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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05

BERLIN. April Am accordance with
b views expressed by the Emperor re-
Gently the cabinet issued an order forbid
ding duelling in the army except in the
council of men of honor, TO which all the
circumstances shall he referred, and who
shall declare the duel necessary.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
The New Law Was Too Late.

NEWPORT, II. l., April 4.-The supple
mentary election here tomorrow will he
under the old voting system, not under
the new ballot law. The law nacted last
week making the new ballot law apply TO
supplementary elections reached Ia sec
rotary Of state loo late.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
The Canvass Completed.

PROVIDENCE II. l.,Aprils.-The canvass
OF the votes cast Wednesday is ended.
Democrats elected - members of the leg
i~slaturc instead of 30, and have to elect II
more to secure a majority in the grand
committee. Republicans nave To elect u
more members To secure the same result.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
Another yank.. Inventor

BERLIN, April i.-Edward Damn Of the
United States army is making a sensation
here by the exhibition of a Monster
balloon for war purposes. The balloon
IL called Bismarck. IL in lighted by
electricity and capable of signalling at "A
tremendous distance. The machine will,
IL IL said, be adopted in the German army.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
The Rumor Denied.

Ell PAso. Texas, April 4.-There is no
truth in the runner that Eyrand, the Paris
assassin, has been caught ut Paso del
Norte. Officials on both sides of the river
deny il. II captured at all il must he mt
Preside del Norte, Texas.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05

From Iiie.
Mr.. Caustique-And so old Mrs. Gadd is
dead"
Mr.. Carry News-Ies, dead and buried.
Mr.. Caustiquc-Dcad and buried
Humph. III wager that by this time she
knows all the family antecedents of the
| women i'm the adjacent lot.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
Chimes. Decoration D.y.

New YORK, April 4.-To-day was a sort
Of decoration day with Chinese, and many
graves in Evergreen and other cemeteries
were visited. Offerings of meats and on-
f~ections were placed thereon, and papers
inscribed with various devices burned
over them.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05

From the Texas Siftiugs.
Judge-How did you come to rob this
man in broad daylight on a ~frequcnted
thoroughfare.
Highwayman-I couldn't help il, Judge
| that week.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
A Natural Indignation.

From ~iIarprr's Bazaar.
Wife: Great heavens, John there were
burglars in the house last night"
Husband: ~ know it-about . o'clock.
The idiots made 70 much noise hat
couldn't Sleep"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
Tn Flood the Entire Mine,

SHAMoRIS, Pa, April i.-Fire in the
Cameron c%ollicry is beyond control. The
entire mine, comprising 25 miles of gal
leries, will have TO he Hooded. IL will
take 40 days to Hood il and nearly a year
20 repair the damage.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
Filing "A Crcditor.r nIii.

CHICAGO, April i.-Danicl Richster Of
New York. filed "A creditors bill In the
United States circuit court TO collect a
judgment Of s76,6a5 obtained before Judge
Blodgett against Joseph Frank on March
IL. as detailed in these dispatches at the
time
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-05
He ,.AM snakes.

From the ~. Louis Magazine.
"Ma,' said youngster, was pa To the
dime museum last night"
my son, why that question ?"
because l heard you ask him IL he had
seen the snakes when he was comm up
stairs 10 bed this morning."
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05

The other night an attempt was made
to blow up the pastoral residence Of
Father Pickering. in charge of the
Gerran Catholic Church Of CHARTERS
borough. near Pittsburgh. Pa. dynamite
being secretly placed in the cellar and
fired. The house was badly wrecked
and the whole neighborhoOd aroused.
Father Pickering and two servant girls
were in the house but escaped uniniured.
president CLAssEN, of the Sixth Ma
tional Bank, New York, and broker
named Pell have been arrested for
frauds in the attempted wrecking Of the
bank. Cashier Colsen gave information
which led to the Illustration of a gigan-
tic swindle. Classen had but recently
obtained control. The Lenox Hill and
the Equitable, two other banks, were
also involved.
CHARLES EDWARD LEsTEE. the New
York author and old-time abOlitionist,
died at Detroit, Mich, recently.
THREE single houses and double
block in the town of Plains, about four
miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa, dropped
nearly out of sight the other day, the
cavern being caused by the ''robbing" of
pillars from the coal mines under the
town.
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
WASHINGTON NOTES.

JUDGE LOUIS GOTTSCHALK, formerly of
St Louis but more recently of Califor-
mia, has been appointed Consul at Stuff
CART, Germany.
PRESIDENT HARRISON expresses him
self as considerably troubled over the
race difficulties in the South.
AT a meeting of the House Committee
on Military Affairs favorabl lie report on
the bill placing General John c. FIRE.
mont on the retired list of the army
With the rank Of Major-General was or
dered.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY WIN
DOM has asked Congress for an appro-
priation of Sl5O,OOO for repairs to the
Chicago public building.
A LARGE delegation of Pennsylvanians
was before the House Committee on War
Claims recently in support of bill for
the reimbursement of the State of Penn
sylvania of about So, OOO, 900 for property
destroyed during the war.
PORTER, Superintendent of the Census.
has prepared instructions to supervisors
desiring speedy and correct work.
ORDERS have been issued from Wash.
ington to allow matters to remain in
statu quo in Oklahoma until Territorial
Government is established.
THE eldest daughter of Hon James G.
Blaine, wife of Colonel Coppinger, was
reported seriously sick at Washington
ON the 31st.
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
THE BANK WRECKERS.
Arrest OF President Classen, the New York
Bank Wrecker, and His Broker.

Arrest OF President Classen, the New York
Bank wrecker, and His Broker.
NEW York, Feb. 1.-GeOrge III. Pell,
the broker, was arrested Thursday night
for the part he took in disposing of the
gilt-edged securities of the Sixth Ma
tiohal Bank. Peter j. Classen, president
of the bank, for whose arrest a warrant
was issued at the same time as that OF
Pell. was at large all night. corps of
United States deputy marshals who had
been in search Of him having been I'M
able to locate him. Yesterday afternoon,
however, he was placed under arrest
while walking on a street.
Yesterday morning Pell was arraigned
before Commissioner Shields, who stated
that the arrest was on charge of aiding
and abetting a bank director in having
unlawfully embezzled and distracted
certain securities. 1T is criminal
charge" added the commissioner.
land you are entitled to an ex-
animation and to bail. 1t is also discre-
tionary with you to make statement
or to refuse to do so. Any thing you
may say will be used against you, so
perhaps you had better say what you
have to say to your counsel for the
present."
Pell was then held in SOS, 900 bonds
for preliminary hearing. Later in the
day President Classen, of the Sixth Ma
tional Bank. surrendered to the officers.
The securities converted and worthless
checks will make the loss Of the bank
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
THE EAST.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM D. WRIGHT,
lately in charge of the signal service sea
coast telegraph lines in New England.
is missing. An examination of his
money accounts shows him defaulter
to the amount of $500.
THE Kittery navy yard. Portsmouth,
n. H., lost two of its buildings by fire
recently. Loss, 100000.
THE Congregational Church at Dan
vile, Mass. has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
IT is stated that DR.. Talmage, of
Brooklyn, n. ", has decided to accept
the editorial chair of the Christian Her
aid, published in New York. DR.. Tai
mage will sever his connection with peri
odical literature and will devote his en-
orgies as editor exclusively to the
Christian Herald.
THE Republican Club of New York
will celebrate the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln February 1: by banquet at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. The principal
speech will be made by Senator Ingalls,
in response to the toast: Ito the Mem
CRY of Abraham Lincoln"
THE annual report of the New York
State Lunacy Commission shows many
instances of abuses in the county man
.gement of insane asylums. The State
institutions compare favorably with
those of the counties.
THREE Italians. one woman, were
fatally stabbed in free fight at Erie,
Pa, the other night
PRISCILLA DECATUR TwIGes, aged
Lightweight, died at Philadelphia re-
Gently. She was related to several 10
markable and historical personages.
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. Attorney
General Kellogg has addressed letter
to the Governor in reply to the question
whether the sale of lottery tickets in
Kansas was legal, saying that the Or
ganic law Of the State forbids the sale of
lottery tickets, but that the law was
practically dead letter because the
statutes attached no penalty to the Of
Tense. He said further that the propri-
etors of newspapers which printed lot
terry advertisements might be punished
under the law by fine of not less than
$50 nor more than $1,000. or imprison-
ment for not less than thirty days or
more than six months, or by both such
fine and imprisOnment
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
THE LATEST.
rection.

CLEARING house returns for the weel
ended February showed an average in
crease of 14.9 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the increase was Ill.
DISCOUNT was in demand in London
during the week ended February Il
Business was generally better. Amer
lean railroad securities improved. The
Continental bOurses were also reported
better compared with the corresponding
week.
THE Senate was not in session on the
1st The House passed the day in con
fusion over the contested election cases.
the Speaker continuing to count non
voting Democrats as present, to consti'
tute quorum.
THE Brazilian Cabinet overcame its
recent crisis, Minister Robiera resign
ing, his place being taken by Francisco
GriZiero.
Mrs. ALICE CorP1NGER. eldest daugh'
ter of Hon. James G. Blaine, died a,
Washington on the I'd from brain fever
the result of an attack of influenza
Mr.. Blaine was the recipient of much
sympathy over the death of his daugh'
ter, following so soon after the demise
of his son, Walker Blaine.
Mrs. PRESIDENT HARRISON has abol
ished the custom of Misunderstanding al
receptions and will inaugurate other 90
cial changes at the White House.
| THERE was riot at the Polish Church
of Buffalo, n. Y, on the I'd, caused by
an attempt of the unpopular priest to
celebrate mass. Several policemen were
injured. the congregation using brick
bats. Nine arrests were made.
| THREE men were killed, three fatally
injured and FIVE entombed by an ex.
plosion in the Nottingham shaft al
WilSesbarre, Pa, recently.
Dr.. EDWARD MCGLYNN was recently
seriously attacked with bronchitis.
THE schooner John Hancock, reported
to have been seized by the pirates, has
arrived at San Francisco.
ALBERT METER, the Cincinnati bank
er who left this country to avoid testify.
ling in the Ives trial in New York, is re.
ported to have established an immense
electric light franchise in Rio Janeiro.
The influenza has assumed virulent
form in the City of Mexico and there
have been many deaths United States
Minister Ryan's son was in q danger.
lous condition.
In saloon row at Central City, n. NJ,
the other night Henry Brooks. q colored
soldier, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
Dallin and colored woman named Car
rie Drug and seriously wounded q second
man. He was wounded himself in the
ARRAY.
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
THE SOUTH.


THE mother of Ex-Governor Yarmouth
of Louisiana has been awarded Mexi
can pension with back pay from 1857.
One thousand employees of the rolling
mill at Birmingham, Ala, have struck
because the prOprietors refused to make
it union mill
JOHN b. LABTANDE, a leading cotton
factor of New Orleans, thought to be OF
extra financial soundness, has assigned
His assets consist largely of bills receiv
able
THREE men were killed by the explo
sion of a boiler in the sawmill of A. B
Leach on Falling Rock creek, twenty
five miles west of Charleston, w. Va,
News has beea received of the poison
ing of family o! eight persons named
Hargrave south of Point Pleasant, w
Va. by a negro woman. -Four of the
family were reported dead.
THE Ohio river steamboat De Soto was
burned near Owensboro, KY, the Other
night, causing $4,000 loss. All the
passengers were saved by the efforts o.
Second Clerk Parker and Pilot Owen.
BY a collision in Memphis between Z
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphi:
train and one on the Iron Mountain
road, baggage car and an engine were
demolished. None of the passenger:
were hurt.
SHERIFF HALE, of independence
County, Ark. gave mob which wanted
to hang young Schneider, who had sho
his sweetheart and rival. the slip anG
put his prisoner in the penitentiary.
Mr. LEM STANDS went out squire
hunting with his dog in the neighbor
hood of North Creek, near Helena, Ark
His dog chased squirrel under a tree
and the tree was blown down. 1t fell
on Stands. killing him and the dog,
AT Morgan, Calhoun County, Ga.
during a race conflict one white maj
was fatally shot and others seriously
wounded. A number of negroes wert
also shot. but none killed. The row
was caused by drunken negro striking
a white child.
GEORGE TOBLER, q Choctaw negro
was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, on the
S0th for the murder of Irwin Richard
SON. rival for a woman's favors.
year ago Tobler's two brothers were
hanged at Wichita, Kan, for murder il
the Territory.
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05

An epidemic similar to meningitis n
prevalent in the western part of Cooke
County, Tex.
IT was at first thought that there was
only one life lost in the burning of the
De Soto near Owensboro, KY, that of
Brown Richardson, the colored fireman.
William Steinauer. of Tibbett street,
Newport, is missing. and the officers
think he was lost. He was the second
cook
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
GENERAL

| THE Gar of Russia has conferred the
highest possible decoration on the
French Minister of Finance.
THE explosion of a still in the Stand
ard oil works at Hunters Point, L. l.,
recently caused $50, 900 damages.
THE With Company has sent cable
dispatch calling upon the German For
| eign Office to demand that the officers OF
the British company cease their invasion
of the formers trading territory in East
Africa.
THE Indians of the San Bias coast
| (Colombia) have annexed themselves and
their country to the United States.
DIR. SIR WILLIAM WHITLEY GULL,
physician ordinary to the Prince of
Wales, Is dead.
In Vienna the other day daring rob
bers threw pepper into the eyes of the
cashier Of a navigation company, seized
large sum of money on the counter and
escaped.
been invited to visit Montreal before
they return to their homes.
THE Brazilian Republic was formally
recognized by President Harrison on the
Goth.
THE British-African' Lakes Company
is making satisfactory peace arrange
ments with the Arabs and Karongas.
A NUMBER of French priests have ar
rived in Malindi. They state that they
recently met DR.. Peters, the German ex-
plorer, concerning whose death many
conflicting reports have been received,
at Koki. He was in good health.
By the withdrawal of the Union Pa
cific and the Northwestern it is thought
the Interstate Railway Association
(the ''gentlemen's agreement'O has
about collapsed.
THERE was riot of glass workers on
strike at Gablon, Bohemia, recently.
The factory was wrecked and two of the
rioters were killed.
A BRIDGE at Dusseldorf, Germany,
was carried away by the floods. The
wreck of the structure collided with a
ferry boat, which capsized, and eight of
the passengers were drowned.
A FIRE broke out the other day on the
White Star line steamer, Teutonic, at
LANCI pull ouO UuC hduCS WCAC
before they had done much damage.
The torpedo boat Cushing has been
given trial in Bristol harbor. The con-
tract speed, twenty-five miles an hour,
was readily made under half steam, the
vessel of course being light.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended January 50 num-
bered Including Canada) 291, compared
with 33S the previous week and 332 the
corresponding week of last year.
JUDGE MANIsTY, of the Queens Bench
division of the British High Court Of
Justice, died in London on the 31st.
FIVE warships of the Turkish navy
were launched at Constantinople on the
31St.
THE Government of Cuba intends to
impose new duty upon all sales Of
sugar and molasses made on the island.
The Chamber of Commerce of Havana
has presented to the Intendent of the
Treasury an energetic protest against
the measure.
A DISPATCH from Pictou, n. S., says
the steamer Stanley, from Pictou for
Charlottetown, with mails and passen-
gers, was stuck fast in the ice five miles
off Pictou, and could not move in any di-
roctiOn
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 9. Pat Grant,
special correspondent Of the Chicago
Inter Ocean, was capiased at the in
stance of DIR. O'Reilly, treasurer of the
Irish National League, for alleged libel
by recent publications in the Inter
Ocean over Grants signature. He is
held in Jail awaiting bail of 5000.
which he refuses to give while awaiting
the action of the Inter Ocean manager.
OReilly and confreres are bitter and are
determined to make An example of Grant,
whom they characterize as "a miserable
reptile" The Inter Ocean manager says
he will use every effort to secure Grants
release.
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
Suddenly Insane.

WICHITA, Kan, Feb. 1.-George Black,
. very strong young man, yesterday be-
came suddenly insane and bouncing upon
his brother-in-law, w. Crosby. beat him
with a club most horribly. He turned
upon his sister and seriously in
jured her. When officers ar
rived he had locked himself in a
room and threatened to shoot any one
attempting to enter. He finally was
observed to be some feet from the
weapon and the officers broke in the
door before he could shoot, and after a
hard struggle he was landed in Jail. In
the last four days six cases of insanity
have been reported.
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
THE WEST.

GENERAL CASEY, chief OF engineers,
has made report adverse to the passage
of the Senate bill to authorize the sub
stitution of a pivot draw bridge across
the Missouri river at Leavenworth in
place Of the present pontoon bridge.
THOMAS ELLIOTT, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Missoula, Mont, was frozen to
death the other day.
CALAMITY" WELLER, the noted Iowa
politician, was lying critically i'll at his
home in Nashua, Iowa, on the 2Sth.
JUDGE LOVE, of the United States Dis
trict Court at Dubuque, Iowa, has re-
fused to confirm the sale of the Fort
Madison & Northwestern railway for
S29, 800. He will order the road aban-
doned if fair price is not offered.
CONRAD SEIPP, the millionaire Chicago
brewer, is dead.
A MOB pulled down the house of a lot
jumper on Main street, Oklahoma City,
Ok, recently and burned it.
DURING some chemical experiments in
the high school at Lexington, ILL.,, re-
Gently the retort exploded, Prof. Jess
and several of his pupils receiving shock
ing injuries.
EDITOR NJ. Fl. DE YOUNG, of the San
Francisco Chronicle, was reported seri-
ously sick from pneumonia.
Mrs. BoGGs, of Waverly, O., while re
turning home through field the other
evening, was attacked by vicious hog.
Before assistance reached her she was
So horribly mangled that she can not re-
cover.
THE Chicago & Northwestern railroad
has paid $500 to the guardian of Dora
Payne, whose mother and stepfather
were killed at the entrance to Rose Hill
Cemetery, Chicago, recently by a fast
train.
THE snow blockade on the Central
Pacific was raised on the 3Oth, seventeen
trains starting west from Reno and
Truckee.
THE Ohio Senate recognized Hon. A
v. Marquis OemOcrat) as Lieutenant
Governor by strictly party vote-1S to
16.
A PARTY of boys went skating on the
river at East Dubuque the other even
ing. Two of them, Lewis Pierce, of
East Dubuque, and Bert Clark, of st.
Paul, skated into an air-hole and both
were drowned.
GIDEON MORGAN, prominent Chero-
kee, favors the sale of the Strip.
THE Capital Wagon Company, of Lam
sing, Mich, has failed with SS4,77 liza
bilities and S121, 216 nominal resources.
PAT GRANT, Railroad Laborer." is
held in $1,000 bail for libel on DIR. Reilly,
of the Irish National League. The ar
ticle was published in the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
JOHN KUNzE, the Cronin suspect, who
is now out on $1,000 bail, walked into
court at Chicago on the S1st and de-
manded new trial. The case was con-
tinued to the next term of court.
SUIT has been commenced in st. Louis
against the Frisco road for money due
tho Sta 70 of Missouri
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Encampment Closed.


The ninth annual encampment of the
G. A r. closed its labors at Salina on the
SOth.
The election of officers was completed
by making DR.. Rose, of Dodge City,
medical director, and Rev. J. N. Lock-
wood, of Salina, department chaplain.
The new council Of administration ID
composed of T. S. May, H. E. Richter, c.
c. Kincaid, Edward Jones and j. p.
Jones. The delegates to the National
encampment, to be held at Boston, are:
At large, r. w. Blue, B. Kelley, G..
7. Anthony, ]. G. Mohler and NJ. W..
Sutton. p. 3. Gerow, George Trout, D..
G. Bliss, 6. A. Stanley, E. b. Parke, A. T..
Arment, f. T. Sprague, ]. H. Howe, E.
NJ. Park, E. G. Putnam. Lewis Hanback,,
H. d. Shaffer, w. r. Hopkins and A. w.
Hoyt, district delegates.
The Sons of Veterans elected the fol-
lowing officers: Colonel, c. D. Jones, Of
Norton; Lieutenant-Colonel, F. A. Ag-
new, of Newton; Major, E. d. Form
ley. Of Cottonwood Falls.
The following were elected officers Of
the Woman's Relief Corps: President,
Mrs. j. C. Junckerman. of Wichita; SEN
ior vice, Mrs. H. S. Culber, of Topeka;
junior vice, Mrs. NJ. S. Crowley, of Sa-
lima; treasurer. Mrs. E. NJ. WEARING, Of
Topeka; chaplain, Mrs. f. NJ. Shields.
of McPhcrSOn
The Globe-republican., 1890-02-05

KENosHA. Wis, Feb. 3.-Fire yester-
day morning destroyed two of the six
story buildings of Allen & Sons tannery
filed with stock. The flames rapidly
spread destroying also the Denoyer wa
ter cure and the German NJ. E. church
and parsonage. The loss will reach
Sl25, 900. At one time the entire north
western part Of the city was threatened
with destruction and an engine was sent
from Racine.