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sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for Week.

DANvILLE, Va, March 8.-Lewis
ROBINSON, the colored detective, who
was indicted for robbing Scheduled,
Vass g Co.'S hardware store, was to day
found guilty and Gent to the peniten-
tlary for six years.
CHICAGO, Ill, March 6.-The three
story building at 152 Nine zenith street,
was almost completely wrecked about
2o'clockt this morning by a bomb thrown
INTO the hallway. The windows we're
shattered, the wood work in the hall
way blown away, and the STAIRWAY
torn clear away. From evidence in the
hands of the police, it is believed an
attempt was made to kill every one in
the house, but who the person or per
sons are is a mystery. No one was in
gured. The house was occupied by
klttle Day as a house of ill fame.
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that the bill would not be reported at

that the bill would not be reported at
the time.
Several Democratic Senators, not
members of the committee, stated that
the members of the committee had told
them that they were very hopeful of
presenting the bill tomorrow, but did
not feel absolutely sure that they could
accomplish this result, and therefore
decided not to make a positive an
nouncement until tomorrow morning
because of the apprehension that some
thing might occur at the last moment
to prevent. Another circumstance
which confirms the opinion that the
committee has completed its prelimi-
nary work, is found in the fact that
the bill, which it has been engaged
upon, was sent to the printer a short
time before the Democratic members of
the committee left the Capitol for their
homes this afternoon.
1t is understood that the threats of
the Republicans to unite on the Bland
seigniorage bill and if possible force its
consideration in the Senate and pro-
woke a long debate upon it, had the
effect of fastening the action of the
committee and possibly of bringing
about an understanding. The com
mittee first considered this threat very
seriously, and it has at least had the
effect of indicating the probability of
diverting the attention of the Senate
from the tariff, and thus iniuring the
prospects Of an early consideration of
that question.
The members of the committee are
as communicative over the results
Of their deliberations as they are con-
corning their Intentions as to when the
hill mill hn TowNmEnG Thai n .Cnyr~1Sow~-
up to the last moment before they sent
their bill to the printer were based upon
the sugar questions, and it is known
that these discussions have within the
past day or two mario wed down to the
question of what, If any, increase they
would give upon refined sugar over
raw. Ever since the caucus adjourned
it has been understood among the mem
bers that raw sugar was to be taken
care Of in the interest of the planters
and to satisfy the Louisiana Senators
If they could be persuaded to accept q
rate which the committee would con.
slider reasonable, but they soon discov-
cred that the interests of the planters
and the reiners were closely allied,
and that to satisfy both it would prob
ably be necessary to do more for the
refiners than for the raw sugar men.
The former have held out stif1y for q
substantial difference, and the commit
tee has held back, willing, it is Under
stood, to make a slight increase, but
not all that the refners handed. The
sugar duty advocates profess igno ance
to night of what, if anything, has been
done in their behalf, and it appears
probable that if the committee has
really completed its work it has de
cided upon a schedule of prices and
termined to submit it without further
parley or without submission to those
interested.
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of their room, and were fleeing, noone
knew where.
When found the three women were
raving maniacs. They we're taken back
to their home, where everything pos
sible was done to quiet them, but to no
avail, and it was finally found neces-
sary to place them in straight jackets.
The father is Frustrated at the ter
rible condition of his three daughters,
and is unable to account for their sud
den ahiction. He has arranged to have
them taken to the Buffalo Insane Asy-
lum to morrow.
The women were quite handsome,
and between twenty-eight and thirty
five years of age.
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ANOTHER BOMB FOR ROME.
Several Persons Injured in an Explosion
Near the Chamber of Deputies.

Several Persons Injured in an Explosion
Near the Chamber of Deputies.
ROME, March 8.-About 6 o'clock this
evening a terrific explosion of a bomb
occurred in front of the Chamber of
Deputies. Two persons were danger
ously ndseveral less seriously injured.
The bombs must have been charged
with material of a very high explosive
force, as every window for some dis.
lance around was shattered, ratings
were twisted, heavy stones moved
from many places and many evidences
of the tremendous power of it's contents
were apparent. Many of those injured
were cut by fragments of broken glass,
but others were hurt, some of them
badly, by being thrown violently to the
ground or against buildings, stone
work, etc. The excitement is very
great. The police are on the alert to
catch the miscreant who threw the
bomb and his accomplices, if he had
any, while the populace are fearful that
other explosions will occur before the
bomb throwers are caught.
The Chamber of Deputies had ad
journed an hour before the explosion
took place, otherwise it is likely that
several persons would have been killed,
as the number in the vicinity of the
chamber was at least four times as
great an hour earlier than it vas at the
time the bomb exploded.
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THE BRITISH AT BLUEF1ELDs.
First Official Information of the Landing
of British Forces There.

of British Forces There.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 1.-THE
Department of State has received the
first official information of the opera
tions of the British naval forces at
Bluefelds, near the mouth of the Mica
ragua canal. It came in the shape of
a dispatch from United States Minister
Baker at Managua. He says that the
United States Consul at San Juan Del
Norte, Mr.. Braida, telegraphed him
that soldiers from the British war ship
Cleopatra had been landed at Bluefields,
and strongly urges that a United States
naval vessel be sent there at once.
There is no explanation in the Minis
ter's dispatch of the reason for the
landing of the British forces. Preced-
ing reports of Consul Braida show that
when the Nicaragua Government forces
occupied Bluefields the reigning Mos
quito Chief appealed to the British
Consul at San Juan Del Norte for pro-
lection, and the question of interest at
this stage of affairs is whether the
British troops had been landed to afford
that protection to the Mosquitoes or
whether the landing was made to pro
t9ct the British citizens only.
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FOUR KILLED IN A COAL MINE.
Crushed and Burned to Death 400 Feet
Below the Earth's Surface.

SCRANTON, Penn, March 6.-Four
men out of a gang of mine shaft sink
ers we're killed in the Richmond shaft,
in the northern part of the city, this
morning at 3 o'clock. The accident
was caused by the fall of a shelf of rock
from the side Of the shaft, near the
bottom, and a consequent explosion of
a blower of gas.
The men were at work at the bottom
of the shaft, almost 400 feet from the
surface. Above them hung a rock,
which projected slightly from the side
of the shaft. 1t had been loosened by
blasts set off by a previous shift, the
foreman of which gave the new shift
warning of the danger. For some
reason they failed to properly protect
themselves. Suddenly the rock gave
way.
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REVOLUTION IN COSTA RIGA.
In a Battle Between Liberals and Church
Parties the Latter were Routed.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March 6.-Pas-
sengers on the steamer Albert Dumois
bring newsthat revolution has broken
out in Costa RIGA. Senior Iglizias, the
present Secretary of State, who was a
candidate for the presidency, has left
San Jose to meet q body of 900 insur-
gents, marching on the capital.
Senior Iglizias is leader of the Liberal
party. His opponent for the presidency
is Senior Trijos, leader of the Catholic
Union, or Church party.
A battle was fought at Gracios. near
San Jose, between the Liberal party
under Iglizias, and the Church party,
under Trijos. The Church party was
routed and Trijos captured with A. E.
Jiminez. Belgian Consul to Costa RIGA.
His Exequater of consul will be re
voked, and he will be banished. The
archbishop of Costa RIGA and seven
teen priests have been imprisoned.
Martial law has been proclaimed and
President Rodriguez is supreme dicta-
tor. Fighting has occurred at other
small towns with small loss of life.
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COTTON MILLS IN THE SOUTH.
North Carolina. Leads in the Number of
Spind1es and Her Sister in Looms.

North Carolina Leads in the Number OF
Spindles and Her Sister in Looms.
BALTIMORE, March 6.-The location
of every cotton mill in the South, with
the number of spindles and looms in
each, was published in the MdnufGc-
tUreTS' Record this week. The article
states that in 1880 the South had 161
cotton mills, with 667, S45 spindles. By
1890 they had increased in number 255
mills with 1895, $50 spindles. The
South now has 400 mills, with 2, 763, S79
spindles and 60, O52 looms. In addi-
ton to this the mills projected will have
been so, 600 and rs, 900 spindles. The
increase in spindles last year was over
200, 900.
North Carolina leads in the number
of spindles, with 655, 900 in operation
in 1894, while South Carolina leads in
looms with 16, 200. North Carolina has
the largest number of mills, but as the
majority of them are small, the aggre-
gate number of their spindles exceeds
South Carolina by only "a, 1000. Georgia
comes third on the list, with 556, coo
spindles.
The capital invested in cotton manu-
facture in the South has increased from
$21, 976. 713 in 1880, to $97, 600, 600 in
1894. Thirty-twO mills have reported
their dividends for 1898, the average
being 8 s per cent inaddition to which
most of them laid aside a surplus for
repairs or extensions. Two mills paid
20 per cent, n Is cent, while the
others ranged from 128 to 4 per cent.
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VICTIMS OF s~P1RlTUALIsM.
Three Daughters of a Wealthy Farmer
Bereft of Their Reason.

LoCKPoRT, N. Y, March at the
village of Sanborn, ten miles east OF
Suspension Bridge, lives Joseph Schenk,
a wealthy farmer, with his three daugh-
tiers, Mary, Marie, and Ellen. Of late
the young women have been attending
spiritualist seances, and it was noticed
that a change had come over them.
Nothing serious, however, was thought
of the matter until Saturday evening,
when the people of the village were
startled by seeing three women rushing
through the roads clad only in night
gowns. The Schenk girls had run out
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FOR WHOLESALE FRAUDS.
Several High State Officials of Michigan
are Being Tried To-Day.

LANSING, Mich, March 6.-The Su-
preme Court of the State is to day to
hear arguments in the case brought
against several State officers and the
State Board of Canvassers for whole;
sale frauds.
The frauds were in connection with
the recent elections in which the vote
for constitutional amendments, raising
the salaries of State officers, was
changed completely. By the changes
the amendments were declared carried,
when in fact they had been lost by de-
cisive majorities. The officers are
already under Indictment for the
frauds.
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TARIFF BILL READY.
Nothing, However, Can be Learned From
the Lock-Jaw Committeeman.

the Lock-Jaw Committeeman.
WASHINGTON, D. O., March 6.-The
Democratic members of the Senate
Finance Committee adjourned a few
minutes after 4 o'clock this afternoon.
They had been holding occasional ses-
sions during the day, going back and
forth between the Senate chamber and
the committee-room and appearing at
no time to be very busy. All the ap-
pearances indicated when they ad-
iourned that they had concluded their
1abors, but they refused to say what
they had done, and were very evasive
in their replies to questions. Senator
voorhees, said that he had called no
meeting of the full committee to-mor
row, but none of the members would
say positively in reply to questions by
representatives of the press that no
meeting would be held to morrow, or
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apology and this was exhibited IN
court. He had also paid the costs,
counsel fees and other charges and Mr.
Barnes has withdrawn the prosecution.
Liberty Herald: There is a very
peculiar and pitiable old man who lives
two or three miles northeast of here.
His name is John Bunton. He had
been deranged for many years. For
the past several years he has lived
under a brush shelter and slept In a
bed of leaves. He does this in preference
to living in a house and sleeping In a
bed. He generally goes b%arefOoted all
the year round, holding that it is a sin
to wear the hides of animals in the
shape of leather or any other way. he
and doesn't like to eat hog meat. John
is perfectly harmless and is of a re-
ligious turn of mind.
Wesley Morrow, the Mcdowell county
cripple, was in town Monday. He
travels in a small wagon drawn by two
goats. They have bits in their mouths
and wear a full set of regular double
harness. On good roads, the goats can
make 90 miles day. The cripple is q
son of a widow who lost her husband
in the late war. She is now dead and
the cripple is an orphan. Wesley was
healthy enough until he was four years
old. rheumatism then laid hold or
him and has so drawn him that he rs
now at 80 years of age not much larger
than he was at four years of age. lie
provides himself with a living by sell
ing little hand bills that give a sketch
of he life, says the Gastonia Gazette.~
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PERSONAL.

Col. Robert B. Beath, of Philadelphia, has
been presented with the resolutions unani-
mously adopted by the last National Encamp-
ment in honor of his % years of service as
Chairman of the Committee on Rules, Regula-
tions and Ritual. The presentation was made
by COMMANDMENTS Chief Thomas G.. LAWYER, of
Illinois, who was accompanied by AdTt-Gen.
c. C.. Jones and William Distin, the Depart
ment Commander of Illinois. The resolutions
arc engrossed a silver plate, which is in
closed in silver envelope. on which is en-
crossed scent stamp bearing the picture Of
Gen. Grant, a Commander-in Chief badge, and
the address of Past Commander Beath. The
envelope is sealed with Grand Army button.
Gen. Louis Wagner, Commander u. s. Grant
Post, ., also presented to Col. Beath, on behalf
of Comrade James Robinson, cane made of
wood from the frigate Constitution. More adj
dresses were made by Gen. James w. Latta,
Past Department Commander Thomas G. Sam
pie, and others. Among the guests were the
Commanders of all the Philadelphia Posts.
The farm on which Abraham Lincoln was
born. in Larne County, KY, was sold last week
to New York capitalist for $4,000. The farm
will probably be converted into public park
and greatly improved. A pavilion will be
erected OIL the farm for the accommodation of
visitors from the ranks of the old soldiers who
will come here while attending the 1895 G. AR.
Encampment. The owner expects to build a
hotel at once.
Few there are who know where "John
Browns body lies" despite the time-worn re-
frain concerning it. After his execution at
Charlestown, Va, Dec. 2, 1852 his wife took
charge of the body and had it conveyed to his
old home at North Elba, N. Y. and there the
bones still rest amid the beautiful Adirondacks.
The grave is situated about two miles distant
from Mirror Lake, which, with its twin sister,
Lake Placid, are two of the most delightful
sheets of water in the Adirondacks. A good
road runs from Lake Placid to the grave upon
the John Brown farm of 248 acres.
Comrade John Raines, of Canandaigua,
N Y, Republican candidate in the Twenty
sixth Senatorial District to fill the vacancy
caused by the election of Charles Il. SaxtOn as
Lieutenant Governor, is a brother of Thomas
Raines, who was State Treasurer for two terms;
another BROTHER George Raines, was State
Senator from the Rochester District some years
ago. John served in the S5th N. Y, and was
elected to represent what is substantially his
present district in 1885 aud again in 1857
John Raiues. his father. was an Euglishman
from Yorkshire.
The statues of Daniel Webster and Gen. John
Stark, contributed by New Hampshire to the
National Statuary Hall at Washington, arrived
from Italy, and will be set up at once. They
are carved in Carrara marble and are very fine
Linn Hartranf., son Of the late Gen. Hart
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON, d. c.. DECEMBER 20, 1894.
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.

One Which is Not "Purgod," and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension R0II
there are The names of 1925
survivors and .2S2 widows. and
something over 5000 cases were
pending at latest reports. This
makes a total Of 25.49S. or sew
eraI Thousand more men than
The United States had i'm Mexico
nj any enc time during the war.
These all receive either IS Or
$12 a month.
Among the names are those
of the widow Of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. "a New Yorker by birth.
who was Acknowledgement of
the United States Army af Tie
outbreak Of the war. and used
his position 10 aid the rebels i'm
preparing for the struggle. He
resigned his position 10 become
Adfutant-GeReFa Of the South
ern COnfederacy. and Officiated
a. such until the rebellion coli
Iapsed. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing a pension since June
6.IsS1.
The widow of Thomas j.
FsSt0neWaH') Jackson, who
was next 10 Lee tEse most p0ptI-
lar commander Of the rebel
armies.
The widow of MI mi .-Gen. George
IL. Pickett. who commanded "a
division i'm the rebel army.
heNid0w of Mai .-Geu. Gideon
J.PiIIoW. vino commanded a di-
vision i'm the rebel army.
The widow of Lieut.-Gen. A. II.
Hill. who commanded one OF
the three corps of lees army.
The widow of Sidney Smith
Lee. who was dismissed from
the Navy for going over TO the
enemy" and afterward became
COnfmG d0re i'm the rebel navy.
Brig. -esen. Jas. liz. Chalmers,
who was FORESTS chief lieu.
tenant.
Mai. -Gen. Dabney iii. Naury.
who commanded the rebel
troops at the battle Of Chicka.
saw Bayou.
Hon. =. B. Maxey. late United
States Senator from Texas. who
has been drawing his pension
since May 20, 1857. He was "a
MaiOr-General i'm the rebel
army.
Hon. las. II. George. Senator
from Mississippi, and who
served i'm the rebel army as n
Colonel. The number of his
certificate H. IS.2I4.
The widows above mentioned
are Of men WHO were educated
at the Governments expense. and
afterward fought 10 destroy the
Government. They went on the
roll at once. while last April
there were pending the claims
OfI45.520 widows Of Union sol.
diers who had NOT yet been able
10 get on the roll.
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ABOUT the only feature Of the iniqui-
tous Wilson Bill which deserved COM
mendation was the provision to make
free alcohol used in medicine and the
arts. The NATIONAL TRIBUNE has
long urged this. 1t has suggested the
adoption of the English system, by
which alcohol intended for mechanical
and similar purposes should be mixed
with small portion of wood alcohol,
which renders it absolutely undrinkable,
but does not interfere with its employ
ment for other purposes. Such alcohol
pays no internal revenue duties. The
Wilson Bill provided that any man
using alcohol for medicinal or mechan-
ical purposes should have the tax re-
mitted upon complying with certain con-
ditions to be fixed by the Secretary of
the Treasury. This would be great
boon to druggists, hat, varnish, and
other manufacturers, and would help
solve the sugar problem, by permitting
a process which will economically ex-
tract sugar from sorghum. But the
Treasury Department has so far refused
to carry out this provision of the law,
and now there is strong delegation be-
fore Congress insisting that it shall be
made operative.
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aPPRECIATIyE COMPLIMENTS.

Exultant and complimentary letters
keep pouring in from the comrades in
all parts of the country. We make a
few extracts:
We have redeemed Kansas, and we have
elected the Hon. Charles Curtice, the best
friend the soldiers ever had in this State
We came near getting the earth, thanks to
THE NATIONAL TRIB NE.-AARoN SHEETS,
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Accept congratulations for your work and
the glorious victory achieved ut the late cleo
ton Keep the ball rolling. -WAsHINGToN
WHITNEY, Hillsdale, Mich.
feel very good over the elections. Keep
the boys up to the mark as ever, and see that
they do not stray away after strange GODS
j. f. AHRENs, Cranberry, Tex.
Good for you. l have taken THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE for Is years now, and will keep on
taking it until ] am mustered out We have
got the enemy out now, and intend to keep
them out. The solid South is broken, and
we must keep on breaking it. You know
how to handle the soldier haters.-DANIEL
Ross, Marshall, Mich.
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LISTEN TO THE BUGLE CALL.

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