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THE CANADIAN CRESCENT.
FRESCA*: i:. DILLES, Edito? ft Pub'r,
published evkíív thursday AT
CANADIAN. - TEXAS. ;
IHE WOULD AT LAItGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
CONGRESS.
The Senate on tho 15th setapart the first
Tuesday in December for discussing the Union
Pacific Funding bill. A lively tilt took place
between Senators Blair and Cockreli as to the
character of Mary Ann Doherty, an applicant
for a special pension and the bill for
whose relief t the President had vetoed.
Several unimportant bills passed. The
adjournment question was briefly dis-
cussed, when debate on the Tariff bill was re-
sumed and continued until adjournment—In
the House, Mr. Wheeier (Ala.) offered a reso-
lution in regard to the tariff, which was re-
ferred. Mr. Oates offered a resolution for ad-
journment which went over one day. The mo-
tion to table the reconsideration of the vote on
the Presidential Count bill was adopted, and
the House soon adjourned.
In the Senate on the 10th discussion of
the Tariff bill was resumed and continued until
adjournment In the House Messrs. Clem-
ents (Ga.). McMillin (Tenn ) and Ryan (Kan.)
were appointed on the joint committee to in-
vestigate the Washington aqueduct matter.
Mr. Oates (Ala.) called up his adjournment reso-
lution. but after a lengthy talk it was laid over
for a day. Mr Oates said having failed to get
the House to adjourn he would like to adjourn
himself and asked leave of absence during the
remainder of the session, which was granted
The House then adjourned.
The Senate met 011 the 17th with only a
few Senators present. Senator Teller occupied
a good portion of the time with a speech on
the Tariff bill. Senator Allison offered a
concurrent resolution for a recess from Satur-
day, Oetooer "0, to November 10, but
the resolution went over under an ob-
jection. Senator Morgan spoke on the
tariff and the Senate adjourned Much of the
time in the House (only a few members pres-
ent) was devoted to a personal explanation by
Mr. S. S. Cox (X. Y.) as to documents sent cut
under his forged frank, in which the House
vindicated Mr. Cox. A resolution was offered
for adjournment on the 20th. which was referred.
Adjourned.
After the transaction of unimportant busi-
ness in the Senate on the 18th the concurrent
resolution for a recess from the ¿0th to Novem-
ber 19 was taken up and Senator Brown offered
as a substitute a resolution for final adjourn-
ment on Saturday to the first Monday in De-
cember, which, after some debate, was adopted.
After some discussion of the Tariff bill the
Senate adjourned After the reading of the
journal the Senate resolution for adjournment
was laid before the House and Mr. McMillen
(Tenn.) spoke on the resolution, but really
made a tariff speech. Other members took
part in the debate but the adjournment resolu-
tion was finally concurred in and the House
soon adjourned.
In the Senate on the 19th the resolution
authorizing the Finance Committee to con-
tinue its hearing on the Tariff bill was adopted.
The Senate then took a recess and upon as-
sembling went into secret sessioh and then ad-
journed... .In the House the attendance was so
small that nothing was done except to adjourn.
dent, William A. Abbott, has disappeared
with much money. He liad sunk ftTmost
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Major Reno has denied indignantly to
a Washington reporter that he attempted
to commit suicide in Harrisburg as was
published. He said: "Only cowards com-
mit suicide, and I do not believe my rec-
ord in the Üeld shows me to be much of a
coward." His wife has made.an applica-
tion in Harrisburg for a divorce.
Under the recent decision in the case of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
vs. Guilford Miller, the selections by said
company as indemnity have been held for
cancellation by the General Land-oiliee to
the extent of 21,COO acres.
Tiie American Street Railway Associa-
tion met in Washington on the 17th WitH
100 delegates present. The members de-
cided that all disputes with employes
should be settled by arbitration.
It is stated on good authority that the
President has promised to visit New York
before the election and review a parade of
the business men of that city, but it is not
his intention to make a speech.
The wire that connects the bookmakers'
rooms at Washington with the Guttenberg
race track w as tapped during tiie races
recently and the result delayed until some
sharpers invested enough in Joe Mitchell
tickets to realize about £1,000.
The Republic of Colombia has accepted
the invitation of the United States to take
part in the conference of independent
American States in Washington in Octo-
ber, 1S80.
The .President has approved the act
authorizing the President to appoint
Alfred Pleasanton a Major in the army
and placing him on the retired list with
that rank and grade.
The President has approved the General
Deficiency bill.
THJC EAST.
Philadelphia has purchased Thompson
of the Detroits for $5,000, and Boston gets
Broutheis and Richardson of the same
base-ball club for $*20,000.
The grand commandery of the Loyal Le-
gion of the United States held its fourth
annual meeting in Philadelphia on the
17th. The following: officers for the ensu-
ing year were elected: Commander-in-
Chief, Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
General Sheridan; Senior Vice-Comma nd-
er-in-Chief, Senator Joseph Hawlev, of
Connecticut; Junior Vice-Commander-in-
Chief, Judge Walter Q. Gresham, of In-
diana.
The Inman line steamer City of New
York arrived from Liverpool at New York
on the 18th, after a passage of six days
and twelve hours, the best third trial rec-
ord in shipping annals.
R. W, Hunt, of Erie, has been elected
president and A. J. Borr, of New York,
secretary of the American Institute of
Architects. Consolidation with the West-
ern Association was decided upon.
General Badeau's suit against Mrs. U.
S. Grant for alleged services in preparing
General Grant's memoirs for publication
was again adjourned before Justice Pat-
terson, of the Supreme Court at New York,
until the first Monday in November.
Two passenger trains on the Cumberland
Valley road collided on a curve the other
morning near Shippensburgh, Pa. One
man was killed and several injured. The
engines were demolished.
H. S. Briggs, a safe manufacturer and
prominent citizen of Rochester, N. Y., has
fled to Canada, leaving behind fully $20.-
U00 of forged papers.
The Atlantic cigar factory at Spring-
field, Mass., has been closed on attach-
ments, with $70,000 liabilities. The presi-
ppe¡
ktUi
his entire fortune in the factory.
Tammany Hall at New York was packed
on the night of the 19th with an enthusi-
astic audience, who ratified the National
and State Democratic tickets and the Tam-
many local ticket with great fervor and
listened to speeches by Hon. S. S. Cox, W.
C. Breckinridge, Bourke Cochran, Daniel
Dougherty, Roger A. Pry or and Ash bel
P. Fitch.
The bears made a raid on the oil mar-
ket at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the lftth, and
prices were forced down from 92% to 85,
causing wild excitement.
George A. Deneam & Co., wholesale
shoe dealers of Boston, have gone into in-
solvency with $05,000 assets and $172,00)
liabilities.
THIS WJESTa
The family of Abel Olsen, living near
Ellsworth, Wis., were poisoned the other
day. One child died and others were dan-
gerously ill. i
Lawrence Bourse was killed and Bob
Smith fatally injured by the explosion of
a wagon load of fireworks at Fort Wayne
on the 17th. They wero standing on the
wagon firing off Roman candles at the
Thurman demonstration when the fire-
works, of which there were 3,500 pounds,
exploded. The wagon wTas smashed into
kindling wood.
The boiler of the mill of the Ypsilanti
(Mich.) Paper Company exploded the other
morning, instantly killing Fireman John
Slawson and injuring another fireman
named Frank Singler. Damage about
$25,000.
M. J. Horpman, of Minneapolis, Minn.,
who has been investigating the condition
of the farmers in Ramsey County, D. T.,
says there are seventy families who are
absolutely destitute of food and fuel.
L. H. Sloanaker, cashier in the Chicago
& Northwestern freight office at Sioux
City, Iowa, disappeared recently. His ac-
counts wTere short $3,200.
Hon. J. G. Blaine was unable to address
the Republican gathering near Lafayette,
Ind., on the 17th, his throat being in-
flamed.
The two small children of C. F. Smith,
of Fifield,Wis., were burned to death while
alone in their father's house the other
morning.
Chicago's registration amounts to 1G4,-
000, an increase of 50 per cent, over the
registration at the last Presidential elec-
tion.
The Anarchists of Chicago are prepar-
ing for an elaborate observance of the first
anniversary of the hauging of the Anar-
chist leaders—November 11.
E. H. Lerblance, of Wealaka, I. T., has
been elected Treasurer of the Creek Nation
bv the National Council. Ex-Chief Perrv-
man was his principal opponent.
The shoe lasters of the Hamilton-Brown
Shoe Company of St. Louis, have been
locked out. Four hundred and fifty em-
ployes are idle.
Walter S. Payne, ex-Comraander-in-
Chief of the Ohio Sons of Veterans, has
been found guilty by a court martial of em-
bezzlement and violation of pledges, and
sentenced to dishonorable dismissal.
The failure of Nathan Corwith & Co.,
Chicago, has been announced. The fail-
ure indicates a collapse of the pig lead
corner.
Three stockman were killed on the 18th
near Freeport, 111., by a collision on the
new Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City
railroad. Two other stockmen were in-
jured.
F. J. Stimpson. marine reporter at Mac-
Kinard City, Mich., was drowned the oth-
er night by the capsizing of his boat.
Jeiiuda Kallen, a Chicago butcher, has
sued Marks Nathan, a prominent Jew, for
issuing a circular boycotting him because
of *a quarrel with the son of Nathan's
synagogue rabbi.
The assets of E. A. Allen & Co., St.
Paul, Minn., dry goods merchants who
failed recently, amount to $8o,544.24 and
the liabilities to $122,000.
S. C. Redfield, ex-treasurer of Mc-
Vicker's Theater, Chicago, on the train go-
ing east from Bozeman, M. T., took an
overdose of morphine with fatal effect the
other night. He was somewhat deranged.
The Eleventh Indiana Regimental As-
sociation, Greneral Lew Wallace's old regi-
ment, held a reunion at Indianapolis and
were received bv General Harrison, but
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no speeches were made.
The non-citizens of the Chickasaw Na-
tion will meet at Purcell, I. T., October 31,
to form an organization for the j>rotection
of their interests.
The St. Paul ice carnival has been set
for the week of January 23 next.
The Hull Vapor Stove Company of
Cleveland, O., has made an assignment,
with $70,000 assets and liabilities.
The Moak and Holcomb wheat steal at
Minneapolis, Minn., was perpetrated by
means of an auger hole in a board, which
let the wheat percolate into Holcomb's
bin while being shipped.
THE SOUTH.
Joe Joiner, a negro, was lynched at
Hulto, near Taylor, Tex., recently. Joiner
attempted an assault upon a twelve-year-
old white girl and was arrested by the
sheriff. On the road to jail a mob of
masked men seized the prisoner and
hanged him to a tree.
Montgomery, Ala., has removed her
quarantine reg"1, Hons against all points
in Alabama except Decatur and against
Jackson, Miss.
Advices from Fernandina, Fla., state
that there were 32 new cases and 2 deaths
there on the 15th and 37 new cases and 3
deaths on the 16th.
The Deep Water committee, created by
the recent Deep Water convention at Den-
ver, Col., met ar Dallas, Tex., on the 17th,
in adjourned session.
Rev. J. Leighton Coleman, D. D., was
consecrated at Wilmington, Del., on the
18th, as Bishop of the Protestant Episco-
pal Diocese of Delaware.
Two cases of yellow fever developed in
Gainesville, Fla., on the 18th, and the dis-
ease was declared epidemic.
The Locomotive Engineers met in an-
nual session at Richmond, Va., on the
17th.
GENERAL
Ten million dollars is the amount wanted
to put the Santa Fe system on a sound
basis.
Acting on the advice of Italiau and
foreign Clericals, the Pope has decided to
instruct the Catholic Bishops throughout
the world to continue to agitate for the
restoration of the temporal powers of th6
Pope.
The Count de Premio Real, Spanish Con-
sul-General at Quebec, accidentally shot
aud killed himself recently while examin-
ing a revolver.
A syndicate to control the iron trade of
Scotland is being formed at Glasgow.
Russian troops are being massed on the
Austrian frontier to correspond with the
massing of Austrian regiments.
Reliable reports are that the latest Af-
ghan insurrection has been completely
crushed and Isaak Khan is a refugee in
Bokhara.
The Supreme Court of Germany has re-
fused to release Prof. Geffecken, who was
under arrest for making public extracts
from the late Emperor Frederick's diary.
Premier Macdonald, of Canada, is ex-
pected to leave shortly for England to con-
sult with the British Ministry regarding
the fisheries dispute.
The directors of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad announce that there will be no
dividend on the common stock for the past
six months.
The foundation stone of the mausoleum
of the Emperor Frederick at Potsdam,
Germany, was laid on the 18th in the
presence of the Empress, the Dowager
Empress Victoria and her daughters.
Meetings in memory of the late Emperor
were held in fifteen towns.
The price of coal in London has ad-
vanced two shillings per ton ow7ing to the
strike of the miners. Efforts to compomise
the trouble are being made.
Soudanese dervishes are reported ad-
vancing upon Upper Egypt in force and
are expected to raid the villages between
Wady Halfy and Assouan.
Dr. J. L. Gunning, of Amsterdam, Hol-
land, says that arrangements will shortly
be made at Washington with the Govern-
ment, to indemnify tho settlers on the
Maxwell grant who bought their property
when Secretary Cox, of the Interior De-
partment, decided that the Maxwell grant
was not a valid one.
The losses by the recent cyclone in the
Puemado de Guerres district, Cuba, are
estimated at $671,000.
The Pope has complained that the atti-
tude of the Italian Government, in the re-
ception of Emperor William, renders his
situation more difficult.
The Emperor of Germany went to Pom-
peii on the 18th and witnessed the uncov-
ering of several buried houses. He and
the King of Italy have issued a joint order
of approval of the appearance of the
Italian navy.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October 18 numbered
224 as compared with 201 the correspond-
ing week of last year.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
eers indorsed the action of Chief Arthur
in all matters pertaining to the Brother-
hood since the last session. This virtu-
ally sustained his action in the "Q" strike.
It is announced that no more subsidies
will be given to railways in Mexico and
that the colonization laws wrill be reformed
in favor of the smaller colonies.
General Salomon, the noted Haytien
leader and ex-President who was recently
deposed by a revolution, died in Paris on
the 19th.
THJK LATEST.
The first session of the Fiftieth Congress
ended at one p. m. on the 20th.
The Sioux chiefs rejected the offer made
by the President for their lands and of-
fered a counter proposition to accept $1.25
an acre, the money to be paid at once.
The Rand-Avery printing house, of Bos-
ton, has assigned. Liabilities, ijl-10,000;
assets ample.
The statue of General Grant, presented
by the Grant Monument Association, was
unvailed at St. Louis on the 20th. Gen-
eral Noble was the orator, and the cere-
monies were attended by Grand Army
posts and many thousands of spectators.
Clearing house returns for week ended
October 20 showed an average decrease of
2.8 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the decrease
was 10.1.
American railroad securities were weak
and fluctuating on the London Exchange
during the week ended October 20. Dis-
count was easy. The European bourses
reported financial matters quiet. The ne-
gotiations for the conversion of the Hun-
garian loans were reported concluded
with the Rothschilds.
A number of republican rioters mobbed
Senor Canoves del Castello at Sapagoss,
Spain, the other night and stoned his
house. The rioting continued for hours.
The gendarmes were powerless .to quell
the disturbance.
By a collision between steamships in
Christiana bay. Norway, the other day,
eighteen persons were drowned.
Right Rev. E. R. Welles, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Milwaukee, died the
other night at Waterloo, N. Y., while vis-
iting his brother.
The case of the Chinese taken from Cal-
ifornia to Alaska and returned to Tacoma,
Wash. T., where they were refused land-
ing, has been taken before the courts. It
is claiij^ed that they were never really out
of American jurisdiction.
Dr. Myer and Baumann have arrived
at Zanzibar safely from Pangani, where
they were chained, stripped and flogged
and made to work as slaves till British In-
dians ransomed them.
Colonel R. M. Pulsifer, for many
years one of the proprietors of the Boston
Herald, died at his country home recently.
He was found dead alone in bed. There
were rumors that he had committed sui-
cide.
The Graydon Dynamite Projective Com-
pany, of Washington, operating the in-
ventions of Lieutenant J. W. Graydon, re-
lating to firing dynamite shells from pow-
der guns, has sold the right to use the in-
ventions to the French Government for
$500,000.
A dispatch from New York of the 21st
stated that Robert G. Ingersoll and Roger
A. Pryor were about to begin suit on be-
half of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., against
James G. Blaine, Sr., and Mrs. Blaine for
alienating the affections of her husband.
Damages were to be lai$L at $190,000.
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
The Longest Session in the History of the
Couutry — Work Completed and Still
Pending.
Washington, Oct. 20.—To-day at one
o'clock the first session of the Fiftieth
Congress ended—the longest continuous
session in the history of nearly a century
of Congresses, having lasted 321 days.
The longest previous session ran 302 days,
ending September 30.
Apart from the protracted but interest-
ing discussion of the tariff question in
both houses and the unparalleled dead-
lock in the consideration of the bill to re-
fund the direct tax, the session has been
remarkable in several ways, but in none
more than in the enormous number of
measures introduced in both branches.
In the Senate 3,641 bills and 621
joint resolutions were presented, and in
the House the record ran up to the un-
equaled figures of 11,598 bills and 230 joint
resolutions, making the grand total of
15,585 measures introduced in one session.
In the Senate 2,394 measures were re-
ported back from committees and placed
on the calendar—a much larger propor-
tion than in the House, where 8,305 meas-
ures of the total number of 11,828 intro-
duced still slumber in the committee rooms.
Among the measures of public interest
that have become laws are the fol-
lowing: Relating to the permissi-
ble marks on mail matter; for the
division of the Sioux reservation; for
a conference with the South and Central
American nations, limiting the hours of
letter carriers: making Lieutenant-Gen-
eral Sheridan General of the army; to es-
tablish a department of labor; for an in-
ternational maritime conference; requir-
ing the Pacific railroad companies to
maintain telegraph lines; to prohibit the
coming of Chinese laborers to the United
States; to create boards of arbitration to
settle controversies between common car-
riers and their employes; to prevent the
return of Chinese laborers to this country;
to aid State homes for disabled soldiers,
and changing the date of meeting of the
Electoral College.
In the next stage—that is, in conference
between the two houses—are two bills of
the first importance—repealing the Pre-
emption and Timber Culture law and pro-
viding a general homestead law and de-
claring a forfeiture of unearned railroad
land grants.
Pending before the Senate is the House
Tariff bill and the Senate substitute. The
Senate passed bills to divide Dakota and
to admit the southern half as a State and
to aid the common schools (the Blair bill),
but thev never reached the House for
•s
action. In the Senate the same thing can
be said of the following bills which passed
the House: The Fisheries Retaliation bill,
the passage of wrhich was recommended
by the President; authorizing the issue of
fractional silver certificates; allowing the
regulation by States of railways chartered
by the United States.
The following are the most important
bills unacted upon in the Senate calendar:
For the admission of Montana and Wash-
ington Territories; to prohibit the alco-
holic liquor traffic; to declare trusts un-
lawful. The following measures of im-
portance wrere reported from House com-
mittees and are still on the House calen-
dar: To refund the direct tax (a vote on
which will be taken early in December
next under an agreement by wiiich the
memorable deadlock over this bill was
broken); for the payment of arrears of
pensions; requiring the investment of the
National bank redemption fund in circu-
lating notes; the Pacific Railroad Funding
bill (debated but never reached the point
of action); to include telegraph companies
in the Inter-State Commerce act; to pro-
mote commercial union with Canada; to
incorporate the Nicaragua Canal Com-
pany; and for the organization of the Ter-
ritory of Oklahoma (debated but never
finally voted on.)
The following are important Senate bills
which slumber in committees: Request-
ing the President to open negotiations
with Great Britain looking to the annexa-
tion of Canada to the United States; for
the free coinage of silver; to repeal the
Oleomargarine act; to provide a naval re-
serve; the Hennepin canal bill; to reduce
letter postage to 1 cent; to grant woman
suffrage, and measures proposing radical
changes in the Government's financial
policy.
The following are original House bills
which likewise never got out of commit-
tees: To repeal the internal revenue laws
and the tobacco tax; to prohibit the mail-
ing of newspapers containing lottery ad-
vertisements; to lay a graduated income
tax; for a bounty on sugar; to repeal the
civil-service laws; for full reciprocity be-
tween the United States and Canada; to
restrain judicial proceedings to be
brought against the Pacific railroads; to
provide more efficient mail service be-
tween the United States and South Amer-
ica; to break up trusts, and various meas-
ures proposing changes in the pensión,
tariff and financial laws.
The most important private bills of this
session were those pensioning Mrs. Logan
and Mrs. Frank P. Blair, both of which be-
came laws, and the bills to pension Mrs.
Waite and Mrs. Sheridan, which passed
the Senate but were never acted upon by
the House.
FREE DELIVERY.
OVER A TRESTLE.
A I^arge Increase in the Number of Free
Delivery Offices—Growth of the Postal
Service.
Washington, Oct. 19.—Colonel J. F.
Bates, the chief of the free delivery
service, in his annual report to the Post-
master-General states that the increase in
the number of free-delivery offices during
the past year was 169, making the t^tal
number of offices 358. These offices are
only located in towns having a popu-
lation of 10,000 or over, or where the
receipts are over $10,000. The whole
number of carriers employed is 6,346.
There were over 90,000,000 more letters de-
livered last year than the year before, an
increase of over 11 per cent., while the
increase in the number of newspapers de-
livered was over 86,000,000, or 25 per cent.
The increase in the number of letters col-
lected was 143,000,000, or about 23 per cent,
Tihile the increase in the number of news-
papers collected was 25,000,000, or 25 per
cent. The excess of postage on local mat-
ter over the total cost of the service is over
$2,250,000.
The Cannon Ball Train on the Baltimore *
Ohio Road Goes Over a Trestle—The En-
gineer Killed and Many Passengers In-
jured.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 19.—The cannon
ball express on the Baltimore & Ohio,
which left Cincinnati last liight, ran into
an open switch near the Washington, Pa.,
depot about 6:30 o'clock this morning and
was precipitated over axrestle a distance
of ten feet. It was running at a high rate
of speed and was almost completely
wreckedc The engineer, James Noon an,
was instantly killed and about twenty in-
jured, a number seriously.
A corrected list of the killed and injured
is as follows: tfauies Noonan, engineer,
Pittsburgh, killed. The injured were:
William McAuliff, firemkn, Glenwood, Pa,
probably fatally; C. G. Culin, of New
York; A. H. Clark, Rochester, N.'Y.;
Jacob Sigel, Allegheny; Joseph Mayes,
Columbus, O.; Stephen Collius, Pitts-
burgh, Pa.; Mrs. W. J. McConkev, Mercer,
Pa.; A. Ford, Chillicothe, O.: G. W. Math-
ews, Baltimore; A. L. Brown, Chicago; A.
E. Mosler, Chicago; Michael Stanton,
Portsmouth, O.: A. Kaiiffman, New York;
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Greer, Dodge City,
Kan.; Mr. and Mrs. A. Brockman, New
York; Henry Murray, Burgettstown, Pa.;
James W. Batcheler, Pittsburgh; William
Fifer, Allegheny City; Mrs. Hannah "Mc-
Kinney, New Concord, O.; Baggage Mas-
ter Henry, of Pittsburgh; Haj*s, colored,
of Columbus, O.
Superintendent Collins, of the Pittsburgh
post-office, who was in the wreck, stated
that three of the injured—Fireman Brown,
Baggage Master Henry and a colored man
named Hayes, of Columbus, O., would
probably die. Three more w^ere quite se-
riously injured, wrhile the others sustained
slight bruises and cuts. "The train," said
he, "was about an hour and a half latei
We reached Washington about eight
o'clock. I was asleep in an upper berth.
The first thing I knew7 the car turned over
and I was thrown across the aisle, re-
ceiving an ugly cut ou the head and
some severe body bruises. As soon as I
could do so I ma ie my way out of the car.
It was the worst looking wreck I ever saw.
The engine was demolished and the cars a
mass of broken timbers. The engine,
tender, baggage car and sleeper had gone
over the trestle and the day coach was
hanging partly over. The people of the
town broke the windows and extricated
the passengers speedily as possible. Inside
the cars a scene of the wildest confusion
prevailed. The injured were conveyed to
the Auldt House, where every thing was
done to alleviate their sufferings. Those
who were able to do so came on to Pitts-
burgh on the special. The train was filled
to its utmost capacity and it is a miracle
that more wTere not killed."
KANSAS CASES.
The Pullman Car Case and the Baldwin
Murder Case In the United States Su-
preme Court.
Washington, Oct. 20.—In the Supreme
Court yesterday Attorney-General Brad-
ford, of Kansas, called up the case of the
Pullman Palace Car Company versus H.
H. Haywrard, treasurer of Allen County,
Kan., et al., the other parties to the suit
being the treasurers of forty-eight other
counties and the railroad companies hav-
ing branch lines through these counties,
and moved for a hearing of this case dur-
ing the present sitting of the court in
order that it might be argued during his
incumbency of office, as his term will ex-
pire January 12 next. «Because of his
familiarity with the case he expressed tho
belief that his State would have a better
showing under the circumstances if his
motion was allowed. The matter was
taken under advisement and a decision
in the matter will be announced by the
court Monday.
General Bradford also called up the case
of the State of Kansas vs. William J.
Baldwin, and made a similar motion for
trial during the present term for the same
reasons given in the preceding case. Bald-
win was convicted of the murder of his
sister in Atchison County and sentenced
to death two years ago, but inasmuch as
the Governor indefinitely withheld an or-
der for execution his sentence was practi-
cally imprisonment for life. He claims1
that his conviction wTas the result of cir-
cumstantial evidence, and inasmuch as he
could not get a new trial either in the
lower courts or in the State Supremo
Court, he prays that the United States Su-
preme Court will grant him a new trial.
This motion of the Attorney-General was
granted and the hearing fixed for the thud
Monday in December.
How It Was Bone.
Minneapolis, Oct. Í9.—One of the dirn--
tors of the Union Elevator Company lias
explained how Hy Holcomb engineered
the wheat steal of about 60,000 bushels.
Halcomb h ad a bin of his own in the
elevator. It is located below the other
near the railway trac
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bins and
The cars are loaded through chutes
connected with the wheat bins. Hol-
comb took off a board from one of tiiese
chutes and put on another in its st ad
that had an auger hole in it. and during
the loading process wheat continued to
pour dowm into his bin through this auger
hole. When he had enough so obtain e l,
he loaded it into a car and it was hani-d
to market. He had to divide up with con-
federates in the deal, but his indiv dual
rake off amounted to $30,000. D. C. >*oak,
implicated in the steal, has written t« hi i
wife from Chicago that he will not return
to Minneapolis. Holcomb, it is supposed,
is with him.
Attacked By a Hog.
Wabash, Ind., Oct. 19.—John A Hoover,
a prominent farmer, who lives three miles
east of Goshen, had a terrilble experience
with a ferocious boar, which may end his
life. Mr. Hoover was engaged doing
chores about his premises to-day. when
his hat was blown into the lot w here the
boar was kept. As Hoover stooped to
pick up the tile, the animal made a rush,
knocking him down and inflicting a num-
ber of terrible wounds with its tusk*.
Hoover arose, but was knocked down the
second and third time by the infuriated
brute. Hoover's body was terribly lacer-
ated. His wifs ran to the rescue a ul
was chased by the hog, bat escaped, giv-
ing her husband time to crawl away to
safety.
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