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CLEARINGHOUSE RETURNS.
Business Transacted During the Past



BosToN, Jan. 1S.- Clearing house re-
turns are as follows: New York, S762, :
462, 900, an increase of 7.3 per cent; Bos-
ton, S103, ,371 600, an increase of 30;
Chicago, s66,619,O 900, an increase of 1856;
Philadelphia, S73,043, 200, an increase of
OIL; st. Louis, s23, $4,000, an increase of
IA; San Francisco, s17, ,095,000, an in
crease fill; Baltimore, SIS, ,463, 600, de-
crease of 0.3; New Orleans, Sl6, ,963, 900, an
increase of 40; Cincinnati, $l4, 1872 900, an
increase of 12.7; Pittsburg, Sl2, ,S63 900, a
decrease of 15.0; Kansas City, So, ,247, 900.
an increase of AZ; Milwaukee, &c.
115,00O, an increase of Ills; Buf-
falo, 1874 900, an increase of 1l.6;
Galveston, IS $50, 600, an increase of 219.2:
Minneapolis, 200, an increase Of
30.6; Omaha, 81, l67 600, an increase of 40;
Denver, s., ,953, 600, a decrease of SO; st.
Paul, 81, $4,000, a decrease of 0.5; Port
land, Or, s, ,004 900, an increase of al;
Seattle, 81 ,024, 600, an increase of i7.2; Ia
coma, 1923, 900, an increase of 26.3; Los
Angeles, S62l 600, an increase of 400; Salt
Lake, 81, ,013 600, no comparison. Total of
the leading cities of the United States and
Canada, 8, ,240, ,0S6, ,632, an increase of 7.2
per cent.
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UNIQUE SURGICAL OPERATION.
HEROIC SELF F-SACRIFTCE FOR A
BROTHER MASON.
Flesh Transplanted From the Bodies
of Hundred Men to
Save Another.
Special to the REooRD-UN1oN.

special to the RECORD-UNION.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1S.-One of the most
unique surgical operations on record was
performed in this city to-day, and 1872
Knights Templar gave to the world a
notable example of the fraternal love and
heroic self-sacrifice in order that sick
brother might be restored to health. Each
suffered the loss of piece of the cuticle
which was transferred to Sir knight
John Dickerson.
A cancer which had attacked his thigh
was removed some time ago, but so deep
and wide an incision had to be made in
the flesh that nature was unequal to the
task of healing over the gaping wound.
An experiment was tried of engrafting
the skin of some of the lower animals
but it failed. The surgeon in charge an
nounced to Dickerson's anxious brethren
that if human skin could be obtained it
would in all probability save the pa
tents life, and insure his complete re-
covery.
The question was where to obtain suffi-
cient skin to cover the one hundred and
forty y-four square inches of surface. The
matter was broached in the Commandery,
| and to man the Knights offered to SUBJ
NIT themselves to the necessary opera
ton. This was performed to-day at the
Emergency Hospital. Nearly one hun
dred knights had each small strip of
skin removed from the arm or leg to be
transplanted to Dickerson's hip. No
| representatives of the press were allowed
to be present, but it has been learned that
nearly all of the Knights went through
the operation unfiinchingly. Two tainted,
but were quickly resuscitated. Several
others anxiously inquired for cold water
at different stages of the operation. Only
about two minutes were consumed with
each man, in which time the skin was re-
moved, his wound dressed and the piece
placed on Dicllerson.
While the surgeons will make no posi-
tive statement as to the result of the
operation, it is evidently their opinion
that it will be entirely successful.
The Knights who offered themselves
up to the surgeons knives will expert
ence but little inconvenience from the
slight wounds inflicted upon them.
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FREE COINAGE.
The South and West United In It's
Favor.


WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Daniel,
of Virginia, said to a California Asso-
ciated Press correspondent: ''The one
issue on which the South and West will
unite on which there is little, if any,
difference of opinion, is on free coinage.
The South is almost united for free coin
age, and so is the West. Silver has ever
been the money of the people, and while
the people demand silver for their cur
rency, we should comply with that de-
mand. Since the rascally trick of de-
monetizing silver in 1873 the issue of
free coinage has slowly but surely
crowded its way to the front, and if the
free coinage bill does not become q law
during this Congress yon may expect to
see it became one of the leading issues in
the Presidential campaign. In my judg
ment on the issues of silver you would
witness the South and West getting to-
gether for the benefit of a common in
terest. The vote in the South on free
coinage shows an almost unanimous
South and West against a solid East. The
vote was significant, and it does not re-
Quire keen vision to see the current of
the political wind.
LOSS TO THE POOR PEOPLE.
New YORK, Jan. lS.-Ex-C Comptroller
of the Currency Trenholm, in discussing
the free coinage bill, says: ''rhere are
nearly thousand savings banks in the
United States, and they owe their deposi-
tors over fifteen hundred million dollars.
representing that much in gold value
saved by the poor people out of their
earnings. Here is debt that should be
held sacred by Congress, vet. under the
proposed bill, these institutions can settle
with their depositors in silver, and this
will probably be effected at a loss to de-
positors of 20 per cent in their deposits,
about three hundred million in the aggre-
gate"
DO NOT FAVOR FREE COINAGE.
Boston. Jan. 1S.-The newly-organized
Republican Club of Massachusetts has
called meeting in Faneuil Hall Tuesday
next to protest against Vests free coin
age bill. Party lines have been ignored
and invitations to take part in the meet
ing have been sent to every business or
ganization in Boston.
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AT PINE RIDGE.
THE HOSTILES CONTINUE T(
TURN OVER THEIR ARMS.
Secretary Noble Says the Indians Re-
ceiving Government Bounty
Must Work.
Special to the REcoRp-uN1oN.

special TO the RECORD-UNION.
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, Jan. 1S.-More
guns were turned in to Agent Pierce
to-day by the hostiles. They told him
that a systematic search is being made in
the tepees, and that all weapons found
would be turned over.
The custodian said to-day that five hun
dred guns had been surrendered, and at
headquarters it is claimed that the arms
turned over exceed in number those re-
ceived in any other campaign.
Last night several shots were fired in
the hostile camp, but nobody was hurt.
To-day the Indians were gloomy and sui
len. The friendlies informed your corre-
spondent that number of troublesome
young men still have bad hearts and
cannot be converted.
General Miles is meeting with some
opposition in his plan of segregating the
several Indian tribes.
Notwithstanding the Cheyennes had
started to Tongue river, the tribe is still
detained outside the breaSt-works await
ing commission from the Interior De-
partment to move. General Miles pro-
poses to send back to the respective
agencies all Indians not belonging to this
place.
Another council was held to-day, but
nothing important transpired. General
Miles tonight issued congratulatory
address to the soldiers, with a review of
the campaign.
General Miles will probably leave for
the East early next week, and General
Brooke has resumed command of the
forces in the field.
This afternoon the wife of Few Tails
arrived here, badly wounded, having
been a victim of white mems malice
-Four weeks ago she, with her husband
and several other Indians, left the agency
with pass from General Brooke, to hunt
for eagle feathers. When near Bear Butte
they were set upon by some white men.
Few Tails was killed and his wife badly
wounded. Others of the party scattered
and have not been heard from since. For
nine days past the woman has been walk
ing to the agency, covering the distance
of $50 miles. She reached the camp of
the Sixth Cavalry this morning, and was
brought to the hospital.
THE INDIANS MUST WORK.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s-The Post says
that Secretary Noble, talking of the policy
to be pursued with the Indians hereafter,
said that first of all they should be de-
prived of their firearms. An intellect
that could master the intricacies of
Winchester rifle was quite capable of ap-
preciating the noble simplicity of the
ploW, and he proposed TO give the hostile
Sioux an opportunity as well as the in
centive, to earn their own living. Out of
the pa 900 Indians in the United States
over two-thirds are earning their own
living.
The Secretary is decidedly in favor of
making these Indians who depend on
Government bounty work for their liv-
ing, just the same as the white people do.
They should be treated with perfect fair
NO I,,1f ch
into any policy or scheme for their col
onization.
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and cousin of Pat Sheedy, the noted
Chicago sporting man.
INDIAN NATION.
A Meeting of the Squaw Men of the
Chickasaw Tribe.

A Meeting of the Squaw Men of the
ChiclSasaw Tribe.
GAINESVILLE CTEx.), Jan. 1S.-At a
meeting of the squaw men of the Chicka-
saw Nation, for the allotment of tribal
lands in severalty and statehood move
ments for the Indian Nation, the conven-
ton indorsed Governor Boyd's policy,
and promised to aid him in expelling in
truders from the nation. They urged
that the editors of the leading papers
fayoring the allotment and statehood
movement be exiled. The convention
was presided over by Frank Murray, an
adopted citizen, who own 5000 acres of
tribal lands, with Il, 900 tenants.
Governor Boyd has appointed Judge
Love to go to Washington and endeavor
to induce the Secretary of the Interior to
have all non-citizens in the Chiclxasaw
territory, who refuse to pay the exile
permit tax to the tribal government, ex-
lie from the Indian Nation. There are
$4,000 such non-citizens in the country,
and they are uneasy, fearing that the
United States Government may accede to
the demand for their expulsion.
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Reciprocity Will Be a Great Bene-
fiji to This Country.
TIE SOUTH AND WEST DEMAND
FREE COINAGE.
The Special Worlds Fair Commission
ers to the Latin-American Repub-
lies Receive Their Credentials
Charges Made That Lobbyists Are
at Work in the Interest of the SUBJ
sidy Shipping Bill.
Special to the REcoRp-uN1oN.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Hon. John w.
Foster, who has represented this Govern
ment as Minister to Mexico, and also to
gard to the interests of the United States,
both at home and abroad.
Foster was asked what he thought was
likely to be the practical result of the
reciprocity provision, known as the
Aldrich amendment.
He replied that he had very little doubt
that its effect would be very beneficial in
the enlargement of our foreign commerce
on this hemisphere. 1t offers such great
advantages to the sugar and coffee pro-
ducing countries, that they cannot fail to
avail themselves of the privileges of this
largest and best market of the world for
the products.
IF the emergency arises, will the Pres
ident reimpose the duty on sugar and
coffee, named in the Aldrich amend
ment?"
There is not the slightest doubt about
lt,o answered Foster. 'The Presidents S
duty is made imperative under the law.
Congress has made most liberal offer of
reciprocity OF trade, and if any nation
concerned does not accept it as to that
to impose the duty prescribed by Con-
greSS.''
This reciprocity provision factor is re-
garded as the most popular and COM
lneHdable feature of the new Tariff Act,
and in its practical operation is most
likely to give general satisfaction. 1t is
free from the constitutional objection
which has been urged against reciprocity
by means of treaties. 1t is simple in its
operation, as it is brought about by re-
sponsible legislation. 1t is binding upon
the nations concerned only so long as
dictated by their mutual interests. 1t
is policy which he believed would go
far to reconcile the conflict in this coun-
try between protection and free trade,
which would be favorably received by
our neighbors, and would prove to be
the most beneficial outcome of the Inter
national American Conference.
Foster said that the shipping bill now
pending in the House was plainly neces-
programme, and with its passage we
would be placed ina most advantageous
position to establish and maintain COM
mercial supremacy on this hemisphere
Without the aid of the proposed Ameri-
can shipping bill we can never compete
with the subsidized shipping OF other
y,a-ions, and whatever reciprocity of trade
4 ~ be established under the provisions
of the Mckinley tariff will then have to
be conducted in foreign ships. Our ship
ping is now the only great industrial in
terest which is not protected by legisla-
ton. The bill referred to is in entire
harmony with the protective system, and
is absolutely necessary to the proper en-
forcement of reciprocity OF trade, as our
commerce with our neighbors should be
carried on under the American flag.
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FATAL GAS EXPLOSION.
AN OHIO HOTEL COMPLETELY
WRECKED.
Two Girls Killed and Several Other
Employees Are Severely
Wounded.
Special to the REcoRp-UNIoN.

special 10 the RECORD-UN1ON.
FINDLAY (Ohio), Jan. 1S.-The first
great disaster that Findlay has ever ex-
perienced from the use of natural gas oc-
curredsshortly before o'clock this after
noon, while the guests of the HOTEL MAR
vim were waiting to be summoned to
dinner.
This morning it was discovered that
gas was escaping from some leaking pipe
somewhere into the dining-room, and
Mr.. Marvin, the owner of the building,
with three plumbers, spent the entire
forenoon trying to locate the leak.
About 10 oc clock they entered the dining
room, and found such an accumulation OF
gas that they could not breathe, and it
was suggested that hole be sawed
through the floor into the dining-room, in
order to obtain fresh air. This was done,
and justas the hole was made one of the
dining-room girls, who was sweeping the
floor, stepped upon matchS and in an
instant an explosion occurred, which not
only wrecked the building, but killed
two girls and manned and injured a
dozen other employees.
The force of the explosion was so great
that il blew out the flame of ignited gas,
and no fire followed the awful ruin which
the shock caused. The whole city rocked
as if in an earthquake, and all the win
dows on the square were demolished.
Had the explosion occurred ten minutes
later the loss of life would have been
frightful, as nearly a hundred people
We're waiting to be called to dinner.
When the rescuing party began work
in the debris the body of Katy Walters, a
(iining-room girl, was found badly
crushed. Ella Johnson, another waitress,
was found alive under a mass of brick
and mortar, but died in short time.
Kate Rooney, waitress; Anson Marvin,
owner OF the building, and Frank An
drews, We're fatally injured. Frank
Poundstone, clerk, and Charles Graves,
fully bruised and cut, but will recover.
The pecuniary loss amounts to $4,000.
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BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
An Awful Tragedy at Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee.
STARTLING CONFESSION OF A NEGRO
MURDERER.
The British Government Says the APP
peal to the Supreme Court in the
Behring Sea Controversy Was not
Meant as an Act of Discourtesy To-
ward the President or State Depart
ment-The Coinage Bill.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.), Jan. 1S.-An
awful tragedy occurred here to-day, S.
M. Fugette, Cashier of the South Chatta-
nooga Savings Bank, being shot and
killed by his father-in-law, j. A. Warder,
City Attorney of Chattanooga. Warder
is probably fatally injured, and Mrs. Fu-
gette has a dangerous wound in her right
thigh.
Judge Warder came home at ! O'Clock
in drunken condition, and went to Mr..
and Mrs. Fugette's room, where the
tragedy occurred. Exs iv how it hap
pcned is not yet known, rs Warder and
Mrs. Fugette are not able to talk. The
neighbors, hearing shooting, rushed in
and found Fugette dead, with bullet
through his heart, and Mrs. Fugette lying
on the floor, while Warder was staggering
down stairs with blood streaming from a
wound in his breast
Judge Warder is one of the best-known
lawyers in the State, and during Presi-
dent Hayes Administration was United
States District Attorney for the middle
district of Tennessee.
The opinion prevails that he abused his
daughter while drunk and the shooting
resulted
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Ex-Governor Thayer Ill.a

LINCOLN (Neb.) Jan. 1S.-The long vigil
of Ex-Governor Thayer during the excit-
ing scenes of the opening of the Legisla-
ture, when he remained III his apartments
eighty hours for the purpose of keeping
out Governor Boyd, has resulted in a
dangerous attack of nervous prostration.
Tonight the Ex-Governor is a raving
maniac, and his physicians say his con-
dition is alarming, owing to his age. He
is 70 years old.
Late tonight the ex-Governor's friends
deny that his condition is 50 serious, and
say that he will be about as usual within
a week
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The talk of a powerful lobby being at
work here in the interest OF the Pacific
Mail is heard on all sides, yet these lob
byists do not seem to materialize. There
is only one individual here who has even
been pointed out as Pacific Mail lobby
lst, and he, as member of the company,
is, naturally enough, much interested in
the fate of the subsidy bill. This gentle
man is pointed out wherever he goes as
the Pacific Mail lobbyist" and he has
been magnified, like Falstaff's men in
Buckram, by quid nuncs and the busy
bodies, until he has become powerful
lobby, composed of ex-members of Con-
gress and Pacific Coast steamship men.
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SENSATIONAL MURDER CASE.
How Woman Got Rid of Her wealthy
Husband.


Husband.
LINCOLN (Neb.), Jan. 1S-There have
been three arrests in the past twenty four
hours in connection with the murder of
John Sheedy on Monday. Mcfarland, a
colored barber, was the first suspect,
and he to-day made confession acknowl-
edging the killing and duplicating the
wife of the murdered man and her sup
posed lover. All are in Jail. Mcfarland
declares that Mrs. Sheedy agreed to pay
him Sl5, 900 to make away with her hus-
band. Developments of sensational ma
ture are expected. Sheedy was an old
resident, and quite wealthy.
Mrs. Sheedy left her former husband, a
poor carpenter, to marry Sheedy. He.
was old enough to be her father. Pres
emily she became Infatuated with one
Harry Walstrom, and Mcfarland asserts
that she employed him to rid her of her
husband. He also says that Mrs. Shecdy
poisoned her husband after he struck
him down with loaded cane, so as to
make sure of his death. Sheedy was a
brother of Dennis Sheedy, President of
the Colorado National Bank OF Denver,
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Parnell Says He Will Not Retire
Internationally.
GREAT DESTRUCTION BY EARTH
QUAKES IN ALGERIS
The Revolt in Chile said to be Spread
ing-Emperor William VIII Lay Be-
fore the Queen His Scheme for the
Disarmament of Europe-Important
Discovery by the British Museum.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1os.

Special TO the RECoRD-UNIoN
TRALEE, Jan. 1S.-ParnelI addressed a
large meeting here this afternoon, being
received with mingled cheers and groans.
de said he had done his part toward the
solution of the Irish problem when he
had conferences with O'Brien, and the
subsequent delay in arriving at settle
ment was entirely the fault of others. He
declared that there was notruth in the re-
portthat he would retire Internationally
Ii OBrien was satisfied.
He said that if Gladstone had the cour-
age to make big, instead of little,
home rule bill, he ParnelD would look
forward with confidence to his own retire
ment knowing well that Ireland would
no longer need his leadership.
DUBLIN, Jan. lS.-Timothy Healy and
Arthur OConnor addressed a meeting in
Mostrim, Longford County. Shortly
after the meeting began the speakers,
platform collapsed. Healy was severely
shaken up. But the speech-making was
soon resumed elsewhere. Healy accused
the Parnellites of having ''sawn the
prop" with the intention of killing their
opponents.
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THE SUBSIDY BILL.
Charges Made That Lobbyists Are
Working for Its Passage.

Working Tor lCS PaSSage.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Representative
Wheeler of Alabama said to your corre-
spondent tonight: st looks now as if
the subsidy bill will go through, but it
may be that at the last moment those
who are so active in advocating its meas
ures will have little regard for public
opinion, and in that event the Treasury
viii not be despoiled. i doubt if anyone
can tell exactly how many millions it
would take to carry the bills into effect
1.-The papers of the country denounce
the subsidy bills as mammoth steal, and
charge in so many words that a powerful
lobby is swarming around the corridors
of the Capitol working like beavers in
the interest OF the bills. hear it said that
the days of the Pacific Mail iobbery are
being re-enacted here again in these sub
sidy bills.
You know, an investigation of Pacific
Mail subsidy resulted in the purifying of
legislation, and for time the lobby kept
very dark. Now, if there is no lobby be-
hind these subsidy bills, and no barrel ON
tap, as is alleged, why does not some one
ask for an investigation? / have heard
some little talk of 3 resolution of inquiry
that is 10 be introduced, but / have not
seen a copy of it. l agree with Mills,
and belieye'that an Investigation will fol-
Low the passage of the subsidy bills.n
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DISARMAMENT OF EUROPE.
Ihe Emperor to Lay His Scheme Be.
fore Queen Victoria.

The Emperor to Lay His Scheme Be-
fore Queen Victoria.
New YORK, Jan. 1S.-A Sun Berlin
cable says that Emperor William, when
he visits Queen Victoria this year, will
lay before her his scheme for the disarma-
ment of Europe, and if she is able to
bring about the arrangement with the
Duke of Cumberland, the Emperor's
plan will be promulgated to the world at
large.
The theory of disarmament can now
be proposed if Victoria is willing to
guarantee that the Duke of Cumberland
shall unreservedly renounee all preten-
SONS 10 the throne of Hanover, in con-
sideration of the restitution of the enor,,
nous wealth accumulated for him in the
Prussian Treasury as King of Hanover.
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Important Discovery.

LONDON, Jan. 1S.-The Times announces
that the authorities of the British Museum
have discovered among the collection of
the papyrus rolls acquired recently in
Egypt the text of Aristotle's treaties on
the Constitution of Athens, from which
numerous writers of antiquity are quoted,
but which have hitherto been known
only in detached fragments. This dis
covery is almost unprecedented in the
history of classical learning. There is no
doubt of the genuineness of the manu-
script
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No Need of Troops.

SEATTLE (Wash.), Jan. 1s.-The Ma
tional Guard of this city and Tacoma,
who were ordered to be in readiness to
move to the scene of the reported Indian
trouble in Okanagan County, were to-day
relieved from further duty, it being evi-
dent that there was no need Of the troops.
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Earned runs-Oaklands, 4. Home runs
George Van Haltren. Two-base hits
George Van Haltren, Stevens, Thomp-
son, Hanly, Dooley. First-base on err
rors-Oaklands, 1, San Francisco, 2. Sacrifice
hits-Hanley, ID. Sweeney, Stevens, Ebright
Levy, O'Day. Left on bases-Oakiands, g.
land, 2; San Francisco 1. Base on struck
by. pitcher-Stapleton, Ebright. Struck out
BY Stapleton, 3; by George Van Haltren, 5.
Double plays-Sweeney to Wilson to Nc
pire-John Sheridan. Time of game one hour
and forty minutes. Scorer-James Stapleton
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OAKLAND VS.. SAN FRANCISCO.
The Latter Defeated by Score of
tO4.

to 4.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 1S.-Another of
the series of games of the Players Winter
League, an organization composed mostly
OF local and Eastern ball-players now in
this city, was played this afternoon at
Central Park. The clubs were known as
the San Franciscos and Oaklands. The
teams were about evenly matched, and
played a rather closely contested game.
There was no life in the game though, for
the players acted in perfunctory way,
and neither club seemed to care whether
1t won or not. The Oaklands proved
more fortunate than the San Franciscos,
for they came out victorious, defeating
their opponents by score of Z to 4.
Score: