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President Harrison Pleased at the
Defeat of Free Coinage.
SUDDEN DEATH OF SENATOR WILSON,
OF MARYLAND.
Senator Jones Testifies Before the Sil-
Yer Pool Investigating Committee
Bill Reported in the House Grant,
ing Pension to the Widow of the
Late Admiral Porter-Contirlnatio
by the Senate.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

WASHINGTON, Feb. PA friend of
the President says that Harrison is COM
Portable over the silver situation. He
thought that all of the disadvantages con-
nected with the question were now with
the Democrats. The Republican party
in Congress had passed about all the
silver legislation the financial world could
stand. 1t had done as much for the true
interests rs could fairly be done. The
administration would not have been un-
favorable to the proposition to buy all the
silver outstanding in the market if this
measure could have been accepted by the
advocates of free coinage as the end of
the question for the time being. This
was plainly intimated to the extreme
silver men through Treasury officials
early in the session. The extreme silver
men were at first disposed to accept the
proposition, as the best thing they could
get, but when they passed the free coin
age bill through the Senate so easily, they
became elated, and thought they could
carry it through the House, and they
soon fully rejected the moderate propo-
sition OF compromise.
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THE RAILWAYS.
Sensational Charges Made by the
Monon Management.

Sensational Charges Made by the
Monon Management.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-Judge Collins to-
day staid the further hearing before the
Master in Chancery of the bill for the
appointment of receiver for the Monon
road filed by William Alley, until an
answer by the Louisville, New Albany
and Chicago road is filed and the issue
made.
The answer of the Monon management
was filed this afternoon. 1t makes SEN
sational eounter-charges. Henry Craw-
ford, former general counsel of the
Mouon, is accused OF being the real as
sailant, and that Alley is not a stock
holder at all, but simply Crawford's tool.
Crawford, it is charged, is inspired by a
motive to wreck the road and wreak his
personal and pecuniary revenge because
the present management would not bur
den the Monon with his Crawford 81 In
diana Midland road. Instances are
enumerated of his having caused to be
published false reports concerning the
road, etc. 1t is expressly denied that the
company is insolvent, or likely to become
so, and the records of the company and
of the Directors meetings are exposed.
The personal charges of fraud against
President Breyfogle are declared abso-
lutely false
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STRUCK by LIGHTNING.
Slight Damage Done to the Californ
College ut NacaYiIle.

College ut vacaviIle.
VACAv1LLE, Feb. 2f.-Last night about
7:30 O'Clock lightning struck the chimney
of the California College, situated on
slight elevation in town. The northwest
corner of the chimney is broken off, and
down the side is plainly traced burnt
mark. The lightning tore a hole in the
roof about six inches square, then passed
through the ceiling into the assembly
room.
Here the hole at point of entrance is
about two inches round, but a partition of
lath and plaster is shattered, and the plas.
tering scattered over the room, which is
about fifty feet long by thirty-five wide.
A 2X4 joist which was nailed to the wall
is torn into splinters and burned in spots.
1t then passed through the floor of this
room and made a hole in the ceiling of tlit,
room below, wheI its energy seemed to
he exhausted. Several parties saw the
lightning strike the building, and say
that tho flash was binding.
In the telephone and telegraph office
large sheet of flame sprang up from tho
wires, and for a few moments commune
cation was interrupted.
This is the first time lightning ever
struck anything in this neighborhood-
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ARMSTRoNG'S REWARD.
What it Costs to Slash n Man With
Razor

W. o. Armstrong, the man-sSwho
nearly cut the head off Joseph WEIGH last
Christmas morning, with razor, and
who pleaded guilty to the charge Of as
sault to murder preferred against him,
appeared before Superior Judge Van
Fleet yesterday for sentence.
The Judge said that, inasmuch as he
was ignorant of the details of the assault,
he was desirous of hearing some testi-
mony regarding it.
Welch took the stand and testified that
the assault was wholly unprovoked. He
(Welch) was sitting at a beer table. con-
versing with fallen angel, in Peter
Rossi's dive, when Armstrong came up
behind him and knitted him. Welch said
he did not know whether Armstrong was
jealous or not.
Armstrong, when asked if he had any
thing to say, simply stated that Welch
had called him vile names.
Judge Van Fleet remarked before pass
ing sentence that he considered the as
sault a most aggravated one. Welch was
horribly disfigured for life, and accord
ing to the statements made, there was
little or no provocation for tho assault.
The court then sentenced Armstrong to
five years. imprisonment at the San
Quentin penitentiary,
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Sensational Scene. in the New
Hampshire Legislature.
NEW GUN INVENTED FOR FIRING
UNDER WATER
All But One of the Victims Rescued
from the GAINESVILLE Mine Rapidly
Recovering The Remains of the
Late Ben ALI Haggin Buried at
woodlawn, Cemetery, New York.
Special to the REcoRp-US1oN.

Concord On. H., Feb. A.-There was a
sensational scene in the House this after
noon, when United States Senator-elect
Gallinger and Representative Green,
speaking to question of personal privi-
lege. emphatically denied the allegations
of United States Senator Chandler in the
editorial columns of his paper, that these
gentlemen and other Republicans had
entered into series of bargains with GER
tain influential Democrats inimical to the
interests of the Republicans.
The Democrats mentioned also replied.
Mr.. Green applied epithets of cur
coward etc., to Chandler.
Pillsbury offered a resolution calling on
Chandler for an apology or retraction.
Angel Republican) said that before the
resolution was submitted he should like
to know whether Chandler was sick, in
sane or diseased. After some debate the
resolution was tabled.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
Yesterdays Proceedings in the Senate
and House.

Yesterdays Proceedings in the Senate
and House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The nomina-
ton of Charles Foster as Secretary of the
Treasury was confirmed by the Senate.
was proceeded with, the Worlds Fair
paragraph soon being reached.
Mcpherson referred to the large salaries
selves, and inquired whether the Com
mittee on Appropriations had taken any
position on the subject.
Allison replied that on the organization
of the exposition $500, 600 had been appro-
priated for the use of the commission,
and the Commissioners have gone on in
its expenditure of that money for the
present fiscal year. The committee had
reported an amendment for unlimited ap-
preparation during the next fiscal year.
1t was intended that the machinery of the
exposition at Chicago would speedily adj
just itself to the proposed conditions
Finally vote was taken, and the
amendment reported by the committee
agreed to.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-In the House
to-day the Senate bill was passed grant
ing pensions to members Of Powell's
battalion, mounted volunteers of Mis-
souri,, who served in the Mexican war.
The previons question on the resolu-
ton was then adopted and the direct tax
bill taken up.
Caswell of Wisconsin offered an amend
ment providing that no money be paid
any State or Territory until the Legisla-
ture thereof shall have accepted by reso-
luton the sum appropriated in full
satisfaction Of all claims against the
United States on account of the levy and
collection of the tax. Adopted.
The bill was then passed-yeas 172, nays
1Ol
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B. Haggin and daughter Reta. Rev.
VIM. s. Rainford, rector of ST. Georges
conducted the service, and full-vested
choir. sang appropriate music. The re-
mains Were buried at Woodlawn Gene
terry. A large number of friends were
present, including Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
P. Lounsbury; Mr.. and Mrs. Kinnaham,
of Bermuda, sister of Mrs. Haggin;
Henry Lloyd Tevis, Henry Peters, of
Oakland; Henry Crocker, J. w. Mackay,
and many others well known in Califor-
mia. The pallbearers were General G. C.
Whittier, Hendrick Footer, William II.
Goadby, Daniel T. Worden, Arthur
Thomson and Frederick Hoey.
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LIKE A DOG.
A Tamale Peddler Badly Bitten by q
FelIow-Countryma

Fel1oW-CoUntryman.
A citizen found a tamale vender, bleed
ing profusely, at the corner of Fourth and
X streets last night about . O'Clock, and
had him conveyed to the Receiving Hos
pital. The man gave the name Of Manuel
Hurtago, and managed to tell officer Staf-
ford that he had been bitten by fellow
countryman named Manuel Pescadero.
The City Physician was summoned, and
upon examining the patient found that
his lower lip had been bitten nearly off,
and the flesh on both hands and on the
left shoulder was badly chewed. Teeth
marks were plainly visible, and the
wounds looked more as though they
had been inflicted by dog than by
human being.
The fight between the two men took
place in a tamale establishment in the
alley between Fourth and Fifth, L and NJ
streets.
Chief Drew and officers White and Ar
lington went TO the place and found Pes
cadero i'll bed, with one of his eyes in
mourning. He was arrested, and will
probably be charged with mayhem.
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woMAN's NATIONAL COUNCIL.
Non-Partfsanism Advocated in tht
Cause of Temperance.


Cause of Temperance.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2f.-In the morn
ing session of the Woman's National
Council the subject of temperance was
considered. Miss Willard introduced
Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster, President of the
Non-Partisan National W. c. T. T., who
spoke of the work and aims of her organ
ization. Its great central doctrine, she
said, was total abstinence for the indi-
vidual and prohibition for the State. Her
Union believed that absolute political
liberty was as much the right of woman
as that of man. They believed it wrong to
ally themselves to any one political party.
Their representatives had received aid
and encouragement from noble men in
both great political organizations, and it
looked like bad faith to ask those men
for help and then combine at the next
election to defeat them.
The newly elected officers of the Ma
tional Council of Women of the United
States are: President, May Wright Sew
all, of Indiana; President, Ella Dietz
Clymer, of New York; Corresponding
Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, of Penn
sylvania; Recording Secretary, Isabel
Charles Davis, of New York; Treasurer,
Lillian M. n. Stevens, and Assistant Sec
retary of the National w. C. r. u.
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Indian Depreciation Claims.

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. = The Indian
Bureau of Depreciation Claims to-day
submitted to the Secretary of the Interior
u report of all claims recommended to be
allowed during the year. The report will
reach the House tomorrow. In the
claims recommended during the year
about half million dollars goes to claim
ants in the Pacific Coast States. There is
no possibility of Congress making an ap-
preparation for the recommendations, but
it is thought the bill to provide for a court
of claims to investigate and pass on the
depredations will become law at this
session
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Railroad Grading Commenced.

ANDERSON, Feb. a4.-The grading for
the branch railroad of the Shasta Lumber
Company of this place to the end of the
fume is commenced, and viii be COM
pleted to the Sacramento River by the
18th of April. The line is sixteen miles
in length and is standard gauge, fifty-six
pound iron rails. The Shasta Lumber
Company is a rich corporation, owning
$1,000 acres of the finest sugar pine in the
State. This road undoubtedly viii be
extended to the valleys north.
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California Interests.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.--Representative
Clunie presented joint resolution of the
California Legislature relative to resur-
veying reasonable amount of the Round
Valley Indian Reservation for the use of
the Indians, and protested against an ex-
travagant allowance of land for said In
dams. Clunie also presented the resolu-
ton OF the California Legislature relative
to removing the troops from Fort Bid
well, the people in Northern California
desiring military protection.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.-The annual
meeting of the Department of Superin-
tendents of the National Educational AS
sociation began here to-day. Represent
atives of the different branches of educa-
cation were present from every State and
Territory in the Union. The principal
topic to-day was compulsory school edu-
cation of Illinois and Wisconsin, on
which varying opinions We're expressed
as to the right Of a State to interfere with
private or parochial schools
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senator Wilson Dead.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator Will
son of Maryland, who has been indis-
posed for several days, died suddenly
this evening. Senator Wilson was born
in Snow Hill, Maryland, December %,
1871. He graduated in Jefferson College
in 1871, and studied law In 1852 he was
a Presidential Elector on the Democratic
ticket. He was Judge of the Maryland
Circuit Court from 1878 till 1854, when he
was elected United States Senator.
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silver Pool investigation.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.-The Silver Pool
Committee resumed its session to-day.
Senator Jones of Nevada said he was not
personally interested in silver specula-
tions during the present Congress and
knew nothing whatever of any silver
pool combination or organization. He
was well acquainted with all the silver
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Michigan Republfcaus.

JACKSON (NIich.), Feb. 24.-The Repub-
lican State Convention nominated Judge
r. NJ. Montgomery of Grand Rapids for
the supreme Bench. Peter n. Cook of
Corunna and Henry Howard of Port
Huron were nominated for Regents of the
State University.
The platform favors a pure ballot: in
dorses the elections bill and the Mckinley
bill; fav ors the purchase by the Govern
ment of the entire silver product of the
United States, and the issue of silver coin
or silver certificates of legal tender there
for,
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Funeral of b. A. Haggin.

New York, Feb. 24.-The funeral of
Ben Ali Haggin took place at ST. Georges
Protestant Episcopal Church this morn
ing. ]. 3. Haggin, Mrs. B. A. Haggin and
sons Louis and Ben Ali were present.
Flowers filled the steps leading to the
chancel, and included offerings from J..
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WASHINGTON, Feb. .-Confrnlations:
Lieutenant-Colonel A. X. Arnold, to be
Colonel of Cavalry; George Stoneman,
Lieutenant-Colonel (retiredl, to be Colo
mel of Infantry; Edmund Wells, Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Arizona
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Lite sentence.

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-James Dough-
erty, the insane lover of Mary Anderson,
who shot and killed DIR. Lloyd of the Flat
bush Insane Asylum, has been sentenced
to the Sing Sing State prison for life.
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New postonices.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-W. w. Bates
has been appointed Postmaster at West
port, Mendocino County; Mrs. L. L..
Adams, Postmistress at Niagara, Marion
County, Or; w. Hayes, at Beach, What
com County, Washington.
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Chile Revolution,

WASHINGTON, Feb. PA cable mes
sage from Minister Eagan, at Santiago,
Chile, says the United States steamer
Pensacola arrived at Tolcuhan ON the
I0th, and Admiral McCann reports fight
ing at Iquique. The rest of the country
is tranquil. 1t is reported that the cruiser
San Francisco will be ordered to join the
Pensacola and Baltimore in Chilean
Waters.
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Deoth of nm Armv omcer

New YORK, Feb. 24.-Col. Richard T.
O'Beirne, Colonel of the 21st Infantry, U.
S. A., lately in command of Fort Sheri-
dan, died this morning. He was East on
leave of absence.
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Spring hin Disaster.

SPRING HILL On. S., Feb. 24.-Several
more bodies were recovered to-day Con-
tributions for relief are coming in fast,
and telegrams of sympathy We're received
from the Queen to-day.
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soudanese Defeated.

LONDON, Feb. pa dispatch from
Massowah says that body of Italian
friendlies under Captain Pinelli, in re-
surprised and attacked 800 Soudanese
near Burr and routed them in two bat
ties, killing 200, including the leading
chiefs
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Conspiracy Law Repealed.
PASSENGER Rnte in IIansas

HELENA Mont.), Feb. 24.-The Senate
passed the House bill repeating the con-
spiracy law against organized labor
The record-union., 1891-02-25

TOPEKA, Feb. 24.-The House passed
the Elder bill, reducing passenger rates
to . cents mile.
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SYRACUSE On. ", Feb. 4.-In tho
pool tournament to-day the scores were:
Sherman $50, Ludeigton 64, Keogh $50,
Ward 50. Deoro 150. Strawe III, Powers
l50, Saboado l46.
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Confirmed by the Senate.

men, and quite sure that if there had
been any pool he would have known it,
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Devoured by Wolves.

VIENNA, Feb. 24.-Two clergymen,
while sleighing at Kinesvar, were at
tackled and devoured by wolves. Two
night:
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TfI1lco -NlpOIeOn III.
ROME, Feb. 24.-Prince Napoleon is
seriously i'll.
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WASHINGTON Loan and Trust Co. See q
TWO BOY TRAsIPS
Arrested and Taken to the Police Court
Their Parents to BE Notified.

Arrested and Taken to the Police Court
Their Parents To BE Notified.
There are probably but few persons who have
any idea Of the number Of boys and young men
who have given up all claims to their homes
and gone out in the world to tramp il and get
along the best they can without working. They
do not know where their next meal is coming
from, and. from all appearances, they do not
seem to care very much.
A tramp once tried in the Police Court re-
marked, The Lord made something to put in
every mouth" and he was just well pleased
with home for the winter, whether it was in
prison or out
Among these people are many boys who run
away from their homes. and two such bows
were arrested here by Policeman Ferguson this
morning. The names they gave were Eugene
Arnett and Randolph Miller. They said they
were from Wheeling. W. Va The former said
that his father was a lawyer and lived at No AZ
18th street Miller said that his parents live
at No. 12lS Byron street. Both boys
were willing to return home- The cause Of
their change Of mind was the cold weather aud
their experience at Relay station on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad yesterday. According
TO their statements they left Wheeling two
weeks ago and have been on the road ever
since.
"ncn tney reacneu IOnneAsNiue- IA, tIcy
were arrested on a telegram from their parents,
but the police let them go upon n promise to
return to their parents.
Instead Of doing so they turned their faces in
the opposite direction and boarded the fast
freights that were coming east
They spen; short time in Baltimore and
Sunday night they left there with six Other
boys of the same kind and when at Relay sta
ton yesterday a detective, they said, shot at
them
Before Judge Miller the boys we're charged
with vagrsney and the judge committed them
for further hearing. during which time their
parents will be notified of their detention.
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Proceedings Commenced Against Large
Number of Sureties.

In the Criminal Court, Judge Hagner, this
morning Mr.. A. A. Birney. recently appointed
to prosecute the forfeited bonds in the Crimi-
nal Court, asked an order Of fat on sci ia in
each of The following cases and il was granted.
Nr. Birney stating that in each case the law
had been complied with by the Issue of the sci
fas:c Thomas Curtin. Henry Williams. George
W. Henley. Melville H. Howard, Mollie Bos-
well. August F. Hanseman, Albert T. Lincoln.
Guissepi Crugeria. George Brown, John
Graham. VIM. Woody. Joseph Butler ct
al, Chas. l. Williams, Benjamin Foster. Jas.
Orr. Powell Graham ct al. John Z. Melone,
Reverdy J. Brooks. Edward F.. Holland. Thos.
Curtin. Morris Reardon. John Hawkins 1.-TWO
cases, John A. Henning. VIM. Moore 1.-TWO
csses). Hattie Green. John o. Cantwell. Henry
Chandler, Joshua c. Wright, John Nichols.
Hamilton vsss two cases., George Stogle
three cases), James Allen. Spencer p. Cole
man. James O'Day. John Brown. Samuel Samp-
son. Thos. Galloway, John II. Williams. Simeon
Mabry, Alfred Riggs 1.-TWO cases, Henry Miller
e. al. l. +. Grosholz. Griffin Burke. 3. Shep-
herd White 1.-TWO cases.. John Farrell. Thomas
J. sweeney and Lucy Edelin,.
This is the first step Mr.. Birney has taken for
making the money out of the bondsmen and
the above listis only small portion of the cases
Of forfeited bonds.
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Committee Report on the Elections Adopted
by the Connecticut House.


Committee Report ON the Elections Adopted
by the Connecticut House.
The Connecticut hous, ut $50 o o'clock vester-
day afternoon by strict party vote adopted
the report Of the republican investigating COM
mittee. which found that none Of the demo-
cratic state officials were elected, excepting
Controller Staube.
The republicans insisted on the fairness Of
their report and the right Of the legislature to
pass upon the election Of state officers
The democrats attacked this view and char
scterized il as usurpation Of powers which the
constitution does not and never did give TO the
legislature:
1l2 democrats-the house voted not to substi-
tute for the majority report the minority
report, which found all the democratic officials
elected The majority report was then adopted,
100 10 lilo.
A motion 10 reconsider was promptly voted
down Representative Root (demoeratj Of Wa
teroury then offered a resolution declaring the
election OF Controller Staube Who according
TO the committees report had legal majority
An effort was made TO shut this ont by a mo-
Speaker Paige dispo~ed Of the matter by do
Gliding that under the orders Of the house three
weeks ago, and vet IN force. the resolution mus,
so to the investigating committee without de-
bate.
Then came O motion from the republicans for
. recess and Speaker Paige declared il carried.
The democratic members doubted the vote
and rising TO their feet, appealed. speaker
Paige exclaimed:
This house is not i'm session. You may en-
terrain yourselves you please"
Then he slipped down from the desk and left
the hall.
The first special show Of the Nctionsl Grey
hound Club u being held in New York