April 19.

ahe works of the American Forcite I powder company on the shores of Lake Hopatcong, a mile below here, blew no at 3 o'clock yesterday and seven men were blown to atoms. What caused the explosion is a mystery. Five buildings were shattered. Commissioner BIcBrlde Too Hasty. St.

Paul, April 18. Insurance Commissioner Smith has not received any response to his telegram to Com missioner McBride of Kansas, protest ing against the revoking of the license of the St. Paul German accident insur ance company in that state. This latter company is perfectly sound and is in dependent of the fire insurance com pany. A Kansas Hoy Shoots Himself.

Topeka, April 18. Jobnny Baker, the 13-year-old son of a farmer living five miles southeast of here, took his father's revolver yesterday morning to shoot some ducks. The re volver was accidentally discharged and- the bullet passed through the boy ab domen. Attending physicians say the wound is fatal. Gallagher Didn't Get There.

San Francisco, April 19. The finish hght between lightweights Billy uatlagher and Ueorge Dawson took place last nisrht at the California athletic club, and was won by Dawson in the forty-second round. The fight was one of the hardest and gamest ever lought beiore the club. Woodruff Hot Guilty. Little Rock, April 19.

The jury in the case of William E. Wood ruff, ex-state treasurer, charged with embezzling state funds and converting them to his own use, returned a verdict of not guilty. This was the second trial, the jury in the first trial stand ing 6 to 6. New OfHclals In Charge. Kansas Citv, April 18.

At 13 o'clock to-day Mayor Holmes and. the old city officials stepped down and out and Mayor-tlect Cowherd and the newly elected officers took the oath of ottice. THE MARKETS. Kansas City. Sales on 'change by sample on the basis of the Mississippi river: No.

3 hard wheat 2 cars choice 76c, 4 cars 75c, 1 car 75Xc, 1 car 74c, No. 4 hard wheat 1 car choice 72o, 1 car 72c, 4 cars 70c, 1 car 69KC, 3 cars 69c, 1 car 8c, 1 8 cars 68c, 1 car 67c, rejected, hard wheat, 3 cars 65c, 1 car 64c, No. 3 hard wheat, poor, 1 car 83c, No. 4 winter wheat 1 car 76c, 1 car 75c. The cash corn market also was a little weaker here despite the strength in the speculative market.

Offerings on 'change were larger. Shippers were doing little, prices being two high for them. Local buyers paid 35c for No. 2 mixed corn, with fc ofT for No. 3.

Chicago Closing Cash Prices. Chicago, April 18. Wheat No. 8 spring, No. 2 red, 86c.

Corn No. 8 cash, 40c: No. 2 yellow, 4040kc; No. 8 new, 89ffl39tfc: No. 3 yellow, new, 40Jib.

Oats- No. 2 cash, 28H'g Timothy Seed Cash, Mess Pork Cash, new, J9.87K- Lard-Cash, new, Short Ribs Cash, 5.63. et. Louis. St.

Locis, April 18. Wheat Re ceipts, 42,496 bu; shipments, bu: re ceipts of corn, 63,700 bu; shipments, 285 bu; oats receipts, 46,000 bu; shipments 7,531 bu. Closing prices: Wheat Cash, 84c; May, 83Vc; July, 790. Corn- Cash, 36c: May, 88Vc; Oats Cash, 30c; May, 39c bid. Flax, Rye and Barley.

Chicago, April 18. Closing prices: Rye Cash, 75c; May, 75c; Flaxseed No. 1, cash, 97Xc; May, 97c Barley, 55(g56o. St. Locis, April 18.

Rye, 77c ssked. Flaxseed 95a Castor Beans $1.50. LIVE Kan STOCK. is City. Kansas Citt, April 18.

Cattle Receipts since Saturday, calves, 26; shipped Saturday, 1,603. The market for steers was strong snd for cows steady. Dressed beef and shipping steers, 14.20(9 4.25; cows and heifers.f3.2i)(9-1.55; stackers and feeders, mixed, 3.57. Hogs Receipts stnos Saturday, shipped since Saturday, 8.845. The market was fairly active and 5(3 10c lower.

Sheep Receipts since Saturday 484; shipped Saturday, 478. Sheepirere in de mand, active and strong. The following arc the representative sales: No. Wt Price. No.

W-. Prie. 874 78 5 55 89 5 75 St. Lenta. St.

Locis, April 18. Cattle Re ceipts, 2,000. Market lOe higher. Hoirs Receipts. Msrket 10c lower; fair Ve choice heaTT, 14.5034.70; mixed, 84.35a 4.55; Yorkers, 14 5CX34.60.

Sheep Re ceipts, 800. steady. a to of of I I tlons'of the chamber of ncmmre St. Louis protesting against the action of the Braziliun Steamship company in refusing to unload coffee imported to this country from Brazil at Newport News. He asked that the resolutions be referred to the committee on and in doing so said that the Brazilian was one of the subsidized lines, under an act of congress.

The company hod excused itself because the merchants of New York had protested against the unloading of cargoes! of coffee at Newport News. This was an uniust dis- crimirittftftm" against vhe Western and Southern cities. The increased freight rates resulting from this was a considerable item to the people of the West and South. Senator Coekrell presented a set of resolutions from the wholesale grocers' association of St. Louis and Kansas City relating to the same subject.

senator Daniel of Virginia served notice that he would submit resolutions on the same subject to-morrow and would also make remarks upon the subject. No Swamp Land Adjustment Now. Washington, April 18. The attend ance of members in the house was small owing to the storm. Mr.

MeRae from the committee on public lands, moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill to adjust the swamp land grants and to fix limitations for filing claims thereunder. He explained that Its main purpose was to quiet the titles of settlers. After debate by Messrs. Kilgore of Texas, Oates of Alabama, Terry of Arkansas, Halman and Mc Millin, the motion to suspend the rules was defeated, 113 to 77. The house then went into committee of the whole, Mr.

Shively of Indiana in the chair, on the naval appropria tion bill. Mr. Boutell's amendment, for the construction of two additional battle ships and torpedo boats, was rejected, 65 to 102, ten Democrats voting in the affirmative and no Republicans in the negative. Mr. Cummings of New York offered an amendment for the construction of one battleship and five torpedo boats.

Lost, 73 to 99. Mr. Uoutelle oi ottered an amendment for the construction of two steel gunboats at a cost of $500,000 each and ten torpedo boats at 8120,000 each. Lost, 58 to 104. Mr.

Cummings then came forward with another amendment for the construction of four torpedo cruisers at 8500,000 each; two light draught gun boats $350,000 each and two first-class torpedo boats at 8120,000 each, but it met with a similar fate. The motion then recurring on Mr. Holman's mo tion to strike out the provision for the construction of one new cruiser was defeated, 58 to 120. i Mr. Holman moved to strike out the provision for the new cruiser and to substitute therefor a provision for four torpedo boats.

This motion was greeted by a remark by Mr. Boutclle that it would save time to make four row boats, while Mr. O'Neil of Missouri thought that rafts would be preferable. The motion was lost, 45 to 103. The committee then arose and Mr.

Boutelle moved to recommend the bill with instructions to the committee on naval affairs to report it back with a clause incorporated in his original amendment for the construction of two battleships at 84,000,000 each 'and ten torpedo boats at 8120,000 each. The motion was defeated yeas 61, nays 134. Young Demands Open Charges. Washington, April 18. James Kan-kin Young, lately executive clerk of the senate has addressed a latter to Vice President Morton in relation to the action of the senate in declaring his office vacant for the alleged betrayal of executive session secrets.

He calls upon his accusers to come out from behind the closed doors of the senate and make the charges against him openly. Missouri Delegates. Jkffekson City, April 19. Governor Francis has appointed the following delegates to represent Missouri at the Nineteenth national conference of Charities and Correction to be held at Denver, June 23-30, 1892: R. M.

Scruggs, Louis Fusz, Mrs. C. C. Rainwater, Miss Mary E. Perry, Mrs.

Edward C. Sterling, D. R.Wolfe, Frank R. O'Neil, all of St. Louis, and Hon.

John Doniphan, of St- Joseph; Hon. William M. Paxton, Platte City, Hon. William Williams, Boonville, Mo. The governor also appointed delegates to the deep water harbor convention, to be held at Mississippi City, on Tuesday, May 31, 1892, as follows: E.

F. Williams, James H. Allen, Jerome Hill, John Meeks, all of St- Louis. Trainmen In Council. St.

Joseph, April :8. The dele gates of the Rock Island conductors and the trainmen's orders held two secret sessions yesterday morning, but refused to tell the result of their deliberations. One delegate stated, however, that of late the Rock Island had not lived np to the old schedule. If it did not live np to a new one being prepared 'there would be a general strike. Rrhool Teachers strike.

Fort Dodge, April IS One of the most unique strikes ever inaug urated is in progress here. On account the small salaries received, the school teachers have nearly all ceased instruct and many have left town attracted by higher salaries, while nearly all those who remain refuse to teach nntil their salaries are raised. A Boy Drowsteel at Warnege Wameso, April Is. Yesterday afternoon John Reynolds, aged 18, and younger companion, were capsized in a sail-boat on the Kansas river. Both boys were good swimmers and when halfway to the shore Reynolds was taken with a cramp and sank.

His companion reach the shore In safety. Twenty persons watched their -struggles, bat could lend do assistance. There are five full-fledged state tickets in Louisiana to be voted for to-dsy: Democratic, two Republican, and one of the People's party. The lottery question is responsible foe aumeroii tickets. THE GREATEST FREE-FOREVER WITNESSED.

ALL THE NEW INDIAN LANDS OPENED. One Hundred Thousand People Witness the Mad Scramble for Fertile Farms and Cholue Corner Lots Guthrie, Oklahoma City and Other Places Deserted. Scenes and Incidents. El Rkno, April 19. At exactly noon to-day the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indian lands were opened up to settlement.

All the energy that has been gathering all around the lines of the lands broke loose at once, and the great race for homes was fairly on. The rush southward for entrance to county II continues and grows fast. A very steady stream of wagons began going in that direction Saturday and Sunday and the county fever is spreading fast. From Minco to the east line of county the distance is thirty-six miles across the Wichita country, which is open to pilgrims. The country is level, with few big streams to ford, and traveling is easy.

The county seat site of Rossmore, is only fifteen miles from the line and lots there will fill up as fast as those in Watona, up in county C. Indians are thick about El Reno. The Darlington agency is near by and the red skins trade much in El Reno. All the shop windows are full of In dian moccasins, bows, shields and the like. Some of these bear Chicago trade marks and all of them are marked with fancy prices.

home of the Indians are hiring them selves as guides to newcomers anxioua to find claims. They guarantee to land the seeker on his selected quarter-section from $10 up. Other Indians are lust waiting waiting for the wild-eyed white man to settle upon some of their alloted lands. Then, after the ignorant settler has built a house, bored a well and put up a few fences, Mr. Indian will appear and claim his own.

And the paleface will have to decamp. At Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Citv, April 19. This day at least 2,000 people of all creeds and classes and in every condition of life left this place for the border of the new country. The 5,000 remaining left this morning at 6 o'clock.

The city is depopulated of its male popu-lation and business is virtually suspended. The route from here to the border is lined with people, some going slow, others going at full speed. Here and there a broken wagon, a dead horse; some one sick or talking with some person with a map and pen, ink and paper, who knows all about it. Then next you meet freight teams with groceries, meat, lumber, agricultural implements, hardware, general outfitting supplies and ice and water wagons, in short everything just ready for city and countr life. Mingled with all this you can see the light fingered gentry with large diamond stud and lamb like Innocence teaching the young idea the ways that are daak and tricks that are vain.

The Indians are flocking to the city from their old reservations excited and for the first time in their lives conscious of the fact that there are more whites than They are bewailing their condition as they never realized what it would mean to confine them selves to a particular quarter section of land. It is rumored that two confidence men who had succeeded in robbing boomer were shot dead somewhere out on the route to the new country. At Kingfisher. Kingfisher, April 19. High noon to-day witnessed the grandest rush for land that the world has ever seen.

The mad rush that was made when Oklahoma was first opened to settle ment, April 22, 1889 will pale into in significance when compared to the grand race to-day. An oflicer who has lust completed the circuit of the Cheyenne and Arap ahoe country.informs your correspond ent that a conservative estimate of the people who entered the country will surely be not less than 100,000 people. Hundreds of temporary houses were constructed and placed on agons all ready to move over ths isn on a mo ment notice. Along tne line could be seen thousands of stakes on which written a notice like the follow ing: NOTICK! This Lot Taken By Sam Jones. No Trespassing Allowed.

These notices were nailed upon sharp pointed stakes, which could be easily and firmly placed in the ground in a second of time and were the initiatory step which thousands took in order to obtain a homestead or lot in the promised land. Guthrie Deserted. Gcthrik, April 19. At least 500 persons left this city within the past two or three davs for Kingfisher, in order to witness the opening and the city is deserted. Nine Otoe Indians were brought to this city yesterday on the charge of having whisky in their possession.

CRUSHED TO DEATH. Children aad Twe Woasea KUIe la Crowe! Kear Leade. 'LONDON, April 19. A terrible catas trophe took place at II amps ted lat evening by which two women and six children were killed and thirteen other persons were injured, flanjp- ted, which is a favorite resort about fonr miles from London, was visited by thousands of excursionists mod as the day closed there waa a great rush to eaten the trains to return home. In the crash somebody fell at the foot of staircase of the railway station and a moment the hundreds of persons ebovs were thrown into a besp of humanity.

of to a ih DOINGS OF THE LAWMAKERS AT WASHINGTON. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE The New ISulirlnir Sen Modus Vivendi Ilrml in the Semite Gohl mill tiilrer Still Ixth'n From the IHrertor of the. Mint The Chinese 11111 la tlio Menate Washington. Kotos. Washington-, April' 18.

The famil- lav figure of Senator Edmunds was to be seen in the senate chamber at the opening of yesterday's session of the senate while Secretary McCook was reading the journal of Thursday last. Mr. Ldmunds moved around in the Re publican side and received greetings from senators of both political parties holding' a long conversation with Mr. Morgan. The first business transact ed, after the reading of the journal was completed, was the announcement by Vice President Morton that he had re ceived a communication in the nature of a petition from II.

Young, late chief executive clerk, to be laid before the senate which will, Mr. Mor ton added, "be laid upon the table, it having already been printed. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. l'effer requested the secretary of state to obtain information concerning the use of electricity as a power in the propulsion of farm machinery and lm plemcnts. and in the propagation and growth of plants, in foreign countries, was taken up, explained briefly by Mr.

etter and agreed to. At the close of the morning business at 12:50 the senate took up the calendar. At 1:40 p. m. the senate, on motion of Mr.

Sherman, proceeded to executive business. At 3:50 p. m. the doors were reopened and legislative business was proceeded with. Mr.

Call's motion to reconsider the vote whereby on Thurs day last the senate passed the bill to amend the act of 1890, to establish a circuit court of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, was taken up for action. After some explanation and discussion, the bill was so amended by a change of verbiage as to be satisfactory to Mr. Call and other senators, and as so amended the bill was passed. The bill to facilitate the disposition of causes in the court of claims was then taken up as unfinished business, the pending question being the amendment offered by Mr. Daniel, requiring the two additional judges, provided for to be members of different political parties.

Mr. Daniel modified his amendment so as to make it read: "ltoth of whom shall belong to the same political party." At tlte end of a long discussion Mr. Daniel's amendment was rejected and the bill was passed yeas, 31; nays, 18. The house amendment to the senate bill relating to the exchange of the military post at Little llock. was concurred in, and the bill now goes to the president.

The senate then adjourned. T1IK NEW MODUS. It Is Said to lie a Fair Mean Between the Demands of J. Hull and Uncle Sam. Washington, April 19.

It appears from the reading of the new modus vivendi between England and the United States which was sent to the senate yesterday, that Mr. Blaine and the lsritish minister have been spending the time since March 26 last, when the liritish minister consented to re new the modus, in trying to phrase the conditions relative to damages so as to secure advantages for their respective governments. Indeed, it appears that all of the hesitation and reluctance exhibited by Great Itritain in consenting to the renewal was assumed with the purpose of obliging this government to accept terms for the adjustment of damages that would insure Great Itritain against heavy loss in the event of a decision adverse to -her by the arbitrators, and on the other hand would promise the assessment of such a sum of money against the United States, as would go far toward healing the soreness still felt by British diplomats at the formidable judgments rendered against them by the Geneva arbitration Secretary lilaine has been endeavoring to bring the statement of liabilities of the two parties back to the basis laid down in Mr. Wharton's note of JJy 23 last, while the ltritish government has sought to escape the direct responsibility for the unwarrantable killing of seals and for anything more than the differences between 7,500 skins which the lessees of the seal islands, took and the 7,000 skins that might have been taken had not the modus of last year been enforced. The agreement just reached is said to be a fair mean between the two extreme propositions.

It appears that it will, unlike the first modus, require the approval of the senate, inasmuch as the last document proposes a permanent settlement of damages and pro vides for the means of adjusting the claims, PRODUCTION OF UULI) AND SILVER. Official Report Filed by Director Leech of the United state Mint. Washington, April 19. Mr. E.

O. Leech, director of the mint, has transmitted to congress a report on the production of the precious metals covering the calendar year 1891. The production of gold from the mines of the United States aggregated 1,604.804 ounces fine of the value of $33,175,000. This is an increase of over the product of the previous calendar year. The increased product is due largely to improved process of treatment and to the increased amount of gold extracted from lead and copper ores.

The silver product of our mines waa 58, 330.000 fine ounces of the commercial value of 157.630.040, or of the old coining value in silver dollars of $75,. 416,565. This Is an increase of 3,830,000 oi THE RUSTLER WAR ENDED. NOT YET THE SITUATION GROWING CRITICAL. A Thousand Armed Rustlers, Under Command of a Young Methodist Lying In Walt for the Troops Having In Charge the Iiig Cattle-mon Johnson County Terrorized.

Cheyenne, April 19. There was no news from the rustler country yesterday. The Buffalo wire was still down. A number of refugees from Johnson county have arrived in Cheyenne, but they bring nothing in the way of news except that the country is terrorized by roving bands of armed rustlers. A Gillette (Wyo.) special says Colonel Van Home left FortMcKinney yesterday with Hesse, Ford and Elliot, three of the cattlemen demanded by the Johnson county rustlers.

He was in command of three troops of cavalry, and his destination was Fort Douglas. Trouble is feared, as a thousand armed rustlers, under M. A. Ryder, a young Methodist preach- lying in wait for the troops and swear flmtr will frof nnccaciinH nf Tia f-v i i ii ui lauir ers and hang them, if thev have to kill Van Home to do so. It is thought that Van Horne has changed his course and will bring his prisoners to Fort Russell.

near here, where the Seventeenth infantry is stationed. No word has been received from the Many wires are down, and it is thought they have been cut by rustlers. A number of people fleeing from the rustler country have passed through Cheyenne. Their stories are so fragmentary that the only reliable report gained from them is that the rustlers have completely terrorized Johnson county. One of the stockmen arriving here last night shows a notice received from the secret organization of the rustlers ordering him to leave the country in five days or be killed.

He sa3'S dozens of the fleeing cattlemen have received similar notices, ltoth the governor and General Brooke, who have been in constant telegraph communication with each other, are anxiously awaiting news from Fort McKinney. It Is now admitted by the citizens here that Sheriff Angus has had the wire cut in order to prevent an order being sent from General Brooke to Colonel Van Horne at Fort McKinney to deliver the prisoners to GoveTior Barber at Public fear is growing. Few can be found who ad mit it probable that the cattlemen can be got out of the country alive. TWO REPORTS PRESENTED. The Maynard Investigating Committee Falls to Agree as to Facts.

Albany, N. April 19. The ma jority and minority reports of the Maynard investigating committee have been presented to the legislature. The majority report contains 6,000 words. It is held by the majority that all that Judge Maynard did he did as an honorable, upright and conscientious lawyer.and recommends the adoption of resolutions indorsing the action of Judge Maynard in taking the Duchess county returns from the comptroller's office, and also indorses the action of the state board of canvassers in deter mining the contested election cases.

Ihe minority report would fall about six columns and reviews the litigation in the election case. It characterizes Maynard's action in connection with the Duchess county returns as a criminal act, and closes with a resolution demanding his removal from the court of appeals bench. INDIANAPOLIS FORCLEVELAND Governor Gray's Owu Ward Instructs for the Ex-President. Indianapolis, April 19. Pri maries for the selection of delegates to the state convention were held in this city last night and were the most largely attended ever held by the Dem ocrats of the city.

The hght was squarely between the Cleveland and Gray factions. Cleveland carried every ward, ana in nearly every pnnriry instructions were given in his behalf. Gray men elected contesting delega tions in two wards. In Third ward, in which Governor Gray resides a resolution was unanimously adopted instructing lor Cleveland. MARMADUKE DROPS OUT.

The Missouri Gubernatorial Race Already Beginning to Narrow Down. April 18. At the Democratic county convention held here yesterday a letter was read from Darwin W. Marmaduke withdrawing from the race for governor. The county delegation to the state convention was instructed for J.

11. Breathitt for railroad commissioner. Waat Pay for Slaves. Jacksox, April 19. The following plank sought to be drafted into the platform of the People's party in Alabama is reported to be meeting with favorable comment in several localities in this state, where efforts are making towards the organization of the People's party.

It reads as follows: "We demand that the government pay the former owners of the slaves liberated by the United States as the result of the civil war. Seat te the Asylasn. Atchisou, April 19. W. S.

Anderson, formerly a prominent business man of this city, was taken to the insane asylum at Tepeka yesterday by Sheriff Lark in, having been declared insane by a jury in the probate court. Anderson was at one time a candidate for mayor, and a few years age there was talk of nominating him for governor on the Republican ticket. It is expected that 130,000 will be raised for the benefit of the widow of the late Captain Conner, at a testi 'I monial performance in New.