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, 1890-04-08
FOR SHORTER HOURS
Seven Thousand Chicago Car.
penters Quit Work.
Sympathetic Bricklayers Also
Lay Down Their Tools
Eight Hours as a Days Work
and 40c. Per Hour.

CHICAGO, April THE carpenters
strike took place this morning according
to programme. 1t is estimated hat be.
tween 5000 and 5000 are out. Carpen
ter work on nearly all large Jobs is brought
to a standsull, The strike is for eight
hours as a days work. wages forty cents
per hour. No trouble Is anticipated from
any quarter vet.
Tonight il is estimated that about 1000
men are out. In some places the brick
layers went out with the carpenters out
OF sympathy and it is reported the entire
body of bricklayers will be called out I'M
less the trouble is settled within a week.
In any event nearly all The other building
trades will have to stop work soon unless
the carpenter strike is settled. In that
event $4,000 men will be idle. Some
contractors wishing to complete work on
hand today offered to accept the mems
terms. but the brotherhood is after the
Builders Association and refuses to let
anyone return to work until that body has
recognized the union. President Goldie
of the Builders Exchange thinks it will
be at least a week before the strike is
settled.
, 1890-04-08

New YORK. April THE stock
market up to noon today was lower. but
movements except in a few specialize,
we're entirely insignificant. Late in the
day the tone of the market underwent a
marked change for the better, principally
because there were more favorable advices
in regard to the Western situation and
the East in a few instances. The losses
incurred during the earlier portion of the
day were entirely wiped out. Pacific
Mail made a sharp squirt owing to some
talk about a contest over the election
which will take place next month. The
close was quiet but firm, generally at
slight losses from the closing on Saturday.
Money on call easy, 2(65.
Government bonds steady.
Petroleum opened weak at 81, sagged
of | cent. then rallied, but gave away
again later and closed weak.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific Is. ll6; American Express, ll44;
Canada Pacific, 70; Canada Southern,
SIS; Central Pacific, 81; Burlington,
l0S3; Delaware, Lackawanna 4 Western,
1853; Denver & Rio Grande, Is; Erie,
24s; Kansas K Texas. %; Lake Shore,
1914; Louisville 4 Nashville, S19; Michi-
gan Central. 9S5; Northern Pacific, BIZ;
New York Central, 1914; Oregon In
provement, l46; Oregon NaviRa
ton, 9s3; Oregon Short Line. As;
T-ranseontinental, 37j; Pacific Mail
3Ss; Reading, 400; Rock Island,
9ls; Milwaukee Il st. Paul, est: Texas
Pacific, 1871; Union Pacific, 62; United
States Express, Sc; Fargo Express, 40;
Western Union, SI5; American cotton
oil 26s.
CHICAGO. April 7.-Cattle-Receipts,
l,5OO; Market strong and l0c higher
Beeyes, $4,000 !. 20; steers, SO 25(64 80;
stockers and feeders. 81. 5O(04 10;
Texas steers. 81 1908 10.
Sheep-Reccipts 5000. Market strong
and 10 to l5c up. Natives. 81. 75GG 90;
Westerns corn fed SIS 1905 IS; Texans,
S3.75(GS5.6O
The DrOvers' Journals special cable
gram from Lonlon quotes American cat
tie steady at lO4Gl2 per pound.
Wheat-Market firm. Cash, so,
May. 500
Corn-Market steady. Cash, 500; Nav,
2OE
, 1890-04-08

WAsHINGToN, April 7.-Morriil of
Kansas, moved to suspend the rules and
pass with the tubstitute) the senate bill
granting pensions to soldiers and sailors
who are incapacitated from the perform
ance of labor, and providing for pensions
to widows and minor Children of depend
ent parents.
Springer demanded a second and the
motion was seconded-l2S to 81.
Morrill, briefly explained that the sub
stitute provided for a service pension of
IS per month to soldiers who have
reached the age of 60 years or who are
dependents. He thought the same priu
clple which had been applied to the vet
Grams of the war of 1872 and the wal
with Mexico should be applied to the vet
Grams of 1861.
In answer to a question he stated it was
estimated hat the senate bill would re-
quire an annual expenditure of 500, OOO.-
600 and the house substitute S39, 900, 900.
After debate the house refused to sus-
pend the rules and pass the senate pen
sion bill with the house substitute-yeas.
l69' nays S7-not the necessary two;
thirds vote in the affirmative.
Flower moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill increasing from 81, 600 to
5000 per annum the salary Of the SUI
pervising surgeon general of The Marine
hospital service, A long debate ensued
but the molten to suspend the rules failed.
The house then went into com mittee
of the whole on the naval appropriation
bill. Without action the committee rose
and the house adjourned.
, 1890-04-08

The other morning as Luther Evans, a
son of L. L. Evans, went to the field for
his team on the Barber Darling place,
near Sequel, he discovered that an ami
NAL, which he supposed was a dog, was
worrying one of the horses. As he drove
nearer he saw that the animal was not a
dog, but an exceedingly lively specimen
of the California lion, which was making
a vicious attack upon the horse, biting
and scratching it with leonine ferocity.
The horse was making the best defense
possible, rearing and kicking, and was
aided by his mate, but the lion was very
evidently getting the best of the fight
and would soon have secured an equine
breakfast. As young Evans. who was
on horseback, rode up the lion crouched
on the ground for a moment and ran to
the woods. The horse had been badly
bitten on the TANKS, neck and belly and
was nearly exhausted from loss of blood,
but under proper treatment is expected
to recover.-Santa Cruz Surf.
, 1890-04-08

BERLIN. April Bismarck has been
granted a pension of $6.75O.
Aclerk named Bunk has been sentenced
to three months Imprisonment for at
tempting to extort money from the ex
chancellor.
Marked changes arc about to be made
in the uniform of the German army.
Conspicuous among them will be the abo-
lition of the famous Prussian military
cap and tie adoption of one made from
the American pattern. The stand up
collar is also donned. These and other
innovations are to follow the introduction
OF smokeless powder and are intended TO
add still further to the invisibllity of the
soldiers in action. Even the picturesque
red hussars and other gaily dressed regi-
ments will have to be re-clothed.
, 1890-04-08

Is recoverable, not by the use of mineral
sedatives, but by a recourse to effectual
tonic treatment. Opiates and the like
should only be used as auxilaries, and
then as srar'ngly as possible. Vigorous
nerves NJ N at ones, and the most d.
rect way /" irn Ter them so is To reinforce
the vital energies. That sterling i~nvigor-
ant. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, will be
found all sufficient for this purpose,
since it entirely removes impediments to
thorough digestion and assimilation of
the food. so that the body is insured its
due amount of n~orrishment, and conse-
quently Of stamina. Rheumatic tenden-
cies ana affections of the kidneys and
bladder are also counteracted by the Bit
tiers, which is besides a pleasant medicin-
al stimulan', infinitely purer than the
raw e~xcitants of commerce. which react
iniuriously upon the nervous system,
, 1890-04-08
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Stanley has lett Cairo for Brussels.

Stanley has lett Cairo for Brussels.
The Lancashire handicap, steeple chase,
was won by Hex.
The Kempton Park Easter handicap
was won by Bruce.
The Chicago plumbers strike has been
settled, both sides making concessions.
Yesterdays temperature-New York
540, New orleans 64o. st. Louis 640, Gin
cinnati GO, Chicago 800. Winnipeg $40.
Joseph f. Meeks, referee in the Flack
case, surrendered himself yesterday to
undergo his sentence of thirty days in
jail.
I. McGann. indicted in San Francisco
recently for using the mails to detraud,
was captured in Bennington, Ill, yester-
day.
Kemp, the Australian oarsmau, has &C
cepted McLean's challenge to row. The
race will take place three weeks after the
contest between Kemp and Matterson.
Upon an appeal by Armour & Co, of
Chicago, Judge Hughes of Richmond,
Va. rendered a decision declaring the
state meat inspection law contrary to the
federal constitution.
Turkish troops have pillaGed the
churches and insulted the Christians in
the province OF Gambia, Crete. At the
request of the foreign consuls the COVER
nor has ordered an inquiry into the out
RACES.
The Iowa senate passed the house joint
resolution asking congress to pass laws for
the protection OF minors in territori Is;
also asking that the act for the refundipg
of the Union Pacific Indebtedness be not
passed.
A meeting of the board of direc tors Of
the Hutchinson, Oklahoma & Gulf rail
road has resulted in pushing forward the
construction of the road. 1t is reported
the road will be operated by the Union
Pacific.
VIM, Galloway. who ran the first loco
motive on the Baltimore & Ohio road, is
dead. He retired in 1887, and was prob
ably the Oldest locomotive engineer in the
world. At the time OF his death he was
81 years old.
Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia has
written a letter to Prime Minister Crispi
authorizing Italy to represent him at the
Brussels anti slavery congress and affirm
ing the intention of Ethiopia to follow
the example of Christian nations and re-
press the slave trade.
A New York jury yesterday declared
that Miss Harriet Coffin was insane. She
is the granddaughter and heiress of the
late Judge Coffin of Cincinnati. She has
been about a year in a private asylum on
account of her eccentric behavior toward
Kyrle Bellew, the actor.
The secretary of the treasury yesterday
appointed Henry w. Elliott special agent
OF the treasury. with a compensation of
$40 per diem, to obtain full and authentic
information in regard to the Alaska fish,
ing interests under the provisions of the
special act Of congress approved April 5.
, 1890-04-08

1t is not generally known that COM
mon salt is an admirable remedy for
neuralgia. DIR. George Leslie gives
details of thirty or forty cases of facial
and other neuralgias, odontalgia, etc,
which have been cured, in most in
stances simultaneously, by the in
sutllation of common salt. The salt
was either ''snutfed% or blown up the
nostrils. He said he had been uusuc-
cessful in only two cases; both of
these were cases of old standing, which
had been treated frequently by NOR
phine injections New York Com
inercial Advertiser.
, 1890-04-08

Carl Michael, the only professional
cattisher in the state, reports business
brisk and n good demand. He is catch
ing 400 pounds per day of this toothsome
delicacy, and sells all he gets to city
dealers, who ship the meat TO northern
hotels, where it is served up US bass and
sheepshead to the uususpecting guest.
He strings ropes between the pilings
along under the docks, and on them at
taches his hooks with short lines about
four feet apart like a trawl line. He
visits them with u BOAT every day and
emove the captures, getting one cent a
pound from the dealer. The heads and
fins are cut off before shipping, thus re-
moving suspicion as to their humble and
lowly natures. F1orida's are
as yet almost unknown, and this indus
try is in its nfancy.-Jacksonville Times
Union.
, 1890-04-08
TORN BY A TORNADO.
Prophetstown, Illinois, Swept
by a Terrible Cyclone.
A Stock Train of Forty Cars
Blown Away.
The B. & nj. to Extend Its Line
in Wyoming.
Prophetsrown ParaIyzed.

BURLINGTON, Iowa, April The re-
port reaches here late tonight by railroad
wires that Prophetstown, Ill, has been
partially blown away by a cyclone and
many people killed. No other uarticu
lars can be learned, as the wires are now
Frustrated by the storm.
Inquiries sent in all directions up to |
O'Clock have failed to bring further par
ticulars of the storm. The first report,
through railroad people, was that a stock
train was Just leaving the town when the
storm struck it, forty cars being blown
away. The report also stated that the
town was almost completely swept away.
1t seems doubtful it the report can be
verified tonight.
Prophetstown is on the Clinton branch
of the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy
railway, in Whitesides county, and is one
o. the oldest tewns in the state. 1t has
a population of 800 inhabita nts.
, 1890-04-08

There is greatscare in the Mt. Moriah
neighborhood near Burgin, Ky. 1t APP
pears that some time ago a cat in that
vicinity was bitten by a mad dog. The
inoculated feline spread the disease until
now nearly every cat in the township has
the rabies and the people are almost panic
stricken. The brutes are far more Zero
cious than mad dogs, and actually pur-
sue people, A few days ago Miss Agnes
Bonita, one of the best known young
ladies of the county, while walking
through the yard, was attacked by one
of the rabid animals, which pursued her
to her room and kept her the rcuntil she
was rescued by members of her family.
More than a dozen persons have been
bitten.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
, 1890-04-08

WASHINGTON, April The service
pension bill introduced today in the house
by Boothman provides substantially as
follows: 1t grants n service pension OF
one cent per month for each days service
to every man who served in the Union
army during the late war without regard
TO age. 1t provi es hat those soldiers
who now receive disability pensions may,
# they choose, r%elinquish their disability
pension and accept the service pension.
The widows of those drawing a service
pension will be placed on the rolls at IS
per month during widowhood, but have
the right to prosecute and obtain a pen
sion under the present law by showing
that the husband died from disability CON
tracted in the service and line of duty.
The bill also grants pensions of So per
month to minor children under Is years
of age of soldiers who die while drawing
pensions and if any children are so help
less as to require the help of another pen
sion is to continue during this helpless. Ii
a widow dies or remarries before her
children attain the age of l6 her pension
Is to be paid TO them until they attain that
are.
, 1890-04-08

The pew in old St. Michaers church,
Charleston, S. c., occupied by Vice
President Morton a few Sundays since
has been the property of the Wander
horst family for many years, and has
been occupied in the past by men whose
names are familiar to the readers of
American history.
The pew was N occupied by George
Washington. The Duke of Newcastle,
Henry Clay and Gen. Robert E. Lee
have also been among its occupants, and
rumor has it that Martin Van Buren, was
= tenant of the same ew.-Cor. Chicago
Times,
, 1890-04-08

The plague of rats reported in some
portions of England continues to be as
bad as ever, and all sorts of plans are
tried for getting rid of the rodents.
News also comes from the Laccadive ISL
ands of a similar experience, the rats
having destroyed the |cocoanut planta-
tions and reduced the inhabitants to des.
titution> The plaster of Paris cure il
being tried. 1t consists in sprinkling
plenty of powdered plaster of Paris upor
boiled rice. After eating it the rats be
come thirsty, it is said, and when they
have drunk the water hardens tn,
plaster of Paris and kills them.-Sar
Francisco Chronicle.
, 1890-04-08

CHICAGO, April THE coroner's in
quest into the case OF the death Mr.. and
Mrs. Newland of Englewood, has been
adjourned until the 18th III order to give
time for an analysis OF the stomachs and
some of the food partakcn of at the fatal
supper. The domestic. Mamie Stearns,
played the insanity dodge for a time this
morning and afterwards told some more
conflicting stories. She professed to be
able to find the box of poison where she
threw it, but on being taken to the SPOT
failed. She has been proven to be a
loose character. having been intimate with
different men 10 Lafayette, Fit. Wayne
and Chicnpn-
, 1890-04-08

Lizzie o'Connor, employed by the
Waterbury, Conn, Manufacturing COM
pany, died Friday. A few weeks before
she had dreamed of seeing an open grave
toward which was carried the remains
of a young girl. She accepted the dream
as an omen of her death, and named her
pallbearers and chose the robe in which
she was to be laid out after death. The
day she made her arrangements she
caught n cold which developed into
pneumonia and resulted in her DEATH
New York Evening Sun.
, 1890-04-08

An epidemic of sensational suicides has
for some time prevailed in Germany and
Austria. One of the most recent occur
rences of the kind took place in a promi
nent church in Vienna recently. While
the service was in progress a female wor
shipper was seen to be in great pain and
finally gave vent to cries of agony.
Upon being questioned she said she had
taken poison because of poverty. 1t was
too late to render assistance, and the poor
woman died in great pain.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
, 1890-04-08

The most singular material for book.
making Is proposed by Professor Cas-
taguultl, and partially carried out by
Professor %BurIham, of Brunswick.
Ills idea WAS 10 make a book indestruc-
tihlc by printing in gold or silver let.
teIa upon thin leaves of asbestos, the
binding To be of a thicker sheet of as
bestoS. Neither time nor fire could
have any effect upon a volume of this
sind, and it might well merit the title
OF the book OF eternity New York
Trlerrnn-
, 1890-04-08

WASHINGTON, April Weather
fairly good and track excellent.
Five furlonGs-Patrocles won, Vivid
second, Aquasco third. Time, l:O4
Mile-Beck won, Pelham second, Fan
ME II third. Time l.429
Halt mile-Best Bay won, Cerise Colt
second, Euston third. Time, O:50.
Three ysar olds aud upwards, six fur
longs-Nina w Won. Louise second Shot
over third. Time, l:l6t.
Handicap, milo and an eighth. over
four hurdles. Bassani won, jun Murphy
second. Dochart fell at third hurdle and
did not finish. Time 2:201.
, 1890-04-08

There IS no question that the Eng
lish people, as a whole, are darkening
fast. This is due to the influence OF
town life. In country districts flint
white children succeed to lint white
parents; but they drift more and more
to the great centers, where in the sec
omd generation they become brown
and i'll the third or fourth develop those
momgrel hucs which distinguish a
city popul ation. And this means that
they dettriorate. st. James Gazette.
, 1890-04-08

The Armenians, who believe hell
and limbo to be the same place, say
judas, after having betrayed the Lord,
resolved TO hang himself because he
knew that Christ was TO go to limbo
and deliver all the souls that he found
there. He thought by killing himself
to get TO limbo in time to be released
with the other wrong doors, but the
devil, knowing his intent, held him
over limbo until the Lord had passed
through, and let him fall into the
abyss OhclD below.-St. Louis Repub-
liz,
, 1890-04-08

Chapicd hands and lips are a com
mon complaint. The best preparation
| ever fond for the hands is: Three
ounces of lemon juice. three ounces of
white wine vinegar and one-half pint
of white brandy, For the lips: Oil of
roses, four ounces; one ounce white
wax, and of spcrEnlccti one-half an
ounce Melt in q glass vessel and stir
with a wooden spoon. Pour into a
china cup or glass M. E. Conlim's
Letter.
, 1890-04-08

LIMA, PERU, April 7.-Seuor Piercl4.
ex-dictator, finding he stood no chance of
winning In the coming presidential cleo
tons, attempted to stir up a riot in this
city. He was promptly committed to
prison by the government, whose action
has the entire support of public opinion.
which refuses to tolerate any more such
Ia wlessness
, 1890-04-08
Emperor williams Recen, Order.

BERLIN, April Ill appears that the
emperor's recent order with reference to
commissioned officers in the army doesn't
increase the pay but lowers the scale of
private income that it is necessary to have
to secure commissions Hereafter aspir-
ants for commissions in the rifles. foot
artillery and pioneers. need not have pri
vate incomes OF more than forty 1--WE
marks monthly. those who seek commits
sions in the field artillery seventy five
marks monthly, and in the cavalry $50
marks monthly.
, 1890-04-08

IF every human being in the
American continent were TO be taken
ont of existence" said the late Pro,
fcssor Asa Gray, and the whole work
of his hands were cleared away, so
that no trace remained, subsequent
historians could prove that the eau
casian race existed by the flowers that
would be found growing ere."-Chi-
cago Times.
, 1890-04-08
End OF an Old Feud.

LOUISVILLE, April AT Chamber
station, near Mount Sterling, yesterday
Will Barnes and Kelly Day we're killed
BY Albin Harnes and George Stephens
Barnes and Day were cousins, aud the
shooting grew out of an old ieui. Day
was a bystander, without any share in the
quarrel. Albin Barnes is fatally wound
, 1890-04-08

DR.. Francis II. Brown, of Boston. has
devised n plan by which six deaf persons
who formerly heard nothing of the ser
mon now hardly miss a word of it when
they attend church. A large sound re-
ceiver stands near the preacher, and
branch speaking tubes run by way of
the floor from it to each of the deaf per-
sons.-New York Evening Sun.
, 1890-04-08

At least four ocean grayhounds will be
on the course this spring. The White
Star line will put on the Majestic, a sister
ship to the Teutonic. The French line
have the new Touraine nearly ready.
The Hamburg line will send out two new
double screw ships, the Bismarck and
the Kaiser Wilhelm. The four fast Gu
narders will not be added to this year
Fycbopga
, 1890-04-08

LOUISVILLE, April lit has Just been
learned that Harper's Ferry, Henry
county. was almost completely destroyed
by a tornado. The village, composed of
less han two dozen houses. is a consider
able distance IRON any railroad, All the
houses we're blown down and the inhabi-
tants buried beneath the RUNS. Two per-
sons were killed and seven or eight badly
injured.
, 1890-04-08

An elephant at Philadelphia died sud-
denly the other day from enlargement of
the heart. Its heart vas found to be alb
normally large. 1t more than filled a
washtub and weighed 1902 pounds. The
big hearted but unfortunate animal was
ia years old.
, 1890-04-08

The Chinese government has ordered
one powerful armorclad, two swift
cruisers and two torpedo gunboats from
English builders, and the two latter have
already been launched. They measure
240 feet in length by 81 feet 6 inches
beam, the maximum draught of water
being 8 feet to 10 feet.
, 1890-04-08

1t has just come out that it is the Gus
tom in many London parishes for the
poor boards to provide able bodied pau
pers with brooms and assign them to
sweep certain crossings, making them
support themselves from what they can
get in this way, and thus reducing the
workhouse expenses proportionately.
, 1890-04-08

HELENA. Mont April In the mu-
nicipal election today, Bradford dem. }
was elected MAYOR. Folk (Oem }. treas
urer; Sanders (Rep.). police magistrate.
The CITY council stands four Republicans
and seven Democrats.
, 1890-04-08

SPOKANE FALLS, April Nineteen
prisoners escaped from the county jail this
morning. While the jailer was making
his rounds he was seized, bound and gag
ged by four prisoners. who liberated the
remainder by unlocking the cells.
, 1890-04-08

Bishop Mackenzie, of Zululand, who
died on Feb. 8 of enteric fever, gave in
structions previous to his demise that his
corpse should be buried i'll Zulu fashion.
Accordingly, no coffin was used, but the
body was tied up in a blanket in a kneel-
ing position and was thus placed in O
hole.-Exchange.
, 1890-04-08

New YoRK. April THE directors
OF the Equitable bank have decided to
close its doors. One OF the directors
claims that of late the bank has been
losing money. Deposits nave dropped
down to a figure where there is very little
profit for the concern. Depositors have
been notified to withdraw their money.
, 1890-04-08

LINCOLN, Neb., April IA contract
was signed today whereby the Burlington
& Missouri River road will build a new
line from the Cheyenne river. Wyoming,
to Deadwood. South Dakota. The extern
sion is one hundred miles long.
, 1890-04-08

CHICAGO, April THE billiard game
tonight between Schaefcr and DAILY was
a walkover for the former. DAILY was al
lowed a handicap OF 200 points, but was
quickly distanced. Scorc-Schaefer 500,
average 90 I II, best runs log, 90, rs. 90
DAILY go, average 5 5 II, best runs Is, Is,
10
, 1890-04-08

A huge squash that had been exhib-
tied in an Auburn (Me.) store window
for months, being cut open, it was
found that the seeds had commenced
TO sprout, and there was a number of
well formed leaves. Philadelphia
Ledger.