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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18
ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED.

yashngton Dec l7.-This was suspension day.
urder tho rules Of the House, and before the Army
Annropriation bin was called up by Chairman outh.
waite of the Committee on Military Affairs, Mr. MO
Rae Dem ArkD. chairman OF the Committee on
Public Lands succeeded in passing the Dill 10 pro-
foot pubc forest reservations by a vote OF 10y 70
20 rbe hill as reported from the committee was
amended 80 as 10 give free timber to miners ana
settlers on public lands. Mr.. Springer Dem.' l!LS
reported from the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency the Carlisle bill providing new system OF
currency. and gave notice that ne would ask tue
House TO begin general debate upon ii tomorrow
The hill was accompanied by the views or the ma.
iority prepared By Mr.. Springer. and or the MINOR
NV prepared by Mr. Walker URep.. MassD
The Army Appropriation bill for the year endinS
June 49, 1896 passed. carrying total OF ~. -0;,
continue the operations of the Government PRINTING
Office
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18
OPERATIONS or FAKE JH"Ei-Hf Firms

Washington Dec 1.-THE Postofhce p'p'' '''''"'
has received Information that certain '""' '',,,na
concerns are operating an extensive SN''''''s
,, and that postmasters in different parts "i
"a. country are being made the innocent "'"
,,,r,h.rius the designs Of the sw.ndlefs. me S."
81, ,b. COMPANIES is 20 send box Of worthless J'"'
49, =, , certain person who. when ne receives IT,
,,,urallv s,vs II does not belong t. nm Inc DON
M p,ckage is then returned To the poS'o'''c ~ ''
,.,,,v ON th. package IL notice To open II anu
..i,btn will be found stamps to pay Tor us Trans
,.s,,,, IA the sender" When one of the "itauuu-
i.,," COMPANIES receives its package let'e' i
, ., ,b,. p.rson to whom it was addressed. saying
~, h on.n.d IL and distracted a pair OF Gun
n,,,o,s mr. something Of that sort. and adding that
, douor or 80 sent to the writer VIII make the
matter all right. II objection 10 making paS"'"
- ,,d. hv the Innocent person. he Is usually duhnen
a., srrh a manner that the sum asked FOR Is paid 10
Arfing Postmastcr-Ge General Jones says there IS no
-. ~ IN. Department to reach the promoters OF
NJ ,n,nn except 10y having p"stmasters seize all
',ch i.werv packages. and consequently ths AFTER
n"' m a." ssucd an order To posinlasters 10 mat
effect
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18
MINOR PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.

Washington Dec l7.-Vice-President stevenson
presided over the Senate to-day.
petition from citizens OF Pennsylvania Tor the
massage OF the House bill providing for consular in
spectIon OF immigrants was presented by Mr.. quay
,Rep. PENN and referred TO the Committee on I'M
migration Also remonstrance by the Trades
League of Philadelphia against the Bailey Bank
ruptcy bill.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Washburn Qep..
MINI, and agreed to- calling the Secretary OF
stats for Information as to the rates OF duty I'M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18
cpITERORRER SHOT DEID.

Iouisvllle Dec l7-News OF the shooting OF
erave-robber at the cemetery In Mount Hope was
received here to-day. Several robbercs had been
committed and when the body Of Miss Morris was
hurled the man to whom she was to have been mar
rled watched the grave. Two men came al mdhight
and began digging. Smiley" Jordan. coored
farmland of the nelghborhood. was killed but ms
companion. q white man. escaped TIE fusiiiade Oh
bu.feta.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18

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Book free. pills 25c. At drug
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CRISP BALKS SPRINGER.
yr SAYS THE CURRENCY BILL MUST
NOT BE 'RAILROADED."

zoo IMPORTANT A MATTER TO BE THRILLED
WITH ONLY SPRINGER. CARLISLE AND
CLEVELAND SEEM TO FAVOR THE BILL
NOw-THE MINORITY HANDLE
1T WITHOUT GLOVES.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18

HE WANTS TO PAY FOR 1T WITH SILVER OR
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Is AGAINST 1T BE-
CAUSE MAN Is TOO GREEDY OF DO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18

cratic members OF the committee on Saturday. but
which was disapproved by most II not all OF them
to-day. when they discovered that the House would
not agree to It, Chairman Springer's arguments
were unavailing. and the programme which the Re-
publican members rather reluctantly agreed TO offer
VIII receive the cooperation OF the Committee on
Rules and be carried out If the House agrees to
adopt it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18

The gold engagements at New-York to-day for ex
port reduce the Treasury gold reserve &c
s92 $50, $40
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18

Mr. Cultivate of Ohio. chairman OF the com
mittee on Military Affairs. introduced In the Hous
to-day a bill to provide for the selection OF site
and erection OF statues OF Generals .iraht anu w
T Sherman in Washington, ID. {. NO appropria
L. malc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-18

The President to-day sent to the Senate the fol-
lowing nominations: Charles ID. Clark. or Tennes-
See. United states District Judge Tor the Faster"
and Middle districts OF Tennessee. vice David NJ
Eov retired: Humphrey B Hamilton, OF New
Mexico. Associate Justice OF the Supreme Court
OF the Territory OF New Mexico; Thomas taIa
Of Michigan consul at san Juan del Norte
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14
QUITS THE A. p. A.

Says II Is Only a bob to the Re.
publican Party Kite In Missouri.
w. H. Garland, a prominent mer-
chant, says st. Louis dispatch to the
New York World, has written a letter
announcing his withdrawal from the
American Protective Association. He
writes that the order, which was or.
ganized to keep religion out of politics
has been SO manipulated that it is
now an adjunct of the Republican
party. In st. Louis there are thirty
three councils or local lodges. The
president OF each OF these is a Repub-
lican. Two and probably three oi
these presidents are city officials
Nearly all of the Republican city of.
ficials are members of the order.
At one time the st. Louis councils
had $1,000 members, but the order is
rapidly declining and to-day there are
not more than $500 members in good
standing in this city. The total State
membership is about nine thousand
confined almost exclusively to St
Louis and Kansas City. 1t will be re-
membered that the st. Louis and
Kansas City delegations controlled
everything in the recent Republican
State Convention and forcibly sal
upon Colonel Kerens' proposed resolu
ton donouncing the A. p. A.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14

A ragged looking stranger entered
the City Clerks Office on Labor Day
and abruptly accosted the genial exec
utive OF the Office:
"This is Labor Day and / want a
position" he said.
1--WE don't keep them here, "
answered Henry. feeling for his keys.
"No nonsense goes" said the man
severely. "Pm an American citizen
and I'm not to be played with"
IL don't want to play with you, my
boy" said Henry soothingly, 80 you'd
better take your playthings and &c
home"
"Well. all right" was Henry's re-
ply, "just take one outside the door
there; l am going to close up" and
Henry banged the door shut and went
away whistling Sweet Marie"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14
THE ODD FELLOWS.
THEY MEET AT CHATTANOOG
TENNESSEE.

Seventeen Annual Session Next
MOnday-The Annual Canton.
ment Will Meet at the Same
Time and PIace-They Meet on
Historic Grounds.
Next Monday, will be held at Chat
tanooga, Tennessee, one OF the largest
gatherings of American Odd Fellows,
in the history of the order. After
months OF labor the committee having
charge of the arrangements for the
seventieth annual session Of the SOW
ereign grand lodge has completed its
labors and announced its conclusions
to the fraternity throughout the coun-
try. The committee having the mat
ter in charge are representative men
of the order and leading citizens Of
Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga.
The delegates will commence to ar
rive on Saturday, September 10, and
on the following day Grand Chaplain
Rev. DR.. J. w. Venable will conduct
special services at st. Paul's Episcopal
Church. The public will be admitted
to the opening reception ceremonies
in the hall on Lockout mountain, on
Monday morning. Here Governor
Turney, Mayor George w. Ochs and
others will deliver addresses and Grand
Sire Campbell will respond.
Other events of the week will be the
reunion of the past grand representa-.
tives, with addresses by Edward Whit
lock of New York, ]. B. Goodwin oi
Georgia, and J. P. Rixey of Missouri,
and the meeting OF the Grand
Secretary and Grand Scribes' associa.
ton, with Richard Hoe OF Wisconsin
presiding, and J. NJ. Norman of Colo
RADIO, as the principal speaker.
From his headquarters at London
Ontario, commander-in-chief of the
patriarch militant, has issued orders
for the annual cantonment and has
already received advices that large
number of cantons will attend in force
There will be competitive drills fol
valuable money prizes, and a magnifi
cent cup, to be known as the "Chick
amauga cup" will be awarded to the
department commander whose de-
partment has the largest number o
chevaliers on parade. The hcadquar
ters OF the sovereign grand lodge viii
be at Lookout Mountain inn.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14
HOW GRANT BECAME A SMOKER
An Incident That Caused the Gen
eral to Bc Overwhelmed With
Cigars.

An Incident That Caused the Gen
eral TO he Overwhelmed With
Cigars.
"My father" said Colonel Grant,
"tried to smoke while at West Point,
but only because it was against the
regulations, and then he didn't sue
ceed very we'll at it. He really got
the habit from smoking light cigars
and cigarettes during the Mexican
war, but it wasn't fixed habit. When
he left the army and lived in the
country, he smoked a pipe-not in
cessantly. l don't think that lie was
very fond of tobacco then, and really
there was always popular misconcep-
ton of the amount of his smoking.
But he went ON as a light smoker, a
casual smoker, until the day of the
fall OF Fort DonelsOn. Then the gun
boats having been worsted somewhat,
and Admiral Foote having been
wounded, he sent ashore for my father
to come and see him. Father went
aboard. and tho admiral, as is custom
ary, had his cigars passed. My father
took one and was smoking it when he
went ashore. There he was met by a
staff officer, who told him that there
was sortie, and the right wing had
been struck and smashed in. Then
my father started for the scene OF ope-
rations. He let his cigar 60 out nat.
urally, but held it between his fingers
He rode hither and yon, giving orders
and directions, still with the cigar
stump in his hand.
"The result of his exertions was
that Fort Donelson fell after he sent
his message of unconditional surrel.
der, and i propose to move immedi
ately upon your works. With the
message was sent all over the country
s'o WAS SIuOkiu3
throughout tho battle when he only
had carried his stump from Foote's
flagship. But the cigars began to
come in from all over the Union. He
had IL 900 cigars on hand in a very
short time. He gave away all he
could, but he was so surrounded with
cigars that he got to smoking them
regularly. but he never smoked al
much as he seemed to smoke. He
would light a cigar after breakfast and
let it 60 out, and light it again, and
then again let it 60 out and light it
so that the one cigar would last until
lunchtime.-From an interview with
Colonel Frederick ID. Grant about his
father in McClure's Magazine.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14

The managers OF the fake liberty
bell, which was cast out of the jewelry
and things contributed by the senti-
mentalists of the country to make a
big sensation at the worlds fair, and
failed to make it, have projected an
other idiotic scheme to impose the
thing on the good nature of foreigners.
They are having an elaborate carriage
constructed at Terre Haute to carry
the bell, and propose to take it on a
tour around the world. 1t is proposed
TO take it to the G. A. r. encampment
at Pittsburg next month, and from
there to Mexico, where it is said
President Diaz is preparing an elaborate
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14
TOWN SINKS.
An Era OF Unexpected Horrors the
World Over.


One after another, in rapid success.
sion the world is shocked by unex-
pectad and unprecedented disasters.
1t seems to be in the air, and certainly
is in conditions which result is in
steady stream of malign occurrences
unparalleled in any previous epoch oil
the worlds history.
A dispatch from Lofty. Penn, dated
the 5.h, gives the details of another ol
these horrors. while the popular mind
was strung to its utmost tension by
the horrible details of loss of life and
destruction of property by the forest
fires in the west. It seems the min
ing town Of Scotch valley, in that
State. sank that night into the earth
without the slightest warning to its
inhabitants. A dozen or more houses
on each side of the principal street
were completely swallowed up in the
gaping hole, and nothing can be seen
OF other buildings but the roofs, gables
and chimneys. One of the buried
houses took fire. The cave-in was
caused by the giving way OF timbers
and supports in the workings of the
Mount Lookout colliery, which has
not been in operation for two years,
and had been neglected in conse.
quence.
Ala 80 the inhabitants were startled
by rumbling reports, like falling rock,
in the caverns of the abandoned mine,
many hundreds of feet below them.
The ground trembled and swayed like
an earthquake beneath them. Report
was followed by report, and, accom-.
panied by other tremors, the village
sank out of sight in the gaping cavern.
In the meanwhile about so miners
were imprisoned in the colliery. They
had been at work in another portion
of the mine, and all means of exit
from the mine was wiped out by the
cavern. James Perrin, one of the
oldest miners, gathered the men to.
gether and started to lead them up
through a tunnel, which lad been
used as an airshaft. The rescuing
party on the surface had made an at
tempt to push passage through the
mass of debris which blocked the main
entrance. Failing in this, some of the
more daring entered the passage and
came to where the imprisoned miner:
were struggling upward. The men
were carried to the surface, where a
great crowd of excited people were
awaiting them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14
WHOLE NUMBER 1909.
AS HEARD BY AN ENGINEER.
Description of an Experts Perform.
ance on a Piano.


New Orleans Times Democrat
"I was lettering around the streets
last night" said Jim Nelson, one of
the old locomotive engineers running
into New Orleans. CAS- had nothing
to do l dropped into a concert and
heard sleek-looking Frenchman play
a piano in a way that made me feel all
over in spots.
"As soon as he sat down on the
stool l knew by the way he handled
himself that he understood the ma
chine he was running. He tapped the
keys way up one end just as if they
were gauges and he wanted to see if
he had water enough. Then he looked
up rs if he wanted to know how much
steam he was carrying, and the next
moment he pulled open the throttle
and sailed on to the main line as il he
was half an hour late. You could
hear him thunder over culverts and
bridges and getting faster and faster
until the fellow rocked about like a
cradle. Somehow l thought it was
old 3y pulling a passenger train and
getting out of the way of special
The fellow worked the keys on the
middle division like lightning, and
then he flew along the north end OF
the line until the drivers went around
like buzzsaw, and got excited.
About the time was fixing to tell
him to cut her off little he kicked
the dampers under the machine wide
open, pulled the throttle way back in
the tender, and how he did runi ]
couldn't stand it any longer and
yelled to him that he was pounding
on the left side and ii he wasn't care.
full he'd drop his ashpan. But he
didn't hear. No one heard me. Every
thing was flying and wbizzing. Tele.
graph poles on the side of the track
looked like row OF cornstalks, the
trees appeared to be mud bank, and
all the time the exhaust of the old
machine sounded like the hum of a
bumblebee. 1 tried to yell out, but
my tongue would not move. He went
around curves like a n bullet, slipped
an eccentric, blew ont his soft plug
went down grades fifty feet to the
mile, and not a controlling brake set
She welt by the meeting point at !
mile and half minute and calling
for more steam. My hair stood w
straight, because knew the game wa
up. Sure enough, dead ahead OF u,
was the headlight of Especial In {
daze 1 heard the crash as they struck
and saw cars shivered to atoms, peo
pie smashed and mangled and bleed
ing and gasping for water. 1 heart
another crash as the French professor
struck the deep keys away down or
the lower end of the southern division
and then came to my senses. Their
he was, at dead stand-still, with th,
door of the fire-box of the machin,
open, wiping the perspiration off hi
face and bowling to the people befor'
him!
eff live to be thousand years ol,
Inever can forget the ride that French
man gave me on a piano"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14

reception for it. Then it will be taken
to England, France, Germany, Russia
and other foreign countries. 1t will
probably be received with great
curiosity by people, who. not knowing
its history, are given TO understand
that it is the original "liberty bell"
but if they detect the fake they will
probable pay little attention to it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14
DO YOU KNOW I?

Do you know that every cruelty in
aicted upon a cow poisons to greater
or less extent its milk?
DO you know that every cruelty in
fiicted on an animal in killing or just
before death poisons to greater or
less extent its meat?
Do you know that the mutilation OF
horse by cutting off his tail compels
him to suffer torture from flies and in
sects every summer as long as he
lives?
Do you know that check-rain
which will not permit horse to put
his head where he wants to when &c.
ing up a hill is a cruel torture to a
horse?
Do you know that fish killed as soon
as taken from the water by blow on
the back of the head will keep longer
and be better than those permitted 10
die slowly?
Do you know that every kind act
you do and every kind word you speak
to dumb animal will make not only
the animal but yourself happier, and
not only make you happier but also
better?
Do you know that birds destroy
millions of bugs, mosquitoes and harm.
full insects, that without the birds We
could not live on earth, and that every
little insect-eating bird you may kill
and every egg you may take from it's
nest means one less bird to destroy
insects?