THE OREGON SCOUT.
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UNION, : : : OREGON.
cosfessios os tiiit v allows.
JUr. Druse Acknowledges Murder Iirfort
Her Life Was Shut Out.
HniiKiMnn (N. Y.) dispatch: Tho crlm'
for which Mrs. Druso suffered wns tho mm
der of her husbnnd In December, 1884.
After the services Inst evening Mrs. Drill
remained up until 11:30. Deputy Shorll.
Mnrlon, with Mr. and Mrs. Wnttermnn, tho
death watch, induced her to Ho down, and
he had about an hour's quiet sleep. She
nwoko with a start, and upon rising begun
to writo letters ns cnlmlyns sho had ntuny
time during her Incarceration. In onu of
these sho thunked tho slieriff for his kind
ness to her, and asked that her body might
be given to her pnstor for Christian Inn int.
After writing she lay down ngiilu and fell
into a doze. Sho wns attached with hys
teria in violent form and It leqiilred con
sidernble effort upon thepart of the "ateli
ers to arouse and culm her. During tho
night sho ato one of tho heartiest meals sho
had cnt4'n since she wns t prisoner. She
had nbout two hours rest betore 4 o'clock
n. in., but did not sleep sound.
Ono ol her first visitors this morning wns
8upt. Irving Terry of tho Onondaga peni
tentiary, who brought u furvell fiom her
daughter Mnry, who is a life prisoner. Tins
visit hail n must exciting effect upon Mr.
Druso. Tho lie v. Dr. Powell visited Mrs.
Druso about 0 o'clock nnd did nil n his
power to nihil her anil prepnro her for the
awful moment.
Every rond lending into town wns dolled
with sleighs crowded with fur-coated men
and not u few women. The crowd in the
villngo Increased on tho nrrivnl of every
train, nnd In spite of tho extreme cold tlm
men, women nnd children stood about tlio
streets surrounding tho jail. Tho execu
tion wns witnessed by twe.ity-flvo persons,
including tho oflicinls.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Druso ninde n
confession to Dr. Powell, her spiritual
adviser, In which sho declared tlmt Charles
Gales hail instigated her to commit tho
murder, and says that ho provided lm
with a revolver. Sho declared that after
sho fired tho first shot Gates llrcd thteo
succeeding shots from tho window. Slio
confessed to hnvlng cut up her husband's
body and that Gates took tho body nwny
nnd'burned it. Sho related that sho killed
Druso becnuso ho had treated her cruelly
mid brutally.
Mrs. Druso maintained her composure on
the scnffold until tho cap was drawn over
her, when sho began to moan, and llnally
screnmed so loudly that slio could bo
hoard in thn street nnd ndjoinlug juil. Tlio
trap was sprung, uuil utter sho fell she
innilo but one convillsivo tnovonwnt.
Mrs. Druse signed an nlllilavlt in which
sho afllruis that her daughter, Mary, now
confined in the Onondaga penitentiary,
bad untiling whatover to do with killing
her father.
THE SKW.H IS JllllEF FOI13T.
Stnnley telegraphed to London the con
dition of affairs in Zanzibar.
Tho Irving hall democracy held a meet
ing and approved Governor Hill us a
worthy domocratlc standurd-briuor and
disclaiming all sympathy with Hewitt's
attack upon organized labor.
Tho president approved tho net indent
nifing the Chinese for losses sustained dur
ing tho outbreak at Knelt Springs, Wyo.
A man named Newman and a young girl
named Woavor wore foully murdered In
Tcnncsseo while rolurniug homo from town.
Firo broko out in tlio penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, D. T., and caused conslderablo
excitement for a time, but was extinguished
beforo much dainngo resulted.
Mrs. Logan aeloctod a burial placo at
Gilcngo for her husband.
Andrew D. White, ex-president of Cornell
university, declined to become a inoniber
of tho Intor-stato commerce commission.
It is rumored that tlio German govern
ment has given ordorH for extensive man
euvers of tho German fleet in tho Ilaltlo in
August.
The Auslro-Huusnrlan government bus
decided to forego tho usual spring mobiliz
ation of tho artillery and cavalry so as
not to awaken alarm.
Sir Alexander Campbell hiw been ap
pointed lleutenant-govornor for Ontario,
vicothollon. It. Itobinson, whoso term of
olilco has expired.
Prinro Alexundor, of Itattenborc, tho do-
posod king of Hulgarla, who was reportod
to bo lying ill with gnstrlc fever at ills .
dither's houso in Darmstadt, hns tho
imall pox. ;
Tho candidacy of Herr Itulach, who was
defeated by Herr Slefferman, a protestu
tor, In Alsace-Lorraine by nbout 10,000
majority, was unopposed until ho declared
hlitisolf in favor ol the Hoptcuuate.
Tho Fronrh senate by a vote of 210 to
80 reinserted in the budget tho credit for
ub-peifectB, the rejection of which by tlio
chumbor of deputies was tho causu of tho
overthrow ol tho Froycinut ministry.
Cardinal Jacoblnl, tho papal secrotary of
state, bus Instructed tho papal nuncio at
Munich to urge tho members of tho new
center pnrty In the reichstag and landtag
to vote for tho scptcnuuto bill and the now
ecclesiastical bill. I
There aro indications that tho president
will not name tlio Intor-stato commission
era to the present congress and that there
will bo a short extra session of tho senate
to consider thoo nominations nnd a few
other important nominations to vacant
missions, nnd to also consider some of the
unfinished treaties.
Caucus of republicans has nominated
Senator Iugnlls to bo president of the sen
ate. Tweutyolght votes were cast. IiignlU
iot 18, Hoar 8, and Edmunds and Frye 1
each. Tlio democrats, without holding a.
formal caucus, have determined to support
Senator Harris for the presidency of the
senate.
Kccjilnir Up tho Harriers.
At long; a mother ami father, knowingly or
unwittingly, will in tho presence of the child
coutluua to aoclate with the term Jew all
that la deemed undesirable and objectionable
u man; so long: wrlteri of prose and vere,
history and romance, of nursery tale ami
Sunday echool bookt will contluue Co picture
the Jew aa the embodiment of avarice. l"iou
end dishonesty; so long us tho child will bo
taught to hold the Jew retoiiiilble for cruel
ties practlml by otbera; o long as the Jew lib
child will couiluuo to be told of crueltlea
practiced upon IU forefather because of their
religious Ik u-f, and be taught to look upou
all not of Ita fal'h as atraugem aad Mu i Jr
ao Ions the barrier camiot fall. jrU -lf-
a ciiAsan is riiEiaiiT hates.
Chicago dispatch: Tho general managers
of tho Western Freight association lines
to-day partly ngreod upon an ndvanco in
through rates between Council Bluffs and
Chicago. Unless the managers reconsider
their nction tho tariff rates after April 1
will 1)0 as follows: East bound wheat,
Omnhn to Chicago, 25 cents a hundred;
corn, 22 cents, live stock per car, 570.
Tho old rnts is $45; hogs $00; packing
houso products, 5 cents per 100 above
Kansas City rates. On cIhsscs covering
merchandise the Council 151 u flu and Kan
sas City r ites will about correspond. In
tlio northwest an attempt will bo made to
ndvanco all rutes, except flour and grain,
from 5 to 10 cents per 100. although at
least one of tho roads is opposed to any
iucrenso on tho ground that it is called
upon to hurt its own business to protect
others. Another session will bo hold to
morrow. Tho Farmers' Horso Importing com
pany, of Unndllla. capital $100,000, has
been incorporated in Otoe county.
THIS SKSATE AS It HOUSE.
What is Being Done in lloth Itranches or
the Sationnl Congress.
Sknate, Feb. 24. Mr. Van Wyrk offered
n resolution declaring it to bo tho judgment
of tho senuto that a constitutional amend
ment should bo submitted to tho people for
the election of senators directly from vot
ers, ami asked that It bo laid over until to
morrow, when he will make hiiiiio remarks
upon it. The houso substitute, for the llsh
cry letnliation bill was disagreed to and a
coiilercnco asked. Messrs. lCdmunds, Fryo
and M or.' in i wero appointed us senate con
ferees. A lesolution declaring Senator Iu
gnlls chosen president protein of the senuto
was laid over until to-morrow. The houso
bill to extend the Inns of tho United Slates
over certain unorganized territory south of
the state of Kansas was pnssed with
amendments. The saunto bill to authorize
tho construction of a bridge by the Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis it Omaha railway
company across tlioMissouri river at Sioux
City was pnssed. Tho scnatu then pro
ceeded to cons deration of t lie senate bill to
extirpate contagious pleuro pneumonia,
font and mouth disonscH and tiiulorvest
among cattle nnd to facilitato tho exporta
tion of rattle and products of livo stock.
Final action was not hud at tho hour of
adjournment.
Housi:, Fob. 21. Mr. .Mnttson of In
diana called up the dependent pension bill,
with tlio veto mcssago of tho president
thereon. It wns agreed thutdobatoshould
run until 4 o'clock, whon tho previous f'lioa
t ion should bo considered us invalid. Mr.
Mattson of Indiana closed thodebiito.nftor
which tho question wmh put: Will tlio
house, iirinn consideration, pass tho bill,
tho president' objection to tho contrary
nitithstni'ling, and it was decided In tho
negntivo yens, 175; nays, 125, not tho
constitutional two-thirds in Iho negntivo.
Tho vote by which iho bill originally paused
tho houso was 180 to 70, so it appears
that tho following named inomberH, all
dciunciitH, changed their votes on tho
moitNUre: Adams of Now York, llacon,
Iloyle, Humes, Cobb, Curtin, Dawson,
Dougherty, Eden, Eriiiontrout, Fislu -, Guy,
Gibson, Hall. Hatch, Scott, Seymour,
Shaw, Snowdon, Springer, Stiihlnecker,
St ono of Missouri, Viole, Ward of Indiana,
and A. .1. Warner of Ohio. Upon tlio an
nouncement of tlio vote there was npplauso
from tlio democratic sido and IiIsno.s and
groans from tlio advocates o! tlio bill. Tho
houso then wont into commit too of tho
whole on tho naval bill, but without com
pleting It adjourned.
Sr.NATi:, Feb. 25. Tho resolution offered
by Vun Wyck yesterday, proposing a con
stitutional amendment fur the election of
sonnlors by direct vote of the people, was
taken up und Van Wyck addri'shcd tho
sensto in lavor of it. Tho somite Hun re
sumed consideration of the pleuro
pneumonia bill, the pending ipiestiou being
on the amendment offered yesterday by
Vest, requiring the assent of the authori
ties of tlio state beforo tho cuttle commis
sioners can operato therein. l'Muiuuds
then o Km red as a substitute for t lie bill a
bill appropriating $1,000,000, to bo ex
pended under direction of the president of
the United States, and In his diNi retiou,
through tho commissioner of ngricult lire,
to aid the proper authorities ol tlio several
states in preventing a spicuil of the disease
commonly known as ptmiro-piioiimoniii
among cuttle, tlio appropriation to expire
at the end of two years. The substitute
was ngried to. Tlio bill was then It 1(1
iiHido iiilormally. When taken up again
tho Hist voto will bo on reconsidering tlie
vote adopting Edmunds' substitute. The
senate thou proceeded to the cousidoia
lion ol tlio house joint lesolutiou for an
investigation of the books of the Pacific
railroads, with tho senato amendment
thereto in tho nature of n sllbsti lite. Tlio
substitute was agreed to, and the bid as
amended, was passed and a conference
nskod, Hoar, Evnrts and Pugh woie ap
pointed conferees.
JIouaK, Feb. 25. Tho speaker laid be
fore tho houso a message from tho sonata
announcing tho pussngo by that body, over
the president's veto, of tho bill for the re
lief of Thomns II, Hopkins. The bid and
tho president's message wero referred to
the committee on invalid pensions. Tlio
houso Ins sled on its amendments to tho
minute retaliation bill and lleliuuut. Clem
ents and Itlcu were appointed conferees.
Hatch moved to suspend tlio rules ami
puss tlio senate bill providing for agricul
tural experiment stations. Agreed to,
Herbert asked unanimous consent that the
session ol the houso bo extended until the
consideration of tho naval appropriation
bill mis completed. Wolfoid objected and,
upon motion of Herbert, by a vote of yeas
117 mid nays 100, the house adjourned,
thus dispensing with the usual Friday
night session for pension bills,
Sh-NATH, Fob. 20. Tho conference com
uiittott on tho postotllce appropriation bill
reported disagreement on the subsidy sec
Hon and it was ordered that the senate ask
lor blither consideration. Tho agricultural
iippropiiutlon bill as taken upiind passed
w Hi some amendments. Messages wore
pivoiitcd from tho president vetoing pen
sum bills tor Anna Wright and Sarah
lliiiUHitnn. dumb, from tho confoieuco
committee on the house bill to restrict tlio
-wiiership of real estate In territories to
V .i.orirn ii citizens made iv report, which
rtasa ivtxl to. Dimes iirvsented tlio con-
'inure rvpnit on tlio Indian appropriation
li d. Agr-tsl to. Tho senate lilll to roim-
i me the depositors of the Froodiunii's
S I .us uinl Trust t oinpauy was taken up,
. i-rii H.-d. amended mid parsed.
HonsB, Fob. 20. Willis (Ky.) moved
that the rules bo suspended and the srnnte
auii'iidment to the river and harbor np
propriatlon bill bo non-concurred in.
Agreed to. The house then went into
rouitnit teo of the whole on the naval ap
propriation li.II. Several amendments
were adopted, the bill reported to the
houso aud piiKed, At the evening session
the house went Into comiuittea -if the
whole on the legislative, executive and ju
il rial appropriation bill. Tho reading wna
rout. i. iied und -completed at 10 o'clock,
and th ii the coiiim ttee rose. In the
house Hobnail moved to supeiul the
rule and pun the bill. A long discussion
fi 'mottd a.. d at midnight the houe ad
journed without further uctlou.
Sk.vaik. Feb. 28. Tho house labor arbi
tration bill was pnased without amend
ment. Tho bouse bill to prevent emptor
mont of convict or alien labor upon p. blic
buddings, or on public works, or in I he pe
pa rut Son of material for public bill d ngs,
or ptilil c works, was passed. The bill to
provide for tho adjustment of land grants
heretofore made by congress and remaining
unadjusted, wnn passed after the adoption
of sundry amendment.) and n cout-rence
was ordered on it. Upon motion of Sena
tor Millel the pleuro-pneumonia bill was
up. Sens tor Van Wyck renewed his amend
ment, extending the application of tho bill
to the soiuo plague nnd cholera nnd other
contagious disc-uses among swine; adopted.
Tim bill was passed; yeas 32, nays 10, Sen
ator Ivluiund. from the conference com
mittee in the bill respecting tho fisheries,
made a ioug reportns to tho dlllleultics ex
isting in theconferonceand which prevented
an iigreeun nt.
Housn, Feb. 28. The Iiourp, in com
mittee of tho whole, considered the legis
lative appropriation bill. On motion of
Mr. Cox, of North Carolina, an amend
ment was ndopted increasing from $2,000
to $1,000 the appropriation for traveling
expenses of tho civil service commission.
P. M. O'Neill, of Missouri, cnlled attention
to tho liard-workiugeiuploycsof the bureau
of engraving and priutimr, aud offered an
amendment granting nil such employes an
annual leave of absence. Adopted. At
1:1(1 n. in., without having concluded con
sidcrntion ol one half of the bill, the com
mittee rosa aud tho house took n recess
until 11 o'clock to-morrow.
Skkatb, March 1. The naval appropria
tion bill was read a second time and re
ferred to the rotnmittcoonnppropriationH.
Fifty-seven pension bills wero then passed
in twenty-five minutes. Tlio conference re
port on tlio river and harbor bill wns pre
sented by Senator McMillan nnd explained.
The bill, ns it came from tho houso orig
inally, appropriated, he said, $7 -108,000;
ns it'pnsscd the .lenuto it appropriated
$lo.020,000; as now reported from tho
conference committee it npproprlated
$!,!H:t,800. Tlio conference report wns
ngreed to without disciihrdou and without
division. The seuato then resumed tho
consideration of thn bill for tho forfeiture
of certain railroad land grants in Michi
gan, and tho bill was passed without divis
ion. Other bills weie taken from tho cal
endar nnd posted as follows: Senate bill
to tint horizi) tlio construction of a bridge
ni rosi tlio Missouri river at or near Yank
ton, D. T.; somite lull to ipiiot the title of
settlers on Des Moines river lands in Iwn.
The legislative appropriation bid was re
ceived from tho Iioiimo aud read the first
and second time, Senator Edmunds not
being present, aud referred to tho commit
tee on appropriations.
Housi-:, March 1. On motion of Mr.
TowiiMcnd, of Illinois, the bill tanking ap
propriations for the payment of Mexican
ponsioiiH'wiiH passed. It appropi iates $2,
1100,000 for tho remainder of Iho current
fiscal year and $4,000,000 Tor tho next fls
rul year. The conference report on the In
dian appropriation bi'l was submitted nnd
agreed to. Mr. Humes of Missouri moved
to Hiinpend the rules aud pas- tliodeliciency
appropriation bill. Another hour was con
sumed in reading this measure. The mo
tion to suspend the rules' was agreed toand
tho bill wiih passed with tho amendment
appropriating $27,000 for printing addi
tional silver certitlcntcH and legal tender
notes of the denominations of 51 aud $2.
Mr. Holuiau of Indiana moved to suspend
tho rules and put upou its passage the legis
lative appropriation bill. Tho legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill
thou passed under a suspension of tho
rules. In tho evening session a largo num
ber of bills wero passed authorizing tlie cou
nt ruct ion of bridges, among them tho fol
lowing: Across tlie Mixsouri river at Kan
sas City and at Omaha; across tlio Missis
sippi river at Keokuk. Adjourned.
Sknatk, March 2. The house amend
ment to tho senate bill authorizlngabridgo
across the Missouri river between Omaha
und Council ltluffs was, on motion of Sen
ator Wilson of Iowa, concurred in. Tho
senate proceeded to tho consideration of
the naval appropriation bill. A number
of amendments wero offered and adopted,
alter which tho bill passed. Senator Hoar,
from the conference committee on the Pa
cillc railroad inquiry bill, made a report
which was agreed to. Tlio bill now goe-i to
tho president. On motion of Senator Ma
hone the sena'.o bill for the eiectii fa
national memorial Inidge ovtr the l'oto
nine from Washington to Arlington was
taken up and passed. It appropriates.
$000,000 to commence tho bridge, which
is to be in honor of Lincoln and Grunt.
Senator Cullom proponed aniendiuei.t pro
viding that tho salaries of judges of tlio
district courts of tlio Unite I States in
cluding judges of the supremo court of the
Disti ll t of Columbia, shall bo $5,000 per
annum, and that no person related to any
justice or judge of any of the United States
courts within tho degreo of first cousin
shall hereafter be appointed to any olilco
of the court ol which such justice or judgn
Is u member; was agreed to, nnd tho bill
was then passed, 44 to 0.
Housi-:, March 2, Tho rules wero sus
pended, on motion of Mr. Crisp, aud the
seuato amendments to the house joint
resolution for tho investigation of tho ac
counts of the Pacific railroads wore non
concurred In. The senate amendments to
the naval appropriation bill were not con
curred in, and Messrs. Herbert, Sayers,
and Thomns, of lll.uols, were appointed
i- n erees. On" motion of Voorhees, of
Washington territory, the senate amend
mollis wero concurred in to tho bill unnex
ing a portion of Idaho to Washington ter
ritory. Tho coulerees on tho Pucitic rail
road investigation resolution reached iv
complete agreement. The house conferees
adopt the senate amendment, but tho
cliiuso creating a commission is modified
by striking out tho requirement that tin
roinmlsslouer h ill bo s ibject to continu
ation by the senate, and so arranging tho
phraskiilogy that tho president's power to
appoint them during recess shall be beyond
question. The houso laid on tht table ih
motion to reconsider the vote by which
the house receded from its amendments to
tho senate retaliatory bill. This pussns
tho bill in tho shape in which it paused tho
senate.
TA I.ICISa O I'Ell COXtlUESSIOSA I. WOltIC
Washington special: Senators .Sherman
and Hariis called upou the president to
day to talk over congressional work and
wero informed that an extra session of the
senate would bo necessary. Tho president
said he did not have time to consider the
inter state commerce commission und
would have to delay their nominal ion till
niter the 4th of March, which Is believed to
mean that he Intends to appoint some
member of congress. ltkldes, ho said
there was a commercial treaty peudlngbe
tween the United States and China, and an
extradition treaty between the United
States and Great llrituin, which demanded
attention. It is believed that the extra
will laftt a month.
VA IISELLITXS O VTVO TKIt.
Lo -don, Feb. 25 The house of commons
to night bv a vote of 01 to W rejected Mr.
I'arnrll't amendment exempting from cloture
the committee on supply.
Mr. Frxtou moved the exemption from clo
ture of ant question relating to procedure.
The motion waa negatived, 170 to 60,
HEriSEO LIST OF THE KILLED.
Oflietut LM of the Hilled "nil Wounded lif
the Ilecent IZartliquake.
London, Feb. 25. Dupatchea from Tlcrae
give the following as the official list of the
killed and wounded by the recent earthquakes:
Iljjardo, .100 killed aud wounded; Dlano
Marino, 25'J killed and Injured; Ilrcsano, M
killed and 35 Injured; Dinno Castello, 30
killed; Castellano, 80 killed and many in
Jurcd.
The number of persons killed was greater
than was supposed. It Is estimated that ta
the province of Porto Maurizlo 570 persons
were killed and ISC Injured, and In the prov
ince of Geona ."4 were killed and 27 Injured.
Bajanlo and Dlano Marino were the only
places destroyed, while Croo was partially
damaged.
The churches at li.ij.inlo, Castellano and
Aurlgo were thrown down by the severity of
the shock.
Genoa, Feb. 25. The earthquake scare haa
not yet abated. Business Is almost completely
paralizcd aud the streets are filled wltn pro
pie. Nearly all of the Inhabitants remaining
in this cltv slept last night In the open air or
took refuge on board the many vessels anchor
ed In the harbor. At least 20,000 people, tur
Ista and resident, have fled the city, inanv of
them leaving all their belongings behind, and
racli railway train departing Is filled with tcr-ror-striclien
men, women aiuLchtldren.
HANOI-Its OllfSIli:!) TO HEATH.
Further details have been lecelvcd from
Diatio Marino phoning the dlfastrrt at thut
place to have been greater than was supposed
from previous reports.
When the shock came a dance was In pro
Kress In a huge house situated near a church.
Without warning the house fell upon the heads
of the dancers and the church toppled over
upon the house. Subsequent examination dis
closed the dead piled In heaps where tliey
were caught by the falling buildings.
beneath many of tho ulldiugs destrojed
were lsrge tanks containing new olive oil,
the manufacture of which is the chief Indus
try of the town, which it was Intended nt the
proper season to export to France and Ger
many. Many of these are found to be perfect-
dry, their contents having escaped
through the fissures caused b the earthquake,
while from others the oil wns expelled by the
debris iihlch filled them.
Some soldiers exploring the ruins nt Dlano
Marino yesterday found'Judge Kossl beneath
the ruins of Ills house, but alive. They at
tempted to extricate him and, seizing him by
the legs, tiled to pull htm out. They suc
ceeded In freeing his body from the weight
which held him when a beam fell from nbove,
killing the judge and wounding his resctiero.
ivai.bs not A hit RCAticn.
Cannks. Feb. 25. The Prince of Wale,
while here, stacd at a hotel some distance p
the mountain. When the earthquake shocks
were felt his attendants Implored him to leave
the houe, ami he replied: "Since the shocks
aro over and the hotel not falling, I prefer to
remain where I nm In bed."
Great damage wns done In the villages
around Nice. The Montfort chateau at Colic
Islenuliig like the far famed tower of Pisa.
The queen of Wurtcmhcrg has given 200
for the relief of the dlstresse 1 sufferers and
the king and government of Italy have sub
scilbediMO.OOO. Nick. Feb 25. Fifteen thousand persons
have left here within the ln-t two days, and
the exodus from nil parts of the rlviera con
tinues. All the stations arc blocked with
people, and the railway facilities are taxed to
their full cxtcxt dav and nitrht.
A nUMEtiY FOlt STUIICES.
A Hill Submitted to the Sew York Legisla
ture. Albany dispntch: The report of tho
ninjority of tho legislative committee in
the recent strike and on tho high price of
coal, reaches certain conclusions which aro
embodied in a bill which the committee
recommends to be passed, Tho first sec
tion of tlie bill provides that tho civil
courts shall have power to enforce, on
application of tho people or of the party
injured, tlio performance by corporations
of duties of a public nature, including tlio
usual and customnry conveniences of
shelter, safety and dispatch of business.
The recommendations of tho railroad
commissioners upon subjects within thoir
jurisdiction shall bo prima facie evidence of
the merits of the application.
The second section makes it unlawful for
n corporation to agree witli another cor
poration to limit production of fuel or
food. It makes it unlawful by force,
duress, or mandate of other than lawful
authority, to prevent free voluntary labor
of a person of suitable ago for any em
ployer he mny choose. This s.ction shall
not prevent tlio united action by peacetul
menus for the redress of a grievance com
mon to a class seeking such redress.
Tlie third section provides that the state
board of arbitrators may accept tho sub
mission in writing of tho differences be
tween employers and employes, and then
written annrda shall bo prima facio evi
dence in all courts of tho facts and con
clusions therein stated in favor and
against tho parties submitting and their
principals and uguuts.
i:xrii .s;.sso.v of costliness.
Washington dispatch: Tho prospect of
nn extra session of congress resulting from
a failure to pass all needed and necessary
impropriation bills is seriously discussed
hero to-night; and one is sure to como un
less congress transacts inoro business
within the remnlning four legislative days
of tho session than it has been known to
do tor tho Inst twenty years. Opinions of
members of the appropriation committees
of tho two houses are most valuable in
predicting a result one way or another,
and leading and well-informed members of
theso committees differ about it. Mr. Alli
son, chairman of the seuato appropria
tions committee, feels doubtful, while Mr.
Peek, another member of thnt committee,
thinks it extremely doubtful whether all
tlio appropriation bills can bo cleared up
in time tor adjournment at noon next Fri
day. Representative Lefevre, of tho house
appropriation committee, says things are
In a bad muddle, and thinks thepassngo
ol all appropriation bills before tlio time
fixed for adjournment looks doubtful Mr.
lUudall, chairman ot the house committee,
ami who, perhaps, knows bettor than any
congressman tho u mount ot work to be
done beforo the day of adjournment, thinks
there is ample time to pass all the appro
priation bills. Ho hns purposely delayed
on appropriation bills in order to prevent
during Iho last days ot congress a rush of
unnecessary and perhaps pernicious legis
lation. Frequently tlio last six days of the
session hns witnessed a scramble for tho
passage, under suspension of tho rules, of
all sorts ot bills, good, bad nnd indifferent,
and Mr. Knudnll, it is said, is determined
this year to prevent a recurrence of such
hasty legislation by keeping the appro
priation bills in tlio way and using up tho
remaining time ot tlio session with their
consideration and passnge.
"YTIt I'JiSSIOS VETO.
Now York special: Inquiries by th
World show that there la practically u
unat :mous call from the Grand Army men
ot New York and other state for congress
to override the president's veto on the de
pendent pareuta pension bill. Only one ot
the general olll. eis and iimb or two nt the
council of luiiiilnidtiatlou heard from eur
port tho veto, but in this city and I'rook
fyn tho vote ol p.xt couiiuuiiilera and lead
ing G. A. II.. men Interviewed stands in
lavor of Hie veto to 21 against. Editori
ally the World supports the veto.
THE ASSEXATIOS QVESTIOS.
It is Iteing Discussed by the Peojtle of Sew
foundtand.
New York dispatch: A Halifax dispatch
to the World says: The publication ot the
nddrese ot the Newfoundland legislature to
the imperial government has produced n
sensation. II it is not a declaration of in
dependence, it is the next thing to it. No
such defiant document hns been received
by the imperial government from any col
ony since the American colonies.
The Newfoundlanders tell the imperlnl
government that they own their fisheries
and do not propose to pay the slightest
heed to Frencli or American interests or
brook any iuterferenre from the impenial
government. Newfoundland, in fact, stands
on tlio right to make its own laws, control
its own property and preserve itsexlstenee
ns a community, let the effect be wh t it
may, The situation it so serious Hint
both Premier Thornburn and Sir Ambrose
Shea, leader of the opposition, hnvo left
the legislature to take care of itnelf and
gono to London to represent tho
dangerous chnraeter of tho prevailing
feeling in Newfoundland. Meanwhile
while the preB.s and people aro universally
discussing tho benefit of niinexatioii to the
United States. Anything would be better
than the present stnto of affairs, and if
annexation wero submitted to a popular
voto it would be canied by a three-fourths
majority. Newfoundland finds itself be
tween the devil und the deep sen. On one
bnnd it is driven out of the European iiiur
kets by French rivals, who receive boun
ties from tho French government equal to
GO percent, nnd they are compelled by the
English government to supply tho French
rivals with bail, without which they could
not catch a single fish. On the other baud
they aro at the mercy of Americans, for
strange as it may b-ciii, the treaty of 1818
nover having been put, into operation in
Newfoundland by royal proclamation, is
null and void ns far as that colony is con
cerned, and overy denial of commercial
privileges to American vessels last year
had not even tho authority of thnt anti
quated treaty for excuse. Hence t lie neces
sity of a bait bill which is denied them in
England.
IlESVLTS OF Till! QUAKE.
I.0NH0N, March 1. The following Is an offi
cial list of the Italian earthquake victims:
Alaslo, 8 dead and S Injured; Albenga, CO In
jured; Alblssola, li dead and 12 Injured; ba
jaulo, 230 dead and 30 injured; Hussano, 80
dead and'27 injured: Castellaro, 41 dead and
Ii5 In jure J: Ccrlana, 5 dead and Vi Id lured;
Dbino-Stello. !!5 dead and 10 Injured; Dlano
Mariano, ISO dead nnd 05 injured; Montalto
Llgue, ldead and 3 Injured; Noll, Hi dead nnd
12 Injured; Oneglla, 2:1 dead and 150 injured;
Ponpeiana, S dead aud 7 Injured; I'orto Mau
rizlo. 1 dead and 10 Injured; Savona, 11 dead;
'laggla, S dead, and 14 lujured; Triosa, 14
dead and 9 Injured.
Twenty thousand persons are homeless.
The material losses are estimated at $10,000,
000, falling mostly upou Industrious villages.
The fishermen "in tlie harbor of Genoa, on
the night preceding tho earthquake, noticed
tiiat the sea had retreated a yard more than
usual, and instinctively feeling that something
was about to happen, they remained the whole
night in their boats.
The Inhabitants of Oncglla complain that
the authorities neglect them because of the
belief that the towii suffered lefs damage than
did others. On the contrary, they say, al
though the walls ot the houses, being well
built, withstood tlio shocks, all the interiors
collapsed, lu consequence of which 9,000 per
sons are compelled to live In sheds and tents,
suffering gieatly through exposure to wind and
rain.
Of the three hundred bodies buried at Diano
Marino only five were Identified. Five thou
sand persons are still camping out. The air Is
becomiug horribly offensive, owing to the
stench arising from the corpses that are yet in
the ruins.
Thn structures In which tho Injured at
Itajardo were sheltered were blown down by
the wlud. and before the helpless patients
could be removed to a place of safety they
were all covered with snow and half dead from
cold.
Seventy Trench Miners Perlah.
Pauls. March 1. An explosion occurred to
day In the Ileaubrun collieries, at St Etlennc,
when clghtv men were In the galleries. Six
of these were rescued unhurt, aud four taken
out more or less Injured, and the seventy
others are supposed to be all dead.
Six Hundred C'lilneso Drowned,
San Francisco, Cau, March 1. Advices by
tho steamer Gaelic from Hong Kong state
that a Chinese junk going lrom Hainan to
Ham was recently wrecked oil the Soctray
toast, nnd out of GOO passengers and crew
aboard only six were kuown to have escaped.
LOG A S'S LAST ItESTISU FLA CIS.
Chicago dispatch: Tlie commission ap
pointed by the legislature to take inchargo
tlio election of a monument in honoroftho
Into Gen. J-'lin A, L"gnn, met to-day iu
this city. Mrs Logan was present at the
meeting and niiuoiiiieod that sho had de
cided upon Chicago us tlio final interment
of the remains of her illustrious husband
and that she had selected Jackson park as
the location of tho monument to boerected
with the express understanding that Gen.
Logan's remains shall be placed in tho base
of said monument. Mrs. Logan also stated,
when asked to give her views as to tho
character of the monument, that tier ideas
in tho matter wore crudo at present. All
she desired was a lasting monument. The
monument commission will now ask tlio
legislature to authorize tho park commis
sioners to grant tho sito selected by Mrs.
Logan.
The Millionaire Club.
The present United States senate Is largely
a club of millionaires, says a Washington dis
patch. John Sherman, tho president of the
senate Is a rich man. Nelson W. Aldrlch of
Rhode Islaud Is credited with having $750,000.
William Ii. Allison of Iowa Is credited with a
quarter a of million. He has always been very
closely allied with western railroad Interests
Brown of Georgia Is worth between $;i,000,0 0
aud $4,000,000. Camdeu of West Virginia Is
worth several millions. Cameron of Pennsyl
vania Is worth $4 000,001. He Is related bv the
closest of ties to the Pennsylvania railroad
company. Cheney from New' Hampshire U a
millionaire wltn many urge mauuiaciuring
Interests. Dolpli of Oregou has grown rich
out of his clientage, furnished by tlie Northern
Pacilic railroad. EJinimns of Vermont Is a
millionaire. He lias the reputation of having
a large corporation, practice. Kustis of Louisi
ana Is rich, but Is not identified with corpora
tions. Evarts of New York has been a coror
ation lawyer all his life. Fair of Nevada is
worth $ '0.000.000 aud Is Intimate with the
Pacific railroad magnates. Gibson of Louisiana
Is rich aud Is Interested In southern railroads.
Gorman of Maryland has a large fortune.
Hale of Maine is a very rich man aud his sym
pathies are with the rich. Jones of Nevada Is
supposed to be again a millionaire. He Is al
ways friendly to the Pacific railroads. Mahone
of Virginia Is a millionaire and Is Interested
In southern railroads. Waruer Miller Is rich.
Mitchell of Oregon belongs to the Northern
Pacific railroad. Palmer of Michigan Is worth
two or three millions. Payne of Ohio, has a
moderate fortune, but has close relation
through his son with the Staudard oil company.
Sawyer of Wisconsin and his associate. Spoon
er, are rich men and very closely Identified
with railroads. Sewell of New Jersey Is ac
tively identified with the lallroad Interest of
that state. Stanford of California Is worth
f 30, 000,000 or $40,000,000 aud Is the president
of the Central Pacific
Reports from Benkleman are thnt ln
migrants arc coming in by tho carloads.
THE OV113IAS SITUATIOS.
lllsmarch's Victory a Tliorough One in AH
Hesprcls.
London dispatch: The sensitive barom
eter ot the stock exchange hns been show
ing of late a degree of steadiness which in
dicates the prevalence of fnitli In the great
European' bureaus that the political at
mosphere Is not iu immediate danger of
disturbance by wnr. Princo Hlsinnrck has
curried his point intlieGerii.au election,
ami has obtained in tlie now reichstag not
ml sitflicient .strength to insure tho pns
suge ot tlie f.eptounate bill, but nlso a good
working majority for bis general policy of
government. Hoinightnot be able to push
his monopolistic prospects to an extreme
but he bus obtained the inn.itery of parlia
ment by thu success of his appeal to tho
electors, and as long as ho keeps within
reasonable bounds ho can count upon
shaping legislation at his pleasure.
Ai cording to tho latest figures Irora
lluili 1 330 members uro defi
nitely elei-ted, leaving sixty-ono districts
in wbic'i supplementary elections will be
hold. The elected members comprise 105
suppnrteis and 141 opponents of thesep
teiiiinte, a provisional majority ot fifty
four for the nriny policy of the new gov
ernment. In the sixty-one constituencies
wbii-h have still to elect it is estimated
that the result will bo as follows: National
liberals fourteen, conservatives six, tree
conservatives two, a total ot twenty-two
for Iho government; now German liberals
twenty-four, social democrats eight, ultra
niontanes seven, a total of thirty-nine tor
tlm opposition. If this ehtlniat- is borno
out at t lie polls the next reichstag will con
tain 217 supporters and 1M0 opponents of
the seiitennatc, n majority of tlnrty-sevon
for the government 011 that insue. Of tlio
21 7 members classed us seplennists, only
fvo are likely to break wit h tho govern
ment on general issues. Thus it is com
puted that, outsalo of tho army question,
I'l-ince Hismarck will have 21f adherents,
ni nked in three parties; the national liber
als and thetwoconservativodivisions while
tlio combined opposition will number 182
Hindu up of n heterogenous collection of
all shades and stripes, political, economic,
aud national. In tho last reichstag tho
government could muster only 150 sun
porters ngainst 241 opponents. If the.
supplementary elections sustain tlie esti
umto I have given tlie outcome of Princo
Ilisinarek's appeal to tho voters will bo a
con version of a minority of tlie five into a
ninjority of thirty-three, a relative gain of
eleven for the government. The national
liberals, who form the main body of the
supporter.-of the administration have, as
their actual sentiment, 11 desire to perpet
uate the institution .ntablished ufter the
wars ot 1SG0 and 1S70. Hence, though
they do not give tho chancellor tho blind
support which ho receives from the conser
vative junkers, they aro willing to go to a
considerable length in sustaining him and
form, on tho whole, n trusty prop for his
policy.
WASIIISO rtis GOSSIP.
The total collections of internal revenue
during tho first seven months of tho fiscal
year ending Juno 30, 1S87. were 00,0-18,-807,
being 5837,544 less than the collec
tion during tlie saino period of the last
fiscal year. There was a decrease of $3,
377,570 in tlio collections from spirits; an
increase of $878,500 from tobacco; nn in
creaso of 1,233,512 from fermented liqu
ors nnd an increase of $09,335 from mis
cellaneous objects. Tho total receipts
lrom oleomargarine up to February 1 last
wero $355,509. Tlie aggregate receipts for
January, 1887, were $2 1 G,790greater than
those for January, 1S80.
Mr. Montgomery, commissioner of pat
ents, called 011 the president nnd notified
him of his desire to return to the practice
nt his profession in Michigan iu the early
summer. The president expressed regret
at losing tlie assistance of so valuable nn
olllcer, and requested him to remain iu
olilco until ho had an opportunity of lind
i'lg a worthy successor.
The friends of tlio nnti-Mormon bill aro
much excited over tlio report thnt tho
president is seriously contemplating a voto
of the Mormon bill. Tho foundation for
the report is tho statement of a member ot
the administration. It is said that tho
president considers many features of tho
bill unconstitutional and some of them are
oppressive. Tho Mormon lawyers lmvo
seemed to have new confidence in the Insc
few days that there wns to be a turn in tho
tide in their favor and they are mysterious
in their suggestions that they may yet bo
successful at tho white house.
Secretary Manning lias requested Assist
ant Secretary Faircliild to continue to act
as secretary of tho treasury, as he does
not euro to resume his oiliciul duties at
present.
LINCOLN AS A LOVER.
Tlie J)oop Itevcronco niut Itespcct
Which Ilo Hn tertiitiied for "Women.
Upon .1 temperament thus predisjiosed to
look !'" things lu their darker aspect, It might
naturally be expected that a love-affair which
was not perfectly happy would bo pro Juctlve of
great inl-ery. But Lincoln seemed especially
chosen to the keenest suffering in such a con
juncture. The pioneer, as a rule, was compar
atively free from any troubles of the imagina
tion. To quote Mr. McCounell: 'There was
no lomance In his (the pioneer's) composition.
He had 110 drciimlues!; meditation was no
part of his mental habit; a poetical fancy
would, lu lihu.hiive been an indication of Insan
ity. If he a-clliied at the foot of a tree, on a still
summer day, It was to sleep; if he gazed out
over the waving prairie, It was to si-arch for
the column of smoke which told of his ene
mies' approach; If he turned his eyes to the
blue heaven it was to prognosticate to-inor-row's
ram or sunshine. If lie bent his ga2e
t.avards the green eai th, it was to look for
Indian sign1 or bulfalo trail. His wife wa
only a helpmate: he never thought of making
a divinity of her." Hut Llucolu could uever
have claimed this happy immuulty from Ideal
tilals, ills published speeches uo"
much the poet In him was constantly Kept in
check; am! at this time of his life his Imagina
tion was sutlleiently alert to Inlllct upon him the
sharpest anguish. Ills reverence for women,
was to deep and tender that he though an
Injury too ue of them was a sin too heinous
to be expiated. No Hamle . dreaming ; amid,
the turrets of Elslnore, uo HJnev, cnB
shlva.rous Arcadia, was fuller of m st c and
linrlmiv fnneles of the worth and Ulgultv ot
woman tha This backwoods political!. Few
men ew ivYd more sensitively and de Icate y
nder towards tho sex.-AW- and Hay, in.
TbeJrVench senate, by a vote of 210 to 36,
bas XI dated In the budget the credit for sub
perfect which caused DeFreyciuet's fall
Ithaabeen definitely ascertained that when
ever a man becomes convinced that he saw
genlua a fringe slowly begins to form ou hit
tlnuser leg. JNchmond SUxte.
lr. Howard Croaby, In a lecture before tno
studenta of Rutgers college, contended that
Intemperance must be dealt with as a sin, m
the pledge his proven a failure, and that toe
use of wine should not be conaemued.
Grand Island merchants have discon
tinued the practice of canvassing at resi
dences for grocery orders.
A collision between a New York Central
train and a switch-engine at Poughkecpsle re
ulted In fatal njurics to the engineer and
treman of the latter.